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15. The Scandals and Heresies of John Paul I

“He could and did accept divorcees. He also easily accepted others
who were living in what the Church calls ‘sin.’”1 (Father Mario
Senigaglia, secretary to John Paul I when he was “Patriarch” of Venice)

John Paul I (Albino Luciani)

Albino Luciani (John Paul I) was born the son of a committed Socialist.2 John XXIII personally
consecrated Luciani a bishop on Dec. 27, 1958.3 Luciani was named a “cardinal” by Paul VI.4

Luciani had formed friendships with many non-Catholics. Phillip Potter, Secretary of the World
Council of Churches, had been his house guest. Other guests of his included Jews, Anglicans and
Pentecostal “Christians.” He had exchanged books and very friendly letters with Hans Kung.5

Luciani (John Paul I) had several times quoted Hans Kung favorably in his sermons.6 (For those
who don’t know, Hans Kung denies the Divinity of Christ.) Luciani “was aware that a number of
the lay Catholics he knew were members of various lodges (Masonic) – in much the same way
that he had friends who were Communists.”7

Luciani made a thorough study of “responsible parenthood” and consulted with many doctors
and theologians. Like John XXIII and Paul VI, Luciani had studied the possibility of the “pill”
being used as a “natural” method of regulating births.8 Those who had fallen into using artificial
contraception and then went to confession found Luciani “very compassionate.”9

In April of 1968, Albino Luciani wrote and submitted a report to Paul VI recommending that the
Catholic Church should approve the use of the anovulant pill developed by Professor Pincus.
Luciani recommended that this pill should become the Catholic birth-control pill.10 United Press
International (UPI) discovered that Luciani had advocated a Vatican ruling in favor of artificial
birth control. Italian newspapers also carried stories. To substantiate the story, these newspaper
reports referred to the Luciani document which was sent to Paul VI by “Cardinal” Urbani of
Venice, in which the strong recommendation in favor of the contraceptive pill had been made.11

Later on during his “papacy” – when he was “John Paul I” – Luciani often quoted from the
pronouncements and encyclicals of Paul VI. Notably absent was any reference of John Paul I to
Humanae Vitae.12
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On April 13, 1968, Luciani talked to the people of Vittorio Veneto about this issue of birth
control.13 Luciani made the following observations:

“It is easier today, given the confusion caused by the press, to find married persons who
do not believe that they are sinning. If this should happen it may be opportune, under
the usual conditions, not to disturb them…

“Let us pray that the Lord may help the pope to resolve this question [whether Catholics
should be able to use artificial birth control]. There has never perhaps been such a
difficult question for the Church – both for the intrinsic difficulties and for the numerous
implications affecting other problems, and for the acute way in which it is felt by the vast
mass of the people.”14

When Albino Luciani became “Patriarch” of Venice, his personal secretary was Father Mario
Senigaglia. Senigaglia discussed with Luciani (with whom he had developed an almost father-
son relationship) different moral cases involving parishioners. Luciani always approved the
liberal view that Senigaglia took. Senigaglia said: “He was a very understanding man. Very
many times I would hear him say to couples, ‘We have made of sex the only sin, when in fact it is
linked to human weakness and frailty and is therefore perhaps the least of sins.’”15

Senigaglia confirmed that Luciani’s personal view on divorce would have surprised his critics:
“He could and did accept divorcees. He also easily accepted others who were living in what
the Church calls ‘sin.’”16

He was also a promoter of false ecumenism. “During his nine years there [as “Patriarch” of
Venice] he hosted five ecumenical conferences, including the meeting of the Anglican-Roman
Catholic International Commission which introduced an agreed statement on authority in
1976…”17

LUCIANI ON A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Luciani: “A gradual, controlled, and universal disarmament is possible only if an

LUCIANI ON CHRISTIANS

Quoting Gandhi, Luciani said: “I admire Christ but not Christians.”19 In an Easter sermon in
1976, Luciani made the following statement:

“Thus Christian morality adopted the theory of the just war; thus the Church allowed the
legalization of prostitution (even in the Papal States), while obviously it remained
forbidden on a moral level.”20

It is a blasphemy to assert that the Catholic Church would allow the legalization of prostitution.

As Patriarch of Venice, on December 24, 1977, Albino Luciani stated the following about the
French Revolution: “…the intentions of those who had kindled insurrection and revolution at the
beginning had been very good ones, and the slogan proclaimed was ‘Liberty, Fraternity,
Equality.’”21
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Shortly before the 1978 conclave, Luciani was asked his opinion of the first test-tube baby, Louise
Brown. Speaking of the test-tube baby and her parents, Luciani said: “Following the example of
God, who desires and loves human life, I too send my best wishes to the baby. As for the
parents, I have no right to judge them; subjectively, if they acted with good intentions and in
good faith, they may even have great merit before God for what they have decided and asked
the doctors to do.”22

Luciani had more than any other “cardinal” put into practice the spirit of John XXIII’s Second
Vatican Council.23 John Paul I renounced the papal tiara and replaced the coronation ceremony
with a simple celebration.24 The tiara which was sold by Paul VI was now replaced by the
pallium, a white woolen stole around the shoulders.25

John Paul I said the following in his first speech announcing the program for his “pontificate”:

1) “The echo of its daily life gives witness that, despite all obstacles, it (the Church) lives
in the heart of men, even those who do not share its truth or accept its message.”26
2) ”…the Second Vatican Council (to whose teachings we wish to commit our total
ministry)…”27
3) ”We wish to continue to put into effect the heritage of the Second Vatican Council. Its
wise norms should be followed out and perfected.”28
4) ”…we place a priority on the revision of the two codes of canon law: that of the
oriental tradition and that of the Latin tradition…”29
5) “We wish to continue the ecumenical thrust, which we consider a final directive from
our immediate Predecessors.”30

During the Inauguration of John Paul I, he said: “We greet also with reverence and affection all
the people in the world. We regard them and love them as our brothers and sisters, since they
are children of the same heavenly Father and brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.”31

Speaking to a friend about the schismatic Patriarch of Moscow, Nikodem, John Paul I called
him “a real saint.”32

In a letter to the new schismatic patriarch of Moscow about the death of the recently deceased
schismatic patriarch of Moscow, John Paul I said:

“…we express to Your Holiness and to the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
our feelings of keen sorrow. We assure you of our prayer for the repose of the soul of
this devoted servant of his Church and constructor of the deepening relations between
our Churches. May God receive him into his joy and his peace.”33

John Paul I calls the deceased Russian schismatic, who rejected Papal Infallibility and the last 13
dogmatic councils (among other Catholic teachings), a “devoted servant of his Church.”

John Paul I “believed in greater power-sharing with the bishops throughout the world and
planned to decentralize the Vatican structure.”34

John Paul I said, "The Church should not have power nor possess wealth... How beautiful it
would have been if the pope had himself voluntarily renounced all temporal power!"35 John
Paul I told the diplomatic corps that the Vatican renounced all claims to temporal power.36

Pope Pius IX, Nullis Certe Verbis (# 1), Jan. 19, 1860:
"...in kind letters sent to Us and by pastoral letters of other religious and learned writings,
The Scandals and Heresies of John Paul I 167

you vehemently denounced the sacrilegious attacks made on the civil power of the
Roman Church. And defending constantly this dominion, you proclaimed and taught
that God gave the civil power to the Roman Pontiff, so that he, never subject to any
power, might exercise in full liberty and without any impediment the supreme task of
the apostolic ministry divinely committed to him by Christ our Lord."37

John Paul I often spoke of Paul VI with admiration and affection: “He was a great pope and
suffered much. He was not understood…”38

John Paul I also spoke of God as “mother.”

John Paul I, Angelus Message, Sept. 10, 1978: “He (God) is our father; even more he is our
mother.”39

In his General Audience on September 13, 1978, John Paul I spoke on the subject of immutable
truths and said:

“Those are the truths: we must walk along the way of these truths, understanding them
more and more, bringing ourselves up-to-date, proposing them in a form suited to the
times. Pope Paul too had the same thought.”40

In September 1978, Luciani was heard in the papal apartments talking to his Secretary of State,
“Cardinal” Villot: “I will be happy to talk to this United States delegation on the issue. To my
mind we cannot leave the situation as it currently stands.” The “issue” was world population.
The “situation” was Humanae Vitae.41

At the top of his list of priorities of reform and change was radically altering the Vatican’s
relationship with capitalism and alleviating what he believed was the suffering that had
stemmed directly from Humanae Vitae.42 [We want to make it clear that we are not suggesting
that Humanae Vitae was a good document. Not at all. Humanae Vitae taught that couples could
use “natural” birth control and have no children at all, as is covered in this book. The point is
that Humanae Vitae did denounce artificial contraception, and John Paul I was very opposed to it
for that reason.]

In May of 1978, Luciani had been invited to attend and speak at an international congress being
held in Milan on June 21-22. The main purpose of the congress was to celebrate the upcoming
anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Luciani had let it be known that he would not speak
at the congress and that he would not attend.43

On September 19, 1978, John Paul I had a meeting with his Secretary of State “Cardinal” Villot.
John Paul I stated:

“Eminence, we 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 we have been talking, over one thousand children under the
age of five have died of malnutrition. During the next forty-five minutes while you and I
look forward with anticipation to our next meal, a further thousand children will die of
malnutrition. By this time tomorrow thirty thousand children who at this moment are
alive, will be dead – of malnutrition. God does not always provide.”44

The Vatican claimed that John Paul I died of a massive heart attack around 11p.m. on September
28, 1978.45
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We have proven that John Paul I was a manifest heretic who, among other things, fully approved
of the religious indifferentism and false ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council. Since he was
a heretic, he could not have been a validly elected pope. He was a non-Catholic antipope.

Endnotes for Section 15:

1 David Yallop, In God’s Name (An investigation into the Murder of John Paul I), Bantam Books, 1984, pp. 60-61.
2 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 60.
3 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2004, p.

27.
4 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 58.
5 David Yallop, In God’s Name, pp. 86, 190.
6 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 190.
7 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 201.
8 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 35.
9 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 36.
10 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 32.
11 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 191.
12 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192.
13 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 32.
14 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 33.
15 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 61.
16 David Yallop, In God’s Name, pp. 60-61.
17 J.N.D. Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of Popes, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 325.
18 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 62.
19 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 65.
20 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 60.
21 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 120.
22 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 233.
23 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 90.
24 Luigi Accattoli, When A Pope Asks Forgiveness, New York: Alba House and Daughters of St. Paul, 1998, p.

37.
25 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 185.
26 L’ Osservatore Romano (The Vatican’s Newspaper), Aug. 31, 1978, p. 6.
27 L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p. 6.
28 L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p. 6.
29 L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p. 6.
30 L’ Osservatore Romano, Aug. 31, 1978, p. 6.
31 L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 7, 1978, p. 1.
32 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 64.
33 L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 14, 1978, p. 2.
34 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 189.
35 Luigi Accattoli, When A Pope Asks Forgiveness, p. 44.
36 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 210.
37 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p. 359.
38 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 44.
39 L' Osservatore Romano, September 21, 1978, p. 2.
40 L’ Osservatore Romano, Sept. 21, 1978, p. 1.
41 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192,193.
42 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 194.
43 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 192.
44 David Yallop, In God’s Name, p. 196.
45 Raymond and Lauretta Seabeck, The Smiling Pope, p. 70.