It is not a topic about which most of us want to consider –yet since the Church’s foundation, the “man of sin,” “the son of perdition” was prophesied by Our Lord and by His apostles.

Another Catholic classic, “History of Antichrist” provides a succinct and necessary synopsis of the world circumstances (the advent) that precede the coming of Antichrist. Foremost among those terrible conditions will be the resurrection of pagan Rome which will overcome the Eternal City and, with it, the world. It provides an overview of the Antichrist’s life, his tyranny against the elect, the coming of Enoch and Elias, and then the final triumph of Jesus and His one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church.

This book has been described as a “readable, yet authoritative outline of the Catholic tradition on Antichrist based on Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and Tradition.” It shows that he will come. He will be an individual man, rule the entire world, persecute Christians and, if it were possible, deceive even the elect.

"Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come, and to stand before the Son of man" (Lk. 21:36).