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Summary: Entertaining book..merely propaganda
Review: This book is excellent, there's no other way of putting it. I am a Catholic, and it is very sad for me to witness people leaving the Church day by day, because of the mistakes of Vatican II. (Guatemala, my home country, used to be 99% Catholic, and now that's down to 60%. Priests do not preach anymore, they stay inside their churches and do nothing, while people look for salvation elsewhere.)This book will tell you what those mistakes were, and the struggle of various popes against the cancer of modernism in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I wanted to become a Jesuit, but some friends cautioned me of the changes that have taken place in the Society. So I did some research here in my country (Guatemala), and everything this book says is true. Jesuit fathers left their 400 years old Ignatian tradition of Papal obedience, stopped fighting for the growth of Catholic Faith, and started fighting for communism, temporal justice, and other worldly causes. Their numbers have dwindled from 32,000 members in the 70s, to just above 16,000 in the present, and still they do not realise that the Society of Jesus that San Ignacio de Loyola created was a gift from God, and the new society of Jesus they have formed is an aberration that goes against everything Catholic. Read this book if you are a God loving Catholic, and then help our Holy Church regain its identity. It is up to us to show these "renewed" priests that we want the "old" Roman Catholic Church back.
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Summary: I am a witness of the decline of the Catholic Church
Review: This book is excellent, there's no other way of putting it. I am a Catholic, and it is very sad for me to witness people leaving the Church day by day, because of the mistakes of Vatican II. (Guatemala, my home country, used to be 99% Catholic, and now that's down to 60%. Priests do not preach anymore, they stay inside their churches and do nothing, while people look for salvation elsewhere.) This book will tell you what those mistakes were, and the struggle of various popes against the cancer of modernism in the Catholic Church. When I was younger, I wanted to become a Jesuit, but some friends cautioned me of the changes that have taken place in the Society. So I did some research here in my country (Guatemala), and everything this book says is true. Jesuit fathers left their 400 years old Ignatian tradition of Papal obedience, stopped fighting for the growth of Catholic Faith, and started fighting for communism, temporal justice, and other worldly causes. Their numbers have dwindled from 32,000 members in the 70s, to just above 16,000 in the present, and still they do not realise that the Society of Jesus that San Ignacio de Loyola created was a gift from God, and the new society of Jesus they have formed is an aberration that goes against everything Catholic. Read this book if you are a God loving Catholic, and then help our Holy Church regain its identity. It is up to us to show these "renewed" priests that we want the "old" Roman Catholic Church back.
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Summary: The Jesuits is an accurate look at the war we are in.
Review: While I have doubts about the reasons behind Martin's leaving the Order, or his dispensation from Poverty granted him by Paul VI, I have no doubts about his Marxist-Jesuit analogies, his rendition of the liberal French dynasty of theologians, together with the unrest and foment of Central America, which gave rise to Liberation Theology, the downfall of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. When I sit through a Novus Ordo Mass on Sundays, it is much more uplifting for me to think of it as a Supreme Sacrifice of the Mass (as it should be) rather than a "Meal at a Table." The bulk of the reviewers here at Amazon.com are obviously Novus Ordo "Catholics" who despise the truth...that truth that Martin was not afraid to relate in this fairly accurate account of the "downfall" of the Jesuits, the expansion of Marxism (camoflaged as Liberation Theology) through most of Europe and the USA and it's devastating effect of John Paul II's Church. The legacy that Paul VI left John Paul II with has left this current aging Pope quite confused..just look at how many Saints have been canonized in this papacy alone(he doesn't know when to stop!)which leads many to believe that we have no "real" pope currently. Martin paid homage to John Paul II and did die at peace with his God. He gave an accurate account of the damage done by Vatican II, the loss to the Papacy that the Jesuit Order really is, and the dichotomous situation all Catholics now face in the split between Novus Ordo and Traditional Roman Catholicism. And the Jesuits are not Traditional no matter how loud they yell it!. An excellent review but bad reading for the faint of heart...who may not want to read about the truth, but would rather keep their heads in the sands of the Novus Ordo.
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Summary: The Modernist Take-Over of the Society of Jesus.
Review: _The Jesuits_ by Roman Catholic priest and former Jesuit Father Malachi Martin is an important book which describes the debacle that has become of the Society of Jesus within the Roman Catholic Church. Started by Inigo (Saint Ignatius) of Loyola and once suppressed before in its history, the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) long represented a unique force within the Roman Catholic Church maintaining a code of strict obedience to the Roman Pontiff. This book begins by showing how the original intent of Ignatian Jesuitism has been subverted, wherein spiritual aspirations are replaced by modern materialist needs. Thus, many in the Society of Jesus have embraced modernism, particularly in the form of Liberation Theology, and come to fight on the side of Marxism against alleged capitalist oppression (particularly in Latin America where a "preferential option for the poor" is used to justify Marxist revolution). Father Malachi Martin traces the history of Jesuitism from Saint Ignatius and then shows how in the modern era, an era characterized by unbelief and materialism, the philosophy of modernism came to dominate within certain circles of the Roman Catholic Church. Although suppressed by Roman popes, modernism continued to live an underground existence until its eventual rupture during the Second Vatican Council. Certain documents presented at this council have proven highly ambiguous providing the necessary edge needed by modernists to achieve prominence within the Catholic church and particularly within the Society of Jesus. Father Malachi Martin shows how three different individuals shaped the Jesuit experience and transformed traditional Jesuitism into its modernist version. These individuals are George Tyrrell (who denied many of the central tenets of the Catholic faith), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (who came to believe in a new "evolutionary" faith), and the individuals behind Liberation Theology (an attempt to smuggle Marxist class struggle into the Christian religion). The book next traces out the development of these ideas through various General Councils of the Jesuit Order, particularly those headed by Father General Pedro Arrupe. Father Martin alleges a growing conflict between the Jesuit Order and the Roman papacy, beginning with Pope Paul VI and culminating in the current papacy of John Paul II. However, despite this conflict, and despite obvious defiance by various individuals within the Jesuit Order, the order has not been suppressed by the popes. Traditionalists such as the author (now deceased) and others have been forced to abandon the Jesuit Order (making use of the escape clause upon taking the oath to belong to the Jesuits) and have been fervent opponents of the new direction taken by the Jesuits. This book offers a disturbing account of the church in decline, while modernists within the Jesuit Order attempt to subvert the teachings of the Roman Pontiffs. Traditionally Jesuits have made great contributions, particularly in the sciences but also in worldly affairs, however as this book shows the original Ignatian spiritual intent of the order has been abandoned since the Second Vatican Council
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