Written by Fr. Robert A. Graham SJ

Published by Ignatius Press 1996, paperback, 186 pages (indexed)

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The discrediting of Communism as a world ideology also put in crisis a certain way of writing history. That is why, a half-century after the end of World War II, the search is on for a fresh look. The European intellectual class is dismayed and disoriented. Their world, so dependent on Marxist-Leninist ideas, collapsed around them. In the United States writers never took the measure, ideologically, of the war. Rather, they allowed others to introduce Marxist-Leninist interpretations. The legacy is a massive load of manipulated history with a more or less hidden agenda.

One of the victims of this process was the Catholic Church, specifically the Vatican and the Pope. Fr. Robert Graham illustrates with chapter and verse how the Communist interpretation grievously corrupted the record. Communism and its sister ideology, National Socialism, had this in common: a radical and venomous hostility to religion. It is time for cleaning up the fallout of the defunct ideologies of World War II. The perpetrators of this tenacious campaign of anti-Catholic propaganda were not merely men of Moscow but also their allies and sympathizers abroad.

The material developed here is from studies published by Graham over the years in the Rome-based fortnightly La Civilta Cattolica, which was based on research in the Vatican archives and in official archives of Europe and the United States.