Sudden Death of Pope John Paul I still a Mystery after 30 years

Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul I when Paul VI, famous for his his 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae which proclaimed that any sort of artificial birth control was “against God’s will” died on 6 August 1968.
His reaction when the fabled white smoke announced that the search was over, that he was Pope, was humble: “I don’t know how I could have accepted. The day after I already regretted it, but by then it was too late.
This ever-smiling son of a bricklayer, who looked, someone said, like everyone’s favourite uncle, swiftly earned the name “the Homely Pope”. He combined the names of his two predecessors to become John Paul I and in spite of his benign, self-effacing approach to the job, he quickly sent tremors through the Vatican old guard.
He began as he meant to go on. With humility. There would be no splendid coronation. He refused to be crowned. There would be no sedia gestatoria, the chair in which Popes were carried above the crowd; no jewel-encrusted triple-deck tiara, instead just a white wool stole around his shoulders; no traditional six-hour ceremony, either, Just a simple mass.
He was, to put it bluntly, a new broom and he felt there was much in the Vatican to be swept away.
Sensationally, some Italian newspapers claimed he contemplated allowing use of the contraceptive pill, their stories based on a document supposed to have been sent by Luciani to Pope Paul. This was instantly denied by the Vatican hierarchy. Artificial contraception was anathema to the traditionalists.
The new Pope was also rumoured to be unhappy with the activities of the Vatican Bank and its alleged connection to P2, a Masonic lodge within the Vatican, and this was enough, later writings claim, to antagonise powerful forces within the Church.
Little wonder, then, that the conspiracy theories surfaced almost immediately when John Paul I was found dead in his bed on September 29 after just 33 days in office. After all, he was only 65 and in good health, so not surprisingly the whispers started.
The Pope had been murdered. Why? To prevent him sacking men like the Chicago-born Archbishop Paul Marcincus, “God’s Enforcer”, suspected of some very dodgy financial deals which might even have embraced the Mafia. Read it all