This is true. Yet one must be very discerning about the fruits, since Satan presumes to be Lord of this world and can produce worldly successes, whereas the poor Christian who toils honestly all his life may at the end look an ostensible failure (to the worldly.)
Here's something I've noticed. In his book Silencio y Palabra (Silence and Word) Bergoglio said that before he will organize us around the “issues” he will ask us to reflect by "keeping silence, praying and humbling ourselves". He especially warned that evil presents itself as good or "the bad spirit comes in the guise of an angel."
The way to deal with such Spirit is not to fight it head on, he says, because only God can defeat such a Power. He tells us, "Be gentle! The evil ones will take that for weakness... The devil emboldened will show himself and his true intentions, no longer disguised as an angel of light but boldly and shamelessly."
Did this not happen at the extraordinary synod in October 2014 when the pope was much criticized by us conservatives for not "speaking up" against falsehoods?
His disciplined silence allowed over the next few months that several prominent episcopal "angels of compassion and light" ---- the rich, proud leftists like Kasper, Marx, Wuerl, Forte ---- were exposed by their own deeds and words to be thieves, liars, and racists.
They're doing what strutting bullies so often do: they're digging their graves with their mouths.
Is this what Pope Francis had in mind? I don't know, but willy-nilly, it's happening. It may be what the Holy Spirit had in mind.
Think much about the original underlying conflict with our original foe -- the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning.
This year I predict the Bad Guys, who have in their positions of power have been lured into overplaying their hands, are going to be smacked down hard: not by Pope Francis himself, maybe, but by somebody better: the African bishops and cardinals.
Watch. We'll see. I am praying for it.