False Prophet, ‘Little Beast’, who lies like the Dragon: Mass apostasy, doctrinal confusion. An ‘End Times’ sign of the season.

Tue Jul 23, 2019 – 3:02 pm EST. Life Site News.

The Church in the West is experiencing an “unprecedented falling away, an unprecedented rebellion.” What is unique about this rebellion is that “we are under no violent pressure in the developed nations to betray the faith.” It is more of an “interior losing of faith.” 

It is not only the power of the world but also the spirit of Satan, “our ancestral enemy,” at work. “The Lord has permitted this.” “By and large, we are being weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

O’Brien also speaks about what St. Paul had to say on the end times and he connects the apostasy in the Church to the current pontificate.  “There is an urgent call for the church to speak with great clarity, with great love for mankind, with great love for the truth.”

“Wherever there is confusion, ambiguity, a cloud of vagueness beginning to dissolve the actual clarity of the living Gospels…we have at least a factor that will contribute to the ultimate delusion which Satan and the anti-Christ (MBS: Night Watchman note) will bring upon mankind.” We must “pray and fast for the church as we stay awake and watch.”

The false dichotomy exists between engaging in a more “pastoral” approach instead of upholding the Gospel in an alleged rigid or pharisaical manner. “To those who have been wounded…how do we reach them?” he asked. “We cannot reach them by anything other than caritas in veritate.” Christ said “truth will set your free” not “pastoral sentiment.”