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A publication of Traditional Catholics of America t Editor: Fr. Francis E. Fenton, STL t Volume VII, No. 7 t October 15, 1986
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ver the nearly seven years in which this newsletter
has been published to date, a number of articles
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people. Yet it is conceivable that at least a significant step
or two can be made in that direction if enough of our
have appeared in various issues on such topics as honor, newsletter subscribers will earnestly help us to give the
truth, moral integrity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, etc., all of article as wide a circulation as possible. By so doing, they
which subjects being obviously related to one another. In will be furthering the noble cause of truth both by making
several of those articles the American press (TV, radio, known the record of the real MLK, Jr., and by exposing
newspapers, magazines) was cited as a prime example of the American press for what it is, a massive propaganda
the utterly deplorable lack of honesty so prevalent in this apparatus serving the interests of the enemies of God and
our day. We described that press (the news media) in such country.
terms as atrocious, hypocritical, prostitute, a lie-machine,
anti-American. Nor is there the slightest question that it is The price scale for bulk orders of the MLK, Jr., article is
all of these- and increasingly anti-Christian (anti-Catho- given at the conclusion of the article. We have kept that
lic) as well. price to a minimum so as to enable our readers to order as
many copies as they reasonably can. No one example, I
But perhaps there are some readers of The Athanasian submit, reveals more dramatically the revolting dis–
who, while granting that the American press falls con- honesty of the controlled American news media than its
siderably short of being a paragon of virtue, are reluctant treatment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Weiskittel has
to believe that the news media can be all that bad. Hence done a masterful job in presenting the unvarnished truth
Mr. Weiskittel's article on Martin Luther King, Jr., (MLK, about him.
Jr.) in this issue. As vividly aware as I am of the lies and
half-truths and deliberately misleading propaganda F. Fenton
regularly poured forth by the abominable American press
on a variety of subjects, I have never seen a more blatant
example of this than the favorable treatment given to
MLK, Jr., on the occasion of his birthday last January and
the national holiday associated with it. The American
news media went all out on this one and the picture it
painted of this man was, well, a nauseating one to any
honorable person who knows the truth about him.
On the safe assumption that the American public will be
subject to another propaganda barrage on his behalf in
the weeks and months ahead, the Weiskittel article in this
issue of The Athanasian is an attempt to counteract that
propaganda to some extent by printing the truth about the
real Martin Luther King, Jr. To what extent our efforts
may be effective depends upon the cooperation of our
newsletter subscribers. We are purposely publishing the
article in this issue so as to allow ample time for its wide-
spread distribution. It would be foolish of me to imagine
that this MLK, Jr., article in our little newsletter is going
to bring about any drastic reversal of the favorable opin-
ion about him held by the generality of the American
Jill Wzesner
I n Spain in the year 1491, Don Bertram, lord of the noble
family of Loyola, and his wife, Mary Saez de Balde, of an
equally illustrious heritage, became parents for the eleventh
make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to go from there to
wherever God would guide him.
and final time. Their red-haired son, named Ignatius, grew His first stop was the Benedictine monastery at Montserrat,
into an intelligent and amiable child. Young Ignatius served where he made a general confession and took a vow of per-
as a page in the court of King Ferdinand V and, later, as a petual chastity, dedicating himself to the service of God. As
knight under the Grand Treasurer of Queen Isabella. Coura- he left Montserrat he hung his sword on a pillar near the
geous in combat and kind to his subordinates, Ignatius was altar to signify his renunciation of secular warfare for the
generous to defeated enemies. He was, however, filled with battle standard of Christ.
vanity and yearning for worldly honor and pleasures.
On his way to the port of Barcelona he stopped near the vil-
In 1521, war broke out between France and Spain and lage of Manresa, intending to spend a few days in solitude
Ignatius was sent to encourage the garrison at Pampeluna, and prayer. Those few days stretched into a year, during
capital of Navarre. However, at the sight of the enormous which he shed the last vestiges of vanity and worldliness. He
French force descending upon them, the soldiers ignored kept a journal of his experiences during this time. This
him and rushed to open the gates in surrender. Ignatius fell book, which he later used to guide others on the path to sal-
back to the citadel where he rallied the defenders there vation, is called The Spiritual Exercises and was officially
against the invaders. Under his leadership they held firm approved by Pope Paul III in 1548. According to The Spir-
until a cannon ball shattered the bone of Ignatius' right leg. itual Exercises self-denial is the key to progress toward gen-
Disheartened by the fall of their leader they too sur- uine love for God. On the first page is the beautiful prayer,
rendered. the "Anima Christi." The rest of the book is divided into
four week of meditations. The first week, devoted to repen-
Impressed by his courage, the French treated him kindly, tance, concludes with the thought:
setting the splintered bone and sending him home to Loyola
on a stretcher. Forced to remain in bed over a long recu- Representing to myself Our Lord Jesus Christ on His
peration period, Ignatius read the only books to be found in cross before me, I shall ask Him how, being Creator of
the castle: the life of Our Lord and the lives of the saints. As all things, He could stoop so low as to become a man;
he read these volumes to relieve the tedium of the lonely how, possessing eternal life, He could deign to accept
hours, he became more and more interested in them. His a temporal death and to undergo it in very truth for
daydreams of winning great conquests and rescuing fair my sins. Then, turning to myself, I shall inquire what I
ladies began to alternate with thoughts of emulating the so far have done for Jesus Christ, what I am now doing
heroism of the saints. As he lay there he noticed a difference for Jesus Christ, what I ought to do for Jesus Christ.
in the ways these thoughts affected him. His worldly day-
dreams left him restless and discontented whereas his medi- The ensuing three weeks concentrate on the earthly life of
tations on the saints filled his heart with a calm joy. The reg- Our Lord, guiding the soul through His example.
ularity of his experience intrigued him and he began to
speculate on its cause. He discerned the working of two After making his pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1523, Ignatius
spirits within his soul, one of God and the other of the devil, returned to Barcelona where, at the age of 33, he resumed
and he came to see all of history as a continuous battle be- his studies in preparation for the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
tween these two spirits. To support himself he begged bread. Anything else he was
given he gave to the poor. Ignatius became a familiar figure
He started to prepare his soul for the battle by practicing on the streets of Barcelona as he limped along with a bundle
personal austerities and by arising each night at midnight to on his back, entering one hovel after another with a needed
spend the hours before dawn in prayer and in sorrow for his blanket for an elderly widow or food for a person who was
sins. During one of his nightly vigils before an image of the ill. Wherever help was needed Ignatius was there, giving
Mother of God, Ignatius consecrated himself to the service quiet assistance. He manifested his burning love for God in
of Our Lord and vowed inviolable fidelity under her protec- every action and word and soon found himself instructing
tion. He soon became filled with a loathing for the sins of others who wanted to know what gave him his great inner
his worldly life and found secular attractions fading as his peace.
love for God increased. His oldest brother, lord of Loyola
since the death of their father, was eager for him to resume After two years in Barcelona Ignatius went to the university
his military career and was distressed by the change which at Alcala to complete his studies. There he was joined by
had come over him. Ignatius, however, was "all on fire to three men who had known him in Barcelona: 21-year-old
serve God to the best of his knowledge." He decided to James Laynez who impressed those around him with "the
THE ATHANASIAN 2 OCTOBER 15, 1986
sweetness and gentleness his heart"; 18-year-old is as easy to to Heaven water as by the
Alphonsus Salmeron; and Nicholas Bobadilla who had the German Jesuit, Father Canisius (now Saint Peter Can-
"energy of a whirlwind the courage of an Andalusian isius, Doctor of the Church).
bull." As the four of them appeared to be advising people on
religious matters, they came under the the Ignatius advised his men at Council to "'be slow to
sitors, who were suspicious of men teaching religion who speak" and "to do so in a thoughtful, friendly fashion,"
were not priests. (A number of heresies recently sur- keeping in mind that "the greater glory God is the pur-
faced in Spain, including one Illurninism or Men of pose of our Fathers at Trent." During the Council a theory
New Light) of Justification was proposed which attempted reconciliation
with the Lutheran heresy. In response Father Laynez deliv-
Ignatius and his companions were examined by the Inquisi- ered a three-hour speech in which he thoroughly refuted the
tors and found innocent of any fault They were advised to false theory.
leave, however, and to go to Salamanca where they once
more attracted a following and were again accused, Unable to have their way at Trent, the Protestants vented
arrested and found innocent their fury at the Church throughout Europe, but the Jesuits
stood in their way, as they had in Venice and at the Council.
They decided to leave Spain altogether and to complete They also carried the Catholic Faith to pagan lands. By
their education in Paris. There a young scholar named 1556, in addition to North and South America, Jesuits had
Peter Favre was assigned to help Ignatius with his students. penetrated the African jungle and a Jesuit had arrived in
Soon he too joined the group, as did a young Spanish China, the first Christian missionary to enter that land in
aristocrat, Francis Xavier, who was a Master of Philosophy; several hundred years.
Simon Rodriguez, a Portuguese of noble blood; and three
others who were associates of Peter Favre. Together, on the In July of 1556, Ignatius fell ill but no one took it too
feast of the Assumption in 1534, they made a vow to re- seriously, as his health had been poor for 15 years, and he
nounce the world and to go to preach in Palestine or, if un- accepted his latest illness with his characteristic calm. This
able to do so within a year after completing their studies, to time, however, it was fatal. At dawn on July 31, after giving
offer themselves to the Pope to serve God in whatever man- final instructions to his men, Ignatius of Loyola died at 65
ner he should choose. Soon after, they were all ordained. years of age. The last word he spoke was the name of Jesus.
He was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.
War broke out between the Christians and the Turks in
Palestine, preventing travel to the Holy Land, so Ignatius Saint Ignatius of Loyola, whose heart burned so brightly
and his companions offered themselves to the Pope as with love for God that, as his friend Saint Philip Neri de-
agreed. When asked the name of their organization, Igna- clared, his face shone with rays of light, was only saddened
tius replied, "the Society of Jesus," for they had joined by the thought of souls who tum away from their Redeemer.
together to fight heresy and vice under the standard of "Oh God, my love, and the delight of my soul," he said, "if
Christ men knew thee, they could never offend thee!" The Society
of Jesus, which he founded to "inflame the world, to spread·
a bull on September 27, 1540, Pope Paul III approved about the fire which Jesus Christ came to kindle on earth,"
The Society of Jesus as a religious order, and the Jesuits, engaged in battle with the enemy and won countless souls to
eager to work for "the greater glory of God and the help of the standard of Christ. That same enemy has won a number
souls," were sent throughout Europe, to the Indies and to of battles in our time. With the example of Saint Ignatius to
the New World. Peter Martinez, a young caballero who had follow and the help of his holy intercession, we can once
joined the Society of Jesus, was the first Jesuit martyr of more turn the tide. t
North America, laying down his life for the Catholic Faith in
Florida.
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Fathers Laynez and Salmeron were sent as papal theolo-
gians to the Council of Trent where they were later joined by
Father Claude Jay (who, when Lutherans in a German town
threatened to throw him into the river, smiled and said, "It
THE ATHANASIAN 3 OCTOBER 15, 1986
The commemoration Dr. birthday earlier this
year strengthened the conviction among his followers
that his place in American history is now secure.
King "There is a heightened awareness of
that was not present before the holiday. I think it has made
greater believers of many more people.'' And, when present
at the Capitol Rotunda for the of a fifty thousand
dollar larger-than-life bust of him, she observed that had
added to "the pantheon of national heroes." The
Jackson, a lieutenant director the National
In 1968, at of 39, Hailed in life Coalition, was even more effusive, calling
as the great prophet of the rights he was now mentor "the consummate universal force for justice, whether
""'l'LII";"~"'-' as martyr. To cement this perception in in Selma or Saigon … " In a nationally-run ad-sponsored by
the minds of the public, a holiday commemo- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
rating his birth was pro,prn;ea. People (NAACP), the Women Voters, the United
Catholic Conference, the National League,
While of the must have the United Church of Christ's for Church in Society,
would deaden opposition voices and put an end to the contro- United Methodist Communications eight other groups-
versy, it only in the debate to another level. readers were called to a pledge to "help bring to life the
To begin with, there was a major obstacle to any national inspiring vision to which King dedicated all his days."
recognition: evidence obtained in an investigation of Dr.
King, from until 1968, filled file (The holiday is last stage in what amounts to a canoniza-
cabinets. authorized tion King: "mainstream" Protestant Churches and Concil-
Attorney Robert in light of King's associa- iar "Catholic" Churches had already begun holding special
tion with known Communists, the Senate Intelligence services in his memory; Washington Cathedral dedi-
mittee ruled in it amounted to cated a statue in his likeness on Palm Sunday, 1985; and
some of his adherents bluntly declared that his
Armed with this finding, King's Southern Christian Leader- from Birmingham Jail" should added to Bible.)
ship Conference (SCLC) and his former aide Bernard Lee
"filed a suit the States government," writes What we have is a curious situation: a man is elevated to the
Evans-Raymond Pierre in the January 13, issue of highest honor his country can bestow, yet the fact is that
New American, for monetary damage and requesting much of his life has been enshrouded in mystery. But why? If
that the tapes and on Dr. King destroyed. January King is a figure every American should admire and
31. 1977, Federal Judge John Lewis, Jr., to to emulate, if he is to be a role model future genera-
damages to Lee and but ordered nnc, __..,.,m, is there such a effort to certain
and tra."1scripts of on King to aspects life from us? It is purpose of this to do
Archives years … " what the mass media is unwiHing to do-examine the other
side of Martin Luther King, Jr. tied Communist folksinger Pete Seeger performing and Dr.
King listening to a speech, seated behind CPUSA Central
What we won't explore are issues of race except where they Committee official Abner Berry. The keynote address was
are directly relevant to the subject Our considerations will be given by .. .Martin Luther King. Three years later, Highlander
based on King's own call to judge people by the "content of Folk School was shut down by the State of Tennessee, osten-
their character." We have no problem with the color of King's sibly because alcoholic drinks were sold without a license and
skin. It is the color of his ideology that concerns us-and that, because the school's director, Myles Horton, operated it for
we believe, should concern all Americans, regardless of their private gain, but closed down in reality because the State of
race. Tennessee was aware of the testimony of witnesses, including
a former Communist organizer, showing that Highlander was
M.L. King and His Communist Associates used for CPUSA recruiting.
"There are as many Communists in the freedom movement as
there are Eskimos in Florida," was Martin Luther King's re- And then there was the Southern Conference Educational
joinder to charges that civil rights activism was being used as a Fund (SCEF), an organization which had a clear impact on
vehicle of subversion. He blamed white racists for using this King's early career and whose administrator was James
"McCarthy-like tactic to destroy the movement," but it was Dombrowski, an identified Communist. In 1962, Dombrowski
one of his sharpest black critics, the distinguished author and and two other identified Communists, Carl and Anne Braden,
journalist George Schuyler, who wrote that King "had secured attended a SCLC meeting with King and, in 1963, King en-
financial backing from both the 'white power structure' and dorsed a $167.74 check made out to him for "New York
the Communists to operate revolutionary schools to train his expenses" by SCEF, cosigned by its executive director, James
subordinates for the bedevilment of sundry communities." Dombrowski. In 1959, King had written a letter to the
(Schuyler quote in Frank Capell's The Herald of Freedom, Bradens asking them to become permanently associated with
February 13, 1976, p. 1) SCLC. There is no question Dr. King knew the sort of com-
pany he was keeping, as he was being warned to stay away
In 1955, Dr. King became involved with the Montgomery (AL) from them.
Improvement Association (MIA), a group he would later head.
He told its members to "steer clear of any Communist infiltra- Another Red close to King was Hunter Pitts O'Dell (alias Jack
tors" and "have no dealings with Communists." (Biographer H. O'Dell) who was introduced to him by Levison. (Oates, p.
Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life ofMartin 250) O'Dell "had Communist ties going back as far as the
Luther King, Jr., p. 84) So he was not ignorant of the dangers. 1940's," writes Evans-Raymond Pierre, invoked the Fifth
Yet at the very same time he became involved with Bayard Amendment when asked about these ties by congressional
Rustin, a man with definite Communist ties. Rustin became investigating committees and, according to government
an important adviser to King, played a key role in the 1963 sources, "was a member of the National Committee of the
Washington March and accompanied him to Oslo in 1964 Communist Party in 1959." (op. cit.) He was still a CPUSA of-
when he received the Nobel Prize. ficial when hired by Dr. King to replace Rustin in 1960.
In December, 1956, King made a keynote speech for MIA's And there were the warnings. After learning of Levison's
Institute on Nonviolence, "Facing the Challenge of a New connection with King from the FBI, Attorney General
Age," in which he attacked exploitation and envisioned "a Kennedy advised King in January, 1962, to sever the rela-
new era of world community fast approaching." (Oates, p. tionship but, four months later, a Levison-scripted speech was
105) While he was making this address, Rustin was in New delivered by Dr. King. Finally, a year went by and the advice
York "to consult friends like Stanley Levison about a perma- was still unheeded. At a meeting of civil rights leaders at the
nent civil rights organization 'designed around Dr. King's White House on June 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy
charisma."' (Oates, p. 108) Levison-a man who had been, spoke privately with King, reiterating his brother's warning.
according to the FBI, a secret benefactor of the Communist "They're Communists," the president said, referring spe-
Party, USA (CPUSA) between 1952 and 1955-would be- cifically to O'Dell and Levison, "you've got to get rid of them."
come King's right-hand man as adviser, strategist and speech JFK, who was King's political ally in much of the
writer. "progressive" agenda, stressed his fear of repercussions,
saying, "If they shoot you down, they'll shoot us down too-so
In August, 1957, King founded the Southern Christian Lead- we're asking you to be careful." (Oates, p. 247) Kennedy aide
ership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta. On Labor Day weekend Harris Wofford later recalled that King confided that "he had
of 1957, he attended a meeting at a little-known institute of far more reason to trust Levison than to trust (FBI Director)
learning in Tennessee-Highlander Folk School. What was Hoover." (p. 249)
Highlander? It originated-or evolved-from another "educa-
tional" outfit known as Commonwealth College, operating in It wasn't only the Kennedys that cautioned Dr. King. When
Arkansas. When the college, which openly displayed the New Orleans police raided SCEF headquarters in 1961, they
hammer and sickle, was cited as a Communist front in 1949 found documents implicating King. A subsequent study of
by the U.S. Attorney General, its faculty moved to Tennessee SCEF by the state's Un-American Activities Committee gave
and reopened as Highlander. Photos taken by a government King the benefit of the doubt. Leaming that King had signed
undercover man during the Labor Day meeting show identi- an affidavit in New Orleans attesting to the good character of
Dombrowski and other SCEF staffers, Committee Counsel was never more shocked in my life. He preached the straight
Jack Rogers sent him three copies of its report showing Communist line … Dr. King praised (Communist) Ho Chi
SCEF's undeniable "Communist connections and leader- Minh as the only true leader of the Vietnamese people … and
ship" and also contacted King through his attorney with the condemned the late President Diem as 'one of the most vi-
same evidence so that King could repudiate the affidavit. At a cious modem dictators."' (quoted, John McCallum, The
subsequent hearing Rogers described the outcome of Story of Dan Lyons, Guild, 1973, p.
his attempts:
The theme of Vietnam was included in Dr. King's Carnegie
.. .If King were ever inclined to cleanse himself of the taint of Hall speech on February 23, 1968, a little over a month be-
Communism, this would have been a very excellent oppor- fore his death. It is one of the most revealing public appear-
tlmity, well under the circumstances. I regret to ances he ever made, and for this reason it is seldom men-
inform the Committee that no answer, whatsoever, was tioned. The occasion was the one hundredth anniversary of
received from King, and affidavit still the birth of DuBois. The event was sponsored by
stands in the court of New Orleans, despite certain Freedomways magazine, a magazine denounced by J. Edgar
knowledge of the true character of the Communist leadership Hoover as a Red propaganda organ.
of the Southern Conference Educational Fund.
W.E.B. DuBois was an American black educator and an open
Rogers shouldn't have been too shocked. It is well known Marxist all of his adult life. He was a racist who spoke of the
that Dr. King actually joked about the Kennedys' suggestion. "bloodsucking whites" and who taught that "the salvation of
After O'Dell "resigned," he was found to be still employed at the American Negro lies in socialism." (A W.E.B. DuBois
SCLC offices in his old role, and King and Levison kept in Reader, Macmillan, 2nd prinl, 1974, pp. 191-193) He co-
touch through a third party. The former was considered by founded the NAACP, sought to use the black churches as an
the FBI, writes Oates, "further proof of King's mendacity and instrument of subversion and amassed 96 Communist-front
deception" while the latter "clandestine method of communi- citations. finally moved to then-Communist Ghana as an
cation" is, for Pierre, "a very powerful indictment of Martin old man, where he openly declared himself a Communist,
Luther King's all too willing collaboration with agents of dying in 1963. In 1960, he was awarded the Lenin "Peace"
Communist subversion." (p. 8) Prize. Since his death, the CPUSA has produced both written
and recorded autobiographies of DuBois and named a
King's "Nonviolence" student front group after him.
That King's calls for "massive civil disobedience" always con-
veyed an implicit threat of violence is nowhere more evident During the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, DuBois corre-
than when he organized the "Poor People's" March in 1968. sponded with King and was impressed, praising him as
If this "last, desperate demand" was not met, declared King, "honest, straightforward, well-trained." The feeling was
the U.S. would undergo "the worst hatred, chaos and vio- mutual. Mrs. King says DuBois was "a great man whom
lence that any nation had ever encountered." Martin had long admired" and was "our hero."
When King and his forces invaded Chicago in July, 1966, At the Carnegie Hall speech King let his audience know
riots were not far behind. Mayor Richard Daley charged the where he stood from the start, calling DuBois a "restless mili-
SCLC with holding classes on "how to conduct violence," in- tant genius" and a "radical all his life." (Jim Bishop, The
cluding the use of films on the Watts riots. King held a rally at Days ofMartin Luther King, Jr., p. 489) Bishop continues:
Soldier Field and gave a speech one writer called "a master-
piece of incitation to insurrection." Groups at the rally in- Then came the words they had hoped to hear. "So many
cluded the Communist Party and its front, the DuBois Club; would like to ignore the fact that DuBois was a Communist
the (Communist) Young Socialist Alliance; and Students for a in his last years." A roar of approval came from many
Democratic Society. Within two days the West Side of throats. ': .. our irrational obsessive anti-Communism has led
Chicago was flames. After a visit to Memphis by King in us into too many quagmires … All over the world, we must
1968, one person was dead, 60 injured, 280 arrested and 155 live together as brothers or we will all perish as fools."
stores looted or vandalized by the time the rioting there was People stood, stamped, whistled, applauded. King t.ried to
quelled. speak of the "senseless, cruel, unjust war in Vietnam," but
the radicals were giving him a standing ovation. His mouth
Vietnam and DuBois moved; but the deep bell tones. were overwhelmed by the
King's Vietnam statements approximated the Communist accolade of the audience, and only a tape recorder caught
position-calling the revolution there a "civil war" and the end of the speech, when he said, "DuBois will be with us
blaming our presence on "paranoid anti-Communism"-and when we go to Washington in April… " (Ibid.)
became a political liability for him. The Washington Post re-
ferred to his "diminished usefulness to his cause, to his It may be said that DuBois was with King throughout his
country and to his people." Life said his remarks "sounded career.
like a script for Radio Hanoi." Father Daniel Lyons, who
was very pro civil in the true sense, says he attended a The FBI and King
1967 speech by King at Riverside Church in New York. "I In 1962, King addressed the National Lawyers Guild, official-
there is more FBI proof a
an FBI from 1947 to
sworn affidavit on September 28,
cell meetings attended in during the
wherein he asserted: at the meetings "one Rev.
Luther King was always set forth as the individual to whom
Communists should look and rally around in the
struggle on many issues," King "has either
,u~uw•v• of, or has from, over
vvum"u'""" fronts, individuals and/or one
give aid to or espouse Communist causes."
company.
Even more dramatic is the of Negro woman, Julia line to
Brown. While in Cleveland.. she ,nn,c.rD,ni'I" gave the
1947 a group calling itself Civil Rights
ing it was a legitimate
she was horrified when found it was a Communist front, is
but to undercover the FBI
1960. Before the Senate Judiciary in
1979, she testified: "the (Communist) cells that I was asso-
ciated with in Cleveland were continually being asked to raise
money for Luther King's and to support
movement. .. while I was in the Party as a loyal
I Martin Luther to be closely
connected with the Communist p.
10) That average American nothing about what
Prussian or Julia Brown has said is a telling nvi,,.tt-no,~t-
of the national news media and the Senate Committee that
heard her testimony.
King .11.it::,~,u;y
"They don't like you. They say you are Communist inspired.
That means you are effective," the black Nobel prize-winning
minister told his followers. said those words? Martin have
Luther Jr.? Tutu. While Tutu limitations the
works to undermine the African government, the omitted. Anyone desiring
Madonna," Coretta visits Corrie Aquino to obtain it writing to John K.
pledge support to the nonviolent revolution in the below.
Philippines.
Additional copies of the article are available at the following
Dr. King's best-known protege, Jesse Jackson, has paid prices:
friendly visits to Cuba and Nicaragua, employed 2 copies for$ 1.00 (minimum order)
O'Dell as international adviser in 1984 (Pierre, p. 8) and this copies $10.00
year was represented at Communist newspaper 50 for$15.00
World banquet by Rainbow Coalition (it was a sna1nsa,r1 Please order
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, a
King aide, is remembered his P.O.
Soviet bloc troops in
OF A DISH NO
Fr. Francis E. Fenton
W hat follows is a partial list of individuals and organi-
zations deserving, as I see it, of top rating in various
categories relating to the Church and country. As the above
-Freemasonry:
the principal "nonexistent" evil organization of our day.
(Despite its massive wickedness, "a deadly poison" in the
title indicates, these ratings are rather radically different words of Pope Leo XIII, and despite the very real danger it
from the usual kind in that they are highly uncomplimen- poses to Church and country, there is no organization
tary, to say the least. Anyway, for what it's worth, here they whose true nature is less known by the American public and
are: more widely ignored by even the best of the conservative
press than the conspiracy of Freemasonry. As has been
-The Conciliar "Catholic" Church: noted in these pages in the past, Freemasonry, although far
the religion or religious body most destructive of the Roman more subtle, is a threat to Church and nation every bit as
Catholic Faith. evil and dangerous as Communism. And yet, even otherwise
generally commendable conservative publications-the few
-The Crime of Abortion: there are-all but totally ignore the subject, almost as if
the single most striking example of the rampant immorality Masonry were nonexistent. How come? Why, I have read
contaminating the USA. articles on, for example, the French Revolution by presum-
ably competent and honest individuals in which not even
-The Government oHhe United States: the word Freemasonry appeared!) t
the Communist conspiracy's most powerful ally.
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