[NYer]

The red heifer is my favorite ;-)

[Pyro7480]

This odd tendency among some Catholics to forgo actually learning the faith in favor of learning a sort of compound of rumor and stray factoids

The above line is where he wanders off a bit. Does he honestly believe that many, if not most, of the people he talks about, haven't learned the faith?

[B-Chan]

You’re right.

People worry themselves sick over the Mark of the Beast, the Rapture, or whatever, yet never stop to consider the fact that the real End Of The World — death — comes for someone every day. These folks should spend less time worrying about being Left Behind and more worrying about what would happen in they were to die today. After all, not one of us is guaranteed even a single moment more in this world; each us us could find ourselves in our own personal “end times” scenario at any second.

God will win in the end. We Christians know this. Therefore, let’s quit wasting time on the End Of The World worries and spend that time considering our own personal Last Days.

[tiki]

I suggest using it to learn what “The gates of hell shall not prevail” means. I also suggest learning what “He who listens to you listens to me,” “indefectibility”, and “infallibility” mean.

You don’t know how many times I have said this, almost verbatim, to my SSPX friend, often several times in one day.

[e.Shubee]

Catholics don’t have to buy any of this and, in my opinion, do well not to bother with it.

"Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near." Revelation 1:3.

[Kolokotronis]

Great article, N. Sort of reminds me of those visions of “Our Lady of the Damp Stain on the Bridge Abutment: or the "Panagia of the Pizza Pan".

[LiteKeeper]

Sling mud, and do not give one word of refutation to the Protestant position...great tactic. This article assumes the Roman Catholic interpretation is the correct one, and therefore, by definition all others are wrong...without one word of definition or defense. Interesting.

[franky1]

Mark 13:32

“about that day or that hour no one except the Father knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son,”

[PetroniusMaximus]

Though I agree with the author regarding the extra-Biblical, Marian craziness, I’m afraid he’s throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are some seriously amazing prophesies in the Bible that are well worth a person time to study. I believe I’ve read that over 70% of the Scripture is prophetic in nature. That strongly implies the importance of prophesy in God’s scheme.

Jesus said quite a bit more about the end times than just, “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

I think the author downplays a very important component of Scripture to his, and his reader’s, detriment.