VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's resignation on Monday shocked many in the Roman Catholic world and beyond, yet for those who know where to look, there were portents aplenty.
Take Nanni Moretti's 2011 comedy-drama "Habemus Papam" - "We have a pope!" - in which a depressed and panic-stricken newly-elected pope escapes his Vatican minders for a few days before returning to announce, in his first address, that he doesn't have what it takes for the job.
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