@V.R.S. But why?? Why get so close to the truth, the ineffable facts of the Faith in a way and with an eloquence and erudition I have not seen anywhere else for this time and place, and deliberately choose to work for the other side? Conversion is by degrees. It may he may have had some final purification to undergo to your satisfaction, but God alone knows the final account of his soul. Also, he worked as an exorcist, and this kind needs to be cut from a certain cloth. No messing around with that, you can be in real danger if you are not serious.

I do not know what to say to you, I hope you will both be open to seeing a different side of this rather than affixating on this past historic, this is not concordant with the MM I have come to see and know. I doubt if he did harm to the Church in past it was not out of deliberate malice, rather than misguidedness, but people can change and not to labour the point as I said before, its where you ultimately end up that matters. If you were hard hearted and pertinacious , I doubt God would effect a true genuine conversion except by maybe someone's very persistent prayer on their behalf

Well if you have done wrong in the past (Lord knows I have had one), part of the punishment for that wrong might seem to be that you encounter real redemptive obstacles in doing the good you would have done, and to correct the disorder caused by those wrong. So who knows how that works in the divine economy of things, we will only truly know on the other side. The most important thing I would say though is finally making it past the post. God can turn all evil to good. Have you really read etc his latter works etc yourself? Or are you reading what others have said/written about him? If not, I would urge you to take a look, I for one feel compelled to continue reading. If the work was of limited value, I would cast aside before much.

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.. Perhaps those critics you refer to are not changing as often as they might in order to perceive it being possible in others; so projecting their own sense of rigidity onto others? If you pray the rosary and the divinum officium in the old rite and the TLM every day , believe me, you will change quite often..