June 21, 2009
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was a powerful combatant against Communist infiltration of the Catholic Church. “Bishop Fulton Sheen, auxiliary bishop of New York while giving a discourse at Saint Suzanna of Rome revealed that in 1936 the American Communists recruited some agents for infiltrating the religious communities to destroy them from within. An Appeal was made for volunteers to become priests and study in the seminaries” (André Mignot, Les Fumees de Satan, p14).
 | In 1952, he made the acquaintance of (and converted) Bella Dodd, a teacher and activist for the Communist party. After her defection, she revealed that one of her jobs, as a Communist agent was to encourage young radicals to enter Catholic seminaries. She claims that before she had left the Party in the U.S., she had encouraged almost 1,000 young radicals to infiltrate the seminaries and religious orders: |
In the 1930's, 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 then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops” (http://www.vny.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel19.html).
Brother Joseph Natale, Founder of Most Holy Family Monastery, was present at one of Bella Dodd's lectures in the early 1950's. He relates:
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. Back then, she said: “Right now they are in the highest places in the Church.
They are working to bring about change in order that the Catholic Church would not be effective against Communism . . . that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not recognize the Catholic Church.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
 | Manning Johnson belonged to the Communist party in the 1940s and early 50s, during which time he authored the book Color, Communism and Common Sense. After leaving the Party, he testified in 1953 before the House un-American Activities Committee regarding the Communist Agenda and the Catholic Church: |
Once the tactic of infiltration of religious organizations was set by the Kremlin ... the Communists discovered that the destruction of religion could proceed much faster through infiltration of the (Catholic) Church by Communists operating within the Church itself. The Communist leadership in the United States realized that the infiltration tactic in this country would have to adapt itself to American conditions (Europe also had its cells) and the religious make-up peculiar to this country. In the earliest stages it was determined that with only small forces available to them, it would be necessary to concentrate Communist agents in the seminaries. The practical conclusion drawn by the Red leaders was that these institutions would make it possible for a small Communist minority to influence the ideology of future clergymen in the paths conducive to Communist purposes This policy of infiltrating seminaries was successful beyond even our communist expectations.
In January of 2007, it was announced by the Polish Roman Catholic Episcopate that it would disclose documents connecting priests and bishops with Poland’s Communist regime. One of those to be investigated was archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, who admitted his connections with the communist security police after twenty years of spying on fellow clerics and nonconformists. In 2005, Rev. Mieczyslaw Malinski, (a close associate of John Paul II), was also discovered to have worked for the S.B. in the 1980s, along with several other priests.One cannot help but wonder if the Catholic Church is still in a state of siege—and to what extent the Communist infiltration influenced the changes that evolved during the Second Vatican Council.
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