In God's Name


In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I is a book by David A. Yallop about the death of Pope John Paul I. It was published in 1984 by Bantam Books. “In God’s Name” spent 15 weeks on The Times’s best-seller list and won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger award for nonfiction in 1984.

Potential danger

Yallop proposes the theory that the pope was in "potential danger" because of corruption in the Istituto per le Opere di Religione, which owned many shares in Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican Bank lost about a quarter of a billion US dollars.