The Devil and Bella Dodd
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The Devil and Bella Dodd

One Woman's Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Devil and Bella Dodd

One Woman's Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption

About this book

"Step by step, I retreated from God and went forth to meet the world, the flesh, and the devil.... I'd join the devil himself.... There is no doubt that I traveled with him at my side and that he extorted a great price for his company."

This is how Bella Dodd (1904–69) described her long battle with atheistic communism, an ideology her Church calls a "satanic scourge." She later described it as a "school of darkness, " a school of "hate, " a school for which she was a master organizer and infiltrator of every organization—public, private, and even ecclesiastical.

Bella Dodd courageously left the Communist Party and its diabolical machinations. Her former communist affiliates then smeared her with eerily familiar epithets to modern ears, dubbing her everything from a "fascist" to a "racist." Some things never change.

One thing that changed, however, was Bella Dodd. The man who helped pull her from the pit? A priest. A priest by the name of Fulton Sheen. Bella Dodd's story thereafter changed dramatically from one of seduction by the devil to redemption through Christ. She dedicated the remainder of her life to a special penance: warning the world of the evil of communism and its plans.

In the battle between the devil and Bella Dodd, Bella and her Church won. At long last, here is her inspiring story.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Bella Dodd’s Purge from the Communist Party
  9. Chapter 2: Early Life and First Exposure to Utopia
  10. Chapter 3: Hunter College—Education for the Revolution (1921–25)
  11. Chapter 4: Intellectual Influences on Bella’s Professors
  12. Chapter 5: Columbia University Progressive Education—Tool for the Revolution
  13. Chapter 6: Bella at Columbia, NYU, and Abroad (1925–30)
  14. Chapter 7: Bella, the Family, and Communism
  15. Chapter 8: Bella Openly Joins the Communist Party (1943)
  16. Chapter 9: The Communist Party Takes Over the Teachers Union
  17. Chapter 10: Bella and the Party Invade Education
  18. Chapter 11: Bella Dodd’s Multi-Front Activity
  19. Chapter 12: Communists Make a Show Trial of the Rapp-Coudert Hearings
  20. Chapter 13: Bella and Communists Target and Infiltrate the Catholic Church
  21. Chapter 14: Marxist Influence inside the Church
  22. Chapter 15: Questions Begin: Bella Doubts Her Communist Faith
  23. Chapter 16: Meeting Sheen: Recovery and Reconciliation
  24. Chapter 17: Courageous Witness
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Notes
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index