Bella Dodd born Maria Isabella Visono in
Picerno, Italy in 1904 came to America at age six. She was college educated in The United
States, and later acquired a PHD and law degree. She became a Communist and later in life
converted back to the Catholic faith in 1952 by “Archbishop” Fulton Sheen.
While in the American Communist Party of
which she was a passionate and high-ranking member for many years, she had
headed up a special operation to place more than eleven hundred young men in
Catholic seminaries, all of whom were agents of the Communist Party.
This parable relates to the story of Bella
Dodd.
“Some enemy has done this.”—Jesus, telling the Parable of the
Wheat and the Tares, in Matthew 13:28. The expanded version: “The owner’s
servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field?
Where then did the weeds come from?’ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So, the
servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘if
you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.’”
There has been an intentional infiltration
into the Catholic Church: an enemy of the Church, or a group of enemies, has
acted according to a precise satanic plan. This is the testimony of Dr. Bella
Dodd taken from her lecture at Fordham University in 1953:
“In the late 1920s and 1930s, I personally
put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to weaken the Catholic
Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to
positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops…”
“Right now, they are in the highest places
where they are working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church’s
effectiveness against Communism. These
changes will be so drastic that you will not even recognize the Catholic Church”.
“Of all the world’s religions, the
Catholic Church was the only one feared by the Communists, for it was its only
effective opponent. 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, there would
be a guilt complex introduced in 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.”
Other Communist theoreticians of Dodd’s
time, such as the Italian, Antonio Gramsci, (founded the
Italian Communist Party in 1921) also had the idea to weaken the Church as an
effective fighter against communism. This meant taking a slow path to
infiltrate the Church and get Catholics to lose the faith little by little. This
plan was eventually called “Operation Outstretched Hand.”
More specifically, it was to promote a
pseudo-religion, a fake Catholicism but with enough look and feel to seem real.
This plan would then introduce a guilt complex so that the Church would
apologize for past activities, and then embrace other religions’ ideas “as a
way to get along”. The intent of Dodd and Cramsci (and all Communists) is to
change the Catholic Church; to advance the newer ways and teachings.
Today’s Vatican II Church does not need
any explanation for its un-Catholic Masses.
If you attend a Vatican II “Mass” you will
see that it has changed tremendously. You will hardly recognize anything that
resembles the Latin Tridentine Catholic Mass that’s been in use from the late
fourth century (Greek was in use in the early years) which the Council of Trent
codified in 1570 and approved the Roman Missal for use in God’s one and only
True Church.
What then are these bizarre Vatican II
changes?
You enter the Novus Ordo’s worship
building which looks much like a Masonic lodge hall, for the Saturday afternoon
“Motu” Mess. People are talking, laughing, chewing gum. Most are casually
dressed. The tabernacle is nowhere in sight, so instead of genuflecting, people
bow toward a “table.” The crucifix is absent; it won’t be brought out until the
entrance procession.
The cantoress approaches the microphone,
bareheaded and wearing culottes. “Good afternoon,” she beams. “Welcome to the
Eucharist of the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary time. Please stand to greet our
celebrant, “Father” Preistor,” (*Preistor: Combination of a Priest and Pastor.
Used when confusion is present regarding predominate religion) as we sing our
opening song, On Eagles’ Wings.”
A small band of piano, guitar, and drums accompanies the opening song. The
procession enters from the back of the temple; a female crucifer, two alter
girls, a lectoress in street clothes carrying the Novus Ordo lectionary aloft
and finally “Father” Preistor in a Novus Ordo alb-cum-chasuble, all smiling and
singing along loudly.
The Asperges ceremony before Mass is
omitted, as the thought of washing away sins is deprecated. The congregation
remains standing as “Father” Preistor recites the Protestantized “Opening
Prayers,” while the band launches into the Kyrie and Gloria from the
newly-composed Mass of the New Order written in jazz style. “Father”
Preistor then sits down for the “Liturgy of the Word,” imported substantially
from the Anglican prayer book and read entirely in the vulgar tongue (or
tongues) from the lectern. The band performs its rendition of Taste and See
following the “First Reading.” After the “Second Reading,” the cantoress
renders the Oecumenical Alleluia.
After the Gospel is read in a vulgar
tongue by a married lay deacon (deacons have never been allowed to be
married), “Father” Preistor gives a brief “homily” on social justice and global
warming. “It is a mortal sin not to use florescent bulbs,” he warns the
congregation. After the We Believe is recited by the congregation, two
Lesbians bring forward the “bread,” looking for all the like of shortbread
cookies, and the grape juice for the “consecration.” Meanwhile the lectoress
leads the congregation in the Protestant Bidding Prayers, praying for all
politically correct groups and causes.
After the “Presto” Eucharistic Prayer, (so
called because it is over before you know it), with its revised “consecration”
to conform to the heresy of universal salvation, the congregation launches into
one of the familiar acclamation songs imported from Protestant services.
Shortly after, the congregation recites the Lord’s Prayer in the vulgar tongue,
with the de rigueur Protestant ending, hands joined across the pews.
When communion-time arrives, all of the
congregation, confessed or not, fasting or not, including known public sinners,
divorced-and-remarried with New Churcher’s approval (or perhaps annulled in a “quickie”
divorce) approach, many taking “communion” in the hand from the “Eucharistic
Ministress” while the Preistor sits in his giant Protestant “presider’s” chair.
Some also receive grape juice from a ceramic goblet crudely fabricated by
schoolchildren. A few folks try to kneel, but they interrupt the flow of the
line and thus receive a hostile glare from the ministress. When they return to
their seats, most of the congregation sits without making any thanksgiving.
When the Preistor proclaims, “The
Eucharist is finished. Thank God,” the band strikes up a rousing rendition of When
the Saints Come Marching In. As soon as the Preistor leaves the table, the
congregation practically trips over him on the way out, eager to get in those
few extra holes of golf before nightfall.
Has the Communist intention to change the
Catholic Church succeeded?
It has not succeeded. EVEN IF CATHOLICS FAITHFUL TO
TRADITION ARE REDUCTED TO A HANDFUL, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE TRUE CHURCH
OF JESUS CHRIST.” (Coll. Selecta SS Ecc. Patrum, Caillau
and Guillou Vol. 32. pp. 411-412)
We are the ones who are happy: we who
remain within the Church by our faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of
the faith which has come down to us from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable
jealousy (Communism) has tried to shake it on a number of occasions IT HAS NOT
SUCCEEDED. No one, ever, will prevail against our faith and we believe that God
will give us our Churches back some day just as He has done so with the
Japanese that were deprived of His One True Church for 250 years.
The Novus Ordo “Mass” (actually a
service), in any version, must be rejected as non-Catholic, sacrilegious,
scandalous, blasphemous, idolatrous, and INVALID because it fails to meet
certain criteria established in Catholic dogmatic and sacramental theology for
a valid Mass pertinent to Pope Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae.
St. Robert Bellarmine described best the
Protestant style “Catholic” New Mass and Protestant services when he said:
“When we enter ornate and clean Basilicas, adorned
with crosses, sacred images, ALTARS and burning lamps, we most easily conceive
devotion. But on the other hand, when we enter the temples of the heretics,
where there is nothing except a CHAIR for preaching and a TABLE for making a
meal, we fell ourselves to be entering a profane hall and not the House of God.”
In 1917 Our Lady came to Fatima to help
mankind save our souls from falling into the bottomless pit of Communism in the
treacherous days ahead. Because of the work of Lucifer and his devils, her
message has been almost completely ignored by the Church leaders.
It started in the early 1930s when Pius XI
did not respond to our Lady’s request to consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate
Heart. Our Lord told Sister Lucy in the Apparition at Rianjo in 1931: “Make it
known to My ministers that given that they follow the example of the King of
France in delaying the execution of my request, they will follow him into misfortune.
On 13 October 1917, attended by a crown of
more than 70,000 that had gathered in Fatima, Portugal in response to a
prophecy made by three shepherd children, Lucia Santos, Francisco and Jacita
Marto, the prophecy was that the Virgin would appear and perform miracles on
that date. Newspapers, including an atheist’s newspaper, published testimony
from witnesses who said that they had seen extraordinary solar activity, such
as the Sun appearing to “dance” or zigzag in the sky, careen towards the Earth,
or emit multicolored light and radiant colors.
In August 1941, Sister Lucia wrote her
third memoir in which she described the apparition of 13 October 1917. She said
that the Virgin told them:
“God wishes to establish in the world
devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will
be saved and there will be peace. The [First World] war is going to end; if
people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the
pontificate of Pius XI. (Pius XI preferred to follow the policy of ecumenism
rather than the command of Our Lady as did all Popes since Benedict XV).
Had these popes consecrated Russia to her
Immaculate Heart there would have been no World War II.
1. Russians would have been converted by
the millions, and many of them would thus have attained salvation instead of
suffering damnation as Schismatics.
2. The terrible apostasy in the Church we
have been suffering for so long—and which grows worse daily—would not have
occurred. How many Catholics would still be following the doctrine of the true
Faith, instead of being set off the path by the Progressivism, which has
dominated the Church openly after Vatican II with the introduction of the Novus
Ordo Missae.
3. All the subsequent wars would have been
averted, and the world, most probably, would have entered the Reign of Mary.
If Pius XI had made the Consecration of
Russia even in the last year of his Pontificate, i.e., 1939, all the
consequences listed above would not have happened. They are the results caused by the Communist
party via Bella Dodd who placed more than eleven hundred young men in Catholic
seminaries.
Pray the Rosary, wear the Brown Scapular,
and pray for the conversion of those misguided concocters of the Holy Mass that
claim to be Catholic—but are not.
Bill Metallo, President, Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette
