Malachi Brendan Martin (23 July 1921 – 27 July 1999), also known under the pseudonym of Michael Serafian, was an
Irish-born American
Traditionalist Catholic priest
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,
biblical archaeologist,
exorcist,
palaeographer
Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...
,
professor
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, and prolific
writer
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on the Roman Catholic Church.
Ordained as a
Jesuit priest, Martin became Professor of
Palaeography
Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...
at the
Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. From 1958, he served as secretary to
Cardinal
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Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**'' Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**'' Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, t ...
Augustin Bea during preparations for the
Second Vatican Council
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. Disillusioned by Vatican II, Martin asked to be released from certain aspects of his Jesuit vows in 1964 and moved to New York City.
Martin's 17 novels and non-fiction books were frequently
critical
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*Critical, or critical but stable, medical states
**Critical, or intensive care medicine
* Critical juncture, a discontinuous change studied in the social sciences.
*Critical Software, a company specializing ...
of the
Catholic hierarchy, who he believed had failed to act on what he called "
the Third Prophecy" revealed by the
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
at
Fátima.
His works included ''The Scribal Character of The
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the ...
'' (1958) and ''Hostage To The Devil'' (1976) which dealt with
Satanism
Satanism is a group of Ideology, ideological and Philosophy, philosophical beliefs based on Satan. Contemporary religious practice of Satanism began with the founding of the atheistic Church of Satan by Anton LaVey in the United States in 19 ...
,
demonic possession, and
exorcism. ''The Final Conclave'' (1978) was a warning against
Soviet espionage in the Vatican.
History
Early life and education
Martin was born in
Ballylongford,
County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the co ...
,
Ireland
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, to a middle-class family
in which the children were raised speaking
Irish at the dinner table. His parents, Conor and Katherine Fitzmaurice Martin, had five sons and five daughters. Four of the five sons became priests, including his younger brother,
Francis Xavier Martin.
Martin attended
Belvedere College in Dublin, then studied
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...
for three years at
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
.
On 6 September 1939, he became a
novice
A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows. A ''novice'' can also refer to a person (or animal e.g. racehorse) who is entering a profession with no prior experience.
Religion Buddhism
...
with the Society of Jesus. Martin taught for three years, spending four years at Milltown Park, Dublin, and was
ordained
Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...
in August 1954.
Upon completion of his degree course in Dublin, Martin was sent to the
Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, where he took a doctorate in
archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsc ...
,
Oriental history, and
Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigrant ...
.
He started postgraduate studies at both the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
and at the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
. Martin specialized in
intertestamentary studies,
Jesus
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and relig ...
in
Jewish
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and
Islamic
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sources,
Ancient Hebrew and
Arabic
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manuscripts.
He undertook additional study in
rational psychology,
experimental psychology
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,
physics
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, and
anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...
.
Work and ordination
Martin participated in the research on the
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the ...
and published 24 articles on
Semitic palaeography
Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...
. He did archaeological research and worked extensively on the
Byblos syllabary
The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptio ...
in Byblos, in
Tyre, and in the
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (now usually ) (, , cop, Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a ...
. Martin assisted in his first
exorcism while working in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...
for archaeological research.
[ In 1958, he published a work in two volumes, ''The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls''.
In 1958, Martin was assigned to serve as a private secretary to ]Cardinal
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Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**'' Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**'' Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, t ...
Augustin Bea, working with him in the Vatican until 1964. This brought Martin into contact with Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 28 Oc ...
. Martin's years in Rome coincided with the beginning of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), which was to transform the Catholic Church in a way that the initially liberal Martin began to find distressing. He became friends with Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins and Father John Courtney Murray.
In Rome, Martin became a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where he taught Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated i ...
, Hebrew, palaeography, and Sacred Scripture. He also taught theology
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing th ...
, part-time, at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center. Martin worked as a translator for the Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via ...
es and Ancient Oriental Churches Division of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity
The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, previously named the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU), is a dicastery whose origins are associated with the Second Vatican Council which met intermittently from 1962 to 1965.
Po ...
under Bea. Martin became acquainted with Jewish leaders, such as Rabbi
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Abraham Joshua Heschel, in 1961 and 1962. Martin accompanied Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...
on a trip to Jordan
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in January 1964. He resigned his position at the Pontifical Institute in June 1964.
In 1964, Martin requested a release from his vow
A vow ( Lat. ''votum'', vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath.
A vow is used as a promise, a promise solemn rather than casual.
Marriage vows
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s and from the Jesuit Order
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, founders ...
. He received a provisional release in May 1965 and a dispensation from his vows of poverty and obedience on 30 June 1965 (cf. qualified exclaustration). Even if dispensed from his religious vow of chastity, Martin remained under the obligation of chastity if still an ordained secular priest. Martin maintained that he remained a priest, saying that he had received a dispensation from Paul VI to that effect.[
Martin moved to ]New York City
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in 1966, working as a dishwasher, a waiter, and taxi driver
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, while continuing to write.[ He co-founded an antiques firm and was active in communications and media for the rest of his life.]
Communications and media
In 1967, Martin received his first Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...
. In 1970, he published the book ''The Encounter: Religion in Crisis'', winning the Choice Book Award of the American Library Association
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. He then published ''Three Popes and the Cardinal: The Church of Pius, John and Paul in its Encounter with Human History'' (1972) and ''Jesus Now'' (1973). In 1970, Martin became a naturalized
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U.S. citizen.
In 1969, Martin received a second Guggenheim Fellowship, allowing him to write his first of four bestseller
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s, ''Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans'' (1976). In the book, Martin calls himself an exorcist, claiming he assisted in several exorcisms. According to McManus Darraugh, William Peter Blatty "wrote a tirade against Malachi, saying his 1976 book was a fantasy, and he was just trying to cash in."[ Darraugh also said that Martin became "an iconic person in the paranormal world."][McManus Darraugh. "The Strange Case of Father Malachi Martin", ''Independent'', January 13, 2017](_blank)
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Martin served as religious editor for the '' National Review'' from 1972 to 1978. He was interviewed twice by William F. Buckley, Jr. for '' Firing Line'' on PBS. He was an editor for the ''Encyclopædia Britannica
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''.
Martin published several works of fiction and non-fiction in the following years:
* ''Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans'' (1976)
* ''The Final Conclave'' (1978)
* ''King of Kings: a Novel of the Life of David'' (1980)
* ''Vatican: A Novel'' (1986)
His other works included:
* ''The Pilgrim'' (1964)
* ''The Encounter'' (1970)
* '' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church'' (1981)
* ''The New Castle: Reaching for the Ultimate'' (1982)
* ''Rich Church, Poor Church: The Catholic Church and its Money'' (1984)
* ''There is Still Love: Five Parables of God's Love That Will Change Your Life'' (1984)
Martin's bestselling 1987 non-fiction book, ''The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church'', was highly critical of the Jesuit Order, accusing the Jesuits of systematically undermining church teachings.
Later life
Martin was a periodic guest on Art Bell
Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program ''Coast to Coast AM'', which is syndicated on hundreds of ...
's radio program, '' Coast to Coast AM'', between 1996 and 1998. The show continues to play tapes of his interviews on Halloween.
Martin's '' The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West'' was published in 1990. It was followed in 1996 by '' Windswept House: A Vatican Novel''.
The Vatican restored Martin's faculty to celebrate Mass in 1989, at his request. He was strongly supported by some Traditionalist Catholic sources and severely criticized by other sources, such as the National Catholic Reporter. Martin served as a guest commentator for CNN during the live coverage of the visit of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
to the United States in October 1995.
In the last three years of his life, Martin forged a close friendship with the Traditionalist Catholic philosopher Rama P. Coomaraswamy (1929–2006). During this period, Martin was received in a private audience by John Paul II.
Death
In 1999, Malachi Martin died in Manhattan
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of an intracerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...
, four days after his 78th birthday. It was caused by a fall in his apartment in Manhattan. The documentary ''Hostage to the Devil'' claimed that Martin said he was pushed from a stool by a demonic force.
Martin's funeral took place in St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Chapel of West Orange, New Jersey, before the burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents i ...
, in Hawthorne, New York.
Writings
In 1964, under the pseudonym of "Michael Serafian", Martin wrote ''The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, the Council, & the Church in a Time of Decision''. The book contained Martin's views on the Jewish question
The Jewish question, also referred to as the Jewish problem, was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century European society that pertained to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews. The debate, which was similar to other "national ...
in Europe and on the Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the , or , was the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. The council met in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome for four periods (or sessions), each lasting between 8 and ...
. Martin's fictional works purported to give detailed insider accounts of Church history during the reigns of Popes Pius XII
Pius ( , ) Latin for "pious", is a masculine given name. Its feminine form is Pia.
It may refer to:
People Popes
* Pope Pius (disambiguation)
* Antipope Pius XIII (1918-2009), who led the breakaway True Catholic Church sect
Given name
* Pius ...
, John XXIII, Paul VI (''The Pilgrim, Three Popes and the Cardinal, Vatican: A Novel''), John Paul I
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(''The Final Conclave'') and John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
(''The Keys of This Blood'', ''Windswept House'').
Martin's non-fictional writings cover a range of Catholic topics, such as demonic possessions, exorcisms
Exorcism () is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed. Depending on the spiritual beliefs of the exorcist, this may b ...
, Satanism
Satanism is a group of Ideology, ideological and Philosophy, philosophical beliefs based on Satan. Contemporary religious practice of Satanism began with the founding of the atheistic Church of Satan by Anton LaVey in the United States in 19 ...
, liberation theology, the Second Vatican Council (''The Pilgrim''), the Tridentine liturgy, Catholic dogma, Catholic modernism
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
(''Three Popes and the Cardinal''; ''The Jesuits''), the financial history of the Church (''Rich Church, Poor Church''; ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church''), the New World Order and the geopolitical importance of the Pope
The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...
(''The Keys of This Blood'').
Opinions
Three secrets of Fátima
Martin often spoke and wrote about the Three Secrets of Fátima and was an ardent supporter of Father Nicholas Gruner's interpretations of them: "Father Gruner is fulfilling a desperately needed function in the ongoing perception of Mary's role in the salvation of our imperiled world. Father Gruner is absolutely correct that the consecration of Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
as—Our Lady desired, has not been executed".
According to Martin, the unreleased third secret of Fatima was that the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
would be converted to Christianity. Martin then claimed that in 1960, he was standing outside papal living quarters whilst John XXIII, Cardinal Bea, and other church officials were reading a letter from Sister Lúcia Santos revealing that secret. Concerned about Soviet cooperation at the approaching Second Vatican Council, the pope allegedly decided to suppress the letter. Released by the Vatican in 2000, the third secret letter did not mention Russia or the Soviet Union.
Other theories
Martin did not believe in the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Međugorje in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
. He said that false pretenses were used in obtaining earlier his recommendation. Concerning the Garabandal apparitions
The Garabandal apparitions are apparitions of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Blessed Virgin Mary that are claimed to have occurred from 1961 to 1965 to four young schoolgirls in the rural village of San Sebastián de Garabandal in the Peña ...
, he remained open minded.
In March 1997, Martin claimed on Radio Liberty's ''Steel on Steel'', that two popes were murdered during the 20th century:
* Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI ( it, Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in February 1939. He was the first sovereign of Vatican City f ...
was allegedly murdered by Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in ...
, because of his 1931 encyclical, '' Non abbiamo bisogno'', which was critical of the Italian Fascist state.
* Pope John Paul I was allegedly murdered according to Martin's book, ''Vatican: A Novel'', by Jean-Marie Villot
Jean-Marie Villot (11 October 1905 – 9 March 1979) was a French prelate and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1967 to 1969, Vatican Secre ...
, formerly Cardinal Secretary of State under Pope Paul VI, under orders from the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
Martin stated that, along with diabolic possession, angelic possession also exists and that angels could have use of preternatural powers in certain circumstances.[ .]
Siri theory
Martin partially gave credence to the Siri thesis, saying that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was twice elected pope in papal conclave
A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a bishop of Rome, also known as the pope. Catholics consider the pope to be the apostolic successor of Saint Peter and the earthly head of the Catholic Church.
...
s, but declined his election after being pressured by so-called worldly forces acting through cardinals present at the conclaves. Martin called this ''the little brutality''. On the one hand, Martin says that Siri was intimidated; on the other hand he says that Siri did indicate that his decision not to accept was made freely.
* The first election, according to Martin, happened at Papal conclave, 1963
The 1963 papal conclave was convoked following the death of Pope John XXIII on 3 June 1963 in the Apostolic Palace. After the cardinal electors assembled in Rome, the conclave to elect John's successor began on 19 June and ended two days later, ...
. Martin mentioned the possibility of a nuclear threat which involved "the very existence of the Vatican state" during this conclave on pages 600–610 of ''The Keys of this Blood'',
* The second election was the Papal conclave, October 1978. Martin said on ''Steel on Steel'' in March 1997, that Siri received a written note after his initial election threatening him and his family with death should he accept.
Freemasons
Martin claimed that John XXIII and Paul VI were Freemasons
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
during a certain period and that photographs and other detailed documents proving this were in the possession of the Vatican State Secretariat. He allegorically mentioned these supposed facts in his 1986 novel ''Vatican: A Novel'', where he related the Masonic adherence of Pope Giovanni Angelica and Giovanni De Brescia. Martin also claimed that Archbishop Annibale Bugnini was a Freemason and that Agostino Casaroli, long-time Cardinal Secretary of State, was an atheist
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
.
Metz accord
In his 1987 book ''The Jesuits'', Martin describes negotiations and a diplomatic agreement between the Vatican and the USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nati ...
named as the "Moscow Vatican Pact of 1962" or the "Metz Pact". In this "little-known" agreement, the Vatican allegedly promised non-condemnation of Soviet Communism or Marxism
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
in exchange for participation of Russian-Orthodox prelates as observers at the Second Vatican Council. Description of this incident was embedded as background within a larger discussion of a meeting at the Vatican in the middle of spring 1981 between Pope John Paul II
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and his six most powerful cardinals. In his book ''The Final Conclave'', published on 1 August 1978, the month of the 1978 conclave that resulted in the 26 August election of Albino Luciani, Martin wrote of the unexpected election of a ''Cardinal Angelico'', a figure that has been interpreted as corresponding to Luciani.
Controversies
Alleged affairs
There were three allegations made against Martin of having affairs with women:
* Martin was criticized in the book ''Clerical Error: A True Story'' by Robert Blair Kaiser
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Biography
Kaiser trained as a Jesuit from 1949 to 1959. He left the order and his intention to be o ...
, ''Time'' magazine's former Vatican correspondent. Kaiser, a former Jesuit, accused Martin of having carried on an extramarital affair with his wife during 1964 in Rome, and claimed that Martin fled to the United States as a renegade from the priesthood. A friend of Martin's, William H. Kennedy, published an article in ''The Seattle Catholic'' disputing Kaiser's allegation and other claims made about Martin after his death. Kennedy points out that Kaiser admits in his book that he was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, and cites passages from Kaiser's book which he believes show that Kaiser was writing from a distorted and delusional perspective due to his mental illness.
*In her 2008 book, ''Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information'', Anna Rubino wrote that Martin had a love affair with oil journalist Wanda Jablonski
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on a visit to Beirut
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, Lebanon
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in the 1950s. The book was published long after the deaths of both Jablonski (1992) and Martin (1999).
Laicization dispute
The Traditionalist Catholic website ''Daily Catholic'' said in 2004 that Father Vincent O'Keefe Father Vincent O'Keefe S.J. (1920 – July 22, 2012) was the Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a President of Fordham University.
Biography
In 1981 the order's superior general, Pedro Arrupe, suffered a stroke. O'Keefe was appointed Vic ...
, former Vicar General
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of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University
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, stated that Martin had never been laicized
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. According to this report, O'Keefe stated that Martin had been released from his Jesuit vows except for chastity. No claim has been made that Martin was incardinated into any particular diocese.
Martin himself is quoted as stating that "'In 1965, Mr. 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)".
The ''Daily Catholic'' said its 2004 statement was based on one by William Kennedy, according to which the declaration of Martin's laicization was mounted in retaliation for his book ''The Jesuits'', which accused the Jesuits of deviating from their original character and mission by embracing liberation theology.
Alleged ordination as a bishop
During a videotaped memorial titled ''Malachi Martin Weeps For His Church'', Rama Coomaraswamy claimed that Martin had told him that he had been secretly consecrated a bishop by Pius XII. Martin's mission was to ordain priests and bishops for the underground churches of Eastern Europe
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and the Soviet Union. Coomaraswamy died in 2006.
Alleged authorship
*The book ''The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, The Council and The Church in a time of decision'' was written by Martin under the pseudonym Michael Serafian. This was confirmed by Martin himself and corroborated independently by the Swiss Catholic dissident and priest Hans Küng. Martin related that his choice of surname, ''Serafian'', was due to meeting a carpet dealer in Jerusalem with that name, during the trip of Paul VI to Jordan in January 1964. Serafian is a common Armenia
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n surname.[. The ]Southern Poverty Law Center
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describes the publishing house as specializing in the most extreme radical traditionalist materials
''Intelligence Report, Winter 2006, Issue Number: 124
.
*The pseudonym of Xavier Rynne, used to write more than 20 books on Vatican II, is not that of Martin, but of Fr. Francis X. Murphy
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C.Ss.R.
*The 1966 article ''Laures et ermitages du désert d'Egypte'' published in Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph by the hand of "M. Martin" was written by Maurice Martin, not Malachi Martin.
Joseph Roddy allegations
Journalist Joseph Roddy alleged — in a 1966 '' Look Magazine'' article about the debate about Jews during the Second Vatican Council — that one and the same person under three different pseudonyms had written or acted on behalf of Jewish interest groups, such as the American Jewish Committee
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, to influence the outcome of the debates. Roddy wrote that two timely and remunerated 1965 articles were penned under the pseudonym ''F.E. Cartus'', one for ''Harper's Magazine
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'' and one for the American Jewish Committee's magazine '' Commentary''.
Roddy alleged that tidbits of information were leaked to the New York press that detailed Council failings vis a vis Jews under the pseudonym of ''Pushkin''. Roddy claimed two unidentified persons were one and the same person — a "young cleric-turned-journalist" and a "Jesuit of Irish descent working for Cardinal Bea...who was active in the Biblical Institute" — he figuratively named as ''Timothy O'Boyle-Fitzharris, S.J.'' so as not to reveal the true identity of his source.
In his 2007 book ''Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America'', Edward K. Kaplan confirmed that Martin cooperated with the American Jewish Committee
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during the Council "for a mixture of motives, both lofty and ignoble... eprimarily advised the committee on theological issues, but he also provided logistical intelligence and copies of restricted documents." It is confirmed in the book that Martin used the pseudonyms ''Forest'' and ''Pushkin''. Kaplan acknowledges that ''The Pilgrim'' by Michael Serafian, was requested from Martin by Abraham J. Heschel, who arranged for the book to be published by Roger W. Straus, Jr.
Roger Williams Straus Jr. (January 3, 1917 – May 25, 2004) was co-founder and chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a New York book publishing company, and member of the Guggenheim family.
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Straus was born in New York City ...
's Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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printing company. It was published in the hope that it would influence the deliberations in the council. Once Martin's identity as author was revealed, it led to protests "and the book had to be removed from circulation at considerable financial loss to the publisher". Kaplan lastly states that Martin was the primary source of information for Joseph Roddy in writing his 1966 article for ''Look Magazine'', and that ''O'Boyle-Fitzharris'' was, in fact, Martin. Kaplan judges the Roddy article as "dangerously misleading ueto the credence it gives to the claim that without organised Jewish pressure the council declaration on the Jews would not have been accepted."
Martin explicitly denied he was a spy, along with denying other rumors. Michael Cuneo, in his book ''American Exorcism'', writes that "Martin told me that he was perplexed, and more than a little annoyed, by the swirl of rumors surrounding his personal life."
Elsewhere, Martin admitted some of his work involved intelligence gathering behind the Iron Curtain and throughout the Middle East
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, and at times threatening cardinals with blackmail if they did not want to do what Bea and John XXIII wanted from them at the council. "I saw cardinals sweating in front of me," Martin recalled. "And I began to enjoy it."
Alleged Jewish heritage
Rumors appearing on various Catholic or sedevacantist websites and magazines alleged that Martin had Jewish ancestry
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...
that descended from Iberian Jews
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who migrated to Medieval Ireland
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*History of Ireland (800–1169), Ireland in the high Middle Ages
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and the Kingdom of England
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in the 15th century, and also alleged him being an Israel
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i spy because of his first name, ''Malachi
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'', after a Hebrew prophet and his extensive travels in the Levant
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. These allegations were rebutted by William H. Kennedy (''In Defense of Father Malachi Martin''). After having made genealogical inquiries with surviving relatives of Martin in Ireland, Kennedy concluded that Martin's father was an Englishman who moved to Ireland, and that Martin's mother was Irish on both sides. Fr. Rama Coomasrawamy confirmed this independently. The Irish language
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name ''Maélsheachlainn'' is usually anglicized as " Malachy", and Saint Malachy was a 12th-century Irish Catholic saint.
Alleged photograph
Claims that Martin features as a curial monsignor in full regalia on a prominent photograph next to John Paul I and his assistant Diego Lorenzi appeared on the Internet. The photograph, published in David Yallop's '' In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I'' as number 28 between pages 120 and 121, shows a "Monsignor Martin", visibly different from Malachi Martin. This is a case of mistaken identity: the cleric in the photograph was Jacques-Paul Martin
Jacques-Paul Martin (26 August 1908 – 27 September 1992) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal, raised to the cardinalate in 1988.
Education and progression through the Church
Martin received his education at the University of Strasbourg, w ...
, Prefect of the Casa Pontificia from 1969 to 1986.
See also
* Franz König
* Alfred Kunz
* Marcel Lefebvre
Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (; 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who greatly influenced modern traditional Catholicism. In 1970, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a community to tra ...
* Leo Joseph Suenens
Leo Jozef Suenens ( ) (16 July 1904 – 6 May 1996) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels from 1961 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962.
Suenens was a leading voice a ...
Bibliography
Books
*''The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls Vol. 1'', Bibliothèque du Muséon 44, Publications Universitaires, Louvain, 1958
*''The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls Vol. 2'', Bibliothèque du Muséon 45, Publications Universitaires, Louvain, 1958
*''The Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, The Council and The Church in a time of decision'', Farrar, Straus, New York, 1964 (written under the pseudonym of Michael Serafian)
*''The Encounter: Religion in Crisis'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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, New York, 1969; (in collaboration with Henry Allen Moe)
*''Three Popes and the Cardinal: The Church of Pius, John and Paul in its Encounter with Human History'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972;
*''Jesus Now'', E. P. Dutton, New York, 1973;
*''Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans'', 1st edition, Reader's Digest, New York, 1976; ; 2nd edition with a new preface by the author, HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S. 1992;
* The Final Conclave Stein and Day New York 1978 .
*''King of Kings: a Novel of the Life of David'', Simon & Schuster
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, New York, 1980;
*'' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church'', G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1981;
*''The New Castle: Reaching for the Ultimate'', E.P. Dutton, New York; 1984
*''Rich Church, Poor Church: The Catholic Church and its Money'', G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1984;
*''There is Still Love: Five Parables of God's Love That Will Change Your Life'', Macmillan
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, New York, 1984;
*''Vatican: A Novel'', Harper & Row, New York, 1986;
*''The Marian Year of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II'', Saint Paul, Remnant Press, 1987
*''The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church'', Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987;
*''God's Chosen People: The Relationship between Christian and Jews'', Remnant Press, Saint Paul, 1988
*''Apostasy Within: The Demonic in the (Catholic) American Church'', Christopher Publishing House, Hanover, 1989 (in collaboration with Paul Trinchard S.T.D.)
*'' The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West'', Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990;
*''The Thunder of Justice: The Warning, the Miracle, the Chastisement, the Era of Peace'', MaxKol Communications, Sterling, 1993; (in collaboration with Ted Flynn and Maureen Flynn)
*'' Windswept House: A Vatican Novel'', Doubleday, New York, 1996;
*''In the Murky Waters of Vatican II'', MAETA, Metairie, 1997; (in collaboration with Atila Sinke Guimarães)
*''Fatima Priest: The Story of Father Nicolas Grüner'', Gods Counsel Publishing, Pound Ridge, 1997; (in collaboration with Francis Alban and Christopher A. Ferrara)
Articles
*"Revision and reclassification of the Proto-Byblian signs", in ''Acta Orientalia'', No. 31, 1962
*"The Balu'a Stele: A New Transcription with Paleographic and Historical Notes", Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 1964, pp. 8–9 (in collaboration with Ward William)
* (debate with James A. Rudin and David R. Hunter).
* .
*"Death at Sunset", in ''National Review'', November 22, 1974
*"The Scientist as Shaman", in Clarke, Robin, ''Notes for the future: an alternative history of the past decade'', Universe Books, New York, 1975;
*"On Toying with Desecration", in ''National Review'', October 10, 1975
*"On Human Love", in ''National Review'', September 2, 1977
*"Test-Tube Morality", in ''National Review'', October 13, 1978
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References
External links
Coast to Coast AM's Guest Page on Father Malachi Martin
accessed 10 February 2014
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