You may have heard of the vision of Pope Leo XIII. It is said that in the 1880’s Pope Leo had a vision of a conversation between Christ and Satan. Satan bragged that if he was given 100 years he would destroy the Catholic church. Our Lord reportedly assented.
Our Lady, appearing in Quito, Ecuador in 1610 said this: I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…. the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs (morals)….
“They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, and also that of Confirmation…
“As for the Sacrament of Matrimony… it will be attacked and deeply profaned… The Catholic spirit will rapidly decay; the precious light of the Faith will gradually be extinguished… Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one reason for the dearth of priestly and religious vocations.
“The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised… The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests…
“Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury, which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls, who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent.”
Our Lady appeared at Akita, Japan in 1973 and said this:
“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres (other priests). Churches and altars will be sacked. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.”
Catholics are not obligated to believe these apparitions but I for one do. The point is, the Church has been infiltrated. Infiltrated by Satanic forces, communists, Masons and homosexuals who seek her destruction. The smoke of Satan, as Pope Leo III described it, has entered the church and that is why so much confusion and loss of faith is being seen today. The Church is undergoing the Passion of Our Lord.
Unfortunately things are going to get rough.
“The point is, the Church has been infiltrated. Infiltrated by Satanic forces, communists, Masons and homosexuals who seek her destruction”
The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by protestantism.
That is the core problem.