The Devil and Bella Dodd

One Woman's Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption

By: Mary Nicholas, Paul Kengor

Narrated by: Melissa Elson

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

“Step by step, I retreated from God and went forth to meet the world, the flesh, and the devil.... I’d join the devil himself.... There is no doubt that I traveled with him at my side and that he extorted a great price for his company.” This is how Bella Dodd (1904–69) described her long battle with atheistic communism, an ideology her Church calls a “satanic scourge.” She later described it as a “school of darkness,” a school of “hate,” a school for which she was a master organizer and infiltrator of every organization—public, private, and even ecclesiastical.

Bella Dodd courageously left the Communist Party and its diabolical machinations. Her former communist affiliates then smeared her with epithets eerily familiar to modern ears, dubbing her everything from a “fascist” to a “racist.” Some things never change.

One thing that changed, however, was Bella Dodd. The man who helped pull her from the pit? A priest. A priest by the name of Fulton Sheen. Bella Dodd’s story thereafter changed dramatically from one of seduction by the devil to redemption through Christ. She dedicated the remainder of her life to a special penance: warning the world of the evil of communism and its plans. In the battle between the devil and Bella Dodd, Bella and her Church won. At long last, here is her inspiring story.

©2022 Mary A. Nicholas, Paul Kangor (P)2022 TAN Books

Timeless

Now it is much worse than during Bella's life. Eye opening book. It is easier to understand how things come to be around us.

A very sobering yet uplifting piece of history

Much of the life of Bella Dodd must have been hard, torturous and devoid of beauty. Yet through the Church she found victory, redemption, and purpose. The courage of her life is a story worth telling. The history of the communist party in America in the 1930s and 40s that engulfed her is a history of monumental significance and needs to be exposed and understood by all Americans.

If you miss this, you can’t understand the current politics/culture

Hard to listen to because it’s not fiction, you want to shrug it off as an involving listen that you are glad is not real but wait, it is! What will we each do with this info? Like Mr. Kengor and Bella we need our religion to process and proceed. Only gripe is the narrator’s pronoun citation of “communist” - it kept changing and didn’t sound like that word most of the time, to me at least.

Indoctrination, infiltration, a true story

Wow! This happened so long ago but is written in 2022! But it’s still happening! This story could be today’s story! Oh wait I think it is! This should be a must read book for anyone entering college or belonging to a society the believes communism is evil! Her name should be taught in school! How she became a communist and how she left!

May our Lady triumph over satan!

Enlightening! The more who understand the danger and live The Truth, the better! Pray for Bella Dodd's soul!

Eye Opening!

Provides great insight into the dark influences of Communism masked in liberalism, progressivism and false democracy...all that are eroding the culture of goodness in the world, especially the USA, and Christian faiths, especially the Roman Catholic Church. Read it now before the Communist cancel culture censors it out of existence!

Volume II

I really enjoyed listening to this book. There is so much more to know about the way America works. Sadly the needed information is not promoted in the right places. There is a need for more. Volume II please!

A moving and powerful story!

Well researched, very detailed, and professionally delivered. Opens our eyes to the reality of an evil underpinning in American society and indeed throughout the world, which can be all-consuming in its power and destruction.
It is also the story of the triumph of good over evil when a soul allows itself to be guided by the grace of God. Bella Dodd's conversion story is a message of hope to us all on a personal level; and at the same time, it also shows us how close America came to its own demise back in the 1930s and 40s. Can we overcome that fate again in our present day, or is it too late for us? This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how propaganda is masterfully wielded to spin lies, smear enemies, and intimidate an entire population into submission and slavery.

An eye-opening story

This is an amazing account of Bella Dodd’s experience as an American communist. A must read for anyone who doubts the serious infiltration of communism and Marxism into every aspect of American life.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Excellent

Clear and concise timeline of how and when communism entered into not only our country but unto our school system. Also a beautiful witness of redemption and mercy.