This needs to be distributed to young people in general, not just Catholics. Those who have come along since the end of the Cold War don’t seem to have the slightest idea what Communism is, let alone why it’s a bad idea.
Excellent post, and a reminder why the Catholic Church, even today in a world that hates it, is looked up to as the moral compass.
Thank you for posting this.
To your point, the left hated Ratzinger. He warned about “Liberation Theology”, which is Marxist.
Here is a portion of Libertatis nuntius - “Instruction on certain aspects of the Theology of Liberation”, with a link to the complete document.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3317678/posts?page=4#4
The Catholic Church canon was one of the most brilliant, rational concepts of all time, and I think that St. Thomas Aquinas (the Summa) is WHY we had an Age of Reason and a Renaissance-—because of the Rationality and Logic which flowed from the Aristotelian-Catholic document—which flowed into all the major Christian (Protestant) religions which “broke” away from the apostolic Church. Doctrinal differences-—true-—but still the ideas of hierarchy/patriarchy was never abolished totally by non-Catholics, until Marxism became dominant—since all natures and systems work efficiently through only hierarchical systems-—even the drones/bees. Destroy the patriarchy and you destroy Reason and Natural Law Theory—the basis of the US Constitution. There is a design in nature and God’s Laws-—when thwarted, Excellence (Virtue) is impossible. And without Virtue, Freedom is non-existent. (no inner-controls of base emotions).
Destroy human nature-—try to suppress the Natural Instincts of male/female and you get irrational, vile, perverted behaviors and inefficient systems which will lead to slavery and failure. Virtue (excellence) is always curtailed and blocked in such evil systems (like with our “Just” Laws (which should be “null and void” today LOL)
That flow departing from “rationality” (the destruction of Western Civilization (Age of Reason)) is an attack directly on Reason and Logic-—to remove it from the human being (to take away that which makes us human)—to reduce us into irrational (godless) animals.
All Marxism attacks Logic/Reason-—it is the destruction of Classical Education from children (John Dewey was an evil “Humanist”)-—to embed irrational emotions which control or eliminate Reason. The Marxists need tribal minds to destroy the ability to have a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Adam Smith. They need masses who can’t think outside their box-—which means they can’t ‘think”.
It is why people who talk with useful idiots can’t believe how irrational they are. Useful idiots can’t process facts and Truth at all—because they were brainwashed in Marxist ideology to destroy the ability to be critical thinkers-— in our school system of mass ignorance/just emotions attached to concepts-—(sodomy is “good”, slavery is freedom/welfare/theft is good, etc). Feelings will dominate and the adults raised in such systems remain puerile, addicted and ignorant-—so they remain easy manipulated cattle.
Great responses by all of you. This post provides for a lot of weekend thinking. Thank you all.
Spiritually discerning, intellectually tough Catholic anti-Communism is needed today even more than in 1936.
Uh, oh! At least the popes are consistent. This could have been written last month, a word-for-word copy of this 1936 message...
Fantastic find! Thank you