Papal prophecy and the 'final Pope' Petrus Romanus

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My thought is that this is just another facet of the facination that people have with end times and the desire to be part of that last generation. It is the same thing that makes books like the* Left Behind* series so popular. It is not surprising that Catholics follow Protestants in this fixation.
 
Rex_Regorum said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

I had a quick scan of the ‘next Pope’ thread and this didn’t seem to be discussed. Perhaps not many people are aware of it? Then again maybe they are, I am a recent convert. 🙂

It is believed by some that our current Pope fulfils the prophecy of the penultimate Pope in the list. In other words, if our next Pope, or at least the Pope after him is this ‘Peter the Roman,’ the prophecy will be true and we will be living in End Times.

What are the thoughts of the forum on this? Has it been discussed loads of times before and this thread is pointless. Probably. >.<
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Here is a better explanation:

catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/pope-benedict.htm
 
wisdomseeker said:
Here is a better explanation:

catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/pastoral/pope-benedict.htm
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Actually, that explanation stinks. The article claims that this prophecy is “the prophecy of St. Malachy, the 12th century prelate of Ireland who predicted, by means of symbolic names, the remaining popes of the Catholic Church.” Instead, it’s just a forgery from centuries after St. Malachy’s lifetime. The connection of Joseph Ratzinger to “the glory of the olive” is as specious as they come: that after election, although he is not a Benedictine, he took a name similar to the word “Benedictine,” an order which has a branch called the Olivetans, who got that name from the name of their hermitage, “Monte Oliveto,” which was so called because it was on a mountain with many olive trees. Never mind the fact that Ratzinger is one of the very few popes to come from someplace – Germany – where the olive tree doesn’t grow at all!
 
MarkThompson said:
Actually, that explanation stinks. The article claims that this prophecy is “the prophecy of St. Malachy, the 12th century prelate of Ireland who predicted, by means of symbolic names, the remaining popes of the Catholic Church.” Instead, it’s just a forgery from centuries after St. Malachy’s lifetime. The connection of Joseph Ratzinger to “the glory of the olive” is as specious as they come: that after election, although he is not a Benedictine, he took a name similar to the word “Benedictine,” an order which has a branch called the Olivetans, who got that name from the name of their hermitage, “Monte Oliveto,” which was so called because it was on a mountain with many olive trees. Never mind the fact that Ratzinger is one of the very few popes to come from someplace – Germany – where the olive tree doesn’t grow at all!
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Good points. That’s an illustration of why I think the alleged prophecies are pure bunk. They’re like the quatrains of Nostradamus: you can make them mean anything you want to mean.
 
Victorious said:
Except that we do give the Pope the title of “Peter” – because, in a real sense, he is Peter, having taken the place and filled the office of Peter. So “Peter the Roman” is essentially meaningless.

But it is true that no Pope has ever taken Peter as his regnal name.
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No, he’s a successor of Peter. We don’t call any Pope “Peter”.
 
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