The Rise of the False Prophet, the Second Beast in the Book of Revelation

Many reputable Marian apparitions and prophecies have all predicted the rise of a false Pope in the end times, or the times immediately preceding the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus.

In La Salette, Our Lady predicted: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist”.

In the book “Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests” which contains the messages of Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, founder of the Marian Movement of Priests (with imprimatur and nihil obstat), the Blessed Virgin prophesied the emergence of a false church in the end times due to the infiltration of Freemasonry to the very top of the Church:

"The black beast like a leopard indicates Freemasonry; the beast with two horns like a lamb indicates Freemasonry infiltrated through the whole of the church, that is ecclesiastical Masonry, which has spread especially among the members of the Hierarchy.

"This Masonic infiltration, in the Church, was already predicted by me in Fatima, when I announced to you that Satan would be introduced up to the summit of the Church.

"If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them to the worship of a false god, the purpose of Ecclesiastical Masonry is instead the destruction of Christ and his Church, building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church."