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A 9 page research paper that explores the relationship between the Catholic Church and organized labor and its fight against communism within the labor movement, and also explores the relationship of the Church to Senator Joe McCarthy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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and goals that had sustained Americans through World War II seemed to be increasingly overshadowed by news of Communist insurgency and aggression. As Reeves (1982) points out, it was difficult
"to explain the discovery in 1945 of over a thousand classified documents in the offices of the left-wing magazine Amerasia" (p. 3). The next year, Canadian authorities discovered Soviet spy
rings that had succeeded in sending atomic warfare secrets and uranium samples to Moscow. The extremism of McCarthyism grew up in the atmosphere of apprehension created by such current events;
however, it is also true that simultaneously battles were raging for the political loyalties of many Americans and one of these battlefields was in organized labor between the Communist party
(CP) and the Catholic Church. Schrecker (1998) states that the "labor movement may well have been the most important battleground for the Churchs struggle against the CP," but that
the Catholic crusade against Communism extended worldwide (p. 72). The conflict between the Church and Communism encompassed more than political ideology, as both the Church and the CP were international
organizations that typically made significant demands on the lives of those involved with either organization (Schrecker, 1998). First of all, the CPs openly materialistic goals were antithetical to Catholicisms
spiritual mission. Furthermore, by asserting that it spoke for the working class, many of whom were Catholic, the CP directly threatened the Churchs position with its followers (Crosby, 1974). As
far as the Church was concerned, the CP threatened the very existence of the Church. Background information Father A. Walsh was one of the anti-Communist experts that Hoovers aids
consulted. Walsh had represented the Church in Russia in the 1920s and he witnessed the crackdown of the Soviet regime on organized religion. This experience caused Walsh to return the
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