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\"\"<\/a> The major problem in the church today is when Christians exchange the Divine and supernatural economy of redemption for an attempt to change the world. Many Catholics have forgotten that the Church is established for the forgiveness of sins and the proclamation of the gospel, and believe instead that the Church is here to make the world a better place, and that this needs to be accomplished by all sorts of educational, social welfare, political and even revolutionary activities.<\/p>\n

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This is the message of anti-Christ. In a telling passage the Catechism quotes Pius XI\u2019s, encyclical Divini Redemptoris<\/a>, \u201cThe Antichrist\u2019s 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 judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the hame of millenarianism, especially the intrinsically perverse political ofrm of a secular messianism.\u201d para. 676<\/em><\/div>\n
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In other words, whenever you see a system like socialism or Marxism or capitalism attempt to bring in a utopian new world order\u2013it\u2019s the spirit of Antichrist, and be assured the Catholic Church will be it\u2019s Public Enemy Number One. Whenever you see a church or pastor or bishop more involved in social reform, political renewal or plans to change the social order (no matter how well intentioned) you see an apostate. Whenever you see the secular press, the media manipulated masses and the celebrity stars idolize a new political hero who is going to save the world\u2013be alert and watchful. Persecution is coming.<\/div>\n
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Paragraph 675 teaches, \u201cBefore Christ\u2019s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution 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. The supreme religious deception is theat of the Antichrist, a pseudo messianism by which man glorifies himself in the place of God.\u201d<\/div>\n
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