False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24:24) Are you finding it increasingly difficult to know what is real on the internet and what is not? The World Wide Web has become a veritable sea of lies. It’s estimated that a quarter to a third of Facebook and X accounts are fake, constituting hundreds of millions of false users that are merely programmed or bots. That means many comments you read may actually be artificially generated through algorithms in order to make it appear that a certain post is supported or not. This is an AI-generated image. She does not exist. Now, with the advent of so-called artificial “intelligence” (AI), we have entered a new era of mass deception unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. AI is capable of generating “deep fake” photos, audio, and video that can realistically fabricate or alter a person’s appearance, voice, or speech (I recently heard a video of my voice where I was speaking perfect Spanish.) AI can generate realistic videos out of thin air or alter existing ones to create fantastical scenes. I receive weekly emails from people sharing videos of Pope Leo or other speakers, thinking they’re real when they’re complete fabrications. [I always tell people that they need to verify the original source, such as the Vatican’s website, a diocesan page, or even a story from an official news site.] And today, people’s phone lines, texts, and emails are overrun with elaborate schemes aimed at robbing them of their savings. Scammers prey on the trust and goodwill of folks who hand over their financial information or access keys/codes, thinking they are just protecting themselves. [If you ever get a call from someone posing as a border, bank, tax, etc. agent, and they want to sort out a financial issue, hang up, log in to your account, or go to the institution’s official website and call them back from there. Any serious issue should always be flagged on your account or in the internal messages or notifications.] A Liar and a Thief We have entered Satan’s Golden Hour when his character is being plainly exposed, for those with eyes to see: You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44) Moreover, said Jesus: A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) In just a few short sentences, Our Lord revealed the entire programme of Satan that is now reaching its crescendo in our times. Communism is essentially the social ideology whose goal is to completely restructure society’s fundamental order. History has shown repeatedly that Communism does so by stealing wealth and property, slaughtering resistors, and destroying history; it steals human creativity and supplants it with government control; it slaughters human rights and social unity; it destroys culture and subverts religion — ultimately making the State a religion itself. Communism is the penultimate utopian deception of the Antichrist: 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 eschatological judgment. —Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 676 My long-term readers have no doubt heard me quote Pope John Paul II for 20 years now in his warning, while still a Cardinal, that, “We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-gospel…” But did you hear what he said right before that? We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. —Eucharistic Congress for the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 1976; cf. Catholic Online (confirmed by Deacon Keith Fournier who was in attendance) That confrontation, which was reaching its Cold War peak as he was about to become the next Pope, was with Communism. Thus, he added: It is a trial — perhaps the greatest trial — through which humanity must pass; a trial of two thousand years of culture and Christian civilization, in all of its consequences for the dignity of man, the rights of the individual, and the rights of nations.encyclical against atheistic Communism, Pope Pius XI lamented that the “errors of Russia” (ie. Marxism, atheism, socialism, materialism, etc.) that Our Lady of Fatima warned would spread throughout the world were, in fact, doing so — embodied in Communism. Pius XI also framed this revolution as the greatest challenge to the Church in her entire history: This modern revolution, it may be said, has actually broken out or threatens everywhere, and it exceeds in amplitude and violence anything yet experienced in the preceding persecutions launched against the Church… Our words are now receiving sorry confirmation from the spectacle of the bitter fruits of subversive ideas, which We foresaw and foretold, and which are in fact multiplying fearfully in the countries already stricken, or threatening every other country of the world. —POPE PIUS XI, Divini Redemptoris, n. 24, 6; Communism has not died; it has merely changed hats. It’s buried beneath new euphemisms like “climate justice”, “sustainability and development,” “equality”, “anti-racism”, the “Great Reset”, “Build Back Better”, etc., but its goals remain the same: …that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view — namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism. —POPE LEO XIII, Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, Apri 20th, 1884)) cont...
The spiritual crisis involves the entire world. But its source is in Europe. People in the West are guilty of rejecting God… The spiritual collapse thus has a very Western character. —Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Herald, April 5th, 2019 Lyin’ Signs and Wonders Before passing from this world, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI was quoted in a letter sent in 2015 to Vladimir Palko, a retired Bratislava statesman who lived through the Cold War. Benedict wrote: We see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding, and we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend his church in this hour of need from the power of evil. —POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI, The American Conservative, January 10th, 20In his teaching on the coming of the Antichrist, St. Paul warned of this “lawless one”… …whose coming springs from the power of Satan in every mighty deed and in signs and wonders that lie. (2 Thess 2:9) 2000 years ago, believers might have assumed that the false prophets who would come would perform deceptive miracles along the line of Pharaoh’s magicians who turned their staffs into snakes.[6] But today, could the actual “signs and wonders that lie” not be technology itself whereby reality and deception have virtually become indistinguishable? Watch: (Video must be watched at page link below story) Clearly, nearly all of humanity is utterly captivated by these technological feats as we collectively gaze into our devices and scroll through reel after reel of social media posts, videos, games, pornography, and more. If Satan is a liar and a murderer, a thief who comes to steal, slaughter, and destroy, what is ruining and robbing this generation more of its innocence and trust than internet content that is intentionally meant to addict us through constant surveillance and clever algorithms? In case anyone thinks this is hyperbole or “conspiracy theory,” it was the Vatican itself that drew this very parallel of the Antichrist and artificial intelligence. Transhumanist, Elon Musk, referred to AI as an attempt to build a “digital god”Antiqua et Nova (“Ancient and New”): …the presumption of substituting God for an artifact of human making is idolatry, a practice Scripture explicitly warns against (e.g., Ex. 20:4; 32:1-5; 34:17). Moreover, AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that “have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear” (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can “speak,” or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15). —nos. 104-105 The scriptural reference to Rev 13:15 included in the document speaks of the coming Antichrist and a false prophet who… …was then permitted to breathe life into the beast’s image, so that the beast’s image could speak and could have anyone who did not worship it put to death. (Revelation 13:15) Has anyone noticed how artificial intelligence can now take images of the past of the deceased and “breathe life” into them?[9] In other words, the lyin’ signs and wonders of the Antichrist may very well be appearing on the screens we’re transfixed by. “Watch and pray,” Jesus said,[10] watch and pray. …He will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations. (Isaiah 25:7) https://www.markmallett.com/blog/ly...gn=lyin_signs_and_wonders&utm_term=2025-10-29
Indeed, man believes himself to be a god, and there is also an Antichrist who will reign over all those gods. The Antichrist has already begun rolling out the red carpet for his presentation. First, he began by announcing that old age is a disease we are going to eradicate. Man must be eternal, and for that we need two things: an endless energy source that we will draw from the stars, and machines into which we can upload our conscious data. With enough knowledge and energy, humanity will be able to create a new universe filled with avatars that will be virtual, and anything will be possible within it. Humans will live there, and machines will repair their bodies connected to a neural network. The new Big Bang will be possible, and God will have to look at us with envy (forgive us, Lord, for our insolence and misery. Have pity and mercy on us all thru your sorrowful Passion and your Glory).
St. Thomas Aquinas explained where the Antichrist will be found: https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~2Thess.C2.L1.n40 40. When he [St. Paul] says so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God, he gives the sign of this wrongdoing. For the Antichrist’s pride is greater than the pride of all who came before him. So as it is written of Gaius Caesar that he wanted to be worshiped while he was still alive, and put statues of himself in every temple, and as Ezekiel says of the king of Tyre, I have said that I am God (Ezek 28:2), so it is quite believable that the Antichrist will act as they did, saying that he is both God and man. And as a sign of this he will sit in the temple. But in what temple? Was it not destroyed by the Romans? This is why some say that the Antichrist is from the tribe of Dan, whose tribe is not named among the other twelve in Revelation (Rev 7:5). Because of this, the Jews will accept him at first, and will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, and thus Daniel will be fulfilled: an abomination and an idol will be in the temple (Dan 9:27). But when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place, let him who reads understand(Matt 24:15). But some say that neither Jerusalem nor the temple will ever be rebuilt, but that their desolation will last until the final consummation. And even some Jews believe this. So this text is explained to mean: in the temple of God, i.e., in the Church, since many from the church will accept him. Or according to Augustine, he sits in the temple of God, i.e., he rules and governs as though he himself with his messengers were the temple of God, as Christ is the temple with his adherents. Aquinas is agreeing that St. Paul's prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2 places the Antichrist in something that appears to be "the Church." However, Antichrist is not in the True Church ("as Christ is the temple with his adherents"), but rather in a Counterfeit of the Roman Catholic Church, which Antichrist "rules and governs as though he himself with his messengers were the temple of God." Both Aquinas and Augustine are in agreement on this point. And we are living through this right now. Antichrist is not AI. He is a real human being. He is an antipope.
I understand that the Antichrist will claim to be Jesus Christ at his second coming and will perform shoddy miracles or simulate miracles. Can the demon really materialize objects? There was a possessed woman who, poor thing, gave birth to a toad. There will be rumors that he has arrived, and some will rush to see him wherever he is. That is why Christ warned us about how the coming will be; it will be like a lightning flash that illuminates the entire earth, and we will see angels ascending and descending around the Risen One, singing songs.
If this is the greatest trial of humanity over the last 2000 years it is also the most boring. Maybe that is what hell is, the most boring place. In general, nothing is being built, nothing is being discovered. They take the Love out of life, or at least attempt to.
Yes, because faithful Catholics are not going to follow someone on religious matters that does not have the authority of a Pope. A true Pope cannot be antichrist, but a false Pope can be (and is currently). Long prayer to St. Michael by Leo XIII https://thecatholiccrusade.com/prayer-to-st-michael-the-archangel-long-version/ "...These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered." This prayer is recognizing the danger that Leo XIII heard in the exchange between Jesus and Satan: https://ucatholic.com/vision-of-pope-leo The voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to our Lord: “I can destroy your Church.” The gentle voice of our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.” Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.” Our Lord: “How much time? How much power? Satan: “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.” Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.” The same thing is in the Catechism if you can read between the lines: The Church's ultimate trial 675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.573 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth574 will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.575 573 Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12. 574 Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20. 575 Cf. 2 Th 2:4-12; I Th 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; I Jn 2:1 8, 22. Jesus was betrayed by one of his own Apostles, Judas Iscariot. The same pattern occurs in the end times with his Church. His own (apparent) vicar of Christ, betrays Jesus and leads His Church into Apostasy. Only a former member of the Catholic Church can become an "apostate." Finally, it has been the plan of the Freemasons for at least 200 years to replace the Pope with a man of their kind. This is made perfectly clear in the work from the 1800s by Msgr. George Dillon, a Irish Roman Catholic priest. The book has the imprimatur of Leo XIII himself. In his work, Msgr. Dillon quotes extensively from the Alta Vendita. Here is a snippet from the Alta Vendita about the Freemasonic dream of setting up an antipope: We do not mean to win the Popes to our cause, to make them neophytes of our principles, and propagators of our ideas. That would be a ridiculous dream, no matter in what manner events may turn. Should cardinals or prelates, for example, enter, willingly or by surprise, in some manner, into a part of our secrets, it would be by no means a motive to desire their elevation to the See of Peter. That elevation would destroy us. Ambition alone would bring them to apostasy from us. The needs of power would force them to immolate us. That which we ought to demand, that which we should seek and expect, as the Jews expected the Messiah, is a Pope according to our wants. Joshua Charles has recently edited that book by Msgr. Dillon. You can get the audible version or the text version. It will explain everything about the Freemasonic plan to use an antipope to lead Catholics astray in the end times. https://www.amazon.com/War-Antichrist-Church-Christian-Civilization/dp/B0C4BG48PZ/
From Magisterium.com AI: The Church teaches that the Antichrist will be a false, counterfeit claimant to the supreme office of the Church, but it does not identify him with any particular historical antipope. The Catechism describes the Antichrist as “the man of sin…who will exalt himself above all that is called God and will lead many to apostasy” (CCC 675). This passage makes clear that the Antichrist’s primary characteristic is deception on a cosmic scale, presenting himself as a messianic figure and, consequently, as the head of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia treats the two terms as distinct: Antichrist – “the spirit of deception that denies that Jesus is the Christ and the principal opponent of true faith” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Antichrist). The entry emphasizes that the Antichrist is a future, singular deceiver, not a specific papal pretender. Antipope – “a false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Antipope). It lists historical pretenders (e.g., Robert of Geneva, Clement VII) and stresses that an antipope is a historical phenomenon, not an eschatological figure. Patristic writers also keep the categories separate. Irenaeus calls the Antichrist “an apostate…a man of sin” (cf. his discussion of the “man of sin” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3‑4, quoted in the Catechism), but he does not link this apostasy to the papal office; his focus is theological—on the denial of Christ—rather than on a claim to the papacy. Therefore, Catholic teaching can be summarized as follows: The Antichrist will appear as a counterfeit pope in the sense that he will try to assume the highest visible authority of the Church and will deceive many Catholics into believing that he is the true successor of Peter. He is not a legitimate pope nor an identified historical antipope; the term “antipope” refers to specific false claimants who have arisen in Church history, whereas the Antichrist is a future, singular deceiver whose mission is to supplant Christ Himself. The Church’s safeguard against this supreme deception is fidelity to the authentic Magisterium—especially the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, as the perpetual source of unity (CCC 931‑932)—and vigilance in discerning false teachings (CCC 675). In short, the Antichrist will act like a false pope, using the appearance of papal authority to lead the faithful astray, but the magisterial documents do not equate him with any particular antipope; they present him as the ultimate deceiver who will counterfeit the true Petrine ministry.
The New Tree of Knowledge - Mark Mallett The faster we move toward the end of this era, the closer we come to the beginning. The trial humanity is collectively facing is essentially the same one Adam and Eve faced in the Garden: the choice between obedience to the Creator and His designs… or to eat from “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9). Today, this ancient tree has taken on the form of artificial intelligence and its false promises... https://www.markmallett.com/blog/th...the_new_tree_of_knowledge&utm_term=2025-11-04
