Here is the thing I have never understood about all the VII "popes"
Each of them has read the 3rd secret and are privy to all the other prophecies
regarding the great apostasy, yet...they gleefully participate in and advance
this apostasy.
By their concealment of the 3rd secret, the likely elimination of Sister Lucia, and
the installment of the imposter Sister Lucia, they are essentially acknowledging the
divine origin and legitimacy of these revelations.
Therefore they are deliberately damning themselves to eternal torment.
I can understand a marxist atheist becoming a lifetime actor, methodically and patiently
infiltrating an institution for the sole purpose of undermining it from within, he has no
fear of judgement. But what of these false popes, who have seen how their nefarious deeds
have already been foretold? How do they rationalize that?
How do they remain obstinate, knowing what awaits them?
Apply the Parable of the Wheat and the Cockle (Matthew 13) to the situation you describe:
24 Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man [Jesus] that sowed good seeds in his field [the Church]. 25 But while men [the Bishops] were asleep, his enemy [Satan] came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. 26 And when the blade [Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ/Modernism/Liberation Theology] was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle [bad Catholics]. 27 And the servants [the Popes] of the goodman of the house [Jesus] coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? 28 And he [Jesus] said to them [the Popes]: An enemy [Satan according to Leo XIII] hath done this. And the servants [the Popes] said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? 29 And he [Jesus] said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle [bad Catholics], you root up the wheat [good Catholics] also together with it. 30 Suffer both to grow until the harvest [the end times], and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers [the Holy Pope and Great Monarch]: Gather up first the cockle [bad Catholics], and bind it into bundles to burn [attempt to purify them with a severe chastisement], but the wheat gather ye into my barn [the New Heaven and New Earth].
So, this is the playing out of Leo XII's locution in which he heard Our Lord talking to Satan:
https://stjosephschurch.net/vision-of-pope-leo-xiii/The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord:
"I can destroy your Church."
The gentle voice of Our Lord:
"You can? Then go ahead and do so."
Satan:
"To do so, I need more time and more power."
Our Lord:
"How much time? How much power?"
Satan:
"75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service."
Our Lord:
"You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will."
God, in his Divine Wisdom, allowed all that has happened since Vatican II to serve a greater good. It has allowed the Roman Catholic Church to go through its First Purification, voluntarily. It is almost complete. It has been a self-separation of the wheat from the cockle. The Good Catholics have made the choice for Roman Catholic Tradition. Bad Catholics have chosen apostasy from the Truth.
The Second Purification will start soon. But before that happens the Antichrist will be revealed and God will give his Warning. Watch and Pray.