Marie Carré

I'm not sure how to rate this book.... Deeply disturbing and yet unfortunately pretty believable from some of the things I've experienced within the Catholic Church growing up and all the scandal that has wreaked havoc from within. I couldn't stop reading it! So much of what this guy suggests in his memoirs has become true, though not all of it. And it does make you wonder just how many would be able to pull off a double agent role like this guy in reality. I was having a difficult time show more keeping track of how much time was passing between chapters. It starts out in the 1930s... and it seems to move over the course of six or so years, but some of the references at the end make me think it's much later on because he discusses Vatican II briefly as if its already happening... unless it was an add-on later. Not sure.

What's really weird is the story behind the story-- how the editor of the book happened to stumble across these writings which were apparently meant to be burned by AA-1025's own admission. I'm more interested in the circumstances surrounding finding these... like when exactly in the 1960s they were discovered.

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AA-1025 Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the Church, a strange and fascinating account of a Communist who purposely entered the Catholic priesthood along with many others, with the intent to subvert and destroy the Church from within. His strange yet fascinating and illuminating set of biographical notes, tells of his commission to enter the priesthood, his experiences in the seminary, and the means and methods he used and promoted to help effect from within the auto-dissolution of show more the Catholic Church. show less

The alleged actual memoirs of a communist agent who infiltrated the Roman Catholic priesthood in 20th century Europe. These memoirs were allegedly found among the papers of a deceased John Doe by a French nurse, and published. There has been controversy ever since as to their authenticity. Nonetheless, they make for riveting reading.

Wow.