Oldal 5 [5]
XeAel4. August 526
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Communist propaganda thus has won a great and. important
battle: some of the most ide@&istic Christians have lost the right
sense of orientation. They have come to see the social problem through
marxist eyese They desperately try to find a solution to an insoluble
problem: a compromise between a Christian and a marxist world; a
"liberation™ from capitalism that has to precede rechristianization,
possible only in a "freer" world. Even young enthusiastic priests have
become victims of that deep confusfZion of mkwg minds. Some of them,
heroically, have devoted their lives to the working classes. Members of
the so-called Paris Mission ("Mission de Paris") they have volunteered
to become simple factory workers, live in the worst neighborhoods,
share the lives of the poor, only in order to understand and thus to
influence their environmente Living entirely in such surrounding and in
its mentality, some of them slip gradually into the temptation of open
action, of Labor recriminations, of strikes and eventually, as it
happened at the occasion of the Ridgway incidents of May 28th, emen
into open and illegal demonstrations. Meaning to do well, they fail
to see that they have becom: mere instruments in communistic hands.
members of the clergy to participate openky in political and economic
fights and lead them into opposition to their hkerarchical superiors
and governments eee :
in France, such action had succeeded to a point where the
Hicrarchy had to take a strong stands un February ist, the “Semaine
Religieuse", the official paper of the Paris Archdiocese, published
a formal and clear condemnation of an attitude that pursued re=¬
christianization on the bases of two consecutive phases: first a
“liberation® and then only an “evangelization™ .. "Such methodg is
particularly dangerous if it admits such liberation to be lead by
communism. By this fact Christians would accept to co-operate at the
triumph of a doctrine in absolute contradiction with the formal
directives of the Church ss." Another statement in the same line of
thinking was issued the day after the Ridgway demonstrations. Two
“working priests", Fathers Bouyer and Cagne, had participated and w ere
arrested by the policee The Archbishop's office officially expressed
regret that two priests should have partaken at any manifestation of
that type ... ;
Just as the apo&tolic zeal of some young priests is mislead
by the most insidious of propagandas, certain groups of intellectuals
also become easily victimés of a similar confusion of minds. Boing
members of the middle-class, they are given a guilt and inferiority
feeling, in face of an industrial mass which they feel is being wrongec
In order to prove their personal democratic and progressive attitude,
they go to the extremes and support the most leftist thinking and
action, the communist one. These are $óme of the writers, the artists,
the lawyers and judges, the professors, the men ofscience, the doctors,
mentioned above for having signed the manifestations of solidarity witl
the communists, Their way of thinking h-s been summarized in the words
64.