Rabbit hole of rabbit holes is the papacy of Francis and the state of the Church. It started when my wife sent this post about some seemingly targeted lightning strikes. “Press releases from Heaven” is a memorable phrase.
The same author is convinced that Pope Francis is not the legit pope due to Benedict leaving another duress, an “impeded See”. I’m sketchy on the details and terminology but the gist seems to be that Benedict was playing 3d chess (far more believable in his case than The Donald’s). He makes that case here.
Somewhere along the rabbit trail I came across the famous “smoke of Satan” line by Pope Paul VI - which makes credible just about anything with regard to church irregularities, just the rich vein of government lies and censorship suddenly makes conspiracy theories well worth our attention.
The smoke of Satan line was said on June 29th, 1972 but Malachi Martin places the smoke coming on June 29th, 1963. Which fits neatly into the general theory that 1963 was some sort of inflection point given the deaths of JFK, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. It was also the year when sex was begun in Britain, according to Philip Larkin's best-known poem. Bob Dylan’s "Blowin' in the Wind” was popular and “The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis.
Liturgy is the linchpin of the spiritual world, and thus the world in general, we might wonder if anything smoky came in the immediate aftermath of that June 29th event?
Well here we read that seminal books of essays were given imprimaturs before the huge game changing December release of Sacrosanctum Concilium.
Both Sunday Morning Crisis and The Revival of the Liturgy have imprimaturs dating from the summer of 1963, before the second session of Vatican II had even begun. So these essays interpreted Sacrosanctum Concilium before it was eventually promulgated on December 4, 1963, or even fully discussed at the Council.
These imprimaturs came just post-smoke of Satan, in July and August. I report, you decide.
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