Contreversy Erupts in Vatican over Novemeber 11, 2011 In a rare display of political and ideological infighting at the Vatican,

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone,

the Vactican Secretary of State, was forced to deny rumors that the Vatican had prepared a contingency plan for potential apocalyptic events around the day of Novemer 11, !11" The contreversy #egan when the prominent $talian %ournalist, &ntonio Socci, accused the the Vaticans chief e'corcist, (ather )a#riele &morth, of having come under the influence of the polemical,

apocalyptic novel, Cactus *and" Socci showed pictures of (ather &morth with the #oo+ and claimed he was attempting to convince high level Vatican officials, including the ,ope himself, of impending doom" The highly contreversial cult classic, written in !!- and pu#lished in !!., has so far predicted the &ra# spring and the N&T/ airstri+es on *i#ya" Some have also speculated that a live depiction of a murder0suidcide in the novel was a preminition sorrounding the filmed death of 1addaffi" &s many +now, the dystopian novel ends with a nuclear e'change and a final, e'tremely polemical 2divine message3" 4hen some accused the author of creating the scandal to ma+e he money, he decided to give the novel away, 5it can #e downloaded for free from this lin+6" The author, 7o#ert Bonomo, stated 2$ dont want to ma+e money from this #oo+, $ %ust want people to read it" $ #elieve there is an important, urgent warning for world in this novel"3 /nly complicating matters, the 2Blac+ ,ope3, &dolfo Nicols, head of the 8esuits, at an informal tal+ to %ournalists in To+yo said the following a#out the Third Secret of (atima, 2They have hidden something, $ do not #elieve the whole message of the Virgin was revealed, not from (atima or &+ita, furthermore, the strange final message from the novel Cactus *and ma+es it clear that some +ey element is continuing to #e hidden"3 (ather Nicols was later forced retract the statement and said for the record, The Holy See is hiding nothing, period.
The contreversial connection between the novel and November 11, !11 comes from the occ"rence in the story of a lottery n"mber, #1111$, which is immediately followed by geo%political chaos. &n one final bi'arre twist, the !1! Noble (ri'e winner in physics, the )"ssian Konstantin Novoselov said this a luncheon in St. Petersburgh when asked about the numerical significance of November 11, 2011. ell, there were two !"11#s, $hile in 1!%& and New 'ork in 2001. (hen, !11 da)s after, on &"11"200* the +adrid bombings occur, followed b) the events of ,ukushima, again on &"11"2011. (he logical numercial se-uence .oints to an obvious conclusion of the e-uation on November 11, 2011/