Chapter 22

The Popes Unmask the Conspiracy of the Sect.

The conspiracy of the liberal sect

consisted, as I have shown you in the preceding chapter,

in rising up to the assault on the church by using

its hierarchy, in perverting it up to the highest degree. The popes, with the clear vision of their

responsibility and the enlightenment with which God was able to endow them, clearly saw and

denounced this program.

Leo the 13th saw this subversio capitis in advance, this subversion of the head, and he described

it in black and white, in all its crudity, by composing the small exorcism against Satan and the fallen angels.

Here is the passage in question which figures in the original version, but was suppressed in

the subsequent versions by an unknown successor of Leo the 13th, who perhaps found this text

impractical, unthinkable, unpronounceable.

Yet, a hundred years from its composition, this text seems to us now on the contrary

to be of a burning truthfulness.

Behold, very cunning enemies have filled the church, spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, with

bitterness. They have watered it with absinthe. They have cast ungodly hands onto all that

is desirable in it. Where the sea of the Blessed Peter and the chair of truth were established

like a light for the nations, there they have set the throne of the Blessed Peter and the chair of truth were established like a light for the nations,

there they have set the throne of abomination of their impiety, in order that, once the shepherd

is struck down, they may be able to disperse the flock.

How is this possible, you will say?

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