Catholic Abuse Crisis: A Strategy to Destroy from Within?

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Catholic Abuse Crisis: A Strategy to Destroy from Within? Sept 18, 2018 15:10:09 GMT

Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2018 15:10:09 GMT

Catholic abuse crisis is likely no accident, but a strategy to ‘destroy Church from within’

September 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The shocking accusation by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that Pope Francis helped cover up sexual misconduct — an accusation the Pope has so far declined to answer — as well as the litany of sexual abuse cases among clerics, force any Catholic to ask the question: how could this possibly take place in the moral institution that is the Roman Catholic Church?

One possible — little known, but very important — answer dates back to the Bolsheviks and their Communist leader Joseph Stalin.

Recently, I came across a video on Youtube of a presentation by former Soviet KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov, aka Tomas Schuman, who worked for the Soviet Union’s Novosti Press Agency until he defected in 1970. In this 1983 video, he claimed that the West was slowly being subverted into Marxism by the methods of “ideological subversion,” a form of warfare the KGB used against America.

Bezmenov explains that the main effort of the KGB was not conventional intelligence at all. Only some 15 percent of resources were spent on James-Bond-style espionage, while 85 percent was devoted to a slow process called “ideological subversion” or “active measures.”

The main methods used by Marxists in the West, Bezmenov explains, were to “corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them away from religion. Make them superficial and enfeebled [...] destroy people's faith in their national leaders by holding the latter up for contempt, ridicule and disgrace [...] cause breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged word.”

The main targets were — and remain — institutions of religious faith, education, media and culture, the targets also of the hippie movement of that day. Although to all appearances America firmly rejected Soviet Communism during the Cold War, Bezmenov correctly observes that there was a massive undercurrent of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination at many, if not most, universities and institutions of learning, in the media and artistic communities in the West throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This indoctrination was never challenged or counterbalanced by fundamental American patriotic values. This was especially true of the entertainment industry. According to Bezmenov, a group of rock or pop-musicians with a message of 'social-justice' sugar-coated in popular 'spiritual' tunes were actually more helpful to the KGB than someone standing in the pulpit preaching Marxist-Leninist doctrine.

The 1983 video shows Bezmenov explaining that the demoralization process in the US had already been completed to a degree beyond the wildest dreams of the top leadership in the Kremlin.

“This process was done by Americans to Americans thanks to a lack of morals. Most of the people educated in the 1960s, intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, mass media and the education system. You are stuck with them,” Bezmenov points out.

However, Bezmenov omitted mentioning that the Catholic Church was one of the main targets of the Communists.

Former Communist Bella Dodd spoke on the Communist infiltration of the Catholic Church. Dodd, an important Communist party lawyer, teacher and activist, converted to Catholicism in April 1952 under the tutelage of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Stating that the Communist infiltration was so extensive that in the future "you will not recognize the Catholic Church,” Dodd testified before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). She said, "In the 1930s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops.”

According to Catholic philosopher and professor Alice von Hildebrand, who was a friend of Dodd, she told her that “when she was an active party member, she had dealt with no fewer than four cardinals within the Vatican who were working for us, [i.e. the Communist Party].”

In her public affidavit Dodd stated, among other things, “In the late 1920s and 1930s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the [Roman] Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations... I, myself, put some 1,200 men in [Roman] Catholic seminaries.”

Alice von Hildebrand confirmed that Dodd had publicly stated the same things to which she attested in her public affidavit.

Dodd came to the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, heartbroken and finally realizing the terrible irreparable harm she had done by faithfully and effectively following an order of Stalin, namely to recruit men distinguished by their complete lack of faith and moral virtue, and engage them to “infiltrate Catholic seminaries and religious orders.” Given her talents, her eloquence, her charisma, she was successful beyond all expectations. When her eyes were opened to what she had done, she was tortured by guilt that only God’s infinite mercy could assuage.

Dodd's testimony — that infiltration of Catholic seminaries went back for many decades — sheds some light on the abominable priestly scandal that has plagued the Church in recent years. Horrified by what she had done so successfully, Bella Dodd told Archbishop Sheen that she wanted to enter the most severe penitential order in the Church to try, in some modest way, to pay her crushing debt. She was told by this venerable prelate that her mission was to remain in the world and open the eyes of blind U.S. citizens to the horror of Communism. She obeyed, and from the early 1950s until her death in 1969 she crisscrossed the country giving talks to shake her fellow citizens and open the Americans’ sleepy eyes to the horror of atheistic Communism.

What we are witnessing today in the Church may very well be the horrifying harvest of this infiltration. Obviously “the agents” have made it their mission to admit more men devoid of morals and Christian faith into the seminaries for decades. Keep in mind that many cases of abuse took place already back in the 1960s. It seems that the abuse never was (and remains) a mere matter of priests giving in to temptation, but a comprehensive and pervasive attack on Christian morality and faith by a cunning and profoundly evil enemy.

Alice von Hildebrand writes, in a piece published on Catholic News Agency’s website in 2016:

The facts on infiltration are not meant to deny that some bishops, some heads of religious orders and some priests have not fallen into the very grave sin of either closing their eyes to the horrible sins committed by people under their authority, but to make us aware of the fact that a key factor hardly ever mentioned, or mentioned at all, is that many of the worst culprits were not Catholic priests who had fallen prey to “unbridled lust” but infiltrators who had obtained false baptismal certificates and were plainly agents of Communism and demoralization. (…) I heard from Bella Dodd that these evil men had even infiltrated the Vatican – for the Catholic Church is the arch enemy of Communism: and they know it.

Sexual abuse of minors and the practice of homosexuality is the perfect way to demoralize the Church and cause it to lose its moral authority in the eyes of the public and among believers, and cause people to abandon the faith. Thus, the Stalinist anti-Christian mission is now about to reach its goal two generations after Stalin, at a time when the West is facing the second coming of Marxism. With a weakened and demoralized Church, a new Soviet era will face little if any resistance in the West as it begins to take control and subvert the remains of Christian culture. We can already observe the signs: the suppression of free speech, the tyranny of political correctness, and vicious political and psychological persecution of Christians. Only a purified Church is able to stand up to this kind of diabolical regime.

Most of the priests, bishops and cardinals who have been committing the horrid crimes reported now were very likely at no point true and honest followers of Christ, but planted infiltrators and deliberate enemies of the Church. For this reason, the lay people of the Church must now insist on a total purging of imposters from within the [Conciliar] Church.

[Red font emphasis - The Catacombs]

"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Archbp. Lefebvre 1980

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Catholic Abuse Crisis: A Strategy to Destroy from Within? Sept 18, 2018 17:19:47 GMT

Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2018 17:19:47 GMT

In The Angelus article from 2001, Fr. Denis Fahey, A Brief Sketch of My Life Work, Fr. Fahey reminds us that that the popes of the past centuries have been most diligent about warning the Church about It's enemies:

Freemasonry

Fr. E. Cahill, S.J., begins Chapter 6 of his book Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement by stating:

The Papal condemnations of Freemasonry are so severe and sweeping in their tenor as to be quite unique in the history of Church legislation. During the last two centuries Freemasonry has been expressly anathematized by at least ten different Popes and condemned directly or indirectly by almost every pontiff that sat on the Chair of St. Peter. The popes charge the Freemasons with occult criminal activities, with "shameful deeds," with worshipping Satan himself (a charge which is hinted at in some of the papal documents), with infamy, blasphemy, sacrilege, and the most abominable heresies of former times; with the systematic practice of assassination; with treason against the State, with anarchical and revolutionary principles and with favoring and promoting what is now called Bolshevism; with corrupting and perverting the minds of youth; with shameful hypocrisy and lying, by means of which Freemasons strive to hide their wickedness under a cloak of probity and respectability, while in reality they are a very "synagogue of Satan," whose direct aim and object is the complete destruction of Christianity.

He goes on to give a brief summary of the different encyclicals dealing with freemasonry since the first in 1738. See also Fr. Cahill's comprehensive The Framework of a Christian State. I have studied and meditated upon the Letters of Leo XII (Quo Graviora, 1826); Pius IX (Exortae in Ista Ditione, 1876; Multiplices Inter, 1865); Leo XIII (Humanum Genus, 1884; Parvenu à la vingt-cinquieme année, 1902); Pius XI (Divini Redemptoris, 1937; The Persecution of the Church in Spain, 1938). I have translated the whole of the encyclical letter Humanum Genus, going over it four times in all, and large portions of the others. Both in my books and in my rare allusions to freemasonry in the classroom, I have striven to bring out the naturalism or, rather, anti-supernaturalism of the association. I have used expressions such as the following of Pope Leo XIII from his encyclical letter Humanum Genus:

But as it befits the authority of Our office that We Ourselves should point out some suitable way of proceeding, We wish it to be your rule first of all to tear away the mask of Freemasonry, and to let it be seen as it really is; and by sermons and Pastoral Letters to instruct the people as to the artifices used by societies of this kind in seducing men and enticing them into their ranks, and as to the depravity of their opinions and the wickedness of their acts, win men over and induce them to join their ranks. Show them also the perversity of their naturalistic doctrines and the wickedness of its acts. As Our predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them. Let no one be deceived by pretense of honesty. It may seem to some that Freemasons demand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality; but, as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful....

Let us take as our helper and intercessor the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so that she, who from the moment of her conception overcame Satan, may show her power over these evil sects, in which is revived the contumacious spirit of the demons, together with his unsubdued perfidy and deceit. Let us beseech Michael, the prince of the heavenly angels, who drove out the infernal foe; andJoseph, the spouse of the Most Holy Virgin, and heavenly Patron and of the Catholic Church; and the great apostles, Peter and Paul, the father and victorious champions of the Christian faith. By their patronage, and by perseverance in united prayer, We hope that God will mercifully and opportunely succor the human race, which is encompassed by so many dangers (pp. 24, 28).

In his apostolic letter of 1902, the aged Pontiff refers to the encyclical letter Humanum Genus just quoted:

We denounced Freemasonry's destructive tendencies, erroneous doctrines and pernicious aims. We pointed out that it has cast its net over almost all nations and has succeeded in establishing relations with other associations which it moves by its hidden influences. It first attracts its adherents and then holds them by the advantages it procures for them. By binding rulers of States to its designs, sometimes by promises and sometimes by threats, it has succeeded in penetrating into all ranks of society. Thus it forms an invisible and irresponsible State within the body corporate of the lawful State. Full of the spirit of Satan who, according to the expression of the Apostle, knows how to transform himself into an angel of light when he wants to do so, Freemasonry pretends that its object is humanitarian. Yet it sacrifices everything to its sectarian designs. It proclaims that it has no political aims, yet in reality it exercises an enormous influence on the legislative and administrative life of States. Loudly professing respect for the authority and even for religion itself, its ultimate object, as its own statutes bear witness, is the extermination of sovereigns and priests in whom it sees an enemy of liberty.

And we must not forget that Pope Pius XI on more than one occasion warned the world that the papal condemnations apply to Masonry everywhere and that Pope Leo XIII, when speaking about the controversy concerning God among the Masons, makes no distinction between the condemning factions.

Action of Freemasonry in the Press in Favor of Communism

Pope Leo XIII writes: "Yea, this change and overthrow [of the well-constituted State] is deliberately planned and put forward by many associations of Communists and Socialists; and to their undertakings the sect of Freemasons is not hostile, but greatly favors their designs, and holds in common with them their chief opinions" (Humanum Genus, p. 21). There is strong evidence that all the agents of the two Russian Revolutions were Masons. The evidence is in my books as well as the text of Pope Pius XI stating that Russia, Mexico, and Spain were the work of secret societies. Pope Leo XIII wrote in his apostolic letter of 1902 that:

the continual troubles with which the Church is harnessed and the renewed vexations of which She has quite recently been the object are mainly due to the inspiration and the co-operation of the association. There are numerous evidence of this....All this points, without a shadow of doubt, to a concerted line of action, and to the direction of all these activities by one central authority. These events are, in fact, but one phase in the development of a prearranged plan, which is being carried out over an ever-widening area, to multiply the ruins of which We have previously spoken. Thus Freemasonry is striving first to restrict and then to exclude completely religious instruction from the schools....By means of the daily press, it is endeavoring to combat Catholic morality....

In the encyclical letter [Divini Redemptoris] on Atheistic Communism (1937), Pope Pius XI stressed the alliance between secret societies and the Communistic movement and also the influence of secret forces upon the press of the world.

Another factor which has powerfully contributed to the spread of Communism is certainly to be found in the fact that a great part of the daily press of the world, which does not accept Catholic precepts and principles, of set purpose never mentions Communism. We say of set purpose, for otherwise it is not easy to understand how these writers who so eagerly seize upon and publish accounts of events of less importance have so long remained silent about the atrocious crimes perpetrated in Russia, Mexico, and a great part of Spain; and how they have so little to say, considering the importance of the matter, about the Communist Association which is in power in Moscow and which has ramifications far and wide all over the world. All are aware that this silence is due, in great part to an imprudent political policy; and also that favored and recommended by secret forces which have long been working for the overthrow of the Christian organization of States.