[Domestic Church]

Yep. During the 30's both the higher education system and the church (among other institutions)were infiltrated a la Antonio Gramsci. We can weed them out but we have to go back to ascetics.Here are some related links: http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b555c262d74.htm http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b69d0df724b.htm http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a2d1c346bcc.htm

[narses]

Wow, it will take me days to sort through all of that. Thank you.

[Salvation]

From the Current Communist Goals thread:

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Yikes!

[Salvation]

Outstanding links.

[livius]

Great links indeed!

I have a real aversion to conspiracy theories, simply because they've always seemed too convenient, somehow. But I must admit that I have occasionally wondered about this one.

Obviously, the Communists per se are long gone. But it seems all too possible that they may have cleverly poisoned the source (the seminaries). Modernism, of course, was a problem in the Church long before the left became very active in the US. But one of the things that made the Communists so effective (and made it necessary for them to be rooted out of many environments in the 1950s) was their ability to take over things that by their own nature tended to agree with them, and use them to further their own purposes.

I still think, of course, that the main responsibility for the problems of the Church lies with Satan. But just as God uses instruments, Satan does, too. And it's certainly plausible that the Communists were pretty powerful weapons, all the more so for being so covert.

[narses]

Those links are now dead - any updates?