Fr. Malachi Martin attended Belvedere College in Dublin, then studied philosophy for three years at University College Dublin. On 6 September 1939, he became a novice with the Society of Jesus. Fr. Martin taught for three years, spending four years at Milltown Park, Dublin, and was ordained in August 1954. In 1958, he was assigned to serve as a private secretary to Cardinal Augustin Bea, working with him in the Vatican until 1964. This brought Fr. Martin into contact with Pope John XXIII. Fr. Martin’s years in Rome coincided with the beginning of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), which was to transform the Catholic Church in a way that the initially liberal Fr. Martin began to find distressing. He became friends with Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins and Father John Courtney Murray.
In Rome, Fr. Martin became a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where he taught Aramaic, Hebrew, paleography and Sacred Scripture. He also taught theology, part-time, at Loyola University Chicago’s John Felice Rome Center. Fr. Martin worked as a translator for the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Ancient Oriental Churches Division of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity under Cardinal Bea. Fr. Martin became acquainted with Jewish leaders, such as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in 1961 and 1962. He accompanied Pope Paul VI on a trip to Jordan in January 1964. He resigned his position at the Pontifical Institute in June 1964.
In 1964, Fr. Martin requested a release from his vows and from the Jesuit Order. He received a provisional release in May 1965 and a dispensation from his vows of poverty and obedience on 30 June 1965. Even though dispensed from his religious vows, Fr. Martin remained under the obligation of chastity as an ordained secular Priest.
Fr. Martin moved to New York City in 1966, working as a dishwasher, a waiter and taxi driver, while continuing to write. He co-founded an antiques firm and was active in communications and media for the rest of his life.
Fr. Martin often spoke and wrote about the Three Secrets of Fátima and was an ardent supporter of Fr. Nicholas Gruner’s interpretations of them, stating: “Fr. Gruner is fulfilling a desperately needed function in the ongoing perception of Mary’s role in the salvation of our imperiled world. Fr. Gruner is absolutely correct that the consecration of Russia as Our Lady desired, has not been executed”.
00:00 – Introduction & Windswept House
01:16 – Has the Catholic Church Changed or Decayed?
02:29 – Conspiracies, Freemasonry, and Institutional Shifts
05:24 – Deliberate Changes & Internal Policy from the Popes
06:50 – The Institutional Church vs. The Mystical Body
08:00 – Vatican II & The Modernization Blueprint
11:40 – Competing as an NGO in the Modern World
14:05 – The Master Designer of History
15:15 – Why Christ Allows the Deterioration (Permissive Will)
18:18 – Lessons from the Road to Emmaus & The Cross
22:00 – The Purification of the Church & Coming Trials
23:42 – Three Biblical Signs of the Antichrist
25:55 – Upcoming Projects & Closing Thoughts
