HERE is a timely quote from Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen’s Communism and the Conscience of the West, published in 1948:

The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”

Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect–and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?

The pre-Communist Russian belief is that 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. . . .

. . . The third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion–one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God’s.

In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, 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 which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. 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. . . .

. . . But the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when its visible head speaks ex cathedra from Moscow on the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world communism.

Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24-25; as quoted at Novus Ordo Watch.

— Comments —

James writes:

Thank you for the interesting quote by  Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen.

I know it’s controversial and many people will think this is silly, but if there is anyone who ever lived who most fitted the definition of the antichrist according to the scriptures; it was arguably antipope John Paul II.

The looming canonization of JPII will possibly be the ultimate insult to God and mockery of his church.

There is a recent video made by a young brother of Most Holy Family Monastery that I think is very apropos regarding the preparation of the canonization “circus” that will soon take place.

 Laura writes:

The Catholic Church cannot possibly canonize an apostate such as John Paul II. Thus we know the man who is canonizing him cannot be the head of the true Church. He is the head of a false church posing as the true Church.

Speaking of the Argentinian bomber, his revolution is proceeding apace. See this post at Tradition in Action about the daughter of a lesbian being baptized at the Cathedral of Cordoba in Argentina. President Cristina Kirchner was the official godmother.

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