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Summary: John Paul II is the "Servant of the Grand Design"
Review: Malachi Martin's work is a veritable "tour de force." With authority (he was one of the world's foremost Vatican Scholars), skill and erudtion he meticulously traces the geopolitical ambitions of Rome from beginning, i.e. Christ's alleged comments to Peter that upon him the church would be built, to end where the Vatican winds up in charge of the One World Government. Martin posits that anyone who was under the age of 70 at the time this book was written would be alive to see the day when the nation-state, as we know it, would cease to exist. What will be most surprising to most readers is how intimately involved the Papacy is in world politics, all for the purpose of establishing the Catholic Church as the One World Government. (See Revelation 13, 17). Whether or not Pope John Paul II turns out to be the eventual ruler of the One World Order is irrelevant. Dr. Martin's book goes into exhaustive detail how this Pope, more than any of his predecessors in this century, has worked feverishly to keep the Vatican on the world stage as a major player. Karol Woytila has had a clear-eyed view of what the church's role should be in world affairs dating back to the time when he was a priest during the Second World War working undercover for the US Government. He learned well at the feet of the master in this regard; Stephen Cardinal Wysinzski took the young cleric under his wing during the formative years of his priesthood, and the account of his tutelage of Woytila is spellbinding. Readers will be fascinated to learn just how much the Vatican was behind the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and just how closely the US and Vatican work on foreign policy issues. This book could very well be subtitled "Prophecy Made Clear by Modern Events." John Paul II is the "Servant of the Grand Design;" papal hegemonist ambitions are in plain view. A blockbuster!! ....
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Summary: Dramatic revelation of nothing but cliche anti-leftist fears
Review: Martin has managed in this book to reveal himself as he really is: not so much Christian as nationalist, not so much Christian as anti-communist, and certainly not as orthodox as he is conservative (they are NOT the same thing). Martin seeks dramatically to reveal a titanic struggle for world domination between the capitalist west, the USSR, and the Vatican. In reality, he dredges up nothing but cliche distrust of the Vatican II council (which he and many rightists consider heretical deviation from Church norms, though the council itself was properly constituted and approved, as were all of its documents). If he were orthodox, he would accept the teachings of those who know better: instead he falls into the boring and uppity more-catholic-than-the-pope melodrama. Here he augments the standard fare of pope baiting with hideous accusations against His Holiness John Paul II, founded only on warped and overly complex conspiratorial interpretations of otherwise inocuous insights. The one thing that Martin gets right is the most obvious: capitalists oppose communists, and Catholics oppose communists. The pope's opposition to communism has never hindered his challenge toward capitalism. What ought to be seen as a prophetic stance against both atheism on one hand and exploitation on the other is instead interpreted as a bitter struggle between three factions bent total control. Martin's background obviously informss his animosity toward Pope JPII and his defense of the poor of Latin America, and has infiltrated his writing.
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Summary: Intrigue at it's best
Review: Martin wrote this book over 12 years ago. We live in a totally different time today, yet, to understand where we are today geopolitically, this book would make a great addition to any research library. Martin was awaiting the pope to rise to take back the church from its sense of slumber. He hoped that until his death. This book was a real symbol of the cold war just before its end. To understand some of the machinations of the cold war, the alliances, the ideologies and the world that the pope came out of and the church that he was placed in charge of at a critical juncture, you need to read this book in that perspective. If the church continues to make an impact on geopolitics, if the USA continues as the only superpower, if Russia regains its former prowess and desire for world conquest, well this book will be as timely as ever, only the names of individuals will have changed. Yet with United Europe on the scene, the church will have other issues to attend to. Martin addresses some of that in his Novel, Windswept House.
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Summary: Intrigue at it's best
Review: Martin wrote this book over 12 years ago. We live in a totally different time today, yet, to understand where we are today geopolitically, this book would make a great addition to any research library. Martin was awaiting the pope to rise to take back the church from its sense of slumber. He hoped that until his death. This book was a real symbol of the cold war just before its end. To understand some of the machinations of the cold war, the alliances, the ideologies and the world that the pope came out of and the church that he was placed in charge of at a critical juncture, you need to read this book in that perspective. If the church continues to make an impact on geopolitics, if the USA continues as the only superpower, if Russia regains its former prowess and desire for world conquest, well this book will be as timely as ever, only the names of individuals will have changed. Yet with United Europe on the scene, the church will have other issues to attend to. Martin addresses some of that in his Novel, Windswept House.
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Summary: Las llaves de esta sangre
Review: No importa si Ud. es católico protestante o de otra religión. Si desea entender ese Nuevo Orden Mundial que se está implantando aceleradamente y la lucha entre las distintas facciones en conflicto, entre ellos los Sabios de Occidente, los Comunistas y la Iglesia Católica, no deje de leer este libro. Con una información sólida y documentada, y un análisis brillante, aunque no coincida con el autor en algunos puntos, esta lectura será clave para entender los acontecimientos que están teniendo lugar en el mundo y que a veces nos dejan perplejos. EJ: la relación comunismo-capitalismo. Las relaciones entre las transnacionales, la banca, la ONU, el Banco Mundial, el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Tratado de Libre Comercio, los gobiernos del primer mundo y los de los paises en desarrollo. En esencia, este es un libro magistralmente escrito sobre la batalla final entre las fuerzas de la oscuridad y las del bien. Inclusive aunque Ud. no crea en esa batalla, en Dios, en las advertencias dadas por Jesús, en las profecías de Fátima o en el Apocalipsis, este libro le ayudará a entender y a analizar de una manera más completa los por qué del acontecer mundial y le preparará para adaptarse o enfrentarse, a los grandes cambios que ya se están llevando a cabo y que alcanzarán su cenit en los años que se aproximan.
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Summary: Las llaves de esta sangre
Review: No importa si Ud. es católico protestante o de otra religión. Si desea entender ese Nuevo Orden Mundial que se está implantandoa aceleradamente y la lucha entre las distintas facciones en conflicto, entre ellos los Sabios de Occidente, los Comunistas y la Iglesia Católica, no deje de leer este libro. Con una informacion sólida y documentada, y un análisis brillante, aunque no coincida con el autor en algunos puntos, esta lectura le resultara clave para entender los acontecimientos que están teniendo lugar en el mundo y que a veces nos dejan perplejos. EJ: la relacion comunismo-capitalismo. La relaciones entre las transnacionales, la banca, la ONU, el Banco Mundial, el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Tratado de Libre Comercio, los gobiernos del primer mundo y los de los paises en desarrollo. En esencia, este es un libro magistralmente escrito sobre la batalla final entre las fuerzas de la oscuridad y las del bien. Inclusive aunque Ud. no crea en esa batalla, en Dios, en las advertencias dadas por Jesús, en las profecías de Fátima o en el Apocalipsis, este libro le ayudará a entender y a analizar de una manera mas lúcida el acontecer mundial y le preparará para adaptarse o enfrentarse, a los grandes cambios que ya se están llevando a cabo y que alcanzarán su cenit en los años que se aproximan.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: One of the most fascinating and comprehensive books on the subject of the Church and the Modern world with specific reference to communism and the divisions within the Church itself. Highly recommended for students of the Church history, politics, philosophy and sociology.
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: One of the most fascinating and comprehensive books on the subject of the Church and the Modern world with specific reference to communism and the divisions within the Church itself. Highly recommended for students of the Church history, politics, philosophy and sociology.
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Summary: Malachi Martin is the ultimate Vatican insider.
Review: The Keys of this Blood is not only profound scholarship, but galvanizing drama as well. Martin's fluid prose is addictve as he superbly chronicles the geo-political poker game between the Vatican, Russia, and the West. In addition, this is a far more superior study of Pope John Paul II than Carl Bernstein's and Marco Politi's recent His Holiness (1996, Doubleday). Consistent with his oeuvre, Martin is critical of Vatican II policies and how they feverishly feed into socialism. With his brilliant examination of Antonio Gramsci and his unheralded yet highly influential brand of clandestine Marxism, one really must wonder if Communism is as crippled as the media has let on.
Martin indicts many as he exposes some of the shocking Faustian alliances the Church has made over the years. Moreover, Martin is truly convincing in his assertion that the Church has been infiltrated by full-fledged Marxists, a point that he examines in his highly controversial 1987 best-seller The Jesuits.
This is a must-read for all pious Catholics who worry about the Church's survival.
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Summary: A brilliant defense of the Papacy
Review: The late Dr. Malachi Martin, in "The Keys of This Blood", defended the Catholic Church and the Papacy brillantly. The onslaught of secular materialism both within the Church's structures and without, will not prevail against the one Church of Jesus Christ. Dr. Martin did indeed know Jesus Christ, and brought many others to Him as well. It's a calumny to suggest otherwise. Fr. Malachi Martin, Requiscant in Pace.
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