Today’s Readings Podcast Description

Is it slander to call the Roman Pontiff Antichrist, or is it simply to speak with the apostle Paul? In these final sections of the chapter, Calvin argues that Paul’s description of the man of sin who sits in the temple of God, robbing God of his honour and using the name of Christ as a mask, can only be understood of the Papacy. The honour of the ancient Roman See cannot survive when the church itself has been destroyed and the office of bishop no longer exists. Modern pontiffs have been openly irreligious; one of them, John XXII, publicly taught that the soul is mortal until the resurrection. Neither the place once occupied by Peter nor the empty titles of cardinals can make a devil the vicar of Christ. Rome was once the first of churches; she no longer deserves to be counted among her  ...