Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry Paperback – March 21, 2022
by Fr. Charles Theodore Murr (Author), Enrique J. Aguilar (Illustrator)
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Was
Pope John Paul I murdered? If so, by whom, and to what end? Was the Catholic
liturgy sabotaged to strip it of truth, power and beauty? If so, by whom, and
to what end? Was an international plot underfoot to destroy the Vatican’s
financial stability? If so, by whom, and to what end?
There was one man who knew the answers to these and many other questions
plaguing the post Conciliar Church. In 1975, then Archbishop Edouard Gagnon was
personally commissioned by Pope Paul VI to investigate the Vatican’s Roman
Curia. This thorough investigation concluded in 1978, the “year of the three
Popes.”
In Murder In The 33rd Degree, author Charles T. Murr, a close and lifelong
friend of Cardinal Gagnon, gives his firsthand account of what transpired
during that papal investigation. Murder In The 33rd Degree answers many
questions that many people have been asking for half a century.
"As a young priest in Rome, Fr. Charles Murr worked closely with Cardinal
Édouard Gagnon on the dangerous mission Paul VI had entrusted to that eminent
figure: investigating the Vatican curia to uncover membership in Freemasonry.
Fr. Murr’s intimate role made him acquainted with the unsavory agendas of
high-ranking prelates and the intrigues surrounding the death of John Paul I
and the election of John Paul II… Fr. Murr does not peddle conspiracy theories;
he tells the riveting story as he lived through it and recorded it in his notes
and diaries—what he saw and heard, what his friends learned and suffered. Most
of all, we discover how a divinely-given opportunity for serious reform was
tragically refused. Murder in the Thirty-Third Degree is the most impressive
eyewitness account of postconciliar Vatican politics to appear in
decades."
—Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski: PROFESSOR, COMPOSER, AUTHOR,
THE EXTASY OF LOVE IN THOMAS AQUINAS
“Three cheers for Monsignor Murr! He has written a riveting book which will
immediately become a precious historical document for the recent, often
perplexing history of the Church since the Second Vatican Council. It contains
a very precious and important eyewitness account of events in Rome in the
1970’s connected with the investigation of the Roman Curia which Pope Paul VI
asked Canadian Cardinal Edouard Gagnon to undertake… Murr, a friend of Gagnon,
has given us a unique first-person memoir which sheds new light on the
mysterious death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 and on Gagnon’s relations with
three Popes. In the end, after 50 years, Murr calls for the release of Gagnon’s
secret report, which lies hidden in some Vatican archive… I applaud Murr for
his courage."
—DR. ROBERT MOYNIHAN: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INSIDE-THE-VATICAN
AUTHOR, FINDING VIGANO
“Murder In The Thirty-Third Degree is a powerful insider narrative about
subversion of the Church at the highest levels under three Popes. The Vatican
needs to make Cardinal Gagnon’s dossier public so that the reform of the Curia
can begin in earnest.”
—DR. E. MICHAEL JONES: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CULTURE WARS, AUTHOR,
LOGOS RISING; A HISTORY OF ULTIMATE REALITY
"...Important historical developments are intertwined with the individual
dramas of the characters portrayed herein, alongside Vatican politics and
intrigue… Murr has done the Church a great service by telling Gagnon’s story.”
—KEVIN SYMONDS: LECTURER, AUTHOR, REFRACTIONS OF LIGHT
“Fr. Murr provides a first-hand account of the work the remarkable Cardinal
Gagnon did, at the bidding of Pope Paul VI, to expose the presence of Masons in
the Roman Curia.”
—DR. JANET E. SMITH: PROFESSOR, PHILOSOPHER,
AUTHOR, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY