Confessions of a Murdered Pope

About the Book

His mother, a devout Catholic, prayed before wooden crucifixes. She told him the only path to heaven was on his knees, seeking selfish favors. His father, an atheist, burned his mother’s crucifixes in the stove. He told him the only path to heaven was on his feet, helping others. Under his father’s guidance, he grew up free of prejudices peddled by religion. He reasoned atheists have a greater chance of salvation than do the faithful. He wondered how faith had come about. When his father placed him in a seminary to bring change to the church, he traced the evolution of Christianity from the Neanderthal to Jesus. Here, the reincarnated Albino Luciani—in the voice of a fun and entertaining ten-year-old boy—traces the evolution of Christianity from the Neanderthal to those who wrote of Jesus. Each prophet building on the creativity of those who came before him.

About the Author

Born and raised in New England, George Lucien Gregoire completed his undergraduate and graduate work in Massachusetts schools. In his work in cooperative education and as the founding trustee of organizations providing education to impaired children, he has served on boards of secondary schools and universities. He was a NATO (CIA) undercover agent operating out of Milan when he made the acquaintance of John Paul in the nineteen sixties, when the Pope—a bishop of a mountain province in northern Italy—was leading the priest-worker movement, which gave rise to the Communist Party in the polls. In addition to scrutinizing thousands of scriptural, archeological, scientific, and historical leaves in exacting his knowledge of Egyptology, mythology, and the world’s religions, he traveled to the seats of faiths from ancient times to modern man and took part in services. He gathered much of his practical understanding of religion from members of these congregations.