As others have said, you do not need to believe in conspiracy theories against the Church, but certainly the enemy did not just walk in one day and create this crisis on a whim. cօռspιʀαcιҽs against God have been around almost as long as creation itself and will probably remain till the end of time.
From the Mystical City of God, Book I
122......By divine providence and disposition then succeeded all the other events, which have been recorded above, up to the morning of the second day, corresponding to Monday, on which Lucifer and his hosts were driven and hurled into hell. The duration of these days corresponds to the small periods, or delays, which intervened between their creation, activity, contest and fall, or glorification. As soon as Lucifer with his followers entered hell, they assembled in general council, which lasted to the morning of Thursday.
During this time Lucifer exerted all his astuteness and diabolical malice in conferring with the demons and concocting plans to offend God so much the more deeply, and to obtain revenge for the chastisement, to which he had been subjected. They came to the conclusion and resolved that the greatest vengeance and injury against God would be to impede the effects of the love, which they knew God bore toward mankind. This they hoped to attain by deceiving men, and persuading them, or even, as far as possible, compelling them to neglect the friendship of God, to be ungrateful toward Him, and to rebel against his will.............
Certainly no one can consider the below snip happening by chance or mistake - I don't think there is any "theory" about the conspiracy against the Church - I think after 50 years it is fact.
From Who Shall Ascend?:
.............For, consider what has happened and is happening. The largest
and most powerful religious body in the world, that religious body
which all others resent and envy, and, in many instances, strive to
imitate, after two thousand years, the only religious body which has
any serious claim to divine origin, which has a history filled with
illustrious personages and glorious achievements; whose libraries are
filled with the earthly and unearthly wisdom of the ages, whose doctors
and scholars have refined its teaching to that of a masterly
science; whose popes throughout the centuries had commanded the
respect and deference of the whole world, even from those who might,
for that very reason, aspire to extinguish their memory, one and all; a
Church whose doctrine and spirit have given birth to the very noblest
and most beautiful in the way of art, of architecture, of music, of
literature, of the highest culture, of genteel and gentle manners and
customs; an institution which, throughout the ages, was able to call
forth from among its young the most admirable and unstinting
generosity and lifelong dedication.
Imagine this religious body, on the
strength of nothing more than the majority votes of its bishops, not a
few of which were obtained as cheaply as those at a political caucus,
peremptorily setting in motion a program which calls for the renunciation
of its teaching, its past, its glories; giving in to the plaints and
assenting to the accusations of its enemies, of dispossessing itself of
all the things which have made it formidable, awe-inspiring, and effective;
of undertaking to reduce itself to the level of nothing more
than an association of political influence, an eleemosynary bureau, an
organization whose new purpose of existence is to congratulate all the
people of the world that they are so well off for not being Catholics,
or Christian, or anything.
Imagine further that from the very first days of the Revolution
within this religious body, while its bishops and priests are swinging
the sledge hammers and axes to destroy the edifice which has been
two thousand years in the building, harangued by the pope who
encourages the wreckers, and sets the most ardent example of demolition
and ecclesiastical masochism-imagine all the while, as the ceiling
beams and pillars thereof come crashing down, and the great
windows shatter and the walls crumble, the priests all chanting with
rhythmic madness, "We are changing nothing! We are following the
traditions of our fathers. All that we do is by the guidance of the Holy
Spirit.".......................
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