[MarkBsnr]

It must be remembered that Saint Malachy’s Prophecy of the Popes contains references to both Popes and anti-Popes. It would be entirely consistent with Catholic teaching and emerging Protestant interpretation, for Benedict XVI’s successor, the final pontiff known as Petrus Romanus, to be both anti-Pope and False Prophet.

Rather, it would be entirely consistent with antiCatholic teaching and emerging Protestant interpretation to grasp at any straw regarding belief in the demise of the Catholic Church.

Jesus will return in His own good time. I'll bet that none of us alive here will see it. That's how I live my life - else what do I tell my children? To be ready to pack it in? If that is the case, why plan for the future? Why should I send my kids to college? Why should I plan for retirement?

If you think that it's feverish now, consider the late 900's at the end of the 'first millennium'.

Rather, live your life as if you will be of your natural lifespan and face the Lord, the Judge of All on your final day. To be fatalistic is not consistent with either the human psyche or Scripture.

[redgolum]

If you look at the end of the first millennium, it was much worse than today. Plague, wars, invading pagans, made for a more vivid back drop to the expected end times.

[ArrogantBustard]

Rather, live your life as if you will be of your natural lifespan and face the Lord, the Judge of All on your final day.

And how long is that?

We must be equally as prepared to die in our 90s as we are to die right now.