Interesting. But shouldn't they try to get messages out somehow? Or do they and I am unaware? In one of my favorite books, The Lord of this World, by Msgr. Benson, they Pontiff fleas with a small handful to Jerusalem, nobody knows where he is until the end, then in the climax The Pontiff is saying the Benediction(if I remember correctly) and the anti-Christ is heading his way in helicopters (this book was written in 1910 btw). The anti-Christ reaches the area of the Pontiff as he raised the Eucharist under the canopy and the anti-Christ fires upon him and the world is no more. Still, he was in hiding with no contact for a period of time.