Fulton Sheen: Casting Fire on the Earth
By Robert Royal
In 1945, Louis Budenz – a Communist activist and managing editor of the party's newspaper The Daily Worker – was received back into the Catholic Church by Fulton Sheen. The two men had met earlier because Sheen had been publishing devastating critiques of Communism. The Communist Party USA sent Budenz to Sheen to try to turn him – presumably because Sheen had also expressed some criticisms of capitalism, and concerns for workers and the poor. When Budenz asked how Sheen could say that the USSR was not a democracy, Sheen pointed to articles 118 to 124 in the Soviet…
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