[RBStealth]

Bad source of Catholic info; Raider News Network is hokey and sensationalist.

[Vendome]

What?!?! I’ve had Petruse and it’s a terrific wine. Specially with Foe Gras

[Vendome]

What?!?! I’ve had Petruse and it’s a terrific wine. Specially with Foe Gras

[smvoice]

bookmark..

[MarkBsnr]

It must be remembered that Saint Malachy’s Prophecy of the Popes contains references to both Popes and anti-Popes. It would be entirely consistent with Catholic teaching and emerging Protestant interpretation, for Benedict XVI’s successor, the final pontiff known as Petrus Romanus, to be both anti-Pope and False Prophet.

Rather, it would be entirely consistent with antiCatholic teaching and emerging Protestant interpretation to grasp at any straw regarding belief in the demise of the Catholic Church.

Jesus will return in His own good time. I'll bet that none of us alive here will see it. That's how I live my life - else what do I tell my children? To be ready to pack it in? If that is the case, why plan for the future? Why should I send my kids to college? Why should I plan for retirement?

If you think that it's feverish now, consider the late 900's at the end of the 'first millennium'.

Rather, live your life as if you will be of your natural lifespan and face the Lord, the Judge of All on your final day. To be fatalistic is not consistent with either the human psyche or Scripture.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[HereInTheHeartland]

Are the Raiders still in Los Angeles? They should have never left Oakland. Does Jim Plunkett still play for them?

[johngrace]

BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dangus]

False prophet? Fake prophet, maybe; the addition of Petrus Romanus is completely spurious... and the original prophecy is even more spurious in the first place.

But Petrus Romanus is NOT, according to the prophecy, a false prophet. To the contrary, it says that he shall shepherd his flock amidst great persecution.

Oh, wait... I get it! the author is one of those of those hyperventilating, anti-Catholic nutjobs who presume that he *has* to be a false prophet because he’s a Catholic pope! So, he rejects the validity of the Catholic church itself, but yet he’s stupid enough to believe in a prophesy (probably falsely) attributed to a Catholic saint as if it’s some sort of divine proclamation??? What kind of absurd excuse for a rational being could ever be THAT stupid?

He’s elevated being a fool to the third power.

[Churchillspirit]

The false prophet is already here....Baracus Obamacus.

[Campion]

Although they had many reasons to believe this

Sinners always invent justifications for their sin.

perhaps the easiest to explain is the one tied to one of the Pope’s titles — the Vicar of Christ. “Vicar” means “substitute”

No, actually it doesn't. A "vicar" is an administrative deputy, someone who exercises authority in the name of a higher power. That's not quite the same as "substitute".

and “anti” can mean “instead of.”

But it usually means "against".

One of the best-known defenses of this point of view is "The Two Babylons," by Alexander Hislop.

I'm sure it's "well-known" among a certain subset of fundamentalists for whom setting up a Catholic bogeyman is more important than truth.

But it's a truly pitiful compendium of made-up and misconstrued "evidence" and fallacious logic.

[Campion]

The anonymous author of "An Analysis of Catholic Prophecy" writes, “… as Catholics understand it, there will be a Great Monarch and an Angelic Pastor who rule together followed by the Antichrist and then Jesus Christ returns to bring the last judgment.” The author warns that these two personalities are really the False Prophet and the Anti-Christ, which means that when Jesus Christ arrives on the scene, believers in this prophecy would misidentify Him as the Anti-Christ.

When "Jesus Christ arrives on the scene" he will be coming in glory on the clouds of heaven to judge all things. I guarantee that absolutely nobody will "misidentify him as the anti-Christ".