News Item: : L'Osservatore Romano Celebrates the Communist Intellectual Antonio Gramsci...
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Monday 01 May 2017 - 11:30:35

At some point, those wanting to seriously understand and resist the accelerating crisis, which has so undermined the Catholic Church and Western civilization, will likely come up against the spooky figure of Antonio Gramsci.

For me, the first encounter with this unhappy figure occurred in the summer of 2010, when a faithful Catholic gentleman on Merseyside explained to me something of Gramsci's subversive influence in the realms of both religion and culture.

Ever since that initial encounter, the figure and works of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, always leave me feeling chilled to the core.

I thus found it particularly disturbing to discover - during a few weeks researching in a university library in Cheshire late in 2013 - that a whole new generation of bright-eyed, young historians and sociologists was being immersed into the subtleties of Gramscian theory.

As a Communist intellectual, Antonio Gramsci had recognized that Christianity was foundational in the development of key Western civilizational values. Such values included the pillars of the traditional family and the right to private property; as well as the conception of individual rights and duties, which both supported and flowed from these.

In Gramsci's view, the emergence of a thoroughly Communist society could only be achieved through the abolition of all of these factors.

What is perhaps most disturbing in the Gramscian programme, is that it aimed to achieve this abolition, in a much more long-lasting way, through a sophisticated programme of religio-cultural subversion. Gramsci had grasped that Communism's global aims could be most effectively implemented if they were given deep roots and nurtured over a long period of time.

To have such a deep and lasting impact, Gramsci understood that this subversion would need to be applied in the realms of education, language, controlled use of media and a thorough infiltration and re-orientation of religion. 

We could well summarize all of this by speaking of it as a co-ordinated attempt to ''Marxize the inner man''.

Gramsci was aiming at a world-changing revolution that would achieve its lasting aims by being passive and incremental, rather than bloody and rapid.

When applied to the Catholic Church, Gramsci's passive revolution recognized the Church's influence over so many people. It thus sought to harness this influence to further the revolution, by means of infiltration to utilize the existing structures; whilst also gradually reorienting them to echo the revolutionary changes in society with novel interpretations of reason, morality and ethics.  

We're basically speaking of the so-called ''Boiled Frog'' approach, wherein changes occur so gradually, so persistently and so subtly, that few recognize the danger until it is far too late.

That this has largely been achieved can be witnessed in the fact that so many Catholics today, including those at all levels of the hierarchy, priesthood and laity, identify religiously as Catholics, whilst thinking and acting more like cultural Marxists.

I would suggest that the present struggles in the age of Pope Francis, such as that over Amoris Laetitia and the universal episcopal support given to leftist governmental control in matters of the environment and the mass introduction of Islamic peoples into the West, can only be truly comprehended with some background knowledge of Gramsci and his far-reaching aims and influences.

It is certainly remarkable and deeply disturbing to learn that, so close to today's celebration in the Catholic Church of the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker - itself said to have been moved to this date by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to counter atheistic Communism's May Day idolization of the proletariat - the Vatican's own semi-official L'Osservatore Romano has a feature piece celebrating the Communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci...

This travesty has gained exposure thanks to the latest update at Tradition in Action, which draws attention to the 27th April edition of L'Osservatore Romano and its feature of the above-pictured image of Gramsci, which accompanies a large article in L'Osservatore to celebrate him on the 80th anniversary of his death.

As you will recall, this comes just a couple of weeks after L'Osservatore Romano ran a piece suggesting that Pope Francis had aquiesced in the sending of a congratulatory communication from Cardinal Baldiserri to Bishops Scicluna and Gresch for their sacrilegious Amoris Laetitia guidelines.

And as Tradition in Action reflects: ''Tired of praising Luther along with other Protestant heretics, homosexual film directors like Pasolini and revolutionary modern artists like Picasso, now L'Osservatore Romano is paying homage to Communist intellectuals.''

During the last two years, I have several times expressed my belief that, not only has Communism not disappeared, but that it is also alive, well and actively infiltrating both the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general.

Though I have backed up the expression of this belief with historical writings, the warnings of prominent victims of Communism, photographic and documentary details regarding Communistic change-agents in the Church, anecdotal evidence, personal experiences and the very message of Fatima about Russia spreading her errors, I have no doubt gained the ire of not a few observers for expressing such a controversial view.

Perhaps such detractors might now consider reviewing their own position.

After all, it is certainly odd to observe the Vatican's own semi-official newspaper - the very paper which Pope Francis acknowledged, in a motu proprio dated 27th June, 2015, would eventually become incorporated into the new Secretariat for Communications - openly celebrating the Communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci!

Let us not forget, either, that this very Secretariat for Communications has also just welcomed the subversive homosexualist, and friend of Pope Francis, Fr. James Martin S.J., as an official consultant...

Our Lady of Fatima - Pray for us!

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