Paperback: For almost forty years, Honduran ambassador Alejandro Valladares was among the closest friends of the man who would become Pope Francis' "vice pope," Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga.
In this important work, Valladares' widowed spouse reveals the troubling web of financial and moral corruption that she uncovered after their family's life savings disappeared in a bogus investment scheme recommended by Maradiaga, one that led ultimately to the highest reaches of the Vatican, and to Pope Francis himself.
In this important work, Martha Alegría Reichmann de Valladares reveals the naked impunity and abuses committed by Maradiaga under the protection of the pope himself, and cries out for justice.
No concerned Catholic can ignore her testimony.
Sacred Betrayals: A Widow Raises Her Voice Against The Corruption of the Francis Papacy (2019) is translated from the Spanish entitled Traiciones Sagradas, edited and adapted in close cooperation with the author by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman.
About the author: Martha Alegría Reichmann de Valladares is the widow of the former ambassador to the Holy See for Honduras and Dean of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps, Alejandro Emilio Valladares Lanza. She has lived in Rome since 1991. In addition to Sacred Betrayals, she has written two books of spiritual poetry and narrative, one of which, Yo te encontré (I Found You) was published by the Vatican in 2013.
About the author/translator: Matthew Cullinan Hoffman is a Catholic essayist and journalist, and the author and translator of The Book of Gomorrah and St Peter Damian's Struggle Against Ecclesiastical Corruption (2015). His award-winning articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, London Sunday Times, Catholic World Report, LifeSite News, Crisis, the National Catholic Register, and many other publications. He holds an MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, with a focus on Thomism. He has attended the usus antiquior for a quarter century. He lives in Mexico.
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