A startlingly revealing and detailed account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican
Frédéric Martel (PhD) is a French writer and researcher. He is also a journalist for French national radio and the author of ten books, which have been translated and published in more than 25 countries. He lives in Paris. In the Closet of the Vatican is published simultaneously in eight languages.
[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption [...] What Martel
does, quite masterfully, is to connect the dots that reveal an
ecclesial system in profound decay [...] In the Closet of the
Vatican examines in impressive detail the double lives led by many
of the church's prelates [...] Without question, [the book] is a
truly remarkable publishing event
*National Catholic Reporter [US]*
A truly shocking theory about the Vatican; the largest gay
community in the world
*Il Giornale [Italy]*
I urge every Catholic to read it, however difficult that may be […]
The book did not surprise me, as such, but it still stunned,
shocked, and disgusted me. You simply cannot unread it, or banish
what is quite obviously true from your mind […] This may seem like
hyperbole, but in my view, the last drops of moral authority the
Vatican might hope to have evaporate with this book.
*Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine*
Probably one of the best books by a journalist ever written
*Gazeta Wyborcza [Poland]*
Martel’s conversational style is that of the raconteur […] he tells
a captivating story
*Catholic Herald*
Stunned may be a much-overused word, but it's the best one I know
to describe my wonderment at the dimensions of what has come into
view […] All this builds up to the realisation that you are seeing
something which, once seen cannot be unseen. By anyone who has seen
it. Once it is seen, it is known as a fact about the Church's
institutional working that cannot be got around. To pretend
otherwise is a sign of delusion.
*James Alison, ABC.net.au*
A glimpse of the poisonous world that Frédéric Martel, himself gay,
has spent five years researching for this book
*Andrew Brown, Guardian*
An important revelation
*Daily Telegraph*
Sensational … this is much, much more than an expose of some
taffeta-clad hypocrites…fascinating
*Sunday Times*
Explosive … Pope Francis seems to be … determined to reform the
Vatican … If Martel’s book proves anything, it is that this is now
seriously overdue … It would be a mistake to rubbish this book …
[Martel is] a highly intelligent and honest journalist and the
Church will need courage to respond to his revelations
fruitfully
*The Tablet*
A remarkable feat of investigation … Any friend of the Roman
Catholic Church needs to take this book’s message seriously
*Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Times*
When God died, the official cause was elderly enfeeblement; after
reading Frederic Martel’s expose of infamy in the Catholic church,
I suspect that the old boy committed suicide in remorse, aghast at
the crimes and un-Christian sins of organised religion
*Observer*
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