Not being a Papist I cannot begin to understand all the teachings and nuances of the RC teachings, it has been my understanding that the current pope was previously a socialist community organizer-type cleric in his native country. Ann Barnhardt has nailed this guy as an apostate, and I do give her musings a fair bit of credence.
She's brash and a bit too strident for me to listen to in anything but short doses most of the time, but it's almost always time well spent.
She is also the first person I heard say out loud the things about our economy and the state of our nation that I was seeing and couldn't make/let myself believe. Between that and how she starts with the Lord's prayer, I tend to pay attention to what she is seeing in the greater world and give it some thought.
Keeping in mind the story we were born into, when I added her comments to those of recent and past, even to some prophetic, voices, I found plenty to research and more to keep my shields raised.
These are more than just dangerous times, like in a close game when things speed up and get more intense as the clock winds down.
These are prophetic times, where the end of the game is a foregone conclusion and the clock is running out on a cornered and wounded beast.
The beast's final play seems to be: "If you can't win, then take as many out with you as you can from the one who has beaten you. Take joy in making your victor suffer."
And that's how we lost souls have always been used, but MUCH more so now as the clock runs out.
And no doubt, we're predictably easy pickin's for the master of deception even on our best days, but especially so in this dark, arid desert we've created, just as the book tells us, warns us, promises us.
Yep, dangerous, prophetic times. Beware, pray, repent and keep the Commandments. I'm told that time is short.