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and BUDENZ, who vas "Dadly Worker", :. ped a series of arguments and BUDENZ printed # series of purely rbetorical @.:, Bishop ‘Bhesy ook ape questions A ansvered then by quoting ~ writings of LENIN and STALIN, calling it-#Cémmunien Answers The Ques- ons of A.Communist’,, Be wrote to BUDENZ,/ invited him ‘to pe chat any ~ tel BUDENZ wight chose, and they jaet at “thie Hotel :C or€, New York = City. BUDENZ' first rewark was that would tell Bishop Sheen what the Communists had against bin, because be had refused to accept the fact that Russia was & Deaocracy. “How about Article 125 of the Soviet Constitution? , Bishop asked. BUDENZ asked Article 125 was, and the Bishop answered, ine asa ‘not vieh to talk ‘about the ‘Soviet ‘Constitution; {but wanted to talk about BUDERZ' soul -- and they talked for a considerable time. Bishop Sheen heard: nothing from, BUDENZ for -s nusber of years, but beknew that he ri come pack ‘to ‘see higi. It wae eight. years later that BUDRAZ wrote to 7 ishop Sheen and‘said he desired to see bit The Bishop advised hin that, 4f it was“ebout Coumunise, BS ‘about bis goul, he would see hin immediately. 3 Z ‘ was about bis ‘soul, and he bagan taking instructions “in setret.. He Lived in @ New York hotel under an assumed name, and the secret of his conversion was so well into the Catholic Church, kept that, on the day Bishop Sheen received Budenz 4 on the masthead of the Daily Worker as its Editor-in- % © Bishop Sheen remarked ; be Niato?'s College, “in Illino: y Rotre; Dame on the subject, *gnould We Have A Subsidized Merchant Marine?", hot the tean,’a Father Bergin, took hif aside and {istened to his: ; ‘At the end of the speech, Father Bergin told him he was the worst , telker they ever had on the debating team. ‘he Bishop asked why he had been selected if that were the case, and Father Bergin pointed out that he had not been picked for the way he talked, but for the wey be thought. He told Bishop Sheen his delivery was “rotten”, 6o they tried the speech: 8 number of times anf, at the ent, the Priest asked the Bibhop if he knew whbt he was - Going wrong, end he finally remarked that, perhaps the speech aia not sound, “natural”. Father Bergin gaid that was the answer. _ Bishop Sheep said that taught hin the secret of talking to 6 group of people.’ wae ‘ $