The present "Pope" Francis.  As Rome deteriorates, the popes get worse.  The final bad pope wI'll be the anti-Christ.

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The final bad pope wI'll be the anti-Christ.

So you think the Anti-Christ will be a pope or anti-pope? That is interesting.

Here's my take, for what it's worth:

"Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God [the Vatican], shewing himself as if he were God ["Sweet Christ on earth," i.e., the "Pope"].
--2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

This is Charlemagne. I forgot to check the box.

Who was the first in the line of conciliar bad popes (or if you are a sedevacantist, antipopes)?

Was it Pope Pius XII?

Seriously!? He defined the dogma of the Assumption!

Only Priests of the time appreciated the Pope's liturgical reforms.

You try living the life of a Parish Priest (offering Masses and administering the Sacraments; visiting the aged and infirm, as well as hospitals, penitentiaries, etc.) and saying the outdated rubrics.

There was a similar reaction to when St. Pius X made a very radical change in the old Roman Psalter. Why not complain about those reforms?

If your beef is because of his political strategies regarding Europe, then that's different... then you would be criticizing him as a Head of State, as a diplomat, etc., but not as Pope, the Vicar of Christ.

John XXIII.

The final bad pope will be the anti-Christ.

No, the anti-Christ will be a Zionist Jєω who shall consolidate his temporal power in the Middle East and seduce the world in the political sphere, whilst his false prophet as either an anti-Pope or pseudo-Pope will attempt to destroy the Roman Church and pervert all Christendom: when the false prophet makes the false Christians adore the anti-Christ, then the anti-Christ will take on both temporal and spiritual power over both the East and West.

The common opinion of the Fathers has been that the anti-Christ will be a Jєω, an anti-Pope will be his false prophet. Consult Fr. Berry's The Apocalypse of St. John and Ven. Holzhauser's commentary on the Apocalypse.

I would need to see what St. Bernard actually wrote.

Rev. Fr. Cornelius à Lapide, in his commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John, rejects the possibility that the anti-Christ is to be identified with a Roman Pontiff because at that time the Protestant heretics were derogating from the dignity of the Roman Pontiff and vituperating him by saying he was the anti-Christ and the Roman Church was the harlot who St. John recorded in chapter xvii. of the Apocalypse. The editors of his works have pointed this out and one edition has samplings from other commentators in the prefatory, such as texts, or summaries thereof, by Ven. Holzhauser.

Ven. Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Holzhauser in his famous commentary upon the Apocalypse of St. John [Venerabilis servi Dei Bartholomaei Holzhauser, Instituti Clericorum juxta SS. Canones in Germania restauratoris, Interpretatio in Apocalypsin (Vindobonae [Vienna]: Typis Congregationis Mechitharisticae, 1850)] held that Apoc. cap. xiii. 11-18 is to be interpreted as pertaining to the turpidissimo et sceletissimo idolo Antipapa: the second beast shall be an anti-Pope who shall persecute the Latin Occident and nearly destroy it, whilst the anti-Christ persecutes the Orient and seeks to control Jerusalem.

Here is a very loose transliteration of a small portion of the pertinent text:

Regarding the most disgraceful and iniquitous idolater, the anti-Pope, who shall waste the Western Church, and shall make it adore the first beast.

Cap. XIII. v. 11-18

And I saw another beast coming up from the earth: and he had two horns, like to a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. The beast coming up from the earth is the false Prophet, and the herald of the son of perdition […] he shall be an apostate Christian and rise forth secretly and fraudulently, and shall congregate the Jєωs, who in those days shall be exceedingly multiplied everywhere, and shall adhere unto him in one spirit, and shall enter unto the sacerdotal land [the Roman Church] with a great army, and shall occupy the See of Peter, and shall slay the latest Pontiff, the successor of Peter, and shall pour forth the blood of Christians, especially those who rule [as Prelates], like unto the water round about Jerusalem, and shall scatter the Church throughout the desert, and in the wildernesses, and forests, and mountains, and in the rocky caves, for the Shepherd shall be stricken and the sheep scattered; it shall be like unto the day of the Passion of Christ, wherein the Church was seen to be beheld unto the utmost desolation, when it said: for it is written, I shall strike the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; then the Latin Church shall be wasted, and there shall be a total departure from the faith, and the son of the perdition shall be revealed by this false Prophet, as if he would be Christ. […]

The aforementioned Rev. Fr. Berry adds in his own commentary that the anti-Christ would avail himself of Zionism to achieve this end. So, the anti-Christ through the Zionists shall take temporal primacy in the Orient and shall thence prepare to subjugate the Occident, the Roman Church having been already devastated by the anti-Pope.

The Holy Roman Empire has been obliterated and Christian Europe is but a memory: the Zionists and internationalists have advanced to take on the Orient as seen in the latest campaigns against the anti-Zionist nations in the Middle East. Already the American Republic is a now more than ever a disgraceful whore to Israel, thanks now to neo-socialist sociopathic Obama-drama.