Posted on 11/14/2016 5:51:35 PM PST by marshmallow
The documentary "Hostage to the Devil" lets viewers make their own judgments about whether the controversial former priest and best-selling author was a sinner or saint, an exorcist or showman, a prophet or sophist.
A new film has as its subject Malachi Martin, an Irishman who was, by turns, Jesuit priest, professor at a Pontifical Institute in Rome, layman, bestselling author, talk show guest, celebrity. From the 1970s, he also claimed to be part of an underground network of unofficial ‘exorcists’. As charismatic as he would prove beguiling, as intellectual as he appeared pious, Martin was, above all, controversial, and remains so to this day, as this film testifies.
Hostage to the Devil (http://www.malachimartindoc.com) is a 90-minute documentary film by Marty Stalker. It has been produced with the co-operation of the Irish Film Board. This is fitting given that the story it tells starts in the far south of that country. Malachi Martin was born in County Kerry in 1921. Having graduated in philosophy from the University of Dublin, he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest in 1954. His further studies took him to Louvain in Belgium, to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to Oxford University. Thereafter, he was sent to Rome as Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute where he taught Aramaic, Hebrew and Sacred Scripture. His future career looked bright, especially when he was made Private Secretary to Cardinal Bea. It proved not to be so. The Second Vatican Council was called in 1962. Some would maintain that alongside the good intentions of those who convened it, other forces gathered too, intent on distorting the reception of the outcome of the Council.
Certainly this is what Martin was to emphasize in what he said and wrote during the decades that followed. He became.............
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If he was “controversial”, it was because he exposed the influence of Satan in the Catholic Church and that many people in power had sold their souls (and that of their children) to Satan. Listen to his interviews with Art Bell from awhile back. Scary and eye-opening stuff.
He was always claiming to know secrets about the Fatima letter.
Whether Martin was legit or a charlatan, Hostage to the Devil was an interesting read, scary stuff. Looking forward to seeing the documentary.
The strategy is to use the book as a vehicle to engage in some unflattering historical revision. I read half of the book, but it was so far out from anything I am familiar with, I never finished it. It is profoundly disturbing.
I heard Martin interviewed a few times and found him to be brilliant. He was very critical of the Catholic church but very loyal to it.
I liked it when he said “Oh look, Al, I’m not asking you to spy, I’m asking you to steal.”
This is just a takedown-by-whispers-and-slander of a brave man.
I read Keys of This Blood many years ago. Malachi Martin was in my estimation a brilliant man exposing heresy and and the NWO proclivities of many and a real Christian. If only the Catholic Church had more like him. He was possibly killed for his outspokenness also.
The town of Fatima was named after Mohammed’s daughter.
Ditto, that is a scary book.
Was not.
Anyone read windswept house? I just got it. Small print, and long? Any good?
Yes and there is a “key” to understanding who was who in the book. Also the actual house exists down around Galveston TX.
I’ve read several of his books and never found any reason to question Martin’s veracity.
On the other hand, later interviews elsewhere suggest hypomania and some paranoia....deeply into the radical traditionalist conspiracies...Ditto for some of his books.
Maybe he was all of the above...
so was he bipolar and a bit unstable? That does not mean he was wrong all the time.
The real question is if he was a saint...
Probably helps to be an exhibitionist when one is acting as an exorcist.
Three solid priests (in real life): Fr. Albert Kunz of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, Fr. Charles Fiore of Southern Wisconsin, and Fr. Malachi Martin of Poughkeepsie and NYC were cooperating in investigating higher Midwestern Church officials including bishops for child molesting activities and coverups. During a period of a few months, Fr. Kunz, a tall ex-Marine and strong was murdered by having his throat slashed at his parish campus on a sidewalk at night. He was a Tridentine only priest. Fr. Fiore had degenerative diabetes, was attended in his final illness by my pastor in Illinois. Nonetheless, his death left questions. Fr. Malachi Martin, fell over backwards at a friend's apartment where he was alone in NYC, fractured his skull and never regained consciousness. I did not have the privilege of knowing fr. Kunz but his parishioners started attending our Illinois Church after his death. No one has ever been reported as suspected of the murder.
I wish Malachi Martin were with us to explain the current sorry state of affairs as only he could.
These days one can only wonder if the Jesuits are really still a Catholics order.
bfl
MM told of the infiltration of Satanic forces within the Vatican. The Vatican bank scandal where the funds were used “nefariously” and of murders to hide laundering of it. Pope Frankie is the pinnacle of that corruption, openly calling for a turn to the perfect form of government, Communism. You would think it would be a government built upon God and his “so it is said” Representative on Earth. No, I guess Father wishes for us to worship the State.
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