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In the Closet of the Vatican
- Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the Closet of the Vatican is a fascinating description and evaluation of financial, sexual and political misconduct throughout the Catholic Church at a time when new revelations are being uncovered each and every week. This audiobook explores the underlying causes and includes interviews with numerous Cardinals and other individuals, some of whom cannot be named.
Martel reveals financial scandals in the Vatican bank; political collusion with unsavoury regimes, including Castro’s Cuba and Pinochet’s Chile; sexual abuse and hypocrisy over homosexuality. In this explosive account, Martel goes to the heart of corruption in the Catholic Church and inside the Vatican itself.
Martel is a researcher and writer. He has a PhD in social sciences and four master's degrees in law, political science, philosophy, and social science (University La Sorbonne). He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University and taught at Sciences-Po Paris and at the HEC’s Business School MBA in Paris.
He is the author of nine books, including On Culture in America (Gallimard, 2006) and the best seller Mainstream: On the Global War on Culture and Medias (Flammarion, 2010, translated in 20 countries). He has had articles in Newsweek, the New Yorker and the New York Times.
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- Ross Wallace
- 20-05-2019
Wow!
What a book! Incredible detail. Brilliantly researched. Beautifully read. This book is definitely a must!
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- Michael
- 24-10-2020
Magnificent Book
One the truly amazing books ever written. It's written with beautiful pose and researched with amazing effort.
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- Rodney Wetherell
- 14-05-2019
Hair-raising account of hypocrisy in the Vatican
Though not a Catholic, I believed I knew something about the hypocrisy and corruption within the Vatican, just by reading about all the coverups of sexual abuse, and things like Vatileaks, but Frederic Martel reveals so much more in his outstanding account of the subject. He has interviewed dozens, even hundreds of clergy and others in many countries, and told a story of double standards and internal corruption that had me reeling from shock at times. Yet there have been lesser exposes before, not to mention Vatileaks, and things seem to have gone on much as before - how does this city state maintain its wealth and position while these things go on? Pope Francis may be fighting a losing battle - and the next Pope will probably be another conservative like John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Martel is to be congratulated for his sterling work.
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- Chris Herrick
- 05-11-2022
Love the Sinner, Not the Sin!
Revelatory examination of the consequences of the denial and extraordinary efforts to conceal the sexual shadowland at the heart of an all-to- human institution.
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- Dudley
- 30-08-2019
Don’t buy bitchy tabloid nonsense
Given the credentials of the author I expected a well researched account.
Instead bitchy tabloid nonsense. Hard to determine where the truth starts or finishes.
Don’t waste your money, I’m going to try & get mine back.
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- John Maher
- 14-12-2019
Wordy, inferential
I would not recommend this book, seems to be pushing an agenda, almost obsessionally. A lot of gravy, little meat.
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