(19.03.2013) Today was the new Pope Francis inauguration as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. But  this article is dedicated to one of his predecessors - the famous Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 � 2 April 2005) and the beliefs that he was also a chess composer! His real name is Karol Jozef Wojtyla. Here are two of "his" problems.

Solutions:

1) 1.Bb5! (zz), 1�Kxb5 2.Sb6#, 1�Kd6 2.Sd3#, 1�Kd4 2.Sc6#

White batteries play, miniature, position aristocrat.

2) 1.c8S! (zz) 1�Ka3 2.Sb6 (zz) 2...axb6 3.axb6# 

Zugzwang play and battery mate after minor promotion key.

Thanks to the romanian chess composer Vlaicu Crisan and THE ARTICLE which he present to us (see the comments), we can see that most probably the problems are with another authors and was published years ago just with some kind of sense of humor...