The Vatican Murders: The Life and Death of John Paul I

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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." T. Francis Elliott The Times....... Some cl the Vatican Bank had to do with his murder. Others cl his threat to change doctrine that unfairly penalizes the lives of innocent people drove curial cardinals in the clandestine deed. Others cl 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 and the only pope whose death was unwitnessed....... 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 sexuals into intensive care units, to the time he defended their right to parent children, 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 when other cardinals had condemned her, to the time as a pope he declared "God is the her. More so, the Mother." ......... On the afternoon of March 13, 1978, fourteen men sat around a table in a sidewalk café in a ain village in northern Italy. In casual clothes they went unnoticed though one was the reigning Pontiff and another the Marxist 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 awoke. They had decided not to travel to Vittorio Veneto that day. After all, all the others were dead. They--unaware of their impending doom--were, too, as good as dead........ TRUE LIFE - TRUE CRIME......."Witness as one beautiful life explodes into a trail of death and destruction in the Roman Catholic Church." Howard Jason Smith, Boston Globe.