Windswept House

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Summary: Extraordinary glimpse into Vatican geopolitics!
Review: While Malachi Martin presents an extraordinary glimpse into the on-going power struggles within the Catholic Church, he inaccurately links the gay rights moment, feminism and liberation theology with Satanism, a fact which clearly establishes his views on these issues. While the book clearly and accurately summarizes the tension between humanistic and orthodox Vatican theology, he fails to grasp the trurth that he is no different from all other students of Catholicism throughout history who were afraid that change will destroy the Church. That which does not change dies, and a movement towards recognizing human rights and equality will inevitably change the church to recognize the validity of all love and a more liberal understanding of scripture. Martin's longing for an unchanging chruch is unrealistic as has already been proven by history. Although I disagree with the viewpoint of the book, it is very thought provoking and provides insight into the role of the Catholic church in history.

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Summary: Fascinating for R.C. afficianodis
Review: After reading "In God's Name" by David Yallop I could pretty much figure out a few of the players in Malachi's Book. It was great reading for ex-Catholic of 44 like myself. It reminded me of why I still have a love-hate relationship with the R.C.'s

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Summary: A prophetic glimpse that greyly portends a possible future
Review: Martin has insider knowledge that must be respected.As an outside viewer of the Catholic Church I perceive the ring of truth in Windswept House..
Surely this man of integrity has not manufactured his accounts of Satanism and geo-political goings on that could explode into headline events after the death of the Pope.
The connection of the Church to government has been an on-off reality for 2000 years so a future unity is only an echo of history.
The future will tell.The strenghts of the enemy cannot be fully evaluated but I believe we will see that Martin has a view of the future that is remakably true prophetically.Dont be surprised.Expect the unexpected as the surface is never really indicative of the great forces of change.

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Summary: Essential to all the catholics concerned with church's fate
Review: Even if I don't agree with all the points of view of the author,this book is essential to understand the reasons of the fall of traditional Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. We find a new religion and a new faith that is no more catholic but a sinchretism of freemasonic ideas with marxist ones mixed in an evil (literally) cocktail. We find, also, an hierarchy (by action) and a Pope (by omission) that are no more concerned with the traditional faith and teachings that Roman Catholic Church defended along the centuries. Malachi Martin, in a superb way, portrays that reality to everybody.

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Summary: He's done it again: spell-binding, provocative, unsettling.
Review: Warning: this is not for Catholics who are satisfied with the status quo. However, for critics of the Vatican II hijacking by liberation theology deconstructionists, this is a great read. If you've read Fr. Martin's Hostage to the Devil, The Jesuits, and The Keys of This Blood, you'll certainly notice that all three books come together here, albeit in a quasi-fictional work. Having worked for the Archdiocese of NY for a number of years, I can only say that Martin is right on target. No one has a better grasp of the darker side of the Church than he.

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Summary: an excellant overview of the big picture
Review: Utopian dreamers, will not and should not read this book, rather they should sate themselves on bread and circuses. Further,those who enjoy sneeringly, saying the words, "conspiracy theories", should run away from this book and seek some soothing talcum for their bottoms. "A people that have the ability to think and reason, but, refuse to do so, are no better than cattle, and are steaks on the table,by consent". Truth written as fiction, is still the truth. And, truth is stranger than fiction

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Summary: Unnecessarily wordy, but intriguing as well
Review: Anyone interested in the future of the world would benefit from a browsing of this book. It is a thought-provoking analysis of the spiritual battle that rages within the hearts of men, as well as organizations. Gems of insight are contained in this sea of a story. I believe all of the conspiratorial innuendo, and one would be a fool to ignore it. What, think ye not that the prince of this world exerts power in high places

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Summary: A wonderful book which readers should not miss.
Review: An excellent book which provides the reader with a great deal of interesting material to ponder. There is a great deal of hidden truth in this novel. This book should be considered required reading by all thinking people

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Summary: Doomsday Catholicism
Review: For a long time now, Malachi Martin and Andrew Greeley have been writing about the same Catholic Church from opposing viewpoints. Greeley lets one of his heros express emphatically that "Malachi Martin is NOT my friend!" when asked about him. Martin copies arguments from Greeley's books as examples for the influence of liberal satanists in today's Catholic Church. So when Greeley wrote his novel "White Smoke" about how the election of the next pope could happen, Malachi Martin had to write "Windswept House" about the very same topic. Greeley's book became a NY Times estseller, while the only grace of Martin's book is that it's much more voluminous -- and much more outragious. Greeley's next pope takes the name John XXIV, and Martin's (unnamed) next pope is also the logical successor to pope John XXIII. But that's where the similarities end: Greeley's pope John XXIV is everything a Christian who believes that Christianity is largely about love and life, might want. Malachi's counterpart is the leader of a satanist faction of cardinals, dependent on a worldwide organization of Freemasons (Scientologists?), whose election symbolizes the final victory of Satan and the World over the Catholic Church. Where Greeley is hoping for the fulfillment of the promises of Vatican II, Martin considers this council and John XXIII the beginning of the end of the Church. Where Greeley considers Pope John Paul II as a sometimes too traditional, but forceful and honest personality with a clear purpose, Martin's Pope John Paul II is a well-meaning traditionalist who sees the alledged satanist danger for the church, but is too weak and fatalistic to oppose it - waiting, instead, for a miracle as a divine indication that he has the "right" to actively do something about it. Since there is always a market for conspiracy theories and doomsday novels, Martin's book may be somewhat successful. It is also an interesting compendium of the thoughts and viewpoints of several ultra-right catholic groups, mostly populated by people who think that the Church went downhill from the moment they left Catholic Grammar School. It's interesting how many Catholics believe that the rigid and rule-driven Church of the late 1800's and early 1900's was the only "really Catholic" Church; that this Church needed nearly 1900 years to become perfect and that any change since then has been a step towards its destruction. Martin is undoubtedly the most popular spokesman for this part of the Catholic world. But I, for one, am glad that Greeley's book made the NY Times Bestseller list and not Martin's. Martin's book was an interesting read, as long as one does not try to check his conspiracy theories against reality and does not confuse his very special "Catholic Church" with the real Chatholic Church of the 1990's -- sort of like an interesting doomsday Science Fiction novel. But doomsday SF and Catholicism don't mix very well. Save the time you'd need for Martin's book, and read Greeley's and a good SF book, instead.

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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: A REAL GEM; FOOD FOR THOUGHT; A COPY SHOULD BE SENT TO CATHOLICS THROUGHOUT FOR DISCUSSION ON THE POST CONCILIAR CHURCH.DR. S. CALDERON SITIRICHE