The Reverend Dr. Father Malachi Brendan Martin was a Roman Catholic priest and a former Jesuit; (July 23, 1921 – July 27, 1999).
Fr. Malachi Brendan Martin Ph.d S.J. (b. 23 July 1921–d. 27 July 1999) was a former Jesuit priest, theologian, writer on the Roman Catholic church and professor at the Vaticans Pontifical Biblical Institute. He was also the author of sixty books which covered religious and geo-political topics. He was controversial commentator for the Vatican and other church matters.
He was also the brother of the late Irish cleric, historian and activist, F. X. Martin.
Early life and education
Martin was born in the village of Ballylongford, County Kerry, in the Irish Republic. He received his secondary education at Belvedere College in Dublin, and became a Jesuit novice on the 6th September 1939. Due to the Second World War and the inherent risks involved with travel during this time, Malachi remained in Ireland and studied at the National University of Ireland where he received a bachelor's degree in Semitic languages, Oriental History whilst carrying out concurrent study in Assyriology at Trinity College.
Upon completion in Dublin, Malachi was sent to the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium to continue with his scholarly learnings. During the four year stay in Leuven he completed degrees in Philosophy, Theology, Semitic Languages, Archeology and Oriental History. On the 15th August 1954, the day of the Feast of the Assumption, Martin was ordained a Jesuit Priest.
Father Martin commenced with parallel studies at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Oxford University, specializing in intertestamentary studies and knowledge of Jesus Christ from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts. He undertook additional study in rational psychology, experimental psychology, physics and anthropology.
Work and ordination
Father Martin took part in the research of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and published twenty four articles on Semitic paleography in various journals.
He was summoned to Rome to work within the Holy See and act as the private secretary for Augustin Cardinal Bea S.J.. Whilst in Rome, he became a professor within the Pontifical Biblical Institute of the Vatican, where he taught Aramaic, paleography, Hebrew and Sacred Scripture.
According to his book Hostage to the Devil, he assisted in several exorcisms. Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Travelled, developed a friendship with Martin and was influenced by the latter in the development of his theories of evil and exorcism.
Leaving the order
In 1965, Pope Paul VI (his close friend) gave Fr. Martin a dispensation from all privileges and obligations deriving from his vows as a Jesuit and from priestly ordination.[4] Martin himself claimed the dispensation did not apply to his priestly vow of celibacy. Father Charles Fiore, F.S.S.P. confirmed this shortly after Martin's death, stating in a letter to the New York Times that Cardinal Cooke allowed Martin the full faculties of the priesthood, though not functioning as a parish priest. For this reason, he did not wear the Roman collar. This was corroborated by Father Vincent O’Keefe S.J., former Vicar General of his order and a past President of Fordham University.
The leaving of the order and the priesthood has been explained by Martin's growing dissatisfaction with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, but others argue that his traditionalist bent only came later and that he sought the release to pursue a literary career.
Communications and media
After a brief stay in Paris, Martin relocated to New York City in 1965, and was active in the communications and media field for the rest of his life. He received a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled him to write his first bestseller, Hostage to the Devil.
Martin was also a member of the Vatican advisory council and was privileged to secretive information pertaining to Vatican and other world issues, which included the Third Secret of Fatima.
Martin worked closely with the paranormal researchers Dave Considine and John Zaffis on several of their independent cases.
He was an outspoken opponent of the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Bayside in the United States and Medjugorje in former Yugoslavia.
Martin continued to offer Mass privately and vigorously exercised his priestly ministry all the way up until his death. He suffered a stroke shortly before dying.
In a series of interviews with author Bernard Janzen, Martin repeatedly affirmed his allegiance to the Pope. Although he reserved personal opinions and traditionalist views, he always said no one had a right to pass judgment on the Pontiff. This has been affirmed in his non-fiction, such as Keys of this Blood and The Jesuits.
Writings
Martin produced numerous best-selling fictional and non-fictional literary works, which became widely read throughout the world.
His later fictional works, like The Final Conclave, Vatican: A Novel and Windswept House were novels with fictional characters. However, most of these characters were based upon real persons, and the story lines of his books closely relate to historical events he personally witnessed during his stay in Rome.[citation needed] He publicized detailed insider accounts of papal and church history during the reigns of Pius XII, Pope John XXIII, Paul VI, John-Paul I and John-Paul II.
His non-fictional writings cover a range of Catholic topics, such as demonic exorcisms, satanism, liberation theology, the Tridentine liturgy, Catholic dogma, modernism and the geopolitical importance of the Pope.
His books, both fictional and non-fictional, frequently present a dark view of the present state of the world, invoking dark spirits, conspiracy, betrayal, heresy, widespread sexual perversion, self-advancement, and demonic possession, each being asserted as rife throughout the Catholic Church, from its lowest levels up to its highest.
Martin was a regular guest on Art Bell's radio program throughout the 1990s.
Controversy
Malachi Martin was criticized most notably in the book Clerical Error: A True Story by Robert Blair Kaiser, Time Magazine´s former Vatican correspondent. Kaiser accuses Martin of having carried on an extramarital affair with his wife, of being a notorious womanizer during his time in Rome, and claims that Martin fled to the United States as a renegade from the priesthood. However, Martin's supporters claim that Kaiser was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (which Kaiser admits on page 261 of his book). Kaiser also admits to a severe drinking problem, which lessens his credibility even more:
IN THE DAYS that followed, I lived mainly on gin, spent most of my nights staring at the ceiling in my bedroom, trying to process everything [Kaiser: 239] Throughout the book, Martin is presented as a liar and fantasist, claims backed by Fr. Richard Woods, OP, in the National Catholic Reporter.
Martin's supporters claim that Fr. Woods is merely regurgitating Kaiser's distortions and offers no real evidence of any wrongdoing on Martin's part[citation needed].
Father Martin was told not to live in solitude, and so was introduced into the home of the Kakia Livanos and her family. The practice of a priest living with a family, though well known in Europe, caused some scandal in the United States. After his death, the New York Times implied an affair between Martin and Mrs. Livanos by labeling her "his companion". Both she and Martin's interviewer and visitor, Bernard Janzen, have vigorously denied these claims.
In 2004, Father Vincent O'Keefe S.J., former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University, affirmed that Martin had never been laicized. O'Keefe stated that Martin had been released from all his priestly vows save the vow of chastity. It is claimed[citation needed]that attacks were mounted on Martin in retaliation for his book The Jesuits, which is hostile to the Jesuit order of which he had formerly been a member. In the book, he accuses the Jesuits of deviating from their original character and mission by embracing Liberation Theology.
With regard to the accusations that his non-fiction writings are suspect, Martin supporters say[citation needed]his writings concerning exorcism are in line with similar writings by Father Gabriele Amorth O.S.P.P.E., the senior Roman Catholic exorcist of Rome. Other supports point out that Martin refused considerable monetary offers from publishers to write about his encounter with serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the "Son of Sam."[citation needed] The serial killer had requested a visit from Martin in jail, which Martin granted. He would not, however, fulfill the killer's request of publishing his story.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
WRITINGS OF MALACHI MARTIN
Malachi Martin documents that a Black Mass was held in St Paul's Cathedral in 1963. During this heinous affair, several cardinals "installed Lucifer to his appropriate place" in the Vatican, as "head of the church."
Martin claims that a good deal of the child molestation occurring now is actually Satanic worship. Part of the Luciferian rites of many of the priests, nuns, and hierarchy. He intimates that many who engage in this kind of "worship" are indeed secret Masons.
Malachi Martin was himself a Jesuit priest, in a high official capacity in the Vatican. "In God's Name" has a photograph of Malachi Martin, seated right next to Pope John Paul I--the Pope that was murdered. Martin is seated between Pope John Paul I (who is on the Papal Throne) and Diego Lorenzi, an aide who accompanied John Paul I from Venice, where he was previously.
Alberto Rivera also says that he attended, as a Jesuit, a Black Mass in the Vatican. With the Jesuits. Martin himself did not attend the Black Mass, but he knew of it. He later resigned the Jesuits--around 1972.He was "Laicized" so that he could write books on the corruptions he had seen in the Vatican.
He recently passed away in 1999. Some Catholics think he was murdered. He also wrote a blockbuster entitled "The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church." In that book, he details how the Jesuits became Communists in the 1960's, under their then Secretary General, Pedro Arrupe. And he documents how they fomented Communist revolutions in several countries--especially in Latin American and Africa.
Below follows an online book review of "Windswept House", a novel of Malachi Martin's, in which he tries to predict what might happen to the Church of Rome. He predicts the end of the present dispensation, and the return of Christ. The central character in the story is a "slavish Pope."
Uri Dowbenko reviews some of what Martin has written at:
http://www.steamshovelpress.com/spiritualwickedness.html
Below are some excerpts from his article entitled “Spiritual Wickedness
in High Places : Malachi Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It)”:
”…Ever since Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, the Power Elite have never
given up on their feverish dream of a One World Government.Former Jesuit Malachi Martin's novel, Windswept House (Doubleday/ Main
Street Books), offers a lurid behind the scenes look at a cabal of Vatican insiders who want to use the Roman Catholic Church as a foundation for a politico-religious New World Order.The plot of the novel involves a group of Church officials who scheme with a group of like-minded corporate executives to manipulate the Church into a ready-made infrastructure for a One World Religion -- a universal
umbrella for everybody from Episcopalians to voodoo practitioners.
The new ecumenicalism is clothed in Globalist garb. The agenda
includes promoting issues like population control, environmentalism and
secular humanism, which the plotters hope will eventually lead to the
complete secularization of religion. The most outrageous and controversial premise of the novel -- described in great detail in the prologue -- is that a ceremony was performed in the Vatican in 1963 -- an occult ritual which enthroned the fallen archangel Lucifer as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Does Dr. Martin believe that this enthronement actually took place in his novel, which could liberally be described as a roman a clef? "Yes, it did," he says emphatically. ‘Beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind. But now the place, time, hour etc., are all obfuscated to protect the guilty and save the innocent’…”
Note: More evidence is being disclosed which connects the highest levels of the Vatican with the cover-up of the sexual scandal in the United States. For instance, MSNBC News has reported at http://www.msnbc.com/news/844789.asp :
"...Critics of Law claimed Tuesday that they had uncovered a “smoking gun” that showed that Law and other U.S. Catholic leaders who have been accused of covering up sex-abuse allegations were acting on the pope’s orders. A group called the Coalition of Catholics and Survivors said it had come across the document from among thousands of personnel files the Boston archdiocese made public last week. A court hearing lawsuits against the archdiocese had ordered the release. In the document, John Paul says that a defrocked Catholic priest who had a history of molesting boys should leave the areas where his “condition” was known — or stay put as long as it caused no scandal. 'That would explain why [other] bishops have done the same thing as Cardinal Law — they’ve moved sexual offenders from parish to parish without notifying the parishioners,” said Joseph Gallagher, a co-founder of the group'..."
Martin claims that a good deal of the child molestation occurring now is actually Satanic worship. Part of the Luciferian rites of many of the priests, nuns, and hierarchy. He intimates that many who engage in this kind of "worship" are indeed secret Masons.
Malachi Martin was himself a Jesuit priest, in a high official capacity in the Vatican. "In God's Name" has a photograph of Malachi Martin, seated right next to Pope John Paul I--the Pope that was murdered. Martin is seated between Pope John Paul I (who is on the Papal Throne) and Diego Lorenzi, an aide who accompanied John Paul I from Venice, where he was previously.
Alberto Rivera also says that he attended, as a Jesuit, a Black Mass in the Vatican. With the Jesuits. Martin himself did not attend the Black Mass, but he knew of it. He later resigned the Jesuits--around 1972.He was "Laicized" so that he could write books on the corruptions he had seen in the Vatican.
He recently passed away in 1999. Some Catholics think he was murdered. He also wrote a blockbuster entitled "The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church." In that book, he details how the Jesuits became Communists in the 1960's, under their then Secretary General, Pedro Arrupe. And he documents how they fomented Communist revolutions in several countries--especially in Latin American and Africa.
Below follows an online book review of "Windswept House", a novel of Malachi Martin's, in which he tries to predict what might happen to the Church of Rome. He predicts the end of the present dispensation, and the return of Christ. The central character in the story is a "slavish Pope."
Uri Dowbenko reviews some of what Martin has written at:
http://www.steamshovelpress.com/spiritualwickedness.html
Below are some excerpts from his article entitled “Spiritual Wickedness
in High Places : Malachi Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It)”:
”…Ever since Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, the Power Elite have never
given up on their feverish dream of a One World Government.Former Jesuit Malachi Martin's novel, Windswept House (Doubleday/ Main
Street Books), offers a lurid behind the scenes look at a cabal of Vatican insiders who want to use the Roman Catholic Church as a foundation for a politico-religious New World Order.The plot of the novel involves a group of Church officials who scheme with a group of like-minded corporate executives to manipulate the Church into a ready-made infrastructure for a One World Religion -- a universal
umbrella for everybody from Episcopalians to voodoo practitioners.
The new ecumenicalism is clothed in Globalist garb. The agenda
includes promoting issues like population control, environmentalism and
secular humanism, which the plotters hope will eventually lead to the
complete secularization of religion. The most outrageous and controversial premise of the novel -- described in great detail in the prologue -- is that a ceremony was performed in the Vatican in 1963 -- an occult ritual which enthroned the fallen archangel Lucifer as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Does Dr. Martin believe that this enthronement actually took place in his novel, which could liberally be described as a roman a clef? "Yes, it did," he says emphatically. ‘Beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind. But now the place, time, hour etc., are all obfuscated to protect the guilty and save the innocent’…”
Note: More evidence is being disclosed which connects the highest levels of the Vatican with the cover-up of the sexual scandal in the United States. For instance, MSNBC News has reported at http://www.msnbc.com/news/844789.asp :
"...Critics of Law claimed Tuesday that they had uncovered a “smoking gun” that showed that Law and other U.S. Catholic leaders who have been accused of covering up sex-abuse allegations were acting on the pope’s orders. A group called the Coalition of Catholics and Survivors said it had come across the document from among thousands of personnel files the Boston archdiocese made public last week. A court hearing lawsuits against the archdiocese had ordered the release. In the document, John Paul says that a defrocked Catholic priest who had a history of molesting boys should leave the areas where his “condition” was known — or stay put as long as it caused no scandal. 'That would explain why [other] bishops have done the same thing as Cardinal Law — they’ve moved sexual offenders from parish to parish without notifying the parishioners,” said Joseph Gallagher, a co-founder of the group'..."
Fr. Malachi Martin affirmed: Satanism has been practiced in the Vatican
"How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978
Fr. Malachi Martin's accusationsIn The Fatima Crusader article, Malachi Martin, a scholar, Vatican insider, and best-selling author, said, “Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”
From 1958 until 1964, Jesuit priest Malachi Martin served in Rome where he was a close associate of, and carried out many sensitive missions for the renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea and the pope. Released afterwards from his vows of poverty and obedience at his own request (but still a priest), he ultimately moved to New York and became a best-selling writer of fiction and non-fiction. Martin had first made reference to a diabolic rite held in Rome in his 1990 non-fiction best-seller about geopolitics and the Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, in which he wrote:
"Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia—rites and practices— was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites." (p. 632)
These allegations have largely gone unnoticed, possibly because he was so crafty in his descriptions that he might even have been referring to the coronation of Pope Paul VI. But he revealed much more about this alleged ritual in one of his last works, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel (1996). In this story, he vividly described a ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer” supposedly held in St. Paul’s Chapel in the Vatican, but linked with concurrent satanic rites here in the U.S., on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI. In the novel, before he dies, a pope leaves a secret account of the situation on his desk for the next occupant of the throne of Peter, a thinly-disguised John Paul II. According to The New American, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so,” the magazine reported he said. “But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.” Martin's accusation of a satanic ritual at the Vatican was also confirmed by John Loeffler, host of the Steel on Steel radio show. Mr. Loeffler personally asked Fr. Malachi Martin (who had been a regular guest on his show) about the reported dedication to satan within the Vatican:
"You know Malachi confirmed—the first part of his book, Windswept House—he confirmed the dedication of the Vatican to satan in a secret ceremony that occurred unknown even to the Pope at that time, that he managed to pick up. And I did ask him, 'Was this true? Did it happen?' And he [Fr. Martin] said, 'yes, it did.'" - John Loeffler (July 29, 2000 radio show)
Fr. Malachi Martin said more members of the clergy are becoming aware of the situation. An archbishop several years ago also accused high members of the hierarchy in Rome of practicing satanism. The Italian newspaper Il Tempo and other major daily papers reported this stunning news (Italian newspaper articles).
Windswept HouseWindswept House is a sweeping novel, set on the grand global stage and the unfolding of the next stage of civilization, the ominously-named New World Order. It tackles head-on a number of heavy issues from abortion to the Third Secret of Fatima, but the essential message seems to be this: Satanists lurk in the shadows, from the heart of the Vatican down to the local parishes, manipulating those duped by the false spirit of Vatican II. They are doing their damnedest to subvert the Roman Catholic Church. In Windswept House, Martin was quite explicit about the conditions in the Vatican, opening the novel with the above-mentioned satanic ritual. In it, Satan was formally enthroned in the Vatican in the Chapel of St. Paul (by all reports a dark and appropriately spooky place). The ceremony was coordinated via telephone with another simultaneous rite in South Carolina. But these are minor quibbles. Like The Keys of This Blood, Windswept House is written for a wide and not necessarily Catholic audience, but both books give an odd feeling of being intended for John Paul II himself. It’s as if Keys was written to show the Pope that Martin understood what the Pontiff was doing in the geopolitical arena and address his concerns for the Church’s internal situation. (One may be reminded of Machiavelli’s The Prince, written also by a courtier exiled from court.) Windswept House, however, is a much more dramatic and desperate plea to the Pope.
A Dark Vision Just how bad did Martin judge things to be? Extremely so:
"Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other; of nuns who performed the “Black Rites” of Wicca, and who lived in lesbian relationships . . . every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests. Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ’s Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a minority—anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank.... The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links—the network, in other words that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network." (pp. 492-3)
At the time of his passing on July 27, 1999, Martin was at work on what he said would be his most controversial and important book. Primacy: How the Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of The New World Order was to deal with power and the papacy. This work was to analyze the revolutionary shift that lies at the heart of what many see as the breakdown of papal power. It was to be a book of predictions about the Vatican and the world in the first decades of the new millennium. Fr. Malachi Martin never recanted any of his claims that the scene in Windswept House was based on an actual satanic ritual in the Vatican in the first days of the reign of Pope Paul VI, nor that there exists a general satanic conspiracy within the Roman Catholic Church.
The murder of Pope John Paul I The Blessed Virgin Mary's apparitions in Bayside, New York stating that satan has entered into "the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome” would also explain some very dark secrets surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I, who mysteriously died of a “heart attack” slightly over a month after election. Regarding the alleged “heart attack,” his niece affirmed:
“In my family almost no one believes it was a heart attack that killed my uncle. He never had heart trouble or any illness of that kind.” (San Juan Star, October 3, 1978) http://www.thesanjuanstar.com/
And Pope John Paul I’s brother:
“John Paul’s brother Edoardo, in Australia on a trade mission, reported that the Pope had been given a clean bill of health after a medical examination three weeks ago. He was frail in health as an infant and as a young priest, but there were no reports of heart trouble.” (San Juan Star, October 9, 1978)
From Time magazine (October 9, 1978):
In an earlier age so untimely a death might have stirred deep suspicions: “If this were the time of the Borgias,” said a young teacher in Rome, “there’d be talk that John Paul was poisoned.”
But the Vatican replied that such allegations were “irresponsible.” (San Juan Star, October 18, 1978)
The fact is, Our Lady’s message at Bayside New York affirmed, “man has fallen very low, even (resorting) to murder.” (October 6, 1978) And on May 21, 1983: “We will go back, My child, in history, a short history, and remember well what had happened in Rome to John, Pope John, whose reign lasted 33 days. O My child, it is history now, but it is placed in the book that lists the disasters in mankind. He received the horror and martyrdom by drinking from a glass. It was a champagne glass given to him by a now deceased member of the clergy and the Secretariat of the State [Cardinal Villot (right)].”
Sound incredible? Please note that a 1975 ruling from the Vatican ordered that no autopsy could be performed on a Pope. How convenient. What does the Vatican have to fear from an autopsy? Not just Our Lady's message points to foul play. There is a best-selling book by David Yallop that also alleges that Pope John Paul I was murdered: In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I.
This is just one more symptom of what the real Third Secret is all about.
"But, My children, as I said in the past, I repeat again, that satan and his agents, the band of 666, has entered into the highest places of the hierarchy; and therefore he has captured some of Our formerly noble hierarchy to do his bidding." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 1, 1978
Directives from Heaven... "http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm">http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm
D129 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 1 - 666 in Rome PDFD130 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 2 - Satan entered the Church in 1972 PDFD131 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 3 - Satan entered the highest realms of the hierarchy PDFD132 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 4 - There shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst. PDFD133 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 5 - The Apocalypse / Revelations PDF
Evidence for the REAL Third Secret:
Cardinal Oddi on the REAL Third Secret of Fatima: "The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against the apostasy in the Church"http://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretCardinalOddi.htm
Fr. Alonso, official achivist of Fatima: The REAL Third Secret of Fatima warned of apostasy in the Churchhttp://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretFatherAlonso.
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: The "deception of the century"http://www.tldm.org/news3/impostor.
Warnings from Beyond: A Swiss exorcism reveals existence of an impostor to Pope Paul VIhttp://www.tldm.org/news4/warningsfrombeyond.2of3.htm
Jacinta's vision of the Holy Father, "the poor little one," was Pope Paul VIhttp://www.tldm.org/news/vision_of_jacinta.htm
The approved apparitions of Our Lady of Akita, Japan and the Third Secrethttp://www.tldm.org/News10/Akita.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: The murder of Pope John Paul Ihttp://www.tldm.org/news3/johnpaulI.htm
Third Secret tells of a spiritual chastisement: loss of faith, faltering and punishment of the pastors, diabolical disorientationhttp://www.tldm.org/News10/ThirdSecretSpiritualChastisement.htm
Cardinal Oddi's hypothesis on the REAL Third Secret: "Let me advance a hypothesis: that the Third Secret of Fatima pre-announces something terrible the Church has done"http://www.tldm.org/News10/CardinalOddiThirdSecretHypothesis.htm
Sister Lucy talked about the "diabolical disorientation" in the Church as 1972 approachedhttp://www.tldm.org/news5/1972.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: "Satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy"http://www.tldm.org/news3/highest_realms.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: World's most famous exorcist has said, "legions of demons that have installed themselves in the Vatican"http://www.tldm.org/News6/exorcism1.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: Man who shot Pope John Paul II says, "Without the help of some priests and cardinals I could not have done it"http://www.tldm.org/News7/CardinalsHelpedMehmetAliAgca.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: Jacinta told Mother Godinho the Third Secret, but...http://www.tldm.org/news/StTheresa3rdSecret.htm
Fr. Malachi Martin's accusationsIn The Fatima Crusader article, Malachi Martin, a scholar, Vatican insider, and best-selling author, said, “Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”
From 1958 until 1964, Jesuit priest Malachi Martin served in Rome where he was a close associate of, and carried out many sensitive missions for the renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea and the pope. Released afterwards from his vows of poverty and obedience at his own request (but still a priest), he ultimately moved to New York and became a best-selling writer of fiction and non-fiction. Martin had first made reference to a diabolic rite held in Rome in his 1990 non-fiction best-seller about geopolitics and the Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, in which he wrote:
"Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia—rites and practices— was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites." (p. 632)
These allegations have largely gone unnoticed, possibly because he was so crafty in his descriptions that he might even have been referring to the coronation of Pope Paul VI. But he revealed much more about this alleged ritual in one of his last works, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel (1996). In this story, he vividly described a ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer” supposedly held in St. Paul’s Chapel in the Vatican, but linked with concurrent satanic rites here in the U.S., on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI. In the novel, before he dies, a pope leaves a secret account of the situation on his desk for the next occupant of the throne of Peter, a thinly-disguised John Paul II. According to The New American, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so,” the magazine reported he said. “But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.” Martin's accusation of a satanic ritual at the Vatican was also confirmed by John Loeffler, host of the Steel on Steel radio show. Mr. Loeffler personally asked Fr. Malachi Martin (who had been a regular guest on his show) about the reported dedication to satan within the Vatican:
"You know Malachi confirmed—the first part of his book, Windswept House—he confirmed the dedication of the Vatican to satan in a secret ceremony that occurred unknown even to the Pope at that time, that he managed to pick up. And I did ask him, 'Was this true? Did it happen?' And he [Fr. Martin] said, 'yes, it did.'" - John Loeffler (July 29, 2000 radio show)
Fr. Malachi Martin said more members of the clergy are becoming aware of the situation. An archbishop several years ago also accused high members of the hierarchy in Rome of practicing satanism. The Italian newspaper Il Tempo and other major daily papers reported this stunning news (Italian newspaper articles).
Windswept HouseWindswept House is a sweeping novel, set on the grand global stage and the unfolding of the next stage of civilization, the ominously-named New World Order. It tackles head-on a number of heavy issues from abortion to the Third Secret of Fatima, but the essential message seems to be this: Satanists lurk in the shadows, from the heart of the Vatican down to the local parishes, manipulating those duped by the false spirit of Vatican II. They are doing their damnedest to subvert the Roman Catholic Church. In Windswept House, Martin was quite explicit about the conditions in the Vatican, opening the novel with the above-mentioned satanic ritual. In it, Satan was formally enthroned in the Vatican in the Chapel of St. Paul (by all reports a dark and appropriately spooky place). The ceremony was coordinated via telephone with another simultaneous rite in South Carolina. But these are minor quibbles. Like The Keys of This Blood, Windswept House is written for a wide and not necessarily Catholic audience, but both books give an odd feeling of being intended for John Paul II himself. It’s as if Keys was written to show the Pope that Martin understood what the Pontiff was doing in the geopolitical arena and address his concerns for the Church’s internal situation. (One may be reminded of Machiavelli’s The Prince, written also by a courtier exiled from court.) Windswept House, however, is a much more dramatic and desperate plea to the Pope.
A Dark Vision Just how bad did Martin judge things to be? Extremely so:
"Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other; of nuns who performed the “Black Rites” of Wicca, and who lived in lesbian relationships . . . every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests. Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ’s Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a minority—anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank.... The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links—the network, in other words that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network." (pp. 492-3)
At the time of his passing on July 27, 1999, Martin was at work on what he said would be his most controversial and important book. Primacy: How the Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of The New World Order was to deal with power and the papacy. This work was to analyze the revolutionary shift that lies at the heart of what many see as the breakdown of papal power. It was to be a book of predictions about the Vatican and the world in the first decades of the new millennium. Fr. Malachi Martin never recanted any of his claims that the scene in Windswept House was based on an actual satanic ritual in the Vatican in the first days of the reign of Pope Paul VI, nor that there exists a general satanic conspiracy within the Roman Catholic Church.
The murder of Pope John Paul I The Blessed Virgin Mary's apparitions in Bayside, New York stating that satan has entered into "the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome” would also explain some very dark secrets surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I, who mysteriously died of a “heart attack” slightly over a month after election. Regarding the alleged “heart attack,” his niece affirmed:
“In my family almost no one believes it was a heart attack that killed my uncle. He never had heart trouble or any illness of that kind.” (San Juan Star, October 3, 1978) http://www.thesanjuanstar.com/
And Pope John Paul I’s brother:
“John Paul’s brother Edoardo, in Australia on a trade mission, reported that the Pope had been given a clean bill of health after a medical examination three weeks ago. He was frail in health as an infant and as a young priest, but there were no reports of heart trouble.” (San Juan Star, October 9, 1978)
From Time magazine (October 9, 1978):
In an earlier age so untimely a death might have stirred deep suspicions: “If this were the time of the Borgias,” said a young teacher in Rome, “there’d be talk that John Paul was poisoned.”
But the Vatican replied that such allegations were “irresponsible.” (San Juan Star, October 18, 1978)
The fact is, Our Lady’s message at Bayside New York affirmed, “man has fallen very low, even (resorting) to murder.” (October 6, 1978) And on May 21, 1983: “We will go back, My child, in history, a short history, and remember well what had happened in Rome to John, Pope John, whose reign lasted 33 days. O My child, it is history now, but it is placed in the book that lists the disasters in mankind. He received the horror and martyrdom by drinking from a glass. It was a champagne glass given to him by a now deceased member of the clergy and the Secretariat of the State [Cardinal Villot (right)].”
Sound incredible? Please note that a 1975 ruling from the Vatican ordered that no autopsy could be performed on a Pope. How convenient. What does the Vatican have to fear from an autopsy? Not just Our Lady's message points to foul play. There is a best-selling book by David Yallop that also alleges that Pope John Paul I was murdered: In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I.
This is just one more symptom of what the real Third Secret is all about.
"But, My children, as I said in the past, I repeat again, that satan and his agents, the band of 666, has entered into the highest places of the hierarchy; and therefore he has captured some of Our formerly noble hierarchy to do his bidding." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 1, 1978
Directives from Heaven... "http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm">http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm
D129 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 1 - 666 in Rome PDFD130 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 2 - Satan entered the Church in 1972 PDFD131 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 3 - Satan entered the highest realms of the hierarchy PDFD132 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 4 - There shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst. PDFD133 - THIRD SECRET EXPLAINED: PART 5 - The Apocalypse / Revelations PDF
Evidence for the REAL Third Secret:
Cardinal Oddi on the REAL Third Secret of Fatima: "The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against the apostasy in the Church"http://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretCardinalOddi.htm
Fr. Alonso, official achivist of Fatima: The REAL Third Secret of Fatima warned of apostasy in the Churchhttp://www.tldm.org/news7/ThirdSecretFatherAlonso.
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: The "deception of the century"http://www.tldm.org/news3/impostor.
Warnings from Beyond: A Swiss exorcism reveals existence of an impostor to Pope Paul VIhttp://www.tldm.org/news4/warningsfrombeyond.2of3.htm
Jacinta's vision of the Holy Father, "the poor little one," was Pope Paul VIhttp://www.tldm.org/news/vision_of_jacinta.htm
The approved apparitions of Our Lady of Akita, Japan and the Third Secrethttp://www.tldm.org/News10/Akita.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: The murder of Pope John Paul Ihttp://www.tldm.org/news3/johnpaulI.htm
Third Secret tells of a spiritual chastisement: loss of faith, faltering and punishment of the pastors, diabolical disorientationhttp://www.tldm.org/News10/ThirdSecretSpiritualChastisement.htm
Cardinal Oddi's hypothesis on the REAL Third Secret: "Let me advance a hypothesis: that the Third Secret of Fatima pre-announces something terrible the Church has done"http://www.tldm.org/News10/CardinalOddiThirdSecretHypothesis.htm
Sister Lucy talked about the "diabolical disorientation" in the Church as 1972 approachedhttp://www.tldm.org/news5/1972.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: "Satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy"http://www.tldm.org/news3/highest_realms.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: World's most famous exorcist has said, "legions of demons that have installed themselves in the Vatican"http://www.tldm.org/News6/exorcism1.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: Man who shot Pope John Paul II says, "Without the help of some priests and cardinals I could not have done it"http://www.tldm.org/News7/CardinalsHelpedMehmetAliAgca.htm
Evidence of the REAL Third Secret: Jacinta told Mother Godinho the Third Secret, but...http://www.tldm.org/news/StTheresa3rdSecret.htm
Father Malachi Martin and the Catholic Church
OF THOSE that have accused the Vatican of being infiltrated by satanists, none has been as widely noticed as the late Malachi Martin. An expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he also wrote about such widely diverse topics as exorcism, Church history and modern geopolitics. None of his books have been so controversial — or so misunderstood or ignored by the mainstream press — as his works that deal with this ominous and sensitive topic.
The late Malachi Martin
Enter the Jesuit
From 1958 until 1964, Malachi Martin served in Rome as a Jesuit priest, where he was a close associate of, and carried out many sensitive missions for, the renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. Released afterwards from his vows of poverty and obedience at his own request (but still a priest), he ultimately moved to New York and became a best-selling writer of fiction and non-fiction.
Martin had first made explicit reference to a diabolic rite held in Rome in his 1990 non-fiction best-seller about geopolitics and the Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, in which he wrote:
Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia — rites and practices — was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.(p. 632. Emphasis added)
These allegations have largely gone unnoticed, possibly because Martin was so crafty in his descriptions that he might even have been referring to the coronation of Pope Paul VI. But he revealed much more about this alleged ritual in one of his last works, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel (1996).
In this story, he vividly described a diabolical ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer” supposedly held in St. Paul’s Chapel within the Vatican, but linked with concurrent satanic rites here in the US, on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI. In this novel, before he dies, a pope leaves a secret account of the situation on his desk for the next occupant of the throne of Peter, a thinly-disguised John Paul II.
According to The New American, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so,” the magazine reported he said. “But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.”
Windswept House is a sweeping novel, set on the grand global stage and the unfolding of the next stage of civilization, the ominously-named New World Order. It tackles head on a number of heavy issues from abortion to the Third Secret of Fatima, but the essential message seems to be this: Satanists lurk in the shadows, from the heart of the Vatican down to the local parishes, manipulating those fooled by the false spirit of Vatican II. They are doing their damnedest to subvert the Roman Catholic Church, while Pope John Paul II, intent on his geopolitical millennial endgame, fiddles about, waiting for a sign from the Blessed Virgin while the Church literally goes to hell around him.
In Windswept House, Martin was quite explicit about the conditions in the Vatican, opening the novel with the above-mentioned satanic ritual. In it, Satan was formally enthroned in the Vatican in the Chapel of St. Paul (by all reports a dark and appropriately spooky place). The ceremony was co-ordinated via telephone with another simultanious rite in South Carolina.
(This could be a reference to the claims of “Leo Taxil” who wrote spurious exposés of the Masons and fallen priests as devil-worshippers in the 19th century. He, too, claimed South Carolina — Charleston, to be exact — was a satanic headquarters. This was the hometown of Albert Pike, the only Confederate general memorialized in Washington, D.C., who reformed the Scottish Rite and was indeed an admitted “Luciferian.”)
In any case, since Malachi Martin was a Vatican insider who was there in a position to know, it is not his sources that make this claim difficult to believe, but his jesuitical agenda. Martin cared passionately for the Catholic Church, but as an ex-Jesuit (which may be likened to being ex-CIA, with all the ambiguity that implies), he combined his global vision with a reactionary orthodoxy that at times seems somewhat to the right of Loyola himself. It is temptingly easy to dismiss his claims on that basis alone.
For it is his militant traditionalism that many who lack his profound nostalgia for the Tridentine past find most difficult to take in Martin’s writing. His belief that the problems in the Church today are largely due to the Second Vatican Council seems far too simplistic. While Vatican II opened the windows of change, for better or for worse, the rot began to fester there long, long before. The Church of Rome would not be falling apart as quickly as it is if it were otherwise.
And while there is no real reason to believe that the morals of the College of Cardinals have improved substantially since the Rennaisance, it is difficult to believe that anyone of them would be so foolish as to undermine the papacy itself. Eliminate the pope — sure, that’s been done as recently as the last reign with the suspicious death of John Paul I (which Martin attributes to the KGB with inside help). However, destroying the papal office itself would destroy the cardinals’ own powerbase. The tail cannot wag without the dog.
If anything, it is his partisan passions that makes his tale doubtful. Looking at his earlier writings, it is hard to detect any inferences that the Devil may be indeed at home in Rome. However, his book Hostage to the Devil (1976) leaves no doubt that Martin believed that a very real, very personal force of evil was abroad in the world. Yet his first hint of any diabolic activity there comes towards the end of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (1981), a history book that sets out his worldview and concerns of the Faustian bargain with temporal power that the Roman Church made seventeen centuries ago and its corrupting effects ever since. It occurs with his first mention of that ominous saying attributed to Paul VI:
Paul realized in his last two years that something unimaginably ominous had been moving inexorably toward them, was already in their midst, and had nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. “The smoke of Satan has entered the church, is around the altar,” he remarked somberly. By 1978 and in the last few weeks of his own life, Paul knew that the rumbling tension of his world had grown to the a roaring, and that around him there was a conflagration feeding on the dry wood and the underbrush of the centuries-old kingdom. (p. 278, emphasis added).
In this history, we also learn that the worst pope of the Dark Ages, Benedict IX, “dabbled in witchcraft and satanism” (p. 132), and that Pius XII believed Karl Marx, the father of Communism, was himself a “dedicated and consecrated Satanist” (p. 175), but that’s about it.
From other sources, it is known that Pope Paul IV was indeed quite concerned about acts of priestly sorcery, but Martin gave no other clue before Keys that I could find that he was indeed aware of diabolic hijinks within the Vatican.
Indeed, Martin made no mention of such a rite at all in his mammoth novel Vatican (1986), of which Windswept House is in many ways but the sequel. This sweeping tale spans the years from the death of Mussolini at the end of World War II up to the election of the pope to follow John Paul II. In it, Martin was not afraid to dish the dirt, starting with the Vatican’s complicity with the Nazi “ratlines” that allowed them to escape to South America in return for stolen fascist gold. (See also the article here.)
It covers in generous detail the entire Vatican Bank scandal, the politics of Vatican II, the KGB infiltration into the heart of the Curia and its use of “liberation theology,” and the Vatican’s counter-moves into Eastern Europe. In doing so, the novel gives a very interesting look into the Vatican’s finances and the forces that actually govern the Church. (Oddly enough, of all the conspiratorial factions who had their hands in the game, the one he never mentioned was the powerful, cult-like ultra-traditionalist group, Opus Dei, which has become a potent player in Vatican affairs, including the banking scandals. He is also quite lenient on his former Jesuit colleagues, despite their involvement with Red-inspired liberation theology.)
Most surprisingly, Martin posited that there was a secret and unspecified “Bargain” between the Holy See and a mysterious governing body — the “Lodge” — that every pope since Pius IX had signed with the “Keeper” — apparently a member of the Roman Black Nobility trusted by both sides. For Pius had lost the ancient Papal States, yet this Devil’s bargain with Freemasonry allowed the Vatican to continue to exist as a political and economic power in the world.
As first set forth in Decline and Fall, Martin saw this diablolic compromise as permitting the world’s wickedness to corrupt the Church by exposing it to the temptation of temporal power, though he had made no mention of a pact with the Masons in that earlier book. The pact, if it exists, was nothing really new, just another step on the long road from Constantine. Though he used transparent psuedonyms, he made it obvious that he regarded John XXIII as a holy dupe and Paul IV, whom he did not like, as an even greater but far less spiritual one. Martin regarded the Ecumenical Council as having been virtually taken over by modernist heretics and Soviet puppets. By the accession of John Paul I to the throne of Peter, one of his characters estimated that in effect, half the bishops in the US were in schism, and a third in heresy. (Other sources have confirmed this is indeed a Curial view.)
In the end, the ultimate villians in Vatican are not corrupt bankers nor priests, nor even the Communists, but a force he called the “Universal Assembly” — a Masonic conspiracy of Western plutocrats, undoubtedly the Illuminati. Although other writers have alleged Curial members belonged to the Masons, Martin even accused Paul IV of being a Masonic Lodge member!
Freemasonry and the Catholic Church have had a long history of antipathy. The Church has long been suspicious of secret societies not under its thumb, and the Masonic claim of being descended from the Knights Templar, condemned as heretics, surely has not helped. Though relations have softened in the years since Vatican II, Masonry is still viewed with much suspicion and Roman Catholics are still forbidden to be freemasons. Even the “good” ones are scorned, much less the “Luciferians”. So how is that members of the Vatican elite could be associated with entities like P2, the infamous lodge involved in the Vatican bank scandals?
In any case, during the decade between novels, as the Catholic Church’s decline and the inability of John Paul II to stem the slide, Martin’s despair grew worse. Did he then merely imagine that satanists had to be responsible, or did he have some secret knowledge?
A Dark Vision
Just how bad did Martin judge things to be? Extremely so, even if his traditionalist viewpoint saw little difference between homosexuality and pedophilia, neopaganism and satanism:
Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other; of nuns who performed the “Black Rites” of Wicca, and who lived in lesbian relationships.. . . every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests. Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ’s Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a minority — anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank.
. . .The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links — the network, in other words — that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network.(pp. 492-3. Emphasis added)
Vatican and Windswept House are novels where half the fun is trying to guess who the real personages are behind the fiction. Some are made ridiculously easy: the pontiff, who is referred to only as the “Slavic Pope” throughout the latter book, can only be John Paul II, of course.
More intriguing is an evil character described as the “Cardinal of Centurycity,” a powerful American Satanist, supposedly based on the late Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, but who bears an odd similarity — doubtless coincidental — to Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles. While this might just be a barb in the venerable literary tradition of putting one’s enemies in Hell, it must certainly have stirred up discussion in chanceries and rectories everywhere. Unfortunately, most of the other characters, if indeed based on real people, are much more difficult to pin down for someone unacquainted with the Vatican.
But these are minor quibbles. Like Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, and Windswept House were written for a wide and not necessarily Catholic audience, but all three books give an odd feeling of being intended for John Paul II himself. If Vatican was the first warning; Keys was written to show the pope that Martin understood what the pontiff was doing in the geopolitical arena and address his concerns for the Church’s internal situation. (One may be reminded of Machiavelli’s The Prince, written also by a courtier exiled from court.) Windswept House, however, even more than Vatican, is a much more dramatic and desperate plea to the pope to get off his throne and do something.
As for Windswept House, it did not receive the critical acclaim nor widespread publicity of his previous efforts. It has been virtually ignored, even though it was published by Doubleday, a major mainstream house. Reviewers, Martin said, “are steering away from it. They don’t know what to think about it; they don’t know what to say.” But Martin continued to speak out until his death, doing numerous radio interviews, such as on “The Art Bell Show.”
At the time of his passing on July 27, 1999, Martin was at work on what he said would be his most controversial and important book. Primacy: How the Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of The New World Order was to deal with power and the papacy. This work was to analyze the revolutionary shift that lies at the heart of what many see as the breakdown of papal power. It was to be a book of predictions about the Vatican and the world in the first decades of the new millennium.
As far as is known, he never recanted on any of his claims that the scene in Windswept House was based on an actual satanic ritual in the Vatican in the first days of the reign of Pope Paul VI, nor that there exists a general satanic conspiracy within the Roman Catholic Church.
The late Malachi Martin
Enter the Jesuit
From 1958 until 1964, Malachi Martin served in Rome as a Jesuit priest, where he was a close associate of, and carried out many sensitive missions for, the renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. Released afterwards from his vows of poverty and obedience at his own request (but still a priest), he ultimately moved to New York and became a best-selling writer of fiction and non-fiction.
Martin had first made explicit reference to a diabolic rite held in Rome in his 1990 non-fiction best-seller about geopolitics and the Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, in which he wrote:
Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia — rites and practices — was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.(p. 632. Emphasis added)
These allegations have largely gone unnoticed, possibly because Martin was so crafty in his descriptions that he might even have been referring to the coronation of Pope Paul VI. But he revealed much more about this alleged ritual in one of his last works, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel (1996).
In this story, he vividly described a diabolical ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer” supposedly held in St. Paul’s Chapel within the Vatican, but linked with concurrent satanic rites here in the US, on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI. In this novel, before he dies, a pope leaves a secret account of the situation on his desk for the next occupant of the throne of Peter, a thinly-disguised John Paul II.
According to The New American, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so,” the magazine reported he said. “But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.”
Windswept House is a sweeping novel, set on the grand global stage and the unfolding of the next stage of civilization, the ominously-named New World Order. It tackles head on a number of heavy issues from abortion to the Third Secret of Fatima, but the essential message seems to be this: Satanists lurk in the shadows, from the heart of the Vatican down to the local parishes, manipulating those fooled by the false spirit of Vatican II. They are doing their damnedest to subvert the Roman Catholic Church, while Pope John Paul II, intent on his geopolitical millennial endgame, fiddles about, waiting for a sign from the Blessed Virgin while the Church literally goes to hell around him.
In Windswept House, Martin was quite explicit about the conditions in the Vatican, opening the novel with the above-mentioned satanic ritual. In it, Satan was formally enthroned in the Vatican in the Chapel of St. Paul (by all reports a dark and appropriately spooky place). The ceremony was co-ordinated via telephone with another simultanious rite in South Carolina.
(This could be a reference to the claims of “Leo Taxil” who wrote spurious exposés of the Masons and fallen priests as devil-worshippers in the 19th century. He, too, claimed South Carolina — Charleston, to be exact — was a satanic headquarters. This was the hometown of Albert Pike, the only Confederate general memorialized in Washington, D.C., who reformed the Scottish Rite and was indeed an admitted “Luciferian.”)
In any case, since Malachi Martin was a Vatican insider who was there in a position to know, it is not his sources that make this claim difficult to believe, but his jesuitical agenda. Martin cared passionately for the Catholic Church, but as an ex-Jesuit (which may be likened to being ex-CIA, with all the ambiguity that implies), he combined his global vision with a reactionary orthodoxy that at times seems somewhat to the right of Loyola himself. It is temptingly easy to dismiss his claims on that basis alone.
For it is his militant traditionalism that many who lack his profound nostalgia for the Tridentine past find most difficult to take in Martin’s writing. His belief that the problems in the Church today are largely due to the Second Vatican Council seems far too simplistic. While Vatican II opened the windows of change, for better or for worse, the rot began to fester there long, long before. The Church of Rome would not be falling apart as quickly as it is if it were otherwise.
And while there is no real reason to believe that the morals of the College of Cardinals have improved substantially since the Rennaisance, it is difficult to believe that anyone of them would be so foolish as to undermine the papacy itself. Eliminate the pope — sure, that’s been done as recently as the last reign with the suspicious death of John Paul I (which Martin attributes to the KGB with inside help). However, destroying the papal office itself would destroy the cardinals’ own powerbase. The tail cannot wag without the dog.
If anything, it is his partisan passions that makes his tale doubtful. Looking at his earlier writings, it is hard to detect any inferences that the Devil may be indeed at home in Rome. However, his book Hostage to the Devil (1976) leaves no doubt that Martin believed that a very real, very personal force of evil was abroad in the world. Yet his first hint of any diabolic activity there comes towards the end of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (1981), a history book that sets out his worldview and concerns of the Faustian bargain with temporal power that the Roman Church made seventeen centuries ago and its corrupting effects ever since. It occurs with his first mention of that ominous saying attributed to Paul VI:
Paul realized in his last two years that something unimaginably ominous had been moving inexorably toward them, was already in their midst, and had nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. “The smoke of Satan has entered the church, is around the altar,” he remarked somberly. By 1978 and in the last few weeks of his own life, Paul knew that the rumbling tension of his world had grown to the a roaring, and that around him there was a conflagration feeding on the dry wood and the underbrush of the centuries-old kingdom. (p. 278, emphasis added).
In this history, we also learn that the worst pope of the Dark Ages, Benedict IX, “dabbled in witchcraft and satanism” (p. 132), and that Pius XII believed Karl Marx, the father of Communism, was himself a “dedicated and consecrated Satanist” (p. 175), but that’s about it.
From other sources, it is known that Pope Paul IV was indeed quite concerned about acts of priestly sorcery, but Martin gave no other clue before Keys that I could find that he was indeed aware of diabolic hijinks within the Vatican.
Indeed, Martin made no mention of such a rite at all in his mammoth novel Vatican (1986), of which Windswept House is in many ways but the sequel. This sweeping tale spans the years from the death of Mussolini at the end of World War II up to the election of the pope to follow John Paul II. In it, Martin was not afraid to dish the dirt, starting with the Vatican’s complicity with the Nazi “ratlines” that allowed them to escape to South America in return for stolen fascist gold. (See also the article here.)
It covers in generous detail the entire Vatican Bank scandal, the politics of Vatican II, the KGB infiltration into the heart of the Curia and its use of “liberation theology,” and the Vatican’s counter-moves into Eastern Europe. In doing so, the novel gives a very interesting look into the Vatican’s finances and the forces that actually govern the Church. (Oddly enough, of all the conspiratorial factions who had their hands in the game, the one he never mentioned was the powerful, cult-like ultra-traditionalist group, Opus Dei, which has become a potent player in Vatican affairs, including the banking scandals. He is also quite lenient on his former Jesuit colleagues, despite their involvement with Red-inspired liberation theology.)
Most surprisingly, Martin posited that there was a secret and unspecified “Bargain” between the Holy See and a mysterious governing body — the “Lodge” — that every pope since Pius IX had signed with the “Keeper” — apparently a member of the Roman Black Nobility trusted by both sides. For Pius had lost the ancient Papal States, yet this Devil’s bargain with Freemasonry allowed the Vatican to continue to exist as a political and economic power in the world.
As first set forth in Decline and Fall, Martin saw this diablolic compromise as permitting the world’s wickedness to corrupt the Church by exposing it to the temptation of temporal power, though he had made no mention of a pact with the Masons in that earlier book. The pact, if it exists, was nothing really new, just another step on the long road from Constantine. Though he used transparent psuedonyms, he made it obvious that he regarded John XXIII as a holy dupe and Paul IV, whom he did not like, as an even greater but far less spiritual one. Martin regarded the Ecumenical Council as having been virtually taken over by modernist heretics and Soviet puppets. By the accession of John Paul I to the throne of Peter, one of his characters estimated that in effect, half the bishops in the US were in schism, and a third in heresy. (Other sources have confirmed this is indeed a Curial view.)
In the end, the ultimate villians in Vatican are not corrupt bankers nor priests, nor even the Communists, but a force he called the “Universal Assembly” — a Masonic conspiracy of Western plutocrats, undoubtedly the Illuminati. Although other writers have alleged Curial members belonged to the Masons, Martin even accused Paul IV of being a Masonic Lodge member!
Freemasonry and the Catholic Church have had a long history of antipathy. The Church has long been suspicious of secret societies not under its thumb, and the Masonic claim of being descended from the Knights Templar, condemned as heretics, surely has not helped. Though relations have softened in the years since Vatican II, Masonry is still viewed with much suspicion and Roman Catholics are still forbidden to be freemasons. Even the “good” ones are scorned, much less the “Luciferians”. So how is that members of the Vatican elite could be associated with entities like P2, the infamous lodge involved in the Vatican bank scandals?
In any case, during the decade between novels, as the Catholic Church’s decline and the inability of John Paul II to stem the slide, Martin’s despair grew worse. Did he then merely imagine that satanists had to be responsible, or did he have some secret knowledge?
A Dark Vision
Just how bad did Martin judge things to be? Extremely so, even if his traditionalist viewpoint saw little difference between homosexuality and pedophilia, neopaganism and satanism:
Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other; of nuns who performed the “Black Rites” of Wicca, and who lived in lesbian relationships.. . . every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests. Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ’s Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a minority — anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank.
. . .The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links — the network, in other words — that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network.(pp. 492-3. Emphasis added)
Vatican and Windswept House are novels where half the fun is trying to guess who the real personages are behind the fiction. Some are made ridiculously easy: the pontiff, who is referred to only as the “Slavic Pope” throughout the latter book, can only be John Paul II, of course.
More intriguing is an evil character described as the “Cardinal of Centurycity,” a powerful American Satanist, supposedly based on the late Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, but who bears an odd similarity — doubtless coincidental — to Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles. While this might just be a barb in the venerable literary tradition of putting one’s enemies in Hell, it must certainly have stirred up discussion in chanceries and rectories everywhere. Unfortunately, most of the other characters, if indeed based on real people, are much more difficult to pin down for someone unacquainted with the Vatican.
But these are minor quibbles. Like Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, and Windswept House were written for a wide and not necessarily Catholic audience, but all three books give an odd feeling of being intended for John Paul II himself. If Vatican was the first warning; Keys was written to show the pope that Martin understood what the pontiff was doing in the geopolitical arena and address his concerns for the Church’s internal situation. (One may be reminded of Machiavelli’s The Prince, written also by a courtier exiled from court.) Windswept House, however, even more than Vatican, is a much more dramatic and desperate plea to the pope to get off his throne and do something.
As for Windswept House, it did not receive the critical acclaim nor widespread publicity of his previous efforts. It has been virtually ignored, even though it was published by Doubleday, a major mainstream house. Reviewers, Martin said, “are steering away from it. They don’t know what to think about it; they don’t know what to say.” But Martin continued to speak out until his death, doing numerous radio interviews, such as on “The Art Bell Show.”
At the time of his passing on July 27, 1999, Martin was at work on what he said would be his most controversial and important book. Primacy: How the Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of The New World Order was to deal with power and the papacy. This work was to analyze the revolutionary shift that lies at the heart of what many see as the breakdown of papal power. It was to be a book of predictions about the Vatican and the world in the first decades of the new millennium.
As far as is known, he never recanted on any of his claims that the scene in Windswept House was based on an actual satanic ritual in the Vatican in the first days of the reign of Pope Paul VI, nor that there exists a general satanic conspiracy within the Roman Catholic Church.
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