Posted on 03/06/2011 10:20:22 AM PST by verdugo
The "Prophecy" of Bella Dodd by Christopher A. Ferrara
In light of the current confusion and moral scandal in the Church, it would be well to consider a neglected bit of recent Church history: the public testimony of Bella Dodd, who served as legal counsel to the Communist Party in the United States until her conversion to Catholicism, after which she spent the rest of her life atoning for her role in the communist infiltration of the Catholic Church.
An article in Christian Order magazine (November 2000) recounts how Dodd and her associate, Douglas Hyde, revealed the plan for communist subversion of the Church: Ex-Communist and celebrated convert Douglas Hyde revealed long ago that in the 1930s the Communist leadership issued a worldwide directive about infiltrating the Catholic Church. While in the early 1950s, Mrs. Bella Dodd was also providing detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church. Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. Dodd 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 progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: "Right now they are in the highest places in the Church" — where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church's effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that "you will not recognise the Catholic Church." Dodd gave voluminous testimony on communist infiltration of Church and state before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950s. In a lecture at Fordham University during that time, Dodd unveiled what would seem to be an uncanny prophecy of future chaos in the Church. The lecture was attended by a monk whose account of the talk is presented in Christian Order:
I listened to that woman for four hours and she had my hair standing on end. Everything she said has been fulfilled to the letter. You would think she was the world's greatest prophet, but she was no prophet. She was merely exposing the step-by-step battle plan of Communist subversion of the Catholic Church. She explained that of all the world's religions, the Catholic Church was the only one feared by the Communists, for it was its only effective opponent. The whole idea was to destroy, not the institution of the Church, but rather the Faith of the people, and even use the institution of the Church, if possible, to destroy the Faith through the promotion of a pseudo-religion: something that resembled Catholicism but was not the real thing. Once the Faith was destroyed, she explained that there would be a guilt complex introduced into the Church…. to label the ‘Church of the past’ as being oppressive, authoritarian, full of prejudices, arrogant in claiming to be the sole possessor of truth, and responsible for the divisions of religious bodies throughout the centuries. This would be necessary in order to shame Church leaders into an ‘openness to the world,’ and to a more flexible attitude toward all religions and philosophies. The Communists would then exploit this openness in order to undermine the Church. Does any of this sound familiar? Unless you have been comatose since Vatican II, you would be aware that Bella Dodd was describing the state of the Catholic Church today. Today, post-conciliar churchmen wallow in guilt over the Church’s "intolerant" past, make public apologies for the sins of dead Catholics (but not their own sins against the living faithful, including the victims of the homo-priest cover-up), and extol the virtues of other religions, thereby de facto abandoning the defined dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church.
Bella Dodd was no prophet. She merely told us what the infiltrators of the Church were planning to do. And lo, they have done it.
Thanks for the ping, Quix.
Bella Dodd is fascinating. Used to be able to download her autobiography from Google Books for free, don’t know if it’s still there though.
I wonder if her lecture was recorded, or if her text was preserved in any way?
Interesting.
Thanks.
If you follow the Holy Word of G-d and not Manshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
one would know :2 Cr 11:13 For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers,
disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.2 Cr 11:14 No wonder,
for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Thanks for the ping Quix. I think it’s safe to say that the entire Church has been infiltrated by our common enemy. And before some of the more rabid Catholic defenders take offense at this, I mean the entire Church, including the Orthodox and Protestant branches as well. We’ve all been weakened by compromise in one aspect or another and it’s time that we all see that for what it is and begin to address it in the only way we can. Repentance and prayer for forgiveness and restoration.
As our Catholic brothers and sisters deal with this issue, it would be wise for those of us who belong to the other parts of the body to remember them and pray for their strengthening so that they can, in due time, remember us as well as we deal with our own internal issues.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT ON ALL POINTS,
INDEED.
RIGHT YOU ARE, yet again.
Thx Thx.
When I was a teen in the church, I saw this happen to a parish I was in for one year.
They all came out of the closet and totally went opposite of everything politically, morally and socially that was the church and life in America. They were disgusting people and it was shocking to me as a child. My mom was freaked out to and she did not freak out easily.
I left the church because I felt I was in something that was working against love, life and God. I wanted to keep my faith in God and my culture. Now our whole country is like this.
As I said, you failed to note that Marcel the Rebellious died excommunicated.
Impartial Canon Lawyers and SSPX friendly Canon Lawyers say he was not juridically excommunicated. His enemies say he was excommunicated.
You are not a canon lawyer, and neither am I. I'll leave it at that.
Maybe you didn't know that Abp. Lefevbre was the practically the ONLY BISHOP IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHO STOOD UP AGAINST THE INFILTRATORS WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!
If one makes themselves an enemy of Archbishop Lefevbre:
"the man who took the leading part of the conservative bishops, the Coetus Internationalis Patrum, the ONLY group opposed the progressivists at Vatican II. Abp. Lefevbre who took the greatest care to attach himself to "antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any lying novelty." Abp. Lefevbre who was an anti-communist, anti-liberation theology, anti-everything that is opposed to what the Church has always taught."
If one makes themselves an enemy of Archbishop Lefevbre, they are placing themselves as a comrade of the Church Infiltrators intent on destroying the Church from WITHIN.
BY THEIR DEEDS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM
Whom to believe? Whom to believe? Apologists for the SSPX schism and dead excommunicated Marcel OR Pope John Paul the Great? I'm going with the late pope.
Gerald L. K. Smith and Billy Sunday (also a notable Chicago White Sox outfielder) and a lot of other fundamentalist preachers were anti-communist and anti-"liberation" "theology" but would not have appreciated any suggestion that such credentials made any of them a Catholic. OTOH, like the cult of dead excommunicated Marcel, the leaders of the reformation like Luther, Calvin, Zwingli were very enthusiastic in their rejection of papal authority and popes personally. In that sense, the cult of dead Marcel is quite "traditional" but not in any Catholic sense. We should all bathe regularly and reject communism and "liberation" "theology" but one can easily do so and still not be Catholic as dead Marcel proved.
Try not to wear out your capitalization key (or your bold key) while shouting on the Internet your adherence to the errors and sins of dead Marcel. He did not merely violate his vow of obedience. He massacred it.
May 1, 2011: Happy John Paul II Beatification Day!
By their Deeds you shall know them.
Roma locuta, causa finita.
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