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Writer for Jesuit-Run “America” Magazine is Blaspheming Communist

America Magazine has long held a reputation for promoting hard left ideologies.

Whether it was Franciscan Friar Daniel Horan’s June 26, 2015 celebration of same-sex “marriage,” or the blasphemous advertisement (image on the right) published in America’s December 2005 issue which depicted a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary enveloped in a condom, this Jesuit-run publication is constantly pushing the envelope against the Magisterial teachings of the Church. And yet, despite America Magazine’s reputation for heterodoxy, this is the first time it has even been shown to be directly linked to out-right communism.

According to America’s website, Dean Dettloff is America’s Toronto Correspondent and a junior member of the Institute for Christian Studies.

In addition to this, Dettleoff is the co-host of a podcast bearing an extremely blasphemous logo called The Magnificast.  The Magnificast bills itself as “a podcast exploring Christianity and the political left,” but the content of the podcasts are all about socialism and the fusion of communist ideologies with Christianity.

It is also worth noting that Dettloff is also a card-carrying “member” of the Canadian affiliate of Caritas, called Development and Peace.

In September 2017, Development and Peace thanked Dettloff for his America article on D&P’s 15th anniversary.

On social media, Dettloff makes no attempt to hide his allegiance to Marxist Communism.  What follows are a series of statements Dettleoff has published on his twitter and facebook:

In October of 2017, Dettloff didn’t celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fatima … he celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Communist revolution.

Dettloff calling socialism a “good choice.”

Dettloff thanking a pastor for turning him on to Communism.

Dettloff talking about his wife (Emily) and him attending a Communist Party meeting.

Dettloff calling for a “Communist Voltaire.”

Dettloff longing for a “communist future.”

In this tweet, Dettloff mentions his participation in a communist rally and proclaiming his affinity for the Communist Party of Canada.

In this same tweet thread, Dettloff laments the lack of appreciation for liberation thrology as a Marxist idea.

Here, Dettloff publicizes that he is reading a book from the Communist Party of Canada,claiming that Canada’s future is socialism.

Dettloff tweets about talking to a “socialist nun” and proclaims their greatness.

Here, he cheers the Communist Party of Canada tweeting about an article he wrote for America Magazine.

Here, Dettloff displays the books he is reading that attempt to merge communist ideologies with Christ’s teachings.

And it’s not as if America Magazine is unaware of the fact that they are employing a full-on communist as one of their writers.  In November 2018, Dean Dettloff’s editor, Kevin Clarke tweeted about having “in-house socialists,” tagged Dettloff in the tweet, and Dettloff “checked in” as a “Catholic Socialist.”

Brief Refresher on Papal Condemnations of Socialism/Communism

Over the last 150 years, the Catholic Church, through Her visible head, has always only ever spoken in condemnation of socialism and communism.  The following encyclicals fully condemn socialism and communism:

Nostis et Nobiscum – Pope Pius IX, 1849
Diuturnum – Pope Leo XIII, 1881
Humanum Genus – Pope Leo XIII, 1884
Quod Apostolici Muneris – Pope Leo XIII, 1878
Libertas Praestantissimum – Pope Leo XIII, 1888
Graves de Communi Re – Pope Leo XIII, 1901
Rerum Novarum – Pope Leo XIII, 1891
Notre Charge Apostolique – Pope Pius X, 1910
Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum – Pope Benedict XV, 1914
Quadragesimo Anno – Pope Pius XI, 1931
Summi Pontificatus – Pope Pius XII, 1939
Mater et Magistra – Pope John XXIII, 1961
Octogesima Adveniens – Pope Paul VI, 1971
Centesimus Annus – Pope John Paul II, 1991

Dettloff on LGBT

But Dettloff isn’t just a communist.  He also supports and promotes homosexuality and transgenderism.

On Facebook, Dettloff applauded Institute for Christian Studies professor Nickolas Wolterstorff’s speech in defense of same-sex “marriage,” which concluded that “biblical justice requires that people of homosexual orientation be granted ‘the great good of civil and ecclesial marriage.’”

In January of 2017, Dettloff published an article for America Magazine in favor an Canada’s Bill C-16, which “would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to make it illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender identities or expressions.”  The article was picked up by the heretical New Ways Ministry, which Dettloff calls an “awesome” organization.

In 2016, Dettloff posted an article sympathetic to actively homosexual clergy.

In October 2016, Dettloff expressed his hope for the Church to bless “healthy same-sex marriages.”

Dettloff on Abortion

And while claiming to be a Catholic, writing for an allegedly Catholic publication, Dettloff published the following regarding abortion:

Dettloff applauded Hillary Clinton’s October 2016 debate points on abortion.

On April 4, 2016, Dettloff posted an article by Catholics for Choice which applauded a walkout staged in Poland in protest of the Church’s absolute ban on abortion.

In September of 2016, Dettloff strongly criticized the Tradinista Manifesto specifically for its opposition to same-sex “marriage” and its expressed desire for an absolute ban on abortion.

Complaining about its definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, Dettloff writes:

But the kudos are short-lived when in point 12 the manifesto immediately pivots to cement marriage heteronormatively, saying marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman, followed by a reduction of the marriage relationship to its procreative capacities (critiques of bourgeois family life notwithstanding).

A little further down in the article, Dettloff equally complains about the Manifesto’s desire to ban abortion:

Things are further problematized by the unequivocal and unnuanced stance on abortion in point 13. Combat sexism, the manifesto clearly states, but not by encouraging careful thought about the complexities of sexism, the complexities of biology, etc. Abortion politics in the culture wars are ugly, on both sides, but any baseline history of feminism should at least give pause to recognize why and under what circumstances abortion has been considered a liberating measure for women in a society where patriarchy and property rights over women and the family are necessarily connected.

Conclusion

As we stated in the beginning of the article, America Magazine has long held a reputation for heterodoxy, but never before has its connection to outright communism been so obvious.  No Catholic publication has any business employing a reporter with any socialist sympathies, let alone an outright communist, and yet, there he is.  And just like any loyal communist, he actively promotes immoral ideologies directly opposed to the Church’s teachings on abortion and human sexuality.  Because of this, this publication has no place in Catholic parishes, chanceries, or seminaries.  We strongly encourage you to contact your bishop with this article and ask him what steps he is going to take to protect the faithful in his diocese from a publication so closely aligned with the enemies of Christ.

Originally published at The Lepanto Institute

95 thoughts on “Writer for Jesuit-Run “America” Magazine is Blaspheming Communist”

  1. Why not? I’ve heard their editor, Kevin Malone, a priest (I guess) say that he’s against abortion “in most” cases. Most cases. I wonder when he thinks it’s good.

    America is a left wing rag that will die out quite soon as their positions are often extreme to those on the left who still maintain some level of Christianity and to those on the left who don’t…well….why would they give a hoot about America (magazine and country)?

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  2. Let’s once again try to see the positive side in this, viz. there are Jesuits who are worse even than the lamentable Jesuit pope we now have! They are working over at America magazine. (That’s just about all the “positivity” concerning Pope Francis I can manage today.)

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    • Do you ‘really’ think he is worse?
      I think he has given a green light for every kind of abomination to spread and become accepted through his clever technique of the perversion of mercy. And he is cleverly attempting to destroy anything that gets in his way.

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      • Real Commies turn my stomach the way real Nazis do. I see what you are saying, though, and when it comes to harm done to the Church (i.e. to the truth), I guess it’s a clear case of name your poison. Is strychnine ‘worse’ than arsenic?

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  3. I had subscribed from 1988-2001. I stopped my subscription because I realized toilet paper was more valuable than the magazine. Now, used toilet paper is more desirable and valuable than America Magazine.

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  4. Contact by bishop? Before I bring this little matter up, I wanted to ask him, why he is enforcing the Catholic Charities Appeal to be thrust upon our TLM right after my daughter’s Confirmation Rite? The pastor is not so happy as well, but well, what can he do?
    The entire homily at TLM will be focused on acquiring money, filling envelopes, etc.

    How many bishops really care about anything anymore? How about priests?
    A few do, I know, and am I grateful.

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  5. There’s a potty-mouthed, communist sodomite working for “America” magazine?

    I thought all their writers were like that. I must have scandal fatigue.

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  6. OK. I’m going to write my bishop and he will get right on this. Thanks so much for making us aware of this disgrace. http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2014/10/archbishop-wilton-gregory-promotes-gay.html
    This is totally sarcastic and I mean no offence to the author, but really? This guy is new catholic. He is an orthodox new catholic and you are just expressing our shared dissent from new church teaching. I don’t know what more there is to say or do; this is a new church now.

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    • Exactly, and I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic about the above article or 1P5 posting it, but about the entire situation. And of course we shouldn’t be concerned with the Vatican handing over the Church to the Chinese Communist party…nope, all is good nothing to see here….

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      • And I think there’s a message in that: we’re getting fatigue because we….WE….cannot win this battle. We have to pray. The time for optimism is over, the time for hope–as always–is now.

        I’m not advocating for the Benedict Option or that we sit back and pray while they destroy BUT we must be emotionally detached–feeling are bull, objective truth is all that matters. And when you have THE Truth, you needn’t be upset.

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        • It is very hard to do as you recommend. I get very anxious every time I read about what is happening. And I read a lot about it. Therefore I am often very anxious. I pray for peace of mind, and sometimes it is granted against my inability to stay strong and unmoved by the evil closing in on us more and more. I am not afraid to die or be ostracized. I am already. I find it hard to cope with such evil in the Church, spoken and done in the name of Jesus Christ. They call themselves Jesuits. I am overwhelmed.

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          • Hang in, hang in, hang in. I have no idea if we are in the final days but right in the Catechism promulgated by JPII are the words “Before Christ’s second coming the Church mast pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers….”

            Don’t let your faith be shaken!

      • The other day I was up to my ears in The Dictator Pope, Remnant, and a lot of such front-line stuff, and by brain reminded me that you cannot live & feed only via those things. There is a Good and Real and True which rises and remains above the battlefield. I sometimes pray that the saints in the Church Triumphant pray for us here below, that we neither falter or forget heaven even as evil tries to pollute and enslave and weary us.

        Fighting back has a cost, which is why too many Christians just don’t bother.. it will cost, and hurt, and take real effort to march onwards with gladness and hope, despite the worst the world, the flesh, and the devil will do to those seeking grace to remain faithful. I sometimes say to myself on bad days “Just a little farther.. just ahead… almost there.”

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        • our Christian brothers and sisters had to fight and stand up for their faith in the ME too but they didn’t falter. Not even the children. We can learn a lesson from them.

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    • I was not so much shocked over the Communist angle, but was shocked that one could be so vile against the Blessed Mother: the statue and medal threw me for a loop, to be honest.

      Communism? No. Homosexuality acceptance in the Church? Seriously? no, I expect it.
      But the utter filth in reference to her: yes, that did shock me. Pure Evil does that.

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      • It didn’t shock, or even surprise me at all. The Evil One; (Ol’ Hairy Legs), hates Mary with a greater diabolic intensity than his hatred of Jesus. Of course he hates Jesus with a hatred we humans can never conceive of, but hate Jesus as he does, he knows that Jesus is both man and God. But that Mary ugh! That miserable human creature! Yes, that Mary; the one who is greater than the rest of creation combined. The one of whom it can be said that, if it were possible for God to boast about His works, there is one candidate only.; MARY. St. Louis de Montfort tells us that “the choicest secrets of Mary, God has reserved for Himself for all eternity.” The Father jealously protects the full truth about Mary in a way that he cannot be jealous about any other of His works. Yes, this is the Mary, that mere human creature, to whom has been given the power to crush the repulsive head of that vile wretch. In fact, She has already done so, but it has not yet been manifested within history. How soon, or how late that full manifestation will happen depends on us. So, with all of this in mind, it is no surprise that the Evil One will search high and low for utterly corrupt and depraved souls who will do what he himself cannot do: assail this most perfect of creatures. And if possible he prefers that these corrupt, depraved souls are baptised. Now, that really is a triumph for him: all-time loser that he is!

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      • I was grieved to see our Lady treated in this way. This demonstrates why we need to make pray the Rosary and make reparation to our Most Holy Mother on the First Saturdays. I pray everyone has a Blessed Candelmass and Feast of Our Lady of Good Success. Let us strive to love and honor our Most Blessed Mother more! De Maria nunquam satis!
        God bless
        +JMJ+

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    • Shocking? Not really. Expected? Yes, Definitely. From America Magazine directly. Isn’t this also part and parcel of the current pontificate’s agenda – to essentially replace “Catholic” in our Church’s name to “Communist”?

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  7. Don’t worry everybody… John Paul II consecrated the world! Several times! Heaven accepted it!

    So get off your knees, stick out your hands, and take what is yours! FORWARD!

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  8. The Jesuits should have been suppressed years ago. They are a blight on the Church. And maybe we would not have a Jesuit pope then either. Ah, well….it did not go that way.

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    • I would put it differently. Precise be cause they were such a disciplined order of brilliant men, they became the prime target for communist subversion, starting in 1920ies. So the bolsheviks have brilliantly succeeded. There is a great lesson to be learned from it. Ever heard name Bella Dodd?

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    • They’ve already been suppressed…twice. Didn’t take, I suppose.

      If it were possible to weep in Heaven, I am sure St. Ignatius would be over the state of the order he founded. Jesuits used to combat heresy, now they promote it.

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  9. If I’m not mistaken “America” has its editorial offices in New York City.
    When exactly does Cardinal Dolan take any responsibility for what is transpiring there? What is his purpose? Each day now there is one more unambiguous manifestation of the foul corruption holding sway in our Church. I’ve been on top of what is happening for a long time in news of the Church, but the vile advertisement featured above appearing in a Jesuit publication even shocks me, who decades ago left shock behind.
    Where is Arturo Sosa, the Marxist Superior General of the Jesuits, elected in October 2016 with the participation and approbation of Pope Francis?
    Where is the editorial eye of Matt Malone SJ, Editor in Chief?
    Dolan, Sosa, Bergoglio, Malone — four useless men in dog collars who are good for absolutely nothing. They will not even speak up when an image of the Mother of God is profaned.
    And we are expected to provide these character ecclesial deference.
    Filth.

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  10. SCUM OF THE EARTH!
    Bethesda, Maryland, January 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Four Christian pastors and a rabbi “blessed” a late-term abortion facility this week, declaring it a “holy” space.

    Described by the Washington Post as an “unusual interfaith ceremony,” the “blessing” occurred at LeRoy Carhart’s new Bethesda, Maryland abortion facility, which is operating under the name AbortionClinics.org, Inc.

    Carhart previously committed late-term abortions in Germantown, Maryland. He is one of the most well-known late-term abortionists in the country.

    The Washington Post named Rev. Carlton Veazey, Rev. Cari Jackson, Rev. Carl Jackson, and Rev. Barbara Gerlach as the “Christian” leaders who “blessed” the abortion center along with Rabbi Charles Feinberg.

    “The Supreme Court affirmed a woman’s right to choose an abortion. But before the Supreme Court did it, God had already done it, because it affirms a woman’s moral agency,” said Veazey. He prayed that God would keep Carhart and his abortion staff “safe” and “strong.”

    “And may they always know that all that they do is for Thy glory,” he said.

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  11. A few years ago I went on a pilgrimage and one of the sites I visited was St. I.of Loyola’s birthplace; he is the founder of the Society of Jesus. I wonder how this saint in heaven must be thinking about all the betrayers of his order, with exceptions,of course. For me,unfortunately J. Martin S.J,priest, has been the catalyst and “poster boy” of dissenters and betrayers of the esteemed founder! Fr. Mitch Pacwa, a Jesuit who “I know”, by listening to him on ewtn, is truly an exception and my favorite Jesuit!

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    • Imo, you should have shredded or burned it instead. My dear friend +Mary Ann (please pray for her!) told me NEVER to recycle anything like that. Reason: It may influence someone else if they find it.

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        • Thank you very much for keeping +Mary Ann in your prayers. She died Dec. 27, 2013 but her death wasn’t certified til after midnight so her “official” date of death is Dec. 28. Oh how I miss her.

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  12. Amazing to think that at one time the editor of this magazine was one Fr. Leonard Feeney SJ – all of whose warnings about the crisis the church was entering have come true. They sure don’t make Jesuits like that anymore.

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  13. The ad with the desecration of the Virgin Mary is so disturbing, and the “medal” as well. I suggest we do an Hour of Reparation the next time we attend Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

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  14. You must be kidding Michael. What you say about Dettloff could be said about Pope Francis. Both are Communists, both are heterodox. And the action to oppose these outrages in not even charmingly naive.

    “We strongly encourage you to contact your bishop with this article and
    ask him what steps he is going to take to protect the faithful in his
    diocese from a publication so closely aligned with the enemies of
    Christ.”

    The only thing that counts with the Bishops and the Pope is money. The answer then is to everything we can to defund their efforts. Contribute to your parish but not the Bishops. They are just a tool of the Democrat (abortion) Party. They are not on the side of the angels.

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  15. Are there not courageous bishops who will be ready to excommunicate these wolfs who entered into the church and prevent anti- catholic publications like this one to bear the name’catholic’on their title page ?

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  16. Oh dear. That twit should be sent home without pay. Or send him in rocket to one of the People Paradises. North Korea would be great!

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      • It doesn’t matter if he’s a “true believer” in communism. Have you read Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago’? It’s beautiful and I highly recommend it, especially ‘The Soul and Barbed Wire,’ one of the best pieces ever written about redemptive suffering.

        Anyway, Solzhenitsyn goes at length about various types of prisoners. The death of True Believer communists in the camps were like a sick parody of Christian martyrdom. They were utterly convinced that, “Stalin doesn’t know about this!” There they were, being worked to death on the Belomor Canal, with fish bone soup to eat, and that was their cry: “If only Comrade Stalin knew about these men under him!”

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    • It is becoming increasing clear that you might be entirely correct, each most anxious to be the one to get to do over the main display window.

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  17. The Jesuits are a thoroughly corrupt order. (Even the ones that seems ok on the surface aren’t left untouched.)

    Time for suppression–after this Pope of course.

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  18. great work on exposing this heretic. that he claims to be Catholic is insulting. praying that he repents and that in the meantime is booted from the publication until fully renouncing this system that has led to the, essentially, industrial revolution of the murder machine of the state.

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