I mean, what did you think they were going to say?  I believe ‘em though.

The personal physician to the late Pope, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti, angrily denied that he had withheld treatment in order to hasten the Pontiff’s death; “his treatment was never interrupted,” he told reporters.

Now Vatican officials have gone further, disclosing that the late Pope was in fact given a feeding tube well before his death. The officials said that while the insertion of the feeding tube was not announced to the public until March 30, 2005– two days before the death of John Paul II– in fact it had been in place for some time before that announcement.

Pavanelli had based her argument on the assumption that Pope John Paul was unable to swallow enough food to maintain his strength in his final illness. Dr. Buzzonetti– who, unlike his critic, was familiar with the medical issues involved in the Pope’s treatment– says that the tube was inserted as soon as the Pope became unable to eat for himself.