Many men find love in marriage, or, if not in marriage, at least intheir children. A few, however, are celibate all their life: scientists,composers, men of God. Even then, human warmth is not entirely lacking:Beethoven knew human admiration, and Fr. Damien was loved by his lepers. In thelast resort, a man completely bereft of human love can still turn to God. But aman who has no human love at all and no belief in God, and who chooses celibacyto better serve a Party that manufactures hatred will either break down, becomeinsane and perhaps commit suicide, or seek oblivion in drink and graduallydestroy himself. Unless, of course, this man gives himself the illusion of ahuman dialogue by keeping a diary or writing his memoirs.

The reason we are relating this story is to reveal that, as early as1938, there were over one thousand Communist agents ordained as Catholicpriests or studying for the priesthood. They formed an efficient network ofAnti-Priests whose main function was the infiltration, subversion and controlof the Catholic press and Publishing Houses with the aid of Soviet money. Newideas were to be spread, a new religion was to be promoted. How well they havesucceeded can be seen in a comparison of their avowed aims with the state ofthe Church since the Council. The reader will be able to judge for himself.

The state of the Catholic Church today bears witness to the success ofthe Communist subversion. Incredible as the current crises may have seemed somel8 years ago, it is here now for everyone to see. Surely; the Pontiffs who havefollowed Pius XII must assume some responsibility for this, for such is themeaning of leadership: to accept responsibility. Their greatest error, nomatter what their motives may have been, has been to throw the doors of theChurch wide open just when the enemy was trying to get in, and they should havebeen strengthening the locks.

This man has no name, but we shall call him Mikolaj because he came fromPoland where he was born in 1917, perhaps from Russian parents fleeing theRevolution. He was found wandering along a road at the age of three, by aPolish Doctor and his wife, both devout Catholics. The year of his birth musthave been determined by the Doctor because the child, who was crying, spokeonly a little Polish and a little Russian and did not even know his own name.The Polish couple had no child of their own; they adopted him and loved him astheir own son. In his confession, Mikolaj related that his foster parents werevery good to him, very generous, full of affection, and that this recollection,even fifty years later, filled him with "seething Anger". For he had beentrained, as an agent of the devil, to hate what normal people respect and love;memories of his childhood were like intruders trying to move his heart andbring about his conversion. He could not bear them, he had to hate them, andhate also those who were responsible for these sweet memories.

The child grew into a boy of quiet disposition and studious habits. Hisintelligence and capacity for learning appear to have been extraordinary, andso was his ambition. The latter seems to have played an important part in hisdownfall at the age of 14 or 15 when, one evening, shortly before a plannedvisit to Rome and Paris, he overheard his parents express their concern abouthis passport and his legal status as an adopted child. He was shattered! He hadbeen brought up to believe that these two were really Mother and Father to him,and to discover this was not the truth was a great shock to him. He could notget over it; they died in his heart as effectively as if they had diedphysically; they ceased to be "Mum and Dad"; they became "Those People".

Distracted almost out of his mind, he fled from the house immediately.He decided to leave Poland, and made for the Russian border. A schoolmate ofhis had an uncle in Russia, in Leningrad to be precise, where he was as ahigh-ranking public servant. A few days later, with a letter of introduction inhis hand, he called at the uncle's home in Russia. The uncle noticed hisalertness, intelligence and ambition, and was favorably impressed. "If you wishto succeed, my lad", he told him, "first of all you must study some foreignlanguages and absorb the doctrine of the Party."

For the next six years, Mikolaj studied furiously and absorbed theMarxist doctrine in its entirety. The uncle, as he soon found out, was ahigh-ranking official in the Secret Police. There is little doubt that hisinterest for the young man had been aroused by considerations which had littleto do with affection or sympathy. The boy was highly intelligent, had noparents or relative to divide his allegiance or interfere with his Marxiststudies, and he was ambitious. In fact, the perfect raw material with which toform a good agent. Other factors, too, contributed to this: Mikolaj had anenormous capacity for work, a remarkable memory, and he despised all women andthe "fools" who love them too much. This would exclude emotional involvementswith the fair sex.

The six years of study completed, Mikolaj, now 20, was called to theoffice of the Uncle who told him point-blank: "I am going to send you abroad tobecome a militant atheist on the world scene. Your main duty will be to fightall religions, but the Catholic religion in particular because of its efficientstructures. In order to achieve this you will enter a seminary and become aCatholic priest. But you must return to Poland and seek reconciliation withyour foster parents who will be delighted to hear of your "vocation" and whowill help you to become a priest.

Mikolaj had mixed feeling: the idea of being a secret agent filled himwith elation, but the command to see his "parents" again and act the part of aloving son for the six long years which he would spend in the seminary, wasabhorrent to him. Self-control is one of the qualities of a secret agent. Inthis case, however, Mikolaj could not quite conceal his feelings even after 6years of training in Marxist' schools. The Uncle remarked on this, which hadMikolaj blush, and drew a further remark from the Uncle: "A secret agent doesnot blush, has no blood in his veins, has no heart, loves no one not evenhimself. He is the Thing of the Party, and the Party can devour him alive andwithout warning. Wherever you are, get it into your head that you will bewatched. At the first sign of weakness we shall get rid of you (1). And, ofcourse, if you are in danger, do not rely on us; you will be disavowed."Answered Mikolaj: "I know all this very well, but I beg to ask why I shouldshow love and affection to my false parents when I feel nothing but hatred forthem" - "Hatred has no room in our service, except the hatred of God followingLenin's example; we kill without hatred simply to serve the Party. You must seeyour parents again, but you will not enter a Polish seminary; you will be sentoverseas, perhaps to Canada, where discipline is not as strict as in Europe,and there is less likelihood of discovery. Besides, with that madman now inGermany we have every reason to fear a war in Europe."

The Uncle gave him further instructions and reminders: "Persecution isuseless; we don't want any martyrs as long as we are not in complete control ofthe West. Religion must be destroyed by dialectics. [Dialectic: The art orpractice of examining statements logically as by question and answer.] You areto send me a report every week. After a while you will be put in touch with therest of the network and you will be responsible for ten other agents; but youwill not know who they are, and they will not know you. To reach them and toreach you everything will go through this office. We already have many priestsin those countries which are afflicted with Catholicism, one is a bishop. Wehave observers everywhere. Some, especially trained for the purpose, scan thenewspapers of the whole world every day and send us reports on the developmentof ideas in the West. Our foreign policy is based on these. Thus we will beable to see how effective your own work is. You will have to spread new ideas;ideas that may appeal to some stupid pen-pusher who will take them up andpublicize them. No one is more vain than a writer; give him an idea, and hewill say that it is his own, write about it, enlarge upon it, and thus furtherour aims. We rely a great deal on writers and journalists; there is no need forus to train them, they work for us without realizing it. You will receiveletters from us. You will recognize every letter as genuine by the code numbersSS 1025, which is your own. SS means Seminary Student. Yes, there are 1024others ...

This was an unforgettable evening for Mikolaj. This interview with theUncle must have taken place circa 1937 when the power of Hitler was rising inGermany. Soviet Russia was then the only Communist nation in the world. Pius XIwas our Pope. Teilhard de Chardin was still largely unknown but he was alreadywriting furiously and "pushing" ideas favourable to Marxism. Since the Sovietsdid not control half of Europe as they do today, their facilities must havebeen limited. Yet they had 1025 agents working in the Church. What is theextent of Communist penetration now, in 1972? It is not unreasonable to supposethat it is much deeper than in 1937, and it is almost certain that many ofthese agents are now bishops and cardinals. Moreover, to any impartial observerof Vatican affairs, since 1963, it is fairly certain that some are nowoccupying high positions in the Vatican itself. There have indeed been factswhich simply cannot be accounted for except by ascribing them to Communistinfluence in the Vatican.

The next few days Mikolaj spent most of his time studying a fewconfidential files the Uncle had given him. Before he left Russia a number offurther interviews with the Uncle took place. During one of these he told theUncle of his own ideas on how best to combat religion in the West. An open andbitter opposition had already been ruled out; persuasion through dialectics,lectures, debates, dialogues and colloquies was the latest method favoured byMoscow, and it was to develop considerably after World War II. In almost allsuch talks the Communist speakers, who were highly-trained dialecticians,outsmarted their opponents and often silenced them completely, thus winningmany "converts" in the audience. Press reports of such talks further helped tospread Marxist ideas and lent respectability to the Communists who, it wasthought, had become "reasonable". The method has indeed proved extremelysuccessful; the penetration of Marxist thinking in the West is now so thoroughthat echoes of it are quite a common occurrence even in the Catholic press. Tocomplement this method, however, Mikolaj had devised a more sinister schemeprimarily designed to change Catholic doctrine. Briefly, instead of combatingthe religious feeling of the people, it consisted in exalting it in a wrongdirection and towards some unrealistic objective. The Uncle who, at first hadseemed somewhat amused, now listened with great interest (decidedly, hethought, this young man is above average).

Answered the Uncle: "Very well! But don't you think that this scheme issomewhat unrealistic?" - "Not at all!", said "Mikolaj, "I myself was a Catholicup to the age of 15, and a very devout one at that; I think it should becomparatively easy to convince Catholics that there are holy persons amongProtestants, Mussulmans [Muslims] and Jews. And since they are holy, they alsoare the members of the "Communion of Saints" in which Catholics believe.Starting from this, we will say that to keep these people out of the Church isan insult to God. Of course, we shall drop the term "Communion of Saints"; weshall substitute for it some other expression such as "Community of Believers"or "People of God". This will shift the accent from the supernatural to thenatural, from the heavenly to the earthly, which is what we want. (1a) Thewhole Catholic terminology can and must be changed. To those who object weshall reply that the meaning has not changed and that we must adapt ourexpressions to the modern way of thinking, which is what progress is about. Andsince Catholic intellectuals, like most intellectuals, seek and value thepraise of others, they will be mortally afraid of being "behind the times";they will accept the new terms and promote them among the ignorant people.There is a whole area to be investigated here; I can do no more than outlinethe plan...

- That new Church must be simple. The concept of God must be vague,general and impersonal, not entailing any definite obligations, not demandingsacrifices, and, of course, not providing any inspiration to the people. Theuniversal brotherhood of men must be emphasized above all things. It should notbe difficult to persuade Catholics that the Commandment "Love they neighbour asthyself" requires no less than that. In order to make them forget God we mustget them to worship the human race. This, however, is a long-term effort: itmay take 20, 30 or even 50 years; we must be prepared to wait, but I amconfident that we shall succeed...

The following week Mikolaj called at the Uncle's office as arranged. TheUncle told him that his Chief was here and wanted to meet him. Mikolaj wasoverjoyed, for it was obvious that such a powerful Official would not comemerely to signify his refusal; he must have been favourably impressed.Completely self-possessed, Mikolaj met the great Chief. However, he instantlydisliked his appearance which was one of gross brutality and vulgarity. Hereflected that this must be the sort of man who enjoys watching the most crueltortures in prisons; a true sadist. Mikolaj was above all an intellectual; hedisliked the idea of torture which he saw as a mark of weakness and stupidityon the part of the torturer. The Chief looked at him in a manner that boreright through him. Mikolaj felt uneasy. Point-blank, the Chief asked: "What doyou have most at heart?" - "The victory of the Party", said Mikolaj. "Good!From today onwards you will be on the roll of our active agents. You will haveresponsibilities, you will issue orders. But make no mistake about it: weexpect to see the fruits of your work in newspapers, books and theologicalreviews. It is up to you. We have a specialist team of readers whose functionit is to analyze the religious writings of the whole world. We will watch yourprogress. However, I am confident that you will be able to handle this..."

Mikolaj reflected that this brute, after all, was no fool; he hadcorrectly assessed his exceptional ability and his outstanding intelligence ofwhich he never doubted himself. He felt completely sure that he would succeed,for he knew well the weak spot of Catholics, which is Charity. With "Charity"it is always possible to instill remorse in the hearts of people, and aremorseful person is inevitably in a state of lesser resistance and, therefore,of higher receptivity to alien ideas and suggestions. This is psychologicallycertain, just as certain as pure mathematics. With "Charity" it will bepossible to persuade Catholics it is a sin to criticize Protestants, Jews andMussulmans [Muslims]; and that to criticize their beliefs is, in fact, the sameas criticizing them. Thus, Catholics will gradually accept the beliefs of theother religions and their own faith will wane. The honesty and scruples ofCatholics, Mikolaj thought, is the opening through which we shall enter theirfortress; it is the fault in the rock that can be plugged with explosives, theweakness which makes a dialogue with them extremely rewarding.

"She had aged considerably, she did not have any make-up on. She lookedill. She began to shake with emotion, then she cried. Really, women are no goodexcept locked up in harems for the convenience of men in their necessities.Naturally, I begged her to pardon me; that was part of the game. But I knewthat this business would be promptly settled, so overcome with joy would shebe. Thus, I would not have to abase myself before my foster father when he camehome. To see me as a priest of God must have been her most cherished dream; so,without any more ado, I told her of my "irresistible" vocation. The old goosewas so happy that she nearly fainted. From then on she would have believedanything I said. And when was I for the first time aware of the "call of God"?Well, I said, it all came suddenly through an apparition. (I had not intendedto tell her anything like that, but the idea came to me there and then; I knewthis sort of thing would appeal to her, and it amused me anyway). Of course,the Doctor was rather suspicious of the supernatural, but that did not matter,on the contrary: any disagreement between the two could only strengthen my ownposition, and while they were arguing how my vocation came about, it would notoccur to them that I may not have had any vocation at all. So I told her ingreat detail my story of that wonderful heavenly visitation. I said St. Anthonyof Padua had come to me, and, to make the picture even nicer, I added that hewas carrying the Infant Jesus in his arms. The silly old cow was near toecstasy. Just then, however, the Doctor arrived and I was relieved to be ableto speak to a sensible person after all that nonsense, but I saw immediatelythat he would have nothing of my story. Never mind! That will make the gameeven more exciting ..."

"The next day we went to see the bishop. He was kind, but reserved. Thatwas just what I had expected. I knew very well that he would not send me to theseminary the next day! My perseverance would prove that my vocation wasgenuine. Throughout the interview I assumed an air of perfect humility with myeyes cast down except when I was spoken to. He advised me to go and see aReligious Priest who was known for his ability to "discern the spirits". Thisjargon means that the fellow was supposed to read people's hearts! So I went tosee him. Our interview was a protracted one, and I did not like the character.He spoke slowly, deliberately and his speech was punctuated with long, heavypauses that were rather unpleasant. Of course, I said nothing of my"apparitions"; my mother would have most certainly told him already, and myreserve in this respect would look very edifying indeed. I played the part of avery humble young man, and I am sure that I played it most excellently.However, I took some pride in confessing to him that I had never known any girlor woman, and that I was not at all interested in the weaker sex which, in myopinion, has no other function than that of childbearing. I felt sure that hewould condone such an outburst of juvenile pride, and it would show him howearnest I was. The "holy" man, however, set a few traps for me; he tried to pinme down on some contradictions. How childish! I was fully trained for that sortof thing. He also asked me why I left my foster parents six years earlier, andwhy I had never written to them. I thought it would be best not to attempt tojustify my past behavior. On the contrary, an admission of human weakness wasmore likely to move his heart. So I told him in quavering tones that this follyof mine would be the remorse of my whole life. But, I added, the immense sorrowwhich I caused to my "dear" mother would be more than repaid by the lastingbliss of my priestly vocation, for nothing could make her more happy than that.He agreed, and I now felt certain that he would not have the heart to deprivemy aging mother of such great happiness. Our conversation grew more and morefriendly as the hours went by, and, when we parted, we were like two oldfriends..."

I reported the setback to the Uncle through a priest-agent who had beenappointed to that function. The reply came promptly and it was a terse one:"Destroy the obstacle". After pondering a few days on the best way to "destroythe obstacle", a task which I did not relish, I decided to put to good use thespecial training in bare-hand combat which I had received in Russia. But itwould be better if this took place outside the priest's monastery. I arrangedthrough my comrade the priest-agent that he should invite the Religious to hishome..."

"And so it was done. I had felt humiliated and angry at having beenrejected by the old coot, and when our second interview took place, I demandedto know his reasons. He calmly answered that he did not have any reasonhimself, but that the Lord had given him the "discerning of spirits" (1Cor.12:10). I could see that the man was not pretending, he really believedwhat he said, but his wholly unscientific reason did not satisfy me. How canyou argue with a man who believes in magic? Even his seraphic smile irritatedme; that old man behaved like a child. I told him that I would not hesitate tokill him if this could help me to enter the seminary. He answered quietly thathe knew this. I was flabbergasted! For a long moment we looked at each otherwithout saying a word. Then he broke the heavy silence and said slowly: "Youknow not what you are doing." I must confess that I felt then extremelyuncomfortable: this man could read my mind; he possessed powers which I did notunderstand. My comrade the priest, who was in the room, sensed that I wasfaltering. He signaled to me discreetly. In a flash I realized that I wasfinished unless I carried out the Uncle's orders there and then. I sprang to myfeet and with two neat karate blows I killed the old man. In1938, very fewpeople in the West knew the possibilities afforded by this Japanese art, and Iwas grateful to my Russian masters for teaching me how to kill "cleanly". Thosetwo blows had caused his heart to stop, and his death would be normallydiagnosed as a heart failure. The next day, however, I had a rash all over mybody, a symptom of emotional stress; how stupid of me! ..."

"I was fully confident now that I would eventually enter the seminary,and I was already making plans for the future especially as regard my work forthe Party. I was to inject into Catholic thinking a whole set of new values anda new train of thought. I was to foster remorse in their hearts, a gnawingsense of guilt, quoting the Gospel: "Be ONE as the Father and I are ONE." Thatsense of guilt must grow into an obsession to the point of rehabilitatingMartin Luther. They will be made to believe that schisms and heresies werecaused by their own intransigence, that the time had come for them to atone andmake reparation by throwing their arms open to their Protestant brethren andconfessing their own sin of pride and stubbornness. Of course, we shall nottamper with the Creed except for the word "Catholic" which must be changed to"Universal" or "Christian" as the Protestants use. But we shall not use thename of God except when necessary. We shall speak of man, stress his dignityand nobility. We must transform the language and thinking pattern of everyCatholic. We must foster the mystique of the human race. At first, we shall saythat God exits, but we shall point out that God remains forever outside thefield of human experience, and experience is what counts for sensate beings. Weshall lay much stress on experience and sensory perceptions. The positive, theexperimental and the sensorial must be the basis of the new thinking. We shallsay that, since God is invisible, the best way to serve him is to set up auniversal Church in which all men can meet as brothers in mutual good-will,love, and understanding. This new mystique must finally obfuscate the concept ofGod of whom we shall speak less and less, except for saying that we are Godbecause God is in everyone of us.In this manner, we shall re-directthe religious yearnings and superstitions of the people. We shall deify Man..."

"Once Catholics have accepted this new mystique, we shall tell them tostrip their churches bare of statues and ornaments because these things areunessential and abhorrent to their dear Protestant and Jewish brethern. Thusall symbols of Catholic worship and devotion will go by the boards, and whenthey are gone devotions will go too. Yes, we shall promote an iconoclastic zealespecially among the younger generation. They themselves will destroy thatjumble of statues, pictures, vestments, reliquaries, organs, etc. It would be agood idea, too, to spread a "prophecy" that says: "You shall see marriedpriests, and you shall hear the Mass in the language of the people." Thisshould make our task easier. We shall incite women to assert their right to thepriesthood, and we shall make the Mass more popular by allowing home Massesthat can be said by the father or the mother of the family. Once this practiceis established we shall campaign for the abolition of the parish system asantiquated and not in keeping with the needs of modern times. Churches can thenbe turned into museums, meeting halls, theaters, storerooms and other usefulfunctions..."

"Once in Rome I met a priest-professor who was in our network. He was ascholar and a scriptural expert. He was then busy preparing a new Englishversion of the Bible, but his work was still secret. In that new version theold cliches about the Virginity of Mary, the Real Presence and like fables wereto be adroitly amended and re-interpreted. Instead of "Virgin" Mary will becalled "maid". The "brethren" of Jesus will become His "brothers". The "RealPresence" will be explained as a feeling, or experience, when "Christians aregathered together in His name". The notion of "gathering" is an important oneto promote the community spirit. Those who do not conform to the Group will bereproved as trouble-makers and bad Christians. We must absolutely stifleindividual attitudes if we are to control the Group as we please, and thecontrol of the Group is essential for the establishment of Communism. Theprofessor also taught me a sensible way to say Mass since, within six years, Ishall be obliged willy-nilly to say it also. He never actually pronounced thewords of the Consecration; he simply muttered some words that sounded like it.This was possible since the Rubrics require that the words be said in a lowvoice. Later, of course, the Mass will be radically modified; we shall playdown the sacrificial aspect, we shall exalt it as a meal taken by theCommunity. In case some reactionary priests refuse to conform, and insist onsaying the old prayers, we shall direct that the Canon in its entirety be saidaloud. This will also make it possible for the people to say the words with thepriests, and once this is possible we shall rule that it is indispensable also.Thus the Mass will cease to be the privilege of the priest alone..."

"The professor was already working on a draft for a New Order of theMass, and he urged me to do likewise because, he said, it was greatly desirablethat we should give the people different kinds of Masses; this will helpdestroy unity, the mainstay of Catholic power. All this would be a great dealeasier if we succeeded in having one of our agents elected as pope.Failingthis, however, we would probably be able to sway the Cardinals sufficiently toobtain the election of a progressive pope who will ratify whatever our agentsput on his desk in the name of progress."

"I was fascinated by the things the professor told me, and I tried toelicit from him the names of some of the other priests and seminarists who weremembers of our network, but he said he knew little about it. He did say,however, that we had a few professors teaching in the Roman seminaries, and hegave me the name of another professor, a Frenchman, who was giving singinglessons in Rome. He was a member of the Communist Party, and I was told that Icould trust him completely. I later met him and befriended him. One day, as wewere strolling through the streets of Rome, he said: "Imagine this city withouta cassock in sight; how wonderful it would be!" "Yes", I nodded, "the cassockmust go. After all, they could say Mass in a jacket or jumper!" From myCatholic upbringing I understood how vocations often assert themselves in youngchildren: in his cassock, the priest stands out as a man different from therest. The child likes him and wants to emulate him. But destroy the cassock,and you will destroy the priest. In this way many vocations will die in thebud..."

- Mikolaj's confessions are far from being complete. There are numerousgaps in his narrative, and when he relates some incidents and circumstances ofhis seminary days and priesthood it is not always clear whether he is in Romeor in some other city. Obviously, it was not his intention to write anautobiography; rather, he yielded to the inner urge of unburdening hisconscience even though he would have denied this himself. I think there exist afew indications in his narrative that he had not completely lost the Faith, buthe was furiously attempting to fight it off. (The sin against the Holy Ghost).After all, the devil himself believes in God but he hates God nevertheless.True, Mikolaj's avowed aim was to eradicate religious sentiment among Catholicsthrough the subversion of the press, newspapers and publishing houses, but ifhe had had no other motivationwhyshould he have been careful not tosay the true form of the Consecration when celebrating Mass? Was he afraid thatthe Consecration might effect somethingreal! Again, he was obviouslyimpressed by the extraordinary powers of the religious priest whom he killed inPoland. Then, there was his morbid hatred of the miraculous medal that a younglady of his acquaintance in Rome used to wear round her neck. This has littleto do with the religious feeling of the Catholic people at large. As the headof a Communist network he must have been far too busy studying reports, issuingorders and, generally, supervising the infiltration of the Catholic press tobother about the "superstition" of a lone young lady who insisted on wearingthe miraculous medal. Every informed Catholic knows that this medal, which wasgiven to Catherine Laboure in 1830, has indeed worked many miracles. Mikolajwas a well-informed anti-Catholic; he knew what the medal was about. Hence hishatred of it. He would not admit, of course, that miracles do exist, but he hadno scientific explanation for "those things" in spite of the very high degreeof intelligence which he prided himself on possessing, and "those things" keptcropping up throughout the history of the Church with disturbing insistence.

Between 1940 and 1960 he pursued his program with unrelenting zeal. Thathe was successful is evidenced by the fact that Moscow put at his disposalpractically unlimited funds. As early as 1940, he campaigned for thesuppression of altars, Latin, statues, kneelers, crucifixes, etc. (2) A baretable was to replace the altar; this was more "communal" and more in keepingwith the "emerging consciousness of modern man as a social person".Concelebrated Masses must be encouraged; all men are ONE, you see (that's inthe Gospel), and priests in particular must be as ONE. This was the avowedreason on which he fed to theological reviews. The real reason is thatconcelebrated Masses would contribute to the destruction of the Mass itself asthe Act of Christ; the Mass would become a human affair, a communal memorial,and no one would know exactly at what precise moment the Consecration wouldtake place, nor by whom exactly it was effected. Then, again, the Mass must be"desacralized"; its farrago of "absurd" symbols and genuflections must go. Thiswasthe requisite for the merging of all religions. (3)

"The merging of all religions", continues Mikolaj in his confessions,"and the brotherhood of man, must always be re-asserted as thebasicmotivationfor all the changes. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" will be our scripturaljustification. The greatest change, and the most desirable one, is thesuppression of the papacy; but this appeared very difficult to me in view ofChrist's promise: "Thou art the Rock, and upon this Rock I shall build myChurch". We shall therefore endeavour to undermine the authority of the pope inevery possible way, and we shall try to enlist his cooperation to introduce thechanges that will make this possible. We shall promote the concept of EpiscopalEquality and the priesthood of the laity. When the bishops are elected by thepeople, and the pope is no more than the president of the bishops, our victorywill be near at hand (4). When, moreover, the parish system has been destroyedthrough the proliferation of home Masses celebrated by layfolk in theircapacity as "priests", the Mass itself will cease to be. When, finally, thebishops elected by the people are admitted to vote in a conclave, then thepapacy will be in our hands..."

"All must be done in the name of love. Also in the name of love, weshall promote the idea that God is far too loving to want His only Son to die acruel death for us and to want to create an everlasting hell. Christ will bedescribed as a good man and great revolutionary, and hell as a superstition ofthe Dark Ages.We shall no longer mention sin, and Angels will berelegated to the realm of mythology and fairy tales.Once the people cease tofear God, they will soon forget Him. Our task is to promote these ideasamong the Catholic elite via the theological journals which we control, andthey in turn will promote them in the Church as their own ideas. We shall alsoencourage many new translations of the Bible; the greater the number oftranslations, the better; it will help to create confusion. The number ofCatholic scholars who are itching to produce their own versions - undoubtedlythe best ever produced in their own eyes - is not lacking; all they need is alittle prodding from us. We are faced with a huge task; many problems remain tobe solved: the Rosary, Lourdes, and the twenty odd feasts of Mary are annoyingthings, but we shall be patient. In any case, we will have to draw up a newcalendar and dispose of many Marian feasts as well as many other Saints. Thenew calendar must look as bare as the table on which they will say the newMass..."

"Such is the substance of the orders which I issued to the network. Thefollowing year I began to work on the draft of a new catechism which would beacceptable to all believers. It must be practical, human, non-committal, andambiguous. It must stress the humanity of Christ who, in fact, was a brother ofours. But the word "charity" is to be banished absolutely; we shall say "love"instead. Love can be many things, but charity has an intolerable religiousconnotation. We shall say, of course, that it means the same and the change ismore conformable to modern usage. Concerning the precepts of the Church, weshall say that Christians are now fully mature and adult, that the preceptswere necessary when the people were ignorant and uneducated, but that it ismore fitting to adult Christians to let their own consciences decide.God, inany case, is far too great and remote to worry about our eating meat on Fridays!"

"Private confession is a waste of time; we shall promote a communalpenitential rite with emphasis on sins committed against our brothers. Theprecept of Sunday attendance will be modified too. We shall say that, becauseof the working conditions in this modern age, people need their Sunday to relaxin the countryside away from the city's fumes. They should be allowed to attendMass on Saturday, even on Friday. God did not saywhatday was to bereserved. In all cases we shall stress the primacy of the individual conscienceover set rules and petty precepts which are unworthy of an adult man and aninsult to his dignity (5). We shall retain the "Our Father" for the time being,but we shall replace "Thee" by "You" and we shall find suitable substitutes forsuch words as "forgive, temptations, trespasses" and other similar nonsense.The seven sacraments will receive our special attention. The first I would liketo abolish is baptism, (6) but it will have to stay for a while; we shall saythat Original Sin is not the sin of Adam and Eve who, in any case, neverexisted; we shall re-interpret it (7). Baptism, then, will merely be a ceremonymarking the coming of a new member into the human brotherhood.

' 'In the Mass, the words ''Real Presence'' and "Transubstantiation" mustbe deleted. We shall speak of "Meal" and "Eucharist" instead. We shall destroythe Offertory and play down the Consecration and, at the same time, we shallstress the part played by the people. (8). In the Mass, as it is today, thepriest turns his back to the people and fills a sacrificial function which isintolerable. He appears to offer his Mass to the great Crucifix hanging overthe ornate altar. We shall pull down the Crucifix, substitute a table for thealtar, and turn it around so that the priest may assume a presidentialfunction. The priest will speak to the people much more than before: to achievethis, we shall shorten what is now called the Mass proper, and we shall addmany readings to what is called the Foremass (9). In this manner the Mass willgradually cease to be regarded as an act of adoration to God, and will become agathering and an act of human brotherhood. All these points will have to beelaborated in great detail and they may take anything up to 30 years beforethey are implemented, but I think that all my objectives will be fulfilled by1974 (10)..."

"Thus I laboured for twenty long years. Pius XII died in 1958. When JohnXXIII announced a new council, my interest was greatly stimulated. I reportedto my chiefs that this was perhaps the last battle: no effort should be spared.They were obviously of the same opinion because they immediately appointed meto the highest position in the West European network, and they gave meunlimited financial backing through our Bank in Switzerland. Hearing that PopeJohn had appointed a commission to draw the schemas of the forthcoming Council,I immediately started to work on counter-schemas with the help of avant-gardetheologians who had been won over to our way of thinking.Thanks to my contactsI managed to obtain copies of the projected papal schemas; they were terrible!I was in a cold sweat! If these schemas are carried, my work of 20 years willhave been in vain(11). I hastily put the finishing touch to mycounter-schemas, and I circulated them. Eventually, they were tabled in theCouncil (12). Thanks to the cooperation of some bishops whose thinking had beenconditioned previously, the majority of bishops, reactionary but ill-prepared,were completely disconcerted by the highly efficient and coherent interventionsof our friends; most of my counter-schemas were carried..."

"But I am not satisfied: many of my schemas, although they wereaccepted, have been watered down by Pope Paul himself in contempt of themajority vote at the Council. Fortunately, the revised versions contain manyambiguities; in this manner, it will be possible to initiate further changes,alleging that they are in the spirit of the Council.At any rate, Pope Paul is aprogressive and a humanist; it should not be difficult to manipulate him andobtain sweeping changes in the near future. However, we must begin towork for Vatican III even now. Vatican III, as I see it, will mean thedestruction of the Church and the death of God... Then, I shall come forward,not to nail Christ upon His Cross, but God Himself into His coffin."

Mikolaj, the Anti-Priest, is dead. His immense pride, his presumption,his blasphemies, have ended on a hospital bed. He has now been judged by GodAlmighty whom, in his delirious hatred, he wanted to 'nail into His coffin'.Who was Mikolaj? No one knows. He carried no identification papers. But we arenot so much concerned with individual agents as with their work and their aims.There are thousands of Mikolajs in the Church today, and they are at thecontrols. Who was the priest-professor who, as early as 1938, was working onthe draft of a New Mass? Again, we do not know. We only know that he had a highteaching post in Rome and that he was a Communist agent. No matter how secrettheir work may have been, there have been a few instances of leakage,especially on the part of those who had less to fear from their ownindiscretions. Thus, to a French diplomat who said that "he could not visualizehow a Communist regime could succeed in France", Mr. M. Mikoyan, the thenVice-President of the Supreme Soviet, answered: "You are underrating theinfluence of Communism and the support which it receives in your Catholicmilieux, including the high spheres of the Hierarchy and the most influentialof Catholic publications. It is through these that Communism will beestablished in France." (13)

This was no idle boast on the part of Mr. Mikoyan. The Communists haveconcentrated on France because French thought, for better or for worse, hasalways had a great influence on the rest of the world. It is no exaggeration tosay that the French Catholic press is sold out to Marxism, and this was so longbefore Vatican II. The French Hierarchy has had modernistic tendencies, if notoutright Modernist ideas, for many decades past. For instance, First HolyCommunion was never given to little children as St. Pius X instructed, and, inmany cases, not until children had reached the age of puberty. Just after WorldWar II, the very name of Holy Communion was replaced by such terms as"Profession of Faith", with the implication that the child became the doer(professing his faith), and Christ ceased to be the doer (giving Himself to thechild). This was thought to be fitting because the child, being nearly grownup, could decide for himself whether or not to "profess his faith" whilst thenotion, of "graces" given to little children through the Sacrament wasdistasteful to those who did not believe in the Real Presence. Such subtleheresies were quite common in France. As early as 1946, statues were taken outof some churches, altars pulled down, and tables set up. The rest of the worldknew nothing about it. Pius XII condemned the practice, but he was ignored. TheFrench hierarchy, therefore, was a fruitful terrain for the Communists to workon, and so were the French Catholic Publishing Houses whose newspapers, books,reviews, journals, were read by the leading intellectuals of EuropeanCatholicism. Vatican II, therefore, was undoubtedly the victory of that brandof French Catholic theology which Pius XII had condemned, and the victory alsoof the Communist agents who controlled the press. Many of these had teachingposts in Rome, and many today are at work in the Roman Congregations. Some ofthe decrees issuing from the Congregations are worded in such a way that theycannot possibly have been prepared by genuine Catholics. At any rate, thisopinion of mine is shared by some Traditionalist bishops who know more than Ido. Let us now wait until 1974 to see if Mikolaj's prophecy will be fulfilled.The "death" of the Church, however, will not last more than 3 days (or 3 yearsin biblical language), and she will rise again over the corpses of her enemies.We need not fear for the Church, but we must feel great concern for theinnumerable priests and bishops who have accepted the changes and are promotingthem in the name of obedience. Let us pray for them and for the Pope that theymay be enlightened.

la) In this regard, it is interesting to read what Paul VI had to sayduring his audience of October 29th, 1969: " Communion...means more thanCommunity (which is merely an exterior social fact...it means more thanAssembly...it means the Church animated by an interior principle which is notonly sentimental, cultural or ideal, but mystical and real ..." Thefollowing week, referring again to the term "community", the Pope said: " TheChurch is the Mystical Body of Christ ... the Church is aCommunion...A superficial and considerably impudent phraseology has penetratedinto the common language of the Church ..." This superficial andimprudent phraseology, however, was deliberately introduced bythe Communists to achieve a specific objective. In all moderncatechetical textbooks, notwithstanding the Pope's warning, the "community" isemphasized 'usque ad nauseam!', and the term "Mystical Body of Christ" has beendropped.

2) We have here the photograph of a new-style Mass which was taken inFrance circa 1945; the priest was facing the people, he was using a table, thetable was placed right in the middle of the congregation, and it was bare. Thecaption presented the Mass as a "meal". Most Catholics, specially in Australia,were then blissfully unaware of these new trends. When these new trends becamediscernible during the first session of the Council, "World Trends" wasfounded. It was probably the first English-language bulletin to oppose the newideas. This is no idle boast, it is a fact: as early as 1962 we knew what wastaking place. Many readers who thought we were exaggerating have since writtento us saying that our early warnings were, in fact, very mild in considerationof what has happened since.

3) Twenty-five signs of the Cross, twelve genuflections and many lesseracts of reverence have been eliminated in the New Mass. The New Mass wasrejected in 1967 by the Synod of Bishops (it is now the 'thing' to put all the blame on the bishops). Undeterred by this opposition, Bugnini, the LateranUniversity Professor who was dismissed by John XXIII, and who put the finaltouches to the New Mass with the help of non-Catholic ministers, obtained itsratification by Paul VI; the bishops, then, felt they had to accept it.(Bugnini has since been made an archbishop by Pope Paul).

5) "Christian morality . . . is based on love, not on the observation ofcertain laws and rules. . . Too much emphasis has been placed on keeping theCommandments of God and the Church as the guide for Christian living." (Wordand Worship Series, 8th Gr. Teacher's Manual, p. 224, now in use in US Catholicschools with the approval of the bishops.) Again: "We consider man as abreakthrough of mind into the world. In man the process of evolution has becomeconscious of itself." (p. 18, "The Mystery of Christ", 10th Grade). Farther inthe same book: "Man is evolution become conscious of itself." (p. 52) (Nothingabout our first parents). Again: "'God's Laws' ( their quotationsmarks) are reasonable living arrangements that human beings, helped by God . .have been able to legislate for themselves. . . The ancient description of Godas laying down laws from the outside should not be taken literally. It is moretrue that God inspires laws from within ." (p. 50, 51) - (In yourown conscience; and the consensus of all consciences form "the reasonableliving arrangements". Morality is a question of majority; But we,Traditionalist Catholics, believe that God gave His law to Moses, and that Heworked an awe-inspiring public miracle on this occasion; just as He did in 1917at Fatima through Our Lady, which, again, was witnessed by many people; wasrecorded by the press, and photographs of it preserved.) The power of God isgreater than the imagination of the heretics who are now in charge of ourchildren in Catholic schools, here in Australia as well as elsewhere, with atleast the tacit consent of bishops and archbishops.

9) In the New Mass, the Offertory and Canon have been fused to form the"Eucharistic Prayers" of which there are four (the 2nd is quite short), and theForemass is now called "Liturgy of the Word" with many readings added. Thephysical presence of Our Lord in the Host is nowhere affirmed clearly, and theword "Consecration" has been replaced by "Narrative"; no longer a RE-ENACTMENT,but only a STORY. 35 prayers have been eliminated, that is, 70% of the OldMass. We would do well to remember that Paul VI has not given absolute force of law to the New Mass despite the forged paragraph thathas been included in every altar Missal.

10) Concerning this paragraph generally, consider the following excerptsfrom a modern catechetical book: "The Mass is our Christian-friendship meal.The food we eat at Mass represents our sharing of ourselves with one another.But because we believe that Christ is really alive in us (myemphasis), this sharing of ourselves is also a sharing of Christ with oneanother." (This is the new definition of the Real Presence.) This passage is in"The Mystery of Christ", page 215. Again: "When we Christians gather tocelebrate the Lord's Supper (a Lutheran term, - my remark), we are celebratingour belief that we are history-makers. The Mass is a dinner at whichRevolutionaries gather in the presence of their Leader to celebrate what hasbeen accomplished and to commit themselves to the completion of what has beenbegun." ("The Developing Human Community", page 75. This very title underlinesthree common modern errors: 1st - that the purpose of this life is to "develop"along secular lines; 2nd - that "human" pursuits are more important thanspiritual efforts; 3rd - that the "Community" is more important than theperson. These are all Marxist tenets, and they are now found in virtually everymodern catechetical textbook.)

Pope John knew of the existence of the Communist network within theChurch. The late Ren' Malliavin, French writer, who had befriended CardinalRoncalli during the latter's sojourn in Paris, went to Rome in 1959 to visitRoncalli who had since become John XXIII. He brought with him a dossier on thepenetration of the Church by Communists. Pope John immediately granted him anunscheduled private audience, to the dismay of the Monsignori who wereresponsible for the Pope's strict time-table. The date was April 28th. Ren'Malliavin gave Pope John evidence of the Communist infiltration, and the HolyFather asked him to continue his investigations on his return to Paris, and tokeep him informed. (Cf. Ren' Malliavin, in "Ecrits de Paris", May 1969, citedin "Pens'e Catholique", May-June 1972.)

Readers will now understand why I recently wrote that 'many of thedecisions issuing from the Vatican are made by the Enemy'! And these are thedecisions which we are expected to accept in the name of OBEDIENCE: They arethe decisions by which the majority of our priests have been led to conform tothe new trends, assuring us, however, that "nothing fundamental has beenchanged": The decisions by which, almost overnight, papers such as the CATHOLIC WEEKLY and THE ADVOCATE, once staunchly orthodox, have been led to "sell" thevery ideas planted by Communist agents. Indeed, when I first arrived in thiscountry 23 years ago I was very favourably impressed by the excellence of theCatholic press here; less intellectual than the French press, yes; but muchmore spiritual and authentically Catholic. Times have changed; no one daresdissent. (Editor's notes)