Bella Dodd (1904-1969) worked with American Communist group in the 1940's and was responsible for pushing communist propaganda in the schools. She later became a Catholic and warned Catholics about what the communists planned on doing to bring down the church. She said this in the 50's. It is interesting that we see these same tactics being used now in all areas of society.
The whole idea was to destroy, not the institution of the Church, but rather the Faith of the people, and even use the institution of the Church, if possible, to destroy the Faith through the promotion of a pseudo-religion: something that resembled Catholicism but was not the real thing. Once the Faith was destroyed, she explained that
there would be a guilt complex introduced into the Church…. to label the ‘Church of the past’ as being oppressive, authoritarian, full of prejudices, arrogant in claiming to be the sole possessor of truth, and responsible for the divisions of religious bodies throughout the centuries. This would be necessary in order to
shame Church leaders into an ‘openness to the world,’ and to a
more flexible attitude toward all religions and philosophies. The Communists would then exploit this openness in order to undermine the Church.
source:
http://archive.fatima.org/perspectives/cs/perspective235.asp
Here is a link to her wikipedia page:
A link to her wikipedia page if you are interested in reading more about her:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Dodd
On her attraction to in the Party and her experience in it, she explained:
- "The Communist Party in this country set itself up as the one organization that was fighting fascism."