|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
[Want even more content from FPM? Sign up for FPM+ to unlock exclusive series, virtual town-halls with our authors, and more—now for just $3.99/month. Click here to sign up.]
Conservatives and traditionalists in the Catholic Church still have hope that the next pope will restore Church traditions lost under Pope Francis.
These include the end of the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass and a less ambiguous papacy when it comes to matters of faith and morals. This hope exists even as a very ill Pope Francis meets with his hospital advisers to craft even greater, radical reforms. His latest edict, for instance, was a letter to liturgists reminding them that the liturgy should be kept simple and that ceremonial pomp should be avoided at all costs.
Simplifying the already Protestantized Mass would reduce it to a ceremonial on a par with Unitarian or a United Church of Christ services.
But what of the pope that will come after Francis, the iconoclast?
It is unlikely he will be a conservative but rather a pope who will further Francis’ revolution in ways that will shock the Catholic world. Francis’ revolution has already been won; the Church just needs a pope who will varnish the woodwork and transform it into a permanent ceramic.
Prophets, psychics, mystics, pundits: all have their views on who will be the next pope. St. Malachy’s (1094-1148) 112 Latin descriptions of future popes from the time of Pope Celestine II (1143-1144) to the present, has Pope Francis as the last pope although the counting from the 12th Century onward gets complicated when one considers the various “anti-popes” in between; this throws Malachy’s prediction off-kilter.
So there may be many popes after Bergoglio. Just because Malachy couldn’t “see” anyone after the last pope on his list, Peter the Roman, doesn’t mean the line of succession ends. The “ending” the saint sees is more likely a foreshadowing of a change in the nature of the papacy, a change so radical that the Chair of Peter becomes unrecognizable in the traditional sense.
What’s most likely to happen is a change in the pope’s role: A switch from sovereign pontiff to mere figurehead with zero administrative power and no say over faith and morals.
Confession: I play psychics like some people play horses. I think I’ve gotten good at it. Most psychics – especially when it comes to politics – are embarrassing; they can’t help but play partisan favorites when they allow their ideological beliefs to influence predictions. The web is full of these charlatans, especially woke women readers who convinced their subscribers that Kamala Harris would coast to victory back in November, or that Donald Trump wouldn’t survive his Inauguration.
Craig Hamilton-Parker, a psychic-medium in the UK, has been right about Donald Trump since 2015. He’s right more than he’s wrong. His impeccable Trump record got me listening to his recent Pope predictions. These predictions confirmed more or less what I felt anyway: He predicts enormous, shocking changes in the Catholic Church sometime after a new pope is elected in 2025.
Though Parker cautions that these changes won’t happen immediately – they will occur over the reign of several popes – when the cycle is complete, the Catholic Church will have reconsidered all of the doctrines developed since the Council of Nicaea while incorporating much of the (formerly rejected) Gnostic Gospels in its belief system.
The end result will be a “democratic” Catholic Church that will draw in large numbers of people of other faiths, “a Church completely transformed.”
Parker has no stake in anything Catholic. He’s more or less an ashram-oriented Hindu, oddly conservative in many ways but true to what he sees whether or not it fits into his belief system.
He sees a future pope kneeling before a saint from the East. He says the saint could be a non-Christian holy person – Pachamama in the flesh? – although he never mentions the possibility of a saint from Eastern Orthodoxy, which makes sense especially if the role of the papacy is reduced to a figure head or a “first among equals,” as it was in the first centuries of The Church.
He believes the next pope will speak German, meaning he could be German, Swiss or Austrian.
“I saw a new pope in 2025,” he says.
“Visions come to me in a flash. They can come unconsciously as a flash. I saw the future pope and I saw that he was speaking in German. He is also associated with the image of a swan. That’s an odd symbol because I’ve never seen swan symbolism associated with the papacy.”
Early last year Parker predicted that Francis would start to become very sick in January 2025. Since he is not one to predict death, he only says that there will be a new pope sometime in 2025.
When he started to name possible new popes he began with a blunder.
He mentioned Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, OP, Archbishop of Vienna from 1995 to 2025. Schonborn retired in January of this year at 80 years old, so his participation in a future papal conclave is not possible.
(Schonborn, it should be noted, was famous for his ecumenical Masses in Vienna’s historic St. Stephen’s Cathedral, where priests and lay participants beat drums and did dances around the high altar.)
While a non-Catholic can be excused for not recognizing when a cardinal is no longer pope material, the prelate Parker puts his money on is Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, 71, former head of Germany’s bishops who became controversial when he openly questioned Catholic doctrine.
While Marx’s name should give Christians pause – adult porn meets communist super hero – the ex-theology professor started out as a conservative when he was made a metropolitan-archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. Marx was then elevated to the cardinalate in 2010. With the election of Pope Francis in 2013, Marx shed his conservatism and became a radical proponent of welcoming migrants and heralding the dangers of climate change. On a 2016 trip to Israel as head of Germany’s bishops, he hid his pectoral cross — an action that many critics called a “denial of faith.”
Marx’s critics say he has a “history of opportunism” and that he’s “driving the Church into schism and secular meaninglessness.” Bishop Joseph Strickland of Texas said in 2022 that “Cardinal Marx has left the Catholic faith.” Marx is famous for his statement that the Catholic catechism “is not set in stone.” In May 2015 he hosted the “secret synod” at Pontifical Gregorian University in order to sway the larger Synod on the Family to accept his contention that homosexuality is not a sin and the Church must “normalize same-sex relations based on a theology of Love.”
Marx also believes the Church should sanction same-sex encounters, like chance meetings in bars or steam baths.
He believes the question of women’s priesthood should remain open.
In Germany he is a vocal critic of that country’s conservative Alternative for Germany Party. The year 2018 saw him celebrating the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. On many occasions he has stated that Catholic teaching owes a lot to the writings of Karl Marx.
Parker also mentions papal contenders Cardinal Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, a noted ecumenist, Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk of the Netherlands, and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne.
Cardinal Woelki, although head of the conservative minority of bishops in Germany, has stated that same sex couples in long faithful relationships should be able to have their relationships blessed by a priest in the same manner as heterosexual couples. Woelki, however, once reprimanded a priest for blessing same sex couples and he once preached that homosexuality was against “the order of creation”. The theological struggle going on in Woelki’s head is more than obvious; the switch-hitting is perhaps the result of the pressure he was under from the German media to be more like Cardinal Marx.
As for the two remaining German speaking cardinals, only one is authentically conservative, Cardinal Eijk, who has a license in moral theology and a doctorate in philosophy. He also happens to be a physician of internal medicine and has a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. A truly saintly intellect, in 2001 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Some believe the hemorrhage was caused by his intense work in attempting to stem the tide of the increasing secularization and loss of faith in Dutch society.
But according to the Hindu sage Parker, it is definitely Marx who will win the crown, the cardinal who has been called “a lightning rod in Francis’ papacy.”
Unfortunately the Church will continue to wander in the desert until it comes back to Christ.
It will never come back to Christ. It has wandered so far from him that God is allowing what passes for the minds of Catholic leadership t0 darken to the point of no return.
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared” -1 Timothy 4:1–2.
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.” -Romans 1:28
Hits the nail on the head; doesn’t it?
Matthew 16:18. We can only hope and pray this is true.
A pope will still be around just before Christ returns, for who else will be the False Prophet? The Anti-Christ needs his support — for a short time!
Theodocia Australia 🇦🇺
This guy is a total joke and this lame article reeks of partisan bs.
Whatever you say, Jerk Dick.
Jerk dick? That sounds very homosexual of you. Are you sure that’s allowed among other fake Christians?
It is homosexual, which is why you do it. You must be an Altar Boy. How’s your butt? Does it hurt from all the Priestly benedictions?
What’s with the anti-Christian bias. I wonder why it is that progressives always feel the need to show their God hatred in front of everybody. Feel better now?
Who’s the jerk dick now, jerk dick?
Could be food. Jerk chicken.
Jerk communist/dick- redundancy helps with pejoratives although no one would want you to admit something so horrible
I’ll keep beating my drum. The Catholic Church cannot be restored until it recognizes the truth that Bergoglio is an antipope. Sedevacant 12/31/2022.
The Vatican has been wading too far into the Swamp to ever return from and its been doing that for every long time
Could the “swan” image be indicative of a “black swan” event?
Maybe it indicates Pope Commie’s swan dive into Hell.
You sure use terms like commie and woke a lot, you maga idiot. Who is that in your pic, your slave? God knows maga doesn’t respect people of color enough to actually be friends with them.
A TDS troll. That explains your anti-black racism, stupidity and derangement.
America hates you mutants. Get used to it.
How could you possibly know what God wants. Still butt hurt over the election shellacking last November, aren’t you.
People of color? Really? This must be an Obama lecture circa 2009.
So you think having black friends is important? Even if they riot and burn down your neighborhood? Or steal your car. Or rape your wife, if you have one.
Yeah JD, Ah be sho’ nuff sure you always be hangin’ in de hood wid de bruthuhs.
Virtue signal much?
He’s never been with a black chick in his life. Only the ones in politics like soy boys. The street chicks hate them.
And you communists always know what’s best for black people.
You probably check under your bed every night to be sure there are no brown people
So Parker had a “vision” of a Pope speaking German when the Catholic clergy who’re the most “woke” just happen to speak German. Very prescient. He’s a real combination of Nostradamus and Professor X. It’s not like the Council of Cardinals would ever choose an American, no matter how “woke,” and Desmond Tutu is dead, so good luck to them finding a prominent black African who’s “woke” instead of devout.
I didn’t even need to take psychedelic drugs or channel Abraham to see the same probability that Parker did.
Another Latin American Lenin Pope would speed up the dissolution of the Catholic Church just as fast as a Kraut Commie but the Cardinals are doubtlessly leery about choosing one after the global unpopularity of the Bolshevist of Buenos Aires.
There really is no succession, as the Pope does not exist in Scripture. You get that from a horrendous exegesis of:
Mat_16:18 “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it
.
I don’t have to go to the Greek to show you the exegesis unacceptable and one where the result was determined on what you needed to make a pope. If Peter was handing the Pope to the Roman Catholic denomination, Jesus would have had to say, “you are Peter and on THAT rock I will build my church”. He did not, he said on THIS rock I will build my church. That clearly indicates the exegesis is faulty. Jesus is referred to as the firm foundation and the rock in many passages, further casting doubt on your exegesis. Lastly, it is highly doubtful that He would turn His Bride over to some sinner to be responsible for Her care and nurture.
Additionally, there is the problem with the Greek, Mat 16:18 “I alsoG2532 sayG3004 to you that you are N1 R1PeterG4074, and upon thisG3778 N2rockG4073 I will buildG3618 My churchG1577; and the gatesG4439 of R2HadesG86 will not overpowerG2729 it ,
The numbers are the Strong’s identification for the Greek word. G4074 is the name Petros and it means a rock, bigger than gravel but one a man could lift., G4073 Petra is literally a massive rock or foundation.
It is clear that Christ said to Peter you are Petros , a small rock, and upon THIS rock, Petra, a foundational rock, I will build my church. An honest exegesis does not find Jesus saying He would build on the smaller rock but upon the Petra and foundational mass. He is explicitly stating that He is the foundation of the Church, which harmonizes well with the rest of Scripture.
Conclusion? No Pope.
The Petra/ Petros distinction can be explained as referring to an elevated Peter, changed and charged with power, love and understanding, no longer a simple fisherman, but now with the keys to salvation laid upon his shoulder. That’s a more orthodox view.
Given that mediumship is forbidden in the Bible (Leviticus 19:31), so the revelations of a medium cannot be from God, my thought is that perhaps these prognostications represent a “wish list” compiled by the forces of evil – an agenda that they are hoping to achieve.
When I came to Christ for redemption and a new beginning in 1970 I was 25 years old. It was a hard experience because of the crowd already clustered around Him. Professional clergy, socially religious people, TV hustlers, etc. all presented their own challenges for this young sinner.
I accepted the hard work of personal Bible study and interpretations. I figured I’d do no worse than the crowd above.
The short of it, popes are inconsequential for me except to wonder why people with a brain would trust anyone but Christ, magisterium not with standing.