Just out of curiosity, is anyone here familiar with the writings of Malachi Martin?
If so, what are your opinions of them?
Heard about him years ago. Never read any of his books but heard a lot of his interviews.
The circles i was moving in back then non catholic people would link to his testimonies as evidence of corruption in the catholic faith... i would only listen to about 5min or so and dismiss him as some sort of defrocked priest with a grudge against the church.
You see i have no practicing catholic friends i was not involved with parish life the only contact with fellow catholics was through my work in the pro life movement and everyone was very devout and very orthodox.
I was only begining to learn the faith and i did not learn it from anyone all my learning i took upon myself i.e read the popes etc.
I bought theology books etc bought a teach yourself catholic apologetics course... I would never have dared talk to catholics about the faith back then out of fear of being discovered how ignorant of the faith i was. But being in the pro life movement i had to learn.
I was kind of outside of the church in a way and from the outside the perspective of the church was business as usual no real evidence of internal conflict.
It was not until pope francis that i became aware there was even a problem and not until i came here that i started discussing the faith with fellow catholics.
But what this crisis has shown me is that a lot of what i rejected in my learning has to be re examined
Father Martins interviews now seem a bit more realistic to say the least.
