Thread by @mfjlewis

This morning on Catholic radio, I heard the host (a well-known Catholic media personality) endorse the book "AA-1025," which purports to be the diary of an anonymous communist infiltrator of the priesthood.

PSA: This book is pure fiction, a hoax. Please don't fall for it.

On AA-1025, writer Sandra Miesel wrote this in Crisis Magazine back in 2003 or so (the article was scrubbed from their website in the last year or so, when they were purchased by the types of conspiracy theorists she describes).

One of the few negative reviews (out of 104 total, 4.5 average) on Amazon, this breaks down much of the absurdity of the book.

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An exchange between Miesel and Alice von Hildebrand (who was a friend of Bella Dodd and thought the book was true) is preserved here:

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Miesel writes,

"I again draw on my training in history and experience writing and editing fiction to brand the book a fabrication, a piece of propaganda. No one ever wrote a memoir the way this book is written."

"It hardly took much prophetic skill to “predict” the vernacular Mass in 1972 when AA-1025 was written."

FYI, you can download AA-1025 here and read it for yourself. Don't waste your money.

archive.org/details/Aa-102…

FYI, you can download AA-1025 here and read it for yourself. Don't waste your money.

archive.org/details/Aa-102…