Communism was never popular in America, and no American group was more fervently anti-Communist than the Catholics. The American bishops, like the Vatican, had condemned Marxism before 1900 for its atheism, its violation of natural law principles, and its theory of inevitable class conflict. They condemned the Russian Revolution of 1917 that brought Lenin and … Read more
Communism was never popular in America, and no American group was more fervently anti-Communist than the Catholics. The American bishops, like the Vatican, had condemned Marxism before 1900 for its atheism, its violation of natural law principles, and its theory of inevitable class conflict. They condemned the Russian Revolution of 1917 that brought Lenin and … Read more
From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, a succession of British and American intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Since the Reformation very few English language writers of any influence had tried to advance the cause of the Catholic Church, but in this age of reassertion converts became its principal advocates. Outspoken and intellectually gifted, they aimed … Read more