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Windswept House: A Vatican Novel by Malachi Martin
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Malachi Martin Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1998-07-13 ISBN: 0385492316 Number of pages: 656 Publisher: Main Street Books
Book Reviews of Windswept House: A Vatican NovelBook Review: Here's the key! Summary: 5 Stars
Fr. Martin's books are some of the best I've ever read. I highly recommend them, especially if you are troubled as to what in the world has happened to the modern Catholic Church. His books are eye-opening and reveal much.
This book is "faction" - which means that it is 85% true, but names have been changed. In case you want to reference the real characters involved in this book, I found the following key at [...]
1. Jean-Claude Cardinal de Vincennes - Jean Cardinal Villot (deceased)
2. Cosimo Cardinal Mastroianni - Agostino Cardinal Casaroli (deceased)
3. Silvio Cardinal Aureatini - Achille Cardinal Silvestrini, Cong. Oriental Church
4. Leo Cardinal Pensabene - Pio Cardinal Laghi, Congregation of Christian Education
5. Cardinal Moradian - Gregoire Pierre Cardinal Agagainian (deceased)
6. Cardinal Karmel - Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, Paris
7. Leonard Cardinal Boff - Basil Cardinal Hume, Westminster (deceased)
8. Aviola -Silvano Cardinal Piovanelli, Florence
9. Cardinal Sturz - Franz Cardianl Koenig, Vienna (retired)
10. Cardinal Leonardine - Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Chicago (cf. also Cardinal of Century City and Archpriest in South Carolina) - priest who assisted in the Satanic "Enthronment of the Fallen Angel Lucifer" ceremony in the U.S. referred to in the book
11. German Jesuit Cardinal - Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. (deceased)
12. Bp. "Leo" James Russeton - Bp. John Russell (deceased 1993)
13. Otto Sekuler - real person/name not disclosed, a member of the KGB
14. Frater Medico - Agnes' father, an M.D. (deceased)
15. Aldo Carnesecca - real person/name not disclosed (deceased)
16. Msgr. Daniel Sadowski - Msgr. Stanislao Dziewicz
17. Msgr. Taco Manuguerra - Msgr. Agosto Bueno
18. Jean Cardinal de Bourgogne - John Cardinal Cody
19. Fr. Damian Slattery, O.P. - composite of Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P., and a living former U.S. Dominican, perhaps Fr. Fiore
20. Fr. Christian Thomas Gladstone - composite of 3 priests
21. Mrs. Francesca Gladstone - elderly woman, still living
22. Windswept House - Galveston Island, Texas
23. Cyrus Benthoek - Bill Morrell (deceased)
24. J.J. Cardinal O'Cleary - John Cardinal O'Connor, New York (deceased)
25. Piet Cardinal Svensen - Leo Cardinal Suenens, Belgium
26. Local Chapel/SSPX "Danbury" - Dickinson, TX, chapel of the SSPX
27. Fr. Angelo Gutmacher - P. Schmidt, Cardinal Bea's secretary
28. Giacomo Cardinal Graziani - Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Vatican Secretary of State
29. Noah Cardinal Palombo - Virgilio Cardinal Noe, Vatican (retired)
30. Michael Continho, S.J. - Carlos Cardinal Martini, S.J., Milan
31. Victor Venable, OFM - Fr. Vaughan
32. Serozha Gafin (Moscow) - A. Golovin
33. Gibson Appleyard (U.S.A.) - composite of J. Hale, State Department, and William Colby, C.I.A.
34. Rev. Herbert Tartley, Church of England - former Archbishop of Canterbury
35. Nicholas Clatterbuck - real person, still living
36. Dr. Ralph Channing - real person, still living
37. Cliffview House - 304? Riverside Drive, New York
38. Jacques Deneuve (banker) - K. Schwab, World Trade Organization
39. Gynneth Blashford (publisher) - Bertelsmann
40. Brad Gerstein-Snell (communications) - Ted Turner
41. Sir Jimmie Blackburn (South Africa, diamonds) - James Goldsmith
42. Kyun Kia Moi (Korea) - real person, still living
43. Bp. Novacy - Abp. Pavel Hnilica
44. Maldonado (I.R.A.) - Sig. Alberico Novelli
45. Card. Amedeo Sanstefano (I.R.A.) - Silvio Cardinal Oddi (deceased)
46. Bp. Ievin Rahilly (CT) - Abp. John Whealon, Hartford (deceased)
47. Bp. Primas Rochefort (NY) - Bp. Matthew Clark, Rochester
48. Bp. Bruce Longbottham (MI) - Bp. Kenneth Untener, Saginaw (deceased)
49. Abp. Cuthbert Delish (WI) - Abp. Rembert Weakland, Milwaukee (retired)
50. Bp. Manley Motherhubbe (NY) - Bp. Howard Hubbard, Albany
51. Bp. Raymond Luckenbill (MN) - Bp. Raymond Lucker, New Ulm
52. Bp. Ralph Goodenough (IL) - composite of Chicago auxiliaries
53. Sr. Fran Fedora (Seattle) - Fran Ferder
54. Sr. Helen Hammentick (New Orleans) - ?
55. Sr. Cherisa Blaine (Kansas City) - Sr. Theresa Kane
56. "Capstone" - real person, still living
57. Card. Schuyteneer (Belgium) - Godfried Danneels, Belgium
58. Card. Azande (Gold Coast) - Francis Arinze, Congregation of Saints
59. Card. Reinvernunft - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
60. Abp. Canizio Buttafuoco - Abp. Gianni Danzi, Office of Secretary of State
61. Holy Angels House - Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, IL
62. Fr. George Haneberry - Fr. Donald Goergen, O.P., former provincial of Chicago Dominicans, author of "Sexual Celibate, now at an ashram in Kenosha, Wisconsin
63. Fr. Avonodor (Chicago Chancery) - Msgr. John Roche, Archdiocese of Chicago, friend of Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin; now works for Helene Curtiss Cosmetics, Chicago
64. Fr. Lotzinger (Willowship) - Fr. Robert Lutz, St. Norbert's Church, Northbrook, IL
65. Sr. Angela - Alice Halpin, Lutz's school principal, former nun
66. Fr. Tomkins (Roantree) - fictitious name
67. Fr. Keraly (Harding) - fictitious name, or perhaps Fr. Kealy
68. Fr. Goerge Hotelet, O.P. - Fr. Georges Cottier, O.P., Rome, a papal theologian
69. Dr. Carlo Fiesole Marraci - Giovanni Baptista Marini-Bettolo Marcioni
70. Fr. Sebastian Scalabrini - Francis E. Pellegrini, murdered on May 30, 1984 in the process of exposing a satanic cult in Chicago
Summary of Windswept House: A Vatican NovelThe Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society. Utopia.
These are men with nothing in common but immense power and a towering ambition for still more. With world unity and prosperity as their slogan--and with betrayal, scandal, and murder as their ready weapons--they have the means and the will to capture as their own the perfect global machinery for their plans: the oldest, wiliest, and most stable political chancery in the world--the Vatican.
At the vortex of this lethal struggle stands the embattled Pope, a geopolitical genius whose elimination is the short-term solution to a long-term goal, and two American brothers, Paul and Christian Gladstone, one a lawyer and the other a priest, who appear to be the perfect pawns. One falls prey to the sharp teeth of greed for power. The other will become one of the Slavic Pontiff's closest allies...and will discover the darkest secrets at the very heart of papal Rome.
From America to Europe to Russia, in broad landscapes and clandestine corridors, a rich and varied cast--presidents and politicos, simple saints and savvy sinners, popes and pope-makers--clash with one another amid dramatic and sometimes bloody events that will affect the destiny of every person alive today.
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