FREE PDF: The Last Battle by Franco Adessa
Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote about concerning our times:
“[Satan] will set up a Counter-church which
will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes
and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
We
are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The
two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of
the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the
catastrophic contest.
The False prophet will have a religion without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.
Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.
The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.
A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content,
it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on
earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false
prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.
The
Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers.
He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor
wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has
helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man
recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I
am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”
Nowhere
in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the
Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he
described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,”
whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic
is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell,
then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and
if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above
all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like
Himself that he would deceive even the elect–and certainly no devil ever
seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in
this new age to win followers to his religion?
The
pre-Communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the
Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as
means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves …
The
third temptation in which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the
kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a
new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a
religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion–one
that renders unto Caesar even the things that are God’s.
In
the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of
freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell
to no one: he will not believe in God. Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God,
he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counterchurch which
will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God.
It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in
reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ …
But
the twentieth century will join the counterchurch because it claims to
be infallible when its visible head speaks ex-cathedra from Moscow on
the subject of economics and politics, and as chief shepherd of world
communism.
(Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West [Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948], pp. 24-25)
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