<div>Stuart,</div> <div> </div> <div>Your mother is referring to The Prophecy of St. Malachy.</div> <div> </div> <div>About the year A.D. 1139, Saint Malachy O'Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, wrote down a list of Popes. He listed 112 future Popes, each described by a phrase in Latin. You can read more about it at a number of different sites. Here are a couple of sites:</div> <div><A href="http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp">http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp</A></div> <div><A href="http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/future-popes.htm">http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/future-popes.htm</A></div> <div><A href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12473a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12473a.htm</A></div> <div> </div> <div>Dianne</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px;
MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Some branch of Adventism has top of the page ads on xanga.com. I followed <BR>one of the links to this:<BR><BR>http://www.worldslastchance.com/index.php?p=next_and_last_pope.php<BR><BR>My Mom had told me that John Paul II was the next to last true Pope (based<BR>on some obscure interpretation of prophecy. She claimed that John Paul<BR>himself had said this - but I was never able to find a quote.<BR><BR>Anyway, because of that, I clicked the link. It is Adventist (Sunday = false<BR>sabbath). The gist is that the Catholic Church is the harlot on the beast<BR>in Revelation 17. The 7 kings are numbered from 1929, when the Vatican<BR>was created, and Benedict is the 7th. The 8th will be a demon pretending<BR>to be John Paul II raised from the dead.<BR><BR>Most "last pope" theories from a pre-trib eschatology are respectful <BR>of Catholics (true Catholic Christians are raptured leaving only<BR>the evil ones to be the whore
during the tribulation). This one is<BR>rather anti-Catholic and justifies making Catholic Church a "beast"<BR>(persecutor) based on a "wilderness" theory, and history of Catholic<BR>persecution of Protestants ending 1798, whence begins the "wilderness" phase of<BR>the Catholic Church where she gets persecuted in turn. According to the<BR>theory, Benedict will reign a "short time", then the false 8th Pope will make<BR>the church a persecuting beast again.<BR><BR>Quite involved, but a well contructed site that will give those interested<BR>a flavor of anti-catholic adventism.<BR><BR>I checked out the "beliefs" section, and their "faith and works" statement<BR>(#5) is rather Catholic sounding. The preponderence of "de fide" statements<BR>in their catechism, however, are interpretations of phropecy - which makes it<BR>rather shaky theologically. It even includes a "de fide" explanation (#9) of<BR>why the "de fide" adventist prophecy interpretations of 1844 seemed to
be<BR>wrong!<BR><BR>-- <BR>Stuart D. Gathman <STUART@BMSI.COM><BR>Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154<BR>"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for<BR>a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Apologetics mailing list<BR>Apologetics@gathman.org<BR>http://bmsi.com/mailman/listinfo/apologetics<BR><BR><!DSPAM:10E91EABAF82501342737197><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><DIV>
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