“So that everyone would understand Him - no matter how dim - on this very important point of His testimony, Christ is explicit as He makes clear the Church He intended was not to be one of stone or a place of worship. Asked if Herod’s Temple of Jerusalem was His Church, He answered, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is not in buildings of wood and stone, it is in your heart, it is in our compassion for others.’ Christ tells us that our relationship with Him is a private and direct one - it requires no preacher or middleman - it should not be the public display that today’s Christians and the Pharisees of His time make of it.”

The bishop Luciani backed up what he had to say with Christ’s sacred testimony in Matthew 6, “‘And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in public places, that they may be seen and heard of men. Verily, I say unto you, They have their reward in this life. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, talk to me in secret; and ye reward will be in the next life. When ye pray, speak to me, do not ask of me. And use not mindless vain repetitions as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard for their speaking in public places . . .’  ²   

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“Like all men,” the good bishop Luciani told me, “there are three kinds of preachers. There is the scarcest of them all, a few who truly try to carry out Christ’s message. Then there are those that want not much more than to fill their pockets with gold. Then there is the third kind, the most dangerous kind, and unfortunately the most prolific kind. Those who want to control the minds of men. Even though Christ could not have been more explicit in what He had to say, there are preachers, so scrupulous in their drive for power, that they lie to their unsuspecting followers about what Christ really had to say about the word Church.”

The little known bishop of the remote mountain province continued, “Christ’s sole requirement for salvation is twofold, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself,’ and ‘Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor.’ Not once in His ministry does He ask us to fall down on our knees and adore Him. There is no message more explicit than is Christ’s account of His two archenemies - BIGOTRY and GREED; which today, in direct defiance of Christ’s instructions, are the fundamental driving forces of our Christian society.

“Christ knew his followers would become the very people he so often condemned in His ministry. We, today, are the HYPOCRITES - the Pharisees, He so often condemns in the gospels.” Then in a tone of great anger, the bishop added, “And the greatest of all of HYPOCRITES are those preachers who claim to ‘love’ a certain group of people, yet, spend all their energy in the public forum trying to deny that very same group of their rights.

 “Believe me, Lucien, denying any of God’s children, no matter how scorned by doctrine, basic human rights and dignity under the law is not loving them. It is hating them; HYPOCRISY of the very first rank.” ³

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Luciani told me of the first time he had missed Sunday mass. “I had just turned eleven and was as poor as a church mouse and often went hungry myself. Yet, I did have a mama and papa to take care of me and love me. They were away visiting a sick friend on that sub-zero Sunday morning when I made my way to church with my fellow Christians. We passed a dozen orphans begging in the streets. Most of them were orphans because they had been born out of wedlock; the reason why they were barred from church as it had been God the Father’s sacred testimony in Deuteronomy 23, ‘A bastard child shall not enter into the congregation of the lord.’ It was this ‘holy’ testimony of his ‘God’ that first made me realize what a monster and a liar Moses was.

“It was this ‘holy’ testimony of his ‘God’ that first made me realize the Old Testament was not the word of God. As a matter-of-fact, it was not even inspired by God; it was obviously inspired by the hatred and greed of men.

“It may have been the intense cold that inspired me, but nevertheless, I turned around and hurried back to my house and quickly cooked up a caldron of soup with all the vegetables and lentils I could find and although it meant that we would go without them ourselves for several days, I took it to the orphans and placed it in the snow in the midst of them. For the first time in my life I realized what Christ had meant when He said, ‘Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.’

“By that time church was over, so I had missed mass - a mortal sin in those days. I decided to go into the church to ask forgiveness. But I forgot they locked the doors outside of service hours to keep the orphans from coming in to get warm.

“It was then - at that very moment - when those doors would not open - I realized what Christ had meant by the word ‘Church’. It was then - at that very moment - when those doors would not open - I decided to become a priest. It was then – at that very moment - when those doors would not open - I decided I would change the Church back to what Christ had intended. It was then - at that very moment - when those doors would not open - I first realized my devout mama was a sheep, and my socialist revolutionary papa was a lion. It was then - at that very moment - when those doors would not open - I began to shed my wool, and groom my mane.

“I hoped the scolding I would receive when my parents returned would not be too harsh. I underestimated the wrath of my devout mama who knowing that I had violated God’s will, took me into the bedroom and left me there on my knees pleading for God’s forgiveness for having broken His sacred law.

“Later, when my papa returned, he pulled me up off my knees and hugged me. He told me that what I had done was wonderful. He told me to ask Christ to forgive my mama for having scolded me. I should not think ill of her, as she was caught up in religion - Christianity - something he often referred to as the Opium of the Masses. Drugged with belief, she is unable to judge what is truly right or what is truly wrong.

“So, although it was my mother who had taught me the idolatry of Christ, it was my father who taught me the reality of Christ; it was my father who had taught me right from wrong. Although I loved her dearly, my mother was too caught up in the Opium of the Masses to know right from wrong.”

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 Many years later on a chilly autumn evening, I sat by the fireplace in an overstuffed armchair. I reached for the newspaper and read: London Times, September 21, 1978, Vatican City. As he has on other occasions, after a general audience, yesterday, John Paul called for assistance from his listeners. A young boy came forward.

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“Anthony.” Then with a touch of pride, “I am sixteen.”

John Paul asked, “Good. Now, tell me Anthony, what is the greatest of sins?”

The boy hesitated, looked sheepishly around the room, hesitated again, and finally stammered, “Why, I suppose, sex?”

Smiling, the Pope apologized, “Sorry, to have put you on the spot. Yes, sex. We think of it as the greatest of sins, whereas in itself it is nothing more than human nature and not a sin at all. I will give you another chance. Now, Anthony, think, what is really the greatest sin of all?”

The boy thought for a moment or so and answered, “I guess, murder?”

“Well, you are getting warmer. But, what I am looking for is the cause. Not the result.”

The boy remained silent. The Pope told him, “Anthony, the greatest sin of all is hatred - hatred of other kinds of people and hatred of those who live their lives differently. And hatred usually goes hand in hand with its partner, greed.”

The boy interrupted, “Now, that I think of it, you’re right. Hatred and greed have been at the root of all of the grief of mankind, the countless wars of ethnic cleansing, murdering and destruction of individuals and, at times, entire populations.”

“Why do you suppose you didn’t think of it when I first asked you?” the Pope asked.

“I don’t know; maybe because it is not a commandment.” The boy replied.

“Why do you suppose Moses left hatred, the greatest of sins, out of his commandments?” John Paul continued to probe the boy. “Well, I guess, he intended to leave it out or he made a mistake.” Anthony responded.

“You are right. But, nevertheless, unlike Moses who was a man and could make mistakes and be driven by personal motive, Christ, who is God, makes no mistakes and is impartial. In Matthew 19, Christ is asked, ‘Which of the commandments must I keep, that I shall have eternal life?’

“In His reply, Christ makes no mention of Moses’ first four commandments which require adoration of the God of the Old Testament: 1) I am the one God, 2) no graven images, 3) don’t take the name of the Lord in vain, and 4) keep the Sabbath. Unlike Moses’ God who tells us the only path to Heaven is to fall down on our knees and adore Him, Christ tells us falling down on our knees and adoring Him isn’t going to get us anywhere.

“In Christ’s response to the question as to which of the commandments are necessary for eternal life, Christ retains five of Moses’ requirements: 5) honor thy father and mother, 6) thou shalt not kill, 7) thou shalt not steal, 8) thou shalt not commit adultery, 9) and thou shalt not bear false witness.

“Christ specifically excludes Moses’ tenth commandment, 10) ’Thou shalt not covet (desire to take from) thy neighbor his property, including his house, his wife, his slaves, his ox, his ass.’ 4  Christ knew that Moses’ intent was to protect the right of one man to enslave another and to hold women, as mere animals, as man’s property. Christ knew that was wrong.

“Finally, Christ adds two of his own - the two that Moses, either through error or intent, left out. ‘Thou shalt not hate’ - the reciprocal of ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘Thou shalt not greed’ - the reciprocal of ’Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor.’ Christ’s message is clear. The only way we can get to heaven is to help our neighbor no matter who he is or where he is. A lifetime on one’s knees in church praying for special favors and selfish miracles isn’t going to get anyone anywhere. A single act of kindness to a beggar in the street or a child in Uganda could reap one the Kingdom of Heaven.”

The Pope’s voice took on a tone as if he were revealing a great secret, “Anthony, this is what Christ meant by the word ‘Church’. Take this with you wherever you go. Tell it to others. Spread the word. More than any cardinal or bishop in robes of silk and satin who holds golden chalices up for all to see, you will truly be the successor of Peter. Much more than I will ever be, you will truly be the Vicar of Christ on earth.”

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The rich and the poor

A week or so later I picked up a newspaper and read: Associated Press, September 28, 1978, Vatican City. In a general audience yesterday, the Pope talked of the Church’s responsibility to help control the world’s population. “. . . I have been discussing birth control for about forty-five minutes. If the information I have been given, the various statistics, if that information is accurate, then during the period of time I have been talking, over one thousand children under the age of five have died of malnutrition. During the next four hours while you and I look forward with anticipation to our next meal another five thousand children under the age of five will die of malnutrition. By this time tomorrow thirty thousand children under the age of five, who at this moment are alive, will be dead of malnutrition. God does not always provide. It is our sacred responsibility to provide,” the Pope raised his voice, “and we will provide now.”5

The newly elected Pope continued to talk of poverty and starvation in the world, his tones, strong and precise, each word in perfect diction; his voice unwavering in its objective. He spoke in simple words so that the youngest of the children present could understand what he had to say. He struck at the heart of capitalism and at times bordered on outright communism, "'It should be the inalienable right of man to own property, but it should not be the right of any man to accumulate wealth beyond the necessary and ignore the basic human needs of the world's children.'” As he had on many occasions as a bishop and as a cardinal, he threatened the hypocrisy of the Vatican treasures.

“This morning, I flushed my toilet with a solid gold lever. At this moment, bishops and cardinals are using a bathroom on the second floor of the Papal Palace which trappings, I am told, would draw more than fifty million dollars at auction . . . Believe me, one day, we who live in opulence, while so many are dying because they have nothing, will have to answer to Jesus as to why we have not carried out His instruction, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’ We, the clergy of the Church together with our congregations, who substitute gold and pomp and ceremony in place of Christ’s instruction, who judge our masquerade of singing His praises to be more precious than human life, will have the most to explain.”

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The boy stammered, “Daniele. I am in the fifth grade.”

The Pope followed, “Now, do you want to stay in the fifth grade or would you rather go on to the sixth grade next year?”

The boy startled the Pope, “I want to stay in the fifth grade. If I go on to the sixth grade, I will lose my teacher.”

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Smiling to the crowd, the Pope responded, “Well, this boy is different than was the little boy Luciani, for when I was in the fifth grade, I would say to myself, ‘Oh, if only I were in the sixth.’ And, when I was in the sixth grade, I would say to myself, ‘Oh, if only I were in the seventh.’” Turning to the boy, “You see, Daniele, we have within us a need to make progress - to move forward. Only with progress can we find the truth. We started out living in caves and then progressed to huts and now we live in homes with modern kitchens and bathrooms and telephones.

“But, more importantly, has been our progress in accepting our fellow human beings as we do ourselves. Our enemy is what has gone before us. We wrongly assume that our ancestors were smarter than we are. We wrongly accept that what they wrote in their books is the truth. We assume that what they had to say was right and this misconception pulls us backward, instead of forward. Yet, as a matter-of-fact, we are much smarter than were our ancestors. As each generation comes forward, it benefits from all the knowledge and truths that have been accumulated by all the generations that have gone before it.

“Tell me Daniele, what did God do on the first day of creation?”

The boy looked up at the Pope with a puzzled frown. “Why, He divided the waters that were there to create Heaven.”

The Pope followed, “And, on the second day?”

Daniele, “He gathered the waters together to allow the dry land to appear and He grew grass, trees and flowers.”

John Paul nodded a look of agreement, “Very Good. Now, how about on the third day?”

Daniele, “God hung the sun and the moon and the stars in the heavens to give light.”

The Pope smiled, “You have a good teacher. No wonder you don’t want to leave her. Nevertheless, when Moses told us the story of creation, he was unaware the earth was round and rotating on its axis and controlled by its sun. As a result, he told us God had told him the earth was flat and God hung the sun and the stars in the heavens the day after He had created the earth together with its vegetation.

“He told us this because he didn’t know at his time it is the sun that is the center of our solar system and controls all life on our planet. It is because he didn’t know the facts - the truth - that Moses told his followers that God had told him God had created vegetation the day before He hung the sun in the heavens. Today we know the facts - the truth - no vegetation can exist without the process of photosynthesis which is a product of the sun. As a matter-of-fact, the earth, itself, could not exist without its sun.”

Daniele, looking at the Pope with a hint of a smile,corrected him, “But, God would have told the story of creation as people at the time believed the world to be.”

The Pope acknowledged the boy’s response. “Yes, in the seventeenth century when Galileo proved the organization of the universe - when he proved the story of creation as told by Moses was not the truth - Pope Innocent X declared that God would have told the story of creation in the way that people understood the world to be at that time. Everyone believed him. The reason they believed him was that he was the Pope and at that time the Pope controlled the minds of men. Today, many still believe Pope Innocent’s proclamation; that a God, who gave us the commandment, ‘Don’t bare false witness,’ lied about the organization of the universe in His very first words to man.

“But, of course, I too am Pope. In addition, I have at my disposal the immense abundance of knowledge the world has accumulated since Innocent’s time. I ask myself, ‘Would God have had any reason to have lied?’ The obvious answer to me is that God had no reason to have lied. As a matter-of-fact, God had great motive to have told the truth. For had He told Moses the truth, had God revealed the true organization of the universe to Moses, it would have proved that He was the true God.

 “It would have explained a great mystery of that time, as to how it was possible for the sun to rise in the east each morning and descend in the west each evening? How did it ever return to the east? So God had great motive to have told the truth. Yet, Moses, in convincing his people that he had talked to God, inspired his people to take the Promised Land which made him the wealthiest man of his time, save Pharaoh. So Moses would have had great motive to have lied.

“Daniele, now listen very carefully to what I am about to say to you. I want you to keep it with you always.” The Pope paused and spoke slowly and decisively, “Daniele, I do not believe that the same God who has endowed us with reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use; that we would believe that a God, who had great motive to have told the truth, lied; and that a man, who had great motive to have lied, told the truth.

“In his day, Moses thought he was telling the truth. But, today we know that he was not telling the truth because, at his time, he did not know the truth. Daniele, if we are ever to know the truth, we cannot start with falsehoods. We must start with what we have determined to be the truth to a given point in time and go forward. As each generation comes and goes we grow closer and closer to the truth. Believe me, Daniele, the truth does not lie in the past; it lies in the future; and it is your job to help society in its struggle to find it.”

John Paul went on, “Daniele. Let me tell you a story. In America, for two-hundred years, Negroes were taken from their homeland and placed in bondage and what is worst of all is that the white church-going Christians thought it was right, that it was somehow holy, that it was the will of God. And they thought this way because, at the time, they were in the fifth grade and wanted to stay in the fifth grade because they could not give up their teacher. Their fifth grade teacher, at that time, was the God of the Old Testament. He told them in His Tenth Commandment, ‘Thou shalt not covet (desire to take from) thy neighbor his … slaves,’ that slavery was right. That slavery was the way of the Lord.

“Then, one day, a man named Lincoln and others like him came along and they said to themselves, ‘We shall go on to the sixth grade.’ There they found a new teacher, His name was Christ, and Christ told them slavery was wrong.” 4

The boy whispered, “I never thought of it in this way.”

John Paul continued, “Through the centuries, Mother Church has had the same problem the American Christians had back before Lincoln’s day. Back in Moses time, the Israelites, in an unprovoked attack, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of their peaceful Canaanite neighbors including all of their children and thought it was right. Back in Christ’s time, they would stone unwed mothers to death and thought it was right. During the Crusades, we murdered millions of helpless Muslims and Jews and thought it was right. Then for six centuries, we tortured and murdered countless innocent people in the Inquisitions and thought it was right. In the World War, your country sided with Germany in its quest for the superiority of the Aryan race and the annihilation and subordination of other races. Again, we thought it was right because we were a Christian nation and the Vatican told us it was right. And, until very recently, we would treat born-out-of-wedlock children as outcasts of society and, once more, we thought it was right. Even today, we continue to persecute many kinds of people who live their lives differently and we continue to think it is right because of what someone once wrote in a book.

“Daniele, not too long ago when I was your age, every town and village in Italy had a cart that went about the streets each morning picking up the frozen bodies of the orphans who had not made it through the winter nights. At the time, all we good Christians thought it was right because Mother Church told us it was right. But now, just a few generations later, we all know it was wrong. It was an atrocity.

“Just two months ago, the first artificially inseminated child was born in England. The latest polls show that more than ninety percent of Catholics condemn the child. The reason they condemn the child is because Mother Church condemns the child. She tells her ‘sheep’ that today’s ‘test-tube’ babies are what children born out of wedlock used to be. They are the new BASTARDS of society. So even, today, Mother Church does not know right from wrong.

“Daniele, you too must make progress or you will never know right from wrong. You will never be able to help your fellowman in his search for the truth. You will never be able to make your contribution toward making this a better world to live in for those who come after you.”

Daniele, “Now I know why I must go on to the sixth grade.”

“Yes, Daniele, you have your sacred commission. You must go on to the sixth grade, then on to the seventh, and then on to the eighth. You must go forward, always advancing, never looking back. Progress and change must be your guiding ambition. So that someday the whole world will come to know the truth. So that the day will come about when all men and women will treat each other equally as Christ had commanded, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’ Not as they have in the past, just because someone once wrote something in a book.” 6

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          On CBS News that same evening: Vatican City. Pope John Paul held a private audience with a delegation of bishops from the Philippines led by Jamie Cardinal Sin this morning. One of the bishops challenged the new Pope on doctrine concerning rumors a woman might soon be ordained. John Paul told the bishop, “When I was a teenager my father made me promise that I would live my life in imitation of Christ, and I have kept that solemn promise. Each time that the fork in the road has come up, often only minutes apart, I have asked myself, ‘Now, what would Jesus have done in this case?’ And I have often pondered the possibility as to how much better the world would be if everyone were to do this.” The Pope asked the bishop, “Now, what do you think Jesus would do in this case?”

When the bishop remained silent, the Pope told him, “It makes no difference what was written by self-serving men for yesterday, all that counts is what Jesus would do today.” John Paul then reached for a microphone and raising his voice he told the delegation, “Never forget that God is more our Mother than She is our Father!” 7

These would be the last of his words the press would record. The very next day, I picked up another newspaper and read: Associated Press, September 29, 1978, Vatican City. Just thirty-three days into his pontificate, Pope John Paul died last evening . . . Vibrant and on the job to the end,  he was sixty-five . . .the only Pope in history whose death was unwitnessed . . . On hearing the news, Cardinal Benelli of Florence called for an autopsy . . . Born of a social revolutionary atheist father who had placed him in a seminary at the age of eleven with the commission to bring change to the Church . . . What would have been John Paul’s papacy is perhaps best defined by the central message of his acceptance speech in the Sistine Chapel, August 27, 1978, “. . . We must rise up the courage that is within us and set aside the convictions of our Christian forefathers and together we will muster the strength to lift those restraints that have been unfairly placed upon the everyday lives of so many innocent people by doctrine . . . for God-given human life is infinitely more precious than is man-made doctrine . . .”

Five days later, I read: Associated Press, October 4, 1978, Vatican City: The coffin, a plain pine box as reserved for paupers, was hemmed in by the princes of the Church in their rich and elegant attire . . . Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens, Archbishop of Brussels,  gave the final tribute for his dear friend.

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.  .  .   Luciani's rise to the world stage did not begin when he became a cardinal in 1973.  Rather it began in 1926, when he was just thriteen years old.  He had wiggled himself into the job as Assistant Editor of the school newspaper and in his first arrticle he called upon the nations of the world to live up to the responsibilities of their copyright laws and require a warning be placed on the Old Testament, "This is a work of fiction. Keep away from children." Through the intervention of his father, the article was published in a socialist literary journal and eventually reached all of Europe . . . .  cont'd in White Light Dark Night

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¹ pg 3 BASTARDS. Moses condemnation of born-out-of-wedlock children is the reason the word continues to have such a terrible connotation today despite the fact that the related stigma is now dead. In 1973, Paul VI motioned to make Luciani a cardinal. Luciani sent a message that unless the Pope reversed Canon Law’s condemnation of bastards, he would refuse the red hat. Paul complied. Yet, even today in conservative Rome, one will not find a priest who is willing to baptize an illegitimate child. In the Church today, a born-out-of-wedlock male cannot be ordained a priest. 

² pg 5 Matthew 6, "When thou prayest etc." This is the translation of Christ’s definition of prayer as found in the oldest surviving New Testament texts. Most modern Bibles replace the phrases “in this life” and “in the next life” respectively with the words “already” and “then.” The King James Bible goes a step further and takes Christ’s words completely out of context by deleting both phrases entirely; both sentences ending in the word ‘reward’. All modern Bibles delete Christ’s words, “When ye pray, speak to me, do not ask of me.”  Christ asks that one not ask Him for selfish favors.

NOTE: The author encourages readers to search verses referred to in this book as they appear in various Bibles. The Jewish Torah, the Catholic Bible and other versions including Eastern versions and the King James Bible are available in most libraries and on the Internet.  Unless otherwise stated, all New Testament quotes in White Light Dark Night are from the oldest surviving New Testament text, the Codex Sinaiticus. All Old Testament quotes are also from the oldest surviving text, the Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Vaticanus, the Aleppo Codex or the St. Petrsburg Codex, in that order.  Translations of these older documents referred to in this book are available from their present day owners.

³ pg 5 HYPOCRITES. The bishop was most likely referring to causes he had championed in Parliament which had made interracial marriage legal and permitted single persons to adopt children. Yet, he could have been referring to most any kind of oppressed people. Today, evangelistic preachers claim to love homosexuals, yet they spend hundreds of millions of dollars they collect for the poor in advertising aimed at depriving these same people of equal rights.

4 pg 8 The Tenth Commandment as it appears in the oldest surviving texts and in some eastern Bibles today including the Jewish Torah. “Thou shalt not covet (desire to take from) thy neighbor his property, including his house, his wife, his slaves, his ox, his ass.” In the twentieth century, the King James Bible and some other versions changed its meaning as handed down by God to Moses on Mount Sinai: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor his . . . servants or employees. . .”

5 pg 10 ". . .by this time tomorrow thirty thousand children under the age of five who are alive today will be dead." This same text is reprinted in David Yallop’s book In God’s Name. John Paul first said this in a conversation with Cardinal Villot on Sept 19, 1978

6 pg 15 The boy Daniele interview. This is a partial but relatively substantial text of the release. Abbreviated and edited versions of this interview have been published in other publications including the best selling book in this category In God’s Name by David Yallop. The Church’s releases of this event are brief and edit out most of the ‘Daniele’ dialogue. It has long been Vatican policy to edit out anything controversial a pope might say before releasing statements to the press. General audiences, however, are attended by the world press.

7 pg 16 “God is more our Mother than She is our Father.” Despite the fact that the word “She” was widely reported in newspapers the next morning, the Vatican, in its official release of John Paul’s statement “God is more our Mother than She is our Father” changed the word “She” to “He.” The propaganda machine of the Vatican is the most organized and convincing in the world.

Film clip of audience 27 Sep 78 on poverty as released by the Vatican. http://youtube.com/watch?v=GWf2AA3ebbU

In the 1st segment of this tape, John Paul threatens to take from westerm man a great part of what he thinks is his Pursuit of Happiness - lust for material wealth. "It is the inalienable right of man to own property, but it should not be the right of any man to accumuate wealth beyond the necessary . . ." Because this is offensive to western man, the Vatican releases this tiny segment of his four-hour endience of 27 Sep 78. In the 2nd segment of this tape, Lorenzi, John Paul's secretary, claims the Pope complained of chest pains at dinner.  This contradicted testimony of the Pope's second secretary Magee and Mother Vincenza who attended the same dinner. Also, Lorenzi spoke to reporters on Oct 24th, a week after John Paul II took office. In the 3rd segment of the same tape the Vatican concludes that the Pope died of a painless embolism (contradicting Lorenzi's testimony in the 2nd segment) to explain how he was able to retain his papers upright in his hands in the midst of a massive heart attack. An embolism is rarely painless.

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Another clip on youtube tells of his young life. This is also Vatican propaganda that John Paul spent his lifetime in poor health and on the brink of death in order to support the Vatican's claim he died of natural causes. In Belluno, where Luciani had spent most of his life, the General hospital reported in 2005 that it had no record of Albino Luciani ever having been treated for respiratory problems. It did have a record of a toncilectomy in 1925 when he was thirteen. He was also hospitalized for a broken nose sufferred in a soccer game when he was fifty and a gallstone opertaion in the same year.  At the age of sixty-three he was treated at Belluno for injuries sufferred in a mountain climbing accident and released.  He had no hospital record in the nine years as a cardinal in Venice other than routine annual physicals, the last of which four months before his death defined him as a man of extraoridinary health.