Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff [Paperback]

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Yes, that's what I would say if I thought the facts can only be conveyed in dry narrative textbook fashion. It is also what I would say if I didn't want the world to know the truth.

Like the times he ordered his priests to melt down their golden crosses, chalices and other implements of idol worship to build an orphanage, to the times he was caught baptizing born-out-of-wedlock children, to the times he challenged the Church's ban on contraception, to the times he ordered hospitals to admit partners of homosexuals into intensive care units, to the times he was caught officiating at funerals of those who had remarried, to his courageous defense of the world's first artificially inseminated child in England when other cardinals had condemned her, to that time - just a day before he was found dead - he lifted a chalice to worldwide television cameras: "This chalice contains one-hundred-twenty-two of the world's most pristine diamonds while children all over the world starve to death. Do you really think this is what Christ meant by His Church?"

One has the most prolific message of his ministry, "We have made of sex the greatest of sins, whereas, in itself, it is nothing more than human nature and not a sin at all."

All things which horrify the present rulers in Rome. No wonder we have hardly heard of him.

`Murder in the Vatican' is two books in one book, 1) the only Vatican-uncensored biography of the 33-day Pope followed by 2) an action packed trail of death and destruction that takes this investigative reporter from the foothills of the Italian Alps in Northern Italy, to Venice, to Rome, to England, to Central America, to the United States and, finally, back to the Vatican in search of this good man's killers.

David Yallop claimed personal financial gain of three private men Calvi-Sindona-Gelli motivated the murder of John Paul I. The great historian Avro Manhattan of South Shields believed motive was much broader than simple men. It involved nations - capitalism vs. communism. Whereas Gregoire agrees with Yallop the Vatican bank scandal had much to do with this Pope's murder, it involved much more than mere men - it involved nations. Employing a barrage of court records, media reports and photos of the times, Gregoire proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Manhattan was right.

This book is so beautifully written and executed and so enjoyable to read one is scarcely aware one is accumulating more knowledge about what makes the world go round than one has reaped in all of one's years. Particularly, as it pertains to how the coalition of right wing factions in the United States and the Vatican control the fate of populations which are literally starving to death.

I have read several editions of this book, one should avoid outdated partial editions as they do not include important chapters including: 'The Vatican Bank Murders' and 'The Vatican-Contra Affair.' This 2010 edition is the right book. I see it is also on Kindle.

It says it on the cover of the book: "Top-Shelf CIA-Vatican Intrigue." You'd better believe it.

I also enjoyed immensely another book about this same pope: The Reincarnation of Albino Luciani: In Search of the Human Soul Both these books are alos available on Kindle.

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There is little doubt David Yallop's `In God's Name' is the premier book in this category - it sold 8 million copies. Yet, Yallop leaves many questions unanswered.

He gives a biog-brief of this liberal pope's life consistent with what Gregoire has to say. Yet, Gregoire expands it into a complete biography firmly establishing the great threat this liberal pope was to the conservative right in the Church.

Yallop contends the Vatican bank scandal had something to do with the murder of John Paul I--private interests got the missing money but leaves the door open.

Gregoire proves the missing money financed the rise of the Contras in Central America during the time Jimmy Carter would not support them. Not new news to me--that the hundreds of millions in the bank scandal financed the rise of the Contras has been the strongest of rumors through the years. After all, the only known fact is it disappeared in Central America.

Most revealing, `Murder in the Vatican' proves the conspiracy that led to the Vatican bank scandal was the same conspiracy which orchestrated the murder of John Paul I.

I suggest a subtitle change: Murder in the Vatican: The Vatican-Contra Affair.

What we have here is best summed up by Gregoire's introduction:

In the nineteen-eighties, the world's foremost historian on the Vatican in world politics, Avro Manhattan, wrote, "The lack of importance the United States gave to the election of a Pope after the death of pro-American Pius XII through the election of John Paul II has become paramount in the thinking of subversive elements in America. The lingering evidence is too striking to be ignored...The failure of the United States to influence the election of a pro-American Pope in 1963 was a lesson not to be repeated. The adverse consequence of that failure enormous, the price astronomical in terms of lost opportunity and the deployment of United States policies and billions spent in counteracting Paul VI's subversive operations... Paul disseminated his pernicious and anti-American principles via encyclicals condemning the basic capitalistic tenets upon which the United States had been founded. He repeatedly condemned the imperialism of money and private property claiming to give wealth and land to the poor was to give them God's province...

"Paul's doctrine `Liberation Theology' took on horrendous roots where the poor were collectively dominant in Latin America, the stability of which was severely threatened. When they reached Central America, undercover military operations had to be undertaken by the United States to halt his revolution of the poor...

"Paul's doctrine `Populorum Progressio' fueled the movement toward communism in Europe forcing American intervention in Italy where Paul's ally Aldo Moro's `Historic Compromise' threatened to bring about a communist state. In the spring of 1978, Moro was kidnapped while enroute to the House of Representatives on the morning he was scheduled to move communist ministers into control of Parliament... On the heels of the Moro murder, Paul's sudden and unexplained death was wrapped with subtle speculations and vague rumors. His deterioration had been so extremely unusual whispers concerning the acceleration of his demise circulated... These suspicions were well justified when his death was met with delight in the United States, specifically the headquarters of the CIA which had labeled him the `pro-Communist Pope.'

"Nevertheless, his providential death gave the CIA the opportunity to carry out its scheme--to force election of a pro-American Pope. The CIA joined factions inside the Church backing the Opus Dei anti-Communist candidate Polish Cardinal Wojtyla.

"When Albino Luciani, an avowed Marxist in every sense of the word - one who would restore communist ministers to Italian Parliament and back revolutionaries against the coalition of ruling juntas and the United States in Central America - was elected, it struck a nerve of shattering proportions in CIA headquarters... The word was given. The ball began to roll..."

In November 1990, a media leak revealed Manhattan was writing a book linking the CIA to the deaths of Aldo Moro, Paul VI, John Paul I and other Marxist leaders in the Church. Two weeks later he was found swinging from the rafters of his South Shields home when his wife returned from a week in London--the reason no newspaper in the world, including the London Times where he had spent his celebrated life, posted an obituary and the date of death is unknown.

Lucien Gregoire emerges as the reincarnated Avro Manhattan. He gives his twentieth century counterpart due credit: "`Murder in the Vatican' is the book Avro Manhattan was writing when he met his sudden unwitnessed death in 1990."

I would suggest clicking on the images under the above cover of the book.

An excellent companion book based on the 33-day Pope's doctoral thesis 'The Origin of the Human Soul' The Reincarnation of Albino Luciani: In Search of the Human Soul Albino Luciani = John Paul I