Sheen's Sham
The gullible public is being "taken" by the supposed battle against Communism sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church and disguised under the heading of "Life Is Worth Living."
The Catholic Church claims to be American in their fight against Communism, but their organization is just as totalitarian and is organized the same as the Communists are. The Catholic Church has never been democratic.
The General Headquarters of Communism is Moscow. The Communists would overthrow the U. S. Government, and are doing what they can along these lines. The General Headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church is in Rome, yet all Catholic Bishops are under oath to do their best to repeal or get around the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
The Roman Hierarchy claims to be Communism's greatest enemy but isn't it rather strange to note that it is only the Catholic dominated countries of Europe that have gone Communist, or that have dictators who are or were Catholics? Seems that the Roman Catholic Church should gain recognition as a training school for totalitarianism. They have attacked our public school systems and have called them Godless, yet the surveys of crime and religion of any size show the proportion of Catholics in prison to be twice that of the proportion of Catholics in the outside population. One such study was made by Father Leo Balmer, Crime and Religion, Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, 1936.
They claim to uphold freedom of speech, but why, in Catholic Italy, was it deemed illegal for protestant churches to worship or to speak out against Catholicism? Why have they closed the doors of churches, persecuted American missionaries, torn down signs from buildings owned by churches of Christ and tried to close orphanages? It is only in Protestant countries that Communism has its smallest following. It would seem to this writer that the Roman Catholic Church is a poor ally to fight against Communism, but rather is one of the indirect causes of Communism. Democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, government of, for and by the people, go together. Totalitarianism, dictatorship, revolutions, and Catholicism seem to go together. This becomes self evident when we look at a map of Europe.
Certainly we must fight Communism, but its overthrow will be realized only when the true Christianity of the New Testament pattern is put into practice. Communism to be sure is a foe of Christianity, but the Roman Catholic Church has never been known for its friendliness to those who oppose their errors of religion. Christianity practiced, is the ONLY answer, the ONLY CURE for the ills of the world.