Do the prophecies of St. Malachy suggest we are living in the end times?

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[Vermont Lt]

I grew up 15 miles from a SAC base. When they tried the duck and cover drills in elementary school, even the kids laughed at the futility of it. We all understood there were four or five bombs with our address on them.

Try explaining that feeling to your kids...they have no concept.

[ArrogantBustard]

Well ... if you ever see Mothman, try to avoid driving over bridges.

BTW, if "No.4 Mk I" means anything to you, please contact FReepmail me.

[Lee N. Field]

Yes, that would be the right categorization as I understand the categories but I"m not sure whether he's and postmillennial or amillennial.

Those categories are actually modern. I've read that Abraham Kuyper actually coined the unfortunate term "amillenial". (Unfortunate because inaccurate.) Prior to him, that position was simply considered postmillenial.

[Lee N. Field]

I was listening to a discussion of the St. Malarky (sic) prophecy this morning. It struck me that everyone is assuming that the last Pope means the end of the world.

Ain't necessarily so. The last pope means the end of the papacy.

[Alex Murphy]

I was listening to a discussion of the St. Malarky (sic) prophecy this morning. It struck me that everyone is assuming that the last Pope means the end of the world. Ain't necessarily so. The last pope means the end of the papacy.

What struck me in the article was that the "prophecies" were discovered in 1590 "in the Roman Archives", and are now dismissed as a "16th-century forgery created for partisan political reasons". If Wikipedia can be believed, they were first published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon, a Benedictine historian, as part of his book Lignum Vitæ. Maybe someone can enlighten us on what the partisan politics were at that time.