Rowina (28 Aug 2013)
"Again, the Pope, truths and imaginations about him"


 

I do not like it, as others do not, that the Pope is a Jesuit.  I was familiar with some Jesuit problems when I lived in another city, and all of this forced me
to stop going to church.  I don't have a good church now, and I don't expect ever to do so, but my observation, having lived in quite a few places, is that
some Catholic dioceses are better than others (as far as adhering to the Gospel and teaching scripture).  

As far as the Pope goes, apart from the Jesuit problem, I don't think we can "imagine" into him things which are not necessarily there (although they might be!--it's a mystery)/

The most glaring imagination is connected with the Prophecy of St. Malachy, the medieval bishop in Ireland.  He said the last pope would rule over his people in perilous times,
or times of trouble (I don't have the exact quote before me, but I have heard it many times).  This does not say that he will, as Joe put it, "defect".  Or that he would become the Beast.  Or anything actually bad at all.  It says he will preside in very bad times.  Could this simply be presiding in the horrors going on now?  Are we not living in a time of
incredible trouble NOW, which will get worse?  The situation in the Middle East (tinder) the widespread economic collapse threatening, plagues getting more threatening, morals collapsing, violent earthchanges...all terrible times.  There have been other terrible times but this must be one of the worst, and because Israel is in the land, we can expect prophetic end times events to occur, and this is known to the pope.  Malachy Martin, another Malachy who lived in modern times, drew a picture in "Windswept House" of a Pope who lived in perilous times and was himself "highjacked", and this characterization may have been taken from more than one pope, including a pope who was future to Malachy Martin's time.

When the Pope sighed heavily, as you reported, Joe, after coming up from visiting Peter's grave, some cardinals "imagined" that the spirit of St. Peter had entered him.
This is another opinion on their part, not necessarily true.  Maybe he signed because he thought of the great responsibility facing him.  Maybe he sighed because he was
thinking of the martyrdom of St. Peter.  Who knows?  He has plenty to sign heavily about.  But it's also possible these cardinals guessed right.  We cannot know.

I too have questioned some of Francis' teachings of late, as has been recorded on the Doves.  And he may be the False Prophet but I think that is unknown, at least to me.
My belief is that the church will be gone before either the AC or the False Prophet will be revealed fully, although there are certainly candidates.  

I'm hoping we will be at Home before the world knows fully about these things.