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In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I
by David A. Yallop, David A. Yallop


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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi / Transworld Pub Inc; (December 1997)
  • ASIN: 0552132888
  • Other Editions: Hardcover | All Editions
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars Based on 31 reviews. Write a review.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: 22,689


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"Faniciful and absurd" - The Vatican

"His book has two strengths. It brings up to date and tells well the story of how the Vatican has conducted its finacial affairs. The portayal of hitherto little-known John Paul I is also excellently done... an engrossing and disturbing book. It reflects no credit on the Vatican that its spokesmen affect to view the charges with contempt and ignore the questions raised" - The Economist

"A thriller without an ending... he has surely proved that there is a case to answer" - The Guardian

"A vast amount of first class evidence... Read the book. Weigh the evidence. Make your own judgement" - Morris West

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Denounced by the Vatican... Acclaimed around the world... Vindicated by new evidence... Winner of the 1985 Crime writers' Gold Dagger Award for best non-fiction... Over 5,000,000 copies sold.


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2 out of 5 stars This is Journalism?, April 29, 2002
Reviewer: Mario Derksen (see more about me) from Coral Springs, FL USA
I'm Catholic. I'm a traditionalist. I am convinced there is unspeakable cover-up and corruption going on in the Vatican, with or without the Pope's knowledge, I don't know. However, this book cannot be taken all too seriously. Why? Well, first of all, the author makes it clear that he is a disgruntled liberal who would desperately like to see the Church change her teachings on morality, esp. the prohibition of contraception. He paints Cardinal Luciani, alias Pope John Paul I, as a liberal who wanted to do just that. Is that an accurate picture of John Paul I? I don't know. But I'll tell you this much: I see no reason to trust David Yallop in his characterization.

Secondly, I could not find a SINGLE footnote or citation of anything this man reports in his book. He has countless quotes and makes incredible claims, none of which are backed up. This is what I mean when I say you can't take this man seriously. He is a liberal with an agenda, and since he gives no proof for what he says, I see no reason to believe that what he says is true.

Now, I am quite certain that John Paul I was murdered. I am certain that this had something to do with the Vatican Bank scandal the Pope was about to uncover. And we know for a fact that the Vatican is infiltrated by countless Masons. So, I think that much of what Yallop says is true. But Yallop gives no backup, and his mockery of Catholic doctrine and authority is so obvious that his book is not very convincing in certain areas, esp. where he wants to claim that John Paul I wanted to allow contraception.

Let me give you some evidence of further inconsistency in this book that I believe makes it less than convincing: On page 368, Yallop mentions possible dates of when the plans to murder the Pope could have been put together: "It could have been within the first two weeks of September when the fact that Luciani was investigating Freemasonry within the Vatican became known to some members in the Vatican village. It could have been mid September when the attitudes of the new Pope on birth control and his plans to implement a liberal position on the issue were causing deep concerns in the Vatican."

Well, wait a minute now. The Freemasons ARE liberals. They would like to see nothing more urgent than a Pope approving of contraception! Why, then, would the alleged plans of John Paul I cause deep concern? It would have been perfect for the Masons to see the Pope do just that! After all, they infiltrated the Church in order to subvert her and change her teaching. It is these kinds of things in this book that betray Yallop's agenda, in my opinion, and strip the book of credibility.

This book inlcudes many pictures of John Paul I and important protagonists and nemeses. Despite the critiques I have given, the book is a fascinating read, at least after the introductory chapters. If he had backed up his claims, Yallop's work here could have been a REAL eye-opener. But as it is right now, we have no way of knowing what parts of this book are fact, and what are fiction.

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4 out of 5 stars fascinating!, April 2, 2002

Top 1000 Reviewer Reviewer: Jason Anderson (see more about me) from Monterey, CA USA
The Vatican calls it 'fanciful and absurd,' but Yallop's indefatigable journalist style of writing pushes this book along. Fascinating stuff, and quite probable. Two interesting areas: 1)the papal plans of John Paul I, and 2)the apparent submission of Wojtyla to the status quo. Of the first-- no less a thinker than Abbe Georges de Nantes considers Albino Luciani a martyr-saint, a pope whose plans to effect the Fatima-requested Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to re-instate the Roman liturgy, and his plans to clean up the Vatican Bank cost him his life. David Yallop believes Luciani was murdered because of his plans to allow Catholics the right to use artificual birth control and his plans to clean up the Vatican Bank. Murder figures into both these men's calculations of this extraordinary event. Of the second, who would deny that Wojtyla has left the Vatican Bank unchanged and uncleansed? He also has not, according to seer Sister Lucia, effected the Consecration of Russia, nor has he changed the Church's law on artificial contraception. He has, interestingly, restored the Roman liturgy to usage. The true face of Villot showed itself during the reign of Paul VI, and is captured unflinchingly in Yallop's book. Even Paul VI knew of Villot's clear submission to Freemasonry, but he cowered in the face of it for years before acting. This is the kind of book that makes Malachi Martin believable. I think an even more intriguing question than whether and by whom Pope John Paul I was murdered, is whether important decisions in the life of Catholics which would prescind from the pope alone, subsequent to Luciani's death either did or did not happen; to look at it from this angle brings Yallop's arguments, as far as they go, into an even sharper focus. It's hard to be disappointed with ideas this interesting, and serious. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1 out of 5 stars Big Foot is really Elvis!, July 8, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Yonkers, NY USA
This book was written for the type of folks that think astronauts never really landed on the moon. In short, it's paranoid, conspiracy theory tripe. What's more, it' also blatantly bigoted, Archie Bunker-style anti Catholicism (...as you can clearly tell from the reviews). If people were to criticize Jews in this manner, they would be ostracized from society - but, alas, anti Catholicism remains the last socially acceptable form of bigotry in America.

And, by the way, to the reviewer who thinks contraception is the best thing since sliced bread, consider the fact that AFTER contraception was legalized, the rate of illegitimate births exploded, the spread of venereal disease exploded, the divorce rate exploded, child poverty exploded, pornography exploded, and abortion (which we were told contraception would render unnecessary) was legalized - all exactly as the Church predicted. The fact is, the Catholic Church was, is, and always has been right about contraception. History has proved it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5 out of 5 stars Excellent work - though the reality is so much less clear, January 12, 2003
Reviewer: A reader
John Paul I, Albino Luciani, died after being easily elected as Pope only 33 days after his election. Though, unlike what Yallop would want to believe, we do not know what polcies he would have pursued had he lived. The general trend ever since this book was published - and even beforehand - was/is for anyone remotely interested in the Catholic Church to assume Luciani would have followed policies they would like. Yes, John Paul II has put the church on a definite course for centuries to come with documents like Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, but nobody knows for sure if Luciani would have been altogether different.

David Yallop apparently did a lot of good reaseach for this book, and he gives a good outline of Luciani's life and family history, from his youth in Forno Di Canale to his seminary studies and thesis to his days as bishop of Vittorio Veneto and Patriach of Venice. He is extremely impressive in his outlining of the problems faced by a wealthy Church - especially in the way it contradicts Jesus' teachings in the Gospels - and its history from the days when Mussolini singed the Lateran Treaty. The Lateran treaty gave enormous amounts of money to the Vatican, which it invested through Bernadino Nogara in many large corporations. We see how Nogara bought shares in companies that manufactured goods inconsistent with Catholic teaching - his investments were free of doctrinal considerations.

After Nogara's death in 1958, the Vatican began to have financial troubles due to the cost of Vatican II. Though Yallop revealed little about the following period, he is most effective in showing how clearly the Vatican, in an effort to evade taxes, forged links with such notorious con men as Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona, who, after Paul Marcinkus became head of the "Vatican Bank", took control of Vatican finances.

This was, as Yallop points out, a disaster because huge sums of money was lost by the Vatican due to a series of scandals aimed at taking money to offshore tax havens. Pope Paul VI might have had dreams of becoming "the first poor Pope in modern times", but such dreams were clearly fabled in the circumstances. There were many links between these criminals and the corrput P2 masonic lodge led by Licio Gelli, who is supposed to have decided to murder the Pope after he wished to reveal the list of Masons in important positions in the Vatican. The whole chain revealed brilliantly by Yallop confirms the Vaticans involvement in organised crime through the "Vatican Bank".

Albino Luciani was shown excellently to be a honest and incorruptible man who believed that the Church could not be rich if it wished to conform with the teachings of Jesus. This is why Luciani wanted to clean up the Vatican Bank and remove Calvi, Sindona and Marcinkus from it. This seemed a simple and logical decision given that the Vatican was suffering from financial problems by that point.

However, Yallop brutally points out that it was not difficult for those involved with P2 to enter the Vatican and poison the Pope without giving a visible residue - thus the conclusion that he had died of heart failure. Yallop, however, clearly and simply points out that with Luciani's lifestyle he was not likely to suffer from heart failure - he ate a healthy diet and he suffered from low blood pressure.

Thus, it is not unreasonable to conclude that Luciani was in fact murdered, though there are so many sources apparently concerning this question that it is difficult to tell, and other sources make dubious claims Luciani would have "disowned" Humanae Vitae.

This book should be read by anybody wishing to understand the darker side of the history of the Catholic Church, and is interesting for anyone who wished to read about organised crime in general. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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