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I have often thought of the situation at the final judgement where God calls before him the two Joes. Josef Stalin and Joe McCarthy. God asks them how many lives have they taken. Stalin casually mentions the 40+ million. Tailgunner Joe may have to fess up on how many he killed in WWII but then God gets to call every liberal in the US in the fifties to explain how Stalin comes to be refered to as "Uncle Joe" while McCarthy is the root of all evil.

I can't wait.

The McCarthy controversies are a little like Freudianism. There is something wild going on, but people disagree about how to explain it. There is speculation that McCarthy may have been set up as part of some bizarre disinformational
counter-intelligence diversion. At any rate, there were a lot of problems in the State Department and in other Western and American institutions which can be linked with Communist sympathizers, extreme left-wingers, and the KGB.
Trying to explain all problems in the Church as the product of either Communist or other conspiracies neglects attention to the complexity of Catholic religious and institutional culture. However, there are indeed bizarre, sinister, and strange anti-Catholic conspiracies. Historically these go back at least as far as the Elizabethan period in English history, just as one very obvious and well-documented example. Seeing them up close, directly, and personally is a real eye-opening experience. Very bizarre.