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With dozens of new subscribers coming on board now each week, old questions are popping up such as this one: Why aren’t the Pope’s speaking\u00a0about the end times? The answer will surprise many, reassure others, and challenge\u00a0many more. First published September 21st, 2010, I have updated this writing to the present pontificate.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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I <\/strong>receive letters from time to time asking, “If we are possibly living in the “end times,” then why wouldn’t the popes be shouting this from the rooftops?” My response is: “If they are, is anyone listening?”<\/p>\n

The fact is, this entire blog, my book<\/a>, my webcast<\/a>\u2014which are intended to prepare the reader and viewer for the times which are here and coming\u2014are based on what the Holy Fathers<\/em> have been preaching for over a century. And they have been consistently warning, with greater and greater frequency, that the path of mankind is leading to “destruction” unless we embrace once again the Good News and the One who is Good: Jesus Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It is not I, but Paul VI who said:<\/p>\n

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There is a great uneasiness at this time in the world and in the Church, and that which is in question is the faith. It so happens now that I repeat to myself the obscure phrase of Jesus in the Gospel of St. Luke: ‘When the Son of Man returns, will He still find faith on the earth?’…I sometimes read the Gospel passage of the end times and I attest that, at this time, some signs of this end are emerging. <\/strong>\u2014POPE PAUL VI, The Secret Paul VI<\/em>, Jean Guitton, p. 152-153, Reference (7), p. ix.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Echoing the words of St. Paul that an ‘apostasy’, a great falling away from the faith would precede the Antichrist or “son of perdition” (2 Thess 2), Paul VI said:<\/p>\n

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The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic world. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the Church.<\/b> \u2014Address on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions, October 13, 1977; reported in the Italian paper Corriere della Sera<\/em> on Page 7, October 14, 1977 issue; NOTE: while this has been quoted by several contemporary writers, including theologians versed in patrisitics, I have been unable to recover the original source of this statement, which would have been in either Italian or Latin. Archives of Corrieree della Sera<\/em> do not show this passage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This apostasy has been brewing for centuries. But it has been particularly in the last century or so that the Holy Father’s have begun to identify it more concretely as the “apostasy” of the last times<\/em>. At the turn of the 19th century, Pope Leo XIII stated in his encyclical on the Holy Spirit:<\/p>\n

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…he who resists the truth through malice and turns away from it, sins most grievously against the Holy Ghost. In our days this sin has become so frequent that those dark times seem to have come which were foretold by St. Paul, in which men, blinded by the just judgment of God, should take falsehood for truth, and should believe in “the prince of this world,” who is a liar and the father thereof, as a teacher of truth: “God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying <\/strong>(2 Thess. ii., 10). In the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and the doctrines of devils”<\/strong> (1 Tim. iv., 1). \u2014Divinum Illud Munus<\/em><\/a>, n. 10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pope Francis describes the apostasy as a “negotiation” with the “spirit of worldliness”:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026worldliness is the root of evil and it can lead us to abandon our traditions and negotiate our loyalty to God who is always faithful. This\u2026 is called apostasy, which\u2026 is a form of \u201cadultery\u201d which takes place when we negotiate the essence of our being: loyalty to the Lord<\/strong>. \u2014POPE FRANCIS from a homily, Vatican Radi<\/a>o, November 18th, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Francis has, in fact, not been shy in mentioning at least twice now a book written over a hundred years ago called\u00a0Lord of the World.\u00a0<\/em>It is a remarkably prescient book about the rise of Antichrist that\u00a0eerily parallels\u00a0our times. It is what has perhaps inspired Francis\u00a0on several occasions to rightly warn of “unseen empires” [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. Address to European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, Nov. 25th, 2014,\u00a0Zenit<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>