Why do some theologians like Father Malachi Martin believe the Devil and Satan are different entities?

Please do not talk about the Pope that way.

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Considering the Sankt Gallent mafia exists on top of the rank communism in the jesuits and considering MM was the cardinals' coffee boy, I wouldn't put it past them to perform satanic black masses when no one is looking.
FFS the Pope just passed law saying preists that witness sexual abuse have to report it to the local authorities and if they are found covering it up they are just as guilty.

You underestimate how bad satan wants Jesus' church destroyed. satan made communism exactly for that purpose.

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100% chance that priests are going to start breaking the confessional seal over this and the Pope will endorse it. Priests who don't break the seal will be smeared as child molesters. This is how Satan will destroy the sacrament of reconciliation.

If you say that Hell has triumphed over both the Church and the Seat, you call Christ a liar. You're already under Satan's sway.

No, there is no way to prove that a priest heard anything in a confessional, unless the State bug-taps the confessional or sends false repentants.

Is there any reason to thin they're the same? That quote can be interpreted either way.

Here's how it will go: first some priests will break the seal of their own volition. This will set a precedent, and people will start demanding that a general "exception" to the seal is made for these crimes. But because, as you correctly pointed out, there's currently no way to know what a priest heard, there will be a push to create some kind of "confidential" record of confessions that certain Vatican and/or State authorities have access to so they can check. And bam, the seal is abolished.

which is forbidden of the church, and may lead them to being defrocked.

no, that's heresy and would cause a serious disturbance among everyone. Pope Francis is loose when it comes to tradition, but there's bounds he won't cross.

I hope you're right but Pope Francis already crossed the giving Communion unworthily line and the weasel-word endorsement of homosexuality line, so I don't feel confident.

Pope Francis wouldn't even register on the crisis the Pope Corpse trials or the anti-Pope episodes gave us, I really wish people would educate themselves. Not against you, in particular, but definitely against the SSPX schismatics.

The difference here is that no-one ever tried to actually change the doctrine of the Church and institutionalize these things as good. That was just regular old humans sinning and doing evil shit as far as I'm concerned. Just like the pornocracy Popes, sure they were evil sexual sinners, but the only souls they damned were their own, they didn't try to change the doctrine of the Church and get laypeople to endorse sodomy. Francis is much worse because he is leading millions of souls to hell with his wink-wink-nudge-nudge attitude to homosexuality.

Francis hasn't done these things, and if he has, he's done a horrible job of it.

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Wasn't he just saying that homosexuals shouldn't become priests the other day?

The words "Devil" and "Satan" are distinct but, much like "Hell" and "Hades", they end referring to the same thing. "Devil" can trace its roots to Diabolos, meaning "Slanderer" in Greek, while "Satan" is a Hebrew word meaning "Accuser, or Adversary". Interestingly, there is already a distinction made between any adversary and the adversary in Hebrew; when it is used to refer to any person who opposes another they are called "satan" whereas when it refers to the great adversary it is called "ha-satan". I'm not sure how it works out in the New Testament, but the understanding should be that when Jesus tells Peter to "get behind me, Satan", he's not calling him the Satan, but he is certainly evoking that level of severity.

Having said that, Satan and Devil can be seen more as Titles than a name given to a specific entity. There are many Devils and Satans, but there is certainly only the Satan, who is also the Devil. It's a bit of a Catholic issue to start making these distinctions and ordering them. I won't go so far as to say it's actually condoned by the Catholic church, just that it's an error to focus so much on it. Same with the ordering of the Angels and how Heaven works. It's at best speculation.