[narses]

Malachi Martin. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Empire has imploded. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society, the New World Order. With world unity and prosperity as their slogan; with betrayal, scandal, and murder as their ready weapons--the architects of this worldly unity set out to capture the perfect machinery for their global plans: the Vatican. At the vortex of this lethal struggle stands the embattled Pope, a geopolitical genius whose elimination is necessary before Antichrist can be enthroned in St. Peter's Basilica. Two American brothers, one a lawyer and the other a priest, appear to be the perfect pawns. One falls prey to the sharp teeth of greed for power. But what the conspirators cannot know is that the other will become one of the Slavic Pontiff's closest allies...or that he will discover the darkest of hidden things at the very heart of papal Rome. Is Windswept House mere fantasy? Too outrageous to be true? Let reviewers answer: "In biblical times," wrote Dallas Morning News of Malachi Martin, "they would have called him a prophet"; his views, wrote Washington Dateline, "are the stuff of tomorrow's headlines." With descriptions of a Black Mass, a Papal visit with Lucia of Fatima, the reading of the third secret by Pope John XXIII, the decision to forego the release of that secret, the murder of high ranking Vatican officials and more, the reader will be hard pressed to put down this fast moving and apocalyptic assessment of our times. Fact and fiction are woven with such intricacy and skill that this novel will certainly be counted as the best from the pen of a master story-teller.

[HarleyD]

"There is no doubt that throughout this global organization, there is no vibrancy, there is no burning initiative, there is no manifest movement to convert, to spread the Catholic faith as the Catholic faith. There is no evangelization."

Wasn't this the point I was trying to make when I was being critizied by some of the Catholics on this board? I guess I should have written a novel instead.

A book I'll have to read.

[gbcdoj]

Mr. Malachi Martin has no credibility for the kind of stuff contained in Windswept House. I've read his book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church - this "history" book is full of things that never happened like a visit of the descendants of St. Jude to Pope St. Sylvester I.

[Quix]

I haven't read this book.

But given what I've read. I believe it's at least 85% true, too.

[narses]

Ping.

[Land of the Irish]

Windswept House

Bishop's Palace
Galveston, Texas

Current residence of Bishop Joseph Fiorenza, bishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, and past president of the USCCB.

This house is about two blocks off the seafront, so I can see the "windswept" inference.

[Dajjal]

Bumpus ad summum

[saradippity]

Thanks for a great thread Narses. When the USCCB came up with their zero tolerance policy,designed for public consumption,I questioned whether or not some of the one time offender priests may not have ben exorcized. My thoughts were,if they had been exorcized,wouldn't holy Bishops,who had called for the exorcism considered the problem/crime/sin as addressed and resolved permanently?

It seemed to me that if a priest had been "possessed",and a successful exorcism had taken place,the priest should not be suspended,defrocked or laicized or what ever the term would be,nor should the Bishop be culpable. It would follow that successor B/bishops would also not be at fault.

I brought the possibility up pretty frequently on the religious forum and NEVER got a response from anyone. I also never heard the B/bishops even allude to that possibility. I decided that the "silence" was really strange and dropped it. Reading these comments brings it to mind again. Any thoughts?

[narses]

Ping.

[ClarityGuy]

Bumping in light of contemporary revelations.