The alleged secret of La Salette was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books not by freemasons but by the Holy Office. Catholics are required to give both external and internal assent to judgments of the Holy Office and indeed to those of all Roman tribunals. (It should be obvious that this does not include anything coming from the Vatican 2 false church, but that is another discussion. And no, we cannot say that the Holy Office in the 19th century was run by freemasons. That is a denial of the authority of the Church.)

It's my understand that certain printings of the Secret were put on the Index but not all of them.

I wonder why then people feel free to believe that infidels can be saved, since that proposition was rejected by the Holy Office.

I'm going to have to agree with Ladislaus on this one.

I'm going to have to chime in here with a "Sez you." In other words, you're going to have to give some evidence for that assertion. You will probably find that there were certain unapproved writings (perhaps calculated to "cash in" -- perhaps literally -- on the TRUE La Salette apparition that everyone was talking about) placed on the Index, but not the main apparition.

I've been a Trad a long time, but I've never heard that "La Salette is one of those unapproved apparitions". You know, like Divine Mercy and all the false apparitions we could list.

On the contrary -- I'm quite sure La Salette is one of the approved ones. So there's no way the central part of the apparition was condemned or placed on the Index. I don't buy it.
You'll have to come up with some proof. In the meantime, I'm calling BS.

https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/la-salette-170-years-ago

“This succesive redaction of the secret and its revelations met with the oppositions of many, including bishops. After the second publication of the Secret in 1879, the controversy suggested that the secret was mixed with Melanie's own words. Eventually publications about La Salette were even put in the Index of Prohibited Books.

In 1915, under the Pontificate of Benedict XV, the Holy Office published a statement forbidding any further discussion about the authenticity of the secrets.”

The decree of the Holy Office reads:

DAMNATUR OPUSCULUM: “L’APPARITION DE LA TRÉS SAINTE VIERGE DE LA SALETTE”

DECRETUM

Feria IV, die 9 maii 1923

In generali consessu Supremae Sacrae Congregationis S. Officii Emi ac Rmi Domini Cardinales fidei et moribus tutandis praepositi proscripserunt atque damnaverunt opusculum: L’apparition de la trés Sainte Vierge sur la montague de la Salette le samedi septembre 1846.—Simple réimpression du texte intégral publié par Mélanie, etc. Societé Saint-Augustin, Paris-Rome-Bruges, 1922;

[Acta Apostolicae Sedis (1923) pp. 287-288.]

So the reprint published in 1922 was placed on the Index. What about editions before the "expanded redaction"?

They were ecclesiastically approved. Only the expanded redactions, which include the bits about Rome becoming the seat of the anti-Christ and other details, were condemned and included on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

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So which is it? Approved or condemned?

Both.

The originals were ecclesiastically approved while the later expanded redactions were condemned.

Ah, the truth comes out.

Well, I don't really care about that quote anyhow -- I'm not attached to it at all. Besides being unlikely, it seems a bit strong to me -- since it lines up nicely with the Protestant heretic ravings about the Catholic Church, especially the Pope and Rome. They already think Rome is the "whore of Babylon".

It does seem like Rome has collectively lost the Faith though, since Vatican II. That much I believe. Maybe that's why this alleged part of the La Salette apparition has such legs. Mix in some truth, and it resonates with people and gets them on board.

(My highlighting)

A bunch of apostates leading Rome equals "Rome has lost the faith", and I believe it also equals "and has become the seat of Antichrist". A bunch of apostates deceiving the world, posing as the head of the Church, what more is necessary for Antichrist? Taking away mass and setting up a Novus Ordo?

Whether that was communicated by Our Lady or not.

Also lets not forget that all astronauts are Freemasons...big clue there

So what? Then St. Thomas fell for NASA?

A bunch of apostates leading Rome equals "Rome has lost the faith", and I believe it also equals "and has become the seat of Antichrist". A bunch of apostates deceiving the world, posing as the head of the Church, what more is necessary for Antichrist? Taking away mass and setting up a Novus Ordo?

Whether that was communicated by Our Lady or not.

Lowercase "A" antichrist, yes. Anything that is against God and His Christ, is antichrist at least with a small A.

But the main reference here is 2 Thess chapter 2, where St. Paul corrects the Thessalonians on their false ideas about the end times/Antichrist.

St. Paul spoke of the small A antichrists here: " [7] For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way."

But the capital A Antichrist will work apparent (but false) miracles, using demonic power:
"Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,"

But lastly, Rome will never be the seat of the (capital A) Antichrist, because the Jєωιѕн template in Jerusalem isn't there. The man of sin will be in the Temple in Jerusalem, giving himself out as if he were God, and demanding the worship of latria, reserved for God alone.

Remember, the Antichrist will ape *everything* about the life of Our Blessed Lord. He will be (apparently) Jєωιѕн, he will live in the Holy Land, he will work (false) miracles, have a 3 1/3 year public ministry, and will have his followers worship him as God. In the end, he will even try to ascend into heaven. But he will be thwarted and destroyed by God, as St. Paul speaks about here:

[8] And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming,

Remember, the Jews are going to accept this man as the Messiah. You can't have ANY connection, even remote, to the "Catholic Church" founded by JESUS CHRIST if you are to get the pre-conversion Jєωιѕн people on board, en masse. You know what their book says about Jesus Christ. The Jews are very much attached to Jerusalem, not Rome.