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Murder in the Vatican Paperback – January 1, 2008

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IMPORTANT: 'Murder in the Vatican' was republished in an expanded edition in December 2013  under the title 'The Vatican Murders: The Life and Death of John Paul I' also on Amazon.
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George Lucien Gregoire was born in New England and completed his graduate work in Massachusetts schools. He spent his military years in NATO intelligence and doubled as a CIA subversive agent during his professional life as an officer of corporations in the United States and Europe. As a NATO intelligence officer, Gregoire made the acquaintance of the 33-day Pope in the late sixties when John Paul-then a bishop-was leading a socialist youth movement in Northern Italy. The investigation-Murder in the Vatican-has taken Gregoire to many countries and spanned many years. He is the author of 'The Reincarnation of Albino Luciani' and other books about the 33-day Pope.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authorhouse; 4th edition (January 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 393 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1434387224
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1434387226
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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George Lucien Gregoire completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in chemical engineering and finance in New England colleges, having earned his MBA at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

In connection with Cooperative Education and in humanitarian work as founder of organizations bringing education to physically and emotionally impaired children, he has served on secondary school and university boards.

He spent the lion’s share of his professional life bringing a revolutionary paper machine to market, successfully changing papermaking from a hazardous toxic-laden chemical process to a infinitely more efficient planet-friendly mechanical one.

Gregoire spent the greater part of his military years confined in an Intelligence unit in the Arctic Circle. Armed with a powerful transmitter, the unit conditioned American children to hate children growing up in atheist countries, so that they would kill them when they grew up. Established by Cardinal Spellman and Eisenhower when they announced American intervention in Vietnam in 1955, The unit was dismantled when John Kennedy became aware of it in 1962.

This awakened his interest in researching the evolution of Christianity from the Neanderthals to Jesus displayed in a simple and understanding way in his book 'The San Francisco Tea Party'.

Active in eastern and western sects,this self-built guru of world religions acquired his practical perception of faith asking thousands of them, where they thought they were going after they die. Insofar as Judaism does not provide an afterlife, on the steps of a synagogue, he asked an old woman: “Mrs. Stein. Where do you go when you check out?”

Thinking deeply for the longest moment…

“Well, we usually go to Philadelphia…

But, if it is a nice day, we go to the park!”

Lucien Gregoire's books:

The San Francisco Tea Party: The Republic of California - SECESSION - conversion therapy

The Murder of John Paul I - TRUE CRIME - proves Avro Manhattan’s observation:"the election of a pro-communist pope struck a nerve of shattering proportions in the CIA.. It joined with right-wing factions in the Church to move its longtime ally in the Cold War to Rome..."

The Vatican Murders - BIOGRAPHY - John Paul I

In the Shadows of Fátima - TRUE CRIME - a child visionary murders her five cousins

I Can Do That - recreates little known incidents in the lives of champions of human justice

Readers are cautioned other Lucien Gregoire books are developmental editions of these books

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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2009
    One of the most revealing books dealing with evil in the Roman Catholic Church today. What is most impressive is the first hand knowledge Lucien has of not only personal testimony but also the most descriptive layout of the papal residence building and papal suite itself.
    The beliefs of John Paul I are appalling to say the least, but at least the truth is out there for those who want to know, not only why he would be murdered but also those who had reason? to murder him. What is so disturbing is the link between the various organizations affiliated with the Vatican on so many levels, one can now understand the astonishment the Apostle John exclaimed as he penned Revelation 17 & 18.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2011
    Gregoire's book must surely stand out as one of the worse books ever written - in terms of style and grammar. (One is left somewhat astonished that the author has made no attempt to correct his truly outlandish writing style, especially considering the number of "reprints" that have been published...many of his sentences beginning with "In that there...") One is left with the impression that most of this book originated inside the fantasy of the author's imagination. (I seriously doubt that his friend "Jack" even existed.) Perhaps the author can provide some convincing proof of the supposed meeting that took place on March 13, 1979, or the archeological "Luciani Expedition into Egypt" discussed at length in chapter 17. His book conveys a sense of pure imaginary fiction and contributes nothing to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the pope's death. I find the book a total insult to the memory of this 33-day pope. A great book to read if you enjoy unstable writing and have a particular hatred for the Roman Catholic Church - by comparison Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code looks like a relatively harmless piece of religious trivia. Responsible writing on a serious topic it is not.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2009
    This book is intriguing. There is so much information that your mind blurs as you try to put yourself into the story as an observer. I just finished it and now I will read it again (unlike other books I have read and enjoyed). I want to write all over the chapters with questions I want to find answers to and research I want to do as if I were an investigator.......sooooo much to find out, so little time. It raises questions about parts of your faith that answers need to be provided. What is truth, what is speculation by the author and what is fantasy as he tries to re-create a story told to him by his friend (tainted by his own beliefs and passed on) or from his own observation by being there. As stated, so many questions, so little time. What is truth, what is fantasy? Worth reading.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014
    Interesting !!!!!
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2009
    The author did a thorough investigation and reported his findings inl much detail, but with an evident bias toward the Marxist wing of the Roman Catholic Church. My main complaint is that the first seventy pages of this new book were missing, and would appreciate receiving a replacement. The book I have is not worth returning, so please just send me a complete volume. This is the first time I have had a problem with Amazon's service though I have bought many books from them. I will probabl;y order many more books in the future if this error is corrected.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2010
    the worst book I ever read. The author had his own agenda to launch obviously.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009
    I found this book quite interesting, a lot of personal study must have gone into the book/story. A couple of small flaws ( Pius X11 > John XXIII transission, e.g. ) but otherwise quite good
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2008
    This work is complete and total fiction. It's the most audacious and ridiculous thing I have ever read. Hardly one word of it has any connection to reality.

    My authority for saying so? I have been researching Pope John Paul I's life myself for many years. I have talked to his family and those who knew him. I have read and translated his writings from his years Belluno, Vittorio Veneto and Venice, right from the original documents published in the 60's and 70's, even his original writings from the diocesan paper in Belluno in the 1940's. All of these are the writings that the author claims were confiscated from the archives when Luciani was elected Pope. Funny how I found all these archives still intact when I visited them seven years later in 1985! The author seems to be ignorant of the fact that all these writings have been republished many times in Italian.

    In all of Luciani's genuine writings, you will not find a trace of the revolutionary ideas that Mr. Gregoire claims that the Pope had about sexuality. He most certainly did not want to suppress the Mosaic law and the Ten Commandments. He did not favor homosexuality at all. The few snippets of the Pope's actual writings that the author includes have usually been distorted beyond all recognition. This is especially true of his interview about the first test-tube baby, of which Gregoire excerpts only a tiny portion (there was no letter to the parents). In the remainder of the interview, Luciani said that he fully accepted Pope Pius XII's view that any procreation of children apart from the actual marriage act was not licit.

    Here is another actual quote from his writings from 1974, an interview he gave to the daily newspaper of Venice - I myself photocopied the actual original article:

    "A sexuality that is worthy of man must be a part of love for a person of a different sex with the added commitments of fidelity and indissolubility." (Il Gazzettino, February 12,1974, p. 7)

    Gregoire claims that his is the only biography written of John Paul I or the only surviving record of his life. Pure nonsense. I myself possess about a dozen biographies of John Paul I in Italian, some very scholarly. Needless to say, they tell an entirely different tale. English readers have been deprived of a good complete biography of him in English; the gap has been filled by this?!

    The account of the Pope's last audience is distorted beyond all recognition, with completely fictional passages added in which the Pope proclaims his revolutionary views on sex and birth control, the abolishing of the commandments, etc. The author says they came from an AP story, while the Vatican released only "excerpts." How can it be that I myself have researched the reaction to John Paul I's papacy in newspapers, both American and from around the world for 25 years without ever seeing any such story? That's because it does not exist. And please check out Andrew Greeley's book "The Making of the Popes 1978." He attended that audience talk, along with journalists from around the world. Yet he doesn't mention a word about any such declarations from the Pope.

    Mr. Gregoire says in his preface that he wrote his book "in several genres." That ought to give a wary reader pause right there. If the genres he mentions are all fictional, then he is quite correct! I think all the other reviews on here -- particularly those who claim to have met Luciani -- must be written by Mr. Gregoire's sock puppets: no one else could possibly be as delusional and ignorant about the Church and this Pope as he is.

    I love John Paul I very much, and it's horrible to see his legacy distorted in this way. If you study his actual writings, you will see that he was a progressive bishop in social matters, but he was not a Marxist. He was faithful on Church doctrine. But some people are not interested in the truth. They want a Pope made to their own specifications - they can't accept the man who really existed.

    I hope the biography I am going to publish will set things right. In the meantime, the writings that I have translated appear in the book "The Smiling Pope: The Life and Teaching of John Paul I," and they are all authentic. The book contains an accurate short biography of him as well.

    The Smiling Pope: The Life And Teaching Of John Paul I
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent and unconvincing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2011
    Lucien Gregoire's "Murder in the Vatican" bears all the hallmarks of vanity publishing (which is what it is): overlong, repetitious, full of spelling mistakes, printing errors and weird ideas.

    More important, the author fails to convince this reader at least of the authenticity and reliability of his detailed and convoluted recollections of personal conversations, in some instances decades earlier, with the man who became Pope John Paul I.

    For a thoroughly-researched and unbiased account of the events surrounding the unexpected and early death of this Pope, I recommend David Yallop's "In God's Name". I bought both books (from Amazon) the same day. If only I had read David Yallop's book before ordering another book on the same topic, I would have saved unnecessary expenditure of money and time; David Yallop's comprehensive book covers the subject comprehensively.