“From some fissure the smoke of satan entered into the temple of God”
The fissure was Vatican II, which the pope was now in lamentation over so that he never again had anything good to say about it. As early as December 1965, he said, “Profane and secular humanism has revealed itself in its terrible, anticlerical nature, and in one sense has defied the Council. The religion of God made man has met the religion of man who makes himself God.” (December 7, 1965)
Again the pope said in 1970, “In many areas the Council has not so far given us peace but rather stirred up troubles and problems that in no way serve to strengthen the Kingdom of God within the Church or within its souls.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Open letter to Confused Catholics)
This same Lefebvre was supposedly excommunicated in 1988 but the excommunication was invalid as was the July 1, 2026, excommunication of the SSPX that he founded because the Society rejected and continues to reject Vatican II on the grounds that it was an illicit and heretical Council, which it was. The consecrations of new bishops both in 1988 and on July 1 were only an excuse that the Vatican used to punish the SSPX.
The issue is Vatican II, which Pope Leo and Cardinal Fernandez say we are bound to follow, but in saying this they are wrong. In 1990, Cardinal Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI) who knew the Third Secret of Fatima said that the Secret spoke of a “bad council” and a “bad Mass” to come. The Council was Vatican II, which the Church’s enemies hijacked in the opening session after which they began introducing heretical teachings to the Church. The Council openly endorsed Islam, Hinduism, ecumenism and modernism, which the Catholic Church rejects, yet the Council embraced these and other errors.
Paul VI spoke of the “profane secular humanism” that profaned Pope John’s original plan for Vatican II, which means that Pope Leo should be echoing this today. Why isn’t he?