U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are gathering at a moment of turbulence for them and the American church, as Pope Francis moves toward crafting new policies for carrying out his mission of mercy - a prospect that has conservative Catholics and some bishops in an uproar.
The gathering in Rome was only a prelude to a larger meeting next year which will more concretely advise Francis on church practice. Still, the open debate at the event, and the back and forth among bishops over welcoming gays and divorced Catholics who remarry, prompted stunning criticism from some U.S. bishops.
"Many of the U.S. bishops have been disoriented by what this new pope is saying and I don't see them really as embracing the pope's agenda," said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service. "To a large degree, the U.S. bishops have lost their bearings. I think up until now, they felt Rome had their back, and what they were saying - especially politically - would eventually be supported in Rome. They can't count on that now."
AS YOU READ THE ABOVE ARTICLE FROM TODAY'S NEWS, COMPARE IT TO THE MANY MANY PROPHECIES FROM CENTURIES AGO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW THE CURRENT FALSE POPE FRANCIS IS CREATING ALL OF THE CHAOS AND CONFUSION IN THE CHURCH JUST AS THE CATHOLIC SAINTS ALL PREDICTED HE WOULD DO.
Catholic
prophecies without comment:
Frederick William Faber (died 1863):
Antichrist…Many believe in a demonical incarnation—this will not be
so—but he will be utterly possessed…His doctrine as apparent contradiction of
no religion, yet a new religion…He has an
attending pontiff, so separating regal and prophetic office (Edward.
Prophecy for Today. Imprimatur + A.J. Willinger, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno;
Reprint: Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford (IL), 1984, p. 87).
Anna-Katarina Emmerick(19th century): The Church is
in great danger…The Protestant doctrine and that of the schismatic Greeks are to
spread everywhere.
I now see that in this place (Rome) the (Catholic) Church
is being so cleverly undermined, that there hardly remain a hundred or so
priests who have not been deceived. They all work for the destruction, even the
clergy. A great destruction is now at hand…I saw that many pastors allowed
themselves to be taken up with ideas that were dangerous to the Church. They
were building a great, strange, and extravagant Church. Everyone was admitted in
it in order to be united and to have equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics,
sects of every description. Such was to be the new Church…I saw again a new and
odd-looking Church which they were trying to build. There was nothing holy about
it… (Dupont Y.
Catholic Prophecy:
The Coming Chastisement. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1973, pp. 66, 71, 116)
Yves Dupont {writer interpreting A. Emmerick}: They
wanted to make a new Church, a Church of human manufacture, but God had other
designs…An anti-pope shall be set up in Rome (Dupont, p. 116).
Oba Prophecy: It will come when the Church
authorities issue directives to support a new cult, when priests are forbidden
to celebrate in any other, when the highest positions in the Church are given to
perjurers and hypocrites, when only the renegades are admitted to occupy those
positions. (Dupont, p. 115)
Ted and Maureen Flynn (20th century): Catholic
prophecy warns us of severe problems facing the papacy in these end times…chaos
will be within our midst. An Antipope will seize
papal authority…It will be those who hold fast to the truths of the faith who
will be labeled as the perpetrators of this horrible schism,
according to some visionaries. (Flynn Ted and Maureen. The Thunder of Justice.
MaxKol Communications, Inc. Sterling (VA), 1993, p. 255)
Jeanne le Royer (d. 1798):
I see that
when the Second Coming of Christ approaches a bad priest will do much harm to
the Church (Culligan E. The Last World War and the End of Time. The book was
blessed by Pope Paul VI, 1966. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), p. 128).
Bl.
Anna-Maria Taigi (19th century)
: At the end, he will have the gift of
miracles (Birch DA. Trial, Tribulation & Triumph: Before During and After
Antichrist. Queenship Publishing Company, Goleta (CA), 1996, pp.
362-363).
Saint Zenobius (died 285): Antichrist will work a
thousand prodigies on earth. (Connor, p. 73)
Priest O’Connor (20th
century?):
This final false prophet will be a bishop of the church and will
lead all religions into becoming one. (The False Prophet. Living in the
Final Generation.
http://www.geocities.com/rebornempowered/ApparitionsofMary.htm
10/12/07)
Priest Paul Kramer (21st century): The errors of
Orthodoxy and of Protestantism will be embraced by that false church, it will be
an ecumenical church because the Anti-Pope will be recognized by the
world—
not by the faithful, but by the world—by the secular world and
the secular governments. (Kramer P. The Imminent Chastisement for Not Fulfilling
Our Lady’s Request. An edited transcript of a speech given at the Ambassadors of
Jesus and Mary Seminar in Glendale, California.
Blessed Joachim
(died 1202):
Towards the end of the world Antichrist
will overthrow the Pope and usurp his See (Connor, p. 76).
St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226): There will be an
uncanonically elected pope who will cause a great Schism, there will be
divers thoughts preached which will cause many, even those in the different
orders, to doubt, yea even agree with those heretics which will cause My order
to divide, then will there be such universal dissentions and persecutions
that if these days were not shortened even the elect
would be lost (Culleton, p. 130).
Gregory the Great, Pope (d. 604): In those days,
near the end…an army of priests and two-thirds of the Christians will join the
Schism. (Culleton, R. Gerald. The Reign of Antichrist, p. 122)
Yves Dupont {reader and collector of Catholic
prophecies}: “prophecies are quite explicit about the election of an
anti-pope…Many prophecies predict an anti-pope and a schism” (Dupont,
pp. 34,60-61)
G. Rossi (1873): We must observe that St. Malachy
does not mention the last Pope as a distinct person from the preceding one, whom
he styles Glory of the Olive. He merely says, “During the last persecution of
the Church, Peter II, a Roman, shall reign. He shall feed the flock in many
tribulations, at the end of which the City of the Seven Hills (Rome) will be
destroyed, and the awful Judge shall judge his people.” According to St.
Malachy, then, only ten, or at most eleven, popes remain to be in future more or
less legitimately elected. We say more or less legitimately elected, because
out of those future popes it is to be feared that one or two will be unlawfully
elected as anti-popes. (Rossi, p. 139)
Priest E. Sylvester Berry (20th century) As
indicated by the resemblance to a lamb,
the prophet will probably set himself
up in Rome as a sort of antipope during the vacancy of the papal throne . .
.(Berry E.S. The Apocalypse of St. John. First published 1921.
http://journals.aol.com/langosh5/Father_E_Sylvester_Berry/
10/12/07)
Priest Herman Kramer (20th century): In accord with
the text this is unmistakably a PAPAL ELECTION . . . But at this time the great
powers may take a menacing attitude to hinder the election of the logical and
expected candidate by threats of a general apostasy, assassination or
imprisonment of this candidate if elected. This would suppose an extremely
hostile mind in the governments of Europe towards the Church, because an
extended interregnum in the papacy is always disastrous and more so in a time of
universal persecution. If Satan would contrive to hinder a papal election, the
Church would suffer great travail … one…destined for the papacy at the time will
institute the needed reforms. A general council may decree the reforms…The lax
clergy at the time will extol the conditions then existing…The dragon is a
symbolic term for the evil world powers…They will try to make the Church a
“state church” everywhere. This is only possible if they can subject the pope
to their wills and compel him to teach and rule as they direct. That would
be literally devouring the papacy. (Kramer H.B. L. The Book of Destiny, pp.
278,285).
Bishop Malachy (12th century): During the
persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit upon the throne, Peter the
Roman…the City of Seven Hills (Rome) will be utterly destroyed (Culleton, R.
Gerald. The Prophets and Our Times. Nihil Obstat: L. Arvin. Imprimatur: Philip
G. Scher, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno, November 15, 1941. Reprint 1974, TAN Books,
Rockford (IL), p. 138).
As the Apostasy continues to spread, hatred for
the Ten Commandments will intensify. See
here
and
here.
