In recent weeks, a firestorm has been raging in Italy. The controversy revolves around the statements of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who made formal allegations that satanic activity is taking place inside the Vatican. When questioned by the Italian press about the allegations, he said that he stood by them. The Archbishop chose the Fatima 2000 International Congress on World Peace held in Rome in November 1996 hosted by The Fatima Crusader magazine as a platform to first make these allegations public.

The Fatima 2000 Congress was sponsored by publisher Father Nicholas Gruner, who has spent the past 18 years attempting to persuade the Vatican to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as She requested in apparitions to three shepherd children at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Father Gruner has also sought disclosure of the Third Secret, which has been kept under lock and key in the Vatican since it was delivered there in 1957 and read by Pope John XXIII in private.

Archbishop Milingo, who works inside the Vatican as the Special Delegate to The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Immigrants and Itinerants, is uniquely qualified to speak on the issue of satanism. Besides his responsibilities in the Vatican, the Archbishop is a world renowned veteran exorcist. These allegations by Milingo are particularly interesting to informed Catholics because the statements that the Archbishop is making are very similar to the recent book written by the well respected Catholic writer, Dr. Malachi Martin.

Dr. Martin's new book, Windswept House, which was published in 1996, was written as fiction, but renowned author and editor Father Charles Fiore, FSSP, claims in his review of the book, which was printed in Catholic Family News, July 1996, that it is "a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fiction."

Dr. Martin's book is shocking because in it he describes a satanic ritual which took place at Saint Paul's Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. Windswept House gives a scary depiction of high ranking Churchmen taking oaths signed with their own blood, who plot to destroy the Church from within and participate in meticulously enacted rituals that blaspheme and devilishly mimic the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

When Malachi Martin was questioned in Fatima shortly after the Archbishop's speech, he said, "Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome."

Dr. Martin concluded his statement by discussing the importance of the work of Father Nicholas Gruner, by saying "Father Gruner is fulfilling a desperately needed function in the ongoing perception of Mary's role in the salvation of our imperilled world. Father Gruner is absolutely correct that the consecration of Russia as Our Lady desired, has not been executed. It may not be too late if Father Gruner's plea is heeded in time."

Dr. Martin was Secretary to Cardinal Bea in the Vatican. Dr. Martin says that Cardinal Bea was shown the Third Secret by Pope John XXIII, and came out of the meeting visibly shaken, expressing his distress to Dr. Martin that the Pope was not going to reveal the Third Secret to the world. Dr. Martin also confirms that the content of the Third Secret is the unprecedented crisis in contemporary Catholicism and the failure of the Hierarchy to adequately address it.

In conclusion, it appears obvious that satanism is now, and has been, existing inside the walls of the Vatican itself. Through the courageous and reputable testimony of Archbishop Milingo and Dr. Malachi Martin, this deeply buried Vatican secret is surfacing at long last.