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Martin said concerning the three secrets of the [[Virgin Mary]] as [[Queen of Heaven]] in Fátima in 1917, she mandated the pope of 1960 to consecrate [[Russia]] to her [[Immaculate Heart of Mary|Immaculate Heart]]. The [[Russian orthodox church]] would then convert back. If the mandate were not followed, devastating war in the world and destruction inside the church ([[The Great Apostasy]]) would follow. He said that he stood outside the papal living quarters in 1960 whilst [[Pope John XXIII]] and Cardinal Bea and others were reading the document containing the third secret, and that, in order to assure Russian cooperation at the approaching [[Second Vatican Council]], the Pope decided against the mandate. Later Paul VI and John Paul II decided against it for various reasons.<ref name="MM"/> |
Martin said concerning the three secrets of the [[Virgin Mary]] as [[Queen of Heaven]] in Fátima in 1917, she mandated the pope of 1960 to consecrate [[Russia]] to her [[Immaculate Heart of Mary|Immaculate Heart]]. The [[Russian orthodox church]] would then convert back. If the mandate were not followed, devastating war in the world and destruction inside the church ([[The Great Apostasy]]) would follow. He said that he stood outside the papal living quarters in 1960 whilst [[Pope John XXIII]] and Cardinal Bea and others were reading the document containing the third secret, and that, in order to assure Russian cooperation at the approaching [[Second Vatican Council]], the Pope decided against the mandate. Later Paul VI and John Paul II decided against it for various reasons.<ref name="MM"/> |
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He was an outspoken opponent of the alleged apparitions of the [[Virgin Mary]] by [[Veronica Lueken]] in the United States<ref name= "RAMA"/> and [[Međugorje]] in former [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6401/statement.html|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6401/statement.html&date=2009-10-25+06:18:37|archivedate=2009-10-25|title=Geocities|publisher=Yahoo!|contribution=Statement}}.</ref> Martin regretted writing the foreword of ''The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace'', a 1993 book by Ted and Maureen Flynn<ref>{{Citation|last1=Flynn|first1=Ted|last2=Flynn|first2=Maureen|title=The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace|publisher=MaxKol|year=1993|ISBN=0-9634307-0-X}}.</ref> defending, among others, the apparitions in Međugorje, stating that false pretences were used in obtaining his recommendation.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/Malachi%20Martin.htm|last=Sabalto|first=Rich|title=Mystery Cloaks Father Malachi Martin's Death|publisher=Unity|newspaper=Weekly Newsletter|year=1999}}.</ref> Concerning the [[Garabandal apparitions]], he remained open-minded.<ref>{{Citation|last=Janzen|first=Bernard|title=The External War: Interview with Malachi Martin|origyear=1991|place=Toronto|publisher=Triumph|year=2004|ISBN=0-9732148-1-3}}.</ref> Martin believed the [[ordination]]s of several [[sedevacantism|sedevacantist]] bishops by former Archbishop [[Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục|Thục]]of [[Huế|Huế, Vietnam]], although not allowed, were [[Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục#Validity controversy|sacramentally valid]].<ref name="LACR"/> |
He was an outspoken opponent of the alleged apparitions of the [[Virgin Mary]] by [[Veronica Lueken]] in the United States<ref name= "RAMA"/> and [[Međugorje]] in former [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6401/statement.html|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6401/statement.html&date=2009-10-25+06:18:37|archivedate=2009-10-25|title=Geocities|publisher=Yahoo!|contribution=Statement}}.</ref> He would later change his mind about the apparitions to Veronica, confiding to a friend that he felt he had been mistaken and that they were indeed authentic.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.tldm.org/News10/MalachiMartinBelievedInBayside.htm}}</ref> Martin regretted writing the foreword of ''The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace'', a 1993 book by Ted and Maureen Flynn<ref>{{Citation|last1=Flynn|first1=Ted|last2=Flynn|first2=Maureen|title=The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace|publisher=MaxKol|year=1993|ISBN=0-9634307-0-X}}.</ref> defending, among others, the apparitions in Međugorje, stating that false pretences were used in obtaining his recommendation.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/Malachi%20Martin.htm|last=Sabalto|first=Rich|title=Mystery Cloaks Father Malachi Martin's Death|publisher=Unity|newspaper=Weekly Newsletter|year=1999}}.</ref> Concerning the [[Garabandal apparitions]], he remained open-minded.<ref>{{Citation|last=Janzen|first=Bernard|title=The External War: Interview with Malachi Martin|origyear=1991|place=Toronto|publisher=Triumph|year=2004|ISBN=0-9732148-1-3}}.</ref> Martin believed the [[ordination]]s of several [[sedevacantism|sedevacantist]] bishops by former Archbishop [[Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục|Thục]]of [[Huế|Huế, Vietnam]], although not allowed, were [[Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục#Validity controversy|sacramentally valid]].<ref name="LACR"/> |
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In March 1997 Martin claimed on Radio Liberty's ''Steel on Steel'', hosted by [[John Loefller]], that two popes were murdered during the 20th Century: |
In March 1997 Martin claimed on Radio Liberty's ''Steel on Steel'', hosted by [[John Loefller]], that two popes were murdered during the 20th Century: |
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Malachi Brendan Martin | |
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Born | Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland | July 23, 1921
Died | July 27, 1999 New York, New York, U.S. | (aged 78)
Pen name | Michael Serafian |
Occupation | Novelist Priest Professor (Pontifical Biblical Institute) exorcist theologian |
Nationality | Irish, American |
Relatives | Father F.X. Martin (brother) |
Malachi Brendan Martin (Irish: Maolsheachlann Breandán Ó Máirtín; July 23, 1921 – July 27, 1999), occasionally writing under the pseudonym Michael Serafian, was an Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church. Originally ordained as a Jesuit priest, he became Professor of Palaeontology at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute. From 1958 he served as a theological adviser to Cardinal Bea during preparations for the Second Vatican Council.[1] Disillusioned by reforms he was released from certain of his Jesuit vows in 1964 and moved to New York City, where he later became an American citizen.
His 17 novels and non-fiction books were frequently critical of the Catholic Church, which he believed had failed to act on the third prophecy supposedly revealed by the Virgin Mary at Fátima.[2] Among his most significant works were The Scribal Character of The Dead Sea Scrolls (1958) and Hostage To The Devil (1976) which dealt with satanism, demonic possession, and exorcism.[1] The Final Conclave (1978) was a warning against alleged Soviet spies in the Vatican.
History
Early life and education
Martin was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland to a middle-class family[3] in which the children were raised speaking Irish at the dinner table. Catholic belief and practice were central; his three brothers, including Francis Xavier Martin, also became priests, two of them academics.[4]
He received his secondary education at Belvedere College in Dublin, and became a Jesuit novice on September 6, 1939, aged eighteen. Due to the Second World War and the inherent risks involved with travel during this time, Martin remained in Ireland and studied at the National University of Ireland where he received a bachelor's degree in Semitic languages and Oriental studies while carrying out concurrent study in Assyriology at Trinity College, Dublin.[4]
Upon completion of his degree in Dublin, Martin was sent to the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium to continue his education. During his four year stay in Leuven, he completed master's degrees in philosophy and theology, and three doctorates (in Semitic languages, archeology, and Oriental history). On August 15, 1954, the Feast of the Assumption, Martin was ordained a Jesuit priest at the age of thirty-three.[4] He started postgraduate studies at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Oxford University, specializing in intertestamentary studies and knowledge of Jesus Christ and of Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts. He undertook additional study in rational psychology, experimental psychology, physics and anthropology.[2]
Work and ordination
Martin took part in the research of the Dead Sea Scrolls and published twenty four articles on Semitic paleography in various journals.[5][6] He did archeological research and worked extensively on the Byblos syllabary in Byblos,[7][page needed] in Tyre,[8] both in Lebanon, and in the Sinai Peninsula. Martin assisted in his first exorcism while staying in Egypt for archeological research. He published a work in two volumes, The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in 1958.[9]
He was summoned to Rome to work at the Holy See as a private secretary for Cardinal Bea SJ from 1958 until 1964. This brought him into contact with Pope John XXIII. Martin's years in Rome coincided with the beginning of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), all of whose sessions he attended,[4] and which was to transform the Catholic Church in a way that the initially-liberal Martin began to find distressing. He became friends with Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins and a fellow Jesuit priest, Father John Courtney Murray.[3]
In Rome, he became a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of the Vatican, where he taught Aramaic, paleography, Hebrew and Sacred Scripture.[4] He also taught theology, part-time, at Loyola University of Chicago's John Felice Rome Center.[3] During this period, his living quarters were in the Vatican, outside the papal quarters of John XXIII.[4] He worked for the Orthodox Churches and ancient Oriental Churches division of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity under Cardinal Bea, as a translator. Thus, Martin became well acquainted with prominent Jewish leaders, such as Rabbi Abraham Heschel, in 1961 and 1962.[10] Martin accompanied Paul VI on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in January 1964.[11]Martin resigned his position at the Pontifical Institute in June 1964.[3]
Disillusioned by the reforms taking place among the Jesuits, the Church's largest male religious order,[citation needed] Martin requested a special dispensation in February 1965.[3] He received a provisional release in May 1965[3] and a definite release from his vows of poverty and obedience on June 30, 1965.[3] After 25 years as a religious Jesuit, he left Rome suddenly in July.[12] He was not released from his vow of chastity and remained an ordained but secular priest. Pope Paul VI gave him a general commission for exercising an apostolate in the media and communications.[4]
He moved permanently to New York City in 1966, where he first had to work as a dishwasher, a waiter and taxi driver[3] before he was able to start making his living by writing.[4] He co-founded an antiques firm and was active in communications and media for the rest of his life.[2] After his arrival in New York, Cardinal Terence Cooke gave him written permission to exercise his secular priestly faculties. [citation needed]
Communications and media
In 1967, Martin received his first Guggenheim fellowship.[13] In 1969 he got his first breakthrough with his book The Encounter: Religion in Crisis as a result of his expertise in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and with which he won the Choice Book Award of the American Library Association.[14] Afterwards came other liberally oriented books like Three Popes and the Cardinal: The Church of Pius, John and Paul in its Encounter with Human History (1972) and Jesus Now (1973). Malachi Martin became a United States citizen in 1970. [citation needed]
He received a second Guggenheim fellowship in 1969, which enabled him to write his first of four bestsellers,[15] Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans. With this book, published in 1975, Martin references his experience as an exorcist. According to the book he assisted in several exorcisms. In 1996, he spoke of having performed thousands of minor exorcisms, and participated[4] in a few hundred major exorcisms during his lifetime.[16]
During that decade, Martin also served as religious editor for National Review[17][18][19] from 1972 to 1978, when he was succeeded by Michael Novak. He was interviewed twice by William F. Buckley, Jr. for Firing Line on PBS.[20] He was an editor for the Encyclopædia Britannica.[21] His literary agent was Lila Karpf.[22]
Martin published several books in quick succession the following years: The Final Conclave (1978), King of Kings: a Novel of the Life of David (1980) and Vatican: A Novel (1986) were factional novels. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (1981), The New Castle: Reaching for the Ultimate (1982), Rich Church, Poor Church: The Catholic Church and its Money (1984) and There is Still Love: Five Parables of God's Love That Will Change Your Life (1984) were non-fiction works. His bestselling[15] 1987 non-fiction book, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, was highly critical of the Order, accusing the Jesuits of systematically undermining church teachings.[23]
Later life
Martin's The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West was published in 1990 and was followed in 1996 by Windswept House: A Vatican Novel. Martin worked closely with paranormal researchers Dave Considine and John Zaffis on several of their independent cases. [citation needed]
Martin continued to offer daily the traditional Latin mass privately, and vigorously exercised his priestly ministry all the way up until his death. He was strongly supported by some traditional Catholic sources and severely criticized by other, less traditional sources, such as the National Catholic Reporter.[24][25][26] Martin served as a guest commentator for CNN during the live coverage of the pastoral visit of John Paul II to the United States October 4–8, 1995.
He was a periodic guest on Art Bell's radio program, Coast to Coast AM, between 1995–98, and a guest of Michael Corbin's radio program on Paranet Continuum radio. In the last three years of his life, Martin forged a close friendship with the traditional Catholic philosopher, Fr. Rama Coomaraswamy.[27] In the final years before his death, Martin was received in a private audience by Pope John Paul II.[11] Afterwards, he started working on a book with the working title Primacy: How the Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of the New World Order.[12]
Death
Malachi Martin died of a brain hemorrhage due to a fall in his apartment in Manhattan in 1999, four days after his 78th birthday.[11] His funeral wake took place in St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Chapel of West Orange, New Jersey, before the burial within the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, in Hawthorne, New York.
Writings
In 1964, Martin, under the pseudonym Michael Serafian, wrote The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, The Council and The Church in a time of decision, an apologia for the Jews, which, among other things, told the story of the Jewish question and the Second Vatican Council. He produced numerous best-selling fictional and non-fictional literary works, which became widely read throughout the world. His fictional works gave detailed insider accounts of Church history during the reigns of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI (The Pilgrim, Three Popes and the Cardinal, Vatican: A Novel[15]), John Paul I (The Final Conclave[15]) and John Paul II (The Keys of This Blood, Windswept House).
His non-fictional writings cover a range of Catholic topics, such as demonic exorcisms (Hostage to the Devil), satanism, Liberation Theology, the Second Vatican Council (The Pilgrim), the Tridentine liturgy, Catholic dogma, modernism (Three Popes and the Cardinal; The Jesuits), the financial history of the Church (Rich Church, Poor Church; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church), the New World Order and the geopolitical importance of the Pope (The Keys of This Blood). [citation needed]
Opinions
He spoke and wrote often about the three secrets of Fatima and was an ardent supporter of Fr. Nicholas Gruner: "Father Gruner is fulfilling a desperately needed function in the ongoing perception of Mary's role in the salvation of our imperilled world. Father Gruner is absolutely correct that the consecration of Russia as—Our Lady desired, has not been executed".[28]
Martin said concerning the three secrets of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven in Fátima in 1917, she mandated the pope of 1960 to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart. The Russian orthodox church would then convert back. If the mandate were not followed, devastating war in the world and destruction inside the church (The Great Apostasy) would follow. He said that he stood outside the papal living quarters in 1960 whilst Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Bea and others were reading the document containing the third secret, and that, in order to assure Russian cooperation at the approaching Second Vatican Council, the Pope decided against the mandate. Later Paul VI and John Paul II decided against it for various reasons.[4]
He was an outspoken opponent of the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary by Veronica Lueken in the United States[11] and Međugorje in former Yugoslavia.[29] He would later change his mind about the apparitions to Veronica, confiding to a friend that he felt he had been mistaken and that they were indeed authentic.[30] Martin regretted writing the foreword of The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace, a 1993 book by Ted and Maureen Flynn[31] defending, among others, the apparitions in Međugorje, stating that false pretences were used in obtaining his recommendation.[32] Concerning the Garabandal apparitions, he remained open-minded.[33] Martin believed the ordinations of several sedevacantist bishops by former Archbishop Thụcof Huế, Vietnam, although not allowed, were sacramentally valid.[34]
In March 1997 Martin claimed on Radio Liberty's Steel on Steel, hosted by John Loefller, that two popes were murdered during the 20th Century:
- Pope Pius XI was murdered on the orders of Benito Mussolini, because of his 1931 encyclical, Non Abbiamo Bisogno, which was critical of the Italian fascist state.
- Pope John Paul I was murdered[34][35] according to Martin's book, Vatican: A Novel, by Jean-Marie Villot, formerly Cardinal Secretary of State under Pope Paul VI, under orders from the U.S.S.R..[14]
Martin partially gave credence to the Siri Thesis, saying that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was twice elected pope in papal conclaves, but declined his election after being pressured by worldly forces acting through cardinals present at the conclaves. Martin called this the little brutality. On the one hand, Martin says that Siri was intimidated: on the other hand he says that Siri did indicate that his decision not to accept was made freely.[34][36]
- The first occasion, according to him, was the Papal conclave, 1963. Martin mentioned the possibility of a nuclear threat which involved "the very existence of the Vatican state" during this conclave on pages 600–610 of his book The Keys of this Blood, which deals primarily with Siri and the 1963 conclave. [citation needed]
- The second time was the Papal conclave, October 1978. Martin said on Radio Liberty's programme Steel on Steel, hosted by John Loefller, in March 1997 that Siri received a written note after his initial election threatening him and his family with death should he accept.[35]
Martin claimed that Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were freemasons during a certain period and that photographs and other detailed documents proving this were in the possession of the Vatican State Secretariat.[34] He allegorically mentioned these supposed facts in his 1986 novel Vatican: A Novel, where he related the masonic adherence of Popes Giovanni Angelica and Giovanni De Brescia.[14] He claimed Archbishop Annibale Bugnini C.M. was a freemason and that Agostino Casaroli, long-time Cardinal Secretary of State, was an atheist.[34]
In his book The Jesuits, published in 1987, Martin claims to prove the existence of a diplomatic agreement between the Vatican and the USSR called the Metz Accord. The Vatican allegedly promised a non condemnation of communism in exchange for participation of Russian-Orthodox prelates as observers at the Second Vatican Council. In his book The Final Conclave, published on August 1, 1978,[37] the month of the 1978 conclave that resulted in the 28 August election of Albino Luciani, Malachi Martin wrote of the unexpected election of a Cardinal Angelico, a figure that has been interpreted as corresponding to Luciani.[38][page needed]
Martin stated that, along with diabolic possession, angelic possession also exists and that angels could have use of preternatural powers in certain circumstances.[4][16]
Controversies
Alleged affairs
There were three allegations made against Martin of having affairs with women:
- Martin was criticized most notably in the book Clerical Error: A True Story by Robert Blair Kaiser, Time Magazine's former Vatican correspondent. Kaiser, a former Jesuit, accused Martin of having carried on an extramarital affair with his wife during 1964 in Rome,[3] and claimed that Martin fled to the United States as a renegade from the priesthood.[39] A friend of Martin's, William H. Kennedy, published an article in The Seattle Catholic disputing Kaiser's allegation and other claims made about Martin after his death.[40] Kennedy points out that Kaiser admits in his book that he was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia,[41] and cites passages from Kaiser's book which he believes show that Kaiser was writing from a distorted and delusional perspective due to his mental illness. With regard to being a renegade from the priesthood, evidence is cited that suggests that Martin received a special dispensation in order to become a writer, while retaining his status as a priest with limited faculties.[42][43]
- In her 2008 book, Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information, Anna Rubino wrote that Martin had a love affair with oil journalist Wanda Jablonski on a visit to Beirut, Lebanon in the 1950s.[44] The book was published long after the deaths of both Jablonski (1992) and Martin (1999).
Laicization dispute
In 2004, Father Vincent O'Keefe S.J., former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University, stated that Martin had never been laicized. O'Keefe stated that Martin had been released as a religious from all his vows—poverty and obedience—save the vow of chastity.[45]
The Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life declared that:
In 1965, Mr. Martin received a dispensation from all privileges and obligations deriving from his vows as a Jesuit and from priestly ordination.
— Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, 25 June 1997, Prot. N. 04300/65.[46]
According to the Vatican, it seems Martin was not only released from religious vows but also his vows from "priestly ordination" (which means laicisation).[47]
It is claimed 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.[45] In the book, he accuses the Jesuits of deviating from their original character and mission by embracing Liberation Theology.[48]
Alleged ordination as a bishop
During a videotaped memorial entitled Malachi Martin Weeps For His Church, Rama Coomaraswamy, a sedevacantist cleric, claimed that Martin had told him that he had been secretly ordained a bishop during the reign of Pius XII in order to travel behind the Iron Curtain ordaining priests and bishops for the underground churches of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Coomaraswamy died in 2006.[11][49][50][51]
Alleged authorship
- The book The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, The Council and The Church in a time of decision was written by Martin under the pseudonym Michael Serafian. This was confirmed by Martin himself and corroborated independently by Hans Küng.[52] Martin related that his choice of surname, Serafian, is due to meeting a carpet dealer in Jerusalem with that name, during the pilgrimage of Paul VI to the Holy Land in January 1964.[11]
- The anonymously-written book Complaints against God by One of His Creatures was not written by Martin but by Fr. Andrew Greeley, a liberal priest.[53]
- The pseudonym of Xavier Rynne, used to write more than 20 books on Vatican II, is not that of Martin but of Fr. Francis X. Murphy C.Ss.R..[54][55]
- The 1966 article Laures et ermitages du désert d'Egypte published in Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph by the hand of "M. Martin" was written by Maurice Martin, and not Malachi Martin.[56]
Joseph Roddy allegations
Journalist Joseph Roddy alleged — in a 1966 Look Magazine article about the debate about Jews during the Second Vatican Council[57] — that one and the same person under three different pseudonyms had written or acted on behalf of Jewish interest groups, such as the American Jewish Committee, to influence the outcome of the debates. Roddy wrote that two timely and remunerated 1965 articles were penned under the pseudonym F.E. Cartus, one for Harper's Magazine[58] and one for the American Jewish Committee's magazine Commentary.[59][60]
Roddy alleged that tidbits of information were leaked to the New York press that detailed Council failings vis a vis Jews under the pseudonym of Pushkin. Roddy claimed two unidentified persons were one and the same person — a "young cleric-turned-journalist" and a "Jesuit of Irish descent working for Cardinal Bea ...who was active in the Biblical Institute" — he figuratively named as Timothy O'Boyle-Fitzharris, S.J. so as not to reveal the true identity of his source. Roddy mentioned The Pilgrim in a footnote to his article. [citation needed]
In his 2007 book, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, Edward K. Kaplan confirmed that Martin cooperated with the American Jewish Committee during the Council "for a mixture of motives, both lofty and ignoble ... [He] primarily advised the committee on theological issues, but he also provided logistical intelligence and copies of restricted documents." It is confirmed in the book that Martin used the pseudonyms Forest and Pushkin.[10] Kaplan acknowledges that the kiss and tell book about the internal workings of the Council, The Pilgrim by Michael Serafian, was requested from Martin by Abraham J. Heschel, who arranged for the book to be published by Roger W. Straus, Jr.'s Farrar, Straus and Giroux printing company. It was published in the hope that it would influence the deliberations in the council. Once Martin's identity as author was revealed, it led to protests "and the book had to be removed from circulation at considerable financial loss to the publisher". Kaplan lastly states that Malachi Martin was the primary source of information for Joseph Roddy in writing his 1966 article for Look Magazine, and that O'Boyle-Fitzharris was, in fact, Martin. Kaplan judges the Roddy article as "dangerously misleading [due] to the credence it gives to the claim that without organised Jewish pressure the council declaration on the Jews would not have been accepted."[10]
Martin explicitly denied he was a spy, along with denying other rumors. Michael Cuneo, in his book American Exorcism writes that, "Martin told me that he was perplexed, and more than a little annoyed, by the swirl of rumors surrounding his personal life." He quotes Martin as saying:
Look, I've had three heart operations, recently open-heart surgery, and I'm at the point where I'd like to put some of these stories to rest," he said. "I've been accused of everything; speculation on my life is a veritable cottage industry. I'm a lecher, a wife-stealer, and a spy; I'm secretly married with children; I've sexually abused little girls— it's all nothing but fancy.[3]
Alleged Jewish heritage
Rumors appearing on various Catholic or sedevacantist websites[61] and magazines[62] alleged that Martin had Jewish ancestry of ancestral descent from Iberian Jews migrating to Ireland and Great Britain in the 15th century, and alleged him being an Israeli spy[4] because of his first name, Malachi, after a Hebrew prophet and his extensive travels in the Levant. These allegations were rebutted by William H. Kennedy (In Defense of Father Malachi Martin).[63] After having made genealogical inquiries with surviving relatives of Martin in Ireland, Kennedy concluded that Martin's father was an Englishman who moved to Ireland, and that Martin's mother was Irish on both sides. Fr. Rama Coomasrawamy confirmed this independently.[11] The Irish language name Maelsechlainn is usually anglicised as Malachy.
Alleged photograph
Claims that Martin features as a curial monsignor in full regalia on a prominent photograph next to Pope John Paul I and his assistant Diego Lorenzi appeared on the Internet.[64] The photograph, published in David Yallop's In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I as number 28 between pages 120 and 121, shows a 'Monsignor Martin', visibly different from Malachi Martin.[65] This is a case of mistaken identity: the cleric in the photograph was Jacques-Paul Martin, Prefect of the Casa Pontificia between 1969–86.[66][67]
See also
References
- ^ a b Galati, Eric (August 10, 1999). "Malachi Martin". The Guardian. London. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ^ a b c Corley, Felix (August 6, 1999), "Malachi Martin obituary", The Independent, UK.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cuneo, Michael W (2001), American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty, New York: Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50176-5
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Doran, Brian (2001). Malachi Martin: God's Messenger – In the Words of Those Who Knew Him Best (cassette). Monrovia: Catholic Treasures. ISBN 1-885692-08-0.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (1962), "Revision and reclassification of the Proto-Byblian signs", Acta Orientalia, 31.
- ^ Ward, William; Martin, Malachi (1964), "The Balu'a Stele: A New Transcription with Paleographic and Historical Notes", Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan: 8–9.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (1966), Laures et ermitages du désert d'Egypte (in French), Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique, OCLC 418237964
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- ^ Martin, Malachi (1958), The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bibliothèque du Muséon, Louvain: Publications Universitaires, 2 volumes.
- ^ a b c Kaplan, Edward R. (2007), Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America 1940–1972, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11540-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g Coomaraswamy, Rama (1999), Malachi Martin Weeps For His Church, Broomall: Catholic Counterpoint, OCLC 54977738.
- ^ a b Dougherty, Jon E. (August 2, 1999), "Malachi Martin: Dispelling the Myths", WorldNetDaily.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (1983), The Encounter: Religion in Crisis, New York: The Dial Press, ISBN 0-385-27904-3.
- ^ a b c Martin, Malachi (1986), Vatican: A Novel, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-015478-0.
- ^ a b c d "Bestseller", The New York Times (list).
- ^ a b Bell, Art (October 18, 1996), Interview with Malachi Martin, Coast to Coast AM.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (September 2, 1977), "On Human Love", National Review.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (October 10, 1975), "On Toying with Desecration", National Review.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (November 22, 1974), "Death at Sunset", National Review.
- ^ Buckley, William F. Jr. (December 23, 1973), "The Jesus Movement: Interview with Malachi Martin", Firing Line, PBS.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (1984), There is Still Love: Five Parables of God's Love That Will Change Your Life, New York: Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-580440-5.
- ^ "Lila Karpf Literary Management", Members, Publishers' Marketplace.
- ^ Martin, Malachi (1987), The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-54505-1
- ^ Woodward, Kenneth L. (October 8, 2004), "Looking for sanctity in all the wrong places", National Catholic Reporter.
- ^ "Right and righteous who run with Ralph Reed", National Catholic Reporter (editorial), December 27, 1996/January 3, 1997
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(help). - ^ Greeley, Andrew (May 22, 1998), "Farrell's Hugo would be a papal Gorbachev", National Catholic Reporter.
- ^ Galati, Eric (August 10, 1999), "Malachi Martin: A renowned biblical scholar, he clashed with the hierarchy on the role of the Roman Catholic church", The Guardian, UK.
- ^ "Plotting World Order in Rome. Vatican expert Malachi Martin tries to scope out papal succession", US News & World Report, June 10, 1996.
- ^ "Statement", Geocities, Yahoo!, archived from the original on 2009-10-25.
- ^ http://www.tldm.org/News10/MalachiMartinBelievedInBayside.htm
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(help) - ^ Flynn, Ted; Flynn, Maureen (1993), The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace, MaxKol, ISBN 0-9634307-0-X.
- ^ Sabalto, Rich (1999), "Mystery Cloaks Father Malachi Martin's Death", Weekly Newsletter, Unity.
- ^ Janzen, Bernard (2004) [1991], The External War: Interview with Malachi Martin, Toronto: Triumph, ISBN 0-9732148-1-3.
- ^ a b c d e Les Amis du Christ-Roi (1997), L'Eglise Eclipsée? Réalisation du complot maçonnique contre l'Eglise. Témoignage inédit du père Malachi Martin, présent en qualité d'intreprète aux derniers Conclaves (in French), Dinard: Delacroix, ISBN 2-9511087-0-2
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- ^ Derksen, Mario (November 18–20, 2004), "Eclipse of the Church: 1958 and Beyond", Daily Catholic, vol. 15, no. 186
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- ^ Martin 1978.
- ^ Jones, Arthur (March 8, 2002), "A wicked priest and a shattered marriage", National Catholic Reporter.
- ^ Kennedy, William H. (2008), Occult History (PDF), pp. 129–57.
- ^ Kaiser, Robert (2002), Clerical Error: A True Story, New York: Continuum, p. 261, ISBN 0-8264-1384-6.
- ^ Dougherty, Jon E. (July 29, 1999), "Catholic novelist Malachi Martin dies: Complications from stroke, fall cited", WorldNetDaily.
- ^ Fr. Malachi Martin Again.
- ^ Rubino, Anna (2008), Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information, Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN 0-8070-7277-X.
- ^ a b Cain, Michael (April 14, 2004), "A Reputation Recouped!: The 'Fly on the Wall' is Freed at Last!", The Daily Catholic, vol. 15, no. 104.
- ^ "Malachi Martin", Expert answers, EWTN, retrieved July 23, 2010.
- ^ cf. CIC 701, 291–92.
- ^ Kennedy, William H.; Widner, SJ, Tom (April 2004), High Ranking Jesuit Confirms Malachi Martin’s Status as Life Long Priest, William H Kennedy.
- ^ Anthony Cekada: Untrained and Un-Tridentine: Holy Orders and the Canonically Unfit
- ^ Coomaraswamy, Rama, On the Validity of My Ordination, CoomaraswamyCatholicWritings
- ^ Ekelberg, Mary Ellen, The Underground Church of Pius XII, Catholic Counterpoint, Broomall, ...
- ^ Küng, Hans (2003), My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-2659-8.
- ^ Kotre, John N. (1978), The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Andrew Greeley and American Catholicism 1959–1975, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, ISBN 0-88229-380-X.
- ^ "Hells Bibliophiles", Rip, F2.
- ^ Brennan, Michael (July 30, 1999), "Malachi Martin Is Dead at 78; Author of Books on the Church", The New York Times.
- ^ Martin, Maurice (1966), Laures et ermitages du désert d'Egypte, Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph (in French), Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique
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- ^ Cartus, FE (September 1965), "The Vatican Council Ends: Reform on borrowed Time?", Harper's Magazine.
- ^ Cartus, FE (January 1965), "Vatican II & The Jews", Commentary.
- ^ Cartus, FE (January 1965), "Vatican II & The Jews", Commentary (letters)
- ^ "2005", Today's Catholic World, Daily News for the Church in Eclipse
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(help). - ^ Kennedy, William H. (July 2002), "In Defense of Father Malachi Martin", Seattle Catholic, archived from the original on 2007-03-02
- ^ Malachi Martin, Puritans.
- ^ Yallop, David (2007), In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I, Constable & Robinson, ISBN 978-1-84529-496-0.
- ^ Albino Luciani.
- ^ Martin, Jacques (1993), Mes Six Papes: Souvenirs Romains du cardinal Jacques Martin (in French), Paris: Mame
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External links
- Coast to Coast AM's Guest Page on Father Malachi Martin; accessed 10 February 2014
- Father Malachi Martin on Triumph Communications
- Who was Father Malachi Martin?
- About Father Malachi Martin
- Malachi Martin, the Pope’s exorcist, Facebook
- Causeway pictures.
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Books
- The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Vol. 1, Bibliothèque du Muséon 44, Publications Universitaires, Louvain, 1958
- The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Vol. 2, Bibliothèque du Muséon 45, Publications Universitaires, Louvain, 1958
- The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, The Council and The Church in a time of decision, Farrar, Straus, New York, 1964 (written under the pseudonym of Michael Serafian)
- The Encounter: Religion in Crisis, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1969; ISBN 0-374-14816-3 (in collaboration with Henry Allen Moe)
- Three Popes and the Cardinal: The Church of Pius, John and Paul in its Encounter with Human History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972; ISBN 0-374-27675-7
- Jesus Now, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1973; ISBN 0-525-13675-4
- Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans, 1st edition, Readers Digest, New York, 1976; ISBN 0-06-065337-X; 2nd edition with a new preface by the author, HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S. 1992; ISBN 0-06-065337-X
- Martin, Malachi (1978), The Final Conclave, New York: Stein and Day, ISBN 0-8128-2434-2.
- King of Kings: a Novel of the Life of David, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980; ISBN 0-671-24707-7
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1981; ISBN 0-399-12665-1
- The New Castle: Reaching for the Ultimate, E.P. Dutton, New York; 1984 ISBN 0-525-16553-3
- Rich Church, Poor Church: The Catholic Church and its Money, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1984; ISBN 0-399-12906-5
- There is Still Love: Five Parables of God's Love That Will Change Your Life, Macmillan, New York, 1984; ISBN 0-02-580440-5
- Vatican: A Novel, Harper & Row, New York, 1986; ISBN 0-06-015478-0
- The Marian Year of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, Saint Paul, Remnant Press, 1987
- The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987; ISBN 0-671-54505-1
- God's Chosen People: The Relationship between Christian and Jews, Remnant Press, Saint Paul, 1988
- Apostasy Within: The Demonic in the (Catholic) American Church, Christopher Publishing House, Hanover, 1989 ISBN 0-8158-0447-4 (in collaboration with Paul Trinchard S.T.D.)
- The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990; ISBN 0-671-69174-0
- The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace, MaxKol Communications, Sterling, 1993; ISBN 0-9634307-0-X (in collaboration with Ted Flynn and Maureen Flynn)
- Windswept House: A Vatican Novel, Doubleday, New York, 1996; ISBN 0-385-48408-9
- In the Murky Waters of Vatican II, MAETA, Metairie, 1997; ISBN 1-889168-06-8 (in collaboration with Atila Sinke Guimarães)
- Fatima Priest: The Story of Father Nicolas Grüner, Gods Counsel Publishing, Pound Ridge, 1997; ISBN 0-9663046-2-4 (in collaboration with Francis Alban and Christopher A. Ferrara)
Articles
- Revision and reclassification of the Proto-Byblian signs, in Acta Orientalia, No. 31, 1962
- The Balu'a Stele: A New Transcription with Paleographic and Historical Notes, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 1964, pp. 8–9 (in collaboration with Ward William)
- "Jewish Christian Ceasefire" (PDF), Worldview Magazine, vol. 17, no. 1, New York: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, pp. 17–19, January 1974, OCLC 5856776
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- Death at Sunset, in National Review, November 22, 1974
- The Scientist as Shaman, in Clarke, Robin, Notes for the future: an alternative history of the past decade, Universe Books, New York, 1975; ISBN 0-87663-929-5
- On Toying with Desecration, in National Review, October 10, 1975
- On Human Love, in National Review, September 2, 1977
- Test-Tube Morality, in National Review, October 13, 1978
- "Footsteps of Abraham", The New York Times, March 13, 1983.
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- Kennedy, William H. (2004). Lucifer's lodge: Satanic ritual abuse in the Catholic Church. Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis. ISBN 978-0-900588-06-8.
- Marinelli, Luigi, Shroud of Secrecy: The Story of Corruption Within the Vatican
- ———, Fumo di Satana in Vaticano (in Italian)
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