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Douglas Hyde was an ex-Methodist, convinced communist at 17. This changed 20 years later. It was the fifties and he had become a Catholic. Despite having a bad reltionship with the Church afterwards, over allegedly thinking that the current Pope at the time was too harsh with the leftist leaning people... this book doesn't lack any value. Hyde became a strong advocate in the fight against communism, and his book I Believed, became a mandatory Catholic textbook.
This book appeals to our Christianity, to our formation, to the knowledge that our leftist leaning brothers are as human as us, and in their youth, they do possess a zeal, a true authenticity, a product of having the heart in the right place, but not their heads. They are used, convinced that any of them might provide the impulse necessary for the worldwide expansion of communism. In their militant atheist attitude, communism becomes a pseudo religious cult which fills their lack of religion.
Their fantasies and idealism are often neglected by adults, but they could be a source of great faith and works put into the right hands. So that they're not used and freely work for the good of people instead of the prevalence of an ideology, we must teach Catholic Social Teaching, at the best of our abilities and with great faith. We must explain the richness of Church's history and saints. 2000 years of experience should be more than enough. While communists try to prove the Universe wrong to make it fit into their theory, we count with the reality of Christ alive and among us.
This is what I'm left with. Reflections upon a de-Christianized society, who does not know its faith.
"I remember that in conversations with Louis Taruk, the rebel Filippine chief, when I exposed him to Catholic Social Teaching, his first reaction was this: Why didn't anyone speak to me like this when I was still young? I didn't know anything about this. When I went to Church at my town, I saw St. Joseph and St. Isidore at the sides of the gates of the temple, but no one ever thought about explaining to me the social meaning of these Saints, and what it represented for Christians. If I would have had any notion of everything you're telling me now when I was a young man, I'd have certainly worked to make these social teachings of the Church a reality. But when I entered the Communist Party, I believed that the Church did not have absolutely anything to say about the social question."
Something to think about, right?
This book appeals to our Christianity, to our formation, to the knowledge that our leftist leaning brothers are as human as us, and in their youth, they do possess a zeal, a true authenticity, a product of having the heart in the right place, but not their heads. They are used, convinced that any of them might provide the impulse necessary for the worldwide expansion of communism. In their militant atheist attitude, communism becomes a pseudo religious cult which fills their lack of religion.
Their fantasies and idealism are often neglected by adults, but they could be a source of great faith and works put into the right hands. So that they're not used and freely work for the good of people instead of the prevalence of an ideology, we must teach Catholic Social Teaching, at the best of our abilities and with great faith. We must explain the richness of Church's history and saints. 2000 years of experience should be more than enough. While communists try to prove the Universe wrong to make it fit into their theory, we count with the reality of Christ alive and among us.
This is what I'm left with. Reflections upon a de-Christianized society, who does not know its faith.
"I remember that in conversations with Louis Taruk, the rebel Filippine chief, when I exposed him to Catholic Social Teaching, his first reaction was this: Why didn't anyone speak to me like this when I was still young? I didn't know anything about this. When I went to Church at my town, I saw St. Joseph and St. Isidore at the sides of the gates of the temple, but no one ever thought about explaining to me the social meaning of these Saints, and what it represented for Christians. If I would have had any notion of everything you're telling me now when I was a young man, I'd have certainly worked to make these social teachings of the Church a reality. But when I entered the Communist Party, I believed that the Church did not have absolutely anything to say about the social question."
Something to think about, right?