Fulton J. Sheen - "The Church and the counter-church"

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Archbishop

1895-1979

Proclaimed venerable by

His Holiness Benedict PP. XVI, on June 28^th, 2012.

The Church and the counter-church

«He [Satan] will set up a counter-church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ.

Then will be verified a paradox: the very objections with which men in the last century rejected the Church will be the reasons why they will now accept the counter-church.»[1]

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[1] Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West, (Bobbs-Merrill, 1948), pp. 24-25.