A few days ago, OnePeterFive published an article describing the epic reverse suffered by Baron Albrecht von Boeselager, grand chancellor of the Order of Malta, in his attempt to force through a “reforming” Chapter General with his own secularizing agenda. …
Category: Knights of Malta

Knives Out: Knights of Malta Saga Reaches New Crisis Point
Editor’s Note: Malta Insider is a pseudonym that encompasses the collaborative efforts of multiple concerned insiders with knowledge of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The internal civil war that has been running in the Order of Malta for the …

The Order Of Malta On The Defensive – A Rebuttal That Rebuts Nothing
My 27 June article, “Stalinist Purges and More in the Knights of Malta,” has elicited a response in the form of a Declaration of the Grand Magistry of the Order (PDF). I am publishing this brief reply solely to avoid …

Stalinist Purges and More in the Knights of Malta: New Fast-Breaking Developments
On 16 May OnePeterFive described the takeover of power in the Order of Malta by the German, secularising party led by the Grand Chancellor, Baron von Boeselager. The story goes back to December 2016, when the then Grand Master, Fra …

Traditionalism and the Order of Malta
The Knights of Malta are a nine-hundred-year-old order of the Catholic Church, and one could aptly write a treatise on why tradition is and should be cherished among them — but that is not what I am concerned with here. …

Una Voce Federation Confirms TLM Ban at Knights of Malta Violates Summorum Pontificum
The International Una Voce Federation (FIUV) is an organization that seeks “to foster the cultural heritage of the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church upon which so much of European culture, music, art, literature and architecture has been built …

The Knights of Malta and the Death of Chivalry
On May 1, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which has just gone through one of its most tumultuous and troubling periods in its 900-plus-year history (see our coverage here), conducted its Chapter General. The purpose: to elect a new …

If Henry Sire Had Distributed Condoms to the Poor, He’d Still Be in the Knights of Malta Right Now
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Henry Sire, Oxford-educated historian and writer of Phoenix from the Ashes, was in fact the pseudonymous “Marcantonio Colonna”, author of the blockbuster book, The Dictator Pope. Approximately five seconds later, he was summarily suspended from the …

Controversial Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta Loses in Court
“There is a new turn in the criminal mystery story concerning the Order of Malta and its current Grand Chancellor, Albrecht von Boeselager.” So begins a story today at the Austrian Catholic website Kath.net*. “Boeselager,” the report continues, “had started legal …
Knights of Malta Coup Turns Inward; TLM Banned in Apparent Violation of Summorum Pontificum
We have written at considerable length about the tragic saga of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in these pages over the past two years. In my most recent piece, I discussed how the recent election has highlighted how fully …
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