In Defense of Father Malachi Martin
Oliver Cromwell
Malachi Martin
(1921-1999)
Priest - Scholar- Exorcist
In Defense of Father Malachi Martin
William H. Kennedy
June 2002
The primary objective of this examination is to respond to the recent
attacks made against the late Father Malachi Martin. Fordham University
social scientist Michael Cuneo and Vatican journalist Robert Blair Kaiser
have recently published information which makes some harsh and unfounded
claims concerning Father Martin and, for the sake of historical accuracy, it
is necessary to offer rejoinders to these allegations.
In American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty [Double
Day 2001] Cuneo reviews Martin's career and offers some astounding
accusations concerning the validity of Malachi's scholarship. Cuneo was
correct in his initial review of Martin's life and work. In his formation
as a Jesuit Martin received three earned doctorates in Semitic languages,
archaeology and Oriental history and was subsequently made Professor of
Semitic Languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Ordained in
1954 Martin was a top-level advisor to Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul
VI as well as working closely with the Jesuit Cardinal Bea. Martin worked
in the Vatican's intelligence division which is comparable to working at a
top-echelon CIA or Homeland Security post. During the Second Vatican
Council Martin drafted the document which exonerated the Jews from
culpability in the execution of Jesus Christ for which he received universal
approval from the council and international accolades.
Martin left the active priesthood in 1964 and resigned from the
Companions of the Society of Jesus. Pope Paul VI released Martin from all
his vows except for obedience and chastity and agreed to allow him to act as
a Roman Catholic priest in other ways. The Pope gave Martin verbal
permission to say Mass privately and he continued to conduct the Tridentine
Mass, which was formalized at the Council of Trent, for the rest of his
life. Martin's stated reason for leaving the Jesuits and the active
priesthood was that he felt that the Church was changing too fast and the
institution he had grown up with was becoming an alien form of religion for
him. People today do not realize how many drastic changes erupted in the
Church in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. This seemingly solid
monolithic institution crumbled into an unrecognizable heap by 1970. Even
the Mass was radically altered into vernacular hybrids which were
unrecognizable to even the most devout of Catholics. Despite what critics
may contend, these radical changes were the only reason Martin left the
Jesuits as will be evinced below.
Having been left without an income after leaving the Jesuits, Father
Martin worked a variety of odd jobs while conducting academic research. He
first moved to Paris and later came to New York initially to work on a book
The Encounter [1969]. In this regard Martin won a Guggenheim Fellowship to
support himself while he wrote this tome that explores the relationship
between Judaism, Christianity and Islam and the ultimate violent showdown
Martin presaged would occur between these three faiths. Martin was to
remain in New York for the rest of his life.
Martin became the priest for a Greek family in the shipping field.
Americans are for the most part unfamiliar with the European practice of
wealthy and aristocratic families adopting a priest as a personal spiritual
advisor. Such priests become part of the family. A case in point is that
of the Von Trapp Family Singers who adopted Mon. Franz Wasner as their
family priest in Austria. Mon. Wasner became so much a part of their family
that he fled with the Von Trapps to the USA after the Nazis sought to
conscript Baron Von Trapp as a U-Boat commander. Mon. Wasner was written
out of the Hollywood version of the Von Trapp family's life entitled The
Sound of Music but was buried in their family plot in Vermont.
Rumors continue to fly that Father Martin was having a romantic affair
with the lady of this Greek family and Cuneo repeats this falsehood. From
all reliable accounts this is clearly a blatant lie. Father Martin's
relationship with this woman was purely Platonic in nature. Again,
Americans cannot relate to this practice of having an adopted family priest
as very few well-to-do Catholic families in the USA ever have such a
spiritual advisor. In this instance the lady in question emphatically and
categorically denies having any romantic involvement with Father Martin.
It is horrible that anyone should promote such lies. Perhaps there is far
more to this untruth than is commonly realized.
After settling in the USA Martin began to produce best sellers that
included both factual scholarship and fact based fiction - a concept Martin
borrowed from Norman Mailer who called this genre 'faction'. Martin's
books were extremely well received and influential. Although the
institutional church either ignored or dismissed Martin's work his books
found a huge audience. William Buckley hired Martin to write for the
National Review. Even the renowned author Saul Bellow quoted Martin in his
1976 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
In his many tomes Martin pointed out that the Vatican was allying
itself with Global Elites in various schemes to control international
politics and the World economy. Cuneo denies that Father Martin had the
proper sources within the Vatican to back up his then seemingly absurd
assertion. However, Martin's own brother was a priest who remained in the
Holy See many years after his departure and Martin himself remained in
contact with a variety of other high level Vatican sources. As anyone in
journalism knows the Vatican is chalk full of leaks with high ranking
officials releasing information and disinformation to researchers and
reporters on a daily basis. Cuneo never realizes this hard fact and,
consequently, his attacks against Martin's 'insider' status are moot.
It must be recalled that Martin was making these assertions about the
Holy See both in print and in public talks years before the famous Vatican
Bank scandal which erupted in the 1980's. The Italian government uncovered
a money laundering scheme wherein the Vatican Bank, the P-2 Freemasonic
Lodge and factions of the Mafia united in a criminal cabal to launder ill
gotten money derived from illicit drug running, gambling and extortion.
This resulted in the removal of gangster/Archbishop Paul 'The Gorilla'
Marcinkus as President of the Vatican Bank and prompted his deportation back
to Chicago where he teamed up with the equally vile Cardinal Cody who
operated as an international bagman for the Accardo Crime Family. All of
this culminated in the dramatic Masonic ritual murder of gangster/banker
Roberto Calvi in London. Factions of this cabal may even have a hand in the
untimely death of Pope John Paul I in 1978. [Wilson: 98-99]
This Masonic/Mafia/Vatican conspiracy has been conclusively
documented. Martin believed that the Freemasonic Lodge was Satanic in
nature and that those various factions all took blood oaths to support each
other in their various banking scams. [For a complete record of this cabal
see David Yallop's In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope
John Paul I, Trafalgar Square: 1997] Martin also contended that this cabal
was involved in even more heinous acts against children.
Father Martin reported in 1996 that the Vatican was involved in an
elaborate cover-up to protect child molesting priests and that predatory
homosexuals had covertly gained control of the major seminaries in Europe
and the USA. Martin further claimed that 'secret gay sex cults' were being
formed within these seminaries which involved both child sex acts and
homosexual relations between gay adult priests and seminarians. One of the
worst culprits, in Martin's estimation, was Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.
This fact was reported to the author of this piece as well as to other
persons who met with Father Martin. Martin's reason for not publishing this
revelation was that he feared for his life. Now that the child sex cult
ring in the Archdiocese of Boston and the rest of the US Church has come to
light, much of Malachi's claims in this area are confirmed.
Most alarming is the case of Paul Shanley - a Boston based diocesan
priest who for 30 years molested pre-teen as well as adolescent boys and was
even a founding member of the perverted North American Man/Boy Love
Association [NAMBLA]. Even though a variety of individuals reported Shanley
to Bernard Cardinal Law, Shanley was allowed to continue his sick lifestyle.
When reports surfaced in one parish of Shanley's activities the Chancery
merely transferred him to another and paid off the victim's families and
once more transferred Shanley to another parish where he resumed his
pedophile lifestyle. The Archdiocese of Boston never sent Shanley for
psychiatric help in the course of what Shanley called his 30-year 'youth
ministry'.
Martin alluded to this child-molesting cult in several times in his
writing and they are worth reviewing at length considering that much of what
he claimed has recently come to light in the popular press:
"Most frighteningly for John Paul, he had come up against the
irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain
bishops' chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the
'superforce.'. the incidence of Satanic pedophilia - rites and practices -
was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed
as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic
acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the
culmination of the Fallen Archangel's rites.[Keys of this Blood: 632]
"Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman
Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped
Satan and liked it; of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each
other; of nuns who performed the "Black Rites" of Wicca, and who lived in
lesbian relationships. every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of
heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and
permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests.
Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ's Altars,
but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain
Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a
minority - anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that
minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank.
. . .The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were
mainly two: The systematic organizational links - the network, in other
words - that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups
and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that
network." [Martin quoted: www.theharrowing.com/martin.html ]
Martin was dismissed as being a 'conspiracy theorist' and a 'crank'
when he wrote these words concerning Satanic child sex rings which were
operated by cardinals, bishops and priests. What Martin termed the
Superforce is a real power in the World. Considering that Cardinal Law
protected Father Paul Shanley for many years - even after Law knew Shanley
was as vile as to take a child out of his religious knowledge class [CCD]
and molest him in a Church confessional - Martin was correct. Priests were,
and most likely still are, molesting children in the most sacred parts of
the Church with the aid and, it seems, encouragement of cardinals and
bishops. If molesting a child in a confessional does not constitute an act
of Satanic worship than nothing does. Ritual Satanists - comprised mostly
of teenagers who read Anton LeVay's Satanic Bible and perform an occasional
ceremony - pale in comparison to the abominable rites of Paul Shanley and
his child-molesting cult. [Source: CNN May 2, 2002 Priest arrested on child
rape charges]
There is even proof of overt Satanic Ritual Abuse [SRA] among the
hierarchy of the Boston Archdiocese. Monsignor Frederick Ryan - the Vice
Chancellor of the Archdiocese and close advisor to Cardinal Law - plied a
teenage boy with alcohol, had him tattooed with a cartoon devil and sexually
abused him in Rhode Island two decades ago. This was not the act of some
isolated and demented priest - it was the work of a major figure in the
Boston Chancery. In this instance the Mark of Satan was pressed into the
boy's flesh by the perverted Devil Worshiper Mon. Frederick Ryan. [Source:
Boston Herald June 25, 2002 Ex-Bruin deposed in church abuse case by Robin
Washington]
Furthermore, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston recommended that Rev.
George Berthold be given a teaching position at a Southern seminary even
though Berthold was dismissed as Dean of Students from St. John's Seminary
Boston, Ma. for attempting to initiate a 19-year-old seminarian into a
secret gay cult consisting of priests and seminarians. Law claimed Berthold
had a spotless record in Boston after removing him for predatory homosexual
activity after students repeatedly complained. It seems what Father Martin
called the Superforce looks out for its own. [Source: Boston Globe Staff
May 15, 2002, Law recommended fired dean for college teaching position]
Considering that the Archdiocese of Boston refuses to release all of
its documents concerning abusive priests and had its lawyers force all the
victims into signing 'gag order' confidentiality agreements in this matter
God only knows the full extent of the Superforce's vile activities in
Massachusetts.
Any reasonable person can conclude that Cardinal Law is to children
what Judas was to Jesus - a betrayer of innocence and a destroyer of purity.
A Boston Herald report demonstrates that the Superforce goes all the
way to the top of the Holy See. Recently released church documents clearly
demonstrate that Pope Paul VI, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros and other high
ranking Vatican officials conspired to cover up the illegal activities of
Father James Porter currently in prison in Massachusetts for molesting at
least 26 children while serving as their pastor. The Vatican denied hearing
about Porter's child sex activities until 1985 when in reality they were
well aware of his perverted actions in 1973. This is clearly a cabal the
likes of which Father Martin warned against for many years. [Source: Boston
Herald May 16, 2002, Record: Vatican knew of scandal cover-up in 1973, by
Jack Sullivan]
Since the Superforce was exposed in January 2002 at least 225 of the
nation's more than 46,000 Roman Catholic priests have either been dismissed
from their duties or resigned to date. In March, the Rev. Anthony O'Connell
resigned as bishop of Palm Beach, Fla., after admitting he abused a seminary
student in Missouri more than 25 years ago. In May, Milwaukee Archbishop
Rembert Weakland's resignation was accepted by the Vatican a day after he
acknowledged paying a man $450,000 to settle a sexual misconduct allegation
against him. In June, Bishop J. Kendrick Williams of Lexington, Ky.,
resigned amid accusations of sexual abuse, becoming the third U.S. bishop
brought down in the scandal rocking the church. Bishops in Poland and
Ireland were also forced to resign this year in sex abuse scandals. [Source:
Associated Press June 11, 2002, Vatican: Kentucky Bishop Resigns, by Victor
L. Simpson]
Nuns are also part of the Superforce. Marie Docherty, also known as
Sister Alphonso - a British Franciscan - was convicted in September 2000 of
four counts of repeatedly abusing, humiliating and cruelly treating young
girls at former children's homes run by the Roman Catholic Church in
Scotland. The charges included ramming a chocolate bar down a child's
throat, throwing items of soiled underwear at another and pushing a girl
into a radiator. Over 400 other cases of abuse by this ghoulish nun are
still pending. Docherty was protected by the Franciscans for decades even
after multiple reports of abuse flooded all three branches of the Franciscan
Order in the United Kingdom. [Source: The Times Britain, Nun guilty of
15-year regime of child cruelty, by Gillian Harris]
The Superforce is now engaging in a public relations blitz having
convened a meeting to address sexual abuse policy within the Church.
However, there is a faction of the Superforce which is self-righteous enough
to not even care about bad public relations - they are denouncing the
zero-tolerance policy called for in the media. As hard as it is to believe
there are those Superforce bishops who feel that a zero-tolerance policy
toward priests who sexually abuse children is unfair to the priests!
[Source: New York Times Apr. 26, 2002, Zero-tolerance policy divides U.S.
bishops, by Laurie Goodstein and Sam Dillon]
At the writing of this piece the Attorney General of Massachusetts,
the Hon. Thomas Reilly, is considering prosecuting Bernard Law under the
Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations [RICO] act - normally
reserved for mafia families and street gangs - because of Law's complicity
in the rape of children. If Reilly does charge Law under this act than that
would officially confirm Martin's allegation that a conspiracy has been in
play for decades. [Source: Boston Globe May 4, 2002 Reilly dosen't rule out
charges vs. superiors, by Kevin Cullen]
The future of the Superforce seems solid despite the great unbalance
which it has suffered. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras is
mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II. After what he told
the influential Italian Catholic monthly Thirty Days, every Catholic - as
well as anyone who wishes the Church well - should seriously pray that he
doesn't get the job. Maradiaga contends that the media coverage of the
priest sex scandal is somehow anti-Catholic.
In his interview, Rodriguez accuses the American media of acting with
"a fury which reminds me of the times of Diocletian and Nero and more
recently, Stalin and Hitler" and declares: "The church should be free of
this kind of treatment." After attacking Ted Turner for being "openly
anti-Catholic," he goes on to insist that "newspapers like The New York
Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe" are "protagonists of what I
do not hesitate to define as a persecution against the church."
To cement his views, Maradiaga sees Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law -
under challenge for transferring pedophilic priests from one assignment to
another - as the victim of a "witch hunt." For Rodriguez, the investigation
into Law recalls 'the dark days of Stalinist trials of churchmen of Eastern
Europe.'
The Cardinal recently told a news conference that "it would be a
tragedy to reduce the role of pastor to that of cop." He went on: "I'd be
prepared to go to jail rather than harm one of my priests." Which means
what - that "a pastor" should protect priests who commit crimes? Are
self-protection and institutional preservation the priorities of church
leadership? For the Superforce and the child molesting priests the answer
to these question is categorically and unreservedly yes. [Source: Washington
Post June 12, 2002, A Cardinal who shouldn't be Pope, by E.J. Dione Jr.]
[Note: Nothing I have written in this article is intended to be an
indictment of openly gay people who are harmless as harmless can be.
However, it is a condemnation of closeted and predatory homosexuals who
sexually harass and black mail their subordinates for sexual favors]
For being one of the first best selling scholars to claim that such
cabals existed Martin was deemed anathema by the mainstream Establishment
and these Global Elites might have had a shadowy hand in the vilification of
his life and work after his passing.
Prof. Cuneo is correct in pointing out that Father Martin's most
popular and influential book was Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and
Exorcism of Five Living Americans [1976]. Cuneo suggests that Father Martin
wrote this study as a means to exploit the success of William Friedkin's now
classic cult horror film The Exorcist [1973] which is based on the William
Peter Blatty novel of the same name. In reality Father Martin first got
involved in exorcism while working as an archaeologist in Egypt during the
1950's.
In his mistaken theory Cuneo contends that Friedkin's film somehow
started the huge interest in the phenomenon of exorcism in American popular
culture which then caused Martin to capitalize on this theme. In his
analysis Cuneo makes far too much of the impact of Friedkin's hair raising
production. This film was a success but it was far from the first time
Hollywood, Broadway and fiction writers explored this theme of possession
and exorcism for a popular audience. Arthur Miller's Broadway play The
Crucible [1951] highlighted the possession and exorcism of a group of girls
in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. [Miller used this theme as a metaphor for
Communist witch hunts] The experimental film The Bad Seed [1955] featured a
young girl who was so evil that she is struck down by a lightening bolt
seemingly by the hand of God. Aldous Huxley's non-fiction book The Devils
of Loudun [1952] focused on the possession of a group of nuns in 18th
century France and was so popular that it was adopted into a Broadway play
[1965] and a film [1971]. The Ken Russell film version of Huxley's book
entitled The Devils [1971] produced as much controversy as The Exorcist did
two years later having been banned in Italy and Ireland in 1972. Even the
classic Star Trek series featured two episodes in which demonic possession
was suggested.
Cuneo seems to be unaware that the concept of possession and exorcism
were popular themes in the post war era. In 1951 newspapers around the
globe reported the events surrounding an ergot food poisoning incident in
the French village of Pont St. Esprit wherein the seeming symptoms of
possession became apparent after locals ingested the mind altering
psychedelic ergot fungus that accidentally made its way into some bakery
bread. The unaffected villagers refused to return home until the local
Bishop performed an exorcism at the bakery where the tainted bread was sold.
Consequently, Cuneo's claim that The Exorcist film single-handedly
sparked widespread interest in demonic possession and exorcism is clearly
false.
This leads to an extremely important point which evaded Cuneo. The
concept of possession by evil spirits and the process by which they are
expelled is as old as humanity itself and is not the sole property of Roman
Catholics or other Christians. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Islam
and various tribal faiths all shave beliefs in and accounts of possession
and exorcism. The concept of casting out demons has been with humanity for
all its various epochs and in every region on Earth. To believe, as Cuneo
contends, that the United States in the post war era was somehow devoid of a
belief in this phenomenon demonstrates a lack of basic knowledge or a
deliberate scrambling of facts on his part. Cuneo suggests that this
phenomenon is flaky and weird but it is nearly not as 'fringe' as he makes
out. Nor did it emerge from obscurity with Friedkin's film. For someone
who teaches cultural anthropology Cuneo should have been aware of these
facts.
Cuneo also contends that Father Martin fabricated the case studies he
proffers in Hostage to the Devil because there exists no formal records on
the matter. However, he failed to mention that all of the files of the
Archdiocese of New York, where Martin's case studies take place, are sealed
in matters of exorcism. Cuneo relies on the testimonies of priests who were
around New York at the time and do not recall the cases in question. That
does not mean that they did not occur - it only means that the various
priests Cuneo consulted were not made aware of them. Martin states that the
real names of his subjects are kept private as to save them from media
exploitation. Oddly Cuneo makes a similar caveat in his introduction:
"All of the incidents recounted in this book are true. Due to their
intimate nature, however, I have sometimes disguised real-life identities."
[Cuneo: xiv]
Under these conditions the charge of fabrication can just as easily be
leveled against Cuneo.
Not all exorcisms have written sanction. Exorcism is a rite of the
Church and is not a sacrament. It is categorized in the same area of having
one's house blessed. Consequently, it falls in a theological gray area in
which many bishops leave to local parish priests and especially Third World
missionaries.
In many instances bishops do not want to be bothered with such cases
and give verbal approval for them as a means to avoid dealing with what may
turn out to be a disruptive media blitz if word were leaked via formal
documents. Oftentimes priests keep this entirely on the parish level and do
not inform their bishop which can have dire consequences. This seems to be
the situation with the Mt. Rainier case that inspired The Exorcist book and
film. It is unclear whether the first priest who tried to exorcise the
demon had proper authorization from his bishop and was permanently injured
as a result. [Allen: 37] This at least proves that there were un-sanctioned
exorcisms occurring in the 1940's and 50's that had no Church record. There
were most likely many more such cases which either had verbal approval from
a bishop or where kept purely on the parish level with no formal records.
Another point which evades Cuneo is the fact that Father Martin was
involved in exorcism after the publication of Hostage. Father Martin never
openly discussed the real life identities of the victims of these cases
again to ensure the privacy of those involved. He never wrote a sequel to
Hostage even though Martin was offered huge sums by major US publishers for
both book and film rights. If Martin were the exploiter and opportunist
that Cuneo claims, he certainly would have taken up one of these
multi-million dollar offers and sold his case studies for cold hard cash.
Martin felt that it was his mission to aid those who felt distressed in this
area and refused to sensationalize their plight.
For a review of the many investigations into possession Father Martin
was involved in after the publication of Hostage see Ralph Sarchi's recent
book Beware the Night [St. Martin's Press 2001] written after Martin's
passing. Martin also describes some of the exorcisms he has been involved
with on the Coast to Coast late night radio program hosted by Art Bell. [see
Sources section below for show dates] As demonstrated, Cuneo's treatment
of Father Martin's career and the entire phenomenon of exorcism are poorly
researched and are not to be taken seriously.
Robert Blair Kaiser proffers a most bizarre account of Martin's life
and work in his book Clerical Error [Continuum 2002]. Kaiser, a one time
Jesuit Novice turned journalist, claims that Malachi Martin was having an
affair with his wife Mary during the Second Vatican Council. For this
reason, Kaiser contends, Martin was forced to leave the priesthood. Now
that Martin is dead and Kaiser's ex-wife Mary has dropped out of sight
having remarried, there is no one around to refute Kaiser's vicious claims.
Kaiser did not go public until long after Martin was dead - most
likely as to avoid a libel case.
According to Kaiser, Martin and his wife had an affair behind his back
while Martin was a houseguest. Oddly, Martin's reason for being with the
Kaisers was to aid Robert Kaiser in his journalistic account of the Second
Vatican Council. Martin had helped Kaiser before as evinced in Kaiser's own
account:
"I was under terrific deadline pressure. I took his [Martin's] offer
and he began feeding me dozen-page memos on the history of the Church (a
subject I was weak on)"...[Kaiser: 147]
Even a cursory glance at Kaiser's charges makes one question the
validity of his assertions and, at times, his very sanity. Kaiser's
narrative demonstrates what can only be described as paranoid thinking. An
extreme example is as follows:
"While the customs officers were making little chalk marks on my bags
I watched Mary and Malachy with their heads in earnest conversation. For an
instant, I stiffened. I thought of two other times when I had seen them
with their heads together. It happened first when returning from a trot on
the beach with our infant daughter on my shoulders. Another time I had
driven to Lavinio one afternoon and had come upon them unexpectedly on our
patio. On both occasions they put on smiling faces as soon as they saw me.
I had wondered about that then; I feel a pang of resentment now. I asked
myself why Mary hadn't gotten someone else to come with her to the airport,
or why she came at all." [Kaiser: 172]
In an even more bizarre and disturbing section Kaiser demonstrates his
homosexual feelings for Father Martin:
"I had a primal dream. I was in a large room kneeling on the floor in
a large circle of Novices. One of them was unmistakably Malachy Martin, who
stood and announced to the group that I had been rejecting him. He
proceeded to remove his cassock, lay it down and put his arms around my
neck. Just as he was about to kiss me I woke up.
Now what, I asked myself, was this all about? A Freudian Psychiatrist
would undoubtedly call this a homosexual dream. If it was, however, I
didn't see it as a sign of my homosexuality, but of Malachy's. My dream was
a warning that Malachy wanted me." [Kaiser: 178]
Nowhere does Kaiser [or anyone else] ever accuse Martin of
homosexually seducing them in the real world. Kaiser does not seem to
realize that the dream world means nothing in reality. For Kaiser to
project [yes I am using Freudian psychology] his own homosexual [or
bisexual] feelings onto Father Martin is laughable. It was Kaiser's own
perverted dream not Martin's. Any reasonable person can clearly see that
Kaiser was sexually attracted to men. His own words are proof enough.
Perhaps Kaiser's own inability to come to terms with his own same sex
orientation caused him to lash out at Martin many years later. This leads
to what perhaps constitutes the real reason Kaiser attacked Martin's
character after the death of the popular priest. Father Malachi Martin,
S.J., Father John Courtney Murray, S.J. and Archbishop T.D. Roberts noticed
Kaiser's disturbed nature and, in the early 1960's, performed what is now
known as an intervention. The three clerics persuaded Kaiser to seek
psychiatric treatment and, consequently, Kaiser checked himself into a
mental institution - a fact he enjoys making light of in his various public
talks. However, the psychiatric hospital where Kaiser was interned
evaluated his mental condition and a team of psychiatrists diagnosed Kaiser
as suffering from acute paranoia and schizophrenia. [Kaiser: 261]
It is a common trend for former psychiatric patients to harbor
strongly held resentments against those who suggest they seek professional
help. Rather than concede that they suffer from deep-rooted psychological
problems such disturbed and unbalanced individuals often lash out against
their interveners and accuse them of fantastical conspiracies waged against
them.
Perhaps this accounts for the real motives behind Kaiser's attack. It
is a case of a paranoid attacking the intentions of someone who tried to
help him. All of Kaiser's other claims about his wife and Father Martin
must be taken with a large grain of salt. It is really hard to take
anything Kaiser says seriously after reading his elongated crazy rant which
he published as a book. Kaiser even alludes to an alcohol problem that
further added to this break with reality:
"IN THE DAYS that followed, I lived mainly on gin, spent most of my
nights staring at the ceiling in my bedroom, trying to process everything"
[Kaiser: 239]
As mentioned, after leaving the active ministry Father Martin
continued to say Mass privately and for those who requested attendance at
his services. Kaiser claims he did not have permission to do so. [Kaiser:
297] When Father Martin was later to move to New York he came into conflict
with then Cardinal O'Connor who claimed Father Martin had no faculties
[right] to act as a priest in the Archdiocese of New York. When Martin
threatened to sue O'Connor over this issue the Cardinal backed down and
consequently conceded that Martin had the right to act as a priest under the
dictates set forth by Pope Paul VI. Even the EWTN Catholic cable station
concedes that one should take Father Martin at his word concerning his
status as a bone fide Roman Catholic priest. [Source: www.ewtn.com]
Kaiser completes his rant with the following:
"Malachy Martin fled to New York City, a renegade liberal as well and
soon became the darling of the Church's lunatic fringe, which lionized him
for a series of fantastical books about demonic possession and the
skullduggery of traitorous prelates within the Vatican itself. He died of a
stroke in 1999." [Kaiser: 297]
The 'lunatic fringe' that Kaiser speaks of is what Father Martin
referred to as the 'underground church' during his many appearances on the
Coast to Coast radio show hosted by Art Bell. This 'underground church'
constitutes those who prefer the Tridentine Mass over the New Mass, those
who feel that the Church's ancient teachings concerning the Devil's
influence in the World is true and those who do not trust the Vatican's
alliance with Global Elites who launder drug money and undertake other
nefarious activities. These beliefs are far from being deemed 'lunatic'.
The real 'lunatic fringe' in the Roman Catholic Church consists of
Cardinals who give safe harbor to child molesters posing as priests [Law,
Egan et al], the predatory homosexuals who run and enroll in Roman Catholic
seminaries and form bizarre sex cults and the power brokers who have allied
the Vatican's vast financial resources with organized crime. It is the
skullduggery of these sorts of Catholics that causes the most harm. The
devotional practices and beliefs of Traditional Catholics harm no one.
Father Martin merely exposed the vile undercurrent in the Roman
Catholic Church which, since his passing, has erupted in the popular media.
Martin was a 'spiritual refuge' from the the clearly insane activities of
the 'lunatic fringe' which has taken over the Vatican.
If Kaiser were a journalist of integrity he would focus on this real
'lunatic fringe' and not on Father Martin and the many harmless people who
subscribe to an older and more humane form of Roman Catholicism which
Malachi Martin so loved and actively promoted.
--
"Service Guarantees Citizenship"
Moe Bush
stand out,
He told me to attend only the traditional mass and to keep an eye
on the sky. The first one I understood, the second one I still
have no idea why he wrote that to me.
Oliver Cromwell
"Moe Bush" <moe...@singapore.hm> wrote in message
news:KP3W8.81518$xy.26...@twister.socal.rr.com...
> In my emailings with Fr. Martin I remember 2 things that
> stand out,
>
> He told me to attend only the traditional mass and to keep an eye
> on the sky. The first one I understood, the second one I still
> have no idea why he wrote that to me.
>
>
Perhaps he was referring to the Lords return?