The Jesuits

As a faithful Roman Catholic, it pains me to read this book. However, nearly 30 years since its publication has shown it to be spot on. The Society of Jesus, once the crown jewel of the papacy and the Church Universal has collapsed due to the machinations of communists and worldly concerns. The order once concerned with maintaining the integrity of the Holy Church is now busy trying to destroy it. There is no wonder that the religious order is falling apart.Overrun with Marxian liberation theologians and militant homosexuals, the Jesuits have given up standing for the faith. In modern times they seem to have given up the idea of Grace all together to engage in worldly pleasures. Martin details beautifully the problem: The have no faith. The expound prima facie heretical doctrine, and pay no price for it. Corruption in the best is the worst, and that proves true in Martin's book. The first part, The Indictment is the best illustration of what happens when faithless men take control of a former religious order. Without doubt, none of the Jesuits mentioned consistently in this book have ANY supernatural faith. They are merely political warriors, and that is no wonder that they are losing members to the Protestants who choose to focus on the Bible and Jesus. By their fruits we will know them, and under liberation theology the Jesuits denuded the nation of Nicaragua of it faith and made it a Marxist/communist hellhole, replete with death camps and terror squads. So much for helping the poor, they reduced the poor to worse poverty and robbed them of their faith in God, which is even worse.The once proud tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the other early Jesuits comes to mind. Would that we had a few decent Jesuits who would engage in propagation of the faith like those during the counter-reformation? Men like Peter Canisius who saved much of Germany from the scourges of Lutheranism and Calvinism. Where are these men? Why they are engaged in heresy worse than Calvin or Luther could even imagine. Martin makes a key point. A faithful Catholic man in the current day would not be allowed even to become a Jesuit. The acceptance of modernism is the key to the current apostasy in the Church.Martin's take on the Second Vatican Council is spot on. At no point was the purpose of many of the theologians at the council the propagation of the Faith. Heretics like Rahner's only mission was to destroy the traditional faith of millions. Their lord was not Christ but the world. They worship the world, and the Lord of this World. There is no length to which they would not stoop. Essentially, the Jesuits and their modernist theologians purpose was to confirm people in their sins and destroy their faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. What is worse, is that none of this appears in the Constitutions of the Second Vatican Council. No, they hid their real purpose in the "Spirit of Vatican II", by which so many souls have been lost. If you wonder why so many Churches have closed, or been remodeled to look like bread boxes, if you want to know why so many statues and beautiful pieces of religious art were destroyed, if you are concerned by the lack of any type of reverence for the Blessed Sacrament and its protector the Holy Roman Pontiff, you only need to look to this book for the explanation. After reading it, everything now makes sense.We now have a Jesuit in the papacy. Hopefully he is like Fr. Pacwa or Fr. Fessio. But even then, those faithful men were unable to do anything to stop the left-wingers in their midst. Faithful Catholics may have to bear more chastisement as the Church careens out of control thanks to the example given of faithless and evil men described in Martin's insightful book.

I remember many people talking about this book when it first came out, and I was always intending to read it. To my lasting regret, it took me 23 years to get around to it.Martin's thesis is as simple as its subject matter is complex: during the latter part of the twentieth century, the whole character of the Jesuit order was transformed from within: from the archetypical champions of the Pope to his worst nightmare.What the Jesuits have achieved is a mockery of all they once stood for, as many of their members have competed to perform the most outrageous, the most unthinkable, the most treacherous acts against the Church. What they have attempted is almost the ecclesiastical equivalent of a military coup. But since a true coup is impossible, because the Church could not be the Catholic Church without the Pope, they did not attempt to oust him but to undermine him, to make him irrelevant, to mock him with their arrogance and their disobedience, and to create a kind of parallel hierarchy in defiance of the true hierarchy.As an ex-Jesuit (and obviously with a lot of good contacts when he wrote it), Malachi Martin knew them and their history incredibly well, and he has done a masterful job in putting it together. I thought I knew how damaging Jesuit treachery had been, but as I finish this book I can see that I knew considerably less than half of it. I also came, for the first time, to see how appropriate is that derogatory term "Jesuitical". As appalled as I was, I could hardly help admiring the sheer brilliance of these men, and particularly of their leader, Pedro Arrupe. The way they duped the Church authorities, particularly Pope Paul VI, the way they led him on year after year - promising everything, delivering nothing, and yet managing to justify it all - makes Machiavelli's catalogue of political intrigue seem relatively amateurish.Surprisingly, although Martin makes it very clear where he stands, this is not really a polemical book. In particular, while he makes Arrupe the principal villain of the piece, he refuses to demonize him, and even creates a fairly sympathetic portrait of a man who truly seems to be a complete contradiction.Martin has written some great books, but this is possibly his greatest. It is also probably the best account of the modern history of the Church that I have read - and I have read quite a few good ones. Although it is long (almost half a million words) and complicated, although the subject matter is harrowing (at least for a Catholic), it is difficult to put down.For four hundred years the Jesuits served the Church: the Pope's men, distinguished for their devotion and their holiness, as much as for their fidelity, their ingenuity, and their heroism. And yet, over only a few years, they catapulted themselves from that pinnacle into the abyss, and became the very antithesis of all that they had once stood for. As Martin points out, they are a perfect exemplar of the Latin proverb: Corruptio optimi pessima est - "Corruption of the best is the worst".Anyone who has read Philip Trower's magnificent "A Danger to the State" will be aware of the superlative work the 18th century Jesuits did in South America, where they created what may be the most perfect Christian culture the world has ever seen. The tragic irony is that it is there, in South (and Central) America, that the Jesuits have waged their most successful war against the teaching authority of the Church through their propagation of Liberation Theology. An even more horrific irony is that it was in the 18th century, at the height of their success, that the Society of Jesus was suppressed and extinguished for 41 years - while at their worst, when they were creating a paradigm of dissent and disruption, they were allowed to continue virtually unchecked and unleash on the Church a torrent of abuse and dissent, from which we have scarcely begun to recover.

Brilliant read...Very informative faction! Thank God for the Fr. Malachi Martin, a priest who is willing to tell us the truth about what Vatican II has done to our beloved Catholic faith...

This brilliant & terrifyingly prophetic book, written in 1988's by a former Jesuit insider to Vatican II, explains why and how the Jesuits "went rogue"; and why so many lay Catholics now are confused and suspicious of Jesuit Pope Francis, who is thanks to recent interest by Canon Lawyers in the invalidity of Pope Benedict's supposed "resignation" is increasingly regarded as an antipope as well as a heretic and globalist advocate of the NWO and its syncretistic, ecologically oriented "one world religion".Now that Pope Francis is approving making Jesuit head Fr. Pedro Arrupe a saint, It is vital to read Fr Malachi Martin which shows what a betrayer Arrupe was to the papacy, despite the good works of the first part of his life.Pope Francis “. . . was a protege of Arrupe, who identified Bergoglio as a rising liberal star in the order. That is why he made him a provincial at the age of 36. Arrupe presided over the order during its most intense period of liberalization and used Bergoglio as a liberal enforcer at the infamous worldwide gathering of Jesuits in 1975 that sealed the order’s socialist and modernist direction.”This book, published in 1988, is more timely than ever in explaining the Marxist, "Liberation Theology" corporate culture which formed Bergoglio, so that later a corrupt Vatican and the "St Gallen Mafia" would position Francis to usurp the Chair of St Peter.

Zum Verständnis der aktuellen Vorgänge in der katholischen Kirche ein sehr wichtiges Buch. Leider liegt es nur in englischer Sprache vor, gilt jedoch als das Standardwerk zu diesem Thema.

Malachi Martin has anticipated the nowadays papacy of Francis. By reading "Jesuits" you can understand why none above Jesuits has never been elected Pope before Bergoglio.

Un vero peccato che non abbia trovato una traduzione italiana. Padre Malachi Martin era un intellettuale di altissimo livello. La lettura in lingua inglese risulta impegnativa, ma assolutamente da fare!!