The Lutheran (and other) confessions state that the office or seat of the papacy has the marks of "The Great" anti-Christ. Not a popular doctrine. Individual popes may be Christians, but the office of the pope blasphemes by claiming to intermediate between humans and the true mediator, Christ, and by requiring sinful works to be added to His sinless and perfect work in order to be saved. Roman confessions (Council of Trent) state that anyone who says we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone is damned to hell. This is essence of anti-Christ doctrine.