5.0-COMMUNISM AS INFILTRATOR
5.1-Educational
System: Power to the Party
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It
has been stated that the Cold War ended with the fall of
the Berlin Wall on November 09, 1989. The Cold War may indeed
have ended, but it was not because the system of Communism
had gasped its last breath. Instead, the foul breath of
Communism that had been directed unceasingly at the West
for decades had finally warmed the West to Communist ideas
and, thus, it became safe for the East to obliterate the
physical barriers that had been rendered obsolete as the
more important ideological barriers to Communism, in the
West, had been broken down to a sufficient degree. Much
of this has been accomplished through the duplicity of the
Western intelligentsia, as testified by Malcolm Muggeridge,
many years earlier, “. . . as a young journalist in
Moscow in the early thirties, I observed the truly extraordinary
antics there of visiting intelligentsia from Western Europe
and the United States. Almost all of them displayed a credulity
about the regime, and about what they heard from its professional
apologists, that would have shaken an African witch doctor.
Notable examples were Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, André Gide,
Lincoln Steffens, Julian Huxley, Henri Barbusse, and Harold
Laski. The performance of visiting clergymen was particularly
striking; there was nothing, it seemed, they liked better
than being shown round the anti-God museums, and, though
mostly ardent pacifists at home,
they heard with delight the roar of Soviet war planes overhead
and the rattle of Soviet tanks across the Red Square. I
had been brought up to regard these western intelligentsia
as the chosen elite, the Samurai of our time, and there
they were adulating to an extravagant degree the most ruthless
and comprehensive dictatorship the world has yet seen. What
was I to make of it?”52
What
is to be made of it is that yet another barrier to the advancement
toward a World-State had been obliterated through the seduction
of Western intellectuals who were so instrumental in forming
young minds. Upon their return to the West, they worked
to lead astray young adults who had not had the advantage
of a proper formation that would have allowed them to dispute
the errors that they imbibed, instead, to the detriment
of Western civilization. In turn, these young adults became
unthinking mouth-pieces of the revolution, joining the chorus
decrying the works of Dead White Men used in many
of their classes and chanted the sophomoric tune: Western
civ has got to go … Their progeny, the campus thought
police, prowl the corridors of modern academia ensuring
that all tow the lines of Political Correctness and mediocrity.
Arnold J. Toynbee, in his book, Change
and Habit: The Challenge of Our Time, confirmed the
existence of an internationalist policy within the Western
educational system, intent on proselytizing to convert the
masses to the idea of a world citizenry:
“A
small minority can move mountains if it has a lever . .
. the homogeneity of the contemporary intelligentsia is
remarkable . . . The current policy of the intelligentsia
is the same everywhere, and
this policy is arriving everywhere at the same result .
. . these units are going to be uniform enough to serve
as cells for the construction of a world-wide world-state
. . .”53
This
seduction is not limited to the higher echelons of our educational
systems, rather the coveted standardization starts early,
reinforced through the stream of elementary public education,
as noted by Toynbee:
“.
. . the present day Westernizing intelligentsia wields one
potent cultural weapon ...
Compulsory universal primary education,
administered by the public authorities and financed out
of public funds, is a modern Western institution which has
no precedents. In the West it has proved to be a very powerful
transformative force already
during the short time that has passed since its inauguration
there. It influences children at their most impressionable
age, and it reaches, not just a minority, but the masses.”54
In
the East, as reported in the Toronto Star in 2005,
it has proved to be a very powerful transformative force,
too:
“They
confuse Stalin with Hitler, echo their parents’ nostalgia
for a supposedly ‘golden age’ and think the worst part of
the Communist era was not being able to travel freely. Fifteen
years after communism collapsed across eastern Europe, some
people worry about the generation born since then growing
up largely ignorant of the hardships, repression and lack
of basic rights and freedoms when the Marxists ran things.
. . . Even older teens, born before the regime fell, appear
clueless about communism. . . . Older people lament the
lack of knowledge. In those days, they lived planned, predetermined
lives. And while the system did offer jobs and apartments
for all, they say, it had no room for individualism, personal
growth or religious beliefs. . . .They hear little about
it at school, and many of their parents aren’t eager to
discuss the Communist years in detail. While history textbooks
in schools spell out the Communist era accurately and clearly,
teachers say they have little time
to cover the material. ‘It’s dealt with very briefly.
. . We never go too deeply into these themes,’ says Anna
Gregorova, a history teacher at a primary school in Levice
in southern Slovakia.”55
5.2-Dechristianizing
the heart of Christendom
Archbishop
Fulton Sheen noted the sad consequence of Catholic tepidity:
“When
the Church is holy, dissension is from the outside; when
the Church is unholy, dissension is
from within.”56
Such
a terrible state provides opportunity for the enemies of
the Church to make strides in their attempt to destroy the
Church. This is a reality and it has lead to the infiltration
of the Church by her enemies as noted in The
Black Book of Communism:
“To
reduce the influence of the churches on society, bring them
under the bureaucratic control of the state, and transform
them into instruments of policy, the Communists combined
repression, attempts at corruption, and even infiltration
of the church hierarchy. The opening of the archives,
in Czechoslovakia for instance, has revealed that numerous
priests and even a few bishops actively collaborated with
the secret police.”57
Father
Vladimir Kozina, in his booklet, Communism
As I Know It, provided another example:
“As
late as September of 1965, Father Arrupe, Jesuit General
in Rome, told the Council Fathers at the Vatican that a
‘Communist fifth column’ exists within the clergy and that
it is steadily working in favor of atheism . . . It has
succeeded in insidiously influencing the minds of believers,
including even religious and priests, with its hidden poison.”58
The
rancid fruits of this infiltration could be seen by some
at the end of the Second Vatican Council. The attempted
usurpation of the authority of God, now entrenched in the
Church with the close of Vatican II, was apparent, at least,
to one member of the secular media. That is, even though
many ‘practicing’ Catholics appeared to be blind to the
ensuing rift within their own Church and, in some cases,
even cheered the “modernization” of the Church. The observations
appeared as follows:
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Karl
Rahner
(1904-1984) |
“Coming
at a time when so many human faiths, loyalties and grips
on truth are unmoored or slipping, the Second Vatican Ecumenical
Council which ended last week must be called the most impressive
religious event this century has yet seen. The largest
church in Christendom has had the courage to conduct a critical
self-examination in public for four years and, as a result,
has profoundly altered its own view of itself, its view
of the world and the world’s view of the Catholic Church.
The more than 2,300 bishops who left Rome for home are not
only four years older but the bearers,
most of them, of a different kind of apostolate from that
to which they were consecrated. Their church is
more Catholic and less Roman, less monarchic and more constitutional,
less doctrinaire and more dialogic, less monolithic and
more mosaic, less static and more mobile, less
preoccupied with the City of God and more in love with the
City of Man ... It was Karl Rahner, no maverick but
perhaps the most influential of the new Catholic theologians,
who wrote: ‘Christians must simply recognize that planning
for the future and future utopias
in this world is not only legitimate from the Christian
point of view, but that this is the destiny God’s providence
intends for men.’ In his new maturity, man has become ‘the
active, creative draftsman and planner of himself, his environment
and also of the distant future.’ These thoughts were not
strange to Pope John (XXIII), who said, ‘The Church applauds
man’s growing mastery over the forces of nature and
rejoices in all present and future progress.’ Thus the Catholic
Church has made its bid, in direct rivalry with Marxism,
to guide mankind toward a better secular future in this
world. And its new emphasis is on ‘mankind’ and ‘world’
not on an exclusive ‘people of God’.”59
It
has been stated repeatedly throughout Marxist - Socialist
-Communist literature that the ultimate goal is to achieve
world domination. Leftist ideologies, a Roman Communism
so-to-speak, dressed in a cassock, spreading its political
poison using the Catholic Church as a facade, an organization
that is established worldwide, and experienced in propagating
a doctrine, easily could serve and has served as the proverbial
Archimedean lever needed to move the world to the left.
It appears that many of the Churchmen, or Marxists in cassocks,
used the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council to chip away
at the mortar of the Church, thus enabling the smoke
of Satan to funnel furiously into the Sanctuary,
“.
. . the declarations and even the debates (during the Second
Vatican Ecumenical Council) were markedly shy of the usual
Catholic denunciations of atheistic Communism … Church journals
are full of articles on ‘the Marxist-Christian encounter’
… European Communists and left-wing Catholics have collaborated
to promote this dialogue and have discovered similarities
… There were plenty of compromises
at Vatican II and there will be plenty more as Pope
Paul attempts to steer Peter’s bark into the mainstream
of human events after all these centuries in the bay. The
new openness of the Church, its ‘development’ of familiar
doctrines, will be particularly hard on ‘folk Catholics’,
simple peasants and other conservatives who rely on the
Church for certainty above all else.”60
Archbishop
Lefebvre was stone-walled by Vatican officials when he attempted
to bring a petition, containing the signatures of 454 Bishops
. . . asking the Council to examine Communism and condemn
it . . .
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Cardinal
Eugène Tisserant (1884-1972) |
“On
October 21, 1964, discussion focused on the part of the
schema on the Church in the World – Schema XIII – which
dealt with atheism. The word ‘communism’ was still carefully
avoided. In the face of this silence . . . A letter asking
the Council to examine Communism and condemn it was signed
by twenty-five bishops and distributed . . . It stated that
the Council’s silence on Communism would be a disavowal
of the recent Popes. To the letter was joined a petition
for the condemnation of Communism . . . In the end the signatures
totaled 454. Archbishop Lefebvre submitted the petition
. . . at the Council Secretariat on November 9 when there
was sufficient time for it to be considered. He was given
a receipt acknowledging that the document had been received.
The result? On November 13
the new version of the schema made no reference to the wishes
of the petition. Communism was still
not named ... Cardinal Tisserant ordered an inquiry
that revealed ... that the petition had unfortunately been
‘lost’ in a drawer. In fact Msgr. Achille Glorieux, secretary
for the relevant commission, received the petition but had
not passed it on to the commission.”61
In
a conference given by Archbishop Lefebvre at Long Island,
New York on November 05, 1983, His Excellency reiterated
the following betrayal of the Church to Communism, during
Vatican II:
“And
the Communists were promised, Communism will not be condemned
at the Council, and it wasn’t condemned at the Council.
I myself carried 450 signatures to the Secretariat of the
Council in order to have Communism condemned. I did it myself!
Four hundred and fifty signatures of bishops were put away
in a drawer and they were buried in silence ... 450 bishops
were ignored. The drawer was closed, we were told, no, no,
we have no knowledge of that there will be no condemnation
of Communism. And they replaced the anti Communist bishops:
Cardinal Mindszenty by Cardinal Lekai, Cardinal Beran in
Czechoslovakia by Cardinal Tomasec. The same happened in
Lithuania, and in Czechoslovakia, all the bishops became
... collaborators of the Communist
regime.” 62
6.0-THE
SOLUTION: PRAYER AND PENANCE
Pope
Pius XI, in his encyclical on Atheistic Communism,
gave the following recommendation:
“.
. . the evil which today torments humanity can be conquered
only by a world-wide holy crusade of prayer and penance.”63
The
solution seems straightforward, but what is the cause of
the contagious nature and dismal resilience of Communism?
Hamish Fraser (1913-1986), a once Communist secret agent,
who, after becoming disenchanted with Communism during the
reign of Stalin, sought a life change and decided to enroll
in a college in Glasgow, Scotland, “...
where he entered for a religious prize, thinking it would
be rather fun to be the first atheist to win it. He did
win it, but religion won him. After being instructed, eventually,
by a Jesuit, he joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1948.”64
He offers the following explanation for the dismal resilience
of Communism:
“Even
though the faith of the Communists is the basis of the foulest
tyranny ever to trample the earth, it is nevertheless most
obviously that which men seek above all other things:
it is a faith ... When Catholics begin
to live their Faith as dynamically as Communists live theirs,
the Church will become effectively and inescapably visible
to modern man, (until then) the god of Moscow will
continue to be for the multitude the only god on the horizon
... Let us not therefore lament the folly of our contemporaries.
The remedy is in our own hands.”65
The
resilience of this evil, then, is the tepidity of Catholics.
The solution, then, is to pray the Rosary – a remedy that
is in our own hands! The Rosary, throughout its history,
has allowed Catholics to obtain the graces for some rather
un-folksy results in the defeat of the enemies of the Church,
including Communism, as was the case in Austria, for instance,
where a Rosary Crusade was embarked upon by hundreds of
thousands of citizens:
“And
in fact, in May 1955, there was a miracle. Contrary to all
previsions, Molotov suddenly granted independence to Austria.
After ten years of fights and struggles without issue, the
Red menace disappeared as if by the stroke of a magic wand.
The last Russian soldier left Austria on October 26, 1955,
the month of the Rosary. Thereafter, that date became a
national holiday in Austria.”66
In
fact, the origin of the Rosary is found in a time much like
our own where there was a great deal of religious upheaval.
Our Lady gave it to St. Dominic as an instrument of prayer
to gain graces to combat the enemies of the Church:
“.
. . when the Albigensian heresy was devastating the country
of Toulouse, St. Dominic earnestly besought the help of
Our Lady and was instructed by her ... to preach the Rosary
among the people as an antidote to
heresy and sin.”67
From
May to October 1917, at Fatima, Portugal, Our Lady repeatedly
asked the praying of the Rosary and personal sacrifices,
in order to save souls, as they are falling down to Hell
as flies. And, on July 13, of the same year, she announced:
“I come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate
Heart ... If they listen to my requests, Russia will be
converted and there will be peace. If not, she (Russia)
will scatter her errors through the world,
provoking wars and persecutions of the Church.”68
These words of our Lady were not idle threats to innocent
children; they were dire warnings to a guilty world. Ultimately,
the fate of the world is a foregone conclusion; that is,
our Lord will triumph through the Immaculate Heart of Mary
as our Lady foretold at Fatima: “In the end my Immaculate
Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia
to me, and it will be converted and a certain period of
peace will be granted to the world.”69
Is the world at peace? No. Then we must continue to
pray that the Holy Father will consecrate Russia, that is,
before we are engulfed by a global tyranny – atheistic Communism,
a New World of Global Disorder.
7.0-CONCLUSION:
THE REVOLUTION
IN FULL SWING!
We
humbly tried, in this article, to demonstrate that, far
from being dead, Communism remains an active political force
in this world. It is a political force that endeavors to
create and to control a New World Order. To provide our
reader with a view of what we have lost, we first explained
what was a Catholic State: A State that, recognizes God
as the Supreme Ruler, was doing its best to create for the
people the conditions that would help them accomplish their
religious duties (Chapter 1). Afterwards, we started our
demonstration proper, by talking about the nature of Communism,
showing how it falsely pretends to establish a perfect society,
and how it is radically opposed to Religion, persecuting
fiercely the Catholic Church (Chapter 2). Then we dealt
with Communism under the aspect of an active force in our
world, as it has succeeded to scatter its errors, while
it seemed to disappear under a wave of Glasnost and Perestroika
(Chapter 3). But we went further … We explained how Communism
uses both the Rule of Law, and the false dream of the “Worker’s
Paradise” to actually gain control of the whole
world (Chapter 4). We also explained the method used
to achieve such a world domination: It is the infiltration
of the educational systems of the target countries, and
also that of the greatest religious organization, namely,
the Catholic Church (Chapter 5). After having exposed such
a terrible picture of what the world is really facing today,
we provided our readers with the solution: To become fervent
and knowledgeable Catholics, and to pray the Rosary, having
as main intention of prayer the Consecration of Russia by
the Pope, as requested by Our Lady (Chapter 6). Indeed,
we must understand that human means, although we must use
them, cannot avert from us the perils we are facing. Things
have gone too far. It is time to wake up, to see clearly
Satan’s Grand Scheme, and to faithfully have recourse to
Mary, who alone can crush the head of the Serpent.
Our
Lady of the Rosary, Pray for us!
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