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At that period when Antichrist shall be born, there will be many wars and right order shall be destroyed on earth. Heresy will be rampant and the heretics will preach their errors openly without restraint. Even among Christians doubt and skepticism will be entertained concerning the beliefs of Catholicism. —St. Hildegard, Details concerning the Antichrist, According to Holy Scriptures, Tradition and Private Revelation, Prof. Franz Spirago
| ↑1 | “We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine Providence; it is a trial which the whole Church, and the Polish Church in particular, must take up. It is a trial of not only our nation and the Church, but in a sense a test of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations.” —Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA for the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; some citations of this passage include the words “Christ and the antichrist” as above. Deacon Keith Fournier, an attendee, reports it as above; cf. Catholic Online; August 13, 1976 |
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| ↑2 | At the moment, it seems that the Synodal process just initiated is being widely championed as a means of renewal of the Church; while this message does not criticize the Synod per se, it does serve as a stark warning against breaks with the true faith which may be presented as initiatives of the Holy Spirit (as has already been seen in other Christian churches in terms of changes to teaching on sexual ethics etc.). As we know from many other sources over the last 200 years or so — at least since the revelations to Anne-Catherine Emmerich and Elisabetta Canori Mora — the revival of the Church will only occur on the other side of purification, although the first signs of that renewal are already visible in the gathering of small communities of faithful resistance to apostasy (St. John Paul II called such things the signs of a “new springtime” in the Church). Communities which will of course be persecuted… |
| ↑3 | cf. Popes and Fathers on the Era of Peace; Era of Peace in private revelation; Antichrist Before the Era of Peace?; The Popes and the Dawning Era |
