Until the "reforms" of Vatican II, to be Catholic was to be anti-Communist. It was forbidden, under pain of mortal sin, for a Catholic to be a member of the Communist Party, for the same reasons that Catholics were forbidden to members of the Masonic Order or other secret societies which are against the Church and against God.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, when she appeared to Sister Lucy, the principal seer of Fatima, warned against Communism. She said that unless the Church took action, the errors of Communism would spread throughout the world. Specifically, Our Lady asked for the Consecration of Russia, by name, to Her Immaculate Heart. This was to be done publicly by the pope, in union with all the bishops of the world.
Popes Pius XI and Pius XII believed Our Lady's warning, but for reasons known only to themselves never performed the Consecration as She requested, although Pius XII made a half-hearted attempt during World War II. Then came a new pope, John XXIII, the first of what we now call "the Conciliar popes". It was on his watch, at the Second Vatican Council which he convened, that the doors of Holy Mother Church were opened to what Pope Paul VI later called "the smoke of Satan".
Thus, in 1962, through the malevolence of certain influential cardinals and bishops (some of whom were undoubtedly but secretly Freemasons), the Church went soft on Communism. The warnings of Our Lady were officially forgotten, and a policy of rapprochement and appeasement was put in place of the Church's struggle against the godless atheistic ideology.
Incredible as it may seem, the new "Ostpolitik" was even put in writing. Although its existence was denied for decades, the Vatican entered into an agreement with the Soviet Union. John XXIII conceded to the Soviet negotiator, Monsignor Nikodim, the promise not to attack the people or the régime of Russia. This was done to secure Moscow's permission for the Russian Orthodox observers to attend the Council. Since then, the Holy See has considered itself to be still bound by the commitments of John XXIII.
The Communist press was the first to disclose the agreement; and, on this point, it has never been denied or contradicted. In its edition of 16-22 January 1963, France Nouvelle, "the leading weekly of the Party", wrote (page 15):
"Since the world socialist system shows its superiority indisputably and enjoys the approval of many hundreds of millions of men, the Church can no longer rest content with crude anti-communism. She has even given an undertaking, on the occasion of her dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church, that there would be no direct attack on the communist régime at the Council."
Source: "The Vatican-Moscow Agreement", by Jean Madiran.
Fast forward to the early `90s, when the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact was interpreted by the Vatican's foreign affairs "experts" -- especially Cardinals Sodano and Casaroli who were the chief promoters of the "Ostpolitik" -- as meaning that Our Lady's warnings were wrong. Communism had defeated itself, they said, and the Consecration of Russia was no longer necessary, if it ever had been. Now, they said, and in the spirit of peace and brotherhood, we should be even nicer to the Russians. And there's no harm in so doing, they said, because Communism is dead.
Wrong! Communism is alive and well, enslaving the bodies, minds and souls of well over a billion people in Vietnam, North Korea and China. And the Communist régimes of those countries are still hell-bent -- I chose that word with care -- on destroying the Roman Catholic Church and converting or eliminating the millions of Catholics who continue to owe their allegiance to Rome.
For more on the struggle between the "official" (= state-sponsored) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the real, underground Cathoic Church in China, please refer to three of my earlier posts: "Catholicism under fire in China"; "Catholics in China -- follow-up"; and "Benedict XVI to Chinese Catholics: Have courage!" I'll come back to this theme later today.
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