The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay... Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist.—Our Lady of La Salette.
Mary said the above words in a Vatican-approved apparition from the 19th century. There’s a lot of debate in the Catholic world today about this. In the year 2000, Catholic Answers had an article claiming it was misused by post-Vatican II traditionalists: “What is absurd is the radical traditionalist claim that the alleged prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette may be applied to Rome today… Radical traditionalists often seem to have a defective understanding of what counts as apostasy. It is much more than tepid or weak faith. It is more than just accepting ideas contrary to the Catholic faith (that’s what heresy is). Apostasy constitutes a full repudiation of the faith so that one no longer considers oneself a Christian.”
I would have agreed with them 25 years ago. But after the Pachamama-worshipping event in Rome in 2018, and Fiducia Sodomons coming out of the Vatican in 2024, we need to go a little deeper into the Bible and the saints to figure out what this “eclipse” is, and how to navigate it at a practical level.