Infiltration of the Catholic Church?
July 28, 2003
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2003 International News Analysis Today
www.inatoday.comClerical abuse against children, charges of Mafia-style cover-ups, and the destruction of Catholic moral teaching are tearing at the Catholic Church, and turning the 2,000 year-old faith into fodder for lowbrow comedy.
An affidavit recently obtained by INA Today attributes the Catholic Church's present state of collapse to a calculated attack beginning decades ago, with initial successes appearing in the 1960s.
The affidavit affirms that Communist Party organizer and high Party official, Bella Dodd, made public statements during the decade of the 1960s declaring that the Catholic priesthood was infiltrated by numerous Communist agents, whose mission was “to destroy the Catholic Church from within.”
Dodd later returned to the Catholic Church and published a book about her experiences, entitled School of Darkness (out of print at present).
“In the late 1920's and 1930's, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations,” Dodd stated according to the affidavit.
“I, myself, put some 1,200 men in Catholic seminaries,” Dodd publicly declared.
Dodd did not include these remarks concerning her activities directed against the Catholic Church in her book, which was first published in 1954, leading some to question whether the remarks were actually made.
In an exclusive interview with INA Today, Catholic philosopher Dr. Alice von Hildebrand confirmed that Dodd had made the remarks, and provided the affidavit from Paul and Johnine Leininger, who witnessed Dodd making the public statements.
When contacted by INA Today, Mrs. Johnine Leininger stated that there were others who could also verify that Dodd made the statements regarding infiltration into Catholic seminaries.
Dr. von Hildebrand told INA Today that Dodd had earlier refrained from detailing Communist efforts to undermine the Catholic priesthood at the request of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the individual responsible for bringing Dodd back into the Church.
Dodd's infiltrators would have reached their highest positions of power and influence in the early to mid-60's, the period which saw the initial doctrinal and moral collapse within the Catholic Church.
The process of Communist infiltration into Catholic seminaries, which Dodd described in her public talks, would have been part of a larger plan called “Outstretched Hand.”
Communist Party archives in Moscow confirm the existence of operation “Outstretched Hand,” and define its goals, according to Herbert Romerstein, author of the seminal work on Soviet espionage in the United States before, during, and after WWII, “The Venona Secrets.”
At least one Soviet agent directly involved in “Outstretched Hand” is identifiable.
One docuмent in Moscow's Soviet archives reveals that the Communist Party had infiltrated several influential Catholic organizations, including the Holy Name Society, the largest parish-oriented Catholic men's group, which is devoted to increasing reverence for the name of God and to good works in the Church and in society in general. A Holy Name Society chapter exists in almost every Catholic parish in the U.S.
The same docuмent acknowledged the existence of a certain “Party comrade,” who was “well known” in “conservative Irish Catholic circles” and who held offices “in various Catholic organizations…”
The “Party comrade” operated in a key parish which provided “leadership” and shaped “the policies of most of the reactionary and anti-Communist campaigns that are now developing in the Catholic world,” according to the Soviet file.
Romerstein also recounts in The Venona Secrets that the staff of the Catholic anti-Communist publication entitled Wisdom, produced by a priest of the Paulist order, was infiltrated, and unknowingly employed two Communist agents in influential positions.
The Party boasted that one of their agents was “widely known to be a conservative in Irish circles,” and was a staff correspondent for Wisdom. Romerstein identified the Party member and Soviet agent as Jeremiah F. O'Carroll, who, in 1930, was the president of the Irish Emergency Relief organization.
Although O'Carroll was identified as a spy in 1938, he remained listed as a staff correspondent for Wisdom at least until March 1939.
The second Soviet agent who worked for Wisdom remains unknown to this day.
The most recent - and notorious - incident of hostile infiltration into the U.S. Catholic Church is that of veteran FBI agent and convicted spy, Robert Hanssen. While placing his nation in mortal danger through his espionage activities, Hanssen also was believed to be a fervent Catholic.
Hanssen led a double life of betrayal, while serving as a spy for both the Soviet and “reformed” regimes in Moscow.
Although the precise extent of Communist infiltration of which Dodd spoke remains unknown, the effects are recognizable. Today, traditional Catholic beliefs, practices, and morality are not merely questioned, but are denounced and scorned by many of those who should protect and profess Church doctrine.
Mrs. Leininger, who confirmed Dodd's statements, told INA Today that she knows of several priests who faithfully taught the Catholic religion until they became bishops or were promoted to other influential posts, and then immediately exhibited hostility to that same faith which they had previously professed.
Leininger described these priests as “sleepers,” a term designating individuals or groups who carry out their espionage function only at a selected time. Before becoming active, the “sleeper” will refrain from any espionage or subversive functions.
Dodd's infiltrators -- those who lost or never actually held the Catholic faith -- would have been the mentors of the present generation of Catholic priests and bishops, in effect conducting their own “School of Darkness.” (Op. Cit.; emphasis added.)
But this does NOT mean Catholics should give up.
Remember how the Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church tried to encourage his flock in his days of persecution, when the cabal of anti-Catholic Infiltrators and Arian Heretics, took over and destroyed a large part of the Catholic Church, where he writes in part:
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“May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the Churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the Apostolic Faith. They [the heretics and apostates] can occupy our churches, but they are outside the True Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the faith? The true faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle -- the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?
“True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are Holy if everything takes place there in a Holy way ...
“You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the [Catholic] Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition, and if an execrable jealously has tried to shake it in a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis.
“No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved brothers, and We believe that God will give us our Churches back some day.
“Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the [Catholic] Church. They claim that they represent the Church but in reality they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray.
“Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. (Patriarch Saint Athanasius [b. Alexandria, Egypt 296 A.D. - d. Alexandria, Egypt on Wednesday, May 2, 373A.D.], Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, Father of Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum. Caillu and Guillou, Volume 32, pp 411-412).”
This is NOT the time for Catholics to give up, but to have the courage of continued Faith, Hope, Trust, and Confidence in God, praying to Him for His Divine Intervention!
Just as God did in fact restore the Catholic Faith, despite the attacks against it by the likes of the anti-Catholic Infiltrators in previous centuries, e.g. the Zionist Jєω Father Arius, et alii, God overcame their evil and the Church become even more glorious and more resplendent that it had been! God can, and God will, do the same for we Catholics today!
IT WILL HAPPEN! GOD WILL DESTROY HIS ENEMIES WHO TOOK OVER HIS CHURCH - BUT ONLY TEMPORARILY BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE A LIMITED TIME SET BY GOD - BECAUSE GOD WILL CONQUER THEM!!!
In my opinion, after this present persecution by all of the anti-Catholic Infiltrators, the Catholic Church will reign once again, but even much more glorious and more resplendent than it had been before it was taken over by the cabal of anti-Catholics at their anti-Catholic Convention of anti-Catholic Infiltrators - called Synod Vatican 2, all of the docuмents of which should be burned along with all of their missals, rituals, pontificales, vestments, catechisms, canon law, etc., etc.
NEVER GIVE UP HOPE! PRAY FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION! ONLY GOD CAN TOTALLY DESTROY THE EVIL ANTI-CATHOLIC INFILTRATORS AND ALL OF THEIR SATANIC WORKS!
At Fatima Our Blessed Mother promised that "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will Triumph. Russia will be converted....."
The "annihilation" of certain nations could possibly mean not a physical "annihilation", but a moral or Spiritual or Religious "annihilation"?
Anything other than this is a denial of what happened at the Convention of anti-Catholic Infiltrators, a.k.a. Synod Vatican 2.
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