ILLIAM F. JASPER, The New American, March 3, 1997.
Although it passed completely without notice in the U.S. press; a bombshell that was dropped in Rome last November
continues to send shockwaves that are being felt in political, and religious circles worldwide. The explosive charge was released
by Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo in an address to the Fatima 2000 International Congress on World Peace held in Rome
November 18th-23rd. Addressing an international audience of bishops, priests, nuns, and laity, the archbishop charged that
there are members of the Catholic Church hierarchy in Rome who are secretly involved in formal satanic worship.
Commenting on the growth of evil in the world and the need for the Church to appoint more exorcists to aid the many people
who are possessed, obsessed, or disturbed by demonic activity, the archbishop stated:
Now, the third dimension [of evil] is the most dangerous. It is subtle and the most terrible.... I could not believe when
I discovered this third dimension of evil. The third dimension is people who follow instructions in satanic sects....
Now with this third dimension, I'm sorry to say, our Church belongs to it. I'm very sorry, I could not understand
myself, and even now I don't understand. But the only consolation I have is that, well, Judas Iscariot was one.
Together with Jesus three years, he never changed, then I understand that the third dimension of evil existed not
only now, but it existed even then. Because nothing could change the heart of Judas Iscariot nothing.
Occultic Clergy The Most Reverend Emmanuel Milingo, formerly the Archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, now works in the
Vatican as the Special Delegate to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Immigrants and Itinerants. The archbishop,
who is an official Church exorcist, is the author of Face to Face With the Devil and other books, and travels throughout the
world preaching and healing. The outspoken cleric accused fellow Roman Catholic clergymen of protecting Satan and
his minions: "The devil in the Catholic Church is so protected now that he is like an animal protected by the
government; put on a game preserve that outlaws anyone, especially hunters, from trying to capture or kill it. The
devil within the Church today is actually protected by certain Church authorities from the official devil-hunter in the
Church the exorcist. So much so that the exorcist today is forbidden to attack the devil. The devil is so protected that
the one who is the hunter, the exorcist, is forbidden to do his job." Understandably, shocking statements such as these
from a Vatican "insider," a Prince of the Church, caused a commotion in the Italian press. Il Messaggero, the largest Rome
daily, gave front-page headlines to the archbishop's accusations, as did many other major secular newspapers. Three days later
the Zambian prelate held a press conference to clarify his remarks, causing a second wave of sensational media coverage. To
the question, "Are there men of the curia who are followers of Satan?" Milingo responded, "Certainly there are
priests and bishops. I stop at this level of ecclesiastical hierarchy because I am an archbishop, higher than this I
cannot go." Il Tempo and other major dailies reported that Archbishop Milingo cited papal statements to back up his charges.
"Paul VI said that the smoke of Satan had entered into the Vatican," the archbishop is quoted as saying, "but I have
not heard that anyone has seen him leave. We must pray so that he will go away." The archbishop was referring to a 1972
statement by Pope Paul VI on the damage to the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council. Surveying that wreckage,
the Pontiff stated: "From somewhere or other, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God."
Censorship and Suppression Amazingly, nary a word of Archbishop Milingo's astonishing allegations made it into the American
press. The U.S. media, ever attentive to the demands and fulminations of feminist nuns, apostate priests, prattling perverts, and
heretical theologians, took a walk on this stunning story. It was not until mid-January, when copies of the Winter 1997 issue of
The Fatima Crusader, a Catholic magazine, began arriving in mail boxes that the establishment media blackout was broken.
Published by the Servants of Jesus and Mary in Constable, New York, The Fatima Crusader is associated with the National
Committee for the National Pilgrim Virgin of Canada, which sponsored the Fatima 2000 Congress in Rome. "Without a doubt,
the single most electrifying moment of the Congress was Archbishop Milingo's startling assertion that satanism is being practiced
within the very walls of the Vatican," stated Father Nicholas Gruner, founder and publisher of The Fatima Crusader, in a letter
accompanying the magazine. The Fatima Crusader added more fuel to the fire ignited by the archbishop with a statement from
another Vatican "insider," Father Malachi Martin, a famous church historian and best-selling author. When questioned
about Archbishop Milingo's statement, Father Martin replied: "Archbishop Milingo is a good bishop and his
contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs
in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the
court of St. Peter in Rome." This confirmation from Father Martin is significant. As an exorcist, a former counselor
and aide to Cardinal Augustin Bea, and a Vatican scholar of considerable renown, Father Martin is well qualified to
comment on this subject. In Windswept House, his riveting novel published last year, Martin starkly portrays our world in the
death grip of a monstrous, satanic cabal fast approaching the consummation of its insidious scheme for global dominion. In the
opening pages of that book, Martin describes in frightful detail a demonic ceremony called "The Enthronement of the
Fallen Archangel Lucifer," which allegedly was carried out secretly by a coven of Satanists including high-level
Catholic clergymen on June 29, 1963 in the Chapel of St. Paul in Rome. According to the novel's account, the ritual
conducted at the sacred site in the Vatican was a subdued ceremony disguised as a Catholic service, but through
telephonic transmission was connected to and synchronized with a hideous, full-blown satanic service conducted in
the United States. Martin had first made passing reference to the diabolical rite in his non-fiction 1990 best-seller, The Keys
of This Blood. However, since publication of Windswept House, he has stated that the event has been documented.
Contacted by THE NEW AMERICAN at his residence in New York, Dr. Martin confirmed that the "Enthronement
of the Prince" did indeed occur as described in his novel. "Oh, yes, it is true; very much so," he said. "But the only
way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form." "Are more members of the clergy becoming aware of this
diabolical penetration?" we asked. "Yes," he replied, "they are beginning to scratch their heads and say that does
explain things" such as the massive apostasy and dramatic decline in Catholic religious practice since the time of the
"Enthronement" and the Second Vatican Council. And Archbishop Milingo? "He's merely like that actor in the movie
Network, who got fed up and said 'I'm not going to take it anymore,"' said Dr. Martin. But clerics like the archbishop, he
noted, end up "like those in the political realm who deviate from the Clinton point of view: you are marginalized,
you're 'funny,' you're a madman, you are not 'mainstream."' Indeed, the outspoken archbishop appears to have been
marginalized into near non-existence by the U.S. media. A Lexis/Nexis data search found not a single mention of his Fatima
Congress statements, although several articles critical of him earlier in 1996 turned up. THE NEW AMERICAN called the
Associated Press in New York.
After checking its database, a researcher at AP's international news desk informed us, "Oh, he's got a big old mouth" and is
always spouting "a lot of insanity." The researcher could not be very specific, but she seemed to consider the archbishop's belief
in the existence of Satan and belief in miracles as ironclad proof of his dementia. Still, we asserted, he is a bishop and a
recognized exorcist. Does that alone not make his claims worthy of coverage? Well, we would have to call the Vatican AP
bureau to find out why it wasn't covered, she informed us. At the AP's Vatican bureau we talked with reporter Dan Wakin,
who repeated the generalized detractions and aspersions against the archbishop that we had already heard from his colleague in
New York. Nevertheless, we insisted, why the total blackout in the U.S. press when the Italian media apparently thought him
credible enough to devote considerable coverage to his charges on more than one occasion? Mr. Wakin had no answer. "We
didn't cover it; that's all I can tell you," he replied.
Fiction or Fact? Malachi Martin asserts that "there are more and more clerics who are finally saying what is apparent." No
doubt, Dr. Martin's Windswept House has contributed greatly to that trend. Father Charles Fiore, in a review of the book in the
Catholic Family News, describes it as "a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fiction." Windswept House
is a gripping account that whirls from Rome to London, New York, Washington, DC, Brussels, Strasbourg, Jerusalem,
Moscow, and other centers of worldly power, graphically drawing the organizational tentacles of a conspiracy against God and
man which is perilously close to enthroning its malefic new world order. That unholy cabal has targeted for infiltration and
destruction not just the Catholic Church, but other religions, institutions, and governments. Father Martin is not
surprised that his latest book has not met the critical acclaim of his past writings. He is not surprised that it has been almost
totally ignored, even though it is published by a mainstream publisher (Doubleday). The reviewers for the major media, he says,
are "steering away from it. They don't know what to think about it; they don't know what to say." But that hasn't stopped
Father Martin's message. He has been interviewed on 117 radio stations and continues to speak out. WILLIAM F. JASPER,
The New American, March 3, 1997. |
