Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican's role in today's winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-world government.* Will America lead the way to the new world order?* Is Pope John Paul II winning the battle for faith?* Is the breakup of the Soviet empire masking Gorbachev's worldwide agenda?The Keys of This Blood is a book of stunning geopolitical revelations. It presents a compelling array of daring blueprints for global power, and one of them is the portrait of the future.
A long winded attempt at showing Pope John Paul II and his globalized approach to stopping communism. The book highlights his efforts, the Vatican, Poland, and other stuff (that I lost interest in because it went off in tangents).
The Champions of Communism chapter was well written. Here Fr. Martin gives the historical biographies of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This book was OK and not something I'd hang on to. Thanks!
I make no bones about it: I am a dyed-in-the-wool Malachi Martin fanboy. He is one of the primary influences that led me to the Catholic Church.
There are a few different "flavors" of Martin, as it were. There is the battle-tested exorcist who wrote Hostage to the Devil. There is the Vatican insider and elegist who wrote Windswept House. And there is this Martin, the geopolitical strategist.
The man's range was nothing short of astonishing.
In The Keys of This Blood, Martin lays out the basic conceptual framework of the global order under the pontificate of St. John Paul II. Modern readers will find some things out of date. The Soviet Union is no more, and China has accomplished its headspinning rise as an economic and military power.
And yet...much of this book remains relevant today. I would recommend it more for historical interest than as a current map of the world, but it's great reading nonetheless.
WHOA! … a VAST amount of information and insight is collected here about the crisis in the Church and the crisis of the West. And conspiracy. Some feel the author has gone too far in his interpretation of that information - but, I, for one, am very grateful to have it all to sift through.
It has inspired in my own blog/website on the crisis of Christendom and the need for restoring TRADITION. For anyone who may be interested that website is here: http://corjesusacratissimum.org.
There I have reviewed a number of other books by Martin, although not this one, and numerous traditionalist authors from Belloc to Coulombe ...
A fascinating insight into the formation of the New World Order. Although the principle characters have changed, the underlying goal of ultimate unification appears still present. Whether it be motivated by religion, politics, or social issues in general, Martin pulls back the veil revealing major changes yet to come in the religio-political environment we presently find ourselves in. It is a heavy read, but worthwhile if one wants some background on key players and how they have influenced the New World Order.
This book was a fantastic look into the life of Pope John Paul II. If you want to know what he was about, why he traveled so much and what he was trying to accomplish; this is the book you want to read. It also gave great insight into his Polishness and the life experiences that led him to fight the evils of both Communism and Materialism. It made me fall in love with the man and the Godman he represented.
View from inside the Vatican during the 70's and 80's. How the Vatican worked with the U.S. and others to bring about change in the Soviet Union. Most interesting book and I can highly recommend it if you are interested in the "non-political" Vatican.
This man speaks likethe insider that he is. As a former Jesuit priest he paints a piicture of power where the Church is every bit as much a player on the stage for world domination as is the secular west and the communist.
Does anyone know if this is worth reading? A lady from my parish gave it to me unasked, but it's very long and I'm thinking of doing the Reader's Digest version.
Dated religio-geo-politics. Still full of insights and good critiques. Martin, however, drops many hints and clues that make his true allegiances dubious and unclear, at the least.