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Search for in author OR full textWord matches: communism: 110 1 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne Coercive The struggle against coercive sexual libertarianism will be as long and intense as the struggle against communism. 2 - Oct 2015 - Russia: Church and State in contemporary Russia, Fr Lawrence Cross The other voice that could be added to that of Soloviev is that of Andrei Sakharov who insisted that only the Church and no other agency can lead Russia into her moral renewal under a canopy of transcendent values after the corrosion of communism and the moral shipwreck of the last twenty five years. 3 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report In 1991 after the collapse of Soviet communism atheism was removed as a requirement for membership in the Communist Party in Cuba and the Cuban Constitution was amended to redefine Cuba as a secular rather than atheist state. 4 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan This meant that with the rise of totalitarian regimes between the wars the churchs commendable opposition to Communism had not been accompanied in many instances by an equally strong condemnation of Fascism. 5 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons There can be no permanent accommodation between Christianity and Chinese communism while the party continues to persecute the Church. 6 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell The Catholic Church helped bring freedom in what was the world of European Communism. 7 - Feb 2015 - Consistory: Pope Francis names twenty new Cardinals, AD2000 Report Another surprise is that there were no appointments from Eastern Europe where the Church has had spectacular growth and respect following the fall of Soviet communism. 8 - Nov 2014 - Books: EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: The Byzantine Tradition, by Laurence Cross, Paul Simmons One point which gives this book great contemporary relevance is the astonishing resurgence of Christianity in central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism which is utterly different from the Western experience of increasing secularisation. 9 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich Add $2 for pamp;h on subsequent copies) This last century has seen the Church oppressed on many fronts especially by totalitarian communism. 10 - Aug 2014 - War of words: changing society through language, Audrey English When communism was at its peak Cardinal Minszenty warned us: If you speak their language you will think their thoughts. 11 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska But Poles who lived under successive tyrannies of Nazism and Communism knew that their pope may just as well have said this about himself. 12 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel He also learned from his father to be proud of Britains heritage as well as to hate Communism. 13 - Jun 2014 - Books: THE CAMPION SOCIETY: Lay Catholic Action in Australia, by Colin H. Jory, Br Barry Coldrey Many Catholics rallied to his call for a crusade to advance social justice stem the resurgent paganism of German and Italian fascism and Soviet communism and revivify Christianity as a cultural force. 14 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report He played a central role in the collapse of Soviet communism and the rebuilding of free democratic institutions in Eastern Europe. 15 - May 2014 - Editorial: April 27: Canonisation of two great popes, Peter Westmore He commenced the World Youth Days addressed millions of people on visits to over 120 countries including Australia East Timor Papua New Guinea and New Zealand ended the doctrinal and liturgical confusion which followed Vatican II helped bring about the collapse of Soviet communism through his visits to his homeland after being elected pope and formulated the Theology of the Body a meditation on human sexuality. 16 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore After the collapse of communism the Russian Orthodox Church petitioned for the return of the site and permission to rebuild the cathedral was given in 1990. 17 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley By 1962 the bleak effects of communism in Eastern Europe were readily apparent. 18 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore Along with the then US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher John Paul II is widely regarded as the person who brought about the demise of Soviet communism freeing hundreds of millions of people from an oppressive atheistic and tyrannical regime which had murdered millions of people since Lenin seized power in Russia in 1917. 19 - Jun 2013 - The strange story of Mr Douglas Hyde, Damian Wyld While their creed seemed hollow Communism offered answers doctrine and dogma a hagiography (Marx Lenin and others) scripture and most importantly for Hyde clear evidence of people living their faith and building a better world. 20 - Dec 2012 - Books: ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, by Mary Eberstadt, Brian Peachey This essay makes a comparison between what she calls the inexplicable act of intellectual abdication by otherwise reasonable educated people in possession of damning empirical evidence of the brutality of communism during the Cold War and the powerful will to disbelieve in the harmful effects of the world-changing social and moral force of the sexual revolution that we see today. 21 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey I had been a member of the Labor Party and an active Trade Unionist in Western Australia and experienced the tragedy of the split in the Australian Labor Party during 1954-57 over communism. 22 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Secularism he said is just communisms better-scrubbed bed-fellow. 23 - Oct 2012 - G.K. Chesterton on the decay of Western Christianity, Donald Boland Chesterton then makes an interesting observation about communism and capitalism. 24 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli She also spoke of the damage that Russia would do under communism months before the October Bolshevik Revolution. 25 - Jul 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-0-85244-757-4 Fr Alexander Men: Martyr of Atheism Michel Evdokimov Fr Alexander Men (1935-1990) was assassinated shortly after the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union. 26 - Jul 2012 - Religious Freedom: Prague's Cardinal Duka thanks Australians for helping religious prisoners, Peter Westmore Religious persecution Fr Duka was imprisoned along with Charter 77 signatories including the playwright Vaclav Havel who was first President of a free Czechoslovakia after the collapse of Soviet communism in 1989. 27 - Jun 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-0-85244-757-4 Fr Alexander Men: Martyr of Atheism Michel Evdokimov Fr Alexander Men (1935-1990) was assassinated shortly after the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union. 28 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-0-85244-757-4 Fr Alexander Men: Martyr of Atheism Michel Evdokimov Fr Alexander Men (1935-1990) was assassinated shortly after the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union. 29 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist But despite these promising developments after over 50 years of communism and even before that a generally lax level of practice of the faith there remains much work to be done. 30 - Apr 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-0-85244-757-4 Fr Alexander Men: Martyr of Atheism Michel Evdokimov Fr Alexander Men (1935-1990) was assassinated shortly after the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union. 31 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Daily Mail (London) Catholic Church restoration in Ukraine A Catholic church in the Ukraine that Soviet authorities once seized for use as a monument of communism will once again be a place for Christian worship after renovations removed a neo-classical faade erected to disguise its nature. 32 - Mar 2012 - Books: The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by Rev. Charles P. Connor, Michael Daniel In the earlier period of his ministry he was critical of trends within the wider society for example he was a vociferous opponent of communism. 33 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore (Vaclav Havel became the first President of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of communism and after the breakup of Czechoslovakia President of the Czech Republic. 34 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World While in most cases Muslim property confiscated under communism has been returned confiscated Church property had still not been returned to its owners. 35 - Oct 2011 - Books: ROME AND THE EASTERN CHURCHES: A Study in Schism (2nd ed), Aidan Nichols OP, Michael Daniel Their situation has been particularly complicated especially in the former Soviet bloc countries since the fall of Communism. 36 - Sep 2011 - Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia, Babette Francis During the dark days of Soviet communism Catholics were encouraged to pray for the Conversion of Russia. 37 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore During my visit there for the canonisation of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop last year there were constant reminders of the presence of this extraordinary man and not just among Polish people who revere the man largely responsible for freeing his homeland from the tyranny of communism. 38 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist Here the fall of Communism in Europe has been followed by the emergence of a soft totalitarianism manifesting itself in moral relativism so-called anti-discrimination laws and radical environmentalism. 39 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Ecumenism, Kevin McManus It is significant that most of the support came from countries persecuted by atheistic communism in the 20th century. 40 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Recalling the historical experience of the Slovakian Church under Communism Archbishop Chaput told the assembly of Central European bishops and canon lawyers that Christians are being called today to defend the Churchs own rights and the rights of all people against the civil religion of relativism. 41 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World The German bishops and the Roman Curia considered the Nazi doctrine not only as incompatible with the Christian faith but also as hostile to the Church and dangerous to human morals even more than Communism. 42 - Mar 2009 - Did Antonio Gramsci have second thoughts?, Babette Francis The Vatican has revealed that Antonio Gramsci the founder of Italian Communism and an icon of the Left reverted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed. 43 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves Speaking on the disillusionment after Vatican II he explains how all councils in the Churchs history have been followed by periods of dispute and how implementation of Vatican II was affected by the cultural revolution of 1968 and the collapse into nihilism after the fall of Communism in 1989 as well as by those fragments in the press that presented an erroneous image of the council. 44 - Jun 2008 - Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael E. Daniel For years he remained one of the few voices in the West which fearlessly exposed the misery wrought by communism. 45 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan In Isis and the Crisis of Morality Cornelia Ferreira establishes an interesting connection between feminism and communism - which saw the corruption of women as one way to destroy the Catholic Church. 46 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle Cliches centred on Liberation Theology which had become a staple of Western sloppy thinking as seen in Bidding Prayers at suburban Masses began to seem stale and the collapse of Communism following Pope John Pauls visit to Poland and the emergence of Solidarity was a major part of that. 47 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World The first was a vision of hell while the second apparently predicted the two world wars and the return of Russia from communism to Christianity. 48 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World Cardinal Miloslav Vlk in an interview with Viennas leading newspaper Presse said that this act was a glaring injustice and that although communism had fallen the leaders are still Communists and the Ministry of Culture is full of rabid anti-clerical Communists who do what they want manipulating constitutional law. 49 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes I left Poland 26 years ago at the time of the Solidarity unions formation through strikes in Gdansk which would eventually lead to the end of communisms oppressive rule in Poland. 50 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World Most persecution takes place in parts of the world under Islam Communism Hinduism and Buddhism but that persecution is growing fastest of all in the Islamic world. 51 - Feb 2007 - Books: B.A. Santamaria's correspondence published by MUP The book lends new insights into controversies in which Bob Santamaria was deeply involved from his work with the National Catholic Rural Movement in the 1940s and 50s the struggle against communism in the trade unions the Labor split which led to the formation of the DLP and his emergence in the 1980s and 1990s as a foremost critic of unbridled capitalism. 52 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Communism, Frank Bellet Crediting Gorbachev with defeating communism is like praising the English cricket team for their batting collapse facing the Australian bowlers which could deliver to Australia the Ashes. 53 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott Her journey to faith was made from a Jewish background and through a phase of communism. 54 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell With the demise of communism secularism only survives by attacking Christianity has no independent platform of value and object- ivity but lives (in the Western world) on a post-Christian overdraft. 55 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego In the 20th century Europe faced two grotesquely evil ideologies: Nazism and Communism. 56 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter In short order Patrick returned to the practice of his faith and was reconciled to his Church undoubtedly fortified by the faith-filled witness of those about him who were so ably led by their churchmen in an inspired struggle against atheistic Communism. 57 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto What other clergyman played any comparable role in bringing down communism a godless system? 58 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore On the international stage the Polish pope was recognised as the person who brought about the disintegration of communism in Poland and then throughout the Soviet empire. 59 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Abortion was made illegal in 1993 after the collapse of communism. 60 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand But his very goodness and his political clear- sightedness were bound to trigger the hatred of those who had endorsed evil causes: be it National Socialism Communism or Liberalism. 61 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin This book deals with among other things an aspect of Sheens influence which may not be as well appreciated as his impact in the areas of evangelisation the missions teaching and preaching the fight against communism and promotion of Eucharistic Adoration (the expression Holy Hour is usually attributed to him). 62 - Nov 2004 - Editorial: The challenge for Christianity today, Peter Westmore Further the failure of 20th century ideologies based on atheism - including nazism fascism and communism - has also discredited the idea that there are no moral absolutes. 63 - Sep 2004 - Events: Carnivale Christi Melbourne to celebrate Graham Greene's centenary, Liam Houlihan It could equally be linked to his earlier conversion to Communism. 64 - Jul 2004 - Letters: The power of one (letter), Brian Harris Bob Santamaria played a major part in saving the Australian people from the all too real threat of communism. 65 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist Chesterton accurately predicted such monumental events as the rise and fall of Soviet communism the outbreak of violence against the Jews in Europe the beginning of World War II on the Polish border the rise to dominance of the media the entertainment industry and even professional sports. 66 - Dec 2003 - Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg If ideas are nothing but products of their social order your communism must be a thoroughly bourgeois idea. 67 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist Under British rule Irish Catholics looked to their priests and bishops for guidance and support in the secular sphere (as was later the case in countries like Poland under communism). 68 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist For one thing there was the collapse of communism. 69 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell Secularism will prove a more enduring challenge than Communism - the lethal influences on Catholic life the acid rain now coming from the society around us. 70 - Jul 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!, Anthony Cappello In a unique and compelling take on the philosophies of the modern world he pits the ancient Greek philosopher against the founder of Communism. 71 - May 2003 - Books: Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry, Bill Muehlenberg But this works out to an average of fewer than three people a year during the 16th and 17th centuries - a far cry from the many millions a year killed in the name of godless Communism and Nazism. 72 - Apr 2003 - Books: Marian Apparitions, The Bible, And The Modern World, Michael Gilchrist Foley concludes that the timing of each of the approved apparitions over the past 500 years is more than mere coincidence as each echoes some major revolutionary event ranging from the Reformation to the rise of Communism. 73 - Mar 2003 - Religious faith and modern culture: responding to a secular critic, Bill Muehlenberg She goes on to say that religion is even more dangerous than communism. 74 - Dec 2002 - Letters: 'Misandry' (letter), Name and address supplied With great wisdom it has been said: Belief in God is the unshakeable foundation of all Christian order and responsibility on Earth (vide Pope Pius Xls encyclical letter Atheistic Communism). 75 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Feminism dead? (letter) Like communism in the former Soviet empire the movement in its present form has outlasted its usefulness. 76 - May 2002 - Books: Demons and Democrats: 1950s Labor at the Crossroads, by Gavan Duffy, Anthony Cappello This has become a forgotten premise when looking at those in the Movement and why they became involved in the first place in the fight against Communism in the unions in Australia. 77 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell Pope John Paul II has led the Church into the third Christian millennium and played a crucial role in the collapse of Communism. 78 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Daniel For years he remained one of the few voices in the West to fearlessly expose the misery wrought by communism. 79 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan, Catherine Sheehan that a wall on the south side of the sanctuary contains a block from the Berlin Wall the collapse of which in 1989 indicated the fall of Communism. 80 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell The appeal that communism made to justice did make it different from Nazism at least initially. 81 - Nov 2001 - Winter school: Evangelising in a "post-pagan" culture, Fr Anthony Mastroeni There are many reasons for this including the fact that for 50 years under Communism and Marxism in Eastern Europe whole generations were educated in atheism and materialism. 82 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Mind of the Church (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips Look at contraception abortion euthanasia suicide pornography Communism Nazism etc. 83 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report It expressed concern that Christian churches had helped bring down Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 84 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English Unlike communism which was recognisably opposed to Christianity a common feature of these ideologies is their use of Christian terms of references to God to the Holy Spirit - traps for the uninformed who are deluded into thinking they are being spiritually nourished instead of being deflected from the truth. 85 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World The earlier secrets or prophecies are said to have foreseen the end of World War I and the start of World War II and the rise and fall of Soviet communism. 86 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World The measure would address the explosion in the pornography and sex industries since the fall of Communism in 1989 by imposing fines and prison terms for up to two years on violators. 87 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey She was persuaded to meet Fulton Sheen because he lectured on Communism on Marx and Lenin. 88 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read I think that the problem - again to judge from my children and their contemporaries - is not atheism or communism which were the other great things in my youth but a kind of neo-pelagianism. 89 - Sep 1999 - Education: Teaching the right values: a challenge for Catholic schools, Greg Craven Consumerism The collapse of communism - a wonderful thing - has nevertheless ushered in an era of unrestrained capitalism with the worst aspects of Western consumerism. 90 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World At that time and in response to the Popes call for Western churches to help their Eastern sisters after the fall of Communism a contribution was made toward the reconstruction of the Moscow cathedral destroyed by Stalin in 1931. 91 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo He attacked Stalin and Communism and the abandonment of the Poles at Yalta by the Allies. 92 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World At the end of World War I the project re-surfaced soon to be overwhelmed by the advent of Nazism and Communism. 93 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist Much of part two of Absolute Truth was a straightforward coverage of Pope John Paul IIs impact on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 94 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore In the political sphere his leadership led to a partnership with US President Reagan to bring what the latter described as quot;the evil empirequot; of Soviet Communism to an end reversing the World War II settlement which had consigned hundreds of millions of people to the prison camp which constituted the Soviet bloc. 95 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell Dr Daniel Mannix was then Archbishop of Melbourne and Pius XI was the Pope a great champion of lay Catholic involvement in the world (Catholic Action) a strong opponent of capitalism communism and fascism and a regular advocate of the application of Catholic principles to public life. 96 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey Since the collapse of Communism and the Marxist philosophy that sustained it we have witnessed the triumph of secularism particularly secular humanism and as far as religion is concerned indifferentism. 97 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle The evil legacy of World War I (1914-1918) was incalculable most notably in the rise of Russian Communism the emergence of Nazism in Germany and ultimately World War II. 98 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell Certainly his role with Ronald Reagan in the collapse of Communism dwarfs the efforts of Pope Leo the Great and then Pope Gregory the Great in the fifth and sixth centuries to defend Rome and the remnants of the Roman Empire in the West from the depradations of the barbarians. 99 - Jun 1992 - Did 'the Enlightenment' K.O. Christianity?, David Quinn The second strand led to the French Revolution and eventually Communism. 100 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP It is said often that the fall of Communism has left a vacuum in the former Soviet empire. 101 - Nov 1991 - NCC Anniversary: National Civic Council 50th anniversary celebration, 7 October 1991 - address, Bishop George Pell We should remember tonight that we are celebrating this half century two years after the collapse of the Communist Empire in Eastern Europe and in the same year as the disappearance we hope permanent of Communism in Russia and in the Soviet Republics. 102 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons One of the most surprising events of the preparatory period was the formal agreement between the Vatican and the Kremlin by which the former promised that the Council would avoid attacking Communism directly. 103 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray Brockman documents why Romero felt obliged to take it: The letter Romero recorded in his diary was prompted by the proximate danger that he saw in military aid in view of the new notion of special warfare which consists in eliminating in murderous fashion all the endeavours of the peoples organisations under the pretext of fighting communism or terrorism. 104 - Jul 1989 - An Agnostic analyses Catholicism: interview with Leszek Kolokawski, Paul Gray On the other hand the Church previously condemned communism by name although not in the last few decades. 105 - Dec 1988 - Books: Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman, Paul Gray On the other hand it is made quite clear throughout Berrymans book that the preferred mode of political action for Christians is revolutionary rather than reformist that the Sandinistas in Nicaragua are a widely admired model that the alleged gains made by communism in Cuba make that society more just than others in Latin America and that socialism (albeit not a bureaucratised one) is the goal for which committed Christians are striving. 106 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell The important practical consequences were that the softer line against Communism started by Pope John XXIII gained momentum and Catholics particularly in South America and some parts of Asia became more involved in the struggle for social justice. 107 - Jun 1988 - Muggeridge at eighty-five: the long road from agnosticism to faith, B.A. Santamaria Rummaging in a suburban library in 1934 I had come across his description of the horrors of the Soviet collectivisation of the peasantry and I had been even more deeply impressed by his personal experience of the outright and conscious lying as to the nature of Soviet Communism among his colleagues in the Western press corps in Moscow. 108 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria All of this is of course merely the application of the revolutionary doctrine of the prophet of Italian Communism Antonio Gramsci to the conquest of power not within a State but within the Church. 109 - Nov 2000 - Canonisation of 120 Chinese martyrs: has much changed under communism?, AD2000 Report 110 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
