A German Anti-Pope has been Predicted For Centuries

In his classic 1941 Imprimatured book, The Prophets and Our Times, Father Gerald Culleton includes the prediction attributed to the 7th century Holy Catholic Merlin the Bard. The Catholic Prophet Merlin the Bard foretold:

"There will come a German Anti-Pope. Italy and Germany will be sorely troubled ..." (Father Gerald Culleton, "The Prophets and Our Times," 1941 A.D., Fresno California, p. 132.)

The grave question(s) of whether John Paul II was a legitimate pope or not, and likewise if the current claimant Benedict XVI is a legitimate pope or not, is not a mere 'matter of opinion'. Our eternal salvation depends upon our submission to the Roman Pontiff, as is infallibly taught in the Papal Bull Unam Sanctam.

("Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff." -Unam Sanctam, the Ex Cathedra[i.e. Infallible] Papal Bull of Pope Boniface VIII, promulgated November 18, 1302 A.D.)

A Catholic who is indifferent as to whether he (JP2) was a valid pope or not, and/or is indifferent as to whether (Ben16) is a valid pope or not, is no Catholic at all. Rather he has the spirit of  schism and of repudiation of authority. During The Great Western Schism, in which there were three claimants to the papal throne, St. Vincent Ferrer condemned those who were indifferent as to who was the true Pope!

In 1559 A.D., His Holiness Pope Paul IV wrote the infallible Papal Bull cuм ex Apostolatus Officio, which teachings are in force in perpetuity (Forever), to safeguard the purity of De Fide (The Faith) and protect the Catholic Church from False Shepards like the deadly heretic, Joseph Ratzinger a.k.a. Anti-pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Paul IV, *cuм Ex Apostolatus Officio, 1559 Ex Cathedra: "We enact, determine, decree and define: that if ever at any time it shall appear that the... Roman Pontiff [Pope] prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless."

"Cardinal" Ratzinger a.k.a Anti-Pope Benedict XVI clearly falls under the Papal condemnation of Pope Paul IV's infallible teaching in cuм Ex Apostolatus Officio by his (Ratzinger's) publicly manifested heretical statements against Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors, against the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception and because of many other notorious damnable heresies he has taught over the last 40 years and still teaches to this day!

Fr. Salvany, in his classic book, Liberalism is a Sin Chapter 11, titled, The Solemn Condemnation of Liberalism by The Syllabus, vividly describes the unfettered malice and contempt that the enemies of the Catholic Church have against Pius IX's infallible Syllabus of Errros. Fr. Salvany writes:

"When Liberals regard it [The Syllabus of Errors] as their most detestable enemy, as the complete symbol of what they term Clericalism, Ultramontanism and Reaction, we may rest assured that it has been well interpreted in that quarter. Satan, bad as he is, is not a fool, and sees clearly enough where the blow falls with most effect. Thus he has set the authority of his seal, which after God's is most reliable, on this great work[The Syllabus of Errors], the seal of his inextinguishable hatred. Here is an instance in which we can believe the father of lies. What he most abhors and defames possesses an unimpeachable guaranty of its TRUTH.

In Venerable Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors, Christ's lawful Vicar on earth, enumerated the many soul killing errors of liberalism in the form of propositions which he solemnly, definitively and infallibly condemned as errors against the Faith

(1.), including:

Proposition #80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” (Note: Pius IX condemned this heretical error (Proposition #80) as false.)

This evil error (that the Pope [and the Church] needs to "get in step with the times") was thrust forward by the masonic revolutionaries of France in 1789 A.D., and continued by the evil freemasonic revolutionaries of Italy [and abroad] during the reign of Pope Pius IX's, prior to their (Christ's enemies) criminal usurpation of the Papal States. This gross anti-monarchial and anti-Church error is now most welcomed and embedded in the thick skull of [every?] "enlightened democracy loving" modern[ist] man today. Notwithstanding, the Holy Roman Catholic Church teaches that anyone who knowingly holds this reprobated anti-Catholic error (Proposition #80) makes himself an enemy of Christ, and is ipso facto excommunicated from the Catholic Church... and will go to the 'everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Matt. 25:41) unless they abjure their libertine heretical error and reconcile themselves with Christ's Catholic Church before the end of their life.
 
"Cardinal" Ratzinger Teaches a Liberty of Perdition right out of the Freemasonic Creed

The Apostate "Cardinal" Ratzinger (now Antipope Benedict XVI) in an attempt to subvert Holy Mother Church's infallible teaching against the Monstrous Heresy of our age, Liberalism, publicly stated that the teaching of Vatican II was a “countersyllabus” which was “an attempt at an official reconciliation with the new era inaugurated in 1789” and an effort to correct what he dared to call “the one-sidedness of the position adopted by the Church under Pius IX and Pius X in response to the situation created by the new phase of history inaugurated by the French Revolution…” (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, Ignatius Press, 1987 pp. 381-382.)