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Oh, oops.  Catholic Samurai had said that the false prophet would not be an anti-Pope.  And now that I think about it, that also strikes me as correct.  There will probably be nothing Catholic about Anti-Christ or those who serve him, the religion will be nearly destroyed by this time.

Hi all.

I am just wondering if anyone can answer this question: could the antichrist be crowned Pope?

He would obviously believe in Christ and all of the dogmas as he would have a supernatural knowledge they are true - but he hates them.  Could he become Pope and reign over the Church?

Since the Antichrist will be a man, he will not be Satan himself. It is clearly understood the man will NOT have the divine virtue of Faith. Without Faith one can neither be a pope, nor a Catholic. A pope must be Catholic and have the divine virtue of Faith. He can be crowned, but he will just be the Antichrist with a crown on his head...not a pope.

The article in the Catholic Encyclopedia gives argument that a false pope will be the Antichrist. The Antichrist will try to simulate Christ, and since a pope is the closest to that effect, he will seek to lead astray and destroy Catholics by being a false pope whom the majority of Catholics will think is real. The article mentions that St. Bernard believed the Antichrist would be a false pope.

What better way to lead Catholics to perdition than to claim that even were the Antichrist a false pope, that we would have to consider him a true pope because we don't have the authority to make a judgment to the contrary!

This is what the SSPX is leading Catholics to. The is what the sedevacantists are warning Catholics about. The SSPXers continuously run away from the arguments of the sedevacantists, while the SSPXers try to feel satisfied with their contradictions and dead-end arguments. The "operation of error" is setting in.

false Pope=false prophet perhaps
antichrist=jew born in middle east and rises to power there, likely nuclear tipped nad USA supported Israel....