The Antichrist is No Longer Restrained, by Robert Lazu Kmita, PhD

What – or Who – Withholds the Revelation of the Antichrist?

Amplified by the words and actions of Pope Francis, the crisis within the Church in recent decades represents, according to many authors from conservative and traditional Catholic circles, an unprecedented phenomenon in history. Even Pope John Paul II, who unfortunately embodies certain well-known neo-modernist tendencies, was forced to acknowledge in his exhortation Ecclesia in Europa (2003) that we are facing a so-called “silent apostasy” on the part of people who live as if God does not exist (art. 9). It is worth noting that this can only refer to baptized individuals, for only someone who knows Christian doctrine can apostatize, either by rejecting it entirely on a theoretical level or by denying it through a “worldly” way of life.

In times of crisis, as the young Joseph Ratzinger affirmed in the preface to his important monograph Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure (Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1971), the faithful not only begin to diligently read the ancient biblical prophecies but also seek the keys to understanding them. Today, we frequently encounter manifestations of this growing interest in deciphering the signs of the times and predicting the end of the world. …

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