[SteveMcKing]

Is it not feasible that we're talking about space ships and extraterrestrials when we discuss Rapture?

I don't really care, so long as they're not here for dinner...

[leadpenny]

NewsMax has gone supermarket tabloid?

[rellimpank]

--and what did Nostradmus say?---oh, that's right -he had the world ending in 1996--never mind---

[Clara Lou]

Another fine bit of non-news from NewsMuck.

[anniegetyourgun]

I think I'll stick with the Word of God.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

The Incas predicted the end of the earth on Dec. 23, 2012.

[John Lenin]

If you read a prediction from Nostradamus that doesn’t seem to match any event, you can say “well, it must not have happened yet”. You can’t do that with this prophesy, because the succession of popes since 1139 (or 1590) is a known quantity. This allows more interesting analysis, as you can score how well (or badly) each pope was “predicted”.

From the glory of the olive

[Slyfox]

According to his biographer St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in his book "Life of Saint Malachy," the saint was known to have the gift of prophesy and had even predicted the exact day and hour of his own death.

JPII was said to also have told others that he knew the day of his owh death. I was praying that he would not die on April 1st.

[John Lenin]

The Italians better get in on the missile sheild. The moonbats may try to take our Rome.

[solitas]

...Malachy is said to have gone into a trance and received a vision...

I know lots of Irishmen who see things.
I know lots of Irishmen who are sober.
But I don't know any Irishmen who see things when they're sober.

Granted, some of 'em have been SO 'tranced' they had to be carried HOME...

[narses]

Read the prophecy, St. Malachi identifies the last Pope as well as the next, he does NOT say others will not be between them.

[hosepipe]

[ The pope who then follows this choice in the Chair of St. Peter will be the last pope, and after his reign Rome will be destroyed. ]

Wishful thinking..

[RightWhale]

The Farmer's Almanac is good, too.

[Non-Sequitur]

I'm waiting to see what Nostradamus said on the subject.

[Old Professer]

This sort of stuff fills my mind's eye with a vision of the White Cliffs of Dover.

[uglybiker]

The 'Glory' of Olive

[Castro]

My prediction for the papacy: Jose da Cruz Policarpo.

Who for those Malachy subscribers graduated from the Olivais Seminary in Lisbon with a degree in Philosophy and Theology.

[Sooth2222]

(2) Prophecies of St. Malachy

Concerning Ireland

This prophecy, which is distinct from the prophecies attributed to St. Malachy concerning the popes, is to the effect that his beloved native isle would undergo at the hands of England oppression, persecution, and calamities of every kind, during a week of centuries; but that she would preserve her fidelity to God and to His Church amidst all her trials. At the end of seven centuries she would be delivered from her oppressors (or oppressions), who in their turn would be subjected to dreadful chastisements, and Catholic Ireland would be instrumental in bringing back the British nation to that Divine Faith which Protestant England had, during three hundred years, so rudely endeavoured to wrest from her. This prophecy is said to have been copied by the learned Dom Mabillon from an ancient manuscript preserved at Clairvaux, and transmitted by him to the martyred successor of Oliver Plunkett.

Maybe I missed that particular English History class, but I really don't remember reading the part about where England converted back to Roman Catholicism around 1848.

Even if he gets the end of the world right, St. Malachy is still only 1 for 2.

T. Boone Pickens has been much better predicting $60 oil!

[Conservative Infidel]

What if the new Pope chooses the name Peter?

[Dominick]

Well known pious fraud.

Catholic Encyclopedia (2/3 down page) :
They were first published by Arnold de Wyon, and ever since there has been much discussion as to whether they are genuine predictions of St. Malachy or forgeries. The silence of 400 years on the part of so many learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St. Bernard especially, who wrote the "Life of St. Malachy", is a strong argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we adopt Cucherat's theory that they were hidden in the Archives during those 400 years.