{"id":48295,"date":"2023-02-02T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=48295"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:22:53","slug":"these-times-of-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/these-times-of-antichrist\/","title":{"rendered":"These Times of Antichrist","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world at the approach of a new millennium,
\nfor which the whole Church is preparing,
\nis like a field ready for the harvest.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u2014ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II, World Youth Day, homily, August 15th, 1993<\/span><\/p>\n

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First published on February 2, 2023…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\nT<\/span>he Catholic world has been abuzz recently with the release of a letter written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI essentially stating that the<\/em> Antichrist is alive. The letter was sent in 2015 to Vladimir Palko, a retired Bratislava statesman who lived through the Cold War. The late pope wrote:<\/p>\n

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We see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding, and we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend his church in this hour of need from the power of evil.<\/strong> \u2014POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI, The American Conservative<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>January 10th, 2023[1]<\/sup><\/a>The orginal German reads: “Man sieht, wie die Macht des Antichrist sich ausbreitet, und kann nur beten, dass der Herr uns kraftvolle Hirten schenkt, die seine Kirche in dieser Stunde der Not gegen die Macht des B\u00f6sen verteidigen.”<\/span><\/span>