Ah, I can even take it a step further and recommend listening to old Malachi Martin interviews (like this one from the 1970s), and contrast it with the older Martin of the 1990s (when he wrote Windswept House). You should notice a distinct difference in tone, less sarcasm, and I would say further emphasis on Catholic tradition. He was a solid priest back in the day, but I contend got much better with age. I imagine by the 1990s (when he did the Art Bell interviews) he had stared into the abyss sufficiently to atone for past errors, and had collected an even stronger justification for the traditional religion.

Yes, and in the novel, there's a very fascinating way Fr. Gladstone (the fictional protagonist) discovers Bishop Russel in Richmond (who dies before he can interrogate him). Hint: a possessed person tells his friend to check the Virgin Byways to find the satanic mother chapel.

I wouldn't be surprised that the entire American southeast (South Carolina, Virginia, etc.) suffers some various serious side effects from that wicked Entrhonement. These things DEFINITELY have consequences, often long term.

"Continuing with the story of abdication-non-abdication is first of all an offense against the intelligence and moral integrity of Benedict XVI, who would never have renounced the Pontificate if he had been pressured to do so (as all his collaborators know they tried to dissuade him) and he carried out this thoughtful act in complete freedom."

It's not a matter of intelligence. It's one of mis-guided theology, which one can verify by reading the Miller Thesis or even the documents of the Evil 2nd Vatican Council. Those will tell you all you need to know about collegiality (in the inversion of papal infallibility), bifurcating the papacy, demythologizing the papacy, and so forth.

Then again, it's highly likely the pope had to concoct all that munus/ministerium dribble since he had the Clinton Empire holding a gun to the back of his head, forcing him to resign. Today's mainstream Boobus Catholicus commentators don't seem to acknowledge these things.