Bøger af Lucien Gregoire

TRUE CRME In 1917, a 'Lady' is said to have appeared to children at Fátima, Lucia Santos and her little cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto., The 'seers' as Lucia told reporters, "Only I am brave enough to hear the 'Lady'" Lucia tells her cousins the 'Lady' said that if they suffered and died for sinners of the flesh, they would go to live with Jesus in heaven. In the coming days, Lucia introduces them to self-mortification including binding their bodies in abrasive ropes, thrashing each other with stinging nettles and unrelenting thirst which leads to their deaths. In the wake of Francisco's death, Lucia's father tells a reporter, "Lucia will do anything to become a saint and she knows many saints practiced self-mortification. I always knew she was smart, but to fool little children into doing the suffering for her ..." In the coming week, he died in his sleep at age 51. That, not two children, but five children happened to have died violent deaths within months of each other in a tiny hamlet in Portugal, could have been coincidence. That they happened to have been of the same family, could have been coincidence. That they happened to have been the five children Lucia Santos lived with, could have been ... ...when children know too much.

The author recreates little known incidents in the lives of famous people which caused them to rise up as champions of human justice. On January 6, 2019, at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, Glenn Close made the case for little girls: "I can do that and I should be allowed to do that." Susan B. Anthony and other women are portrayed in this book. Yet, the mega-champion of women's rights was not a woman, but a man portrayed in this book. Conversely, the 'forefather' of the technical revolution and mega-champion of our most basic human right was not a man, but a woman portrayed in this book. Few of us recall the plight of born-out-of-wedlock children which for centuries drove immense orphan populations in the Christian world. Fewer of us can name the champion of human justice who courageously answered their call. A rollercoaster ride of often hilarious and as often tragic accounts of defenders of Women, the Physically and Mentally Impaired, Blacks, Jews, Asylum Seekers, Native Americans, Asians, Illegitimate Children, Homosexuals, Transgenders, Atheists, and others wronged by society...

"A chilling exposé of youth suicide and murder driven by preachers." Tony Frost, Tribune Child and teen suicide is no stranger to this author: "I recall gazing at the stillness of my childhood friend in a coffin and the nun telling me that God had taken him back because he had been made of sin. He had killed himself because word got out that he had been born out of wedlock. Then there was that girl in my high school class who took the easy way out when she found herself with child. A few months after I released my biography of John Paul I, a gay teen called me and told me that my book had saved his life. He had planned to take his life on that day because his faith condemned the person he happened to be. During my years with the Children's Home and Hospital School, I've shared in the grief left in the wake of children's notes: "I have gone to live with Jesus." Thousands of mentally and physically impaired among countless others have left the same legacy behind. Then we have tragedies like Fátima, where two little children are saints today because their faith encouraged them to advance their deaths in slow and agonizing ways to suffer and die for sins of the flesh against the Immaculate Heart of Mary... and a Catholic world that thinks it wonderful. "While through the years the preacher's hatred has taken its greatest toll in unwed mothers, gay and transgender teens, and other outcasts of religion, his lure of 'heaven' remains the leading cause of pre-puberty suicide today. "As for Fátima, I give you much more than the Vatican's investigation which found that the children twisted abrasive ropes about their bodies, thrashed each other with stinging nettles and abstained from drinking water for weeks when the sun hung like a hot stove over all that was living and dead in the Serra. I give you murder. 'No one is going to walk away from this book without the firm conviction Lucia Santos murdered at least five children on her way to becoming the world's most famous nun.' Paris Lane, Globe "As for me, I must live out my days haunted by children's lives snuffed out by the preacher's irresponsible bluff, because I had not acted sooner. "Thousands of tiny coffins lowered into the ground so that the preacher can sell his condominiums in the sky to sheep who lust for more." Lucien Gregoire Though this author dismantles traditional concepts of 'heaven' as peddled by preachers, he leaves us with far greater opportunity as he proves the salvation tenet of the 33-Day Pope: "Don't knock yourself out over smart monkeys and Adam and Eve. Each of us is responsible for our own evolution. We can either choose to remain as mortal men, or we can evolve as Gods." PS: click on 'Look Inside' feature on the cover