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The smoke of Satan “prophesy“.

So anyway, Pewsitter picked it up, as did Catholic World News:  Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s piece on the interview with Cardinal Noe - the guy who ripped out the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s- commenting on Paul VI’s famous words many consider a prophesy…

Pope Paul  accepted the liturgical reforms after Vatican II “with pleasure,” Cardinal Noe said. He added that Paul VI was not be nature a sad man, but “he was saddened by the fact of having been left alone by the Roman Curia.” Regarding the late Pope’s famous remark about the “smoke of Satan,” Cardinal Noe said that he knew what Paul VI intended by that statement. In that denunciation, he said, the Pope “meant to include all those priests or bishops and cardinals who didn’t render worship to the Lord by celebrating badly Holy Mass because of an errant interpretation of the implementation of the Second Vatican Council. He spoke of the smoke of Satan because he maintained that those priests who turned Holy Mass into dross in the name of creativity, in reality were possessed of the vainglory and the pride of the Evil One. So, the smoke of Satan was nothing other than the mentality which wanted to distort the traditional and liturgical canons of the Eucharistic ceremony.”  - CWN

Maybe that is the only meaning behind what the Holy Father said in the moment - but many, many more errors infiltrated the Church than what infected the liturgy, while many vocations wafted out the windows with the smoke.  (Don’t read too much into this, but as for unintended prophesy,  remember it was the high priest Caiaphas who inadvertently prophesied when he proposed to the Jews it was advantageous to have one man die for the people.  [Jn: 11:51, 18:14]  - Just my personal opinion and speculation here.) 

And of course, the Cardinal’s biggest omission - the role of the Masons in all of this.  Not one mention!  ROFLOL!