Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of

Description: Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order by Martin Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vaticans role in todays 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 Gorbachevs 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. Author Biography Malachi Martin, eminent theologian, expert on the Catholic Church, former Jesuit and professor at the Vaticans 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 Contents THE SERVANT OF THE GRAND DESIGN I. THE GEOPOLITICS OF POWER PART ONE: THE ARENA 1. "Everything Must Change!" 2. Nobodys 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, Lets 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 Review 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.The Baltimore Evening Sun This book will fascinate you, or anger you, or perhaps both at the same time.The Dallas Morning News In Biblical times they would have called him a prophet.Washington Dateline The book reads like a novel, but the views are the stuff of tommorows headlines. Long Description Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vaticans role in todays 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 Gorbachevs worldwide agenda?The Keys of This Bloodis 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. Review Quote Washington DatelineThe book reads like a novel, but the views are the stuff of tommorows headlines. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 "Everything Must Change!" On October 14, 1978, a new era began for the Roman Catholic Church and its nearly one billion adherents around the world. And with it, the curtains were raised on the first act of the global competition that would end a thousand years of history as completely as if a nuclear war had been fought. A drama that would leave no regions or nations or individuals as they had been before. A drama that is now well under way and is already determining the very way of life that in every place every nation will live for generations to come. On that October day, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church assembled in the Vatican from around the world for the second time in barely two months. Only in August, they had elected Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice as Pope John Paul I. Still in shock at the sudden -- some said suspicious -- death of the man now sadly called the "September Pope," they had convened to settle on a new man from among their contentious and divided ranks who could lead this unique two-thousand-year-old global institution at a time when it seemed in immediate danger of painful self-destruction. Before and after any papal Conclave, discretion is normally the watchword for every Cardinal Elector. But, on this day, Joseph Cardinal Malula of Zaire did not care who in St. Peters Square might hear his views about what kind of pope the Church must have. A stocky, well-built man with brilliant eyes and expressive mouth, Malula gestured at the Vatican buildings all around him, then struck a sharp blow against one of Berninis columns with the flat of his hand. "All that imperial paraphernalia," he declared, "all that! Everything must change.!" At 6:18 P.M. on the second day of Conclave, fifty-eight-year-old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Krakow emerged on the eighth ballot as the new ceremonial papal coronation, John Paul held a press conference for two thousand journalists in the Vatican. On the same day he addressed 125 members of the Vatican diplomatic corps representing over one hundred countries. If such a practice was not unusual in itself, the message on both occasions was certainly new in the all-encompassing international framework that was sketched out. "It is not our business," he said, "to judge the actions of government....But there is no way the dignity and the rights of all men and every human individual can be served unless that dignity and those rights are seen as founded on the life, death and resurrection of Christ.... "The Church seeks no privileges for herself," he went on, "but we do desire a dialogue with the nation." Even though the Churchs diplomatic relations with so many countries "do not necessarily imply the approval of one or another regime -- that is not our business." Nevertheless, the Pontiff went on in a sort of summary preview of the scope of his interests, "we have an appreciation of the positive temporal values, a willingness for dialogue with those who are legitimately charged with the common good of society, and an understanding of their role, which is often difficult." Clearly, this Pope portended more than a soft and appealing personal style in his pontificate; he was pointing early and with startling frankness to a new road of papal internationalism. But what -- or whose -- positive temporal values did he have in mind? And who among temporal leaders did he include among those "legitimately charged with the common good of society"? More pointedly, some began to wonder, who was excluded? If those questions were not raised in public, they were surely raised in more than one political chancery and boardroom around the world. Then there was the matter of his ceremonial coronation. Actually, it was not a coronation at all, for he refused to have the papal tiara placed on his head as the symbol that he was now, among other things and in the language of the ceremonial, "the Father of Princes and Kings." That refusal was not entirely new in itself. His immediate predecessor, the "September Pope," had been the first to break with that ancient custom. Was John Paul IIs behavior a sign of defiance? A sign that he had no fear of the fate of the "September Pope"? Perhaps. Was it a soothing democratic gesture after his unsettling policy speeches of a few days before? Surely, there were those who hoped as much. Popes rarely explain such ceremonial behavior. In his own break with papal custom, however, John Paul gave the most public explanation imaginable. To all those gathered around him in St. Peters, and to the estimated billion or so people around the world watching on television, the Pontiff gave a glimpse of his mind as Pope, and a look at the vigorous papal policies that would soon prove so troublesome to so many. "This is not a time," he said, "to return to a ceremony and to an object" -- the tiara itself -- "that is wrongly considered to be a symbol of temporal power of the Pope." Very soon, his actions and overt policies would illustrate over and over again the meaning of his words: John Pauls firm belief that neither tiara nor the power symbolized by such a thing was an adequate expression of the divine claim he did indeed have to exercise spiritual authority and moral primacy over all those who wield such temporal power in our lives. About the scope of that authority and primacy he tried to leave as little doubt as possible, that October day. Speaking successively in ten languages, he gave to the world a message that was explicit and direct. "Open wide the doors of Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture and civilization and development. Do not be afraid....I want your support in this, my mission." There were those in very high places who understood and winced at the global reach John Paul seemed ready to make his own as Pope. Some powerful leaders at the helm of those states whose boundaries the Pope wanted open to him would not be entirely happy to oblige. Hard-driving leaders of economic and political systems he referred to. with their own plans for development well along in the "vast fields of culture and civilization," would not willingly open those fields to this Pope or any other. And not least among those who took the point, and winced, were some among the highest of John Pauls own clergy, in and out of the Vatican. John Paul anticipated those reactions, and later learned about them in some detail. What seemed more remarkable was the seeming lack of interest demonstrated by the media around the world in what was a stunning glimpse into the heart of the new papacy. Still, if he was worried about either the international concern or the seeming indifference in the media, he gave no sign of it. Instead, shortly after his election, John Paul gave yet another clear notice of how sweeping he intended his policies to be. His intention, he said, was "to start anew on the road of history and of the Church, to start with the help of God and with the help of man." Lest anyone mistake his mind on the subject of temporal power, or perhaps in answer to a worried complaint or two, the new Pontiff addressed the same point again at his first papal Mass. With St. Peters filled to the last seat by many of the leaders he most intended to reach, he declared: "We have no intentions of political interference, nor of interfering in the working out of temporal affairs....It is not our business to judge the actions of governments." Fevered diplomatic brows were not soothed, however. The unasked question in many minds was obvious: "But Your Holiness does intend to insert yourself into our temporal affairs -- to cross our political and cultural and economic boundaries. But if not as a wielder of temporal power yourself, in what guise, then, Holiness?" Apparently, the media at large could still find no way to zero in on what the new Pope might have meant by such statements. Or perhaps they found it dull copy after the death-and-destiny stories of just a few weeks before. Whatever the reason, publicity continued to focus its ever-present lenses on an entire landscape of trivia still to be mined. Everything was grist for the mill, from the fact that he was the tallest of the twentieth-century Popes to the fact that he was the first Pope to wear long trousers under his papal robes, and the first to be an accomplished skier. Even his impressive academic achievements were judged to be better copy than his open notice to the world of what could be expected from him as head of the only power in the world whose organization, institutions and personnel, as well as its authority, crossed all the borders and all the cultures and all the civilizations he had targeted without benefit of tiara in St. Peters Basilica. As if to spare the world the boredom of endless stories that were appearing in the media about such things as his three doctorates, in philosophy, theology and phenomenology; or about his ten published books, including drama and poetry; or about his university lecturing, John Paul launched into activities that were the dream of reporters and editors and proved themselves to be sources of fresh material. Stories not of the past, but the present. Stories not of opaque policies they couldnt explain, but of people with faces they could photograph. Even here, John Pauls activities and gestures began to speak loudly of a new papal approach. Before Octobers end, he had granted a $375 bonus and a five-day vacation -- from the first to the fifth of November -- to all Vatican workers. More significantly, he began to shoulder aside the idea that the Po Details ISBN0671747231 Short Title KEYS OF THIS BLOOD Pages 736 Publisher Simon & Schuster Language English ISBN-10 0671747231 ISBN-13 9780671747237 Media Book DEWEY 909.828 Year 1991 Imprint Simon & Schuster Subtitle The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist West Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780671747237 NZ Release Date 1991-09-15 UK Release Date 1991-09-15 Author Martin Format Hardcover Audience General AU Release Date 2007-04-02 Publication Date 1991-09-01 US Release Date 1991-09-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8295583;

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