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Father Malachi Martin

Father Malachi Martin

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Father Malachi Martin (1921–1999) was a former Jesuit priest, Vatican insider, and bestselling author renowned for his explosive accounts of exorcism, papal politics, and spiritual warfare within the Catholic Church. As one of the most riveting and frequently requested guests on late-night radio, he offered chilling first-hand accounts of demonic possession and Vatican intrigue, drawing from works including Hostage to the Devil and Windswept House.

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Episode thumbnail for October 18, 1996: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

October 18, 1996: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Oct 18, 1996
3h 22m
Father Malachi Martin, ex-Jesuit priest and former advisor to three popes, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation about the reality of demonic possession and the rituals used to combat it. Drawing on decades of performing exorcisms, Martin describes the process in chilling detail, from the initial psychiatric s...
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Episode thumbnail for April 4, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

April 4, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Apr 4, 1997
3h 9m
Father Malachi Martin, an Irish-born Jesuit who advised two popes and performed exorcisms for three decades, delivers one of the most harrowing accounts of spiritual warfare ever broadcast. Speaking from his Manhattan apartment, Martin describes his rigorous Jesuit training, his path to the Vatican, and the terrifyi...
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Episode thumbnail for July 11, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

July 11, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Jul 11, 1997
3h 2m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, the renowned Catholic priest, author, and former Jesuit who served as advisor to two popes. Fr. Martin shares the remarkable story of his journey from Ireland to the Vatican, his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the unusual arrangement by which Pope Paul VI granted him a rar...
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Episode thumbnail for December 3, 1997: Father Malachi Martin

December 3, 1997: Father Malachi Martin

Dec 3, 1997
2h 23m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with Art recounting his recent pilgrimage to the Vatican, where he discovered a globe bearing all twelve signs of the zodiac inside the Sistine Chapel. Father Martin explains that several popes over centuries kept court astrologers,...
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Episode thumbnail for May 4, 1998: Vatican Murders - Father Malachi Martin

May 4, 1998: Vatican Murders - Father Malachi Martin

May 4, 1998
2h 25m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin to discuss the brutal murder of exorcist Father Alfred Kunz, found with his throat slashed in Wisconsin in what Martin identifies as a Satanist-inflicted killing. Martin reports a 750 percent increase in demonic possession cases since the early 1970s, including disturbing new...
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Episode thumbnail for July 13, 1998: Exorcisms - Father Malachi Martin

July 13, 1998: Exorcisms - Father Malachi Martin

Jul 13, 1998
2h 27m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, eminent theologian and former Jesuit professor at the Vatican''s Pontifical Biblical Institute, for a sweeping discussion of the Roman Catholic Church''s decline and the reality of demonic possession. Martin describes how the Second Vatican Council fundamentally altered core...