“He knows that he is running out of time”
From its very beginning, the holy Bride of Christ has been the butt
of devilish attacks. In fact, Lucifer is paying her a compliment: he
knows that to direct his poisonous arrows at sects which, born today,
will be buried tomorrow, would waste his ammunition.
The Roman Catholic
Church alone is the rock upon which Christ has built his Kingdom; she is
the only one who never stops waging war on the satanic kingdom whose
motto is “
non serviam” (“
I will not serve”). This duel will end in its total defeat and will be gloriously replaced by “I am the handmaid of the Lord.”
The Church was bound to be the victim of treason, starting with one
of the Twelve. The evangelists warn us that the closer we come to the
end of time, the more will Satan’s rage manifest itself, for he knows
that he is running out of time. Has Christ not warned us when he said:
“When I come back to the earth, shall I find some faith left?” Thus
history repeats itself: whereas Peter, James and John were sound asleep
in Gethsemane while Christ was sweating blood, Judas was very alert,
guiding those who had been ordered to arrest Jesus.
That the 20th century has the doubtful honor of being the bloodiest
of all centuries, cannot be denied. Thanks to the mind-boggling
development of technology, many of us have closed our eyes to the fact
that the Evil One saw these very inventions as a superb tool in his hand
and managed to control the new media, entertainment, and “education,”
thereby winning millions and millions of souls without much effort.
I recall that when the atomic bomb was invented in the 1940s (a gnat
compared to the means of destruction now available), the first thought
that came to my mind was that, being told in the Gospel that the world
will be destroyed by fire, it was now quite conceivable that man might
be the culprit: what a superb victory of death over life, of non-being
over being. When Nazism was defeated in 1945 and “peace” was proclaimed,
many fell into the illusion that men, now realizing that they could
destroy the world, would unite forces to guarantee that it would never
happen.
Alas, Satan, working underground, started promoting a new means of
destruction which he presented as a “glorious victory of freedom” — the
efficiency of which would put atomic bombs to shame, and carrying the
noble titles of progress, choice, and liberation from the shackles of
the past. I am referring to
Roe vs. Wade — a decision
legalizing abortion in the USA — a day of such darkness that it sealed
the radical moral decadence of a once-great country.
Statistics showing the number of babies murdered by their mothers –
and recalling the glorious title that Adam gave to Eve, the “Mother of
the living” — make one sob. The legalization of abortion puts both
Stalin and Hitler “to shame” — devilish as they were, they were just
beginners by comparison.
But worse than that: the crimes of both dictators were condemned;
whereas the crime par excellence — murder of the innocent by their own
mothers — is now accepted and praised: a magnificent victory of women
over their own bodies and the burden of pregnancies that could prevent
them from competing with men.
This is what in some way makes this crime surpass all preceding ones: we justify the murder.
This satanic triumph should not be interpreted to mean that Lucifer
gave up traditional forms of attack, such as the atrocious persecutions
of Christians in the Middle East. But the Evil One also knows that the
blood of martyrs has always fecundated the Church. In his devilish
“creativity,” he realizes that “infiltration” by his cronies into the
very heart of the Church is a superb road to an easy victory: the enemy
should be “within.”
I will limit myself to a few remarks about the priestly scandals that
have battered the Church: That many cowardly bishops, betraying their
mission as shepherds, closed their eyes to this scandal cannot be
sufficiently condemned. But let us also recall the cowardice of the
apostles themselves: one of them was a traitor, another denied Christ
three times; the others of them fled (St. John came back, but we do not
know how soon).
A
superficial reading of the history of the Church informs us that even
though she produced a surprising number of Popes who were saints and
martyrs, some of them, alas (let us think of several at the time of the
Renaissance) were unworthy to sit on the throne of Peter: clearly they
were careerists attracted by the dignity and the power conferred to
popes. But if we compare the number of saintly Popes with the number of
truly great heads of state, we shall conclude that the Church has an
astoundingly good record.
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| Bella Dodd |
Frontal attacks against the Church are mostly counter-productive; a
more refined way of harming the Bride of Christ is to introduce into her
bosom “snakes” who have neither faith nor morals, and whose mission is
to spread doubt — to undermine the believers’ faith, and encourage
immoral practices now fully justified according to the latest findings
of social sciences.
That this infiltration has taken place and is still taking place
cannot be denied, and to my surprise, is hardly mentioned at all. This
is in spite of the fact that we have written testimonies such as
School of Darkness
by Bella Dodd, who ”converted” to Communism while studying at Hunter
College, became an ardent Communist disciple of Marx and Stalin, and
devoted her great talents to not only spreading Communism, but also
following Stalin’s orders to penetrate Catholic seminaries and religious
orders. She succeeded in bringing in some 1000 men who had neither
faith nor morals (the easiest to recruit were of course homosexuals,
seminaries being for them a rich hunting ground for the obvious reason
that they are composed of males; the fox had been introduced into the
henhouse).
Such men were superbly trained for their devilish mission. Many of
them managed to gain positions of authority, and as related in Michael
Rose’s great book,
Goodbye, Good Men, the seminaries then
turned down the applications of young men devoted to the Church, while
accepting those who were “open” to views more in harmony with “modern
scholarship.”
My husband and I met Bella Dodd in the sixties and we soon became
friends. In the course of conversation, my husband said to Bella, “I
fear, indeed I do fear, that the Church has been infiltrated.” She
replied (I quote): “Dear Professor: you fear it; I know it: when I was a
Communist working full time for the Party, I was in close contact with
four cardinals in the Vatican, working for us. And they are still very
active today.” Needless to say, we were shattered — and this explains
why my husband started working on his book,
Trojan Horse in the City of God.
Two key words are “up to date” and “scholarly,” superb tools used to
spread both doubt and the seeds of sexual perversions. For, since
original sin, lust has a devilish attraction for fallen men. How easy it
is to convince “modern man” that it is high time for the Church to
“liberate” herself from the choking net of prejudices prevalent in the
“Dark Ages”: thanks to modern advances, we now have a broader and
healthier view of problems which have burdened the Catholic conscience,
and realize that many acts condemned in the past are perfectly
acceptable, and even healthy, including homosexuality.
Soren Kierkegaard (calling himself the greatest Danish philosopher, while
remarking that there is only one!) saw that one particularly subtle
means of sapping truth is by “spreading doubt.” The serpent did not
challenge the divine prohibition, he just raised a question: “Why can’t
you eat of the fruit of that tree?” In other words, God has to justify
Himself and His commands —therefore sapping His divine authority.
But there are questions which, by the very fact that they are raised,
condemn the person raising them: why can’t a man abuse, torture and
kill a child if he enjoys doing it ? Why can’t I spit in my parent’s
face, if it gives me a well-deserved relaxation? One bit of fashionable
nonsense one hears in universities is “all ideas should be welcome,”
making no distinction between true and false, healthy and perverse,
moral and immoral. Alas, the distance separating theory from practice is
a very narrow one, for when one is intellectually convinced, action is
bound to follow.
To summarize: satanic attacks take two forms; one is the frontal one,
challenging dogmas and openly defying the moral teaching of the Church.
But the other, which has possibly always existed, is the infiltration
of evil forces into the Church herself, into the clergy and all
religious orders. One tempting wrong response is to accept defeat and
therefore to lay down our arms, which are prayer, the sacraments, and
trust in the promise that the gates of Hell shall not prevail. Turning
in prayer to God, to Mary, to the glorious saints and martyrs, and
eliminating cheap optimism (“It is a temporary crisis that will soon be
over”), we know with certainty that God will have the last word.
Cardinal Raymond Burke has revealed that his mother was advised to abort him.
