Tuesday, September 13, 2005
IT'S A BOMBSHELL IF IT'S TRUE
From a PR Web Press Release sent in by a reader:
In Today's Catholic World (TCW), the Catholic news service, has reported compelling testimony from a Vietnamese priest, Fr. Khoat, that Joseph Cardinal Siri was the rightfully elected Pope on October 26, 1958.
(PRWEB) September 12, 2005 -- In Today's Catholic World, the Catholic news service, has reported compelling testimony from a Vietnamese priest, Fr. Khoat, that Joseph Cardinal Siri was the rightfully elected Pope on October 26, 1958.
This controversy began when at the 1958 Conclave, during the early evening of October 26, 17 days after the death of Pope Pius XII, white smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel for a full five minutes, indicating a Pope had been elected, had accepted, and had chosen a name. Khoat says that Siri had chosen the name Gregory XVII. At that time, Vatican radio had announced for a full 30 minutes, "Habemus Papam," i.e., "We have a Pope." As preparations to greet the newly elected Pope were underway, the smoke turned back to black. Vatican officials were said to be at a loss to explain what had happened to cause the sudden reversal.
This incident was reported the next day in a newspaper article by then veteran Italian journalist Silvio Negro. His report appeared on October 27, 1958 in the large Italian daily paper Corriere della Sera based in Milan, Italy. Negro reported that a Msgr. Santoro passed a note from inside the Conclave that the smoke was white and positive and that a Pope had already been elected that October 26 evening.
Now, for the first time in 47 years, the controversy surrounding the 1958 Papal Conclave has surfaced in several large daily newspapers in Europe at the initiative of a Vatican spokesman.
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There are two links in the story. One of them goes to this website, and the second to this website.
Both websites use the same format and carry the same copyright, "© StGemma.com Web Productions Inc. 2005", so I presume they are a single source. One mentions an article in the now defunct Look Magazine.
I have a book titled JUDAISM AND THE VATICAN, written by Vicomte Leon De Poncins, which carries a copyright of 1967, and reprints of 1985 and 1999. The book mentions the Look Magazine article and quotes from it.
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CORROBORATION ?
Maybe, but it would be better if I could actually see the documents from an independent source or find another news source that was carrying the story.
Former FBI Consultant, Paul L. Williams
claims intelligence docs show
Cardinal Siri was elected Pope Gregory XVII in the 1958 conclave that
two days later produced John XXIII.
