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Once a great bastion against
Communism, the Roman Catholic
Church has not been living up to
its anti-Communist responsibilities.
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by The Reverend Francis E. Fenton
FIFTEEN
11111 years ago, no one When was the last time the Vatican
doubted where the Roman Catholic spoke out in condemnation of the
Church stood on Communism. Its Satanic evil that is Communism, and
words and actions showed it to be as warned against its designs, and ex-
unequivocally opposed to Communism posed its vile and vicious machinations
as it was to the Devil himself. But the and the massive barbarities to which it
situation has radically changed since has devoted itself, and exhorted
Pope John XXIII assumed the papal Catholics to inform themselves on the
throne in 1958 – and especially since nature of Communism and to oppose
1963 when his successor, Pope Paul it in every lawful way at their dis-
VI, became the head of the Roman posal, as did Popes Leo XIII and Pius
Catholic Church. So strikingly has the XI and other pontiffs in generations
stance of that Church been changed in past? Incredibly, in all of the official
relation to Communism that the ques- declarations and documents which
tion must now be asked: In the fight emanated from the four years of Vat-
against Communism, on whose side is ican Council II ( 1962-1965), the
the Roman Catholic Church? I ask it word Communism is not so much as
in all seriousness. mentioned!
March 15, 1972
The Communist Conspiracy and the The Catholic schools in our country
Insiders who control it now operate are almost as bad. Having conversed on
the largest slave empire in the history the subject with many hundreds of
of the world, with over 1 billion informed and concerned Catholics in
human beings in various stages of my lecture tours around the country
subjugation to their ruthless and god- over the past four years, and having
less tyranny. But when is the last time been in a number of those schools
any Catholic reader of these lines during that period, I can assure anyone
heard so much as a hint of this from who doubts it that, whatever is now
the pulpit of his parish church? He being taught in the large majority of
may well have been urged from the
pulpit to support the infamous United
Nations, and he may well have heard Father Fenton
proclaimed the "living martyrdom" of urges Catholic
the subversive Berrigan brothers, and anti-Communism.
he may well have been told of the
"sanctity" and the "dedication to the
poor" of Marxist labor boss Cesar
Chavez. But nary a word is such a Catholic schools in America, it's not
Catholic likely to have heard, from the truth about Communism and it's
almost any Catholic pulpit in the land, not Americanism and it's not the
of the living death being endured daily traditional Catholic faith! This is espe-
under Communism by millions of his cially true at the college and the
fellow Christians in the Captive Na- university level. Any Catholic who
tions – millions of them imprisoned thinks for a moment that I exaggerate
and tortured and starved for no other ought to make it his business to find
"crime" than that of believing in God! out for himself. The experience,
Nor is a Catholic apt to learn much though gruesome, will prove a real
of the ugly truth about Communism eye-opener.
from most of what is being passed off The fact is that the Roman Catholic
as the Catholic press in America today. Church from the top on down,
If those who read "Liberal" Catholic through so many of its clergy and
papers and magazines are well in- nuns, its press and educational institu-
formed on Communism, then it is in tions, is simply not fighting the Com-
spite of those publications. In 193 7, munist Conspiracy. It is aiding and
Pope Pius XI noted and deplored in abetting and furthering the advance of
the secular press what he termed a that Conspiracy. Far from being the
"conspiracy of silence" about the evils "great bastion against Communism" it
of Communism. His words would now once was, it has more and more
be just as applicable to most of the become an ally of Communism. These
Catholic press of America. are strong words. But I submit that no
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other conclusion can be drawn from recent years for its anti-Communism,
the record of the past several years. has refused to sanction an annual
The story of those years has been one donation of the American Government
of ever increasing compromise and to the I.LO. because of top-level
collaboration with Communism on the Communist control.
part of the Roman Catholic Church, (3) U.S. News & World Report for
particularly under Pope Paul VI. July 5, 1971, was apparently correct
To give a few examples involving in its observation that "Pope Paul VI
the Vatican itself: has espoused Red China's admission to
(1) Some weeks after the Vatican the United Nations, and has made a
and Communist Yugoslavia resumed number of conciliatory references to
full diplomatic relations in August of the Peking regime." According to the
1970, "President" Josip Broz Tito, June 30, 1971, issue of World Parish, a
Communist dictator of Yugoslavia, publication of the Catholic Maryknoll
was permitted to make an official visit Fathers, "the Holy See intervened
to see Pope Paul VI. According to many times in favor of China's admis-
press reports at the time, the Vatican sion to the United Nations." The
paid "solemn honors" to Tito, and Review Of The News for November
"the red star flag of Communism flew 17, 1971, recorded further Vatican
over the buildings of the Holy See," dealings with Red China, relating that,
while the Pope praised Tito for his in return for Peking's "word" that life
efforts at seeking "peace and interna- would be better for the 4 million
tional collaboration." This same Tito
has been responsible over the years for
the murder of countless thousands of Pope Paul VI
Catholic and other Christian clergy promoted Mao's
and laity. cause at U.N.
(2) While the International Labor
Organization (I.LO.) has been identi-
fied by such authorities as George
Meany as an instrument of the Com- Catholics enslaved in Communist
munist apparatus, Pope Paul VI saw fit China, the Vatican recalled its Papal
to visit the I.LO. headquarters at Nuncio from the capital of Free China
Geneva in June 1970. Upon his recep- on Formosa and recognized 48 Chi-
tion of the invitation to make that nese Catholic bishops chosen by the
visit, Pope Paul VI described the I.LO. Red Chinese rulers. One can imagine
as "a deserving and representative in- what exemplary Catholic bishops were
ternational organism, so very congenial chosen by Mao Tse-tung!
with our own mission of justice, of ( 4) One of the truly heroic anti-
peace and of brotherhood." Yet even Communists among the Catholic hier-
the U.S. Senate, hardly known in archy is Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of
March 15, 1972 3
Hungary. During his years as a prisoner that. What is feared, obviously, is that
of the Communists from 1949 to Cardinal Mindszenty's story would ex-
1956, and throughout the fifteen years pose too much of the ugly truth about
(1956-197]) during which he re- the "mellowing" Communists, and
mained in Spartan confinement in the thereby prove an embarrassment to
U.S. Embassy in Budapest because he both the Vatican and the American
courageously refused to abandon his Government. I, for one, fervently hope
people and to admit to the false that the Cardinal speaks out loud and
Communist charges for which he had clear and soon, so that the entire
been imprisoned, Cardinal Mindszenty world may hear him!
has been a shining symbol to the ( 5) The continually increasing col-
world of continuing resistance to Com- laboration of the Vatican with the
munist tyranny. In September of pro-Communist World Council of
1971, he left Hungary only because he
was ordered by Rome to do so. Ac-
cording to the religious edition of The Josef Cardinal
Herald Of Freedom for November 12, Mindszenty
1971, the agreement between the Vati- has been silenced.
can and Communist Hungary, under
which Cardinal Mindszenty was re-
leased, "provided that the Cardinal
was to remain silent concerning condi- Churches and with "prelates" of the
tions in Communist Hungary and his Russian Orthodox Church is another
treatment while in prison and would case of grave concern. The Russian
not try to publish his manuscript Orthodox Church in Russia (or, more
exposing the history of Communism in accurately, the Moscow Patriarchate)
Hungary from 1918 on." is the Soviet puppet "Church." As
Cardinal Mindszenty's story of per- such, we can be absolutely certain that
secution under Communism would be its "clergy" are in good standing with
a powerful stimulant to the anti- their Communist overlords. Nor is this
Communist forces of the world. It is mere conjecture. Moscow's Metropoli-
obvious why the Communists would tan Boris Nikodim is, in fact, an official
want to silence the Cardinal, but why of high standing in the K.G.B., the So-
would the Vatican agree to it? Is it viet secret police – the same Nikodim
because the Communist slavemasters who offered the liturgy in St. Peter's in
of Hungary gave their "word" that, if Rome on December 14, 1970. He is well
he does remain silent, they will be less described by one familiar with his per-
ruthless to the people of Hungary? But secution of Christians inside Russia as
Communists are inveterate liars. Their "one of the most diabolical and dan-
word means nothing. If the history of gerous men alive"; a man whose
Communism proves anything, it proves "hands are red with martyrs' blood."
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Patriarch Pimen is also a Commu- rificed rivers of blood and moun-
nist agent. Yet at his installation as tains of bodies because of their
Patriarch of the Marxist Church in loyalty to the Church and they
Soviet Russia, Rome was officially still suffer severe persecutions.
represented by Jan Cardinal Wille- What is worse, there is nobody
brands. Pope Paul VI sent a congratu- to defend them …. Because of
latory telegram to "Patriarch" Pimen church diplomacy we are im-
on that occasion, which read in part: peded. Ukrainians who have suf-
"We are anxious to tell you that you fered so much and so long as
will find in us a brother eager to martyrs and confessors are ig-
collaborate" (L 'Osservatore Romano). nored as inconvenient witnesses
It was this same Pimen who sent an of past evils. We have become an
enthusiastic telegram of commenda- obstacle to church diplomacy.
tion to Communist Premier Aleksei To read that, and understand what
Kosygin on the occasion of the fifty- it means, is to weep. But there is far
third anniversary of the October more to this collaboration of the
Revolution. Vatican with Communism. And even
The Moscow Patriarchate, or Soviet the most casual exposition of how so
"Church," is of course a member of many Catholic clergy and nuns and
the World Council of Churches. It is publications and schools are, here in
but one more Communist instrument the United States, supporting and ad-
for the destruction of all faith in God.
Why, then, is not the Roman Catholic
Church exposing it for what it is? Why Notre Dame
is the Vatican collaborating with such honors radical
agents of the Devil as Comrades Niko- William Kunstler.
dim and Pimen?
And what of the many tens of
millions – indeed, hundreds of mil-
lions – of Communist-enslaved peo- vancing the Communist cause would
ples of all faiths throughout the fill many pages of this magazine. Here
world? Where are the protests from are a few examples:
the Vatican? Can such silence in the • On April 2, 1971, at once-Catholic
face of horrible evil possibly be justi- Notre Dame University, attorney Wil-
fied? Ukrainian Catholic Josyf Cardi- liam Kunstler, best known for his legal
nal Slipyj doesn't think so. He was a defense of such subversives and revolu-
prisoner of the Communists for eight- tionaries as the Chicago Conspiracy
een years, from 1945 to 1963. On Seven, was given, in the presence of
October 23, 1971, he told the World over 1,000 students and guests, the
Synod of Bishops in Rome: 1971 Senior Fellow Award as "an
Ukrainian Catholics have sac- individual who has the integrity, the
March 15, 1972 5
decency and the willingness to work rightly his by any means necessary."
for the best values and finest traditions That's right, he said by any means
of our society"! Kunstler was chosen necessary. Some man of God! Yet
for this honor by the senior class at Father Lucas was one of the priests
Notre Dame. recommended by the national Black
Even the foul-mouthed Ti-Grace Catholic Clergy Caucus for the posi-
Atkinson of Women's Lib has been tion of bishop of the Catholic Arch-
allowed to speak at Notre Dame. She diocese of Washington, D.C.
gave a speech described by Catholic e According to the religious edition
Bishop William L. Adrian of Tennessee of The Herald Of Freedom for Octo-
as a "vile, sacrilegious, defamatory ber 1, 1971, Father William F. Nearin
tirade." Bishop Adrian says that abor- of the Oklahoma City-Tulsa Catholic
tion is also being promoted at Notre Diocese "openly denied the existence
Dame, not only by campus organiza- of God" at a meeting at Fordham
tions but by advertisements in student University of the National Association
publications. A "Mass" has been held of Catholic Laymen in June of 1971.
there honoring Chinese Communist To my knowledge Father Nearin re-
Mao Tse-tung. And the notorious mains a priest in good standing in the
Bayard Rustin, a convicted sex pervert Roman Catholic Church, as do Lucas,
and former Communist Organizer, the Berrigans, Groppi, and others of
now serves on the Notre Dame Board that ilk.
of Trustees. e Anton LaVey is the "high priest"
e On March 20, 1971, a rally to free of the Church of Satan in San Fran-
Communist Angela Davis was held at cisco. According to the Oakland Trib-
St. Brigid's Church in New York City.
The speaker was pro-Communist racial
agitator Ossie Davis. According to Church of Satan's
Catholic News, the New York archdio- Anton LaVey
cesan newspaper, Davis was also per- heard by Jesuits.
mitted to speak on behalf of Miss Da-
vis, a self-confessed Communist and
Black Panther on trial for her part in a
terrible murder, at Catholic Marymount une of March 17, 1970, "LaVey is a
College in Tarrytown, New York. favorite speaker at the University of
e Father Lawrence Lucas is the black San Francisco" where, says Anton
pastor of the Resurrection Catholic LaVey, " 'the Jesuits are my greatest
Church in New York City. He is audience.' " The University of San
quoted by the New York Sunday Francisco is also alleged to be a
News of November 15, 1970, as say- Catholic school.
ing: "It is now time for the black man e To every informed American, what-
to stand up and fight for what is ever his religion, it is equally distress-
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ing to observe the continued commen- has been Communist Sam Kushner.
dation and support given the godless And Chavez is, to say the least, a
United Nations by the Vatican and by highly questionable recipient of the
the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the charitable donations of Catholics – as
United States. An article during May anyone can conclude for himself from
1971 in New World, Catholic paper of even a cursory look at the Fourteenth
the Archdiocese of Chicago, quotes Report of the California Senate Fact-
from a statement released by the finding Subcommittee on Un-Ameri-
American bishops at their semi-annual can Activities, where Chavez is thor-
meeting in San Francisco last year, in oughly exposed.
which they call on American Catholics e The National Lawyers Guild is a
to join in appreciation of the "noble notorious Communist Front. The
purposes" of the United Nations and House Committee on Un-American
to "increase their knowledge and un- Activities, now known as the House
derstanding" of the U.N.'s "efforts Internal Security Committee, has
and achievements." (Presumably in- cited it officially as "the foremost
cluding the rape of Katanga!) legal bulwark of the Communist Par-
"In the United Nations," declared ty …. which since its inception has
the bishops, "we see the beginnings of never failed to rally to the defense of
a new international order to replace the Communist Party and individual
the jealous sovereignty of states and members thereof, including known
the fragmenting forces of national- espionage agents." Father Robert
ism …. " Pope Paul VI has made Drinan, currently a member of the
clear his support of the United Na- U.S. House of Representatives from
tions on several occasions, and the Massachusetts, was for years vice presi-
Vatican annually gives a donation to
the pro-Communist fraud called
U.N .l.C.E.F. Interestingly, Ludovico Father Drinan
Mantini, brother of Pope Paul VI, is was vice president
chairman of the Italian national com- of Communist Front.
mittee for U.N.I.C.E.F., and has
served several terms as the Italian
delegate to meetings of U.N.I.C.E.F.'s
executive board. dent of this Communist Front. At the
o The efforts of Marxist Cesar Chavez same time, he was Dean of the Law
to promote his United Farm Workers School at Boston College, which is said
Organizing Committee were backed by to be a great Catholic university.
some $86,000 from the U.S. Catholic Father Drinan continues to embarrass
bishops' national Campaign for Human Catholic members of Congress by in-
Development in 1970. That is the sisting that they refer to him as
same Cesar Chavez whose chief advisor "Bob," and by using his seat on the
March 15, 1972 7
House Internal Security Committee as very name of Christ and has impris-
a pro-Communist soapbox. oned and tortured and murdered so
• But, bad as these individual per- many men, women, and children for
formances are, of far more concern is no other reason than their loyalty to
the ever growing collaboration of the that same Christ?
Roman Catholic Church in America And how much more does this
with the pro-Communist National apply to those men who, by virtue of
Council of Churches. Yet there re- their state in life as clergymen, are sup-
mains a grim prospect that the Roman posed to be, in their allegiance to the
Catholic Church will join the National moral law of God and in their defense
Council in the near future. of freedom, leaders of their fellow
• And even if one supposes that the men? Such Christian leaders should be
Roman Catholic Church in the United in the vanguard of the anti-Communist
States is "soft on Communism," the forces of our nation and of the world!
situation is worse, perhaps far worse, But where, with relatively few excep-
in a number of South American coun- tions, are the churches and the clergy
tries where, under the Marxist leader- in the fight against Communism?
ship of such "Catholic" prelates as Where is the Catholic Church in this
Archbishop Helder Camara of Brazil, fight? On whose side is it? If it is, in
Bishop Antulio Parrilla-Bonilla of fact, on the anti-Communist side,
Puerto Rico, and Paul Cardinal Silva where is the evidence?
Enriquez of Chile, revolutionary Once the implacable foe of the
priests are "a dime a dozen." In far International Communist Conspiracy,
too many countries in Latin America the Roman Catholic Church has with-
the Catholic Church is, from all indica- drawn from the field of battle. Once
tions, a very significant ally of, the the arch enemy of Communism, the
Communist Conspiracy. And the situa- Roman Catholic Church has become,
tion is growing worse. especially under Pope Paul VI, a col-
laborator with it. The record of recent
* * *
The Satanic conspiracy of Commu- years, of which this article claims to be
nism constitutes the gravest threat that but the merest sampling, speaks for
humanity has faced throughout the itself. For a Church that could have
Christian centuries. To resist it unto made an incalculably vast contribution
death by every lawful means at their to the fight against Communism, it is a
disposal is the moral duty of all free shameful and appalling record indeed.
men who truly love their God and In my humble opinion, those Roman
cherish in their hearts and souls the Catholic clergymen responsible for it
God-given gift of freedom. How can will have much to explain when the
anyone who calls himself a Christian time comes to render to Almighty God
be anything but the inexorable enemy an account of the stewardship en-
of that Conspiracy which despises the trusted to them. 1111 1111
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