Search results
Keywords: Pope Francis, prophecy, end of the world, dark days, Mark 13, ISIS. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Pope Francis has warned that we could be in the end times as described in Mark, chapter 13. In the Book of Mark, Jesus told His disciples about the destruction that would presage the end of the world.
- What Is “The Prophecy of The Popes?”
- Who Was St. Malachy?
- Why Are People Talking About The Prophecy Now?
- Is This An Approved Private Revelation?
- What Evidence Is There Concerning Its Authenticity?
- How Else Can The Reliability of The Prophecy Be Evaluated?
- Should Catholics Worry About The Prophecy of The Popes?
It is an alleged private revelation given to the medieval figure St. Malachy. The prophecy consists of a list of 112 short phrases — enigmatic mottoes in Latin that are supposed to represent the popes from St. Malachy’s time onward.
St. Malachy was the archbishop of Armagh, Ireland in the 1100s. Reportedly, he made a visit to Rome in which he had a vision of the future popes and wrote them down.
The next-to-last motto in the prophecy of the popes has been associated with Pope Benedict XVI. Since he is now at the end of his papacy, that would bring us to the last name in the prophecy of the popes, which many have taken to indicate the final pope at the end of the world. This passage reads as follows:
No, it is not. Although it has been influential in some Catholic circles for several hundred years, it is not approved by the Magisterium.
A significant mark against its authenticity is the fact that it was not published until 1595, though St. Malachy died in 1148. There is no record of the prophecy existing in the intervening 447 years. Allegedly, this was because the prophecy lay, forgotten, in a Roman archive, and it was not rediscovered until 1590. This explanation is possible in ...
If it is not possible to establish an external, historical record for the prophecy then the next logical approach is to examine its contents to see which theory of its origins they are more consistent with: Do the contents seem to suggest that it was written in the 1100s or do they suggest that it was written around 1590? Many observers have though...
No. It is not an approved apparition, and the evidence is consistent with it being a forgery composed around 1590. More fundamentally, Jesus indicated that we would not know the time of the end. In keeping with Our Lord’s warning, predictions of the end of the world based on the Bible have a dismaltrack record, and trying to predict the time of the...
Mar 26, 2022 · An Irish saint's eerie prophecy that Pope Francis will be the last Pontiff. Irish Saint Malachy, the 12th-century bishop of Armagh, prophesied that there would be only one more pope after...
Mar 6, 2024 · Three years after Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to Iraq, Chaldean Archbishop Michael Najeeb of Mosul and Aqra tells Vatican News that the fruits of that historic visit are slowly beginning to show, despite ongoing difficulties for Christians. By Jean Charles Putzolu and Lisa Zengarini. On March 5, 2021 Pope Francis embarked on his historic ...
Mar 6, 2021 · 6 March 2021. Pope: 'We cannot be silent when terrorism abuses religion' Pope Francis has condemned extremism in the name of religion on a historic visit to Iraq where he discussed the plight...
Mar 7, 2021 · The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics on Saturday met Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, the reclusive Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who agreed that Iraq's Christians should be able to live ...
Mar 6, 2021 · The Patriarch Abraham, who today brings us together in unity, was a prophet of the Most High. An ancient prophecy says that the peoples “shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2:4). This prophecy has not been fulfilled; on the contrary, swords and spears have turned into missiles and bombs.
