Who saw the Godfather Part 3? Somebody made the pope a nice cup of tea.
In real life it was applied to the pages of the book Luciani read in bed. he used to bring his fingers to his lips at times to wet them to turn the pages.
They had to do it that way because they had already attempted the tea bit one week to the day before that but had blown it by instead giving the poisoned cup of tea to the person they were attempting to pin it on as the fall guy, the KGB Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (one of two) from Leningrad who died instantly from a heart attack while drinking tea with Luciani in the papal apartments at the Vatican.