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The Camerlengo listened to the hold music and the clicks as he was connected to someone, the voice on the other side of the line was not the President, but he was just happy he found someone. “Ahh yes, Mister Nicholas, my apologies. In my haste and need I seem to have forgotten the time...

[Secured] The Camerlengo returned to his office and pulled a business card from his Rolodex. The card had been left him after the assistance of the US Presdident during the Funeral of the Pole. He carefully dialled the numbers for the direct line to the Presidential Office, and waited till a...

(Top Secret) The funeral had thankfully gone off without a hitch, thanks in no small part to the assistance of the Americans. The Camerlengo had sealed the doors to the Sistine Chapel earlier that morning and was seated in the Papal Office going over the various minutiae that is required in...

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Confidential Unto: Yitzhak Rabin, President of the State of Isreal ( Owen ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral Mr. President, Thank you for your confirmation the attendance of the Chief Rabbis, I shall ensure their places are reserved. As for your...

Confidential Unto: HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ( Connor ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral Your Majesty, I thank you for your kind note of condolence, it is true that the untimely and unexpected passing will leave quite a void to fill, one...

The nun rolled her eyes at the audacity of the man on the other end of the line. Demanding she put him through the Camerlengo as if he had ever right in the world to do so. Did the man not know that at this moment in time the Vatican was in shambles, there were hardly anyone who still formally...

Private [dcoument]Unto: King Stanislaus Grabowski, Head of the Polish State From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II Your Majesty; It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness John Paul II, has been called home by his Father...

Private Unto: President Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Odinson ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II President Hinckley; It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness...

Private Unto: Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’ ( John ) From:Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II Your Holiness; It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness John Paul II, has been called home by...

PRIVATE Unto: Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor (Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the...

PRIVATE Unto:Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Isreal ( Owen ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II Dear Rabbi Lau, It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness John Paul II, has been called home by...

PRIVATE Unto:Rabbi Eliyaho Bakshi-Doron, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Isreal ( Owen ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II Dear Rabbi Bakshi-Doron, It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness John Paul II, has been...

PRIVATE Unto:Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch ( Colton ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See RE: Papal Funeral of JP II Your All Holiness, It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that His Holiness John Paul...

The nun shook her head when the person on the other end of the diplomatic line spoke such bad Italian that it may as well have been any language but Italian. She spoke most of the european languages fluently, which was one of the reasons she was assigned tasks at the Vatican switchboard, so she...

Holy See Press Office So it seems there is some confussion as to who can attended the Funeral of John Paul II, at this time we would like to clerafy things by exntending an Open invitation to all the people of the world, be they Catholic or Not as His Holiness was all about bringing people...

Encrypted Message Unto: Giovanni Romano, United States Ambassador to the Holy See ( Odinson ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See CC: John Glass, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America; Oberst Segmüller, Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guard Mr...

Encrypted Message Unto: Giovanni Romano, United States Ambassador to the Holy See ( Odinson ) From: Eduardo Cardinal Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy See CC: John Glass, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America; Oberst Segmüller, Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guard Mr...

Encrypted Message The Camerlengo was sitting in his office, overwhelmed by both grieve and the seemingly insurmountable logistics involved in securing the Vatican for a state funeral for the most popular Pope in memory. In a world of mass media and 24 hour news, the Pope was arguably the most...

A much beleaguered and harried nun was manning the switchboard when a call came in on the private diplomatic direct line. Usually such calls would be forwarded to the Cardinal Secretary of State but as he was no longer Secretary of State, it fell to her to take a message and pass it along to the...