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Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

The second paragraph to the second subheading, The plotting, advises us that "John Paul the Second refused Cardinal Ratzinger's resignation, when he wanted to retire to head the Vatican library."

If Pope Jean Paul II had accepted Cardinal Ratzinger's resignation, might the latter not have become Pope Benedict XVI?

Thanks. Males are avid to be pack leader. Even religious males.

Very interesting presentation of a mysterious world of power behind the Varican walls. I'll put the movie on my watching list. Thank you!

I agree with you about Nystrom. Can't say much about Schmucker. His life was marked by polio, which probably made great impact on his perception of life. We should also know that today's 'scary' could be understood 'humorous' not so long ago. His creations are definitely worth exploring.

No. There are women working in a variety of jobs in the Vatican, some in positions of responsibility.

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

It makes sense, because of nun orders, that women manage some of what makes the Vatican the Vatican.

Would all women who wend their way in and out for Vatican work be nuns?

Library, museum and school displays always interest me as a way of informing others about our sentient creatures, such as common ringtail possums.

The displays perhaps look liveliest with lego or tinker-toy or plush toys of such sentient creatures as common ringtail possums.

It always matters to match them with their habitats and their predators and prey in what may muster up a model-train space and table.

It always pertains to provide such takeaways as common ringtail possum likenesses on carrying bags and shirts and as drinkable, edible snacks.

Common ringtail possums seek bottlebrush (Callistemon, Grevillea), eucalyptus, gum (Angophora, Corymbia), wattle (Acacia) and tea tree (Leptospermum).

So wouldn't bottlebrush flowers. gum flowers and fruits and leaves, tea-tree flowers and fruits and leaves and wattle flowers and leaves and pods and seeds work wonderfully, wondrously?

Something that I appreciate at such biogeographical displays as those articulated below are drinkable, edible takeaways as well as such portable and wearable displays as carrying bags and shirts.

The displays concern habitat, predators and preys even as drinkable, edible takeaways consider food sources to conserve.

Ring-tailed rock wallabies eat bark, forbs, fruits, grasses, herbs, roots, shoots and twigs.

Isn't it interestingly intriguing to imagine such edible takeaways as fresh salads of bendee basswood (Tilia americana), mulga (Acacia aneura), nutrush (Scleria sphacelata) flowers, leaves and seeds; of fairy-grass (Sporobolus caroli) cooked seeds; and of wireweed (Sida filiformis) leaves?

Ring-tailed air, land and water fish and mammal sentients attract me.

The afore-counted sentient creatures always cooperate with lego and tinker-toy, plush-toy displays in library, museum and school-library corners.

Such displays detail such sentients as rock-haunting ringtail possums in their native domiciles. Additionally, it enchants me to express such educational takeaways as bags, beanies, scarves and shirts.

Even more additionally, it interests me to ideate such drinkable and edible takeaways as items from their diets. Their emu apple (Owenia vernicosa) fruits, blackberry (Vitex glabrata) flowers and fruits and leaves, jujube (Ziziphus oenoplia) red-date fruits, plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) flowers and fruits and leaves inspire such intriguing culinary itineraries!

Mightn't it be magnificently, marvelously munchable to match apple, blackberry, plum and red-date fruits and juices?

Let's imagine that The Beautiful Lady at the Haunted Gardens of the El Greco House and Museum in Toledo Spain and the Two Ghosts Who Haunt the Royal Botanical Garden Across From the Westin Hotel Palace in Madrid, Spain itinerate to interact.

When might they meet? El Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead)?

I cannot think of a time when the Vatican did not use female services. Remember , it is not a monastery, so women could enter the building. It belongs to the diocese of Rome.

A prequel can create Betsy Brown's (Shirley Temple) father and mother and their respective birth and nuclear families and friends.

A sequel might match her adoptive and birth families and the latter's friends into such sociable mixes as in-home meals and parties and night-out theater-going.

Wouldn't that work wondrously for such a winsome near-wraith as Betsy Brown winning a happy life?

The fourth paragraph to the first subheading, The characters, advises us that "The nuns play their part. They do the domestic arrangements, feeding the Cardinals and cleaning their accommodation."

Have there always been nuns for domestic arrangements or was there a time when the Vatican was staffed only by men?

Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Nystrom generally concentrating on dwarves can be considered as Swedish cultural-heritage components even as the poetic and prose Eddas, which I regularly consult, count quite a dwarf-ly crowd among their characters ;-D!

Schmucker is enchanting and unsettling in his heads installed within Easter lilies.
But might his art muster some scary elements elsewhere?

The comment boxes Dec. 3 and 14, 2024, advise us of world-garden models.

It can be so educational, so memory-retentive to connect garden displays and models with drinkable, edible takeaways.

The comment box immediately below on Dec. 14, 2024, describes such takeaways as posters, signs and t-shirts for a hypothetical world garden where Tenerife plants dazzle.

So what about drinkable, edible takeaways?

Tenerife has bottle brush (Callistemon), eucalyptus, spider-flower (Grevillea) and tea-tree (Leptospermum).

Bottle-brush nectar makes a sweet drink even as eucalyptus manifests a tasty fruit and leaf salad munchably marvelous matched with eucalyptus nectar as dressing and drink and as vanilla ice cream.

Spider flower (Grevillea) nourishes us with a nice flower and nutty-seed salad.

Tea tree (Leptospermum) occasions a flower, fruit and leaf salad with nectar dressing and drink.