IMPORTANT: 'Murder by the Grace of God' 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.                  In 1978, driven by Paul VI's encyclicals Populorum Progressio and Liberation Theology, there were two fronts on which the CIA was confronted by communism as a free democratic society, Italy and Central America. If Italy fell to communism much of Europe would surely follow. If Central America fell to communism much of Latin America would surely follow. It was in these parts of the world communism was raising its ugly head as the will of the people that was so very dangerous to the United States and its capitalistic allies. Henry Kissinger sounded the alarm, "Domination by Moscow is not the issue. Communist control of Italy and Central America is the issue. It would have terrible consequences for the United States and is the number one threat to its national security". . . . . . . . On the afternoon of March 13, 1978, fourteen men sat around a table in a sidewalk café in a mountain village in northern Italy. In casual clothes they went unnoticed though one was the reigning Pontiff and another a KPG agent and Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church.  Included were Italian cardinals who had been behind the rise of the Communist Party in Italy. The others were ranking cardinals of impoverished parts of the world. Together they comprised the core of the Marxist movement in the Catholic world. They left at four o'clock and the political counterpart of this clandestine gathering-Aldo Moro-reserved the table for next year. . . . On March 13, 1979, Cardinals Benelli and Felici decided not to travel to Vittorio Veneto that day. After all, all the others were dead. They, themselves-unaware of their impending doom-were, too, as good as dead. "A monumental work of twentieth century capitalism as it was jointly embraced by the Vatican and the United States. Top-shelf CIA-Vatican intrigue." T. Francis Elliott, London, The Times "When the political infighting that goes on when a pope is elected turns to murder." Todd Hamilton, The New York Times John Paul I biographer George Lucien Gregoire was born in New England and completed his undergraduate and graduate work in Massachusetts schools. In connection with his work in cooperative education and as founder of organizations bringing education to impaired children he has served on boards of universities and secondary schools. He spent his professional career as an officer of American and European corporations and was an American industrialist operating in Central America dealing with the same banks the Vatican was involved with when the 'Vatican bank scandal' and the 'revolution of the poor' he speaks of in this book took place. Gregoire was a NATO (CIA) Intelligence officer when he made the acquaintance of John Paul in the sixties when the Pope-a bishop of a mountain province in northern Italy-was leading the priest-worker movement which eventually gave rise to the Communist Party in the polls . . . About John Paul I: When elected-based on the few bits which had reached outside Italy-he was tabbed 'a moderate with an open mind to change doctrine in those cases it places unfair restraints on the lives of innocent people.' Like the time he ordered his priests to melt down their golden chalices and other implements of idol worship to build an orphanage, to the times he had been caught baptizing born-out-of-wedlock children, to the times he had been caught officiating at funerals of the remarried, to the times he ordered hospitals to admit partners of homosexuals into intensive care units, to the time he defended their right to adopt children, to the times he had been caught distributing the Eucharist to communists, to the times he defied the ban on contraception, to his courageous defense of the first artificially inseminated child when other cardinals had condemned her, to the time as Pope he voiced his resolve for women parity in the Church before worldwide television cameras: "God is the Father, more so, the Mother." Murder by the Grace of God The CIA and Pope John Paul I By Lucien Gregoire AuthorHouse Copyright © 2013 Lucien Gregoire All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4772-9966-1 Contents Introduction Foreword to Murder......................................................5Chapter 1 The Murder of John Paul I..................................................15Chapter 2 The Worst of Children to the Best of Men...................................31Chapter 3 The Minor Seminary at Feltre...............................................46Chapter 4 The Tyrant of Feltre.......................................................55Chapter 5 The Seminary at Belluno....................................................58Chapter 6 The Politics of Albino Luciani.............................................71Chapter 7 His Ministry..............................