"In this interpretation of history, God determined everything that happens, as the author of a story determines what happens." Just a note about the bit about

"In this interpretation of history, God determined everything that happens, as the author of a story determines what happens." Just a note about the bit about divine providence. It doesn't quite work that way and is not the Catholic understanding. Given free will, human beings are able to choose against their own good, they are able to behave in evil ways, so divine providence cannot be responsible for EVERYTHING because that would both contradict free will (and introduce contradiction into God, something we see in Islam) and make God the author of evil. Divine providence must be understood as something involving both active and passive will. That is, God wills the good and only the good, but permits evil because he has chosen to create free agents. However, the divine plan takes into account the evil of free agents, and in permitting it, makes use of it for some good end. Thus understood, Satan, in his rebellion toward God and the divine plan, is nonetheless serving God in a sense because his evil is exploited by God, so to speak, to produce good and further the plan.