Author | Malachi Martin |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | May 1996 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( Hardback) |
Pages | 656 |
ISBN | 0-385-48408-9 |
OCLC | 33948860 |
813/.54 | |
LC Class | PS3563.A725W56 1996 |
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel is a 1996 novel by former Jesuit priest Malachi Martin. The novel details turmoil within the Catholic Church and corruption in Vatican City. Malachi alleged the novel depicted real events in the form a non-fiction novel similar to the works of Taylor Caldwell, or Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. [1]
Windswept House describes a satanic ritual—the enthronement of Lucifer—taking place at Saint Paul's Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. The book gives a depiction of high-ranking churchmen, taking oaths signed with their own blood, plotting to destroy the Church from within. It tells the story of an international organized attempt by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a pope of the Catholic Church to abdicate, so that a successor may be chosen that will fundamentally change orthodox faith and establish a New World Order.
Martin alleged his novel included "real events and real people" told in the form of a non-fiction novel: [1]
[R]oughly 85% of the fictional characters mirror real people, and roughly 85% of events in the book mirror real events, except those which are obviously mythic, such as the final stay of the Slavic Pope in Poland. We are talking about real events and real people masked in the form of a novel; nowadays it is called faction, a term coined by Norman Mailer, but an art form really created by Taylor Caldwell.
Martin frequently compared his novel to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Windswept House includes a fictionalized version of a real-life ritual murder whose perpetrators were known to Martin, but he did not immediately inform the police. [2] He was later was criticized for failing to report what he knew. [2] Truman Capote was similarly criticized for withholding facts from investigators during the writing of In Cold Blood.
Peter Steinfels, in his column in The New York Times, described Windswept House as a "Papal potboiler" that "...employs almost every image of classic anti-Catholicism..." [3] The Independent referred to the novel as a part of Martin's obsession with the "decline and fall" of the Catholic Church. [2]
According to "Kirkus Reviews", the book "should find readers among Catholics and many evangelicals. Too slow-moving, and too specialized, for everyone else." [4]
Author | Malachi Martin |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | May 1996 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( Hardback) |
Pages | 656 |
ISBN | 0-385-48408-9 |
OCLC | 33948860 |
813/.54 | |
LC Class | PS3563.A725W56 1996 |
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel is a 1996 novel by former Jesuit priest Malachi Martin. The novel details turmoil within the Catholic Church and corruption in Vatican City. Malachi alleged the novel depicted real events in the form a non-fiction novel similar to the works of Taylor Caldwell, or Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. [1]
Windswept House describes a satanic ritual—the enthronement of Lucifer—taking place at Saint Paul's Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. The book gives a depiction of high-ranking churchmen, taking oaths signed with their own blood, plotting to destroy the Church from within. It tells the story of an international organized attempt by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a pope of the Catholic Church to abdicate, so that a successor may be chosen that will fundamentally change orthodox faith and establish a New World Order.
Martin alleged his novel included "real events and real people" told in the form of a non-fiction novel: [1]
[R]oughly 85% of the fictional characters mirror real people, and roughly 85% of events in the book mirror real events, except those which are obviously mythic, such as the final stay of the Slavic Pope in Poland. We are talking about real events and real people masked in the form of a novel; nowadays it is called faction, a term coined by Norman Mailer, but an art form really created by Taylor Caldwell.
Martin frequently compared his novel to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Windswept House includes a fictionalized version of a real-life ritual murder whose perpetrators were known to Martin, but he did not immediately inform the police. [2] He was later was criticized for failing to report what he knew. [2] Truman Capote was similarly criticized for withholding facts from investigators during the writing of In Cold Blood.
Peter Steinfels, in his column in The New York Times, described Windswept House as a "Papal potboiler" that "...employs almost every image of classic anti-Catholicism..." [3] The Independent referred to the novel as a part of Martin's obsession with the "decline and fall" of the Catholic Church. [2]
According to "Kirkus Reviews", the book "should find readers among Catholics and many evangelicals. Too slow-moving, and too specialized, for everyone else." [4]