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Otro libro más rojo adoctrinado: Malachi Martin, eminent theologian, expert on the Catholic
Church, former Jesuit and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute, is author of the national best-sellers Vatican, The
Final Conclave, and Hostage to the Devil. He was trained in theology at Louvain. There he received his doctorates in Semitic Languages, Archeology and Oriental History. He subsequently studied
at Oxford and at the Hebrew University. From 1958 to 1964 he
served in Rome, where he was a close associate of the renowned
Jesuit Cardinal, Augustin Bea, and Pope John XXIII. He now lives
in New York Cit
Aquí va la cita: The jesuits, the society of Jesus and the betrayal of Roman catholic church, Malachi Martin: state of war exists between the papacy and the Religious
Order of the Jesuits-the Society of Jesus, to give the
Order its official name. That war signals the most lethal
change to take place within the ranks of the professional Roman
clergy over the last thousand years . And, as with all important
events in the Roman Catholic Church, it involves the interests,
the lives, and the destinies of ordinary men and women in the
millions .
As with so many wars in our time, however, the Jesuits did not
declare theirs against the papacy. Indeed, though the first open
skirmishes began in the 1 960s, it took time for the effects of the
war-even very profound effects-to become widely apparent. Because the leaders in the war were the Superiors of the Order, it was
a simple matter to place men of like mind in charge of the organs
of power and authority and communication throughout the organization. With that much accomplished, the vast bulk of Jesuits
had precious little to say in the extraordinary decisions that followed.
In time, there were rumblings and warnings of what was happening. "A coup d'etat is taking place, " one Jesuit wrote, as he
looked aghast at "the ease with which the dissolution of the established order [in the Society of Jesus] is being achieved."
By then, however, it was already the early seventies, the war had
14 THE WAR
already been underway for nearly a decade, and such alarms were
of little avail. In fact, given the strict obedience of Jesuits-a fabled
and time-tested element of the old structure that the new leaders
still found useful when dealing with dissenters from their strange
and unfamiliar policies-the rank and file of the Order were given
no alternative but to go along with the changes that, in the words
of another Jesuit, "wrenched the Society of Jesus from under us
and turned [it] into some monstrous entity under the guise of good
goals ."
Still in all, one might be inclined to ask, suppose there is a
problem between the Roman papacy and Jesuits; how bad can it
be? Call it a war if you like. But, really, isn't it just another squabble in the Roman Catholic Church? In a world that finds itself
teetering on the perpetual brink of annihilation, and in which half
the population is starving to death while most of the other half is
pinned in the mud by one sort of injustice or another, how important can some dusty theological argument be? About as important,
perhaps, as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin!
The fact is, however, it is not a squabble about niceties, nor
even a theological falling-out between the papacy and Jesuits that
involves only scholars, clerics, and the faithful. As both papacy
and Jesuits know, the effects of their policies go far beyond the
confines of the Roman Catholic Church; even far beyond the
nearly one billion Catholic men and women around the world.
Almost everything that happens in this war bears directly and
immediately on the major dissensions that wrack every nation and
people in the world. It is involved in the very heart of the rivalry
between the United States and the Soviet Union, for example. It
bears right now on the fate in misery or happiness of 350 million
people in Latin America. It affects the deeply changing public
moral code and national consensus of the American people; the
imminent preponderance in human affairs of the People's Republic of China; the fragile persistence of a free Western Europe; the
security of Israel; the still rickety promise of a viable Black Africa
just aborning. All of these things, separate and unconnected as
they may seem, are not only interwoven with one another, but are
and will be profoundly influenced by the tides and outcome of the
global collision between the papacy and the Society of Jesus.
All wars are about power. In the war between the papacy and
the Society, power flows along the lines of two fundamental and
concrete issues. The first is authority: Who is in command of the
worldwide Roman Catholic Church? Who