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The Vatican Murders - The Life and Death of John Paul I (Hardcover)
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"A monumental work of twentieth century capitalism as it was
jointly embraced by the Vatican and the United States and those
caught up in it. Top-shelf CIA-Vatican intrigue." When
elected-based on the few bits which had reached outside Italy-he
was tabbed ..".a moderate with an open mind to change doctrine in
those cases it places unfair restraints on the lives of innocent
people." Like the time he ordered his priests to melt down their
golden chalices and other implements of idol worship to build an
orphanage, to the times he had been caught baptizing
born-out-of-wedlock children, to the times he had been caught
officiating at funerals of the remarried, to the times he ordered
hospitals to admit partners of homosexuals into intensive care
units, to the times he had been caught giving the Eucharist to
communists, to the times he defied the ban on contraception, to his
courageous defense of the first artificially inseminated child just
a month before his election, to the time as a pope he declared "God
is the Father. More so, the Mother." Some claim the Vatican Bank
had to do with his murder. Others claim his threat to change
doctrine that unfairly penalizes the lives of innocent people drove
curial cardinals in the clandestine deed. Others claim the threat
he was to the capitalistic tenets upon which the United States was
founded rallied the CIA to action. Others whisper his sexual
orientation led to his demise. 'The Vatican Murders' reveals how
each of these possibilities played a role in the murder of the
youngest pope to die in four hundred years. On the afternoon of
March 13, 1978, fourteen men sat around a table in a sidewalk cafe
in a mountain village in northern Italy. In casual clothes they
went unnoticed though one was the reigning Pontiff and another a
leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. Included were Italian
cardinals and statesmen who had been behind the rise of the
Communist Party in Italy. The others were cardinals of impoverished
parts of the world. Together they comprised the leadership of the
Marxist movement in the western world. They left at four o'clock
and Aldo Moro reserved the table ..".for this time next year." On
March 13, 1979, Cardinals Benelli and Felici decided not to travel
to Vittorio Veneto that day. After all, all the others were dead.
They, too, unaware of their impending doom, were as good as dead.
John Paul I Sept 10, 1978. Cover quote - public audience Sept 27,
1978. Portrait - Roberto Macedo Alves.
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