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John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church Volume II Paperback – January 27, 2022

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This is Volume II of the historical account of the United States' Doctrinal Warfare Program's success in changing the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous "Four Freedoms" speech. In that speech, FDR set forth a vision for the reengineering of societies around the globe. The means was psychological warfare, involving the manipulation of ideas, words and symbols to divide target societies and convince these societies of the ideology that formed America. The most important society America targeted was the Roman Catholic Church. Media mogul Henry R. Luce, founder and publisher of enormously influential magazines like Time and Life, used the CIA's doctrinal warfare program to turn the Catholic Church into a promoter of American ideas. This struggle reached its culmination at the Second Vatican Council with the promulgation of the document Declaration on Religious Liberty. Catholic doctrine did not change, but, defeated at the Council, the Americanists used their media power to win the battle over who got to interpret the Council with significant consequences for both the world and the Catholic Church, whose leadership came to espouse the doctrines of Liberalism something its leadership had condemned just a few years earlier.
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"David A. Wemhoff has devoted 990 pages of meticulous and pains-taking research to illustrate his proposition that America sought to recruit the world's religions as part of a strategy to disseminate American ideology around the world during the Cold War. His focus is on the Roman Catholic Church, which not only had a global presence, but one accessible leader who shared with the United States a mutual antipathy toward Communism and the Soviet Union. Key to this process was the publisher Henry Luce..... Wemhoff points to the curious fact that despite Murray's undoubted significance there has yet to appear a biography. Wemhoff speculates that there is a reluctance to address a 'dangerous' topic that would expose Murray's connections with American intelligence and his support for the efforts of the American establishment 'to conquer the Church'. (p 894) Perhaps. But now that Wemhoff has raised so many contentious issues and identified such a wealth of archival sources replete with intriguing correspondence, it seems highly likely that enterprising scholars will pay far more attention to Murray and, indeed, to church-state relations more generally....At the same time, his research is an important contribution to that of a cohort of scholars addressing the religious component in America's Cold War, divided by whether it reflected American ambition and interests or American goodness and morality. Wemhoff's work certainly reinforces the arguments of the former."----Dr. Dianne Kirby, Reader of History, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

"Mr. Wemhoff plunges us into his account of Americanism and its ravages during the Second World War and the post war era: precisely when the national cult had reached its full maturity, became conscious of possessing the means to bend the rest of the world to its teaching, and demonstrated the will to do so. Hence, he introduces us not just to the underlying, seductive claim of the Moderate Enlightenment to be the practical defender of religious as well as other freedoms---something that might have seemed more plausible as the American system was still in the process of development. He also, simultaneously, shows the reality to which this "last and best hope of mankind"---as Lincoln called it--- logically leads, at the dramatic historical moment when the materialist oligarchy that had always understood the value of the American system for maintaining its power came "out of the closet" and displayed its eagerness to work together with governmental agencies gone rogue to confirm its domination and extend it globally." - Dr. John C. Rao, Professor of history at St. John's University, director of the Roman Forum/Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Presence LLC (January 27, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 634 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1737957337
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1737957331
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.98 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.43 x 9 inches
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David Wemhoff is an attorney engaged in the private practice of law with an emphasis on civil litigation, criminal defense, and business transactions. He received an AB in Government from the University of Notre Dame and a Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Mr. Wemhoff earned a Master of Laws (LLM) in International and Comparative Law from Indiana University in May, 2019, cum laude. He is admitted to practice in Indiana, California, and before a number of Federal courts to include the Supreme Court of the United States, and has been a practicing lawyer for nearly 30 years. In December, 2017, Mr. Wemhoff was named a Life Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation for excellence and service.

Mr. Wemhoff taught college level courses at two universities. These courses included Business Law, American Government, Constitutional Law, and State and Local Government. He is a member of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and was a member of the Catholic Press Association for a number of years. He has been an astute observer of the American socio-economic and political landscape for more than fifteen years, and has contributed to American and international publications on the topic.

Mr. Wemhoff edited Redeeming a Father’s Heart: Men Share Powerful Stories of Abortion Loss and Recovery (AuthorHouse 2007), authored Just Be Catholic (AuthorHouse 2011), and authored a collection of poems entitled From the Hillside (Wagon Wheel Press, 2019). Mr. Wemhoff’s John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition was seven years in the making, includes material from more than 30 collections of personal and official papers, references over 500 additional sources, and is 990 pages in length. It received critical acclaim from one of the world’s foremost experts on the Cold War. Mr. Wemhoff is working on two more books concerning the nature of America and its impact on the world.

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Joe K
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing work!
Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2023
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What's in this book will blow your mind and make you consider much of what you thought you knew about 20th century geopolitics and the Catholic Church. This book is one for the ages and sits alongside other world-view shaping books, like Tragedy & Hope, on my bookshelf.

Would love if the author produced a hardcover of this work since it's a work of history that deserves a more permanent binding.
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Moisés Antonio
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for understanding the history of the Western world after WW2.
Reviewed in Spain on July 23, 2023
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Well researched, well documented and well written. It combines an extensive source and archive research with doctrinal commentary to understand the implications of the topic in hand.

Recommended for anyone who wants to understand in depth the doctrinal changes that operated in the Western world after WW2 and especially after the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church.
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Lutatius
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening introduction to post-war history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2023
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This book gets five stars for its content. It explained so much of post-WWII history, especially with respect to the Catholic Church, but much more widely in terms of European and South American culture.

There are a few typos and the index numbering seems to have gone a bit mad, but for a self-published book, this is a serious achievement. The research is extensive and impressive, and the evidence and interpretation put forward is a major challenge to the "mainstream" view of a benign American hegemon after 1945.

Well worth reading.
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