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Letter #48, 2018: "Some enemy has done this"[2018-09-01][Engleză]Saturday, September 1, 2018, #2"Some enemy has done this." Jesus, telling the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, in Matthew 13:28. The expanded version: "The owners servants came to him and said, Sir, didnt you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from? An enemy did this, he replied. So the servants asked him, Do you want us to go and pull them up? No, he said, if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. In our case, this parable relates to the story of Bella Dodd ==================== Day #8: Tobin, McCarrick and Bella Dodd The following report (below) has just appeared in the New Jersey Record, a newspaper in northern New Jersey, near the Catholic archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, where former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was archbishop, and where Cardinal Joseph Tobin is presently archbishop. The account is fascinating, disturbing, and -- for those who want a fuller picture of what has been going on -- it deserves to be read. It is also, however, extremely disappointing for Catholics to read such accounts about our bishops -- so if you do not want to be disappointed, skip it. But if you wish to catch a glimpse into what has been happening in our Church for the past 30 or 40 years years of widespread cover-ups of abusive and immoral actions and activities then this article is a good starting point. How did this happen? An element for a thesis Clearly, the recent Popes have all been in a situation which has been terrifically complicated and compromised, as the traditional teaching and discipline of the Church on these matters has diminished and unraveled. There were many cases of abuse under Paul VI, John Paul II, and many under Benedict, which are now being revealed under Francis. So this did not all begin with Francis. In fact, the Church sowed the wind, and is reaping the whirlwind. In seeking the remote causes of the present crisis, we should not forget the role of organized human actors. That is, some of this is the result of a general "malaise," an epochal apostasy from the faith, or of individual acts of corrupt individuals acting one by one out of various individual motives and compulsions -- "miserie umane" they say in the Vatican -- "human miseries." But there are indications of another strand in the fabric, a strand which is intentional and corporate. That is -- hypothetically -- indications that there as been an intentional infiltration into the Church: an enemy of the Church, or a group of enemies, have acted according to a precise plan. Is there really any serious evidence of this? Yes. There is an affidavit that many people do know of, but one perhaps that many of you have never heard of, that is relevant: the testimony of a woman named Bella Dodd (1904-1969 -- so, she died at the age of 65 almost exactly 50 years ago; Bella Dodd lost one of her legs in a tram accident in New York City when she was about 19 or 20, so she was a person profoundly familiar with human suffering; by the way, though she came to Amerca, she was born in Italy -- "She was born in Picerno, Basilicata, Kingdom of Italy, in 1904 and baptized Maria Assunta Isabella"). And Bella Dodd's testimony in that signed affidavit is that, under instructions from the American Communist Party, of which she was a passionate and high-ranking member for many years, she had headed up a special operation to place 1,200 young men in seminaries, all of whom were agents of the Communist Party. And this is what she said: In the late 1920s and 1930s, I personally put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to weaken the Catholic Church from within. "The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops... "Right now they are in the highest places where they are working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church's effectiveness against Communism. "These changes will be so drastic that you will not even recognize the Catholic Church. "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, 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. (taken from Dr. Bella Dodd, lecture at Fordham University in 1953) Other Communists theoreticians of Dodd's time, such as the brilliant Italian, Antonio Gramsci, also had the idea to weaken the Church as an effective fighter against communism. This meant taking a slow path to infiltrate the Church and get Catholics to lose the faith little by little. This plan was eventually called Operation Outstretched Hand." More specifically, it was to promote a pseudo-religion, a fake Catholicism but with enough look and feel to seem real. This plan would then introduce a guilt complex so that the Church would apologize for past activities, and then embrace other religions' ideas as a way to get along. Dr. Bella Dodd, before her conversion to Catholicism -- she was converted in 1952 by Archbishop Fulton Sheen -- helped get communist men to infiltrate the priesthood to move this plan along. In this audio link, you will hear Dr. Dodd, a leader of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) in the 1930's and 1940's. She explains what she did while working as a communist in the lecture from 1953 at Fordham University. (Note: the useful part of the video ends at the 8:30 mark; I find the rest of the video vulgar and do not recommend it.) In 2000, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel published a book entitled The Venona Secrets -- Exposing Soviet Espionage and Americas Traitors, published by Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001. Their research turned up archial material that confirmed the existence of an operation Outstretched Hand which included the infiltration of Communists into Roman Catholic Seminaries. Now, Bella Dodd gave her testimony in the 1950s. It was the time of McCarthyism. There was a certain political fever that developed, an unreasoning fear of Communists "everywhere" which led to excesses like the "black-listing" of innocent people on unproven charges. So, we may need to be a bit cautious about Bella Dodd and her testimony. But we should at least know about it. She testified under oath that she had placed these agents inside of the Church structure. Dr. Alice von Hildebrand -- who is still alive in her 90s in New York City -- has shown me personally the affidavit that Bella signed, saying that these statements were true. Dr. Hildebrand has told me that she and her late husband Dietrich von Hildebrand believed her testimony to be true. So what are we to make of this? Well, at the very least, it gives us a possible "element of interest" in order to trace back the "etiology," the originating pathway followed by the "de-sacralizing" worldview that entered into the Church, at least in America, through Dodd's work starting in the mid-1930s, whch, by various twists and turns, has brought us to the present moment of crisis, when this feverish disease must either be thrown off, or break the thermometer and kill the life of much of the Church, as occurred in North Africa after the Muslim conquests. Here again is a link to the 1953 Fordham talk by Bella Dodd (link). I do not think you can begin to have a proper undestanding about what has been happening without listening to this video. The real issue is, is there a will and a desire to change? To return to the older ways, and teachings -- the traditional faith and practice of Catholicism? Or not? ================ Tobin and McCarrick And here is the article about the situation Cardinal Tobin faces in Newark, the archdioces where Theodore McCrrick was archbishop in the 1990s, before being promoted to Washington. The story is a sad one, almost impossible to believe. But here it is. The secret life of Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and reports of sex abuse (link) Sursa: www.InsideTheVatican.com Contor Accesări: 647, Ultimul acces: 2026-08-08 07:31:32
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