Paul VI’s “Smoke of Satan” revealed

Paul VI’s “Smoke of Satan” revealed
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Shawn Tribe at NLM links to an interview of Virgilio Cardinal Noe, Pope Paul VI’s Master of Ceremonies, who addresses the question of what or who Paul VI was referring to when making his famous “Smoke of Satan” statement in his homily on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in 1972. Here is the original answer in Italian:

Voi di ‘Petrus’ avete fatto un bel colpo, perché sono in grado di rivelare, per la prima volta, cosa intendesse denunciare Paolo VI con quella affermazione. Ecco, Papa Montini per Satana intendeva classificare tutti quei sacerdoti o vescovi e Cardinali che non rendevano culto al Signore mal celebrando la Santa Messaa causa di una errata interpretazione e applicazione del Concilio Vaticano II. Parlò di fumo di Satana perchè sosteneva che quei preti che della Santa Messa facevano paglia in nome della creatività, in realtà erano posseduti dalla vanagloria e dalla superbia del Maligno. Dunque, il fumo di Satana altro non era che la mentalità che voleva stravolgere i canoni tradizionali e liturgici della cerimonia Eucaristica.

Here is a merging of Google and Yahoo translations with minimal clean-up:

You of Petrus made a hit, because I can reveal, for the first time, what Paul VI intended to denounce with that statement. Here Pope Montini, by ‘Satan’, wanted to classify all those priests or bishops and cardinals who do not render worship to the Lord, badly celebrating the Holy Mass because of an incorrect interpretation and application of Vatican II. He spoke of ‘the smoke of Satan’ because he argued that those priests, who of the Holy Mass made straw in the name of creativity, in reality were possessed by the vainglory and pride of the Evil One. So the ’smoke of Satan’ was none other than the mentality that wanted to overturn the traditional and liturgical canons of Eucharistic ceremony.