Antichrist

====Speculation====

The ''[[Prophecy of the Popes]]'' (identified as a 16th century forgery by historians<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=M. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIZVuIhz06cC |title=An Historical and Critical Account of the So-called Prophecy of St. Malachy Regarding the Succession of Popes |date=1880 |publisher=M.H. Gill and Son |language=en}}</ref>) claims Rome will be destroyed during the pontificate of the last Pope, implying a connection to the Antichrist.

[[Fulton J. Sheen]], a Catholic [[bishop]], wrote in 1951:<ref name="Sheen1951">{{cite book|last=Sheen|first=Fulton J.|title=Communism and the Conscience of the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysKEnQEACAAJ|access-date=October 24, 2015|year=1951|publisher=Country Life Press|page=17}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Joseph|last=Pronechen|title=Fulton Sheen's Clear Warning About the Anti-Christ|url=http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/fulton-sheens-view-of-the-anti-christ|newspaper=[[National Catholic Register]]|publisher=[[EWTN]]|location=Irondale, Alabama|date=February 10, 2019|access-date=October 7, 2019}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers... he will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves... He will tempt Christians with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ... He will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch... It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ.}}