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Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories
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Tomb of John Paul I in the Vatican Grottoes
Pope John Paul I died in September 1978, 33 days after his election. The suddenness of the death, together with the Vatican's difficulties with the ceremonial and legal death procedures (such as issuing a legitimate death certificate), have resulted in several conspiracy theories.
Discrepancies in the Vatican's account of the events surrounding John Paul I's death — its inaccurate statements about who found the body,[1] what he had been reading, when, where and whether an autopsy could be carried out[1][2] — produced a number of conspiracy theories, many associated with the Vatican Bank, which owned many shares in Banco Ambrosiano.
Some conspiracy theorists connect the death of John Paul in September 1978 with the image of the "bishop dressed in white" said to have been seen by Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto during the visitations of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917.[3][4] In a letter to a colleague, John Paul had said he was deeply moved by having met Lucia and vowed to perform the Consecration of Russia in accordance with her vision.[5]
Conspiracy theories[edit]
David Yallop[edit]
David Yallop's 1984 book In God's Name proposed the theory that the pope was in "potential danger" because of corruption in the Vatican Bank (known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion or Istituto per le Opere Religiose), the Vatican's most powerful financial institution,[according to whom?] which owned many shares in Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican Bank lost about a quarter of a billion dollars.[citation needed]
This corruption was real[citation needed] and is known to have involved the bank's head, Paul Marcinkus, along with Roberto Calvi of the Banco Ambrosiano.[6] Calvi was a member of P2, an illegal Italian Masonic lodge.[7] Calvi was found dead in London in 1982, after disappearing just before the corruption became public. His death was initially ruled suicide, and a second inquest – ordered by his family – then returned an open verdict.[8]
Upon publication of his book, Yallop agreed to donate every penny he made from sales to a charity of the Vatican's choice if they agreed to investigate his central claim, that when the body of the pope was discovered, his contorted hand gripped a piece of paper that was later destroyed because it named high-ranking members of the curia who were Freemasons and others who had a role in numerous corruption scandals and the laundering of mafia drug money. One of the names believed to be on the paper was that of bishop Paul Marcinkus, who was later promoted by Pope John Paul II to Pro-President of Vatican City, making him the third most powerful person in the Vatican, after the pope and the secretary of state. None of Yallop's claims, which are unproven, has thus far been acknowledged by the Vatican, although Yallop disclosed the Masonic Lodge numbers of the Curia members whom he alleged to be Freemasons in his book.[9] There is a Papal ban of Freemasonry and it is forbidden by Church law for a Roman Catholic to be a Freemason.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tomb of John Paul I in the Vatican Grottoes
Pope John Paul I died in September 1978, 33 days after his election. The suddenness of the death, together with the Vatican's difficulties with the ceremonial and legal death procedures (such as issuing a legitimate death certificate), have resulted in several conspiracy theories.
Discrepancies in the Vatican's account of the events surrounding John Paul I's death — its inaccurate statements about who found the body,[1] what he had been reading, when, where and whether an autopsy could be carried out[1][2] — produced a number of conspiracy theories, many associated with the Vatican Bank, which owned many shares in Banco Ambrosiano.
Some conspiracy theorists connect the death of John Paul in September 1978 with the image of the "bishop dressed in white" said to have been seen by Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto during the visitations of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917.[3][4] In a letter to a colleague, John Paul had said he was deeply moved by having met Lucia and vowed to perform the Consecration of Russia in accordance with her vision.[5]
Conspiracy theories[edit]
David Yallop[edit]
David Yallop's 1984 book In God's Name proposed the theory that the pope was in "potential danger" because of corruption in the Vatican Bank (known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion or Istituto per le Opere Religiose), the Vatican's most powerful financial institution,[according to whom?] which owned many shares in Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican Bank lost about a quarter of a billion dollars.[citation needed]
This corruption was real[citation needed] and is known to have involved the bank's head, Paul Marcinkus, along with Roberto Calvi of the Banco Ambrosiano.[6] Calvi was a member of P2, an illegal Italian Masonic lodge.[7] Calvi was found dead in London in 1982, after disappearing just before the corruption became public. His death was initially ruled suicide, and a second inquest – ordered by his family – then returned an open verdict.[8]
Upon publication of his book, Yallop agreed to donate every penny he made from sales to a charity of the Vatican's choice if they agreed to investigate his central claim, that when the body of the pope was discovered, his contorted hand gripped a piece of paper that was later destroyed because it named high-ranking members of the curia who were Freemasons and others who had a role in numerous corruption scandals and the laundering of mafia drug money. One of the names believed to be on the paper was that of bishop Paul Marcinkus, who was later promoted by Pope John Paul II to Pro-President of Vatican City, making him the third most powerful person in the Vatican, after the pope and the secretary of state. None of Yallop's claims, which are unproven, has thus far been acknowledged by the Vatican, although Yallop disclosed the Masonic Lodge numbers of the Curia members whom he alleged to be Freemasons in his book.[9] There is a Papal ban of Freemasonry and it is forbidden by Church law for a Roman Catholic to be a Freemason.
