"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."

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About the Author: 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 Fátima 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.