St. Malachy predicted Pope Benedict’s successor will be last pope

Well, if this (what I think is stupid) set of ''prophecies'' is correct, the lads and lasses at IrishCentral had better make reservations for prolonged stays at their nearest confessional. They have a lot of work to do very quickly.

The Prophecy fulfilled: 1. "Glory of the olive" still resides/sits in Rome as Pope Emeritus, His Holiness, Benedict XVI. 2. The Church has been in a state of persecution and crisis with who knows how much more to come. 3. Pope Francis is "Peter the Roman" by virtue of the fact that he is the first Jesuit pope whose motto is based on the Benedictine motto of 1 Peter - in the same manner as "Glory of the olive" refers to the motto of Benedict. 4. St. Francis is considered the ultimate minder of the flock - it has been said that no one in history was as dedicated as Francis to imitate the life, and carry out the work of Christ, in Christ’s own way. He will "pasture his sheep in many tribulations". 5. Pope Benedict was the first pope to receive the Ring of St Peter after it was re-instated by John Paul II who did not wear the ring. 6. Contrary to traditional custom and belief, Benedict did not destroy his ring as he should have but instead simply "disabled the seal" so he could keep the ring. 7. Pope Francis will now wear the same ring as Pope Benedict enjoining them both to St. Peter at the same time - something that has never happened in the history of the Church! 8. The prophecy of popes 111 and 112 are meant to be taken together and not separately as these events unfold. 9. Pope Benedict as Glory of the olive retired but is not gone and "there will sit - In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church." 10. Pope Francis as Peter the Roman was appointed to "pasture his sheep" in the many tribulations to come... The End!

Even though the article is interesting, in a, kind of, "Dan Brownish" way, it doesn´t take a "symbologist Robert Langdon" to understand that this is pure and absolute nonsense. If one look to the sky on a cloudy day, some people see the forms of the clouds as teddybears or elephants or heartshapes. Other - sadly - see the doomsday coming in a shape or another.

Ties in with book of revelation talk of the Anti-Christ - A Woman Rides the Beast - A City on Seven Hills ....and the various Protestant denominations teachings....

Let's hope Malachy's prophecy puts the fear of God in them, nothing else has.

I remember the rumours about Pope Peter when the Conclave was held after the death of Pius XII. The new Pope will be Peter II. Of course, that did not happen. Instead we got John XXIII.

this is ridiculous.... purse nonsense

many of them are spot on for anything prior to the 1600s when is was really written

as for the spurious lady from dingle you are a real dingleberry

Ah, yes! Modern journalism without editors. Good piece, actually. However, Don't you mean John Paul II? That would be 2. You have it 11. One and one IS two but 11 remains eleven.

@ NewUser – there is no such thing as a day, a month, a year, or lunar or solar time, or seasonal time in God’s creation. All of these concepts are man-made to try and bring some order to man’s world. I am one of those who do not believe in ‘Time’ as we mortal humans live by it.

I have read and heard of these prophesies of the “last Pope” many times. Erm… except that there is one thing wrong with interpretations of them all: the actual prophesy is that Rome will be destroyed by some calamity or other but that the Pope “will leave Rome walking over the dead bodies of his priests”. In other words, Rome may be destroyed but the Pope and continuing Papacy won’t be.

Yes, it's happening, but who's gonna get it? San Francisco? Israel? Iran? North Korea? Stay tuned........

I've been waiting for this story. Everybody must know that this is the last Pope, according to the prophecy. What a wonderful doomsday scenario! But if you look at things in the church, perhaps it is the last Pope for reasons that have nothing to do with the end of the world.

As neilshog wrote, we have already been assured that nobody knows the date or the hour of the end. For fun and argument’s sake, let’s assume there is some truth to this claim by the Irish Central staff of writers. (BTW, the Olivetans only joined the Benedictines in 1960 and are only one branch of the Benedictine order—they are the ones who accept women and men in the same monastery, so that mkes the claim in the article just a little fishy.) As we follow this line of reasoning, one asks why the predictions ended when they did. We discovered the Mayan Calendar was either wrong or wrongly interpreted. As for St. Malachy and why his visions stopped, I say the cock crowed, the sun rose, it was morning, and he woke up. So his visions ended when they did. Just sayin’.

Yes, nobody knows the time or day, but our Lord Jesus, in the Olivet Discourse told His Apostles to watch the signs. When certain things take place, "Then you will know I am at the door."

Hm..I don't know what to think. I thought nobody knows the time nor the day, but this doesn't say anything about a time or day. I don't know.