Our book today is In God’s Name, David Yallop’s incendiary 1984 blockbuster about the shadowy circumstances surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978, only thirty-three days after his election by the College of Cardinals. The Vatican and various eyewitnesses told the world that he’d mentioned retiring to bed to read a bit of Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ, and he was found dead the following morning. Despite the appalling reading material being an obvious prime suspect, the official line was that the new Pope had died of a heart attack during the night. His reading light was still on.
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