Well Ladislaus the Church was equally in a very bad state during the Arian heresy “as the Church woke up to find itself Arian”. Yes the current state is somewhat worse in that the rot has infiltrated right to the top.

Although I was only a child when the changes began, it only took a year or two for many of the pioneering trads to firmly  believe that the end was at hand because of what was happening to the Church, which ended up being the cause of the total loss of faith for many of them - imo because the whole idea made them lose all hope. There's no reason to be overly concerned about something we can never know either in this world or in the next - even Our Blessed Mother doesn't know when. 

"...But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" Luke 18:8

Our Lord implied that when He returns, the faith will be either almost or completely gone from the whole earth. IF that is the case, then we should still have 2 or 3 more generations to go, likely many, many more. 

 


 

Where do you get this idea? I always thought the loss of Faith was because people didn't Trust God anymore. I didn't think the loss of Faith was forced upon mankind because God allowed man to destroy themselves.

The "killing" and "death" spoken of in those prophecies about the Antichrist is not physical killing and physical death. It is talking about him causing spiritual death through his deception, leading people to believe it is okay to commit mortal sin. And the people who go along with the deception will be in a state of mortal sin. They will be cut off from God, from Life. They will be dead spiritually.

This is the effect of "operation of error" discussed in 2 Thessalonians 2. It is working at this very moment. It will reach its apex very soon. Bergoglio is the "man of sin." Watch and pray.

Because he fits the description that St. Paul gives in 2 Thessalonians 2. He is a pretender to the throne of Peter, a heretical antipope. He is attempting to convince Catholics that if one subjectively believes himself to be free from serious sin, then he is actually free from sin and may receive the Eucharist. He acts as if he is God by "correcting" the teachings of Jesus on adultery, for example.

But he has not been "revealed" yet to "the world." This will come soon. This obscurity is part of his deception.

Then there are many private revelations that describe him. He is the "destroyer" antipope of St. Francis of Assisi.

In St. Malachy's prophecy of the popes, he comes directly after "the glory of the olive," who is described as the last pope before the tribulation of the Church.

His revelation comes in the final 7 years of the 70 years discussed in Daniel, chapter 9. I believe the 70 years started in 1959. It is a long explanation that I have discussed elsewhere on Cathinfo. And my interpretation matches up with the fact that the Third Secret of Fatima was supposed to be released BEFORE 1960, and because it was not, we are living the consequences: the apostasy that was planted as a bad seed in the 1960s, cultivated and watered by freemasons and communists infiltrators in the Vatican, and perfected in Bergoglio who is himself a communist.

He is a match, in my opinion, for what St. Hildegard von Bingen describes (figuratively) in the following text:

Description of the Antichrist in St. Hildegard von Bingen (1173 AD)

The Antichrist will indeed be infused by the devil when he opens his mouth to teach perversity, as described above. He will destroy all that God established with the ancient and the new law, and he will assert that sɛҳuąƖ immorality and other like things are not sins at all. For he will claim that it is not a sin if flesh heats up flesh, just as it is not a sin if a person warms himself by the fire. He will also assert that all commandments concerning chastity were made in ignorance, for since one person may be hot but another cold, they ought to moderate one another with their heat and cold.

And again he will say to the faithful,

“Your law of sɛҳuąƖ restraint was established contrary to the way of nature. Is a person not supposed to be hot, when his very breath is a fire that kindles his whole body? How could he keep his cool when it’s against his nature? Conversely, what reason could a person have to refuse to offer warmth to another’s flesh? For that man who you say is your master gave you a law that goes beyond measure when he bid you to live in such a way. But I say, embrace these two paths of hot and cold, and keep each other in your warm embrace! Consider that the man just mentioned gave you unjust commands, for despite his order that people not embrace one another with such warmth, they still maintained the nature of their flesh. So see here and do not be misled any longer by an unjust teaching, for with me you get to do whatever you want or not. Your master did not set before you correct propositions; he wanted you to be like a spirit that is unbound by the flesh and cannot physically do anything. But that’s not how naturally-born human flesh was created; rather it’s flooded and formed by fire, because if human children weren’t created in that way, they wouldn’t be capable of physical action. So know then what you really are! For your first teacher deceived you and didn’t help you in anything. But I inspire you really to learn about yourselves and to know what you are, for I created you, and I am completely in all things. In assigning all his works to another, meanwhile, that one spoke nothing on his own because he couldn’t do anything on his own. But I speak for myself, and I can do all things by myself.”

With these words and others like them, that wretched son of perdition will mislead people, teaching them to live according to the flesh’s fiery appetite and to achieve their flesh’s every want--despite the fact that both the old and the new law encourage humans to chastity in such a way that chastity does not surpass its proper measure.

The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 18. St. Hildegard Von Bingen, The Book of Divine Works. Pages 466-467, Part III, Vision 5, Chapter 30 (in part).