Pope Benedict XVI Forced To Resign

It is very important to not only pray a lot but also to keep our eyes open for the very powerful and devastating traps of Satan, which are very well camouflaged and disguised “as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14). Due to the greatest lack of prayer and lack of regard for the holy Laws of God today, we have given great influence to the “powers of evil” (CCC 409) to be able do deceive us! A great number of people today have taken the easy way of “ignorance is bliss”, imagining that the truth and reality are as they want it to be according to their own heads, as if they were God (Gen 3:4-5), not wanting to see any documents different from how they want to see things. This easy way is one of the fundamental traps of Satan, to put us to sleep spiritually! Jesus refers to these people who do not want to open their eyes to THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES: “YOU HYPOCRITES! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” (Lk 12:56; Mt 16:3; 24:51)!

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A Vatican-Democratic Party Alliance - (Catholics Ask Trump Administration to Investigate)” (January 22, 2017)

“We were alarmed to discover that, during the third year of the first term of the Obama administration your previous opponent, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other government officials with whom she associated proposed a Catholic “revolution” in which the final demise of what was left of the Catholic Church in America would be realized. Approximately a year after this e-mail discussion, which was never intended to be made public, we find that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated under highly unusual circumstances and was replaced by a pope whose apparent mission is to provide a spiritual component to the radical ideological agenda of the international left. The Pontificate of Pope Francis has subsequently called into question its own legitimacy on a multitude of occasions. (…)

What other covert operations were carried out by US government operatives concerning the resignation of Pope Benedict or the conclave that elected Pope Francis? (…)

Did US government operatives have contact with the “Cardinal Danneels Mafia”? (…)

Should such an investigation reveal that the U.S. government interfered inappropriately into the affairs of the Catholic Church, we further request the release of the results so that Catholics may request appropriate action from those elements of our hierarchy who remain loyal to the teachings of the Catholic Church. (…)

Please understand that we are not requesting an investigation into the Catholic Church; we are simply asking for an investigation into recent activities of the U.S. Government, of which you are now the chief executive. (…)”

http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3001-did-vatican-attempt-to-influence-u-s-election-catholics-ask-trump-administration-to-investigate):

I would like to add to this article a few paragraphs that I included in my article, “The Woman Clothed With The Sun In Search Of The Little Ones” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/02/children-of-woman.html):

A friend of mine here in Italy told me recently that about five years ago she heard on “Radio Maria” here in Italia, that Pope John Paul II had confided to a close friend a few years before his death that if he died at that point, the Masonic Pope would be elected immediately. Thank God we had the blessing of several years of the pontificate of Benedict XVI. But very recently there has come to light articles and documents which substantiate what my friend heard on the radio.

Cardinal Danneels Admits: “Mafia Club” Opposed to Benedict XVI Plotted Pope Francis Election

Cardinal Danneels: The election of Pope Francis was the fruit of secret meetings that radically liberal cardinals and bishops, organized by Carlo Maria Martini, held for years at St. Gall in Switzerland. This is what is claimed by Jürgen Mettepenningen and Karim Shelkens, the authors of a just published biography of the Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels.

The book reveals that the Cardinal was a regular member of a secret pressure group of Churchmen that opposed Pope Benedict XVI. Danneels said that what was officially but discreetly labeled “the Sankt-Gallen group” was referred to by its members as “the Mafia”. Its self-imposed aim was to achieve a drastic reform of the Church, to make it “much more modern”, and for Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to head it.

The group met every year since 1996, and together they organized the secret “resistance” against Cardinal Ratzinger, who at that time was the right-hand man of John Paul II. Their goal at the time was to elect a “reformer” pope to eventually replace John Paul II, in view of his nearing death, and to prevent at all costs the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope. The question that was put more and more emphatically by the group was: “What after John Paul II? How can we avoid Ratzinger as Pope?’”

When Pope John Paul II died in 2005, the group already pushed the present Pope to the fore, although in the end, Cardinal Ratzinger still got elected despite their efforts. Eight years later, in 2013, they finally got what they wanted, with Pope Francis re-shaping the Church according to their original vision.

The group counts amongst its members the most radically liberal bishops and cardinals of the Church, such as Cardinal Walter Kasper, Cardinal Karl Lehmann from Germany, Cardinal Achille Silvestrini from Italy, Dutch Cardinal Adriann Van Luyn, Cardinal Basil Hume from England, and the late Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini.

Said Schelkens in an interview this week: “The election of Cardinal Bergoglio was prepared in Sankt-Gallen, without doubt. And the main lines of the program the Pope is carrying out are those that Danneels and Co were starting to discuss more than ten years ago.”

Pope Benedict XVI: “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” – Pope Benedict XVI homily during papal inauguration mass) (April 24 2005; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20050424_inizio-pontificato_en.html).

IN VIOLATION OF PAPAL LAW: Saint John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Universi Domini Gregis clearly forbids under pain of automatic excommunication (i.e. immediately imposed, without necessity of declaration) the canvassing for votes:

“81. The Cardinal electors shall further abstain from any form of pact, agreement, promise or other commitment of any kind which could oblige them to give or deny their vote to a person or persons. If this were in fact done, even under oath, I decree that such a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition. It is not my intention however to forbid, during the period in which the See is vacant, the exchange of views concerning the election.

82. I likewise forbid the Cardinals before the election to enter into any stipulations, committing themselves of common accord to a certain course of action should one of them be elevated to the Pontificate. These promises too, should any in fact be made, even under oath, I also declare null and void.

83. With the same insistence shown by my Predecessors, I earnestly exhort the Cardinal electors not to allow themselves to be guided, in choosing the Pope, by friendship or aversion, or to be influenced by favour or personal relationships towards anyone, or to be constrained by the interference of persons in authority or by pressure groups, by the suggestions of the mass media, or by force, fear or the pursuit of popularity. Rather, having before their eyes solely the glory of God and the good of the Church, and having prayed for divine assistance, they shall give their vote to the person, even outside the College of Cardinals, who in their judgment is most suited to govern the universal Church in a fruitful and beneficial way.”

(http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_22021996_universi-dominici-gregis.html).

The constitution of a “Mafia” like the Sankt-Gallen group is in clear violation of that papal order. In another section Universi Domini Gregis, St. John Paul II expounded further on this:

“79. Confirming the prescriptions of my Predecessors, I likewise forbid anyone, even if he is a Cardinal, during the Pope's lifetime and without having consulted him, to make plans concerning the election of his successor, or to promise votes, or to make decisions in this regard in private gatherings.”

It must be noted that St. John Paul II published the above papal law in February 1996, the very year that the Sankt-Gallen group was formed.

Is the vote of a cardinal, who is automatically excommunicated, canonically valid at a conclave?

The above revelations reinforce the shocking claims of Dr. Austen Ivereigh (author of the book, “The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope”) who wrote that a group of Cardinals actively “campaigned” for the election of Pope Francis, in violation of the papal law.

The Vatican listed Danneels second in importance out of 45 delegates personally chosen by Pope Francis to participate in the upcoming meeting.”

(http://veritas-vincit-international.org/2015/10/17/cardinal-danneels-admits-mafia-club-opposed-to-benedict-xvi-plotted-pope-francis-election/)

“Cardinal Danneels Admits to Being Part of 'Mafia' Club Opposed to Benedict XVI”

“New authorised biography also reveals papal delegate at upcoming synod wrote letter to Belgium government supporting same-sex "marriage" legislation because it ended discrimination against LGBT groups.”

(http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-danneels-part-of-mafia-club-opposed-to-benedict-xvi)

(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/09/tosatti-election-of-jorge-bergoglio-by.html)

(In Italian: http://www.lastampa.it/2015/09/24/blogs/san-pietro-e-dintorni/francesco-elezione-preparata-da-anni-PAu2giegWwslaElPmNfC1L/pagina.html; http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/lelezione-francesco-era-preparata-anni-1175423.html).

Cardinal Danneels is recognized as one of the most radically liberal prelates of the Church.

He once advised the king of Belgium to sign an abortion law in 1990. He has refused to forbid pornographic, “educational” materials being used in Belgian Catholic schools.

He once said same-sex “marriage” was a “positive development”. The cardinal also wrote a letter to Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt praising him for “the approval of a legal statute for a stable relationship between partners of the same sex.” Verhofstadt’s government introduced same sex-‘marriage’ into Belgium in 2003.

The Vatican listed Danneels second in importance out of 45 delegates personally chosen by Pope Francis to participate in the upcoming meeting.”

(http://veritas-vincit-international.org/2015/10/17/cardinal-danneels-admits-mafia-club-opposed-to-benedict-xvi-plotted-pope-francis-election/)

“Cardinal Danneels Admits to Being Part of 'Mafia' Club Opposed to Benedict XVI”

(http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-danneels-part-of-mafia-club-opposed-to-benedict-xvi)

(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/09/tosatti-election-of-jorge-bergoglio-by.html)

“Cardinal Burke urges Catholics to ‘storm heaven’ with monthly Rosary to lift Church from confusion” (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-promotes-campaign-to-storm-heaven-with-monthly-rosary-to-lif).

The “Prophecy” of Saint Francis (Assisi) (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html):

2. The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and of others, will wither to the point that very few Christians will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity. At the decisive moment of this crisis, a personage not canonically elected, raised to the Pontificate, will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his error.

7. Some preachers will keep silent about the truth and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the truth. The sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who only profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a destroyer.

“Thus 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 morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. FREEMASONRY, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church… IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”

Our Lady revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi (http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/) that already the forces of evil tried to elect their cardinal after the death of Pope Paul VI:

“The Church, my beloved Daughter, is NOW emerging from a great trial because the battle between me and my Adversary has been waged, even at her very summit. SATAN HAS ATTEMPTED TO INFILTRATE TO THE VERY POINT OF THREATENING THE ROCK ON WHICH THE CHURCH IS FOUNDED, BUT I HAVE PREVENTED HIM FROM DOING SO.

Precisely when Satan was under the illusion that he had conquered, after God had accepted the sacrifice of Pope Paul VI and of John Paul I, I obtained from God for the Church the Pope who had been prepared and formed by me.

He has consecrated himself to my Immaculate Heart and has solemnly entrusted to me the Church, of which I am the Mother and Queen. In the person and the work of the Holy Father, John Paul II, I am reflecting my great light which will become stronger, the more the darkness envelops everything” (January 1, 1979).

“These are the times, foretold by me, when cardinals will be set against cardinals, bishops against bishops and priests against priests, and the flock of Christ will be torn to pieces by rapacious wolves, who have found their way in under the clothing of defenseless and meek lambs. Among them there are even some who occupy posts of great responsibility, and by means of them, Satan has succeeded in entering and in operating at the very SUMMIT of the Church. Bishops and priests of the holy Church of God, how great today is your responsibility! The Lord is about to demand of you an account of how you have administered his vineyard. Repent; seek pardon; make amends; and, above all, be once again faithful to the task which has been entrusted to you” (September 6, 1986).

“At the present time, the tenebrous forces of evil are laying snares for her on all sides. The dark conspiracies woven by Masonry, by means of its many followers who have insinuated themselves at the SUMMIT of the Church, have succeeded in paralyzing her activity and in extinguishing her apostolic ardor” (August 15, 1988).

In the article, “Russia Will Punish the World - 3rd Secret of Fatima Revealed” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/10/russia-will-punish-world.html):

Pope Benedict XVI INVITED CARDINAL BIFFI TO OFFER THE ANNUAL LENTEN RETREAT for the Pope and the top members of the Vatican (Feb. 27, 2007). The cardinal speaks often on the theme of the Antichrist. The Times of London reported in 2004 that the Cardinal described the Antichrist as “walking among us”. “Days will come in Christianity in which they will try to reduce the salvific event to a mere series of values.” It is a key passage in the last work of Vladimir Soloviev, “Tale of the Antichrist”, at the center of Cardinal James Biffi’s reflections. The Russian philosopher, who died in the year 1900 with great acumen, had prophesied the tragedies of the 20th century. In the “Tale of the Antichrist”, recalled the cardinal, “THE ANTICHRIST PRESENTS HIMSELF AS PACIFIST, ECOLOGIST AND ECUMENIST. He will convoke an ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the Christian confessions, granting something to each one. The masses will follow him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants who will resist and will say to the Antichrist: ‘You give us everything, except what interests us, Jesus Christ’.” For Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: ‘Today, in fact, we run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside Jesus with his cross and resurrection’.

“[Satan] will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and EMPTIED OF ITS DIVINE CONTENT.”

“We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.”

“The False prophet will have A RELIGION WITHOUT A CROSS. A RELIGION WITHOUT A WORLD TO COME. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.”

“Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.”

“THE FALSE CHURCH WILL BE WORLDLY, ECUMENICAL, AND GLOBAL. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.”

“A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.”

“THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE SO CALLED; OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE NO FOLLOWERS. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”

“Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. HIS LOGIC IS SIMPLE: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, OUR LORD TELLS US THAT HE WILL BE SO MUCH LIKE HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD DECEIVE EVEN THE ELECT–and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?”

(**): Communism and the Conscience of the West, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948, pp. 24-25)

In the last four directives of “The Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church” (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/masonic-plan.html) of the Grand Master of the Masons to the Catholic Bishops are:

30. After the Antipope has been elected, dissolve the synod of bishops as well as the associations of priests and parish councils. Forbid all religious to question, without permission, these new provisions. Explain that God loves humility and hates those who aspire to glory. Accuse of disobedience against Ecclesiastical authority all those who raise questions. Discourage obedience to God. Tell the people that they must obey these higher ecclesiastics.

31. Give the Pope (= Antipope) the maximum power to choose their successors. Order under pain of excommunication all those who love God, to bear the mark of the beast. Do not call it though the "sign of the beast." The Sign of the Cross should not be done nor used on people or through them (you should not bless anymore). To make the Sign of the Cross will be designated as idolatry and disobedience.

32. Declare previous dogmas as false, except Papal Infallibility. Proclaim Jesus Christ as a failed revolutionary. Announce that the true Christ will soon come. Only the elected Antipope must be obeyed. Tell the people that they must bow when his name is uttered.

33. Order all the subjects of the Pope to fight in holy crusade to extend the one-world religion. Satan knows where one finds all the lost gold. Conquer the world without pity! All this will bring to humanity all that it has always craved: "the golden age of peace."

“The golden age of peace” from the mouth of the vicar of Satan, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44)!!! Those who pray and live sincerely “THY will be done”, and not “MY will be done”, will know the difference between the beautiful lies of the puppets of Satan and the uncomfortable Truth, Who is Christ crucified, Who will make us truly free (Jn 8:32) now and for all eternity! There is no Easter without Good Friday, and there is not resurrection without the crucifixion not only in the life of Jesus Christ, but in the life of every true Christian.

Pope: ‘Malicious resistance’ to my reforms that ‘takes refuge in traditions’ is from the devil

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-malicious-resistance-to-my-reforms-that-takes-refuge-in-traditions-is

Gli auguri del Papa alla curia: "Ecco la mia riforma, le resistenze malevole sono ispirate dal demonio"

http://www.ilfoglio.it/chiesa/2016/12/22/news/papa-curia-auguri-natale-cardinali-riforma-chiesa-cattolica-112195/

“Saint Thomas writes (ad Gal.2.14): “Being in approximate danger to the faith, the prelates must be reproved, even publically, by those who are their subjects. And so Saint Paul, who was subject to Saint Peter, reproved him publically, by reason of an imminent danger of scandal in matters of faith.”

And Saint Augustine comments: “The same Saint Peter gave an example to those who govern, so that they, drifting away sometimes from the right path, do not refuse and undue a correction coming also from their subjects.”

BEHOLD HOW “POPE FRANCIS” INVITES DIALOGUE SO AS TO SEEK THE TRUTH FROM GOD (NOT FROM MAN) TOGETHER!!! VS. “THE SAME SAINT PETER GAVE AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO GOVERN”! The four cardinals only asked for clarity in the teaching of the Church for the true good of souls!!!

http://chiesaepostconcilio.blogspot.it/2016/12/in-vaticano-regna-un-vero-e-proprio.html

[13It is, in fact, a sign of great kindness to punish the impious promptly instead of letting them go for long.

14h Thus, in dealing with other nations, the Sovereign Lord patiently waits until they reach the full measure of their sins before punishing them; but with us he has decided to deal differently,

15in order that he may not have to punish us later, when our sins have reached their fullness.

16Therefore he never withdraws his mercy from us. Although he disciplines us with misfortunes, he does not abandon his own people.]

Thank you for leading me to that because it aligns perfectly with my thinking, I just didn’t have eloquence of those words to express them.

In the article:
Russia Will Punish the World - 3rd Secret of Fatima Revealed
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/10/russia-will-punish-world.html
you find this paragraph:
Pope John Paul II said to a group of pilgrims in Fulda, West Germany, in November 1980, speaking about the secrets of Fatima, that: “We have to be prepared to suffer, before long, great trials which will require of us the disposition to sacrifice even our life for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is still possible to diminish this trial (predicted at Fatima), but it is no longer possible to avert it, because only in this manner can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be different this time.” (http://www.fatima.org/thirdsecret/fulda.asp).
Christ was crucified 2000 years ago for the redemption of the world. This time the Body of Christ, the Church, together with her head Christ, will be crucified in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24.21).
The four cardinals are like the St. John Fisher’s for today. As written in the article: “The four cardinals only asked for clarity in the teaching of the Church for the true good of souls!!!”
“Only a blind man can deny that there is great confusion in the Church.”
January 15, 2017
An interview with Carlo Cardinal Caffarra about “Amoris Laetitia”, the reasons for the dubia, criticisms of the 4 Cardinals, and “the division among shepherds”
Bologna - “I believe that some things must be clarified. The letter - and the attached dubia - were reflected on at length, for months, and were discussed at length among ourselves. For my part, they were prayed about at length before the Blessed Sacrament.” Cardinal Carlo Caffarra starts by saying this, before beginning a long conversation with Il Foglio on the now famous letter “of the four cardinals” sent to the Pope to ask him for clarification in relation to Amoris Laetitia, the exhortation which summed up the double Synod on the family, and which has unleashed much debate – not always with grace and elegance – [both] inside and outside the Vatican walls. “We were aware that the action we were taking was very serious. Our concerns were twofold. The first was not to scandalize the little ones in the faith. For us pastors, this is a fundamental obligation. The second concern was that no person, whether a believer or not a believer, should be able to find in the letter expressions that even remotely could appear in the slightest lacking in respect towards the Pope. The final text, therefore, is the fruit of quite a lot of revisions: texts [were] revised, rejected, corrected…”
“The problem in the footnote [351] is the following,” argues Caffara: “Can a minister of the Eucharist (usually a priest) give the Eucharist to a person who lives more uxorio [as husband and wife] with a woman or man who is not his wife or her husband, and does not intend to live in continence? There are only two answers: Yes or No. Anything else calls into question that Familiaris Consortio, Sacramentum caritatis , the Code of Canon Law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church answer No to the aforementioned question…”
Read the rest of the article at: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/5349/Only_a_blind_man_can_deny_that_there_is_great_confusion_in_the_Church.aspx
In short, we know who wrote the final chapter of the story, God. But before we arrive to the resurrection, the Body of Christ must pass through the crucifixion, and true Christians will be asked to even offer their lives, as Christ did for us, in this purification of the Church, as John Paul II told us.

You can find my comment below regarding the article:
The Great Difficulty In Overcoming Pharisaism - The Difference Between Schismatic Traditionalism and the False Pope Prophecies
http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html
No, I do not think we are on the same page. The article offers the references of Cardinal Danneel’s Mafia, and the automatic excommunication for these activities in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Domini Gregis.
There is a real battle going on here. It would be a mistake to lump everything together. With the great lack of prayer today, and more sin than ever, we have given the power to deceive to the forces of evil.
In the above mentioned article there is the paragraph:
“THE CHURCH ON EARTH, THE “CHURCH MILITANT”, IS MADE UP OF SAINTS AND SINNERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN (Mt 13:36-40, 47-50). In the early Church the heretical cult, the DONATISTS, explained these two parables of the fish and of the weeds in a rather simplistic way: the Church was made up of only the good people and the world was made up of all the evil people without hope of salvation. The Church would be in the world as a “closed garden” or better, the Ark of Noah in which only for the very few there is salvation from the general flood. St. Augustine’s thought won out which was that of the universal Church. The Church herself is a field in which grow weeds and good seed, bad and good together . St. Augustine even exclaimed: “How many sheep there are outside the Church and how many wolves are inside!” The world is not divided into children of darkness and children of light; but rather we are all children of darkness, we are all weeds, but destined, if we desire it, to become children of the light and good grain, receiving the Kingdom and converting ourselves. Nothing is fixed or fatal, no castes of the elect or of the damned. The field is, yes, the world, but it is also the Church: the place in which there is room to grow, to convert oneself and above all to imitate the patience of God. “The bad exist in this world either so that they might convert themselves, or that by way of them the good exercise patience” (St. Augustine).” At the end of the world will be the separation between the saved and the damned, not now as many in the SSPX believe, or as Calvin believed!”
If one is truly humble and praying a lot, and willing to suffer with Christ in this period of the Church, this person will be able to distinguish the difference.

Yes. Read my comment to piusv. But if we are true Christians, we will be willing to suffer with Christ in this great purification in this “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21).
Just as Christ was crucified and buried 2000 years ago, and many disciples (Emmaus etc.) left Jerusalem, so too, the Body of Christ, the Church, will be crucified and buried and Satan will believe in his pride to have total victory over the Church as Satan believe 2000 years ago when Christ died. It will be more humiliating for Satan to believe that he has total victory and then to be crushed by the woman (Gen 3:15). To read a further explanation of this, you might look at the classic book of St. Louis De Montfort:
“True Devotion To Mary”,
http://www.montfort.org/content/uploads/pdf/PDF_EN_26_1.pdf
Also:
“To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”,
http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/

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