Alinsky and his minions made very aggressive attempts to infiltrate the Catholic Church back in the early 70’s.
I remember our local parish became affiliated with a Community Organizing group that had ties to Alinsky. My grandfather, who was very well-connected in the Democrat Party, knew all about Alinsky and was horrified. He and my mother staged a counter-campaign to educate parishoners. Eventually our Pastor changed his mind and bowed out of the organization.
To be fair that means he probably did not fully understand what he was getting in to. I am sure that many other Pastors were more committed and dove into Alinskyism enthusiastically.
The benefit to me was that I knew all about Saul Alinsky and his teachings before I was even out of grade school.
Evil always needs a cover of what appears good to survive. Hence, why Romney is in the GOP and tried to claim the conservative wing, also. Outright brazen but was embraced, nontheless by the easily deceived immature voters. IMO, he should have been drop kicked off the campaign platform. His father had ties to Alinsky so was shown how it is done. Your parents obviously had wisdom/discernment with a strong hatred of evil which was rate then and even rarer today.
“To be fair that means he probably did not fully understand what he was getting in to. I am sure that many other Pastors were more committed and dove into Alinskyism enthusiastically.”
When I was growing up, the church did not seem to be particularly concerned that anyone actually read the bible, but that they only followed the dictates of the parish priest. Of course, there were catechism classes if you didn’t mind a short study in rote memory.