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Catholic Church vs. the United States
According to the Cardinal leading the Vatican’s highest court, “the policies of the president of the United States have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies… Obama wants to restrict religious freedom and force the individuals, outside his or her place of worship ‘to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions’… ‘Such policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago’” (CNS News, March 21, 2014).
While the U.S. President is not solely responsible for the policies of his administration, religious freedoms are under attack in the U.S. and many other nations. How might this impact the future of the United States? Bible prophecy reveals that a powerful church will play a major role in the rise of an end-time Beast power in Europe and lead the world to worship this Beast (Revelation 13:12). If the Catholic Church, which has backed the move for European unity, perceives that the U.S., or any nation, is standing in the way of Catholic worship, it may well use its influence to effect a change.
Prophecy reveals that the British-descended nations will experience an end-time captivity (Deuteronomy 28:41; Amos 6:7; 7:11). The Catholic Church could become an agent that will help fulfill these ancient prophecies. For more on the future influence of the Catholic Church on world affairs, be sure to read our booklet, The Beast of Revelation: Myth, Metaphor or Soon-Coming Reality?