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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (17091)	9/24/2001 9:50:08 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Up until his last book, his reputation was impeccable. His research was thorough when he wrote his histories, and his experience in the Vatican as an aide to John XXIII gave him unique insights on the various machinations of Vatican politics. His book The Keys of this Blood is probably the best account of how the wall came down in 1989. His last book, Windswept House, raised a lot of eyebrows. It is written in the form of a novel, but is claimed to be historically accurate. He wrote it in this form because many of the players are still alive, and some need to be protected. The most astonishing thing claimed in Windswept House is that a black mass took place in a chapel somewhere in the Vatican in 1962. It was a 'sending mass.' There was a receiving mass said simultaneously at a seminary in South Carolina. The person saying this mass was supposedly a young seminarian who went on to become Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago. This was a bit much for a lot of people. Liberal Catholics never liked him much anyway. Conservative Catholic newspapers like The Wanderer wondered whether the good Father wasn't getting senile. Hard line traditionalists embraced it, though. To them, it explained a lot. The Church has been in autodestruct mode since the second Vatican council, and this evil mass coincided with the convening of the council. When I first read the book I believed it. At the time I was involved with the Society of St. Pius X, which is a traditional group. I haven't hung around them much lately. Now I'm inclined to think Father Martin got a little fanciful in his old age, but who can say. He did seem lucid right to the end of his life.