Lucien Gregoire

Born in Massachusetts, George Lucien Gregoire completed his undergraduate and graduate work in New England universities. As founder of organizations providing education to impaired children and in connection with his work in cooperative education, he has served on secondary school and university boards. Gregoire is the author of the only biography of the 33-day-Pope written by an acquaintance of the man: The Vatican Murders: The Life and Death of John Paul I. He was a NATO intelligence officer...See more

Born in Massachusetts, George Lucien Gregoire completed his undergraduate and graduate work in New England universities. As founder of organizations providing education to impaired children and in connection with his work in cooperative education, he has served on secondary school and university boards. Gregoire is the author of the only biography of the 33-day-Pope written by an acquaintance of the man: The Vatican Murders: The Life and Death of John Paul I. He was a NATO intelligence officer investigating the Pope when the latter was a bishop leading the priest-worker movement in Northern Italy which eventually gave rise to the Communist Party in the Italian polls. In one of their conversations, the bishop told him of his suspicions of the coincidental deaths of the F�tima children. Gregoire has since flown to Portugal. 'Is Heaven for Real' recounts that adventure and the outcome of his investigation. Yet it is much more than just that. Aside from having personally examined every Christian manuscript predating the eighth century, this Catholic-born guru of the evolution of world religions has participated in many faiths including Protestant and Evangelical sects, Synagogues. Mosques and Hindu and Buddhist temples. He gathered his practical understanding of faith from these congregations. He asked thousands of them where they thought they were going after they die. He got thousands of fantasies. Only one made sense. And that one is the great treasure of this book. As one critic put it: "This book will bring great comfort to the aging and those who contemplate death. Yet it is most important to the young and those who contemplate life." Howard Jason Smith, Globe. See less