HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS BEING PERSECUTED
Catechism of the Catholic Church weighs in on how the Church will be infiltrated and persecuted before the 2nd coming of Christ the King..
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) paragraph 675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems (my comments: 'socialism, communism, modernism, relativism, transhumanism') at the price of apostasy from the truth (Catholicism). The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism (means – ‘false messiah’) by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”
*Fr Ripperger - "this describes the minor chastisement and a major chastisement."
*My analysis: This could be describing the Francis Papacy aligned with the Green New Deal, the Globalist, Big Pharma, World Economic Form (WEF), Communist China etc. This is being continued under Pope Leo XIV and his meeting and alliance with Marxist Revolutionaries - https://www.lepantoin.org/wp/pope-leo-to-october-meeting-of-marxist-revolutionaries-i-am-here-i-am-with-you/
*My analysis: Communism & Nazism (which is socialism) – those in power are glorified, they are demigods (deified mortals). Nazism went after the Old Testament people of God, Communism went after the New Testament people of God.
*My analysis: Marxism – the destruction of religion, family and property. That is why Pope Pius XI famously declared, "Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist" (Quadragesimo Anno, 120).
CCC paragraph 676 - "The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatalogical judgment (this means that our ‘Hope is the 2nd Coming of Christ’). The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism (it is heresy to believe that Christ is going to set up an earthly Kingdom for 1,000 years in Jerusalem), especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism."
The devil uses politics as a tool (CCC parapgraph 407), communism & socialism are the political tools of satan. Fr Culleton writes that The antichrist will be a communist liberal progressive. He writes: “This person or movement would set out to conquer the world and would be at first very successful…Communism is this anti-christian force” (book: 'The Reign of Antichrist', TAN).
In CCC paragraph 677, “The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy (in other words, not by man’s efforts like socialism, that’s trying to make a perfect society by constructing a tower of Babel), but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil (cf. Revelation 19:11-21), which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven (cf. Revelation 21:1-3). God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgement after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world” (cf. Revelation 20:1-15).
Romans 8:16-18 "it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us."
Matthew 10:38-39 "and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it."
2 Timothy 2:12 (Douay Rheims) “A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.”
"Come Lord Jesus" (Rev 22:20)