As I researched The Canary List, I learned about a statement made in the 1990 non-fiction bestseller 'The Keys of This Blood' by the late Jesuit priest Malachi Martin who was a former professor at the Vatican’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and ex-Secretary of Cardinal Augustin Bea.
I did give much thought to whether readers would be interested in another apparent attack on the Vatican. I felt if Malachi Martin felt there was credibility to the foundational premise, it would be worth exploring, especially after reading essentially the same accusation delivered by the Vatican's chief exorcist two decades later, as mentioned in a previous post:
Here's the quote:
“Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chancelleries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan, which has entered the Sanctuary’ -- an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia –rites and practices– was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.”
I did give much thought to whether readers would be interested in another apparent attack on the Vatican. I felt if Malachi Martin felt there was credibility to the foundational premise, it would be worth exploring, especially after reading essentially the same accusation delivered by the Vatican's chief exorcist two decades later, as mentioned in a previous post:
Here's the quote:
“Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chancelleries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan, which has entered the Sanctuary’ -- an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia –rites and practices– was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites.”