Yes, Luther was right.
He was really? Well look at it this way, you should be glad the Pope is causing confusion that way your hope that the Catholic Church will collapse might come true.
You Protestant fundies have been saying every Pope since the 16th century is the anti-Christ. There is no one anti-Christ save Lucifer, the anti-Christ is anyone who does the work of Satan or man glorifying himself and not God, distorting the Creator/creature relationship.
So I don’t accept millenariasm of any kind As early as Saint Polycarp of Smyrma, a disciple of Saint John, anyone who rejects Christ and the Cross is of the devil and is an anti-Christ. Saint Irenaeus in 189 warned 2nd century orthodox Christians to be wary of any man who says he knows who the anti-Christ is because that man will be easily lead astray.
According to prophetic passages from the OT, many Church Fathers think the Anti-Christ will be a political Jewish leader whose descendants were from the tribe of Dan.
As Cardinal Newman noted in dealing with the confession Protestants anti-Papal and anti-Christ charges against it. If one who is “Pope” turns out to be “The Anti-Christ, then that in fact supports the claim of the Divinely ordained role of the Popes from Peter down to the the day because that would mean the Anti-Christ overthrew the Bishop of Rome since the anti-Christ simulates Christ. The Bishop of Rome carries on the role of Saint Peter, thus all the Popes, who despite sin, held the Apostolic faith, actually supports the claims of the Catholic Church. The Devil knows his true enemy and the one he is constantly attacking ain’t the local backwoods protestant church in Green Acres USA.