
The Devil and Bella Dodd
One Woman's Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption
- 440 pages
- English
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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 (1904ā69) 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 organizationāpublic, 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
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Bella Doddās Purge from the Communist Party
- Chapter 2: Early Life and First Exposure to Utopia
- Chapter 3: Hunter CollegeāEducation for the Revolution (1921ā25)
- Chapter 4: Intellectual Influences on Bellaās Professors
- Chapter 5: Columbia University Progressive EducationāTool for the Revolution
- Chapter 6: Bella at Columbia, NYU, and Abroad (1925ā30)
- Chapter 7: Bella, the Family, and Communism
- Chapter 8: Bella Openly Joins the Communist Party (1943)
- Chapter 9: The Communist Party Takes Over the Teachers Union
- Chapter 10: Bella and the Party Invade Education
- Chapter 11: Bella Doddās Multi-Front Activity
- Chapter 12: Communists Make a Show Trial of the Rapp-Coudert Hearings
- Chapter 13: Bella and Communists Target and Infiltrate the Catholic Church
- Chapter 14: Marxist Influence inside the Church
- Chapter 15: Questions Begin: Bella Doubts Her Communist Faith
- Chapter 16: Meeting Sheen: Recovery and Reconciliation
- Chapter 17: Courageous Witness
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index