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Ancient 1,000-Year-old Prophecy Predicts Pope Leo XIV As Final Pontiff — Warns Of End Times
Pope Leo XIV’s election is being celebrated by Catholics worldwide.
Just weeks after Pope Francis died on Easter Monday (April 22) at the age of 88, Pope Leo XIV—once known as Cardinal Robert Prevost—was formally sworn in as the next pope on May 8.
Although the Sistine Chapel’s white smoke is typically seen as a sign of solidarity and optimism, some conspiracy theorists are somewhat apprehensive about the next Pope.
Why? Because the 69-year-old may be the final Bishop of Rome, according to a 100-year-old prophecy that has been rediscovered.
‘Prophecy of the Popes’ is a doomsday prophecy that was supposedly written in the 1100s by an Irishman named Saint Malachy.
After his death, Malachy is said to have prophesied that there would be 112 popes, the last of whom would be a menacing character known as “Peter the Roman.”
The prophecy claims: “Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.”
Even his previous name, Robert Francis Prevost, doesn’t sound like Pope Leo XIV, according to the majority of people. It’s reasonable to infer that Malachy didn’t hit the mark on that one.
Furthermore, the statement misrepresents Pope Leo XIV’s nationality because he is not Italian but both American and Peruvian.
For similar reasons, some thinkers have consistently rejected the hypothesis that the appellation Peter the Roman was related to the late Pope Francis.
In 2013, Josh Canning, director of Toronto’s Chaplaincy at the Newman Centre, said, “I don’t know how you can connect Peter the Roman with Pope Francis.”
The old claims have also been swiftly rejected by subject-matter experts. “The prophecies are a forgery,” declared Boston College church history professor and Episcopal priest Fr. James Weiss.
Weiss considers the passage’s references to a “dreadful judge” and a “city of seven hills”—likely Rome—to be well over the top. He contends that this might possibly be a reference to a non-apocalyptic occurrence, such as a national leader’s judgement.
Perhaps, the biggest clue that the prophecy might not be genuine is the gap between Malachy’s lifetime and the first mention of the prophecy, says Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a medieval history professor at the University of Rhode Island. “As an historian, I am hardcore on the evidence, and that, for me, is the ultimate proof that Malachy […] did not utter prophecies or write prophecies,” she said.
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