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And thus appears Communism: the recalcitrant, neurotic child of a permissive, neglectful parent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince it first appeared in 1948, during the initial frigid days of the Cold War, Communism and the Conscience of the West has proven to be a prophetic witness to the grave dangers of decadent, individualistic liberalism and atheistic, collectivist totalitarianism alike. While the Cold War has ended and Soviet Union passed away, these dangers have endured and even metastasized. For the basic struggle remains: the moral and spiritual struggle for the very soul of mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFulton J. Sheen\u003c\/strong\u003e (1895–1979) was one of the most renowned Catholic priests of the twentieth century. 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Sheen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Nothing,”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003edeclares Fulton J. Sheen, “is as relentless in unmasking a false way of life as war.” World War II exposed mankind’s collective failure to bring the tranquility of order from the wreckage of the “war to end all wars,” choosing instead to build again a godless world upon the unsure foundations of atheistic materialism, unabashed liberalism, and depraved communism. In these nineteen addresses, broadcast from December 15, 1940, to April 13, 1941, Archbishop Sheen confronts the irrational, irreligious and violent spirit of the age and exhorts the Western world to return to God with all its heart, “by prayer, penance, reparation, by rekindling in our consciences the justice of God, and by emblazoning before our eyes the Christ of Judgment.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eDelivered with prophetic zeal and fierce honesty, \u003ci\u003eWar and Guilt \u003c\/i\u003eshows the way to accept the reality of fallen nature and to acknowledge mankind’s burden of guilt with fortitude and humility, proving in the process that the Gospel slices more deeply than any sword, “reaching the very division between soul and spirit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p2\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFulton J. 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Sheen makes the case that justice and charity—twin treasures safeguarded by the Church—are the cure for the evils of the liberal capitalist and communist systems: the one, with its abuse of concentrated wealth and privilege and its subjection of millions to the lot of insecure wage-slavery, and the other, with its class-hatred and revolutionary technique of resentment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1938 in response to clamorous calls for social order, \u003ci\u003eLiberty, Equality, Fraternity \u003c\/i\u003eremains an unwavering affirmation of the truths that justice is a better remedy than reaction, charity a better solvent than revolution, and the sole solution to man’s struggle a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, “Exemplar of Capital and the Exemplar of Labor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA true social order can be built only on the basis of fraternity… Start with fraternity, which means that all men are brothers under the Fatherhood of God, that all must function for the common good of society and for the peace of the world, and liberty and equality will follow. \u003c\/i\u003e(Fulton J. 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