Malachi Martin. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Empire has imploded. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society, the New World Order. With world unity and prosperity as their slogan; with betrayal, scandal, and murder as their ready weapons--the architects of this worldly unity set out to capture the perfect machinery for their global plans: the Vatican. At the vortex of this lethal struggle stands the embattled Pope, a geopolitical genius whose elimination is necessary before Antichrist can be enthroned in St. Peter's Basilica. Two American brothers, one a lawyer and the other a priest, appear to be the perfect pawns. One falls prey to the sharp teeth of greed for power. But what the conspirators cannot know is that the other will become one of the Slavic Pontiff's closest allies...or that he will discover the darkest of hidden things at the very heart of papal Rome. Is Windswept House mere fantasy? Too outrageous to be true? Let reviewers answer: "In biblical times," wrote Dallas Morning News of Malachi Martin, "they would have called him a prophet"; his views, wrote Washington Dateline, "are the stuff of tomorrow's headlines." With descriptions of a Black Mass, a Papal visit with Lucia of Fatima, the reading of the third secret by Pope John XXIII, the decision to forego the release of that secret, the murder of high ranking Vatican officials and more, the reader will be hard pressed to put down this fast moving and apocalyptic assessment of our times. Fact and fiction are woven with such intricacy and skill that this novel will certainly be counted as the best from the pen of a master story-teller.
A Texas lawyer, Sylvia Demarest, has for many years tracked allegations against priests throughout the United States. In a WorldNetDaily article, “She told the Washington Post that her updated list of priests who stand accused of molesting children will reach 1,500 names--representing about 2 percent of the 60,000 priests who have served in the United States since 1984" (“Catholic bashing and pedophile priests,” March 25, 2002).
According to an article in The Boston Globe, the Church “has repeatedly declined to undertake its own study of the prevalence of homosexual or sexual abuse among priests....” The article also says that “Roderick MacLeish Jr., a Boston lawyer, said 90 percent of the nearly 400 sexual abuse victims he has represented are boys, and three-quarters of them are post-pubescent.” Fr. Donald B. Cozzens, a seminary rector in Ohio and author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood, emphasized, “roughly 90 percent of priest abusers targeted boys as their victims.”
Fr. Fiore, in an interview with WorldNetDaily, insisted, "The problem is not clerical pedophilia," Fiore told WND, "but homosexuality." The distinction is important, Fiore noted, because most victims of Catholic clergy abuse are adolescents. "Strictly speaking," Fiore stated, "pedophilia is the sexual molestation of a pre-pubescent child of either sex," but the overriding problem is the abuse of older children from 12 to 18. "More than 90 percent of the cases," Fiore observed, "involve the clerical molestation of teen-age young men."
The article goes on to say that “Fiore was a close friend of priest/author Malachi Martin and supplied Martin with significant material for his later works” (“'Gay' culture in Catholic Church grows,” Toby Westerman, March 24, 2002). This point is significant because one of the last books Malachi Martin wrote before he died was Windswept House, a riveting novel which described a satanic ritual in the Vatican that was simultaneously coordinated with another similar ritual taking place in South Carolina. Many people regard his book a mere fiction, but Martin's affirmation that his book described a real satanic ritual at the Vatican was confirmed by John Loeffler, host of the Steel on Steel radio show. Mr. Loeffler personally asked Fr. Malachi Martin (who had been a regular guest on his show) about the reported dedication to satan within the Vatican:
"You know Malachi confirmed--the first part of his book, Windswept House--he confirmed the dedication of the Vatican to satan in a secret ceremony that occurred unknown even to the Pope at that time, that he managed to pick up. And I did ask him, 'Was this true? Did it happen?' And he [Fr. Martin] said, 'yes, it did.'" - John Loeffler (July 29, 2000 radio show)
From http://www.tldm.org/news4/scandal1.htm