And after nearly 25 years in prison, Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul the Second, was released from prison Thursday. Agca shot the late John Paul in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. The pope survived the attack, and forgave Agca in a visit to his prison cell two years later. Agca served twenty years in jail before he was transferred to Turkey to serve the remaining years of his sentence in the 1978 killing of Abdi Ipekci, the editor of a left-wing Turkish newspaper. Immediately after his release, Agca was taken into custody by the Turkish army over failing to complete mandatory military service. He’ll be held as military officials review his case.