Pope Francis’s accession to the Throne of St. Peter was announced on the 13th day of the month in the 13th year of the century, at exactly 13 minutes after 8 PM local time. He has come to lead a church swept by scandal and in a state of serious decline in much of the world. The Prophecy of St. Malachy suggests that he might be the last pope, and it may be true that his is the last papacy of the old style, because the Catholic Church is wracked by dissension, drowning in criminality, and so deeply tied to criminal financial activities that it may be unable to extract itself without going bankrupt.
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John Hogue predicted the resignation of Pope Benedict when that seemed a precedent-breaking impossibility. Now he opens up as never before about the Vatican, the papacy, the future of the Catholic Church and how it is tied to future of an increasingly uneasy world.
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