Paperback: This book, The Present Crisis of the Holy See: A Warning About Antichrist, was compiled from four lectures given by Henry Cardinal Manning in 1861 on the present crisis of the Catholic Church.
He correctly saw that a grave crisis was approaching and described the theological basis of the Great Apostasy and the more common speculations of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church on this most important subject.
Further in several places, he cites the Universal Agreement of the Fathers of the Church, which we know to be an infallible guide in discerning the truth in doctrinal matters.
This book is even more appropriate today, when many of these prophecies appear to be being fulfilled.
This book is even more important today, when many fear the advent of Antichrist.
Saint Pius X said: "Who can fail to see that society is at the present time, more than in any past age, suffering from a terrible and deep-rooted malady which, developing everyday and eating into its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction? You understand, Venerable Brethren, what this disease is - apostasy from God... When all this is considered, there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils are reserved for the last days; and that there may be already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle speaks." (E Supremi, Encyclical On The Restoration Of All Things in Christ, n 3, 5; 4 October 1903).
About the author: Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an English prelate of the Catholic church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892. He was ordained in the Church of England as a young man, but converted to Catholicism in the aftermath of the Gorham judgement. (Wikipedia)
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