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The Vatican Murders - The Life and Death of John Paul I (Hardcover) Loot Price: R829
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The Vatican Murders - The Life and Death of John Paul I (Hardcover): Lucien Gregoire

The Vatican Murders - The Life and Death of John Paul I (Hardcover)

Lucien Gregoire

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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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Imprint: Authorhouse
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2013
First published: December 2013
Authors: Lucien Gregoire
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 978-1-4918-3527-2
Categories: Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General
Books > Christianity > Christian life & practice
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LSN: 1-4918-3527-3
Barcode: 9781491835272

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