Posted on 07/18/2004 5:14:11 PM PDT by narses
Clerical 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 eruption of doctrinal and moral collapse within the Catholic Church during and immediately following the Second Vatican Council.
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 document 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 document 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."
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I think she made these statements in the late 1940s. They are not in her book School of Darkness that I can find but, I am pretty sure Alice von Hildebrand speaks of her making them at least by the early 1950s.
The Vatican's intelligence service was played like a cheap fiddle by the Communists during WWII. Look up Anton Turkul. Why expect anything better regarding the infiltration of seminiaries, when it is obvious from the pronouncements of many Priests and Bishops in the US, for example, that they are Communists or Fellow-Travellers?
Oh come on! Masonry is the US is throughly associated with the Mafia, the Police, and the higher levels of management in many companies. In many places, its impossible to get ahead without becoming a Mason. And its still the same old naturalistic anti-Catholic organization as you had in Europe. If it seems less anti-Catholic here in the US, its because the Catholic Church here is less Catholic.
Any relation to Chris Dodd?
I was quite surprised when two months later she (Meisel) wrote a scathing review of "The Divinci Code",since the unseen hand that moves the conspiracy also moves the author of the book. Makes one wonder.
I little interesting fact that is somewhat on topic:Pope Pius XII did not make Montini a Cardinal. Speculation is that he knew he was dangerous and did not want him to be Pope. I heard that they picked an older man,John XXIII,to name Montini and hopefully die soon after which he did.
Those apostates then ascended to power positions in the USCCB and were able to send only three tried and true fellow travelers to the Vatican. I know that many good Bishops were placed,many by accident,but they could be effectively muzzled by the Bernardins and Mahoneys and Deardens.
Even now one of their men is in position to take over the chairmanship/presidency of the USCCB. It's Skylstad of Spokane and he is bad. I hope and pray that the good Bishops are in a position to establish a new protocol. Currently the vice-prez or cochairman steps up,Skylstad is in that position now.
No,Chris Dodd is of the Dodd family that speaks only to God,or something close. Bella Dodd comes from an Italian family,she was first or second generation at most.
uh folks, recommendations for any books (in English!) on this topic? how about related websites that don't go wandering off into tinfoil hat country?
Bottom line here is that my primary interest comes from my background as an intelligence analyst. The implied levels of infiltration suggested in this thread pose threats to more than just Roman Catholicism, y'know...
one might hypothesize that leftist concentration on the SJ was related to this issue.
I suggest exploring the writings of Chapman Pincher and Peter Wright. Start with the Cambridge Apostles and connect the dots... Bugger freemason Commies. Pathetic.
Other than spanking hookers at conventions occasionally, the creepy yokel bubbas in the gocarts drunk on mystery punch have little to do with the Kaballistic-Alchemical-Occult-Albigensian-Tantric-Templar-Sodomite-Jesus-Was-a-Mushroom-and-MaryMagdalen-was-the Holy-Grail-who-blew-him Neo-Gnosticism that fascinates anti-Catholic wackos. The people promoting The Da Vinci Code do have an agenda and their fantasies about Jacques de Molay are related to this in some bizarre manner. You don't need a tinfoil hat - THEY themselves brag and boast about their anti-Catholic global grandiosity.
Heck, Barnes&Noble is practically sponsoring an anti-Catholic crusade filled with the pro-secret society propaganda. It's out in the open. Not exactly an arcane secret. They would have to explain why their fascination and obsession with the Cathars, Gnostics, Essenes, and Templars requires contemporary intrigues against orthodox Catholicism. It's a damn lie that nothing is going on here.
The Jesuits, the seminaries, chanceries, and even Opus Dei (as the KGB Hanssen case shows) have been targeted FOR YEARS!
I was being a smart-@ss. :^)
LOL! Good point.
The very ones - I couldn't remember their names. Jadot I think was particularly evil.
I'm going to have to go look up Skylstad (I hope he was never in Charleston - everybody else seems to have been.)
That is absolutely true. It's also, to add to your depression, worldwide. Every time I go to Spain, I find another spate of books has been published gushing about the Templars, for example.
I'm planning to do the Camino de Santiago next month, and these people are out there crawling all over the place now announcing how the Camino was really part of the Templar Magical Mystery Tour or some such thing. They have polluted absolutely everything. If I meet any of them, I may have to pop them in the chops.
Or like Shiite Moslems attacking contemporary Americans and Europeans because of the medieval crusades. Anti-Catholic secret societies are the Shiite jihadists of the secular humanist and occult underworlds. Classic "hate group." The "bubbas" who spout this stuff are usually backwoods semi-retards.
Cathars? Templars??? I didn't know there was any valid extant data available on the actual workings and specific gnostic beliefs of either group (outside of, maybe, the Vatican archives)...or are the new agers just using those names to cover up the fact that they're making up most of what they write?
Whatever animates and agitates a bunch of yahoos in, say, Arkansas to imagine that they are still locked in an ongoing cosmic battle with Pope Clement V, Phillippe Capet, and Torquemada...to the point of dressing up in battle costumes and RingWraith robes, mumbling Kabballistic anagrams is anyone's guess.
A couple of puzzles left from "the great work":
Jesus was a mushroom/Jesus married Mary Magdalen and settled in France.
The crusades were horrible crimes by the Catholic Church/We're proud to be descended from the Knights Templar warriors.
If Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Dan Brown, Aunt Bee, and Opie Taylor from Mayberry are keepers of the arcane secrets of Templar-Essene-Cathar-Albigensian-Tantric-MagicMushroom-Alchemical-Bogomil-Kabballistic-Pythagorian-Neo-Gnostic geomantic gymnosophy twister, I would tend to imagine there must be something rather amusing at the center of all of this spiritual confusion.
There may be a clue in HELP!:
'Why were the high priests of the terrible goddess of Kaili interested in the Beatles?'
I was thinking the very same thing, only I have been known to wear a tin foil hat quite often! :-)
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