. . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion--one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God's.
In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . .
. . . But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism.
(from Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West, Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis,1948, pp. 24-25)
His articles and books from the 1930's were even more prophetic and pointed.
" It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but
in reverse and emptied of its divine content."
With the Tabernacle in the back or at least symbolically off center and a presider's chair in it's place?
So, it will be the "bizarro" church?