The Church Has the Duty to Condemn and Combat Communism

by Father Paul Leonard, B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div.

In his book, Was Karl Marx a Satanist, Richard Wurmbrant produces a
very revealing quote form the Soviet newspaper Vechernaa Moskva,
which states the true purpose of Communism. The quotation runs: "We
do not fight against believers and not even against clergymen. We fight
against God to snatch believers from Him."
This kind of statement is a rare instance of where the Communists state
their true purpose in the same terms that Karl Marx outlined his
program in his poetry, private correspondence and in his early
philosophical works. These writings expose the true purpose of
Marxism: Marx was not a humanitarian who desired the betterment of
the human race, but a satanist who lusted for humanity's ruin.
In the satanic poem, Oulanem, Marx wrote: "Soon I shall embrace eternity to
my breast, and soon I shall howl gigantic curses on mankind." In the same work
he also wrote: "If there is something which devours, I'll leap within it, though I
bring the world to ruins, the world . . . I will smash to pieces with my enduring
curses."
Marx did not combat religion as though it were a false superstition that
professes belief in a God that in reality does not exist. Marx makes it clear that
God does really exist, and he combats against religion because he hates God.
This he unequivocally states in his Invocation of One in Despair, where he
writes: I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above." . . . "a God
has snatched from me my all in the curse and rack of destiny . . . nothing but
revenge is left to me!"
Similar expressions of blasphemous hatred toward God are also to be found in
the writings of Lenin, who referred to the notion of God as "an unspeakable
abomination" and "a loathsome pestilence". Lenin also spoke on one occasion
saying: "I prefer a millionaire, exploiting atheist to a believing workman,
because God is my personal enemy.
Communism is not a social system. Its purpose is not the noble ideal of
abolishing economic injustice by establishing social equality. "The true purpose
of Communism," Richard Wurmbrant explains, "is to mock God and to praise
satan." The reason for this is that Karl Marx was a satanist. In a letter of his son
Edgar, addressed to his father, Marx is addressed with the startling words, "dear
Devil". This is the way satanists write. In a letter of August 1844, Marx's wife
addresses him as follows: "Your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop of
souls, has again given quiet rest and peace to your poor sheep." Wurmbrant
points out that "The only European religion which has high priests is the satanist
one."
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Communism is anti-God because it is satan oriented, and therefore it is utterly

perverse. This is the reason why Pope Pius XI condemned it in his
Encyclical, Divini Redemptor is, saying, "See to it Venerable Brethren, that the
Faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived! Communism is intrinsically
perverse, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with
it in any undertaking whatsoever."
Since the Communists have openly declared their implacable enmity towards
the God whom they hate, the Church has instituted a campaign against the
pernicious and corrupt errors of the Communists whose expressed purpose is
the eternal ruin of souls. Pope Pius XI declared: "We place the vast campaign of
the Church against world Communism under the standard of St. Joseph, her
mighty protector."
What have the pastors of the Church done since the Second Vatican Council to
promote this campaign against this most deadly enemy of our holy religion?
There have been some courageous bishops and priests who have ceaselessly
combated the infernal errors of Communism. However, there are many pastors
who have not behaved like shepherds: those are guilty of dereliction of duty
who have refused to explicitly condemn the errors of Marxism which have
brought so many souls to ruin, and threatens to bring so many more to their
damnation.
In November of 1962, the representatives of the Holy See and the Orthodox
representatives of the Kremlin made the Vatican-Moscow Agreement. In making
this agreement, the Vatican agreed to make no statements that would be seen
as hostile to the Communist regime of the Soviet Union. Since that time there
has been great confusion sown in the Church among the Faithful and even in
the ranks of the clergy. Rome has not made any explicit pronouncement against
the errors of Communism, and therefore there are many Catholics who have
been led astray by a form of Liberation Theology that promotes and defends
Marxist ideology and Communist regimes.
God has appointed the pastors of the Church as the shepherds whose duty
obligates them to defend the flock from the errors which threaten their
salvation. While it is unfortunate that the Communists hold so many Catholics
as hostages behind the Iron Curtain, considerations about possible reprisals to
be directed against them must not be construed as a reason that would make it
permissible for the hierarchy to abandon its God-given pastoral duty.
Torture, imprisonment and execution are physical evils that should be avoided
as best as they can, but not at the cost of an even greater spiritual evil. Radical
Liberation Theology is corrupting the faith of millions because the Vatican has
refused to clearly and unequivocally condemn the errors of Communism ever
since it entered into the Vatican-Moscow Agreement. It is morally indefensible
to remain silent about grievous errors which are corrupting the faith of
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countless souls and causing their eternal damnation, merely for the sake of
temporal expediency.
It would be a most grave dereliction of duty for spiritual shepherds to neglect
the spiritual welfare of the flock, and to thereby inadvertently aid the apostasy
which has already destroyed the faith of millions, in order to safeguard the
physical well-being of a smaller number of Catholics in eastern Europe, whose
faith is also endangered by the Vatican's failure to carry out its divinely
appointed duty.

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