More on the religion beat: apparently, a movement is afoot to make Pope John Paul II a saint. While this seems to be yet another symptom of the kind of thinking that puts everyone who anyone's ever heard of in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I think it's really just a case of media misinterpretation. Newspaper reports claim that crowds were shouting, "Santo! Santo!" - and assumed that (being Italian) they meant that the Pope should be sanctified.
In fact, they were simply expressing their devout wishes that this man be made the next Pope.
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You're both wrong - the crowds somehow confused the College of Cardinals with the Baseball Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee, and were requesting that this fellow be elected. And I agree!
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