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Siri was a flawed human being, as are all other men, including every man who has ever held the papal office. Even Saint Peter denied Our Lord three times and attempted to prevent Him from undergoing His passion and death, as if to frustrate the redemptive plan of Heaven, which prompted Jesus to rebuke Peter with, "Get thee behind me Satan ... for you mind the things of man and not of God." (Matthew 16:23) There were some popes who were immoral. Gregory XII is alleged to have committed murder. Other examples could be cited. But aside from all that, Giuseppe Siri was up against the most heinous combination of raw power and diabolical influence in world history, namely the partnership between the US government and the Synagogue of Satan which had been solidified at least since the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Just 13 years before the '58 Conclave, Siri and the cardinals had witnessed the near-total destruction of Europe with conventional weapons, including the massive attacks on Rome by the USA, with over 9000 bombs dropped on the Eternal City and the Vatican itself.
The Allies also bombed the pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, and killed 500 refugee children who were being housed there to protect them from the violence in Rome. Moreover, the two most Catholic cities in Japan were targeted by the USA for a test of its atomic bombs on civilian populations, killing over a quarter of a million non-combatants in the process. Altogether, from nuclear, as well as incendiary, and conventional ordinance, America and its allies killed between 70 and 80 million people, a number far worse than would have died had Washington stayed out of Europe's war, and allowed Germany and the USSR to fight it out alone, and if the Roosevelt administration had not provoked Japan to attack Pearl Harbor with petroleum and steel embargos, which were acts of war that were intended to strangle that Japanese nation. The newly elected pope and his cardinals had all lived through two world wars and were well aware of what the Masonic world powers were willing and able to do to get what they wanted. No pontiff had even been up against this kind of threat to the Church and Christian Civilization from the worst enemies of Christendom that the world had ever seen. In addition, it is increasingly evident that for some time, Siri was so confused over what had happened that he seemed not to know that he was the pope for many years.
He had to know, however, that the elections of the conciliar actors were vitiated, and he worked diligently to "regularize" them in their pretended offices, but all to no avail. This was very similar to the mindset of Pope Martin the First (649-655), who was taken prisoner by the political powers and replaced by antipope Eugene the First. The true pope even wrote a letter recognizing the authority of antipope Eugene, but centuries later, Church historian Caesar Cardinal Baronius wrote that Martin could not have handed over the papacy to Eugene so long as he remained imprisoned and under duress. Whether Siri believed he was pope or not, his captors seemed to think he was, but just in case his acquiescence to the robbery of his office constituted an abdication, his handlers made certain that he was elected four times, thereby preventing the stooge antipopes from ever benefiting from the graces of the papal office.
We might also ask why Pius XII allowed for the gutting of the Holy Week ceremonies, which resulted in a significant shortening of the Passion readings on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the removal of 8 of the 12 Prophecies on Holy Saturday, and many other adulterations of those observances. But based upon a comprehensive examination of this question in an article by Father Francesco Ricossa, it can be argued that the pontiff never authorized such changes, and that his 1955 constitution, Maxima Redemptionis, which is often cited as the justification for the Holy Week innovations, addressed only the restoration of the times of celebration of those rites as they had been observed until the 13th Century.
Regarding Siri's participation in Novus Ordo "masses," I was never present at any of them, but was informed by one priest who did attend one of them and reported to me that Siri had taken steps to validate his own version of the new rite he was offering by restoring the Offertory and the words of Consecration in his own Masses. Yet, as I was not there with the priest-witness, I cannot accurately verify what he claims to have witnessed. Still, given the worst possible scenario, Pope Marcellinus (296-304) is alleged to have burned incense at a pagan altar, while he, like Siri, was under duress.
According to Fr. Brian Harrison, Natural Family Planning, when used to avoid 'the inheritance of our Lord (Psalm 126:3)' (by the way, from a personal point of view, the incipient justification for today's LGBTQ+ ideology), was first allowed in the Church in 1853. None of the popes since Pope Pius IX have corrected this, and Pope Pius XII publicly allowed for this shameful practice.
Why did the efficacious grace of office of these 'true' popes not allow for the correction of this erroneous moral teaching?
Regarding Pope Pius XII, you are presumably referring to his 1952 Address to the Italian Midwives, in which he allowed the limited use of the marital act at times during the month when conception would be less likely. But this was sanctioned only for very brief time periods during serious physical impairments suffered by the mother, but only then with the advice and consent of a pastor and after the couple in question already had other children. Even then, every marital act had to be carried out in a manner that was completely open to conception. This is not to be confused with the Dr. Billings method of "Natural Family Planning," pushed by antipope Paul VI, which involves daily examination of a woman's cervical mucous and thereby determines the exact day of ovulation, effectively creating a "birth control" generation by means of a "natural" contraceptive, hailed as more effective than "the pill."
Dr. Franco Serafini, a cardiologist, has addressed these miracles from a scientific standpoint, thus substantiating their authenticity; besides, Our Lord's Own criterion, 'By their fruits you shall know them (St. Matthew 7:16), when applied to two of these miracles in Poland, demonstrates a devotional increase to the Holy Eucharist - a direct consequence one can read about on the internet. Besides this, I recall reading in one of Bishop Richard Williamson's (may God rest his soul) Eleison Comments, which he also considered genuine, that he researched and traced one of them back all the way to the bishop consecrated in the Novus Ordo rite, thus proving the new rite of consecration valid.
The efficacy of dubious sacraments is not to be verified by "signs and wonders" (2 Thessalonians 2:9), which can be simulated by the devil. In fact, we are warned in Sacred Scripture that such manifestations would occur in the latter days "to deceive if possible, even the elect" (Matthew 24:24). Rather, to determine the authenticity of the Sacraments, Catholics are bound by the catechism to ascertain if all four of the criteria have been satisfied in the administration of those rites: 1) Matter; 2) Form; 3) Intention, and: 4) Valid Minister of the Sacrament. Regarding the "bishops" consecrated with the 1968 rite of episcopal orders promulgated by the monstrous Judeo-Masonic antipope Paul VI, which directly violates the clear and authoritative teaching on the necessary words for episcopal consecrations by Pope Leo XIII in his 1896 Encyclical, Apostolicae Curae, and by Pius XII in his 1947 Constitution, Sacramentum Ordinis, Catholics must presume that such consecrations are per se invalid, and likewise, all of the ordinations administered by the "bishops" adversely affected by those falsified formulas, are also necessarily invalid, despite all "miracles" and "devotional increases," notwithstanding.
One of the first tactics of disinformation operatives is to try and discredit the legitimate investigations by repeatedly pointing out that the investigators have not completely explained everything that happened. This objection, regarding the current crisis in the Church, is also sincerely raised by many who are first discovering this information, but who don’t want to accept it unless absolutely necessary — because it would mean a complete change in their worldview, as well as massive inconvenience in daily practice.
If there had been no essential changes introduced by the “Vatican II Popes” which violated the infallibility and indefectibility of the Church as defined by the First Vatican Council in regard to the Mass, Sacraments, Canon Law, Ecumenical Council documents, etc. — then no one would be talking about the white smoke of October 26, 1958.
Naturally, in the 1960s and even the 1970s, there were almost no Catholics in the world who were seeking to jump to the conclusion that Paul VI was an anti-pope, even though, to quote the late Fr. Francis Fenton at the time, he did “pose quite a problem.” But as numerous disturbing changes turned into a demolition operation against orthodoxy — with anti-Catholics like “Archbishop Joseph Bernardin” in power everywhere, and the loyal, orthodox priests persecuted, slandered, and driven from the premises of the occupied Catholic Church properties — alert Catholics began to look into what was happening.
Once a Catholic realizes that changes such as falsifying Christ’s words in the consecration of the Mass (i.e., the New Mass in English and other vernacular versions), signing heresies and false moral teaching in Ecumenical Council Documents (i.e., Moslems pray to the same God that Catholic do; anyone has the RIGHT to spread false doctrines and teaching in public), and instituting bad disciplines (i.e., such as Communion in the Hand with no paten) — that such changes could not be imposed on the faithful by a true Pope, then the question immediately becomes: where is the Pope? What has happened to the Papacy?
Catholics would ask this question because they know that Christ will fulfill His promise to be with His Church always.
Next, logically, Catholics would look back to the “scene of the crime” — when all the attacks on the Faith, orthodoxy, and sanity began, namely, October, 1958. And, sure enough, we find the inexplicable event of the white smoke of October 26, 1958, after which no Pope emerged on the balcony, despite compelling and numerous signs that one should have.
Once all the compelling actual and circumstantial evidence is piled up regarding how the “Siri Thesis” would answer everything regarding the current crisis in the Church, many sincere Catholics begin to “see the light” at least for a few seconds. I have noticed over the years at that point that a number of these sincere individuals exhibit a mild panic and begin to throw up objections to salvage the legitimacy of the “Vatican II Popes”, and thereby hold on to their long-held views upon which they have based their daily attempts to practice of the Faith. I would ask such Catholics to consider the proposed answers to the following questions:
Other similar errors in history can be brought forward, such as the removal of books on the Copernican theory from the Index of Forbidden Books, Pope Leo XIII's Ralliement, the failure to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary while simultaneously promoting this devotion to Her Immaculate Heart, the dismantling of the Holy Week services under Pope Pius XII, etc.
As the Bible is not a science book, the Church did not condemn Copernicus for his theory regarding the system for the organization of the heavens. However, what the Church DID condemn was Galileo's assertion that "the Bible is wrong," where it states that "the sun rises in the east and sets in the west." What is not generally known is that Galileo wrote a public letter late in life in which he renounced his theories and was reconciled with the Church before he died.
Concerning what Pius XII allegedly allowed to be gutted from the Holy Week ceremonies, resulting in a significant shortening of the Passion readings on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the removal of 8 of the 12 Prophecies on Holy Saturday, and many other adulterations of those observances, it may be argued that the pontiff had nothing to do with these innovations which instead were the brainstorm of Hannibal Bugnini, acting behind the elderly pope's back Based upon a comprehensive examination of this question in an article by Father Francesco Ricossa, it appears that the pontiff never authorized such changes in his 1955 constitution, Maxima Redemptionis, which is often cited as the justification for the Holy Week innovations, but which addressed only the restoration of the times of celebration of those rites as they had been observed until the 13th Century.
Two popes' failure to carry out the "Consecration of Russia" is believed to have been caused by one or more factors, either individually or all at the same time. First of all, those in attendance to Popes Pius XI and Pius XII were ill-advised as to what Our Lady of Fatima had actually requested. But even worse, some reports claim that the bishops were already in revolt against those pontiffs, especially Pacelli, and were refusing to go along with the consecration due to perceived negative repercussions that would result from an angered Soviet bloc. It all now looks as if this was a non-issue and used as a convenient excuse for cancelling the consecration. Finally, it is likely that Heaven itself did not facilitate the consecration because of the failure of Catholics to carry out the simple requests from the Mother of God to her children to reform their lives.