Thoughts on Fr. Malachi Martin

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Fr. Malachi Martin was advisor to 3 popes and an exorcist priest. He has written many books and I am intrigued by him immensely. Thoughts if you know of him or have read his books?
 
Hostage to the Devil is one of my favorite books.

Otherwise, I understand that Father Martin is a bit of a mysterious character.
 
His novel, King of Kings (a corny pot-boiler about David and Bathsheba, in which God is given the personal name “Adonai”*), is pretty execrable. He’s slightly better than Andrew Greeley, but put them head-to-head in a Bad Writing Contest and you’d be hard put to pick a winner.

Okay, I’m a critic, so I’m commenting on his writing. 😛 But he’s also done a lot of naughty things, including spreading unfounded assassination rumours about Pope John Paul I, and giving the sedevacantists plenty of ammunition. His being an “advisor to three popes” and claiming to be a “Vatican secret agent” make him sound like a more orthodox version of Alberto Rivera. 😃
  • This is a howler because Adonai just means “Lord” in Hebrew. Who names their kid “boy” anyway? 😃
 
Do we know what was his status by the time he died in 1999? I had heard an interview he did somewhere in the late 90s in which he said he was in good status if I recall correctly. He at least claimed such for himself.
 
I read his book *Hostage to the Devil *and was impressed. However, I have noticed that there is a tendency for those who try to expose the reality diabolical to be subjected to controversy and personal issues.

Regardless of these, *Hostage to the Devil *is a collection of documented stories from other exorcists and portrays the truth of possession and demonic activity very well.

God Bless
 
I’d like to see the source for this.

My understanding is that he remained a priest, but was no longer active in ministry and released from duties as a priest.

Jim
 
nikoletodd said:
Fr. Malachi Martin was advisor to 3 popes and an exorcist priest. He has written many books and I am intrigued by him immensely. Thoughts if you know of him or have read his books?
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a sensationalist-presumably for all the reasons people are such: money, glory/pride, etc. Just my opinion after reading a book or two of his.
 
Modern_Revert said:
Hostage to the Devil is one of my favorite books.
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Mine too. I have an autographed copy. I also read The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Jesuit scholar. His book was very critical of his order. Personally, I thought his writing was excellent. I found both of these books very hard to put down. God Bless.
 
The Jesuit book on the betrayal of the Catholic Church was released in the 80’s, but in light of Pope Francis, it has suddenly been thrust back into significance. Among the disturbing things revealed in this book:
  1. The whole betrayal and open disobedience to the papacy that began with George Tyrrell
  2. The unflattering portrayal of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, with his very public straying or reinterpretations of basic dogma. Then I find out that he was an “influence” on Cardinal Ratzinger, and actually held in high regard among the current church, Jesuit and non-Jesuit alike? How can this be when he bordered on being a heretic?
  3. The Liberation Theology that flourished in Latin America around the time Pope Francis was Provincial Superior? His stand on this current Jesuit trait can be googled, but seems to be contradictory answers that are found.
  4. Pope Francis certainly can be said to have not contradicted basic tenets or dogmas of the Church SO FAR, but does use certain “buzz” words about a complete overhaul of the church (which it needs, but not on issues of dogma). Today, he dismisses a Cardinal from his own invention of 8 “inner circle” Cardinals for being “too conservative”? THAT certainly seems strange! He handpicked him! The media are having a field-day with this recent “shake-up”. He has said that Atheists can go to heaven? Not sure about that one, but if true, that is another step towards the betrayal outlined in Fr. Malachi Martin’s book.
  5. Petrus Romanus (St Malachi prophecy), born of “Roman” blood. It certainly is not looking good with the discerning eye. If he undoes the Roman Curia, continues along themes than can be misinterpreted as “Marxist”, does away with basic tenets of the faith, then it would appear that Fr. Martin’s book will have been vindicated and fulfilled. By the way, when a Jesuit takes his vows of obedience to the “Black Pope”, and the one becomes the “White Pope”, is the White Pope still bound to that blind obedience to the Jesuit Father General? Also, the third secret of Fatima says that the fish will rot from the head down?
Very disturbing times we live in, indeed!
 
Victor_Emerita said:
  1. The Liberation Theology that flourished in Latin America around the time Pope Francis was Provincial Superior? His stand on this current Jesuit trait can be googled, but seems to be contradictory answers that are found.
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Contradictory answers can be found on anything if you look for them. Witness the slanders against Pope Pius XII. So you also assume they are true, since there are “contradictory answers” found?
  1. Pope Francis certainly can be said to have not contradicted basic tenets or dogmas of the Church SO FAR,
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Obviously you expect him to. Please enlighten us – what dogmas will he contradict, and when?
Today, he dismisses a Cardinal from his own invention of 8 “inner circle” Cardinals for being “too conservative”? THAT certainly seems strange! He handpicked him! The media are having a field-day with this recent “shake-up”.
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Source, please? There’s been no news of anyone being removed from that group.
  1. It certainly is not looking good with the discerning eye. If he undoes the Roman Curia, continues along themes than can be misinterpreted as “Marxist”, does away with basic tenets of the faith, then it would appear that Fr. Martin’s book will have been vindicated and fulfilled. By the way, when a Jesuit takes his vows of obedience to the “Black Pope”, and the one becomes the “White Pope”, is the White Pope still bound to that blind obedience to the Jesuit Father General? Also, the third secret of Fatima says that the fish will rot from the head down?
    Very disturbing times we live in, indeed!
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Yes, very disturbing times, when someone who identifies themselves as Catholic will make such vile and unsubstantiated accusations against the Holy Father.
 
I was under the impression that the exorcists he wrote about in “Hostage” were actually him, or that he was at least present when they occurred.
 
Victor_Emerita said:
…By the way, when a Jesuit takes his vows of obedience to the “Black Pope”, and the one becomes the “White Pope”, is the White Pope still bound to that blind obedience to the Jesuit Father General? Also, the third secret of Fatima says that the fish will rot from the head down?
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It’s been a long time since I read the book. I’m more reacting to the phrase “blind obedience”…If a person takes an oath of obedience, that oath doesn’t compel a person to obey any order, (e.g., to sleep with prostitutes). Martin’s book was about the disobedience of certain key Jesuits…not every Jesuit…and he tried to show how that disobedience betrayed the very reason the order was founded by St Ignatius…to provide intellectual support to the papacy by keeping current with developments in human thought. God Bless. Also isn’t the black pope bound by obedience to the white pope?😉
 
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…Yes, very disturbing times, when someone who identifies themselves as Catholic will make such vile and unsubstantiated accusations against the Holy Father.
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The whole point of Martin’s book was the damage caused by lack of fidelity to the pope.
 
agnes_therese said:
Contradictory answers can be found on anything if you look for them. Witness the slanders against Pope Pius XII. So you also assume they are true, since there are “contradictory answers” found?

I assume nothing. What I do know is that where there is smoke, there is fire.
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Obviously you expect him to. Please enlighten us – what dogmas will he contradict, and when?

If I gave the impression of an expectation of an upcoming dogma change, it was not meant that way. I hope Pope Francis goes down as a saint! It is because of him that I am a “Catholic” again after 30 yrs! It is because of him I read the Spiritual Exercises and started reading Jesuit literature and Ignatian Spirituality. Only since reading Fr. Malachi’s book have my eyes been opened (and by meeting certain local "progressive modernist Jesuits) to the reality that the Jesuits are NOT ALL who they were originally intended to be. In the “Spirit of Vatican II” sweeping changes were made to the order and papal disobedience. I am, though, very aware of the 3rd secret of Fatima ( which states that the last Roman Pontiff would be under the direct control of the enemy before Rome itself is destroyed),en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Secret_of_Fatima
as well as Saint Malachy’s prophesy of the last 112 popes from his time to ours.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

THESE ARE CATHOLIC RECOGNIZED PROPHESIES! EVEN THE CATHOLICS (AS WELL AS OUR LADY) RECOGNIZE THE LAST ROMAN PONTIFF IS AN IMPOSTOR!
Pope Francis comes across as such a humble, likeable guy. I know Ignatius is in heaven, and would like to see this man as well! But what to make of the SIGNS???
 
Victor_Emerita said:
Obviously you expect him to. Please enlighten us – what dogmas will he contradict, and when?

If I gave the impression of an expectation of an upcoming dogma change, it was not meant that way. I hope Pope Francis goes down as a saint! It is because of him that I am a “Catholic” again after 30 yrs! It is because of him I read the Spiritual Exercises and started reading Jesuit literature and Ignatian Spirituality. Only since reading Fr. Malachi’s book have my eyes been opened (and by meeting certain local "progressive modernist Jesuits) to the reality that the Jesuits are NOT ALL who they were originally intended to be. In the “Spirit of Vatican II” sweeping changes were made to the order and papal disobedience. I am, though, very aware of the 3rd secret of Fatima ( which states that the last Roman Pontiff would be under the direct control of the enemy before Rome itself is destroyed),en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Secret_of_Fatima
as well as Saint Malachy’s prophesy of the last 112 popes from his time to ours.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

THESE ARE CATHOLIC RECOGNIZED PROPHESIES! EVEN THE CATHOLICS (AS WELL AS OUR LADY) RECOGNIZE THE LAST ROMAN PONTIFF IS AN IMPOSTOR!
Pope Francis comes across as such a humble, likeable guy. I know Ignatius is in heaven, and would like to see this man as well! But what to make of the SIGNS???
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I think the prophecies although recognized does not mean we are under an obligation to live by them… if I am correct? Also, welcome back!

It would seem to me that we won’t have to worry too much either way what is in store for us. Just hang on and get ready for the ride.

It seems to me when I pray my rosary regularly I cannot be fooled or tricked and the spirit of truth guides me more faithfully, I see things more clearly. But when I don’t I seem to drift a bit and worry about things out of my control… you know what I mean?
 
kingston1 said:
I think the prophecies although recognized does not mean we are under an obligation to live by them… if I am correct? Also, welcome back!

It would seem to me that we won’t have to worry too much either way what is in store for us. Just hang on and get ready for the ride.

It seems to me when I pray my rosary regularly I cannot be fooled or tricked and the spirit of truth guides me more faithfully, I see things more clearly. But when I don’t I seem to drift a bit and worry about things out of my control… you know what I mean?
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I know EXACTLY what you mean! When I do my twice daily EXAMEN, or attend Mass, I am at peace! Only when my mind is left to it own devices, do I dwell on the End Times. You are right about obsessively worrying, we can do nothing without God!
 
All I can say is that every generation has people who believe we are in the last days. I went through a stage of it before. I think in many cases it is driven by a subconscious prodding about our own physical mortality.
 
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