Nearing death, and ruing his role in approving the modernist innovations and "reforms" of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI is famously (or infamously) said "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church".
Half a century later, the Archbishop of Astana (Kazakhstan), Most Rev. Tomash Peta, used the same phrase in addressing the Bishops' Synod on the Family, in progress [another word, perhaps? Ed.] at the Vatican. "During the Synod last year [2014]," the prelate said, "'the smoke of Satan' was trying to enter the aula of Paul VI."
On its website, Voice of the Family, a coalition of pro-life groups, published the text of His Excellency's remarks, with his permission, under the headline "We can perceive the 'infernal smoke' in synod interventions".
What is "the smoke of Satan"? Archbishop Peta identifies it with "the proposal to admit to Holy Communion those who are divorced and living in new civil unions; the affirmation that cohabitation is a union which may have in itself some values; the pleading for homosexuality as something which is allegedly normal."
"Some synod fathers [he added] have not understood correctly the appeal of Pope Francis for an open discussion and started to bring forward ideas which contradict the bi-millennial Tradition of the Church, rooted in the Eternal Word of God. Unfortunately, one can still perceive the smell of this 'infernal smoke' in some items of the Instrumentum Laboris [working document] and also in the interventions of some synod fathers this year.
"To my mind, the main task of a Synod consists in indicating again to the Gospel of the marriage and of the family and that means to the teaching of Our Saviour. It [must not be] allowed to destroy the fundament -– to destroy the rock."
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