But Martin fails to appreciate the part of Humanism that is congruent with the great commission: to love God and to love others with all your heart, soul, and mind. Quite simply, it is impossible to be a true Christian and to ignore human suffering about you. It is as impossible as a camel going through the eye of a needle. Serfs, slaves, the exploited, the politically oppressed, the poverty stricken, and the culturally isolated are essentially imprisoned by a social framework that refuses to fully acknowledge their plight and this hurt is exacerbated when such people are ignored by haughty, high minded folks who are more concerned with self adornment and rituals of exclusivity than with reaching down and lifting up their fellow beings.
What Martin sees as subversion in the Catholic Church, I see as a wave of necessary change. Martin would clearly argue the contrary, but there is something incredibly narcissistic in his arguments. The Pope is indeed very similar to an ancient monarch, fully replete with elaborate costume, ritual, and requisite human deference from an entire caste of underlings.
In contrast, I feel the need for religious governance or should I say domination is lessened as a man progresses toward a higher plane, transcending from ritualistic dictates of primitive religious systems, upward to an enhanced state of volitional conformance with righteousness. A state that is sustained by an indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Martin exhibits the cage that binds so many.
It is a cage that is constructed of rules, dogma, doctrines, and rituals, many of which are archaic and of questionable relevance in the modern world. To observe his fellow Catholics breaking free from this cage infuses Martin with a bitterness that is apparent throughout this book. In his fervent opposition to change, Martin exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the life of Christ and what Christ stood for.
Christ blatantly opposed the very edifice of self-righteous theology that Martin clings to. Martin comes across like an old man, still attired in apparel that was worn centuries before. Juxtapose the Protestant understanding that God communicates to us directly against the elaborate hierarchy of bishops, cardinals, and popes, and you may begin to see why such change is needed.
But it is a change that Martin cannot stomach and which he snarls about throughout the book. Quite frankly, Martin seems to be lamenting what may be viewed as a sustained continuance of the Reformation. A continuation that increasingly recognizes that contemplation must be combined with action in order to ferment true spiritual growth. There are those who wish no less than to die completely harnessed by the Holy Spirit, engaged in a full passionate gallop for the Lord, right up until the very end.
A new world will be less the result of the success or failure of any particular religion or social system than it will be by changes in the attitudes of human beings. As painful as the alteration of tradition may be for immutable attitudes like Martins, change is inevitable.
Had Martin been alive to witness the installation of the first Jesuit and South American Pope, the very shock of it would likely have killed him. Jun 11, Roger Buck rated it really liked it. This is a book about war — outright warfare — in the Church. Because, although tremendously learned and scholarly, Malachi Martin does not succumb to the temptations of modern academia: he does not shy away from speaking about either the s This is a book about war — outright warfare — in the Church.
Because, although tremendously learned and scholarly, Malachi Martin does not succumb to the temptations of modern academia: he does not shy away from speaking about either the supernatural or the preternatural.
For him to do so, would to be make concessions to the precise kind of worldly, materialistic mentality which he argues — very powerfully — has now betrayed the Catholic Church … Taken from my blog.
Aug 28, Dolores Despiau rated it it was amazing. Learned about St. Ignatius of Loyola, the society he started as a founding father of the Jesuits. The History Of the Jesuits and it's significance in the development of our society today. Nov 03, Landis rated it did not like it.
Here's the entire book reduced accurately to one humdrum and laboriously Scholastic Martinian syllogistic argument: George Tyrrell at the turn of the 19thth century introduced a virus into Jesuitism: Modernism and a concern for the poor and suffering in this world.
Its most prominent expression was in a Jesuit-supported and activist Liberation Theology preval Here's the entire book reduced accurately to one humdrum and laboriously Scholastic Martinian syllogistic argument: George Tyrrell at the turn of the 19thth century introduced a virus into Jesuitism: Modernism and a concern for the poor and suffering in this world. Its most prominent expression was in a Jesuit-supported and activist Liberation Theology prevalent in Central and South America since the s, masquerading as Catholicism and advocating--gasp, that bane of hierarchies everywhere--democracy.
But Catholicism is orthodoxy, not modernism. Catholicism only cares about saving souls, not lives. Therefore, modernism bad. In the fight of Arrupist Jesuitism vs. Papacy, Papacy orthodox and thus good, Arrupism modernist and thus bad. Thus, pope good, Jesuits bad. Seriously, just read that paragraph a few times until you grasp it and you will gain nothing by reading the pages of an at times doltishly simplistic argument, with next to no nuance, which never makes an effort to understand not agree with, but just to understand the other side other than to caricature young Jesuits as ponytail-wearing, pot-smoking, blue jean wearing pseudo-seminarians mostly his description, not mine barhopping in Manhattan in the s.
Even Arrupe himself is reduced to his charisma and political acumen rather than any moral fortitude or caritas. And surprise: I, even though an atheist, mostly agree with the orthodox side: how is that possible? Modernism doesn't need the trappings of church or superstition anymore so it shouldn't be a debate over whether the Church should be modernist or orthodox. Let the church wear all the costumes it wants. In the meantime, let's go fight for the poor without wearing silly costumes and without the church; thus, sure, let the Church be orthodox, nobody should care how elaborate their costumes and rituals are anymore than we care about the cut and trim of Howard Cunningham's Grand Poobah hat on Happy Days; that's for the Poobahs to decide, as far as I'm concerned.
Mostly a pretty painful read with all the subtlety of a Jack Thomas Chick comic tract on how you replace "Jesuits" are going to go to hell for celebrating Halloween replace "wearing blue jeans and talking to peasants". And it's not to say the story Pope vs.
Society of Jesus would not have been an interesting one to tell in the less head-bludgeoning and tendentious hands of a different storyteller, but in the hands of Martin, give it a pass.
Feb 06, Bookman8 rated it it was amazing Shelves: own , religious-studies. While dated , this is an interesting read for anyone now, or formerly, a Catholic. If you were educated in a Jesuit school or college, you should read this. If you went to a Jesuit college in the late sixties, early seventies, you must read this. Martin begins with the history of the Jesuits and their interactions with the papacy.
When we get to the sixties, Vatican II, liberal theology, and Father Arrupe SJ, a fascinating story in itself , it is obvious that Martin believes the Jesuits jum While dated , this is an interesting read for anyone now, or formerly, a Catholic. When we get to the sixties, Vatican II, liberal theology, and Father Arrupe SJ, a fascinating story in itself , it is obvious that Martin believes the Jesuits jumped the proverbial "shark.
The machinations of the Jesuits in South and Central America are viewed as the beginning of the lost path. Martin himself, left the order in , while remaining a priest and continuing to honor his priestly vows, and offering mass privately.
He was throughout his life a conservative Catholic. He died in In this book he provides tremendous insight into the Jesuit order, and to the concurrent trends in the Catholic church. He does carry on at great length in some areas, well after he has made his point and defended it. Still it is important that one soldier on to the very end, because the last 5 pages are excitingly revelatory. I can only think that Reverend Martin is spinning in his grave with the election of a Jesuit to the Papacy.
Add to that the fact that this Pope is also Argentinian, and we no longer have a white pope and a black pope, but a truly grey pope "Who am I to judge. Apr 21, Mari rated it liked it. This book was my formal introduction to the Jesuits. I had heard of the SJs but I knew little about the order and their relationship with the vatican specifically the pope.
Malachi did an admirable job of providing a history of the order as context, its original charter, and the evolution of the same that led to the riff between the order and the holy see. And while it is obvious that Malachi does not agree with course chosen by the Jesuits he offers balance in his criticisms of the popes' appro This book was my formal introduction to the Jesuits.
And while it is obvious that Malachi does not agree with course chosen by the Jesuits he offers balance in his criticisms of the popes' approaches to dealing with dispute. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn about this order. May 28, Michael Tien rated it really liked it. Fascinating account, interesting insights to politics and a period of church history.
Jun 03, Robert added it. Excellent book. I suffered 12 years of my youth at a Jesuit "concentration camp" College. Malachi Martin told how evil this mob is and how much they control the Roman Catholic Church. Feb 26, Ben B rated it liked it Shelves: i-own. A remarkable insight into the history and intrigues of the society. Sep 29, Fawls13 rated it really liked it. Interesting, informative and insightful.
Sep 04, Eduardo rated it it was amazing. The other face of catholicism. This book was very well written and provides invaluable insight into how the Society of Jesus broke their vows to the papacy to become a rogue secret society. I believe the Jesuits are now infiltrating every other secret society in order to promote the New World Order as their complete and perfected "evolution" of mankind. They are deceived by the ultimate deceiver and have in these last days taken over the papacy they were sworn to protect.
That's like the bank guards deciding one day to kick o This book was very well written and provides invaluable insight into how the Society of Jesus broke their vows to the papacy to become a rogue secret society.
That's like the bank guards deciding one day to kick out the bank managers and taking over the bank. However, the analogy breaks down at that point, because the bank guards would still be guards, but if the bank guards decided to nominate one of their own as the bank manager and then paraded that person around as the manager - the analogy would be complete. Feb 03, Trish Remley rated it really liked it. This was quite an eye opener.
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