Benedict XVI, Fulfilling Prophecy?

Some people are relating a prophecy from a 12th century archbishop named St. Malachy to Pope Benedict XVI. Some scholars believe it, but others say it's a hoax. The prophecy was lost in the Vatican archives until 500 years ago. Legend has it St. Malachi of Armagh, an Irish saint, foretold the last 110 popes. And to each of these popes he ascribed a prophecy, or prediction, a kind of epigram. The epigram for a new pope earlier this century was "Religion laid waste." He reigned during the Bolshevik Revolution whose leaders dismissed religion as "the opiate of the masses." Pope John XXIII was foretold to be a "pastor and sailor." Before his election he was the patriarch of Venice. And John Paul II, Malachi predicted, would do "the work of the sun." He circled the globe, bringing light wherever he went, some say. He was born during a solar eclipse, and died during another. The prediction for Benedict 16th is "Gloria Olivae," or "The glory of the olive." The new pope says he will be a peacemaker. “He's going to try to ask people to take up the olive branch instead of the sword. So from that point of view, this could be a moment when peace will triumph and not war,” said Monsignor Charles Burns. In other words, The Glory of the Olive Branch. Now many do not believe all this. Some say Malachi's prophecy could have been a forgery. Or that people have shoehorned the facts to fit the prophecy. But here's the troubling thing. According to Malachi, we have just begun in the last true papacy. After this pope, he predicted, comes Armageddon. Pope Benedict XVI