A crime novelist's conspiracy theory
Why had the Vatican misreported who found him? Why had there been a seeming rush to embalm the body, without an autopsy? The questions swirled for years before British crime writer David Yallop published a book about the case and concluded the church was surely covering up a murder. His theory was that John Paul I had been poisoned, struck down by the Vatican deep state just before he could reveal corruption at its highest levels.
Yallop’s 1984 book, “In God’s Name,” offered scant sourcing or evidence. But it gained popular power by piggybacking on a real Vatican banking scandal — one that involved a masonic lodge and an Italian banker who’d died under mysterious circumstances. In Yallop’s telling, John Paul I’s death was a part of that story, because behind the scenes, he had trained his eye on the financial corruption, putting the Curia on edge. Yallop named six people who stood to gain if the pope were suddenly removed. One was Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, a burly American who headed the Vatican Bank. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pope-john-paul-sainthood-death/2021/12/07/64f04338-47d1-11ec-beca-3cc7103bd814_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F35791f6%2F61b0e45a9d2fdab56bbaff43%2F607860d2ae7e8a10b731b66b%2F9%2F72%2F61b0e45a9d2fdab56bbaff43
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