re: Francis is about to resign

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That's sad the Catholic church would canonize someone that made it up. What would have been his motivation to lie? Especially being from like the 1500's?

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Saint Malacy didn't make it up. He lived hundreds of years prior to the "discovery" of the prophecies in the late 16th century. Someone forged the prophecy, and falsely attributed it to Malachy.