The stress of defending the pope has led to a number of casualties in the past, raising debate about whether the Swiss Guard and Gendarmerie are anachronisms.Shouldn't you be, like, outside protesting with a mob and threatening to "snuff out" Pope B-E-N-E-D-I-C-T or something...?
A young Italian Gendarmerie cadet, Alessandro Benedetti, was found dead from gunshot wounds in an apparent suicide in September.
In 1998, Vatican City was rocked by the triple shooting deaths of Alois Estermann, the then-head of the Swiss Guard, together with his Venezuelan wife and a young Swiss Guard lance corporal, Cedric Tornay.
The Holy See blamed Mr. Tornay for shooting the other two before turning his gun on himself.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Pfleger...Paging Snuffy Pfleger...
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