The last pope?

[tfcrew]

In 1139, Malachy was Archibishop and traveled to Rome from ireland to give an account of his affairs. While in Rome, Malachy received a vision about the future which included the name of every pope, 112 in total, from his time until the end of time.  We currently are at the end of the second to last prophecy, with Benedict XVI at the helm.
St. Malachy had written about the 112th pope:
"In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20116

The list ends with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly bring the destruction of the city of Rome and the beginning of the Apocalypse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

[Anotherkiwi]

The list ends with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly bring the destruction of the city of Rome and the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Makes me glad that I live on the other side of the world - and at least I have been to Rome already!

[lordtiberius]

I miss Pope John Paul II.  I saw him once when I was a boy when he visited Phoenix.  It is unlikely that the new Pope will be a Slav.  But let us also remember that it was a Polish poet and patriot Juliusz Słowacki who foretold the ascension of Karol Wojtyła.  (The Russian word for king is Karol)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Słowacki

Juliusz Slowacki (1809 - 1849)

Translation: Copyright by The Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey, 1980


Amid discord the Lord God strikes
An immense bell,
Behold, for a Slavic pope
He opens a throne.
This one does not flee before swords
Like that Italian.
He is daring, like God, he goes to the sword:
The world to him is powder!

His face is radiant with the Word,
A lamp for the servant,
Because of him the advancing race goes
Into the light, where God is.
At his prayers and commands
Not only men-
If he commands, the sun stops,
For power-this is a wonder!

Now he draws near-the new dispenser
Of vigor to the globe:
The blood of our veins goes back into our veins
Under his word;
In our hearts the movement begins of floods
Of divine light,
What thought thinks through him, this is created,
For power-this is Spirit.

And power is needed, that we may raise
This lordly world:
Thus here comes a Slavic pope,
A brother of the people;-
Behold, he already pours the world's balm
On our breasts
And the angel-choir sweeps flowers
Toward his throne.

He distributes love, as lords today
Distribute arms.
He displays sacramental power,
The world held in his palm;
To him a dove wings words in hymns,
Bears a report,
Sweet news, that now the Spirit shines
And has His honor;
Above him the beautiful sky is opened
From either side,
For his is grounded in the world and thus are renewed
Both world and throne.

Across nations he acts as brother,
The voice sent forth,
That spirits come to their final end
Through mounds of sacrifices;
Sacramental power avails him for the care
Of the nations,
Power which will be seen through the Spirit
Before the coffin here.

In Spirit thus you soon perceive
A phantom, then a face:
From the world's wound he casts out all corruption,
Vermin, reptiles.
He brings health, enkindles love
And saves the world;
He sweeps out the interior of the Churches,
Clears out the entrance,
He shows forth God in the world of creativity,
Bright as day.
http://stoper.blox.pl/2011/01/JULIUSZ-SLOWACKI-SLOWIANSKI-PAPIEZ.html

This current of Polish Romanticism reflects a spirituality that rejects the atheism of the "Enlightenment." 

I like the current Pope as well.  He demonstrated a lot of courage and an agile mind.  He understood the challenges of the church and he began the great work we Catholics must complete in the 21st century.  God Bless Him and God Bless The New Pope!

[SANDRO43]

(The Russian word for king is Karol)

Indeed? First time I heard that .

The title of king (Russian korol' , Bulgarian kral) is perceived as alien and is reserved for (West) European royalty (and, by extension, for those modern monarchs outside of Europe whose titles are translated as king in English, roi in French etc.).

Karol is a Polish and Slovak version of the name Charles or Carl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol

Tsar (Tzar, Czar, or Csar) Bulgarian, Serbian and Ukrainian: цар; Russian: царь  [tsarʲ]  is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism. The term is derived from the Latin word Caesar, which was intended to mean "Emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term - a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch) - but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in between a royal and imperial rank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar

[lordtiberius]

Indeed? First time I heard that .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar

король == king

[Kunstkammer]

Indeed? First time I heard that .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar

The etymology of the word король in Russian comes from Charlemagne (Карл Великий) (Karolus Magnus in Latin) Which is what?  Oh yes, the name Charles.

[lordtiberius]

The etymology of the word король in Russian comes from Charlemagne (Карл Великий) (Karolus Magnus in Latin) Which is what?  Oh yes, the name Charles.

The article that you cite states that Old French dates at the earliest 9th century AD.  Where as the Slavic speaking peoples have been around since the 7th century BC, if not the dawn of time.  But I am sure this relates to the Pope some how

as Pope John Paul II has set the standards of the modern Papacy.

[Kunstkammer]

The article that you cite states that Old French dates at the earliest 9th century AD.  Where as the Slavic speaking peoples have been around since the 7th century BC, if not the dawn of time.  But I am sure this relates to the Pope some how

as Pope John Paul II has set the standards of the modern Papacy.

Article that I cite?  What article did I cite?  I pulled that out of my brain.

[Boethius]

The plot thickens -
 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/22/priests-in-panties.html

[tfcrew]

Hours after Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by announcing he would resign at the end of the month, a blinding shaft of lightning shot down from the heavens and struck the rod atop the white cross on St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.  Imagine the odds.  But here’s where it gets even more Twilight Zone: At that precise moment, AFP photographer Filippo Monteforte – his camera already trained on the Basilica’s cupola – pushed the button that yielded the image above.

http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Bolt-from-the-blue-after-Pope-resign

[tfcrew]

Did Pope Benedict XVI line up his successor and then resign to fulfill a 900-year-old prophecy that the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church would be history’s “final pope?”

     The idea was posed by Tom Horn, co-author of the book “Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope is Here.”
As WND reported, Horn and his co-author, Cris Putnam, accurately predicted Benedict would become the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/final-pope-already-running-vatican/#fOGtctBiGIU51aOC.99