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Marxist Jesuits,
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This review is from: The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church (Hardcover)
First of all Malachi Martin did NOT walk out on his order to marry a foreign correspondent during the Vatican Council, as claimed by a previous reviwer. In 1965, Martin received a "dispensation from all privileges and obligations deriving from his vows as a Jesuit and from priestly ordination." (Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, 25 June 1997, Prot. N. 04300/65).
Why would a Jesuit priest request such dispensation? It is likely because the heterodox Jesuit heirarchy would never have allowed him to publish this book. He would have had to break his vow of obedience to his superiors within the order to both research and write this book. Had he not requested such dispensation, Fr. Martin would have joined a host of orthodox Jesuit priests, such as Fr. Cornelius Buckley, S.J. and Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. who were either silenced or the attempt made to silence them by their heterodox brethren. I had never heard of Malachi Martin before I picked up this book. But I have attended two Jesuit universities and I've seen the war between orthodox and heterodox Jesuits up close. It is real and it does exist. Heterodox Jesuits continue to support the dogma of Liberation Theology which is, in reality, a blend of Catholicism and Marxism that is neither authentically Catholic nor authentically Christian. Heterodox Jesuits teaching in universities are having symposiums on such philosophers as Michel Foucault which, when you consider that Foucault advocated sex with children, seems more than a little ironic. It goes on and on. My own experiences with the Jesuits lend a boatload of credence to what Martin writes. The Jesuits haven't merely betrayed the heirarchy of the Roman Catholic Church - they've betrayed millions of faithful Catholics all over the world - especially those faithful in Central and South America who were murdered and starved and oppressed by the very same Jesuits who said they were there to "help". This book reads like a spy thriller. I literally couldn't put it down once I started reading it. It seems clear to me that Martin had sources that were well placed at very high levels, both at the Vatican and within the Jesuits. It is also evident to me that Martin is more right than wrong. If you want to know what's wrong with the Roman Catholic Church, this book goes a long way towards explaining it.
57 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
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Eye of the Hurricane,
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This review is from: The Jesuits (Paperback)
Here is Malachi Martin at his most passionate and informed, stating the obvious about his former religious order and its descent into sheer insanity. That it: (1) was a foundation for modernist revolt early in century 20; (2) provided a good hiding place in the middle years for underground wackiness ala Teilhard de Chardin; (3) concocted, post Vatican 2, a startling and heady vision of "salvation as seen through the scope of a rifle" (liberation theology) and pushed it determinedly in Central America.
Yes, this book only states the obvious. The facts were published elsewhere, many other places first, indeed -- Time magazine, the Jesuits' magazine America, the "liberation theology" tomes of Fr. Gustavo Guiterrez and Ernesto Cardenal. Only with a different spin, of course -- it was all considered quite "daring, challenging, courageous." Especially here, among self-styled Catholic "progressives" in the good old USA. You don't have to do any "deep research" -- just go into your public library's microfilm department and scan old Life and Look magazines . . . . So why the furor? Well, here in the USA, one judges the worth of a book or article by the extent to which one "agrees" with it. In other words, ideology precedes assent, even information. Now, you can even get advanced degrees for it. Oh well, maybe Malachi Martin once was a lusty fellow, maybe he was a jerk, maybe there are even some minor innacuracies of date, place, etc. Fine: and for the purpose of argument, agreed. So what? The late Father John Hardon, S.J., who also knew both his order and the Vatican well, staunchly defended this book and its publication. All said, this is indispensible history between 2 covers, that will not be found between 2 covers anywhere else. It is elegantly written, and a fully engaged report from the eye of a hurricane its author knew only too well.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Mixed Feelings,
By Bobby Bambino (Lebanon, NH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Jesuits (Paperback)
There were some very good things and some very bad things about this book. First, the good. Martin goes through the whole history as well as downfall of the Jesuits. The first few chapters are especially good because he builds up how great the Jesuits use to be. They were once "Pope's men," men who were 100% faithful to the Pope (this was a special vow that a Jesuit took) and would go anywhere and do anything that the Pope asked. They were warriors for the Church. The greatness that the order once held is crucial to appreciating how devastating their downfall is. There is much history and detail of the 20th century Jesuits, as this is when the rebellion subtly began and then became full-fledged. It is a heart-wrenching story, reading about how the once faithful order has been subsumed with Marxist liberation theology.
Now onto the bad parts. The book is very, very long and much of it seems unnecessary. There was a considerable amount of detail and information that should have been dropped because it took away from some of the more important details. The other very disturbing fact is that for such a huge HISTORICAL work, there are almost no footnotes citing references for many claims. Even references for official Jesuit documents or Vatican documents could have been provided quite easily, but most of the time were not. I see this as a very serious drawback for such a historical tome written only in the last 25 years.
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