The Murder of a Liberal Pope who Instituted Radical Reforms in the Catholic Church The death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978, shocked a world that had barely been introduced to “the Smiling Pope.” His reign of 33 days had been one of the shortest in the annals of the papacy. The official cause of death was myocardial infarction — heart attack — but confusion in the details of his demise fed instant rumors of foul play. Within a few months of the pope’s death, Abbe Georges de Nantes from the League of the Catholic Counter Reformation was crying murder. The whole controversy hinges on the character of John Paul I himself. The “Smiling Pope” was born Albino Luciani on October 17, 1912, near Belluno in northern Italy. His working-class family was poor due to the erratic employment of his Socialist father. Luciani was ordained in 1935 and taught general subjects at the Belluno seminary until 1958, when he was made bishop of Vittorio Veneto. He became patriarch of Venice in 1969 and received his cardinal’s hat in 1973. At every level, Luciani was noted for his simplicity and his zeal for social justice. He wanted the Church’s wealth pared down and shared with the poor, at home and abroad. Although pastoral, not cerebral, in style, he took special interest in catechetics and ecumenism. Besides service in the Italian bishops’ conference, Luciani drew popular attention after publishing Illustrissimi, a book of letters to real and imaginary figures from Jesus to Figaro. French Ambassador, Roger Peyrefitte, author of a 1983 novel, The Red Cassock, asserts that Pope John Paul I was administered a lethal injection by three intruders who entered his bedroom around midnight. Peyrefitte claimed to be an expert on internal Vatican matters, and he notes in the opening pages of his book that he reveals the truth of the events of that night under the features of the fable. He provides three thinly disguised names as the murderers, one being the Mafioso Brucciato (Danilo Abbruciati (?), a professional Mafia murderer) who was accompanied by Monsignor Hulot (Cardinal Villot) and Monsignor Larvenkus (Bishop Marcinkus). Shortly after Pope John Paul I’s funeral, a rumour swept Vatican City that his body had been surreptitiously removed from the coffin and cremated. If so, this would indicate a premeditated action to destroy all evidence of poisoning in case anybody demanded that the Pope’s body be exhumed for scientific tests. At 4.45 am Sister Vincenza entered the room and saw the Pope sitting up in bed, with an expression of agony, as she told David A. Yallop. She felt his pulse. That would suffice to prove that he had just died, even if he had not died before her very eyes. According to her breathless words to a group of French priests that same morning, it was in his bathroom that she had «found him dead, according to my own information (dated 6 November 78). It seems certain that death occurred that same morning, but no one was willing or able to administer conditional extreme unction to the Pope. At 5.00 am Cardinal Villot confirmed the death and began to take full control of matters, in a way that was illegal, exclusive and methodical. All of which presupposes a cool head, a premeditated plan and a firm determination to take the necessary action despite the thousand and one difficulties. He pocketed the bottle of Effortil on the bedside table, he took the notes of the transfers and appointments decided on the previous day from the dead Pope’s hands, and he also removed the Pope’s glasses and slippers, probably because there were traces of vomiting on them. He is also thought to have made the Pope’s Will disappear. None of these items has ever been seen again», and yet they have been searched for. He, or a colleague, telephoned the embalmers at the same time, and a Vatican car was sent to fetch them. Incredibly, the car was at their door at 5.00 am. The so-called Camerlengo – I say so-called because Villot had seen all his powers die with the Pope (cf. Le singulier trépas de Jean-Paul I by J.-J. Thierry, ed. Belfond, p. 125) – was now acting as a gangster. Cardinal Villot then made Sister Vincenza take a vow of silence concerning the event and forbade the secretaries to advise anyone without his authorization. What happened during the next hour? It is a mystery. Did the embalmers try to remodel the deceased’s face whilst it was still warm and apply makeup to it? Not until 6.00 am did Dr Buzzonati – and not Professor Fontana the head of the Vatican medical service, why? (Thierry, p. 97) – arrive and confirm the death, without drawing up a death certificate. He attributed the death to acute myocardial infarction, which he timed as having taken place at about 11 pm the previous evening. It was a mere hunch and, medically speaking, worthless. Villot began to inform the cardinals from about 6.30 am... two hours therefore after the telephone call to the Institute of Medicine ordering them to send the Signoracci brothers, the embalmers! The embalmers took precedence over the sacraments, the cardinals and the head of the medical service. They were the lords of the day. However, not everything ran according to Villots schedule. The Pope’s faithful secretary, Don Lorenzi, telephoned his personal doctor who shared his concern and decided to leave for Rome at once in order to examine the body. Luciani’s health was good. He was very well at that time and the hypothesis of sudden death seemed untenable to Dr da Ros. Furthermore, Sergeant Roggan, who was on duty that night, suddenly came face to face with Paul Marcinkus on the premises at a quarter to seven in the morning at a time and a place where he had no reason to be. The Gorilla did not even blink when the Swiss Guard, thinking he was giving him news, told him of the Pope’s death. The world was not informed until half past seven, through a communiqué so full of lies that it had subsequently to be replaced with others. The final phase of the assassination began the very next day. Having poisoned the body and killed it quietly, they now began to besmirch the memory, to sully the soul of the holy martyr pontiff, to wipe out even his memory and any regret at his loss. The Roman Curia (the gangster and his “uomini di fiducia”) would have the world believe that Albino Luciani was a simple, near idiot; a gravely ill man whose election was an aberration and whose natural death was a merciful release for the Church. In such a manner they hoped to mask murder. SUMMARY OF EVENTS: Early September 1978: Pope John Paul I asks Cardinal Jean Villot, the Secretary of State for the Vatican, to investigate the Vatican Bank operations. He also is considering the reversal of the Churchs stand on artificial birth control. Later that month he presents Cardinal Villot with a list of those to be transferred, reassigned or asked to request for resignation. These lists are persons suspected of being Freemasons (that group called P-2). Cardinal Villot happened to be Grand Master, and his name was at the head of the list. This shift of power would have had a major impact on the existing Vatican hierarchy and would also have affected its financial practices. September 29, 1978: John Paul I found dead in his bed. Cardinal Villot issues false statements, removes key evidence from John Pauls room and orders the body embalmed before an autopsy can be performed. FURTHER EVENTS AFTER HIS DEATH: October 1978: John Paul II replaces the dead Pope. None of Lucianis instructions or edicts are carried out. January 21, 1979: Murder of Judge Emillio Alessandrini, a magistrate investigating the Banco Ambrosiano activities. Calvi and Sindona have close ties to the Vatican. March 20, 1979: Murder of Nino Pecorelli, an investigative journalist, exposing membership and dealings of the Freemasons P-2 group. July 11, 1979: Murder of Giorgio Ambrosioli following his testimony concerning Sindona and Calvi in Vatican business circles. July 13, 1978: Murder of Lt. Col. Antonio Varisco, head of Romes security service also investigating the activities of the P-2 group and was speaking with Giorgio Ambrosioli two days before Ambrosiolis death. July 21, 1979: Murder of Boris Guilano, the Palermo police deputy who spoke to Ambrosioli also two days before his death. This concerned Sindonas money laundering of Mafia money channeled through the Vatican Bank to Switzerland bank accounts. October 1979: Bomb explodes in the apartment of Enrico Cuccia of Mediobanca and a witness of G. Ambrosioli. February 2, 1980: The vatican withdraws an agreement to provide videotaped depositions of M. Sindona in his trial in the U.S. on charges of fraud, conspiracy and misappropriation of funds in connection with the collapse of the Franklin National Bank. May 13, 1980: Attempted suicide of Sindona in jail. June 13, 1980: Sindona sentenced to 25 years. July 8, 1980: Attempted suicide of Roberto Calvi, also jailed for fraud. September 1, 1981: The Vatican Bank acknowledges its controlling interests in a number of banks controlled by Calvi for more than one billion dollars of debt. January 2, 1981: A group of shareholders in Banco Ambrosiano send a letter to John Paul II exposing connections between the Vatican Bank and Roberto Calvi, P-2 and the Mafia. The letter is never acknowledged. April 27, 1982: Attempted murder of Roberto Rosone, General Manager of Banco Ambrosiano as he was trying to clean up the banks operations. June 17, 1982: Roberto Calvi found hanged to death from a bridge in London. Days later $1.3 billion dollars was found missing from the Banco Ambrosiano, Milan. October 2, 1982: Guiseppe Dellacha, executive of Banco Ambrosiano found dead from a fall out of one of the banks windows. March 23, 1986: Michele Sindona poisoned to death in the Italian jail for which he was serving time for ordering the death of Giorgio Ambrosioli. PREDICTIONS OF THE MURDER OF JOHN PAUL I BY NOSTRADAMUS Century 3, Quatrain 35: When the sepulcher of the great Roman is found, The day after a Pope shall be elected; The Senate (Conclave) will not approve of him. His blood is poisoned in the sacred chalice. Century 10, Quatrain 12: The one elected Pope will be mocked by his electors, This enterprising and prudent person will suddenly be reduced in silence, They cause him to die because of his too great goodness and mildness. Stricken by fear, they will lead him to his death in the night. Century 4, Quatrain 11: He who will have the government of the great cape Will be lead to execute in certain cases. The twelve red ones will spoil the cover. Under murder, murder will come to be perpetrated. Pope John Paul I Reformation of the Vatican Bank The Vatican Bank scandal is mind-numbingly complex. More than a million documents had to be processed during its liquidation alone. Because the scandal is cited as a motive for the alleged murder of Pope John Paul I, it deserves its own summary. “The Vatican Bank” is shorthand for the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). It is personally owned by the pope and makes loans to religious projects throughout the world. During the 1970s the IOR began to exploit its extraterritorial status as an “offshore bank” to engage in risky speculations involving Banco Ambrosiano of Milano. The latter had started as a special “Catholic bank” serving the Milanese Church outside the secular banking industry where Freemasons were prominent. The Ambrosiano’s director, Roberto Calvi, made contact with the IOR through financier Michele Sindona, who had been advising Pope Paul VI since his days as Cardinal Montini of Milan and was already exploiting the Vatican Bank for his own illegal schemes (supposedly including money laundering for the Mafia). Calvi and Sindona were themselves patronized by their sinister puppetmaster in the P-2 Lodge, Licio Gelli. All were cozy with cardinals. In 1971 Calvi made friends with IOR president, American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. The IOR bought shares in Ambrosiano, placing deposits in and making loans to the Milanese institution, its foreign subsidiaries, and a flock of shell corporations. Through intricate shuffles, Calvi was loaning and perhaps laundering money through the IOR to shell outfits that would use it to buy more shares of Ambrosiano. This drove up their price and gave him a bigger stake in the bank than allowed by law — not to mention large profits from transaction fees. Although Calvi was convicted of currency fraud in 1981, the IOR continued as his partner. It even gave him “letters of comfort” saying that the IOR controlled Calvi’s Panamanian shell corporations in exchange for Calvi’s promise that it would not be liable for their debts. But in 1982 the stock market fell, revealing a shortfall of $1.3 billion in Calvi’s funds. He’s reported to have sought help from Opus Dei but was refused. Calvi fled to England, where he was found hanging from a London bridge. In 2002, Italian courts finally ruled that this was murder, not suicide, and three suspects are currently in custody. Dr. Delmar Topinio Taclibon, Bt., DKR, KRSS, BSCE, MBA, PhD.D.A. References: Mail on Line, JOHN JULIUS NORWICH, 7th May 2011 Vati Leaks, 8th May, 2012 Crisis Magazine, Sandra Miesel, 1st April, 2009 The Murder of Pope John Paul I, Vance Ferrell The Vatican Murders,The Life and Death of John Paul I, Lucien Gregoire. In God’s Name, David A. Yallop The Red Cossack, Roger Peyrefitte A Thief in the Night, John Cornwell The Mysterious Death of Pope John Paul I [A Treatise], Gregory Christiano, 4th July, 2003
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