“An apparent photo of a lightning bolt striking St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican Monday night — the same day that Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, stunning the world — has gone viral.” Click HERE for one of the accounts and the source of the photo.

Here is Steve Shoemaker’s Verse:
“Lightning Strikes…”

There are no short Anglo-Saxon words
that will describe a coincidence.
Long Latin-based circumlocutions
are required. To state the facts, yes:
Pope resigns. Lightning strikes Vatican.
Then whispers begin superstitions.
…
The first gay marriage that I blessed as
a Pastor was barely over when
a bolt of lightning struck the stone cross
atop the church. The limestone chunks fell
on the steps below where the happy
couple had just walked. Not an evil
omen, I believed…not even an
exclamation point! Purely random.
…
Love wins. Ignore all speculations.

– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL Feb. 15, 2013