From the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Our commentary in (parenthesis).
#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 earth [574] 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. (1) 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] (2)
#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 eschatological judgement. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, [576] especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism. [577] (3)
#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. [578] The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. [579] 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. [580]
References
[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.
[576] Cf. DS 3839.
[577] Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, condemning the “false mysticism” of this “counterfeit of the redemption of the lowly”; cf. GS 20-21.
[578] Cf. Rev 19:1-9.
[579] Cf Rev 13:8; 20:7-10; 21:2-4.
[580] Cf. Rev 20:12 2 Pt 3:12-13.
Commentary
(1) The best example is Francis saying that all religions are paths to God, which is right out of the Freemasonic playbook. The Synod on Synodality claims “discernment” in listening to all, where the so-called discernment allows rejection of the Church’s teachings.
(2) Notice how in the process of “Synodality”, people vote on doctrine. The other concept being pushed today is to make doctrine regional, all through the euphemism of “listening” to everybody and “inculturation.” So Holy Communion for adulterers can be allowed in Germany but not in Poland. They don’t bother listening to the deposit of faith, that which has been handed down from the Apostles, but rather follow their favourite teachers with itching ears: “For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears” (2 Timothy 4:3) . This is essentially the heresy of Protestantism, where everyone makes up their own doctrine by claiming that they are guided by the Holy Spirit. Moreover, it is tied to heresy of modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, as described in #39 of Pascendi Dominici Gregis, where doctrine must be kept up with the times. All of this is essentially relativism, or subjective “truth”, worship of one’s own opinion. In secular language, “I’m OK, you’re OK.” It is the old lie in the Bible, “your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5).
(3) The secular messianism is evident in many plans being publicly promoted today; the Globalism, New World Order, the Great Reset, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Trans-humanism, Agenda 2030. The bottom line is this is all a form of communism, in which the governing class wants to be obeyed as a god, and uses whatever means of total control and monitoring that it can implement, such as that in China, which is the leading evil empire today.