[papacy] fact or assertion

Two journalists raise questions, based on other men’s investigations about the doings of a man with a dog; they are then effectively discredited in one fell swoop by the all-encompassing label ‘conspiracy theorist’ and yet a president falls and Pulitzer prizes are later given. One seriously flawed DA asserts that JFK was not just shot by a nutter and he is later vindicated by a second federal commission. Albino Luciani suddenly dies. Is there merely the whiff of holy smoke or is there indeed the presence of unholy fire, as claimed by his predecessor? Sorting out fact from assertion was my task and this is what I came up with.