Who is the whore? I keep being told by Fundies that both the Beast and the Whore are the RCC. Any reason why the Catholic Church is NOT the whore or beast? Who could it be then?

I don't know.  The great city doesn't seem to be Rome though.

And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified.

But what about claims of how the anti-Christ will be the pope? With JP2's coffin being shaped like a trapezoid which people say is like a satanic symbol.

But what about claims of how the anti-Christ will be the pope? With JP2's coffin being shaped like a trapezoid which people say is like a satanic symbol.

This is why I don't pay too much attention to the book of Revelation without consulting a priest or a book explaining Revelations with an imprimatur on it.

I mean, look at Myrna's post- that's very convincing to me, and I can see where she's coming from. Raoul's posts are convincing too. The dastardly Dimonds, Mike and Pete, also had me convinced for a while (Deo Gratias I no longer frequent their sick website)

I think there's far too much else to be concerned with (in the spiritual realm) than to focus on this. The interior life is far more important and goes far more ignored, it seems, in our world today.

Where did you get the idea that the antichrist will be a pope?

My understanding is that the whore of Babylon is the Vatican II church, as Myrna pointed out.

gobosox91- If I may give you a recommendation in fighting your scruples- retreat!

Retreat to a life of prayer- get away from the 'debate', for now- it will only fuel your scruples and doubt. Pray; meditate; say your Rosary; receive our Blessed Lord, and ask Him after you receive his most Precious Body in your Thanksgiving for help. He wants this of you; you are trying to attack this on an intellectual level, and if you continue, may indeed lose. Its happened many a time before. Be assured you are not the first confronted with this. Those who are successful, are the ones who follow the advice of a good spiritual director (your priest) and who turn to prayer as above.  You need the protection of Christ and his Blessed Mother now, more than anything else. Once you can confirm that you have their help, you can revisit these issues- but not until then.

You will be in my prayers, indeed.

The whore of Babylon is the apostate Jєωs. It was in Babylon that the Jєωs learned the Kabala which is nothing more than black magic and first devised the oral law or тαℓмυd.  The Jєωs claimed that they received this oral law directly from Moses but Our Lord vehemently refuted this lie.  The counterfeit religion of Rabbinic Judaism is based on the Kabbalah and the тαℓмυd. The city that Tele mentions with seven hills is Jerusalem in which the Jєωs crucified our Lord.   Its not possible that the Whore of Babylon could ever be the RCC or that the Pope could be the Antichrist, it would mean that the gates of hell really have prevailed and that Jesus was a liar, which is impossible.   Now it is said that all the nations of the earth have fornicated with the whore.  Could it be that the way we have done this is by allowing the apostate Jєωs control of our banking system?  Practically every nation on earth (Iran, Cuba and North Korea are the exception) is enmeshed with at the mercy Jєωιѕн central banking and it won't be long until they control the whole world.

Nic from Fisheaters has some great insight on Apocalypse.  I can't come anywhere near summarizing it, but basically all the stuff (or most of it) already happened, and Nero was the antichrist.  I don't know if he's here, but if he is I hope he posts in this thread.

Nero was not the Antichrist.

second view admits that the Antichrist is a person, but it maintains that he is a person of the past; Nero, Diocletian, Julian, Caligula, Titus, Simon Magus, Simon the son of Giora, the High Priest Ananias, Vitellius, the Jєωs, the Pharisees, and the Jєωιѕн zealots have been variously identified with the Antichrist. But there is little traditional authority for this opinion; besides, it does not appear to satisfy fully the prophetic predictions, and, in the case of some of its adherents, it is based on the supposition that the inspired writers could not transcend the limits of their experiences.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01559a.htm