I beg to differ. The GCM Prophecy (GCM= Great Catholic Monarch) certainly would affect the United States, and some Monarchists may desire to hasten it's demise.
"The restoration of Monarchy will not be a local affair; it will be a world-wide phenomenon...The republics and democracies will be over, communism and socialism a thing of the past..."
-- (More About The Great Monarch, by Yves Dupont, World Trends #41, Aug. 1974)
cited at Today's Catholic World
Yves Dupont is an interpreter of prophets, not a prophet himself. A resurgence of european Catholicism following a possible Hapsburg revival is not going to have the immediate effect of current American politics devolving into a Heinleinesque Scudder Theocracy. Now long term, after a few more decades of liberal decay, maybe America would be fed up enough to accept such a drastic transition, but not as things stand now.
Will the world at some point be united in Catholic belief? I think so, mainly because I personally believe the ultimate Apostacy that comes before Christ’s return won’t occur until we have a perfect evangelization. When that day comes, no one will honestly be able to say “But Lord, I didn’t know.” As a catholic I naturally believe that perfect evangelization will be a Catholic one.
In short, protestants don’t need to worry about the GCM prophecies. Nothing short of a Miracle of God could bring their completion about, at which point the issue will be moot....
This is exactly what Rome desires.
Rome demands religious tolerance for itself, but it denies it to others, calling other churches "defective assemblies" while championing a Catholic dictatorship.
The papacy is not benign; it only plays it benign on TV.