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For the Spanish footballer, see Alberto Rivera Pizarro. Alberto Rivera Jack Chick's rendition of Alberto Born September 19, 1935 Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain Died June 20, 1997 (aged 61) Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Resting place Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma Known for Anti-Catholic religious activist Religion Fundamentalist Protestant Alberto Magno Romero Rivera (September 19, 1935 – June 20, 1997) was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick's conspiracy theories about the Vatican. Chick promised to promote Alberto's claims even after he died. Rivera claimed to have been a Jesuit before becoming a Fundamentalist Protestant, and many of the stories Chick published about Rivera involve Jesuit conspiracies. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Rivera's account 1.2 Cornerstone's account 2 Allegations against Catholicism 3 Allegations that the Church created Islam 4 Presence in "Chick Tracts" 5 Death 6 See also 7 References 8 External links // Biography Rivera was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. He is most notable for his claims about his time as a Catholic priest and the inner workings of the Catholic Church. Most of these claims are fiercely disputed by the Catholic Church and others. An exposé by Gary Metz in Cornerstone magazine[1] as well as another one in Christianity Today[2] questioned many of Rivera's claims about his life and claimed that he was a fraud. The two conflicting versions are summarized below. Rivera's account According to Rivera[citation needed]: After education at a Catholic seminary, he was sent to destroy various Protestant organizations and discredit Protestant leaders, but became disillusioned upon finding that the Vatican was behind Freemasonry and that its reverence of the Virgin Mary was contradicted by the Bible. In 1965, at an Ecumenical Conference in a Guatemalan stadium, he denounced the Catholic Church to an audience of 50,000 people. The Jesuits then sent him to a top-secret sanitorium in Spain to make him recant his faith. Here he was tortured and given drugs until he nearly died, eventually being put into an iron lung because his lungs had broken down from the abuse. Nearly at death, he asked Jesus to forgive him and was miraculously healed. A senior Jesuit attempted to persuade Rivera to return to Catholicism, but instead was himself persuaded to give Rivera the passport and papers he needed to escape Spain. Afterwards he flew to London and rescued his sister María, a nun, after she nearly died in a convent. Cornerstone's account According to the Cornerstone exposé[1]: Rivera had a 'history of legal entanglements' including fraud, credit card theft, and writing bad checks. Warrants had been issued for his arrest in New Jersey and Florida, and he was wanted by the Spanish police for 'swindles and cheats'; while in the USA in 1967, he claimed to be collecting money for a Spanish college, which never received this money. The details of his claims changed: In 1964 he said he had left the Catholic Church in July 1952, but he later put the date at March 20, 1967; despite this, he was still promoting Catholicism in a newspaper interview of August that same year. Although supposedly placed in the sanitorium in 1965 and held there for three months, he gave the date of his release as September 1967, leaving a period of over a year unaccounted. The document exhibited by Rivera to prove his status as a Catholic priest was fraudulently obtained and the Catholic Church denies his claims of having been a Jesuit priest or a bishop. He had only one sister in London; she was not called Maria, was not a nun, and did not live in a convent. In an employment form dated 1963 he claimed marriage to Carmen Lydia Torres, and the couple had two children in the USA when his own account had him a celibate priest in Spain. Cornerstone also questioned Rivera's claim to various degrees, including three doctorates (Th.D., D.D., and Ph.D.), reporting that his known chronology did not allow enough time for him to have completed these degrees and that he had admitted to receiving them from a Colorado diploma mill. Allegations against Catholicism According to Rivera, Jesuits are responsible for the creation of communism, Islam, and Nazism, and causing the World Wars, recession, the Jonestown Massacre, and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy (a Catholic); he further claims that the Catholic Church wants to spread homosexuality and abortion, that the Charismatic Movement is a front for the Catholic Church, that the Popes are antichrists, and that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon[3]. He has also claimed that the Jesuits were the masterminds behind the Medieval Inquisition in the 13th century, despite the fact that the Jesuits were not established until the 1540s [4]. Allegations that the Church created Islam Rivera also alleged that Muhammad was manipulated by the Catholic Church to create Islam and destroy the Jews and other groups of Christians, and that his first wife, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, was actually a Catholic nun in an Arabian monastery who was told by a bishop to marry him and sow the seeds of what was to become Islam[3]. Rivera also alleged that the Vatican staged an apparition at Fatima (named after Muhammed's daughter) to cozy up to Muslims.[3] He further claims that it also staged the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II using a Muslim as the marksman "to guilt-induce the Muslim world, bringing them still closer to the Catholic faith!"[3] Presence in "Chick Tracts" Six of Jack Chick's comics feature Rivera specifically: Alberto,[5] Double Cross, The Godfathers,[6] The Force, Four Horsemen, and The Prophet[7] Some people dismiss them out of hand, although Chick also printed a series of counterclaims in reply[8]. Death Rivera's last place of residence and place of death, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, were not revealed until after Rivera's death. Chick now[when?] says[citation needed] that Rivera's body was secretly taken out of Oklahoma and buried in an undisclosed location with a private funeral service out of fear that the Jesuits would exhume his corpse and desecrate it. According to cemetery records,[9] Rivera is buried in an unmarked grave at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The medical report lists colorectal cancer as the cause of death.[citation needed] See also New World Order (conspiracy theory) Jesuit conspiracy theories References ^ a b Metz, Gary (1981), "The Alberto Story", Cornerstone 9 (53): 29–31, http://web.archive.org/web/20051202084221/http://www.cornerstonemag.com/pages/show_page.asp?228  ^ "Alberto Rivera: Is He For Real?", Christianity Today 2 (2), 1981-03-13  ^ a b c d Catholic Answers Special Report: Chick Tracts ^ Brian Onken, "Alberto: The Truth about His Story," Forward, February 25, 1983 ^ Chick Publications - Alberto ^ Chick Publications - The Godfathers ^ Chick Publications - The Prophet ^ Chick Publications - Is Alberto For Real? ^ Rose Hill Cemetery records - Tulsa, OK External links "Who Was Alberto Rivera?" ("Chick Tracts: Their Origin and Refutation", part 3) from Catholic Answers v • d • e Chick Publications Inc. Founder Jack T. Chick Publications Chick tracts Sources Rebecca Brown (Christian author) · Charles Chiniquy · David W. Daniels · Jeff Godwin · Alexander Hislop · Kent Hovind · Avro Manhattan · Alberto Rivera · William Schnoebelen · John Todd (occultist) Persondata Name Rivera, Alberto Alternative names Short description Date of birth September 19, 1935 Place of birth Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain Date of death June 20, 1997 Place of death Broken Arrow, Oklahoma