1. Satan cannot destroy souls.
Satan cannot do anything without the permission of God. Anything that God allows Satan to do is for the testing of man; to see whether he is worthy of eternal life or not. God has not allowed Satan to destroy man’s souls. Man, alone, is the reason for the destruction of his soul. Satan can only suggest to man to go to hell.
Angels, too, cannot do anything without God’s permission. They cannot bring man to heaven. They can only suggest to go to heaven. Angels are, also, used by God to test mankind.
God is in the midst of these two opposing forces as judge but very biased on the side of the angels and of men.
2. Man has been placed here on earth to undergo and pass a test.
Man wasn’t place here on earth to enjoy it or take care of it. He placed him here to pass a test, eventually leave it and receive either his reward or punishment somewhere else; either in heaven or in hell.
The test is this; in this conflict on whose side will man be; the side of the devils or the side of the angels. To take sides man must know the strategy of each side so he can effectively cooperate on the right side.
3. Satan’s strategy.
Satan’s strategy consist in suggesting to man that it is heaven to go to hell. Now, who in his right mind will believe that? No one. So Satan’s first step is to see to it that man remains ignorant of the truth. And secondly, to make man love fantasies of the truth and the good. This is the classical pincer movement; attacking from two sides and meeting at the middle, like a crab’s pincer claws. The pincer movement must reach the middle for the death blow.
4. The strategy directed towards the individual.
Satan’s strategy is first directed to the individual. Then afterwards it is directed to the entire Catholic Church. So, let us first look at his strategy towards the individual; this will be presented as a suggestion or as a temptation. Satan will tell his eternal lie; that the truth and the good can be found here on earth in the world of the senses rather than in that nebulous place called heaven. Satan is intelligent enough not to say that the truth and the good is in hell. No, no, no. He will say it is here in the US, in Europe, in the shopping Mall, in the beaches and ski resorts, in a bar or with a prostitute.
Satan will bombard the intellect with advertisements about these things and show that these are the things that are true and good for us. Nobody can deny that comfortably sitting in a five star hotel by a swimming pool with a glass of brandy on one hand and a lady on our lap is too good to be true. There you have both a false truth and a false good suggested to your intellect.
These sensual stimuli are flashed to the free will of man and arouses his inward passions. Then both the inward passions and the mind cooperate to force the free will to desire these things that had been suggested by Satan. You have just been caught in the web of Satan’s temptation. After this, the next steps for man’s destruction will be very easy.
5. The strategy directed towards the Catholic Church.
Let us see what Satan did at the very beginning of creation; he attacked the head of mankind and later on attacked the children. He attacked Adam and Eve who were the head of the human race. Then he attacked Cain and Abel. That is the top men in the human ladder and the bottom in the ladder. If we go to the spiritual organisation like the Church, that would be an attack on the Pope and the youngest Catholic child. Those would be the top and the bottom of the spiritual ladder.
6. The pincer attack.
The pincer attack would go this way. Satan will attack the Pope and drag him down to the level of the child just before baptism (age of original sin.) On the other side of the pincer, Satan would destroy the child spiritually (by keeping him in the state of sin) and, then, raise him up to be a Pope. With that dual overlapping swiping movement, Satan can completely demolish the Catholic Church. Except God will not permit that the Church would disappear from the face of the earth. By an act of Divine Providence He will preserve the Catholic Church up to the end of the world. But let us set aside this Act of Divine Providence for a while and concentrate on Psalm 7 that describes Satan’s strategy.
7. The attack on the top.
Satan knows, from his role in the fall of Adam and Eve, that to attack the one on the top of the ladder is a good strategy. So even from the beginning his plan was to attack the spiritual head of the Church. In the Old Testament he attacked the Pharisees and Sadducees and he was very successful. In the New Testament, he attacked Christ, the apostles and all the Popes. Though he could not overwhelm the true Popes because they were fortified by Christ, he was able to install more than 40 anti-popes; which is pretty good for a devil.
What did Satan do? Simple. He introduced heresies on the spiritual heads. And because Satan does not really know who would be the Pope, and if the Pope is already Pope he cannot destroy the Pope so he must work earlier in his work of destruction. He must introduce the heresy earlier; in the seminary! And keep those heresies intact during the whole course of human history. That way the possibility of choosing a Pope among the heretical priests and bishops becomes a very great possibility.
This explains how the heresies from Arius….down to Martin Luther..up the the present with Cardinal Kasper subsists. In fact, the prestigious Cardinal Arinze, learned head of the Congregation of Worship, included Pope Bergoglio as guilty of the heresy of liberalism, a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory XVI’ (Mirari vos) and later on in the Syllabus of Errors by Pius IX.
Church history contains in every century Satan’s attack on the Church by introducing heresies. And he has never let down his efforts in this regard. He seems to have poured down on the Church all the past heresies plus new ones at the start of the 18th century.
When Our Lady of Good Success warned us about this in the year 1500, she was just reminding us of Psalm 7. But since most do not pray Psalm 7 anymore it was necessary for the BVM to remind us of it.
So Satan’s attack on the head is in place and working very well. Imagine, more than 40 anti-popes! And heretics who are alive and occupying important position at the Vatican!
Satan has been attacking the heads. He hopes that if the bishops and priests hold heretical doctrines this will contaminate the parents under their care. With parents in heresy, the children will be raised in heresy though baptised. This is an indirect attack on the children of Catholics. Through the erroneous teachings of their parish priest and diocesan bishops, the parents know nothing of their religion. And their children will inherit their ignorance of their religion. This ignorance, itself, is a sin (according to St. Thomas of Aquinas.) That child is going nowhere than down.
8. The direct attack at the bottom of the ladder, the children.
The ignorance of the parents is the first cause of the deterioration of the children. The next potent devilish factor for the destruction of the child is secular education. St. Augustine who had actual experience wrote that his secular education was the greatest obstacle to his finding God. Secular education falls under ‘curiosities,’ that knowledge that is utterly useless for the attainment of true happiness. This, too, is the biggest obstacle to knowing God. It also falls under ‘creatures’ that prevents souls in knowing and loving God.
St. Augustine believes that true Catholic education should be ‘studiositas’ akin to the education in the early monastic schools and revived by Blessed John Cardinal Newman in his ‘Idea of a University.’
Add to this secular education TV, video games, cell phones, shopping malls, movies, newspapers, magazine, etc… That child will have absolutely no desire for the things he cannot see. Absolutely no desire for heaven and that is a sign of no Faith.
9. Now let us make these two ends meet.
While the anti-pope descends to a way of life based on doing what he wants, (i.e. original sin,). and completely disregarding the Will of God……the child, on the other hand, who was born with original sin and was sustained by his parents to be in that state grows up to be a priest, a bishop and a Pope. Can you imagine the scenario we are facing. It is a Catholic Church that is totally in chaos; or better still, a Catholic Church that has become totally a Protestant sect.
And the Pius X group, the Orthodox and the Anglicans want to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why, that is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. That is leaving their schism to enter into a more serious schism.
10. Psalm 7 described a Church as mentioned above. It, indeed, happened many times during the Old Testament. And in a noticeable way at the time of Judas Machabeus. Again it happened on Good Friday. And eschatologically it is happening today.
Because of heresies that have entered the seminaries notably introduced by William Ockam around the 1300, the seminaries was never able to produce men of Faith. All graduates of seminaries did not know how to save souls. It became worse at the 14th century; and remained in that awful state up to the present. No seminary can teach the way to heaven. If there is a holy priest that can teach that it is due to private, personal efforts with the help of the grace of God. Not because it was learned from the seminary……seminaries were never meant to do that in the first place. Seminaries were supposed to teach how a seminarian can learn the way to heaven from God through prayer; not the way they are learning it right now which is too human which are meant for such subjects like botany but not for theology. Christ, Himself, said so; ‘it is not men who taught you that but My Father in Heaven.’
11. What are we faced with?
Psalm 7 says; we are faced by the fact that we can have an anti-pope who is behaving like a child in the state of original sin. And that we have a child in the state of original sin and whose sins had gotten worse that have become a pope.
What do we do in such a situation? Psalm 7 says; ‘walk the way of righteousness.’