William H. Kennedy http://www.oocities.org/whkinfo1/malachi_martinsophia.htmRadio talk show host and conspiracy buff Alex Jones recently made some negative comments about Malachi Martin on his 1/17/2003 broadcast. Jones' guest was none other than Catholic writer and noted controversialist Hutton Gibson now 84 years old. When a caller asked about Malachi Martin's career Gibson and Jones had the following exchange:Gibson: I have read some of Malachi's works and think he was part of a plot.
Jones: So you think it was disinfo?
Gibson: A good deal of it, yes.
[Commercial Break...]
Jones: ...Father Malachi Martin wrote the 'Keys of this Blood' and other books that I have read...and only talked about some of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr system...and in the last segment Hutton Gibson said that he thought he [Martin] was putting out some misinformation and one of their agents...they do that allot...they mix a little bit of truth with a lot of lie or a little bit of lie with a lot of truth...as a poison pill...why would you say that?...I mean give us your summation of what the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr really is and how its really run compared to what Malachi Martin had to say...[Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives.html ] Gibson never outlined his reasons for making this accusation about Father Malachi Martin on the show. Instead of offering sound evidence of the stark claim that Martin was a disinformation agent of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr, Gibson merely went on to rehash some topics which are found in Keys of this Blood. What exactly is Hutton Gibson talking about? Why does Alex Jones - who uses Malachi Martin's Hegelian critique of modernity almost daily [see Keys of this Blood page 201] - allow such unfounded claims to be expressed without proper docuмentation? To make such a harsh assertion and then offer absolutely no solid substantiation is very poor journalism. What proof does Hutton Gibson have to offer and what qualifies him to make such outrageous and unfounded claims about Malachi Martin?
Father I will defend you!!!
Apart from being the father of famous actor Mel Gibson, Hutton has had a varied career being a railway brakeman and champion of the quiz show Jeopardy! in the 1960's. Hutton Gibson produced a Catholic sedevacantist book entitled Is the Pope Catholic? which is a well thought out treatment of the state of the Church in our time and well worth reading. However, Gibson's work met with little academic or popular success. The elder Gibson never achieved any degree of accomplishment as a popular writer on the level of Malachi Martin and perhaps this has contributed to his unfounded claims about the priest. Hutton may just be a jealous old Catholic curmudgeon in this case. Much of this lack of success stems from Gibson's continued allegiance to the anti-Communist teachings of Senator Joseph McCarthy [as hard as it is to believe that McCarthyism still has any original proponents.]
In another diatribe when Gibson was asked about the use of the term 'ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ' he stated 'What are you supposed to call a queer?' [Alex Jones show airdate 3/12/03] What good does such bigoted statements do? How does this help those who suffer with sɛҳuąƖity issues who may come to the Catholic Church for help? Such statements only drive people away from traditional religion.
If not for Mel Gibson's film success combined with his promotion and fanatical defense of his dad as a thinker, Hutton Gibson would not get any national radio exposure. Gibson's unfounded claims about Father Martin must be ignored by any reasonable person.
Another recent attack against Malachi Martin comes with Father Palladino's book The Eclipse of the Church which focuses on the events which occurred at the 1963 Conclave wherein Pope Paul VI was elected to the Petrine Office. Palladino correctly points out that Cardinal Siri was initially elected Pope at the Conclave but, for whatever reasons, a re-ballot elected Pope Paul VI. Palladino suggests that Martin had a dirty hand in organizing this re-balloting and getting his friend Paul VI elected. What Palladino and other critics do not realize is that Martin was merely an outside aid to the Jesuit Cardinal Bea and was not a power broker at the Conclave. Martin had only taken his final Jesuit vows in 1960 was was not around long enough to pull any real weight in Vatican affairs.
Any influence Martin exerted in the Vatican was merely deferred power from Cardinal Bea and he was, in this regard, merely a multilingual errand boy for his Jesuit superiors. Martin was certainly an insider at the Vatican at this point but he definitely was not a power broker who set policy. Having this deferred power without doubt went to Martin's head [as he informed the author of this article] but he was merely doing the bidding of his leaders. Martin's role at the 1963 Conclave may be likened to that of President George W. Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Like Card, Martin was an insider but only wielded the power of his superior over other men. Blaming Martin for the events which occurred at the 1963 Conclave is like blaming Andrew Card for the 2003 War in Iraq because Card followed the orders of the President in organizing the conflict. Both men were insiders but were only exerting the influence of their superiors.
It should also be pointed out that part of Martin's motivation for leaving the Vatican in 1965 was that he did not like the dirty dealings of the liberals in the Church. Martin was certainly in the liberal camp in 1963 but had grave reservations about the back stabbing methods and radical changes that the leftists in the Vatican were planning. Any activities Martin undertook between his arrival in Rome in 1958 until his departure in 1965 was directed by daily contact with his Jesuit superiors and makes him exempt from criticism during this period. Consequently, Palladino's criticism of Martin fails to see the entire picture and must be dismissed by the discerning thinker.
Recent rumors have appeared on various Catholic e-groups that Malachi Martin had Jєωιѕн blood and was a member of various Jєωιѕн groups. This is plainly a blatant lie. Martin's father was an Englishman who moved to Ireland and his mother was fully Irish - this has been confirmed by Martin's surviving relatives in Ireland. Any contact he had with Jєωιѕн groups centered on his status as a Hebrew scholar. Any gossip centering around Martin being an 'agent' of Jєωιѕн interests is pure bunk and has no basis in reality and must be ignored.
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