In God's Name

There were over 100 Masons who were priests, Cardinals and bishops. Many were running the Vatican. That was against the Papel law. Some of their closest friends were mafia. They were involved in the buying and selling of many companies and banks, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, moving money to show false profits of the banks, manipulating the stocks, in the manufacture of counterfeit bonds, selling them to banks in Rome, Vatican and elsewhere, and many banks failed because of their ingenius criminal schemes. They were personally holding sometimes a thousand houses to rent out to people, stealing millions of dollars for themselves and putting money in places like the Bahamas. There was a connection between the Vatican and United States primarily the Chicago Cardinal Marcinkus and his mafia friend who was hiding there from Italian government prosecution. Marcinkus was now working for Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, not only as his bodyguard but he put him in charge of the Vatican "bank". When Pope John Paul I came in and found all of this Information to be true, plus he did not appreciate the secret sale of his Venice Catholic bank to the mafia which had given priests low interest loans for their favorite charities, etc. but no more, he had foreknowledge of some of the shenanigans that were going on in the Vatican And he remembered his demeaning dismissal by Marcinkus when he had confronted him about it. Now that he was pope, one of the first things on his agenda was to get rid of Marcinkus and Marcinkus knew it. Just over a month after becoming pope, he made a list of all the people he was removing and when he presented this list to Cardinal Villot around 7 PM, Villot could not help but notice that all of these people were Freemasons, and Pope John Paul died before the sun rose. It was said that the alarm went off and was on all night and it was not answered; guards had been removed. Early in the morning after his long-time nun and assistant who brought him coffee each morning at 4:30, found him dead , glasses's slippers, medicine, list of the people he was having removed and his will were taken and Villot called the embalmers. But the nun told a bishop, a close friend of the pope who was living in the Vatican and he started calling friends, relatives and the pope's doctor who was shocked because Luciani had been so healthy. Meanwhile, Villot and friends were busy covering their tracks. He finally called the doctor, they changed the entire story of what had happened and they lied, lied and lied. I had heard on the radio many years later, Malichi Martin, who spoke in length about this and stated that the pope died over $350 million that was missing from the Vatican. He mentioned that one banker supposedly committed suicide, but in the book, we find that many people were murdered, and the figures went up to over $1 billion of thefts. I know that God was very angry about what happened to this wonderful, honest pope who refused to wear the jeweled necklaces, he sold the two and gave the money to the poor, the fancy clothes; he wore a simple robe and walked into his own Coronation which he made simple, refusing to be carried in the Pope's chair, and refused to wear the jeweled crown, Against the rules of the Vatican, he insisted upon visiting the sick at the hospital weekly. His plan was not only to remove all the corruption from the Catholic Church, but to give most of Catholic Church's money to the poor, after liquidating all the companies. He felt sorry for people like his brother who had 10 children so was in favor of the birth control pill which went against those running the church from the Vatican. Upon the death of a pope, anything that he was implementing ended. I was on vacation in Rome and remember the tour guide pointing to a window in the Vatican apartments, saying that one of the guards was murdered over a love affair but now I wonder. I was there during the conclave, and attended the coronation outside in the Square so when when God gave me a dream about this soon after the death of Pope John Paul I, I knew it was about his death over money and eventually I figured out its full meaning and began searching for more information. I know that God and this wonderful, honest pope were very close and I can only imagine how angry God is about this. I appreciate all the time that went into this book. Although the book went into a lot of detail, it read like a best selling novel, very exciting, fascinating and unfortunately very sad. The Catholic Church was or perhaps still is in a lot of trouble.

I first read this book in the mid 1980s - about 6 years after Pope John Paul I died. David Yallop was even kind enough to reply to an email I sent him about 4 years ago asking if any more evidence had surfaced regarding the mysterious circumstances surrounding the Pope's death. He told me that, indeed, more information had come to hand. If I remember correctly, he said he was trying to get the publisher to reprint the book with an addendum that included the updates. I have never seen that.Regarding the quality of this book ... it was compelling and disciplined. Yallop didn't sensationalize an already sensational story and allegation. Conspiracy theories are almost as distrusted as UFO sightings and used car salesmen so it is essential that the author maintain a cool hand in relating the story and the evidence. And Yallop did exactly that.I didn't read the book to feed a personal propensity towards conspiracy theories and I'm not a Catholic. In truth, I had looked at the face and countenance of Pope John Paul I in newspaper articles and on television and found him to be my image of St. Francis or even a close relation to Jesus Christ. He had a look of peace and contentment about him. He was the best type of leader ... someone you wanted to emulate.And then he was dead. A man who had relatively few health problems and whose only enemies were within the power structure of the Church suddenly died.The author takes us on a journey that includes a back story on Albino Luciani, the unlikely Pope who came from humble beginnings in Northern Italy. There are character studies of the Vatican hierarchy and the businessmen with whom they made their multi-million dollar investments. The environment in which John Paul I is elected as Pope where the air was thick with intrigue, backroom deal-making and shady business practices.Some of you may say, "So what? We know about scandal in the Catholic church. Why go back and look at this small piece of history?" Because discovering the truth in history is like learning a truth from your personal experiences in life. It makes you more discerning when thinking through the truth about how things happen and why. In the early 1940s millions of Jewish people were marched into camps to take a shower. Of course, we all know, the shower was a gas chamber from which there was no escape. They had so little dignity as they gasped for their last breaths of air. The public should not blindly accept questionable explanations for profound events.Enough said ... good book!

Grabbed my copy whilst waiting for a flight at Gatwick and was immediately in thrall to this compulsive read. Maybe it was bit like scanning a ledger in places so much monetary detail was there. But why not, for if there was ever a more high profile account of Mammon making mincemeat of worthy and thoroughly unworthy alike, this is it. Interestingly BBC Radio 4 ran an afternoon play on this very topic a while back, and that too was riveting despite being a personalised drama. And it nailed the Holy Father's death indisputedly as murder!After reading Yallop's magnificent account, you too are most unlikely to reach any other conclusion.

“In God’s Name” will leave readers with little doubt that Albino Luciani, the humble, honest man who became Pope John Paul I, was murdered. Unfortunately, this heinous crime is established in such forensic detail as to leave the reader somewhat stultified. The middle section contains long and exhaustive details of Vatican banking practices, for example. Useful in establishing motive, but also agonisingly dry. Overall, the book does a good job of making us feel for the late Pope, but it would benefit from a more streamlined approach.

This is a hard hitting investigation as a member of the Roman Catholic Faith I found that the insight into this Pope John Paul 1 both that he was a fascinating man so gentle and would have been a terrific pope had he lived. the evidence of corruption that was going on then and most likely now is horrendous. I would thoroughly recommend it. It has not put me off my faith, I leave everything in God's hands good and bad.

An incredibly detailed account of the wonderful life of Albino Luciani Pope John Paul 1 'who could have been the second coming' and the darkness of the Vatican. Totally shocked at the corruptness of the Vatican bank's financial dealings and officials involved at the head of several governments. David Yallop's research is microscopic and clear. So sad that Satan infiltrated the Vatican and we lost our Smiling Pope. R.I.P.

An interesting take on skullduggery within the Vatican. It covers a lot of ground including the 'God's Banker' mystery while naming some very unsavoury characters and what they got up to on behalf of their employers.Even if you doubt that Pope John Paul I was murdered this is still worth reading for some of the worrying events it exposes.