And, unfortunately, the “smoking man” from the X-Files died ...

Pius XI didn't have to perform the consecration right away, but we know later that the Third Secret foretold the great apostasy, and that it had to be revealed around 1960 because it would become clearer then (what happened around that time?).

Pius XII was consecrated a bishop on the same day as the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima on May 13, 1917, and reportedly saw the miracle of the sun in the Vatican gardens, and often thought of himself as "the Fatima pope".  Well, he was the Fatima pope alright, but not in the way that he had hoped.  He was SUPPOSED to have made the consecration and averted Vatican II and the line of Antipopes, but he never did.  Instead, his was the watership papacy that led directly to Vatican II.  He said at one point, "After me, the deluge." ... where it almost could have been rephrased "Because of me, the deluge."  Not only because he didn't perform the consecration, but because he did nothing to stop the spread of Modernism and even encouraged it in some ways, failing to defend Father Feeney against the heresiarch Cushing, opening the door to evolution, opening the door to Catholic birth control in NFP, setting up Bugnini to begin his liturgical experimentations, and appointing nearly every bishop (during his very lengthy reign) who would later bring us the glories of Vatican II (surely he could have found an anti-Modernist priest in every diocese to elevate to the episcopacy ... and that is THE single most important job of any pope, more than writing Encyclicals or delivering long-winded rambling speeches to a group of midwives).

No catholic, but the church has never fully explained the apocalypse,  it just says that christ will come again in his glorified state, ( not human) and we will have the last judgment