Is there nothing a dead Pope can't do?

It seems as though (dead) Pope John Paul II has been up to his usual beyond the grave tricks again, no sooner than he was beatified by the Vatican than he guided an elite squad of US Navy Seals to an obscure compound in Pakistan in order to "take out" an (unarmed) 53 year old with a limp and kidney problems, obviously a Papal miracle! Clearly these two events separated merely by a few hours and a couple of thousand miles must be causally linked, how could they not be?

No I haven't finally lost my marbles, this pronouncement was made by the current Peruvian president Alan Garcia, a Catholic, who is clearly still missing most of his pearls a cat's eye and a few turtles.

I find it amazing how epically dumb things can be said by serious world leaders without anyone batting an eyelid as long as they invoke religion. If this president had claimed he'd been abducted by alien squirrels and anally probed with a pine cone, we'd all be laughing at him, but mention a dead Pope and hey presto, nothing is off limits. I wonder how many credulous Catholics there are out there right now who are reading the story and nodding sagely thinking they actually have an explanation for something?

oy vey..