CANADA
Montreal Gazette
By Peggy Curran, The Gazette
January 10, 2012
The pope is dead. Will there be a new pope, and how will we even find out?
For 40 years, Jean-Gaston Tremblay – also known as Pope Gregory XVII and Jean-Grégoire de la Trinité – had been the spiritual leader of the Apostles of Infinite Love, a breakaway Catholic cult based in a “monastery” sequestered in the countryside near St. Jovite.
“There’s a big fence around the community, but it wasn’t clear whether that was to keep prying eyes out, or to keep people in,” says Info-Cult’s Mike Kropveld, who has been monitoring “les Apôtres de l’amour infini” for decades.
Tremblay was 83 when he died in a Ste. Agathe hospital on New Year’s Eve.
For much of his life, Tremblay had been the target of police probes, arising from allegations of forcible detention, mental, sexual and physical abuse of children, illegal confinement and kidnapping.
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