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Summary: Candor
Review: Father Malachi Martin once again tells it like it is in this page-turner. He boldly confronts some of the most well-known Church officials as Satanists and provides spectacular insights into the character of the current Pontiff. Malachy's understanding of human nature, the papacy, and geopolitics reaches a peak in this rich book. The intrigue in the lodge, the installment of Satan in the citadel, and the little saints (Father Gladstone's sister for one) hiding in their chapels and praying for change are all heavily focused on in this amazing book. Father Martin confronts the problems many Catholics have with our current Pope in a riveting and unquestionable manner. Even non-Catholics could enjoy this well-written book, but Catholics must face a very serious problem with the modern world today and the extreme dangers we do face. Remember that this is only 10% fiction. I highly recommend this book as a monument of devotion to God, Catholic tradition, and the papacy. Remember that Malachi Martin was still a priest before his untimely death and, in spirit, he was always a Jesuit.
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Summary: The Satanic Plot in the Vatican Against the Pope.
Review: Traditionalist Roman Catholic Father Malachi Martin's novel _Windswept House_ takes a look into the strange world of Vatican politics and intrigue within the larger setting of the world at large. Father Malachi Martin, Roman Catholic priest, former Jesuit, exorcist, and an associate of Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Augustin Bea, presents the reader with a fictionalized account of a global conspiracy in league with Satanists and freemasonry to take control of the Roman Catholic church and to oust "the Slavic Pope" (Pope John Paul II). While this book is a work of fiction, Malachi Martin has stated that much of what is presented here is in fact based upon truth, including allegations of Satanic activity within the Vatican during the 1960s. The book consists of endless plots and counter-plots among Cardinals and prelates of the church in an effort to unseat the Slavic Pope and place a liberal, modernist pope upon the Throne of Peter in league with Satan's plan for the church. Only a small band of those who adhere to the traditional teachings of the church (with emphasis on the Tridentine mass), including two brothers from a wealthy Texas family (the Gladstone's), are able to offer resistance against the forces of evil within the church hierarchy. The book alleges conspiracy of the highest order, Satanic activity and possession within the Vatican and within the church hierarchy (especially in America), pedophilia and homosexual activity within the church and among its priests and bishops, as well as the prevelance of freemasons among the Catholic Cardinalate. While the book is written under the guise of fiction, one cannot help to see many of the current problems within the church in wide-angle focus after reading this book. Father Martin is not the first to point these problems out, and he belongs to a group of Traditionalist Catholics who look askance upon (some of) the documents of Vatican II, adhere to the Tridentine mass, and believe that current problems in the church could be resolved if the Pope were to take a stronger stance (and listen to the warnings of the Virgin Mother, especially as revealed at Fatima). The book ends with a cliffhanger and one is not sure what to make of it at the end, much as one is not sure what to make of modern day Roman Catholicism (especially in America) which has become infested with the heresy of modernism and liberalism. Much of the book consists of geopolitical intrigue (of the old-school variety), showing how a club of elite businessmen and politicians have turned towards Satan and his "humanistic" offerings in their efforts to create a New World Order. For these elite, the Roman Catholic Church represents an outmoded medieval residue; nevertheless, they believe the takeover of this institution is useful because it has so many members which can be unified. Indeed, the theme of unity plays an important part in this book, in which the chief conspirators (cardinals) call upon the ideal of "unity" to force the Slavic Pope's hand in a "Protocol of Resignation". Indeed it is these global unity schemes, which are of greatest danger to Christ and His Church today. For those individuals who feel disaffected by the modern post-Vatican II church, a book such as this may offer some guidance in trying to maintain the traditions of the church. For others who read this book, it will provide food for thought at the very least. While I believe it is wrong to leave the church (especially during a time of mass apostasy) as some in the more narrow reaches of "traditionalism" or the extremist position of "sedevacantism" have decided to do, we must be wary of those developments which have taken place within the church and among its hierarchy which are directly opposed to its traditional teaching. The book leaves one with a question, and the question is how is one to remain true to the teachings of the church within the modern world and given the influences of the modern world on the church itself. Of course, in the book, not even the pope is capable of making such a decision (at least not easily).Father Malachi Martin (who will be sorely missed among traditionalists) recently died as he was working on another book about the Vatican and the New World Order. While his books should be read with caution (and perhaps some skepticism), they offer the ready a unique look into the mind of a traditionalist Catholic living in the modern world.
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Summary: a dash of cold water
Review: You may not like what you read here, but it explains much of the apparent incompetence and stupidity in the discipline of the present day Catholic Church. The ordinary reader will never know for sure if the enthronement of Lucifer really took place in 1963 in the Vatican. Fr. Martin, however, clearly believed that it did. (He was a committed supernaturalist and Christian, and his views were not at all out of place prior to Vatican II and the invasion of the Church by modernism.) As his operating hypothesis for the loss of supernatural grace in the modern church and world, it does hold water. But it will be rejected by materialists.
My own experience with the occult, prior to my conversion to Christianity, agrees with Fr. Martin's worldview and theology. His absolute devotion to Christ is radiantly apparent to me. But his uncompromising claims of Masonic and Luciferian infiltration into the Church are bound to infuriate those who are hoping to stick their heads in the sand and wait for the present turmoil to blow over. It won't.
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Summary: A definite read: chronicles church conspiracy with NWO
Review: According to the author's own admittance, this book is no "Novel," but an account of actual goings on in the highest ranks of the Catholic Church with the New World Order elite, written by one who was slated to become a Cardinal. 85% of the details are based on actual occurrences and people. Malachi Martin eloquently captures the wrestlings of the human heart over the grappling issues that face a faithful saint when confronted with these paradoxes of Satanic allegiance within the highest ranks of the church (and certainly the phenomenon is not unique to the Catholics). A riveting plot. I read it in a week -- could hardly put it down.
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Summary: All-too-true depiction of the state of the Catholic Church
Review: Although a novel by form, the book paints an all-too-realistic picture of the Catholic Church of the 1990s (and still today). Though written as a suspenseful novel, one could interpret the book essentially as a plea to Pope John Paul II to save the Church from evil forces (and the forces of Evil) before it is too late. (Sadly, JPII's present age, infirmities, and apparent lack of control over the Vatican as of 2004 probably indicate that it *is* now too late.) Devotees of the Third Secret of Fatima will be intrigued by the author's references to its full contents. (What was revealed by the Vatican in the year 2000 was only a part, and not the worst part, according to many experts.) Here on Amazon.com, you can search the book for references to "conversion of Russia" and "last Pope of these Catholic times."
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Summary: A "MUST READ" for every Catholic!
Review: Windswept House makes you aware of what's been transpiring in the Catholic Church since the 60's. Forewarned will make you fore-armed! I came away with a compassion and a sympathy for the Catholic church I never had, AND I'm more in tune with not only histroy from back then but history in the current making. Once you start, it will be hard to put down.
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Summary: If There Was Ever A Voice From Heaven
Review: If there was ever a voice from Heaven, it comes to us from the Martyr and Saint, Malachi Martin. Indeed, the risks to his life he took in writing this literary masterpiece/epoch for our world distilled into the tour de force that is -- "Windswept House." Faction, fiction...is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that one man, with a powerful pen and voice sacrificed everything to help those willing to listen and face the God-awful truth: We have two choices: Lucifer or Jesus Christ, Our Lord. And whether Catholic or not, the Mercy of God is still alive for everyone in allowing us to share Fr. Martin's legacy that is truly a LIVING EPISTLE OF JESUS CHRIST on earth. Buy this book! There are phonies enough. But "Windswept House" is from God's lips to our ears, minds, hearts, and souls.
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Summary: Eerily Prophetic
Review: Whether this novel is fiction or non, or as some might say: 'faction', evolves clearer every day. The idea of satanic ritual being played out in a major place of worship and a satellite location is not only horrifying, but grows strangely realistic upon learning that the acts of satanic child abuse actually did occur, at the hands of the clergy, all over the world. One might say that there is no difference between the two. This book proves that Father Martin was not only a very caring and knowledgeable individual, but eerily prophetic as well. Read it, and read between the lines also; it is undoubtedly a very interesting translation of the truth.
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Summary: A Book on Philosophical, Spiritual, and Moral Battles
Review: I wholeheartedly disagree with both Publishers Weekly's opinion that "the wind that blows through this rambling shack of a novel is, ultimately, angry and hot" and Kirkus Reviews' remark that the book is "too slow-moving, and too specialized, for [anyone but Catholics and evangelicals]". This book should not be judged solemnly on the basis of its literary achievement, as its author, Father Malachi Martin, was not a professional writer, but a professional priest. I agree that readers will find way more thrill and page-turning action in any Clancy novel than in "The Windswept House". But then again, a Clancy novel ceases to exist in one's mind the moment one finishes it and puts it aside. A Clancy novel leaves no trace of itself within one's memory, as IMHO there is no content in such a novel - only the mastership of thriller writing. (Excellent books for the bathroom-time, though.) This book is something exactly opposite. I have to agree that indeed a couple hundred pages could have been given up upon, quite a few characters were somewhat unnecessary, some of the plot redundant. Alas, "The Windswept House" is one of the books in my life that, once finished, left me with curious sorrow that I could not, in a sense, keep participating in the lives of its characters... I am quite sure that each reader of "The Windswept House" will get a different feeling as to what the book's main theme really is. For some, the focal point might be criticism of the current state of the Roman Catholic Church. For some, the book might be an explanation of the inner workings of the Vatican, or a discussion about the Slavic Pope. For still others, "The Windswept House" might be a book about ritual Satanism, or the dangers of unrestricted liberalism. Some readers will probably focus on intricate world-wide political currents described in this book (and little research shows that Father Malachi Martin is surprisingly correct on some of his "fictional facts"). For me, however, this book is about philosophical, spiritual, and moral battles that many of us, "ordinary" guys and gals, go through every day. (As a side note, readers who regard the phrase "philosophical, spiritual, and moral battle" an anachronism are advised to skip this novel and move on straight to Ophra's Book Club). About the feeling of emptiness and loneliness crawling somewhere on the edge of one's consciousness, as more and more often one's honesty and integrity do not make a bit of a damn difference when it comes to achieving success and happiness in our "modern, brave, new world". About how people who stubbornly stick to their "old-fashioned values" find themselves having fewer and fewer friends, and having more and more enemies. About the fact that if you want to be on the winning side, you will be asked to sell your feelings, ideals, and loyalty for "cold, hard cash". Perhaps that's why the book's characters are so memorable. Perhaps that's why the unusual ending of the book transposes you, the reader, into one of them.
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Summary: Malachi Martin does it again
Review: Another great book by Father Martin. Riveting, eye opening, but is it really fiction? I dont think so! Tell all on how the Catholic Church has fallen under the control of satan, by using nonbelieving so called christians to infiltrate the hierarchy of the most powerful church in history.
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