A necessary online book needs to be added to the Library of CI.
The School of Darkness by Dr. Bella Dodd. When she was a
communist in the 1920's-1940's recruited communist young men
to infiltrate the Catholic seminaries. These orders came from
Moscow to all the communist parties throughout the world.
Latter after her conversion to the Catholic Faith in the 1950's,
she told Bishop Fulton Sheen that some of these recruits
are in high positions in the church. She was told by Bishop
Sheen not to revealed their names.

http://genus.cogia.net/

The online version I read made no mention of her part in sending Communists to seminaries. Does anyone know why that might have been left out, or by whom?

I had a friend who knew Bella Dodd and she assured me that when Dodd gave lectures all over America she would retell her story of how she had trained young communists preparing them to enter the seminary without revealing their background.  But there seems to be some kind of movement to overwrite Dodd's testimony by somehow blacklisting her message, claiming she never said those things, or even that it was all fabricated.

You can test who might be in control of the smear campaign by going into Wikipedia and edit the page on Bella Dodd, then come back every 5 minutes to see how long it takes for your material to disappear.  I would guess 20 minutes, max, day or night.

Also, there is a book AA-1029 Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle, which is a kind of diary written by one such seminarian, although he doesn't mention Dodd in his notes.  It was a manuscript kept in a briefcase held by a hospital patient who had carried it with him when he was admitted to the hospital, as I recall it was during WWII.  There was a nurse who was treating him (whose name is the author of the book), and he had assured her that this case was his own, including the contents, but he did not explain anything about it to her.  It was only after he had died that she went through the case and read some of the pages, and only then she realized that she wished she could have asked him some questions about it, but it was too late by then.  Later, she had the memoirs published, and there arose accusations of dishonesty against her, accusing her of making up the whole thing.  One has to wonder if that kind of accusation could only happen if there had been a lot of truth in the matter to begin with, and someone has a vested interest in trying to prevent the truth from getting out.

Well, the NO hierarchy might as well be Communist, given how many in it behave, so I don't doubt that it was infiltrated. Still, it seems strange that Dodd's book stopped short of saying so. And about AA-1025 - were there ever any speculations made on the identity of the priest, or missing person reports made that might have suggested who he was? Surely a priest doesn't just go missing with no investigation.         :sad:

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

A necessary online book needs to be added to the Library of CI.
The School of Darkness by Dr. Bella Dodd. When she was a
communist in the 1920's-1940's recruited communist young men
to infiltrate the Catholic seminaries. These orders came from
Moscow to all the communist parties throughout the world.
Latter after her conversion to the Catholic Faith in the 1950's,
she told Bishop Fulton Sheen that some of these recruits
are in high positions in the church. She was told by Bishop
Sheen not to revealed their names.

http://genus.cogia.net/

I published this there about 9 years ago!

It's going strong, and it's on a free web hosting site.

What about it McCork since you said that you published this online 9 years
ago. Are you aware that the part of the communist infiltration into the
seminaries were removed?
When I have read about the part when Bella Dodd admitted to Bishop
Sheen that she help send infiltrators into the seminaries in the 1930's  
and told Bishop Sheen. This book is always footnoted.
I even remember this book being quoted in speeches and sermons.
Is this a tampered copy and changes made without you being aware?

Listen to Bella Dodd herself tell how she infiltrated the Church and the U.S.

Quote from: McCork

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

A necessary online book needs to be added to the Library of CI.
The School of Darkness by Dr. Bella Dodd. When she was a
communist in the 1920's-1940's recruited communist young men
to infiltrate the Catholic seminaries. These orders came from
Moscow to all the communist parties throughout the world.
Latter after her conversion to the Catholic Faith in the 1950's,
she told Bishop Fulton Sheen that some of these recruits
are in high positions in the church. She was told by Bishop
Sheen not to revealed their names.

http://genus.cogia.net/

I published this there about 9 years ago!

It's going strong, and it's on a free web hosting site.

What about it McCork since you said that you published this online 9 years
ago. Are you aware that the part of the communist infiltration into the
seminaries were removed?
When I have read about the part when Bella Dodd admitted to Bishop
Sheen that she help send infiltrators into the seminaries in the 1930's  
and told Bishop Sheen. This book is always footnoted.
I even remember this book being quoted in speeches and sermons.
Is this a tampered copy and changes made without you being aware?

From what I know, that information about the seminaries was never included in this book. It was spoken to crowds when Bella Dodd would give talks, or testimony.

Why didn't Bishop Sheen allow her to reveal the names?? If he was afraid of her murder (and his), they both should have been willing to die as martyrs.

Is there any speculation as to their names?

Bella Dodd, at the time she wrote the book, expressed how much she didn't want to hurt people she used to be friends with, but she did give a lot of hurtful testimony overall, just not pointing fingers to names. I think she was wise enough to know what happens when you do, from hearing of Whittaker Chambers, and, then later, Joe McCarthy.

There is no such principle in Catholicism that one should desire to be an actual martyr, otherwise fellow religious of St. Isaac Jogues, for example, should have all rushed there, but the Church doesn't look down on those religious for not wanting to go to an almost certain martyrdom.