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Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church

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LUCIFER'S LODGE

"Malachi Martin was correct in his assertion that Lucifer's Lodge exists within the Church of Rome. Unfortunately, there are no quick answers as to how to deal with this horrible state of affairs. Lucifer's Lodge is an ongoing problem. It is still in operation and should be of major concern to people of goodwill everywhere."

With that statement, William H. Kennedy closes his investigation into the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.

One searches for the words..."shocking"? If only I were shocked. Things I was not prepared to believe of priests have turned out to be true. The time to be shocked passed with the reading of Goodbye, Good Men; Amchurch Comes Out; Lead Us Not Into Temptation.

"Inaccurate"? But I don't think that it is inaccurate. Some of the material in the book had already surfaced in research I had done over the last several years. Kennedy uses quotes from newspapers like the Boston Globe. The accounts of priestly sexual abuse that he uses to tell his story are familiar. Half way through reading the book I checked some of the unfamiliar sources and found them credible. He does use a few marginal sources which I would like to check further.

"An exaggeration" then? I've read too many of the press releases to even think it for a moment. Much of this has already appeared in the Boston Globe and elsewhere. Kennedy merely connects the dots.

In trying to sum up Kennedy's book, only one word comes to mind..."diabolical." And just maybe that is the only word that needs to be said.

A trio of priests--Fr. Malachi Martin, Fr. Al Kunz, and Fr. Charles Fiore--became aware that something was seriously wrong in the Catholic priesthood and began collecting data. William Kennedy came a bit later to join in the investigation, making it a foursome. Today all but Kennedy are dead. Fr. Kunz's death in 1998 was sudden and bloody; and the crime has not been solved. Fr. Fiore's health as well as Fr. Martin's declined immediately after the murder. Within 16 months Fr. Martin was dead, and Fr. Fiore was not well enough to continue the investigation. He died in March 2003. Kennedy states that a mutilated calf also found the morning that Fr. Kunz's body was discovered is the calling card or signature of Satanists.

Kennedy discusses the OTO and Aleister Crowley, along with Jack Parsons, AMORC, Rose Croix. He also mentions a cult called The Process Church, Scientology, Charles Manson, and Fr. Paul Shanley and so much more. The Processians were active in the Harvard Square area in the 1960's, which means they were active in Paul Shanley's stomping grounds. Later they moved to California near the headquarters of Charles Manson. There is some controversy over how much contact Manson and Shanley had with these cultists. What Kennedy does point out is similarities in rituals and some evidence of exchanges between them.

In fact similarities are the basis of what he presents. Essentially he offers information about which the reader is asked to draw his own conclusion. He shows, for example the similarity between the Alpha Omega House, a retreat house for wayward and displaced youth, and the Devil's Room at Loftus Hall. Both rooms, he believes, were used for ceremonies which included sex magick; and he explains how sexual rituals are intended to make the practitioner a god, and in some cases Jesus Christ come again.

He talks about the abuse of nuns which has not come out in the press, and a priest who concentrated on abusing young women who were studying to enter the religious life. He paints a rather different picture of Magdalene laundries than the one recently released in the press.

He speaks of ceremonies that took place in Catholic convents which are reminiscent of Rosicrucian ceremonies; and tells stories of prostitution within convents, lurking in the history of the Catholic Church. I have not yet had time to verify this.

He develops a very interesting line of reasoning centered on cults from the early days of the Church which preached a married Christ who had children, attempts to show how this heresy remained alive down through the centuries, and where it surfaces today, including in The Da Vinci Code.

There is a great deal in this book that will prompt further investigation. If he is correct in all of his assertions, it will explain a lot of what we are seeing develop in the culture. It will not exhonorate the Vatican, however. Once again it appears that Rome knew. Rome did nothing.

I was surprised that he did not touch on Eugene Vintras and on the Mariavites. Perhaps he had to keep the book to a certain length and decided to leave them out. Neither did he discuss the Paris occult revival. Possibly for the same reason.

What he has done is link the details of news reports to historical information and in that way tells his story. The bulk of the book is quoted material from a great variety of sources. It's a hard book to put down.

I wonder if anyone who had not done some investigating into the occult would take Kennedy seriously. It helps to already know about Crowley and Parsons and their relationship with Scientology, and a little about Masonic obediences, and the Mormon Church before picking up the book. Otherwise this seems just too fantastic to be true. I would expect those bloggers who poke fun at conspiracy theories to poke fun at this book. They would be wrong. Had the abuse scandal not been broken by the Boston Globe there is little chance this story would have been told because no one would believe it.

In the next several days, if all goes as planned, I will be looking at his sources on the web, which means that most likely the usual blogging won't get done. But we'll have to see how that works out.

_Lucifer's Lodge_ by William H. Kennedy is a highly disturbing book detailing various accounts of pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse as well as Satanic ritual among Roman Catholic priests, as well as speculation concerning various Satanic secret societies and sex magic cults which have infiltrated the Roman Catholic Church. The author, a friend of Father Malachi Martin (who wrote a fictional account detailing Satanism within the Vatican, _Windswept House_), has unearthed many very bizarre and twisted details of the sexual activities of predator priests. However, unlike certain other books which have been made available detailing the sex scandals (particularly within the Boston Archdiocese under Cardinal Bernard Law), this book attempts to show that Satanic abuse may be involved. As noted in the introduction, by Tracy R. Twyman, throughout the Old Testament the ancient Hebrews encountered various depraved sex cults (which included bestiality, homosexuality, and pedophilia) which were repeatedly condemned by that ancient people and their God, Yahweh, as Satanic in nature. Satan, or Lucifer, is regarded by Christians to be a fallen angel, cast out of heaven for pride before God, and according to Christian doctrine has been trying to destroy Christ and His Church since its inception. Indeed, to instate the reign of Antichrist upon the Earth, Satanists seek a worldwide institution to serve as a vehicle for their diabolical plot. No institution could be more fit for that role than the Roman Catholic Church and its venerable hierarchy. The author distinguishes between modern day Satanists (of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, for example) who are mere hedonists and self worshippers, and the more diabolical kind (unrecognized by modern day Satanists) who may engage in human sacrifice and sexual depravity. The first chapter of this book concerns the original "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s, a modern day witch craze, which brought many innocently accused into the spotlight. However, as the author notes, this original Satanic scare may have merely covered up the more diabolical kind, which currently may exist within the Roman Catholic Church. The author next considers some severely sick and disturbed individuals among the Roman Catholic priesthood. Many of these are sexual predators, although not all pedophiles (and quite a few are blasphemers as well). Perhaps one of the sickest individuals considered is that of "Father" Paul R. Shanley, a "priest" in the Boston Archdiocese, who engaged in pedophiliac and homosexual acts with countless victims (especially among disaffected and troubled youth), was an active member of the Gay Liberation movement, and whose perverted speech on "man-boy love" served as inspiration for the founding of the ultra-sick NAMBLA organization. This part of the story is particularly difficult to take, and the reader may feel him or herself having to retch several times over as he completes this most vile chapter in the history of pedophiliac priests. The odd thing about these priests is that nothing was done to defrock them and remove them from interacting with the youth by the Catholic hierarchy. In fact, many of them were given protection or variously re-assigned. The author also examines the secret psychiatric hospitals where many of these so called "priests" are sent to be "cured" of their diabolical disease. The author also shows how certain other priests within the Church, particularly those of a traditionalist bent, have been prevented from stopping the perverse actions and goings-on. Indeed, one Father Alfred Kunz, a friend of both Fathers Malachi Martin and the Dominican Charles Fiore, was found murdered, in ritualistic fashion (his throat was cut, having revealed the secrets of the brethren and a mutilated calf was found nearby), for having promised to reveal details of the pedophiliac priesthood. Much of this book is spent detailing various aspects of the secret societies involved in Satanic ritual and "sex magic". The author refers to these as "the underground sewer", referencing Saint Thomas Aquinas and his remarks on prostitution. According to certain heretical movements (and according to the popular book _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_), Christ may have been married as well as promiscuous and have spawned a bloodline. This is certainly the most diabolical of all heresies, attempting to mar the innocence of Christ. Indeed, even the Mormons have been known to believe such things, and supposedly a geneological chart detailing the supposed "bloodline" of Christ through the French and Merovingian kings can be found at their temple in Salt Lake City. The author argues that this cult has infiltrated the Roman Catholic Church as well, perhaps as far up as the Vatican, and refers to it (as did Malachi Martin) as "Lucifer's Lodge". Certainly this is a most disturbing revelation. The question remains as to what Catholics can do to reclaim their Church from the treacheries of Satan. Given the sorry state of the American Church it remains a difficult question to answer. The Catholic hierarchy, overtaken by liberalism and the so called "Spirit of Vatican II", continue to enact diabolic "reforms" within the Church and protect pedophiles and homosexuals. Indeed, many of the homosexual priests are blackmailed by the pedophiles into protecting their cult. Satan's serpents continue to move against Christ and His Church as well as climb the rungs of the hierarchical ladder making their way up to the Pope himself. Perhaps this is an indication that we are living near a time of great turmoil, as revealed in prophecy.

I got a first edition (unedited, I think) copy of the book off of Lulu, since it is very difficult these days to obtain a copy. It was well worth the effort. For anyone concerned about the corruption in our Church, this is a very important and scholarly work, and the author does an excellent job of providing the history and connections and includes the story of three priests who strove to expose these satanic frauds, Malachi Martin among them.

This is a great, well written book, and I highly recommend it.

In our days, the corruption is so vast, it is imperative that those of us who love the Lord and truly worship Him inform ourselves and fight through prayer and through action. For heaven's sake, if someone is doing wrong, especially a priest, stand up for Jesus and for His children. It should not surprise anyone that people have lost their faith when many of those who should have been representing our Lord were luciferian frauds and more than those were the others, the ones who are so lukewarm they'd rather lie to themselves and others than confront the evil head on, as Peter or Paul would have.

The guilt of this pedophile tradition falls squarely on the shoulders of those who knew and did nothing.

I got a pre-print pdf copy of this book online at lu lu, as suggested by another reviewer. This book documents the infiltration of evil in the form of sexual crimes and heresy into the Catholic Church by priests and higher ranking clergy, primarily in the Boston area. The title refers to the deliberate and continuing abuse of children by clergy who utilized mind control and manipulation techniques on children associated with some satanic groups. The influence of Aleister Crowley and other occultists/satanists on the twisted theology of so many fallen and frankly diabolical Catholic clergy is documented. Not that I believe the Catholic Church is the only part of the Body of Christ with this problem by any means, but the careful documentation of the sheer magnitude of the disregard for the children and young adults victimized time after time, with the full knowledge of Bishops, is just absolutely heartbreaking.

The author spends many pages documenting the historical influence of various satanic and heretical philosophies and sects on the genesis of the abusive acts committed by numerous clergy in the 1960's and later. There was also a very surprising section on the long history of ritual prostitution and abuse of nuns in the Catholic Church throughout the ages. A description of some of the earlier corrupt popes gave me a better understanding of how the faithful remnant perseveres, even in the darkest times.

Having a sincere respect for Fr. Malachi Martin, I appreciated the clear documentation that he and other colleagues were genuinely committed to rooting out this filth. One of them paid for it with his life, and shortly thereafter Fr. Martin passed away. Fr. Martin certainly generated a diverse set of opinions about his life and work, but this book makes clear his true commitment to fighting evil, in whatever form he found it.

All in all, this book emphasized to me how destructive occult (never mind satanic) influences are on Christianity. I am aware of the horrendous magnitude of the problem in Christian churches around the world, but I couldn't read every section because my mind grew numb to the horrors. May God bless and heal all who suffered in this way, give us the courage and judgment to fight such influences wherever we find them, and hold our own places of worship absolutely accountable, at all levels, to young people.

Thanks to the author for taking the time to write this book.

William Kennedy has finally exposed the Satanic element lurking behind the priest abuse scandal. I thought I would have to wait forever for someone to finally come out and say it.

It has been obvious for some time to anyone paying attention that there is a Luciferian pattern evident in all of the more sensational stories of priest sex abuse. Most notably the case of Paul Shanley, whom Kennedy devotes an entire chapter to in this book. He was even involved with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, as Kennedy proves.

It's interesting that this man has not been invited on the Art Bell show yet, considering that he's Malachi Martin's official biographer, and Art Bell is supposedly such a big follower of Malachi Martin.

But we all know that Art Bell is in with the Illuminati.

One would have to take into account that Satan does not even exist. This is the biggest bunch of 'conspiracy crap' I have ever read. Save your money. And to think I went to school with this guy!!

First, let me say I'm not a Roman Catholic, there are points of Roman Catholic theology I don't agree with. I have a Bachelor's Degree in theology, and I am well versed in Christian tradition.

This book is nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations. Yes, there was a problem with sexx abuse in the Roman Catholic Church which will taint all of Christianity, not just the RCC. But to think somehow pedophile priests must be part of a Satanic conspiracy takes a huge leap off the deep end.

The reason the RCC covered up these abuses is to avoid a scandal, which has backfired horribly for them. I really don't feel sorry for them.

The book takes many of its cues from things in todays headlines, like the DaVinci Code. There was never a 'cult within the Roman Catholic Church that taught Jesus was married and had kids", nor did it secretly survive down into the present day. All this hogwash stems from a book titled Holy Blood Holy Grail. There have been two documentaries to debunk that book on the BBC, and it's too bad they weren't brodcast here.

To some people conspiract theories must give comfort, in the fact they explain which might seem hard to believe, i.e., Kennedy was killed by a loan gunman, the World Trade Center was destroyed by a handful of Al Quaida terrorists,etc. How could Kennedy be simply shot in broad daylight by a communist sympathizer? No, no, that can't be it. It must have been a very complicated agreement by the Mafia, the Nazis, The Cia, Castro, and so forth. How could a handful of men hijack some airliners and crash them into the WWC, making it colapse? It's impossible. It must have been George Bush dynamiting the place so he could start a war in Iraq for oil. Yes, now it makes sense.

Conspiracy theories arise because people overthink things. By creating all these complicated alliances and straining to link coincidences together (and simply inventing stuff when thet fails) in their own way conspiracy nuts make sense of the world through the convuluted. Sometimes a good cigar is just a good cigar, just accept it.

A few years back, there was a conspiracy theory now known as "The Satanic Panic" which claimed millions of kids were being sexually abused and murdered by a complicated underground network of Satanists. While there were quite a few nuts who committed such crimes, (google Uncommon Sense Ministires and click on Occult Crime for several hundred examples from the present to 1900) there was no vast organized conspiracy. The FBI investigated for several years and found no such conspiracy.

Now it seems the SRA crowd has shifted gears and this time they're blaming the Roman Catholic Church.