The John-Henry Westen Show - Ancient Catholic prophecies warn of a pope who will gravely harm the Church

00:00:00.000 What if I told you that there are at least 10 ancient Catholic prophecies that warn of a Pope

00:00:06.940 who will gravely harm the Church? That is the topic of today's John Hinder Weston show, so stay tuned.

00:00:21.980 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:00:24.260 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:00:31.680 Do you remember that historic speech that Bishop Joseph Strickland made a month ago,

00:00:37.200 where he called out the bishops of the United States, asking them,

00:00:41.180 what will it take? And it was, what will it take for them to wake up and start speaking out on the

00:00:47.480 fact that, and I quote, Pope Francis no longer teaches the Catholic faith. That's what Bishop

00:00:52.340 Strickland said. But what he said, specifically when he said that, were these words. And these words

00:00:59.300 were what inspired me to do this show today. Bishop Strickland said, and I quote,

00:01:05.800 Today we stand on the cusp of all that has been prophesied about the Church and the abominations 0.92

00:01:14.220 which would come forth in these times. A time when all of hell attacks the Church of Jesus Christ,

00:01:21.280 and a time when the fallen angels of hell no longer seek entry into her sacred halls, that's the Church's

00:01:29.060 sacred halls, but instead stand inside, peeking out of her windows and unlocking doors to welcome in

00:01:37.180 more diabolical destruction. End quote. Those are powerful words. Those words hearken back to Pope

00:01:47.500 Paul VI, when he said after the Second Vatican Council, through some crack or fissure, the smoke of

00:01:54.480 Satan has entered the Church. But nonetheless, some people who are facing these times with Pope Francis

00:02:05.020 are very confused. Some people are leaving the faith. In fact, one of the persons that I talked to

00:02:12.260 a few months ago about what's going on with Pope Francis and the heresies said, if it were true that

00:02:20.320 Pope Francis did these things, said these things, that it were all true about him, what's actually

00:02:25.600 going on, he would leave the faith. He would no longer be Catholic. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:02:29.140 whoa, wait, wait, you wouldn't leave the faith. But he said he would. And then I just talked to a person

00:02:36.520 a few days ago, who honest to goodness, he was thinking of entering the Church, a Protestant.

00:02:43.740 And I asked him, like I like to, because I like to ask, you know, what's the hardest thing?

00:02:49.760 What's still keeping you? What's, you know, you have one big question still, because I want to help.

00:02:55.500 I love that. His question was, not about Our Lady, or about the sacraments, or about communion

00:03:04.420 actually being the body and blood of Christ. I was like, you know, that's what I was hoping for,

00:03:09.520 waiting for an answer. But it wasn't. It was Pope Francis. How do you square Pope Francis being the

00:03:16.560 Pope and teaching all these things when it's not? And I was like, whoa, whoa, that is a good question.

00:03:21.540 That is a hard question. So let me show you some of these prophecies that have been made

00:03:30.160 to warn about what's going to happen. Do you remember Christ before the apostles were to see

00:03:38.880 him go and suffer and die and be brutally killed, arrested and judged and sentenced and killed, 0.95

00:03:46.480 and just the most disgusting thing. But before that, what did he do with Peter, James, John? He took 0.94

00:03:52.320 them up the mountain, and he showed them the transfiguration himself in glory, so that they would not 0.99

00:03:58.520 lose faith. So Christ has warned his church about the possibility of an anti-Pope or evil Pope coming.

00:04:11.780 In fact, there have been anti-Popes in the past, but they're in such ancient past to us that it

00:04:19.300 doesn't even make sense. So then what about this time? Well, Christ himself warns in Matthew 24,

00:04:29.460 verse 24, there will arise false Christs and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders 0.74

00:04:36.540 in so much as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. That means even the faithful. In fact,

00:04:43.260 if you look up the Catechism of the Catholic Church, number 675, this is the 92 Catechism,

00:04:48.700 it'll say these words. Before Christ's second coming, the church must pass through a final trial

00:04:54.960 that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on

00:05:01.860 earth will unveil the mystery of iniquity in the form of a religious deception, offering men an 0.98

00:05:08.940 apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious 0.99

00:05:16.400 deception is that of Antichrist, a pseudo-Messianism by which man glorifies himself in the place of God

00:05:23.420 and of his Messiah come in the flesh. So, as you can see, the church already, Christ officially

00:05:31.320 and the Catechism, warn of the church. Not ascending into glory and ending up, you know,

00:05:39.780 holy pope after holy pope after holy pope, but then in glory she tried. No, actually, the church

00:05:45.400 is betrayed. In fact, Pope Benedict talked about that betrayal. He talked about the wolves inside the

00:05:53.380 church. In fact, he said the persecutions of the church are the worst from within. Several saints

00:06:00.060 and blessings and approved Marian apparitions and popes have made statements or prophecies that

00:06:06.620 suggest the possibility of a pope betraying Christ in some way or an anti-pope or something like that.

00:06:12.660 So, here is my list of the 10 most relevant prophecies pointing to a future pope or anti-pope who will

00:06:20.940 deceive even the elect. But right before we get there, I have to ask you, please support LifeSite

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00:07:09.400 So, number one on our list is well known to many and is the approved apparition of Our Lady

00:07:18.120 of La Salette from 1846. In that approved apparition, Our Lady of La Salette said, and I quote for you,

00:07:26.360 Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist, end quote.

00:07:31.580 Yeah, sounds like a mouthful. Let's go on to number two. Saint Nicholas of Flew, known all over

00:07:41.160 the German-speaking world as Bruder Klaus, lived from 1417 to 1487. Saint Nicholas or Bruder Klaus was a

00:07:51.360 Swiss mystic. He prophesied about a time of great crisis in the church and he said these words, and I

00:07:56.680 quote, the church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become

00:08:05.140 so perverted. He said, the church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be 0.97

00:08:13.320 extinguished and the succession of Peter and the apostles will have apparently failed. Isn't that

00:08:21.880 interesting? He continues, but after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all

00:08:28.320 doubters. And isn't that beautiful? That is true in all the prophecies. It's not doom and gloom. Yes,

00:08:38.140 they warn a warn of calamity and this infidelity and apostasy, which means a great apostasy means

00:08:46.760 leaving of the faith. But they all also promise a glorious restoration. So let's go on with our list.

00:08:54.900 Number three, Blessed Tomasusio de Foligno, also from the 14th century. Blessed Tomasusio wrote,

00:09:04.080 and I quote, well, he was writing in a prophecy that he called the Worthy Shepherd Prophecy. It's been

00:09:11.480 dubbed the worthy shepherd prophecy. He was writing about a prophecy of a future pontiff who would

00:09:20.720 restore the church after a period of schism and turmoil. So he too is talking about this glorious

00:09:28.120 time after a time of great apostasy. He said, and I quote, the bark of Peter is in danger and there's

00:09:35.660 no one to lend it help. That's speaking of the bad times, of course. He said, during those times,

00:09:42.020 the schismatic shall fall into the scorn of the Italian faithful. He says, the resplendent mantle

00:09:47.820 of legitimate power shall emerge from the shadows where it was being kept by the schism and beyond

00:09:55.680 harm from the one who is blocking the door of salvation. For his deceitful schism shall have come

00:10:03.580 to an end. The mass, he says, the mass of the faithful shall attach itself to the worthy shepherd.

00:10:12.840 That's the new pope, who shall extricate each one from error and restore to the church its beauty.

00:10:20.720 He shall renew it, end quote. So this is, as always, a hopeful prophecy. This is what happens in the

00:10:30.260 church. It's not about doom and gloom. It's about hope. And before I continue, let me remind you,

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00:10:54.940 and make your most generous gift today. Number four on our list is a famous prophecy attributed

00:11:03.160 to St. Francis of Assisi, of course, who lived from 1181 to 1226. And this prophecy, I looked it up.

00:11:10.700 You can find it. It's in the book called The Works of the Seraphic Father of St. Francis of Assisi,

00:11:16.080 compiled by the members of the Franciscan Order. And in the prophecy, it says this,

00:11:20.680 And I quote, there will be an uncanonically elected pope who will cause great, a great schism. 0.96

00:11:29.880 And there's that schism word again. So he will cause great schism. And there will be diverse

00:11:35.260 thoughts preached, which will cause many, even those in different orders to doubt, even agree

00:11:43.500 with those errors, end quote. So then there's another famous one. And the famous one sort of

00:11:54.340 alludes to corruption in the hierarchy, doesn't quite name a pope per se. It's the famous one of

00:12:01.920 Our Lady of Akita, proved Marian apparition. Our Lady of Akita said, and I quote,

00:12:07.240 quote, the work of the devil will infiltrate even into the church in such a way that one will see

00:12:15.460 cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops, end quote. And there again is that theme

00:12:22.620 of the infiltration of Satan into the church. Number six on our list of 10 prophecies is the big

00:12:32.500 one. It's the Fatima prophecy. Now, you might wonder, what? The Fatima prophecy? What did that

00:12:40.300 say about the church or the pope? Well, lots. Let's dig in a little bit. So of course, this was given to

00:12:48.120 the three children in 1917. And then after the two died, Jacinta and Francesco died, the rest was given

00:12:55.560 to Lucia as she lived out her years in the convent. While the full content of the third secret of Fatima

00:13:01.460 is the subject of much dispute, we're going to talk about that. Because even in what was revealed,

00:13:08.100 and I say what was revealed for a couple reasons. First of all, with the visions of Fatima, you have

00:13:14.160 vision and explanation, vision and explanation. With the third secret, which was supposed to be

00:13:21.240 revealed in 1960, never got revealed. You finally got it in the year 2000. And then something strange

00:13:27.600 happened because you had a vision without an interpretation. And an official interpretation

00:13:33.940 was given by the Vatican, but it was kind of weird. And nobody who believed and studied Fatima forever

00:13:41.980 and ever believes that interpretation. And also, most of the experts believed that there's a part missing.

00:13:50.920 So let's though read some of that third secret prophecy of what was in fact revealed. Here are

00:13:59.000 the words that were given by the Vatican in the year 2000. And I quote,

00:14:03.060 And we saw in an immense light that is God, something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they

00:14:09.860 pass in front of it, a bishop dressed in white. Now, as an aside note, it's interesting because Pope

00:14:16.120 Francis referred to himself as the bishop dressed in white. So they say, the vision says,

00:14:22.900 they saw a bishop dressed in white. Then they go on to say, we had the impression that it was the

00:14:28.360 Holy Father. Other bishops, priests, men and women religious going up a steep mountain at the top of

00:14:33.800 which there was a big cross of rough hewn trunks as of a cork tree with the bark before reaching

00:14:39.020 there. And now it says the Holy Father. So now it's not the, a lot of people speculated it's not the

00:14:45.160 bishop dressed in white. Now it's the Pope that they're talking about. The Holy Father passed

00:14:49.620 through a big city, half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain

00:14:55.940 and sorrow. He prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way. Remember that wording because

00:15:01.780 it'll apply in a later prophecy. Having reached the top of the mountain on his knees at the foot of

00:15:07.240 the big cross, he was killed by a group of soldiers. And there's more to it. You can please go read for

00:15:16.720 yourself the full secret, third secret as revealed by the Vatican in the year 2000. But you had some of

00:15:26.380 these sayings from Sister Lucy after the fact. So this is one Sister Lucy said after the fact. She said,

00:15:34.300 and I quote, the devil has succeeded in infiltrating evil under the guise of good. And the blind are 0.99

00:15:41.840 beginning to lead others. This is a danger that is most serious for the church. One of the children,

00:15:49.760 Jacinta Marto, the other seer, expressed concern about priests and leaders in the church and the Pope.

00:15:56.200 She said, poor Holy Father, we must pray much for him. And then in a 1957 interview with

00:16:02.740 Father Augustine Fuentes, Sister Lucy stated this, and I quote, the devil is in the mood for engaging

00:16:10.200 in a decisive battle against the Blessed Virgin. He will succeed in leaving the souls of the faithful

00:16:17.080 abandoned by their leaders, end quote. So very much to do with Our Lady of Fatima. But what about the Pope?

00:16:29.980 Is there nothing about the Pope in the message of Our Lady of Fatima? And then we come to the crux of why

00:16:36.700 most of the Vatican or most of the Fatima experts will say why the message was not revealed in 1960, and why

00:16:46.240 even in 2000, when they revealed the vision, they wouldn't reveal the explanation. Here, this is a quote from

00:16:54.260 Bishop and Cardinal, actually, Luigi Ciapi, who lived from 1914 to 1996. He was the theologian of the papal

00:17:02.700 household, and he was also the advisor to five popes. And this is a quote from him.

00:17:09.380 In the third secret, he said, this is Cardinal Ciapi, in the third secret, he said, it is foretold,

00:17:16.700 among other things, that the great apostasy in the church will begin at the top.

00:17:24.260 So then there's Father Ingo Dollinger. He was a very close friend of Pope Benedict XVI.

00:17:33.580 Father Dollinger claimed that the third secret spoke of apostasy beginning at the highest levels

00:17:40.540 of the church as well. In fact, he spoke to Pope Benedict after the secret was so-called revealed

00:17:47.280 in 2000, because he knew this from Benedict himself. So he went to him after the secret was released and

00:17:54.360 said, hey, what was that? And Pope Benedict, after some pressure from him, finally just walked away or

00:18:01.660 whatever. It's very interesting, though. Go to LifesightNews.com and read the account by Dr.

00:18:07.020 Micah Hicks and about Father Ingo Dollinger. Very, very interesting stuff.

00:18:12.720 But it actually gets more interesting still. Get this. Right before I do, let me remind you one

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00:18:32.500 We don't do many of them. We do quarterly fundraisers. That's all. We don't hound you every day.

00:18:37.040 And basically, we're begging you to support us so we can keep going. Number seven is the beloved

00:18:45.580 Saint Padre Pio. Now, this is incredible because it relates directly to Fatima. And boy, oh boy,

00:18:53.520 is it significant. You want the full story on this, go to Lifesight News, look up Dr. Micah Hickson.

00:18:59.640 And she did this. She did it first, actually, over at 1 Peter 5. So, she reveals an interview

00:19:08.040 with a very famous Roman exorcist. In fact, probably the most famous Roman exorcist of all time.

00:19:16.700 His name is Father Gabriel Amorth. It was an interview conducted by Jose Maria Zavala, a journalist.

00:19:24.260 And Father Amorth, the most famous exorcist who ever lived, he personally knew Padre Pio.

00:19:35.060 In fact, he worked with Padre Pio for 26 years. And Father Amorth claims to have learned the contents

00:19:45.400 of the Third Secret of Fatima from Padre Pio. So, I'm going to read you part of this interview

00:19:53.360 from Zavala's book. And I'm just going to read excerpts from it so you get this. But it's so

00:20:00.440 stunning. It really is the crux of what you might take away from this. Listen, this is Zavala,

00:20:09.600 the interviewer. Forgive me for insisting on the Third Secret of Fatima. Did Padre Pio relate it,

00:20:16.960 then, to the loss of faith within the Church. Father Amorth, the exorcist, furrows his brow

00:20:24.760 and sticks out his chin. He seems very affected by what was said. Father Amorth replies, indeed.

00:20:33.000 One day, Padre Pio said to me very sorrowfully, you know, Gabriele, that's his first name.

00:20:39.560 It is Satan who has been introduced into the bosom of the Church and within a very short time will come

00:20:47.080 to rule a false Church. End quote. Then the interviewer, Zavala, he freaks out. He says,

00:20:54.280 oh my God, some kind of Antichrist. When did he prophesy this to you? Father Amorth, the exorcist,

00:20:59.760 responds, it must have been about 1960 since I was already a priest then. The interviewer interrupts

00:21:07.200 again. Why, that was John XXIII had such a panic about publishing the Third Secret of Fatima so that

00:21:15.260 the people wouldn't think that he was the anti-pope or whatever it was. And then Father Amorth gives a

00:21:22.060 slight but knowing smile. And then he continues. The interviewer says, did Padre Pio say anything else

00:21:30.800 to you about the future catastrophes? Earthquakes, floods, wars, epidemics, hunger. Did he allude to the

00:21:35.840 same plagues prophesied in the Holy Scriptures? Father Amorth responds this way. He says,

00:21:42.800 nothing of that sort mattered to him. However terrifying they proved to be, except for the

00:21:49.400 great apostasy within the Church. This was the issue that really tormented him and for which he

00:21:55.580 prayed and offered a great part of his suffering, crucified out of love. The interviewer says,

00:22:02.360 the Third Secret of Fatima, Father Amorth responds, exactly. The interviewer again,

00:22:10.740 is there any way to avoid something so terrible, Father Gabriele? And Father Amorth responds,

00:22:17.520 there is hope, but it is useless if it is not accompanied by works. Let us begin by consecrating

00:22:23.940 Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let us recite the Holy Rosary. Let us do prayer and penance. 0.96

00:22:30.480 And see, again, there's hope. There's hope, but it needs prayer and penance. It needs the fulfillment

00:22:39.860 of the Fatima request for the consecration of Russia, and on our part, the part of the laity,

00:22:46.020 the five First Saturday devotions. If you don't know about that, go to LifeSiteNews.com and look it up.

00:22:51.480 Number eight on our list is Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, a mystic who lived in the 1700s to the

00:23:01.060 1800s, 1774 to 1824. She described visions of a false church, a dark church that would rise alongside

00:23:11.180 the true church. She spoke of confusion and betrayal within the hierarchy of the church,

00:23:16.960 including when a, and here it is again, a bishop dressed in white would be compromised. So I'm

00:23:25.940 reading from The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich, a collection of revisions

00:23:30.500 compiled and edited by Clemens Brentano. That's an awesome book, but there's about 3,000 pages,

00:23:38.740 I warn you. It's awesome though, nonetheless. So in April 12th of 1820, this is recorded by Clemens

00:23:48.220 from St. Anne Catherine Emmerich, or Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, soon to be saint, for sure.

00:23:54.260 If you read about her, you'll know right away. She said, and I quote,

00:23:57.560 End quote.

00:24:22.080 Of this false church, she said, and I quote,

00:24:27.460 I saw an increase in size. Heretics of every kind came into the city. That's probably the city of Rome.

00:24:34.440 The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness. Then the visions seemed to extend on every

00:24:41.800 side. Whole Catholic communities were oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of their freedom.

00:24:47.140 I saw many churches closed down, great miseries everywhere, wars, and bloodshed. End quote.

00:24:56.340 She actually went on, she said, and I quote again,

00:24:59.060 Once more, I saw the church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect. 0.83

00:25:05.860 Read Freemasons. She continues, 0.96

00:25:08.820 So, you see again, within Catherine Emmerich and her visions, her stark warnings, there is a time.

00:25:38.800 A time of a distress and terrible time. A time of travail inside the church. But the restoration

00:25:45.940 will come. But she makes mention of so many things about the Pope, the bishop dressed in white,

00:25:54.820 about this. She talked about the baleful relationship between the two Popes. That's why so many people

00:26:02.240 thought, gee, I wonder if she saw what we saw with Benedict and Francis at the same time.

00:26:09.380 Well, she has a little bit more on that. I'll quote again.

00:26:13.060 I see the Holy Father in great anguish. He lives in a palace other than before,

00:26:18.140 and he admits only a limited number of friends near him.

00:26:20.640 I fear that the Holy Father will suffer many more trials before he dies.

00:26:24.920 I see that the false church of darkness is making progress, and I see the dreadful influence it has

00:26:30.880 on the people. The Holy Father and the church are verily in so great a distress that one must

00:26:37.340 implore God day and night. So, super interesting. Remember, Pope Benedict, when he left, he didn't,

00:26:47.600 he went to another palace. He went to, on the Vatican grounds still, and he only admitted a

00:26:54.740 limited number of friends. Very, very interesting. Let's go on. Number nine on our list of the top

00:27:03.440 10 prophecies that speak to this calamity in the church with a Pope or maybe anti-Pope. Number nine,

00:27:11.600 Saint Pius X. Yeah, Pope himself, 1835 to 1914. Pope Pius X had a vision where he saw one of his

00:27:20.420 successors fleeing Rome over the bodies of his brethren and eventually being martyred.

00:27:25.780 Doesn't that sound like exactly like the message of Fatima, by the way? It certainly does. And remember,

00:27:33.380 Pope Pius X dies in 1914 before the messages of Fatima. So, this is very interesting. He says,

00:27:41.540 the same things. So, in 1909, Pope Pius X had a vision. It was during an audience with members

00:27:47.520 of the Franciscan order. Pope Pius X, he appeared to enter like a trance-like state. And when he

00:27:53.000 regained his composure, he said, and I quote,

00:27:56.140 What I have seen is terrifying. Will it be myself? Will it be a successor? What is certain is that the

00:28:02.800 Pope will quit Rome, and in leaving the Vatican, he will have to pass over the dead bodies of his

00:28:09.380 priests? End quote. Wow. That does sound like the Fatima vision. 1914 vision. This is a second one

00:28:18.500 that he had. This was shortly before his death. Pope Pius X had a vision which said, and saying he said,

00:28:26.240 and I quote, I have seen one of my successors of the same name who is fleeing over the bodies of his

00:28:34.500 brethren. He will take refuge in some hiding place, but after a brief respite, he will die a cruel death.

00:28:40.920 End quote. So, that's interesting. If you're really speculative, you can talk about how his name

00:28:51.040 actually was Joseph. That is, Pope Pius X's first name was Joseph. Joseph is also the first name of

00:28:58.860 Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, and so there'd been some speculation if that was the Pope, but did Ratzinger

00:29:05.900 actually flee? Well, yeah, sort of. He did. You could say he quit Rome, but did he actually die a cruel death?

00:29:18.300 Hmm. There is actually speculation that he died. If you look it up, I'm not going to go into it here,

00:29:24.480 but if you look it up, there was a vision that said Pope Benedict was indeed murdered.

00:29:32.620 There's no corroboration for that from the Vatican, of course, but there's that speculation anyway,

00:29:38.800 and given what's going on in the Vatican today, no one knows what to believe. And finally, number 10.

00:29:45.300 Number 10 on our list of the prophecies is from none other than St. Faustina Kowalska,

00:29:52.780 the very modern saint made sainthood by Pope John Paul II. She lived from 1905 to 1938. She,

00:30:02.160 in her writings, warned of persecution and corruption in the church, and I'll quote it for you. She said,

00:30:07.680 I saw the church persecuted by terrible trials. And get this, she says, when I prayed for Poland,

00:30:15.420 I heard the words, I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to my will, 0.56

00:30:21.820 I will exalt her in might and holiness. From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world

00:30:28.960 for my final coming. Now, I think most Polish people and most Catholics of my age will say,

00:30:38.140 I know who that was. It was John Paul II. But that, again, is left to your interpretation.

00:30:45.280 But there's something else fascinating about the writings of St. Faustina Kowalska as they apply

00:30:52.160 particularly to Pope Francis. And I want you to look this up because this is so stunning and so

00:31:00.660 little known. If you look up Faustina's diary, the entry date of December 17th, 1936,

00:31:12.420 you'll find a very interesting message. Now, think about this. What's that date? December 17th,

00:31:25.460 1936. I'll tell you what date it is. It's the day of the birth of Jorge Maria Bergoglio,

00:31:34.580 the birthday of Pope Francis. And guess what Sister Faustina said? I'll quote,

00:31:43.960 I have offered this day four priests. I have suffered more today than ever before, both interiorly

00:31:55.020 and exteriorly. I did not know it was possible to suffer so much in one day. I tried to make a holy

00:32:03.440 hour in the course of which my spirit had a taste of the bitterness of the Garden of Gethsemane.

00:32:09.980 I am fighting alone, supported by his arm, his with a capital H, mean Jesus's arm,

00:32:16.260 against all the difficulties that face me like unassailable walls. But I trust in the power of

00:32:23.380 his name, and I fear nothing. That's from the diary of St. Faustina. Remember, my friends,

00:32:31.660 it's not doom and gloom. It is the warning of our Lord to his church about the great apostasy 0.97

00:32:41.840 that's coming, very much like the transfiguration warning Peter, James, and John that his own 0.67

00:32:47.920 crushing defeat and martyrdom was coming. And he does these things, the church warns us of these

00:32:57.020 things, so we won't do what the friend I talked to some three or four or five weeks ago said he

00:33:05.500 would leave the church. No, we're warned by our Lord himself in Matthew 24, also by St. Paul. Let

00:33:12.640 me read that to you in 2 Thessalonians 2, 3 to 4. He says,

00:33:16.700 Let no man deceive you by any means. For that day shall not come, that means the final day,

00:33:23.240 shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that the man of sin be revealed,

00:33:30.400 the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that

00:33:37.500 is worshipped, so that he, as God, sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

00:33:45.300 And he's speaking there, of course, of Antichrist. But interestingly, he says Antichrist sits in the

00:33:50.940 temple of God, which, no, Paul was not a Jew at the time. He's a Christian. And so what is he saying

00:34:00.840 is the temple of God? Was he saying that about the church? What's he saying that about? Confusing

00:34:07.960 things for sure. But with all the confusion that Francis of Rome has brought to the whole church

00:34:15.880 right now, there's no reason at all to leave the one true holy catholic and apostolic church.

00:34:25.220 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston. May God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - December 17, 2024

Ancient Catholic prophecies warn of a pope who will gravely harm the Church

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