On the book Communism and the Consciousness of the West by Bishop Fulton Sheen he wrote this in the 1940’s.
He will tempt Christians with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ. The temptation to turn stones into bread as an earthly Messiahs will become the temptation to sell freedom for security, making bread a political weapon which only those who think his way may eat. The temptation to work a miracle by recklessly throwing himself from a steeple will become a plea to desert the lofty pinnacles of truth where faith and reason reign, for those lower depths where the masses live on slogans and propaganda. He wants no proclamation of immutable principles from the lofty heights of a steeple, but mass organization through propaganda where only a common man directs the idiosyncrasies of common man. Opinions not truths, commentators not teachers, Gallup polls not principles, nature not grace — to these golden calves will men toss themselves from their Christ. The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion — one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God’s.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen In his Communism and the Conscience of the West, Bishop Fulton Sheen foretold the eventual rise of Satan’s ape church
Please enjoy these recordings from Fulton J. Sheen’s Catholic Hour broadcasts from 1947.
It was these recordings that were used in the book published in 1948 under the title “Communism and the Conscience of the West”.
Read – Fulton Sheen’s Warning About Counterfeit Catholicism – https://dwightlongenecker.com/fulton-sheens-warning-about-counterfeit-catholicism/
This book has been republished by Tan Books and is available by visiting – https://tanbooks.com/products/books/communism-and-the-conscience-of-the-west/
For more information about the life and legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, please visit – https://www.bishopsheentoday.com/
