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Summary: Martin tells it like it is...
Review: Any individual who thinks Martin's revelations about the Jesuits are absurd obviously does not attend a Jesuit university in the year 2002. I do attend a highly respected Jesuit university and I can assure you that most of his claims are completely accurate. The Jesuits do have an agenda. They seek to undermine the Church in every way possible.
As I sit through my theology classes, Martin's prophetic writings are all too real. Anyone who in unaware of the Jesuit power agenda needs to read this book. As a staunch Catholic and one who loves the Church, I assure you that the Jesuit order is overrun with immorality and apostasy. The amazing thing is that many of the Jesuits no longer even make an attempt to hide their corruption. Make no mistake; many of them are quite comfortable with it.
As a Catholic and a student at a major Jesuit university, I urge you to read this book. I also urge anyone thinking of attending a Jesuit institution to reconsider. If I had read this book four years ago, it might have saved me from untold amounts of spiritual anguish.
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Summary: Fantastic insight into the most pretigious clerical order
Review: As a practicing catholic and graduate of a jesuit high school and college, this book held special significance. The historical account of the society and the Ignatian principles upon which it was founded and governed is detailed with amazing insight and clarity. The politics and intrigue that have confronted Pope JPII are outlined magnificently. This book is an intellectual delight and contains suspense and gepolitical analysis that is a true education. the Jesuits are a special order and this book will clearly outline why. Regrettably, Martin shows in a thorough and convincing manner how they have arrogantly abandoned Ignatius and the Pope. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Marxist Jesuits
Review: First of all Malachi Martin did NOT walk out on his order to marry a foreign correspondent during the Vatican Council, as claimed by a previous reviwer. In 1965, 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).
Why would a Jesuit priest request such dispensation? It is likely because the heterodox Jesuit heirarchy would never have allowed him to publish this book. He would have had to break his vow of obedience to his superiors within the order to both research and write this book. Had he not requested such dispensation, Fr. Martin would have joined a host of orthodox Jesuit priests, such as Fr. Cornelius Buckley and Fr. Joseph Fessio, who were either silenced or the attempt made to silence them by their heterodox brethren.
I had never heard of Malachi Martin before I picked up this book. But I have attended two Jesuit universities and I've seen the war between orthodox and heterodox Jesuits up close. It is real and it does exist. Heterodox Jesuits continue to support the dogma of Liberation Theology which is, in reality, a blend of Catholicism and Marxism that is neither authentically Catholic nor authentically Christian. Heterodox Jesuits teaching in universities are having symposiums on such philosophers as Michel Foucault which, when you consider that Foucault advocated sex with children, seems more than a little ironic. It goes on and on. My own experiences with the Jesuits lend a boatload of credence to what Martin writes. The Jesuits haven't merely betrayed the heirarchy of the Roman Catholic Church - they've betrayed millions of faithful Catholics all over the world - especially those faithful in Central and South America who were murdered and starved and oppressed by the very same Jesuits who said they were there to "help".
This book reads like a spy thriller. I literally couldn't put it down once I started reading it. It seems clear to me that Martin had sources that were well placed at very high levels, both at the Vatican and within the Jesuits. It is also evident to me that Martin is more right than wrong. If you want to know what's wrong with the Roman Catholic Church, this book goes a long way towards explaining it.
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Summary: shockingly biased
Review: I admit I did not get too far in this book. Mr. Martin attacked, attacked, attacked. He did not seem at all interested in bringing a fair and even-handed discussion. The author early on showed he could not (or would not) differentiate between communism and socialism. He rather reminded me of Senator Joseph McCarthy at this point. Mr. Martin also denigrated the concept of the Church as the "people of God" which came out of Vatican II as if any idea of democracy within the Church was evil incarnate.I prefer writers with more open minds that can see an issue from all sides. I totally distrust Mr. Martin. I got the impression that Mr. Martin's dogma was drenched in feudalism and absolutism. I don't see either approach as positive for the Church in the 21st century.
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Summary: Malachi Martin
Review: If you like religio-political controversy,and intrigue this is the book for you. Martin is a conservative Catholic, steeped in dogma and mysticism who is often critical of more searchingly motivated Christians. I supported his views on Exorcism, but not on the Jesuits. The Jesuits have always been the intelligensia of Catholicism and accepting of critical biblical research as well as political agitation. Martin sees them as a loose cannon, undermining the faith apparently by becoming a subversive church within the church. He sees their political, far liberal and intellectual view of the role of the church, it's members and the life of Jesus, as a insubordinate and a betrayal of Jesus message, (at least as seen by the hierarchy). I do not. "Seek and you shall find...", he, Jesus said, so did YHWH. Rather I see Opus Dei as a betrayal of Jesus' message. During the 1700 year Ghettoization of Jews by the church, during the Inquisition and the Crusades, few voices were allowed to rise in criticism of it's uninspired errors. The Jesuits have become the conscience of the church, perhaps keeping it from greater error. As always Martin writes well and with passion in support of the status-quo. If you are a traditional-minded Catholic, you will enjoy this book. If you think that the church must acknowldege it's errors, allow and accept more critical Biblical research and publicize it's findings, and continue encouraging political agitation in favor of the down-trodden, you will passionately disagree with Martin and accept the Jesuits as usually following the activist path to Jesus.
Despite not always agreeing with Martin, I respect his perspective. Read it and join the controversy.
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Summary: Excellent book on the renegade order of the Jesuits.
Review: In a perfect world, this type of book on the Jesuits would have never been written. But unfortunately, man has a fallen nature and the world is not a perfect place. This also points toward the religious orders. Malachi Martin, a close advisor to Pope John XXIII takes the Jesuit order and exposes this order of men. From the time of the foundation of the Society of Jesus, this order has been scrutinized. But for the first 400 years of their existence, the devil attacked the order from the outside. But in this book, we find that the devil has been able to penetrate the Jesuits and corrupt this order from the inside. Fr. Martin has gone to great pains to give us a fair account of what has occurred throughout the age of Jesuitism. Through his friendship and close relationship to the Vatican hierarchy, Fr. Martin has been able to give very detailed and initmate accounts that no other man could have given us. For many people who are loyal to the Papacy, this book would come to a shock and sadness to their hearts. This book portrays the ugly, but accurate, side of the last 30 years of Jesuitism. From open refusals by the General Superior to submit to the Pope to public tirades by Jesuit priests against the Pope, this order has gone from loyal protectors of the Pope to open dissidents against the Pope. This book may have been written 10 years ago, but to this day, we see the Jesuits continue in their betrayal to the Papacy, from which they derived their existence.
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Summary: sad trash
Review: malachi martin has used the prestige he once had as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church (and as a former Jesuit) to aid the gross spirit of anti-Catholicism in every way that he can. i made the mistake of picking up this book hoping to learn something. instead found it full of absurd conspiracy theory, ludicrous reductions, gross generalizations, unproveable accusations, and scandal-mongering hysteria. paranoids like this make me wince sometimes about being Catholic.
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Summary: The Jesuits is an accurate look at the war we are in.
Review: Presents a detailed and easy to follow explanation for how the once faithful Jesuit order became a haven for heretics and atheists. It completed my understanding of why the last place I would want to send my children to college is a Jesuit run institution. Every Catholic who remains faithful to the Magisterium should read this book to understand the devious workings and destructive rage of this once proud order. After reading this book I have made it a point to offer a daily prayer to the blessed Saint Ignatius Loyola to ask God to intervene to save them.
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Summary: The beginning of the end of the Catholic Church
Review: The recently-deceased Fr. Malachi Martin was, at the time of his death, writing a book that predicted the coming end of the Catholic Church, at least as it has existed for the last 2000 years. Unfortunately, that book will never be completed. The seeds of the demise appear in this book. The Church will die because it has been infiltrated by liberals. In the 1960s, the Jesuits decided that the great, successful 450-year old Order founded by St. Ignatius had it all wrong. So, it allied itself with Marxists, among other far-left movements, most of whom had no tolerance for religion. The gross disobedience demonstrated by the Jesuits, who take a special vow of obedience to the Pope is shocking. Martin, a former Jesuit himself, writes glowingly of the first 400+ years of good, almost miraculous works. It simply makes the degeneration of the Jesuits all the sadder. If you want some insight into why the Catholic Church is falling apart, this book is enlightening.
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Summary: The beginning of the end of the Catholic Church
Review: The recently-deceased Fr. Malachi Martin was, at the time of his death, writing a book that predicted the coming end of the Catholic Church, at least as it has existed for the last 2000 years. Unfortunately, that book will never be completed. The seeds of the demise appear in this book. The Church will die because it has been infiltrated by liberals. In the 1960s, the Jesuits decided that the great, successful 450-year old Order founded by St. Ignatius had it all wrong. So, it allied itself with Marxists, among other far-left movements, most of whom had no tolerance for religion. The gross disobedience demonstrated by the Jesuits, who take a special vow of obedience to the Pope is shocking. Martin, a former Jesuit himself, writes glowingly of the first 400+ years of good, almost miraculous works. It simply makes the degeneration of the Jesuits all the sadder. If you want some insight into why the Catholic Church is falling apart, this book is enlightening.
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