And what is the source of this opinion?
Depending on which list is used there have been somewhere around 267 popes in just under 2000 years.
If the pope were the “antichrist,” that would mean that every seven and a half years on average this “antichrist” would die and be replaced with another “antichrist.”
This should create a great dilemma for the YOPIOS crowd when you consider that the Bible never hints of “succcessive” antichrists and that NONE of the New Testament descriptions of an antichrist (denying the divinity of Jesus, denying that Jesus is the Son of God, denying that He came in the flesh, claiming to be Christ, etc.) has EVER been ascribed to ANY pope even by the most hateful anti-Catholics.
It certainly is not from some guy in a funny looking hat!
In Christ...Alone!