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Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican's role in today's winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-world government.
x Will America lead the way to the new world order?
x Is Pope John Paul II winning the battle for faith?
x Is the breakup of the Soviet empire masking Gorbachev's worldwide agenda?
The Keys of This Blood is a book of stunning geopolitical revelations. It presents a compelling array of daring blueprints for global power, and one of them is the portrait of the future.
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South Bend Tribune [Martin] makes strong, forceful judgements, emerging in controversy an almost every page. His inside information is mindbiggling. A brilliant writer, organizer, and interpreter. Martin is both entertaining and provocative.
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Washington Dateline The book reads like a novel, but the views are the stuff of tommorow's headlines.
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The Baltimore Evening Sun This book will fascinate you, or anger you, or perhaps both at the same time.
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The Dallas Morning News In Biblical times they would have called him a prophet.
Synopsis
Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican's role in today's winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-world government.
* Will America lead the way to the new world order?
* Is Pope John Paul II winning the battle for faith?
* Is the breakup of the Soviet empire masking Gorbachev's worldwide agenda?
The Keys of This Blood is a book of stunning geopolitical revelations. It presents a compelling array of daring blueprints for global power, and one of them is the portrait of the future.
About the Author
Malachi Martin, eminent theologian, expert on the Catholic Church, former Jesuit and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute, is the author of the national best-sellers Vatican, The Final Conclave, Hostage to the Devil and The Jesuits. He was trained in theology at Louvain. There he received his doctorates in Semitic Languages, Archaeology and Oriental History. He subsequently studied at Oxford and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1958 to 1964 he served in Rome, where he was a close associate of the renowned Jesuit cardinal Augustin Bea and Pope John XXIII. He now lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
ContentsTHE SERVANT OF THE GRAND DESIGN
I. THE GEOPOLITICS OF POWER
PART ONE: THE ARENA
1. "Everything Must Change!"
2. Nobody's Pope
3. Into the Arena: Poland
4. The Visible Man
5. The Keys of This Blood
PART TWO: THE LAY OF THE LAND
6. The Morality of Nations: Whatever Happened to Sinful Structures?
7. The Morality of Nations: Rich Man, Poor Man...
8. The Morality of Nations: Beggarman, Thief
PART THREE: CHAMPIONS OF HAMMER AND SICKLE
9. The Hall of Heroes
10. Karl Marx
11. V. I. Lenin
12. Joseph Stalin
13. Antonio Gramsci: The Haunting of East and West
PART FOUR: CHAMPIONS OF GLOBALISM
14. ...with Interdependence and Development for All
15. The Provincial Globalists
16. The Piggyback Globalists
17. The Genuine Globalists: From Alabama to Zambia, Let's Hear It for Cornflakes
PART FIVE: SHIFTING GROUND
18. Forces of the "New Order": Secularism
19. Forces of the "New Order": The Two Models of a Geopolitical House
20. Diplomatic Connivance
21. "Cold-Eyed, I Contemplate the World"
22. "New Thinking"
23. Vatican Summit
24. "New Architecture"
25. The Millennium Endgame
II. THE GEOPOLITICS OF FAITH
PART SIX: THE VISION OF THE SERVANT
26. Polishness and Papacy
27. The Pacts of Polishness
28. The Pacts of Extinction
29. Papal Training Ground: "Deus Vicit!"
30. Papal Training Ground: Under the Sign of Solidarnosc
31. The Polities of Faith
32. The Polities of Papacy
33. In the Final Analysis
CODA: THE PROTOCOL OF SALVATION
34. The Judas Complex
35. The Triple Weakness
36. Scenario: The Consistory
INDEX