[Mrs. Don-o]

This so-called Malachy Prophecy is not only NOT Catholic doctrine, it is not even private revelation: it's, as far as textual investigation can tell, a forgery.

St. Malachi died in the year 1148. The so-called prophecy was "discovered" in 1595. Significantly, the "prophecies" from the intervening 447 years (1148-1595) were a pretty good match (as they would be, if they were written after the fact!!) and the "prophecies" dealing with popes after 1595 are ludicrously vague, very much like the prophecies in fortune cookies.

They can all be nicely interpreted ex post facto, of course.

But the Church's attitude is that it's not private revelation, it's a forgery.

[Daisy4]

But the Church's attitude is that it's not private revelation, it's a forgery.

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Of course the prophecy of Malachy is a fake.

It is written in the Book of Deuteronomy by Moses Ch. 18 vs. 10-12 KJV

10. There shall NOT be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useh divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanger, or a witch,

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter wih familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12. For all that do these things are an abdomination unto the Lord.