If the book wants Paul VI to be the final victor, then it's an evil book.
If you were Catholic, you'd understand what I just wrote.
Sorry if the post above comes across as insulting.
Think about it for a minute.
Fr. Martin writes a book with the hero being a man who changed (dumbed down and possibly invalidated) all seven sacraments. Replaced the Holy Mass with a rip off of the Lutheran service. Removes all Catholic opposition to communism and tells the U.N. that they are the "ultimate" source of hope for the world.
So, once that happens, everyone in the world is going to embrade the new catholicism? So what if they did? The world wouldn't be embracing Christ, it would be embracing the counterfeit church.
Are you implicitly or explicitly saying that Paul VI is superior to the Church Our Lord founded? Did Our Lord get it so wrong that Paul VI had to do a rewrite?
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I put that point in there in response to the accusation that it was a hit piece against Paul VI.
And to your points, the book was published in 1964. You can't blame him for being skeptical but hoping for the best. Paul VI hadn't done any of his disastrous actions at that point.