Posted on 10/22/2014 2:44:59 PM PDT by ubipetrusest
The mental image of a thoroughly Communist Dorothy Day, who remained committed to Marxist notions of the overthrow of government, might be shocking.... [Yet] she maintained her Communist and anarchist views, promoted them, and brought them into the Church Christ founded....
Her goal... was to contribute to the eventual overthrow of the American government, and ... of the Catholic Church hierarchy..... I still remember trying to understand how [Day’s periodical, "The Catholic Worker"] could be both Communist and Catholic.... by the 1970s the FBI dossier on the Catholic Worker Movement was some 581 pages long.
The list of Communist revolutionaries, anarchists and anti-Americans closely associated with Dorothy Day would rival even the list of Obama supporters.... Day’s list even included the Communist Party’s candidates for President and Vice President. It reads like a "Who’s Who" of the extreme radical Left. She was a Community Organizer, just like Obama, and she never stopped her grass roots Communist organizing....
Day’s Catholic Worker Movement (CWM) may have been the originating source of the perversion of Catholic Social Justice in the minds and hearts of many professed Catholics, both lay and cleric.
It perverted Distributionism from anti-trust, anti-monopoly sentiments toward Communist Redistributionism.
It perverted Solidarity from committing oneself to the Common Good, to committing oneself to Opposing Capitalism.
It perverted the sense of holiness and grace to the arrogant belief that one can only gain holiness through self-imposed worker-poverty, gained only by renouncing the world and entering a CWM or CWM-like Commune, for life.
The CWM encouraged, supported and incorporated into itself Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology. Within the CWM the term Social Justice came to mean everything and anything that would or could be used to promote their anti-Capitalist Revolution, which is the one thing that the CWM was really all about.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicamericanthinker.com ...
Dolan practically starts drooling when talking about communist Dorothy Day.
I always get her confused with Doris Day. I don’t know why.
At the same time, Dolan is undermining the cause of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
"Bishop Sheen Condemns Communists"
The Grand Marshal of the gay parade believes she's a saint?That's all I need to know.
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