HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 24, 2025 – I am what you might call an equal opportunity heretic – I denounce all forms of denominational Christianity as false prophets, showing no partiality for one sect over another. Still, and as I explained earlier, God permits the worldly church to exist mainly to serve as a hedge between the world and his genuine Church (the one founded by Jesus and peopled by us born-again believers) and to provide a resource for his children living in the Kingdom. The worldly church also serves as an incubator for some of his children until they’re spiritually sturdy enough to walk on their own. But none of the denominations are meant to be our life-long identities or permanent places of worship. We’re to pass through and out of the worldly church and to use it for our practical purposes only, like Jesus did. The “her” referenced in: “Come out of her, my people!” is the worldly church.

I mention this today because the largest of the worldly church’s false prophet sects, Roman Catholicism, is currently making headlines for all kinds of reasons, most of them negative, as usual. Just in the past year alone, four priests have come forward denouncing Bergoglio (code name: Francis) as the anti-pope, arguing that Ratzinger (code name: Benedict) didn’t renounce his entire papacy in 2013, just those aspects that required physical rigor. Benedict lived another ten years essentially as a prisoner within the Vatican, dying of natural causes or otherwise on New Year’s Eve, 2022. For pointing out that Francis is a usurper, the four priests were “automatically excommunicated”, but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing their campaign against the alleged anti-pope.

Meanwhile, Francis is on a swift decline health-wise, and whether he shuffles off his mortal coil over the next few days or weeks, he’s currently in no shape physically to continue his papal duties and likely won’t ever be again. And here’s where it gets interesting in a woo-woo kind of way. Nearly a millennia ago, a guy named Malachy allegedly wrote down a list of future popes. A few hundred years after it was published, the list was denounced as a forgery. However, people still sneak a peak at it every now and then, trying to jam square pegs into round holes. Some of the popes seem to be precisely as Malachy described them, while others are way off.

In any case, the list ends after pope #112: Benedict was #111. So, if you consider Francis to be legit, he’s the last pope (#112) according to Malachy’s prophecy. But if you side with the four excommunicated priests, the next pope will be #112 and therefore (allegedly) the last.

But wait – there’s more! Malachy prophesied that the final pope would be “Peter the Roman”. If Francis kicks the bucket in the near future, an Italian (Roman) named Pietro (Peter) is the front-runner to replace him. Couldn’t be more on-the-nose, but I’m still guessing that Peter will probably get the crown. And once he does, could this mean the end of Roman Catholicism?