The Church Under Attack

On October 13,1884, after celebrating Mass in the Vatican Chapel together with a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff. Pope Leo XIII suddenly stood still at the foot of the altar. For about 10 minutes, the Pope, as if in a trance, stood motionless, his face ashen white. Immediately after, he went to his office and composed the prayer to St. Michael with instructions that it be said after all Low Masses everywhere.

When asked what happened, Pope Leo XIII explained that when he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he heard two voices talking – one kind and gentle, the other harsh and arrogant. He heard the following conversation:
The arrogant voice of Satan boasting to Our Lord: “I can destroy your church.” Then gentle voice of Our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.” Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.”
Our Lord: “How much time? How much power?.” Satan: “75 to 100 years and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.” Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”

The 20th century has witnessed the fulfillment of this prophecy – world wars, the spread of atheism, the great decline of faith and morals. More significantly, the Catholic Church, whom Satan has boasted he can destroy, is battered and bruised – priestly scandals, declining vocations, deep divisions and discord within the hierarchy, declining mass attendance….. the list of problem goes on and on.

The “Synagogue of
Satan”

This ferocious attack on the Church is perpetrated by freemasonry – a worldwide secretive group that, for many innocent members, seems nothing but a noteworthy “fraternity” or “brotherhood”. And yet, what many do not realize is that freemasonry is condemned by the Church. In fact, membership in freemasonry means automatic ex-communication for Catholics, a fact that Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), on November 26, 1983, emphasized:

The Faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion. . . Consequently, neither the excommunication nor the other penalties envisaged have been abrogated.

Numerous popes have condemned freemasonry throughout the ages. Pope Leo XIII called freemasonry the “synagogue of Satan”. In his letter to the Italian people dated December 8,1892, Leo XIII writes:
Let us remember that Christianity and Freemasonry are essentially incompatible, to such an extent, that to become united with one means being divorced from the other. Let us, therefore, expose Freemasonry as the enemy of God, of the church and of our Motherland. A Satanic Religion inj Disguise
Freemasonry is nothing more than the Satanic Worship – beautifully packaged as a “humanitarian” movement to unsuspecting victims.

One of the prominent leaders of freemasonry was Albert Pike, grand commander of the Scottish rite of freemasonry. In 1871 shortly before the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII, Pike wrpte about the true nature of the “light” which masons seek in his book “Morals and dogma”, traditionally handed out to high degree Freemasons only: “LUCIFER, the light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! It is the who bears the Light …? Doubt it no0t!”
The goal of freemasonry is to rule the world and destroy Christianity. Pike said: “The World will soon come to us for its Sovereigns and Pontiffs. We shall constitute the equilibrium of the Universe, and be rulers over the Masters of the World…”