QUIRKY WORLD...Museum to display gun used to shoot Pope John Paul II

Museum devoted to former pope will display gun that nearly killed him

POLAND: A priest in charge of a museum devoted to Pope John Paul II says the gun used by a would-be assassin will be on display as a sign of God’s protection of the pontiff.

Monsignor Jacek Pietruszka said many wonder why trained assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, firing a Browning HP 9mm handgun from close range, injured but did not kill the pope in 1981. “We believe that the pope was saved to continue his mission,” Pietruszka said.