Jesuit Magazine Makes
‘Catholic Case for Communism’
Breitbart,
by
Thomas D. Williams
&
Ph.D.
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
7/26/2019 7:05:27 AM
The Jesuit flagship publication in the United States, America magazine, has published an article defending Marxism and comparing the murderous, atheist ideology to Christianity.
In “The Catholic Case for Communism,” America writer Dean Dettloff says that the militant atheism of Marxist politics is “understandable” because “Christianity has so often been a force allied to the ruling powers that exploit the poor.”
As a number of prospective presidential candidates from the Democrat party are openly donning the mantle of socialism, America took the issue one step further, suggesting that the negative reaction to “Bernie Sanders’s inspiring 2016 primary bid and the electoral success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/26/2019 7:13:02 AM (No. 134099)
Tenth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bamboozle 7/26/2019 7:31:41 AM (No. 134116)
First commandment, you shall have no other gods beside me.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
spacer 7/26/2019 7:39:18 AM (No. 134122)
I'm thinking Karol Jozef would have a different take on communism.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/26/2019 7:41:18 AM (No. 134123)
Interesting.
Communism makes the case for atheism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JrSample 7/26/2019 7:44:10 AM (No. 134130)
According to the Dean Dettloff in the article:
“communism is an unfinished project that depends on the recognition of its real and tragic mistakes.”
Well....
herein lies the problem. Many of us don't wish to participate in your little "project". That is why they had a Berlin wall...people fleeing the East German project. Surprisingly, the workers have to be forced to stay in their "workers' paradise" otherwise they will leave for a capitalist country. Just imagine what would happen if Cuba suddenly opened up and allowed free travel. If Communism is so great, why do they have to force it on people?
Here in the US if you want to start your own little commune and live according to Marxist principles, the government will allow you to do it as long as you leave other people alone. But, in a Marxist country they will not allow anyone to establish a free market zone or to leave the country if they choose.
So, here is the question that should be posed to Mr. Dettloff: If you admire communism so much, why don't you leave and live in a communist country?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ming 7/26/2019 7:45:50 AM (No. 134132)
One question to the Jesuits, how well did Catholicism flourish under communism?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/26/2019 7:48:22 AM (No. 134138)
Killing 30,000,000 peasants? What tenet of the Catholic faith is that? Of course, the Inquisition suffered the same flaw. Nothing the the dudes in the vatican can't work out and justify.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bazi 7/26/2019 7:48:43 AM (No. 134140)
There is sulfur emanating from those pages....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/26/2019 7:52:43 AM (No. 134144)
Sad but not surprising coming from a Jesuit (my own background). The Jesuits have often prided themselves on dialogue and debate and being a devil's advocate. But in their prideful 'wisdom' (there's that sin, again), they seem to forget their teaching mission of the Gospel when the general public becomes witness to their `discussions - as in an open publication - and is only left with confusion. Pope Francis seems sometimes to be more Jesuit than shepherd.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/26/2019 7:59:22 AM (No. 134155)
Jesuits are NOT Catholics.
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Jesuits are not Christians.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/26/2019 8:15:57 AM (No. 134172)
When the Antichrist makes his entrance onto the stage of humanity, Jesuits will be the first to line up to worship him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/26/2019 8:44:38 AM (No. 134197)
The Catholic church bought a bill of goods sold by the commies going back to the 1930's or more. The church was targeted and subverted, too caught up in itself to miss the disconnect between them and the Godless left. Today's simpleton pope is the perfect representative for his blind church.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/26/2019 9:16:35 AM (No. 134234)
Ah, if only the Jesuits could equate Christ with Marx.
Read a great article by Steve McCann in The American Thinker, dated July 24, 2019, entitled, "The Co-
Conspirators in the American Left's Takeover of the Democrat Party". Mr. McCann writes that, over a period of time, the people of the Left, conscientiously became dominant players in the academic world, the communication and entertainment worlds, and the world of politics. It was not by accident.
There's another institution that the Communist Left has corrupted, and that is The Catholic Church. Read all about Dr. Bella Dodd. She was an active member of the Communist Party. She left the party and was demonized because she did so. She was converted to Catholicism by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Dr. Dodd testified that a plot was hatched, in her time, to infiltrate Catholic seminaries with over one thousand communists who would be ordained priests and rise in rank - priests to bishops to cardinals - with the intention of destroying the Catholic Church from within because there was a time when the Catholic Church was staunchly anti-communist. It's not an accident that the Catholic Church is in the "fine mess" it is in right now. It's due to a lot of factors and this episode is one of them.
The Jesuit magazine, America, has always had a leftist slant.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/26/2019 9:16:53 AM (No. 134236)
When Dominicans make the case, I’ll pay attention. This is just Jesuits being Jesuits.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/26/2019 9:25:01 AM (No. 134248)
Liberation Theology is at it again. Communism is atheistic to the core. To a Communist the people are to worship the State and priests are to be executed for having too much control over the people.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dovestar 7/26/2019 9:31:14 AM (No. 134258)
America magazine has homosexual advocate Fr. James Martin for an editor, may he be defrocked. I'm reading Dr. Taylor Marshall's book Infiltration right now, about the forces of evil attempting to destroy the Church from within and how it corrupted the Liturgy since Vatican 2. If you're not familiar with the issue, I urge you to get a copy, even if you are not Catholic and especially if you are. Fatima, Akita and Leo XIII!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ebenezer 7/26/2019 9:55:35 AM (No. 134291)
when I was a kid, we used to pray at every Mass for "the conversion of Russia". Today, we need to pray for the conversion of the Jesuits.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/26/2019 10:02:17 AM (No. 134297)
I wish St. Ignatius of Loyola would come back and see what the order he founded is up to. He'd probably fly into a righteous rage and convene some military tribunals. Ignatius was a soldier in his youth.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
padiva 7/26/2019 10:09:40 AM (No. 134305)
Do men make a commitment to the Jesuits's lifestyle when they join the Jesuits? Communal living etc might be right for them but not everyone.
Are these same men permitted to leave the Jesuit community?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/26/2019 10:10:25 AM (No. 134306)
Jesuits USED TO BE the intelligentsia of the Catholic Church. Now, they might as well get in their clown cars and drive off.
Jesus did not practice, nor preach Marxism. He was a king, with subjects, and they followed him. He basically said, "Leave what you are doing and follow me."
The people who were not his direct followers (including his younger siblings) still had their own lives, went out, worked, and came and listened to him preach when he was in the vicinity. Typical of the day, they left offerings, which Jesus arranged to be distributed among his followers as a royal back then did for those in his entourage.
While his teachings occasionally touched on wealth, they were with respect to the individual's relationship with God. Everyone remembers the rich young man told to give his wealth to the poor, but usually misunderstand that the giving to the poor was the important thing. It was not. It was to teach the young man, that even if he acted perfectly, if he could not give up worldly things to follow God, he was falling short.
Fewer remember the woman who washed his feet with expensive perfume. When Judas complained the perfume could have been sold to help the poor (and also his purse since he was the Apostles' banker), Jesus rebuked him. "The poor are with us always..." then warned the Apostles, of his future death.
Jesuits have lost their way.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/26/2019 10:45:59 AM (No. 134336)
Sure, so we can all stand in line for food except for the Jesuits at the top.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Krause 7/26/2019 10:55:44 AM (No. 134342)
Jesuits used to be pretty strong. Ran a tight ship in their schools, in conjunction with the students' parents. Put out a lot of good kids. Our culture is sure changing, and not for the better..
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Janylou 7/26/2019 11:12:59 AM (No. 134367)
Catholicism is supposed to be the antithesis of communism. Under the current pope, apparently it isn’t. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s. Render unto God that which is God’s. Freedom comes from God!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
john56 7/26/2019 11:17:11 AM (No. 134373)
Isn't the Pope a Jesuit? We know he's a Marxist.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
radrelic 7/26/2019 11:45:20 AM (No. 134407)
Communism is the Devil's counterfeit of the communalism of the apostles. By force not choice (and today's dems seem ready to use force to achieve their "utopia")
All utopian experiments of communalism in America have failed except in instances of all being equally poor.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
OkieTom 7/26/2019 12:16:57 PM (No. 134446)
Haven't read the article, but can tell the author is obviously an infiltrator and agitator, much like those pro-homosexual types infiltrating the clergy over the last few decades. I think he is an usurper trying to destroy Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 7/26/2019 12:22:34 PM (No. 134452)
Central ownership and administration of all property works only if the administrators are perfectly moral people. So far there has only been one such person, Jesus. Until Jesus returns, all forms of socialism become corrupt (Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) and eventually are enforced at the point of a gun. Therefore until then no thank you to socialism.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/26/2019 12:29:15 PM (No. 134460)
“Christianity has so often been a force allied to the ruling powers that exploit the poor."
Follow the money. The Jesuits are just repeating what others have done before them. The Commies have the money, and the Jesuits are begging for some. Jesuits think if they support the Commies, they will get nice fat donations.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Peaches 7/26/2019 12:45:44 PM (No. 134477)
I say this as a Catholic: Never trust the Jesuits.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
tlyons1 7/26/2019 2:32:51 PM (No. 134554)
#18.... I got the biggest kick out of your words!! It’s almost on the same giggle level of...
“Legalize the Constitution!!”
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
SALady 7/26/2019 4:44:31 PM (No. 134635)
I can safely say that 99.999% of all Catholics would totally and completely disagree with this!!!
Sadly, Pope Francis is in that 0.001% would agree...
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oh please - no one is making a case for communism - they are making a case that we should
be subservient b*s and hand them our hard earned money to them to do as they please.
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