"In the 1930s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within."
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Anti-communists from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesCatholics from the United StatesCommunists from the United StatesMembers of the Communist Party USA
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See The Amazing Gift of the Priesthood by Kieran C. Okoro, p. 122.
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Bella Dodd
Bella Dodd (1904 – 29 April 1969) was a teacher, lawyer, and labor union activist, member of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) and New York City Teachers Union (TU) in the 1930s and 1940s ("one of Communism's most strident voices"), and vocal anti-communist after her expulsion from the Party in 1949.
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