[Mrs. Don-o]

I see what you're saying there. You're correct: by, say, ~90 AD, by the time Revelation was written, not only was the literal "Babylon" long gone, but Jerusalem was gone, gone, gone as well.

But if you want to reference prophecies made ~40 years before, as Msgr. Pope says, you'd have to look to the Gospels.

That paragraph leaves it unclear which set of prophecies he's talking about. He says "Revelation" but he's --- it seems to me --- referring to the Gospels.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, he may have just phrased it badly, but if so, it’s unfortunate, because the preterists do interpret those prophecies the way that he makes it appear he is doing. I hope he didn’t intend to support that kind of interpretation.