Today’s topic: the Antichrist
This is what The Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say on the topic:
Paragraphs 675 and 676
The Church’s ultimate trial
Par. 675. Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. (574) The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth(575) 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 that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
574. Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12.
575. Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20.
576. Cf. 2 Thes 2:4-12; 1 Thes 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; 1 Jn 2:18, 22.
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