Most pastors I know firmly believe The Anti-Christ will come out of Rome, i.e., a pope.
As I understand Scripture, they are correct.
The RC’s here, I hope understand that that is not an attack on the traditional RC church or its doctrines. It just that the RC church has given up the Bible for another doctrine. It has become heretical. What the RC does will not affect the salvation of individual Roman Catholics, most of whom are deeply faithful Christians.
We need to separate the Institution from the people of faith.
I’d like to also point out that almost all churches are going to go in this direction in the last days. They are giving themselves over to the world. Your walk with God will, at some point, diverge from the institutions.