Demonic Opposition To The Church Among Secret Societies

The Devil by Fr. Delaporte (1871) Page 117.  Speaking of the secret societies, Delaporte says: “‘Our final end,’ wrote one of the high dignitaries of that gloomy empire, in 1819, ‘our final end is that of Voltaire and the French Revolution, the annihilation of Catholicity, and even of the Christian idea for ever.’  This, then is their object.  Another will give a sketch of their proceedings: ‘It is decided in our councils that we want no more Christians.  Let us make no martyrs, but make vice popular amongst the masses.  Let them breath it through the five senses.  Make hearts vicious and you will have no more Catholics…’

“‘Satan and his imps have a plan, the existence of which it is not hard to discover, nor its development to follow: to break up the society of which the Man-God is the Head, and to substitute for it a society governed by the prince of darkness.

“This mystery of iniquity is partially accomplished; the Catholic Church is not crumbling away and will not crumble a way; but the infernal church is being formed and disciplined.  It has hatred for its bond.  It gives the first posts to those who most hate Jesus Christ and His mystical body; it swells its ranks with the indifferent themselves, because he who is not for Jesus Christ is against Him.”

Page 122: "It is very natural that the occult sciences should be practiced in the darkness of occult societies; what is certain from all that has transpired of their machinations and the solemn decisions of the Church, is, that they are the instruments of the infernal powers in their struggle against Christ and His faithful people; they are the Synagogue of Satan , the earthly army of anti-Christianity, hateful, hypocritical, murderous.  The secret societies are the central focus of revolution, and ‘REVOLUTION, said Pius IX, in his encyclical of December 8, 1853) is INSPIRED BY SATAN HIMSELF.  Its object is to destroy from top to bottom, the edifice of Christianity, and to reconstruct on its ruins the social order of Paganism.’  Paganism is the public reign of the evil spirits substituted for that of God.”