"The Mother of God has undoubtedly more credit than you, but she has less authority.
Undoubtedly, she accords favors, but she has not given one single absolution."] [Footnote 5339: Could one imagine that Stalin, that that apostate former student expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary, would, on reading Taine's text, have conceived the idea of having communist missionaries, directed by the KGB in Moscow, direct an army of agents inside the capitalist world?
(SR.)] [Footnote 5340: Like a central committee of the communist party?
(SR.)] [Footnote 5341: Praelectiones juris canonici, I., 101.

"The power entrusted to St.Peter and the apostles is wholly independent of the community of believers."] [Footnote 5342: Here Lenin pretended to install the Proletariat and announced its (his own) dictatorship.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5343: Here we have a clear model for an International Communist Party, tasked with the creation of a visible organization whenever this is possible, but with an invisible structure of missionaries, recruiters, controllers, policemen and agents, since any bourgeois state must, once it discovers the party's true aims, forbid it and drive it underground.

To the Christian dream of an eternal life in heaven or hell, the communist movement has its promise of a millenary on earth contrasted by the immediate annihilation of any traitor or dangerous opponent.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5344: "Cours alphabetique et methodique du droit canon," by Abbe Andre, and "Histoire generale de Eglise, vol.XIII., by Bercastel et Henrion.