David Yallop presented a case for Pope John Paul I's poisoning. Yallop is an investigative reporter who wrote the book In God's Name which argues that in spite of a brief reign, the late Pope wanted reform. The priority for Luciani was the Vatican City Bank and its inter-connected Church financial institutions--the Church's temporal empire.
After Giovanni Montini's reign (Paul VI) the Vatican Bank had emerged as a multinational, highly financed and diversified institution, like the money changers in the Temple of Jesus' time, not a frequent lay over for the Holy Spirit. This emergence had begun 50 years before when the Vatican, deftly, negotiated with Benito Mussolini's fascist government and negotiated a similar concordant with Hitler's Nazi regime.
Luciani was seeking to dismantle this 50 years of Vatican financial history. Luciani addressed the Vatican diplomats--his first statements as Supreme Pontif and prior to his first Mass as Pope--"We have no temporal goods to offer, no economic interests to discuss."
This single statement stunned the diplomats. The banking and real estate owned by the Vatican Bank had combined assets of $3 billion. The Vatican Bank was an overwhelming force that had nearly demolished the Italian economy in the 1960's. The Italian government had approached the Holy See, seeking some tax revenue to be paid on the Bank's lucrative stock portfolio. The Holy See threatened to sell off all of its holdings onto the Italian stock exchange, a move that would have buried the Italian economy. Result: The Vatican remained tax exempt.
The most unsavory tie was the Vatican Bank's involvement with P2, the Masonic Lodge and probable criminal syndicate with members in the Italian government, the Mafia, and the Vatican itself. P2 was connected to a neo-fascist political cadre which resorted to terrorist activity including a train station bombing in Bologna.
Licio Gelli, P2 founder, was a business associate (hmm, Robert Wagner gave himself this label in his work with Bryan Kocis) of Klaus Barbie (a financial backer of Argentine dictator Juan Peron; CIA informan; and honored guest at Ronald Reagan's 1980 inauguration) which illustrates the veracity of the motto, "the doors to all bank vaults open to the right."
Bishop Paul Marcinkus, an American clergyman, ran the Vatican Bank. Bishop Marcinkus, for some unexplained reason, was walking through Vatican City at dawn on the morning Pope John Paul I was found dead. Marcinkus had never been known for 6 a.m. walks. He was known for having entered into numerous agreements and arangements on the Bank's behalf with P2 members Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi.
Sindona ended up in prison. Sindona had been an international speculator and Mafia thug who caused frauds that rocked banks in American and Italy with failures. Good Bishop Marcinkus would claim an ongoing business relationship (hmm something else Wagner claimed with Bryan Kocis) with Sindona. Alternatively, Marcinkus denied any meetings with Sindona.
Bishop Marcinkus said of Roberto Calvi, the other P2 speculator, "Calvi merits our trust. This I have no reason to doubt." Yallop wrote,
[Roberto Calvi's] comments are particularly illuminating, coming as they did just eight months after Calvi had been fined $13.7 million and sentenced to four months in prison, and only seven months after both the Vatican and Bishop Marcinkus discovered (the Vatican version of events) the Calvi had stolen ovr $1 billion and left the Vatican to pay the bill.
That Calvi was a corruption nightmare is an understatement. He was a pilfering Italian banker who took millions, the epitome of the white collar criminal. Immoral yes. His exemplar of behavior: Mario Puzo's novel, The Godfather.
Calvi's death and the scandals leading up to it formed the basis for The Godfather, Part III, a sequel to the film version of the Mafia saga. Calvi met Doom at the end of a noose tied to the underside of London's Blackfriar's Bridge. The coroner ruled the hanging a suicide, but more likely met Doom through his P2 associates (Wagner's favorite word). When the body was discovered, his pockets were loaded with bricks.
Marcinkus ordered the Vatican Bank to front for Roberto Calvi's complex and illegal stock deals. The Vatican Bank nominally owned many of the companies that were actually controlled by Calvi. The Vatican and Calvi raked in millions of dollars. Further, Calvi functioned as P2's financial manager. When Gelli phoned Calvi, he used the code name "Luciani."
The ethical papacy of Alberto Luciani placed this network in the maelstrom. Luciani was looking to divest the Vatican of its vast wealth--the Church, the bride of Christ, like Jesus, should be poor--and of Bishop Paul Marcinkus.
When Luciani died on 28 September 1978, of natural causes, it was a tremendous relief for Gelli, Calvi, Sindona, and Marcinkus, the Mafia and P2. The first three men had plotted before: Mafia rivals and police investigators. Marcinkus also had a motive for eliminating Pope John Paul I.
At the time of his death, Pope John Paul I, the world's most influential spiritual leader, went through his daily under virtually nonexistant security. Not only was Luciani both unguarded and unattended on the night of his death, some sources say that when his distress struck, he pushed a bedside alarm button. This alarm flash was ignored the Swiss Guardsman in charge of the Night Watch had retired for the evening. No one asked why the light in the papal apartments, visible from without, burned throughout the night, despite Pope John Paul's routine 9:30 p.m. bedtime.
Oddly, no post mortem was conducted on Pope John Paul I's remains. This raised eyebrows. The Vatican Secretary of State tried to placate the press, falsely stating that Church law prohibited papal autopsies (no such edict exists). Instead, the pope's death was ruled a heart attack--acute myocardial infraction--but no death certificate was issued for that, or any other, cause of death.
Yallop writes that without a post mortem, a fatal dose of digitalis would present the symptoms of a heart attack. Yallop selected digitalis because Gelli ordered all P2 lodge brothers to commit suicide with a dose of digitalis, provided providentially, by the lodge, if being forced to reveal P2 Lodge secrets.
Yallop was told that when Luciani's body was found, his hands held a set of notes detailing many of the changes he proposed in Vatican operations. The Vatican Secretary of State stated that Pope John Paul I held a copy of The Imitation of Christ. Reporters in attendance at that press conference broke out in disbelieving laughter.
When Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, was elected Luciani's successor he received a briefing on the reorganization plans of John Paul I. John Paul II did not implement any of them.
Reference:
Yallop, David. In God's Name. NY: Bantam, 1984.
PC is in trouble for copyright infringement. It's easy to see how that would happen. PC's sources are "always" spot on and he "knows" copyright law. He says so and that makes it okay. He does not attend court hearings. Madame and Wild Wild West do and noted his absence. His posts are published materials from local newspapers or gleanings from required briefs and motions of the lawyers. Madame, Robert Wagner, Cad, and Shannon Kracke are in regular communication with him.
ReplyDeleteA central question to this lonely death has always been whether or not the Pope was poisoned?
ReplyDeleteBritish writer David Yallop suggests that digitalis was the poison used to take Alberto Luciani out. The Pope was taking medicine for low blood pressure, and just half a teaspoon of digitalis could cause a fatal heart attack. However, the Pope also suffered from poor circulation and had suffered an eye embolism in 1975. The switching of his pills or forgetting to take medication could also have proven lethal. It is uncertain who would have been access in order to slip digitalis into the Pope's liquid medication - Effortil.
Furthermore, there are many contradictions surrounding his death. The initial report issued by Cardinal Villot (Papal Secretary of State) said John Paul I had been found dead by Sister Vincenzia and not by one of his secretaries. Another report had the Pope dead in his bathroom, the another account by the desk in his bedroom. There were also inconsistencies about the time the body was found, 4:30 am or 5:30 am? The official report estimates that John Paul I expired at 11 p.m. on September 28, 1978. No post mortem was performed. Villot originally claimed that an autopsy WAS NOT required despite the fact that the last pope to be autopsied was Pius VII in 1830.
Reports circulated stating that John Paul I complained of feeling sick but wouldn't call a physcian or surgeon. The Pope suffered a pain and a violent cough during the afternoon of September 28. This pain and coughing fit might have been a minor embolism. He was conferring with two secretaries around 8 p.m. on September 28. Yet another contributing factor might have been when, after dinner, the Pope rushed down the hallway to take a telephone call about 9:15 p.m. That event might have contributed to the fatal heart attack Alberto Luciani suffered. Both cases are plausible. The question remains: What caused Pope John Paul I's death the night of September 28, 1978?
The Details Surrounding the Aftermath of Pope John Paul I's Death:
ReplyDeleteCardinal Villot's account maintained that the Pope's death was a tragic accident. Villot alleged that the Pope overdosed on his own medication. This explanation was sketchy and somewhat defamatory. It insinuated that the Pope, so overwhelmed with the burden of the papacy, committed suicide. In that scenario, steps were taken to cover up the suicide. However, Cardinal Villot happened to be a Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, P2. He concocted a story for Sister Vincenzia who discovered the body. Then he directed her to remain silent afterwards. Sister Vincenzia said she found the Pope's body in his bathroom, not in his bed.
The bottle of the Pope's prescription, Effortil, disappeared along with the Pope's glasses and slippers, probably because there were traces of vomit on them. Vomiting is a symptom of digitalis poisoning. Also, the Pope's Will had disappeared. The embalmers were called immediately after Cardinal Villot confirmed the Holy Father's death at 5:30 a.m. The Cardinal then made Sister Vincenzia take the vow of silence. Dr. Buzzonati (not Prof. Fontana of the Vatican medical service, she should have been called in), confirmed the death and attributed it to acute myocardial infarction. The Pope's is believed to have expired at 11 p.m. September 28. The report was issued about 6:00 a.m. A whole hour had passed since the Pope's body had been discovered. Eventually, Villot began informing the other cardinals from around 6:30 a.m. onward. Presumably, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction was not given. The hypothesis of a sudden death seemed untenable to the personal doctor of the Pope's faithful secretary Don Lorenzi.
In death, the Pope's features were twisted and contorted in agony. The Signoracci brothers, the embalmers, attempted to reshape the Pope's face so his death agony would be changed to show a calm expression. Yet, many people had already seen the distorted features of the Pope's face before the embalmers did their work.
The sisters who served as maids and domestics, cleaned and polished the Pope's chambers soon after his death. Any evidence, such as fingerprints, was destroyed. Again, vomiting was one of the early symptoms of a digitalis overdose. The secretaries packed up the Pope's clothes, letters, notes and personal mementos. By 6 p.m. the evening of September 29th, the Pope's 19 rooms in the Papal Apartments had been thoroughly stripped. And his embalmed body would make any autopsy relatively useless. By 11 p.m. that same evening, practically all traces of his reign had been removed. The memory of his presence in the Vatican had been wiped clean. His suspected assassination was complete. The conspirators staying successfully in the shadows.
Prior to Alberto Luciani's death, after a 33 day reign, only one other pope of modern times had a brief reign, Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830). This man was hardly a libertine with his health. With all of the modern conveniences of Vatican City and, especially, the Vatican Palace, it leaves one wondering why no one responded to his distress.
ReplyDeleteWas there no physcian on call?
ReplyDeleteI step away from the subject of this post, not because I do not believe that the suspicious death of this pope does not deserve to be explored in more depth but because a malignancy exists that is trying to encompass another young man who made mistakes, learned from them, moved on, and is currently achieving some fame, some success, and some of his goals.
ReplyDeleteTo whom do I refer as a malignancy. BB, Bio Boi, Biohazard Boi, Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner's stock in trade is ongoing harassment of Sean Lockhart and anyone who supports him in his quest to become self-sufficient, self-activating, and successful in whatever venues he chooses to try.
For Wagner is an honorable man.
Robert Wagner is a moral and ethical coward. Robert Wagner cannot confront his "enemies," real and imagined, in the open. Instead Wagner's preferred method is to attack others from the shadows and behind a moniker that originated with the dead man who was his boss and lover.
To hear Wagner tell it, he is an honorable man.
Wagner does not like to be reminded of his series of serious faults. He merely likes to belittle and castigate. Hence, Wagner can never uphold and laud. He comes across a one who is stuck on a limited confine of hobby horses, a device, that while moving is, nevertheless, stationary.
But Wagner is an honorable man.
Worse, Wagner never offers any fact for any of his premises, only character assassination. Vague and ambiguous meanderings and ramblings. Partial truths about his interactions with Sean Lockhart and deep-seated rage when the full facts are provided such as the nature of Plaza Hotel affair (4th of July, 2004 weekend) in which Wagner plied Sean with drinks and palmed him off onto one his own friends. As another example, Wagner is of the opinion that Sean is 24-years-old despite overwhelming evidence that Sean Lockhart is 23. He persists in this lie.
To hear Wagner tell it, he is an honorable man
That he consorts and find solace with another known liar and associate of the late King Cobra, Cadinot4ver (Cad) is well known. One does not make a move that the other does not know of it. Cad shares a commonality with Wagner, both men were in communication with King Cobra on the evening of his murder. Still another commonality, both men used King Cobra personas in order to attack both Sean Lockhart and Grant Roy, first on the JuicyGoo forum, then other venues. Both condoned the sexual assualt and gang rape of Sean Lockhart in Anonymous writings condoned and posted to the Cobra Video site by the same late Bryan Kocis.
To hear Wagner tell it, he is an honorable man.
Wagner finds further solace in the purposeful misrepresentations and outright fabrications of an arrested, arraigned, and bail bonded Renee Martin who claim to fame is 3-way jailhouse conversations she facilitated between Harlow Cuadra, herself, and Joseph Kerekes and occasionally others. Martin stated she was gathering information for the State; however, she crossed the line and suggested alibis to the incarcerated suspects. Word: Renee Martin is a baseless liar of the first rank.
But Wagner is an honorable man.
Then, Wagner communicates with another blogger on a regular basis. Thus, the ever less than stellar record, on the more salient points, of the coward BB, Bio Boi, Biohazard Boi, Robert Wagner, a liar, a coward, and an errand boy-pimp for a dead man whose own conniving and greed contributed to his murder.
To hear Wagner tell it, he is an honorable man.
This is my opinion of Robert Wagner and the minions who float in his orbit.
Yes Rob that just about sums up Robert Wagner in a nutshell (appropriate for a nutcase).
ReplyDeleteTypical of a Sociopath and a trait they share (Bryan Kocis) Robert Wagner really believes he is a good person,he is blameless,shares no responsibility for Bryan Kocis.
A Convenient Delusion is this how he suppresses guilt? By believing Boys wanted to be raped,drugged and film child pornography?
The character trait ALL Ephebophilles share with Pedophiles is a Blameless life.
They are never ever at fault no matter how heinous the crime.
Ole Rip and Post has a problem when it comes to BB attacking other bloggers.
ReplyDeleteBB can impugn and castigate character, but when others impeach BB's motives and behavior and words, well rip and post gets territorial. He censors remarks. Until the recent backlash from other bloggers, Grant had a difficult time of it posting on a blog.
Rip and post is not neutral. He is coming across as pro-Kocis. Fact is Sean was consistent in his testimony on the stand in Harlow Cuadra's murder trial. The consistency is readily apparent in his online interviews, a few of his blog posts, and blog comments.
Sam fools no one. The remarks are similar to those made by Renee Martin who was caught cooking up alibis for Joe and Harlow.
What does that leave us with? The BB persona who believes that because Robert Wagner was live in the courthouse while BB was blogging proves that he couldn't possibly be BB or the party behind him. How utterly simplistic. Robert Wagner clearly has control of the BB persona. That persona takes a militant pro-RW/pro-Kocis family stand.
BB seems to forget that he stated RW was not in London, England and lo on rip and post's very blog, from the Times Leader, Wagner arrives in Pennsylvania from London to testify. Then, there's "blood on their hands," BB's constant raving. That statement circles the drain after Sean's testimony. And that other gem of his which applies to his recent special pleading of noninvolvement: "Smoke, mirrors, and bullshit." Yep. That is what RW and his minions deal in, lots of crapolla.
And the biggest stake is Grant's statement regarding Wagner: "Lies, Lies, Lies . . . ," which suggests more is to follow. Nothing changes about Wagner except that he has chosen to not being nearly as shrill.
Fr. Malachi Martin (no relation to Renee) said that John Paul I was murdered by a Jesuit/Masonic cabal. He further stated that there was an extraordinary demand for exorcisms in the Vatican in the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteEx-Jesuit Malachi Martin wrote about the reality of demonic possession. His work is one of the major writings on demonology.
ReplyDeleteAnd that leads to something that was pointed out to me by a Benedictine theologian and specialist on the subject. Most folks are under the impression that Satan is readily spottable--horn and hooves stuff. They fail to realize that is an artistic, allegorical conception. For whatever reason, God did not take away Lucifer's seraphimic-archangelic beauty. He was the preeminent angel in the Heavenly Host and held St. Michael's post before his Fall.
If Satan manifests himself, it is as Lucifer in all his glory to take in the unsuspecting as Jesus said in being watchful of those who would stealhily enter the folk to do its members harm.
Thank you for that remark Geoff. It certainly addresses that John Paul I was a complex man and spiritual leader.