by Br. Alexis Bugnolo
There are many who write about the Antichrist, the apocalyptic figure spoken of by the Apostle Saint Paul, in his Second Letter to the Thessalonians, that is to the Church in Thessaly, northern Greece. But rarely do you hear anything said about who are the followers of the Antichrist.
Yet, Saint Paul, one of the “co-founders” of the Church at Rome describes them well in 2 Thessalonians 2:10.
First, the Greek:
.. ἀνθ’ ὧν τὴν ἀγάπην τῆς ἀληθείας οὐκ ἐδέξαντο εἰς τὸ σωθῆναι αὐτούς·
Then, my Latin:
eo quod dilectionem veritatis non receperunt ut salvi fierent.
Then, my English translation:
for this, that they had not received the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.
While the Vulgate of Jerome has, “caritatem” for “dilectionem”, that is “love”, I believe this is an error, because as can be seen from the Greek, the word here is “ἀγάπην“, or the love which arises from a free choice, which is the word used in the New Testament, every time Jesus Christ speaks of His love for us (e. g. John 15:9, καθὼς ἠγάπησέν με ὁ πατήρ, κἀγὼ ὑμᾶς ἠγάπησα· μείνατε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ τῇ ἐμῇ.), to emphasize that He was not constrained by passion or necessity, but acted in pure liberty when He chose to save us, not on the basis of our foreseen merits, but simply because He chose to love us first before the foundation of the world.
Thus, what Saint Paul refers to here is very profound, for he identifies the followers of the Antichrist with those who refused to receive from God the Holy Spirit that infused grace so that they might freely chose to love the truth, and thus be saved.
From this we see how important from an eternal perspective it is for every Catholic to chose to love the truth. This is what distinguishes us who are working out our salvation from those who are being destroyed by the spirit of the Antichrist, who is the Man of Lawlessness.
The most authoritative ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, the Codices preserved at Mt. Sinai and in the library of the Vatican. In these two manuscripts, the man described here by Saint Paul is not called, as in all other manuscripts, “the man of sin” (ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας), but “the man of lawlessness” ( ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας). And it is this latter reading which scholars believe is the original.
Holding to their authority, we can thus say that the principal characteristic of the Antichrist will be to be violate law, to be a law breaker. The Greek term literally means “without laws” or “without morals”.
Now, if we reflect on this, and want to be very precise in what we say, let us ask ourselves the question, “How does one know, when a man is lawless?”
The answer, of course, is that he transgresses law. But to demonstrate that, we have to find a law, and examine his behavior and show that he did (1) something which is forbidden by the law, or (2) something which is not sanctioned by the law.
And to prove that, we obviously must have recourse to the TEXT of the law, if it is a written law, or to the notion of the law, if it is unwritten law, such as Natural Law.
Thus, as a consequence, every lawless man is going to be discovered by this, that his actions do not concord with the words which express a specific law.
And all of this, now, should be clear to the regular readers of FromRome.Info, where for the past 12 years I have continually spoken of the laws of the Church and how they may or are being transgressed.
Because, if we learn what the laws of the Church are, then we can discern who are the law-breakers are, and who are those who are acting as lawless individuals.
Likewise, we also see, from the Apostle Saint Paul’s teaching in 2 Thess 2:10, that those who are led to destruction are precisely those who follow the spirit of lawlessness by submitting to those who are lead by the spirit of the Antichrist, BECAUSE THEY HAVE REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH, which could have saved them: a love which would have recognized the discrepancy between the lawless’ behavior and the rule of law, and caused them to refuse to follow the lawless, simply because by loving the truth, they would have detested the breaking of the law.
So when you find that a loved one or friend refuses to accept the facts or laws of the Church regarding the scandals since 2013, I urge you to pray for them and share this teaching of Saint Paul, because it is a most terrible sign of following the Antichrist and of being headed to destruction, if someone refuses to love the truth.
This is why it is important to know what “munus” means, in Canon 332 §2, and what “ne excedat” means in Universi Dominic Gregis, the Papal Law on Conclaves, in paragraph n. 33, to cite just two examples, of two laws, which were transgressed by the College of Cardinals when they in 2013 “elected” Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and in 2025, when they “elected” Robert Francis Riggitano Prevost Martinez.
For more about how the Conclave had no valid result, see HERE.
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When, in 1963, my 22 yr old boyfriend asked me to marry him, he said to me…” True Love IS IN THE WILL.”.
I thought about that statement before I said yes. And I reasoned that the Catholic Church s insistence on” till death do you part, for better of worse, till death do you part. “Period. That many times one must continue to will to love another ABOVE THE EMOTIONS,was the only way that one could promise ” till death do us part”..
For many years, when the spirit of V2 began to spread its course amidst us, and” Emotion “took over as the main tenet of marriage. That is where the Church , even afterPP6ths Humanae Vitae in the late 1960s, sailed into the murky waters of V2….and parked herself there to this day….even when technically her name is still engraved in the stone of the Devine Right Of Kings.
Your exegetical hammer strikes the nail situated at Ground Zero and in these matters ecclesiological you have no equal, as far as my common sense and sensus catholicus can judge. This is why I return to commenting here, despite our past disagreements on certain matters not directly related to Holy Mother Church. I pray we can progress further than being voices “crying in the wilderness”, I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Thanks, Mark. You have been a true friend in the Truth.
My thoughts on the lawlessness of the prelates and clergy, esp. those pedos, have wrecked the trust of baptized Catholics to such an extent that they no longer choose to be in the Church aka the Ark. How can anyone bring these family members back when there has been so much deceit and carnage among clergy?
I can only pray they return and not fall into the hands of the lawless one(s).
Thank you Bro. Alexis for this insight!🙏🏻
Elena, help to get a true Pope elected and then nation by nation, diocese by diocese the faithful and their legitimate bishops cam move for the incarceration or capital punishment of the fraudster diabolists.
Pure and simple. If you live in USA or one of the Commonwealth countries it might take some time since the intelligence services in the Anglosphere are the ones who have done the most to corrupt the hierarchy, but even in America there are jurisdictions these days not afraid to stand up to the corrupt clergy.
Many thanks for another masterful [magisterial…?] explanation, Brother Alexis. No other Catholic apostolate that I know of is able to produce such profound catechesis, such consistently excellent guidelines & recommendations.
I am just about to start reading “The Antichrist – the final campaign against the Savior” by Fr Vincent Micelli S.J., which you featured recently on an OMC Radio TV show with AJ.
Christus vincit; Christus regnat; Christus imperat.
Br Alexis-
In the third to last paragraph of your article, I had trouble understanding the following words. I’m not sure if it’s a misprint or I’m simply not grasping your meaning. It seems like you’re saying that loving the truth results in one not wanting to live. That doesn’t seem to make sense.
“…caused them to refuse to follow the lawless simply because by loving the truth, they wanted not to live.”
Thanks for catching that. I do not know what happened when I saved the article, I think I accidentally cut out a paragraph.
Much better now! 👍
I forgot I was going to ask you if you know the name of the painting at the top of the page. You’ve used it before and it’s a powerful depiction of the action of demonic spirits. The painter had clearly gone rounds with them in his own life. I’d really like the name of the artist if you know it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preaching_of_the_Antichrist
Thank you!
This article sums up all of your efforts in a wonderful way. Thank you – with tears of joy, sorrow, hope, and gratitude.
Wow – this article is so good. Thank you so much Brother, for this and all your excellent articles and for all your amazing work on revealing the truth. I shall pray hard for you to remain under Christs protection. I am trying to spread devotion to the Holy Face, as it is the reparatory antidote to sins against the first 3 commandments (in my opinion, perpetrated and spread primarily by Communists (aka Freemasonry and followers of Anti-Christ), which anger God the most (as revealed by Christ to Sr Marie de San Pierre). This devotion is destined to save humanity from all this evil. It is, along with the Holy Rosary, the weapon we need to wield resolutely. May His Holy Face shine upon you and your ministry.
I am trying to spread your messages to whomever ‘will hear them’, and I was wondering if you would mind answering the following objection which has been posited by a priest with whom I recently shared your declarations. I’m pretty sure you’ve covered this, but could you please give me a sentence or two with which to answer this priest, as I don’t know how to go back and find what you have said about this:
“Br Alexis doesn’t deal with the principle of sanation of irregularities in voting by acceptance of the result by the college of cardinals and then the rest of the Church. Unless I missed it. This was covered by Cardinal Muller in his response to claims Francis was never pope. Without this every other argument loses all its strength and fails to get over the first hurdle.”
Thank you immensely!
This priest might think he is smart, but actually not. To appeal to the principle of sanation, one first has to have a superior with authority to issue the sanation, second, it can only be granted when the matter is strictly of ecclesiastical right, that is, something which does not regard a rule established by divine law. Thus, it must regard some fault in an act, which arises from a merely prudential decision of the Church, not regarding validity. So a marriage can receive a sanation if it was illicitly performed by a priest who had not the faculties, but not if two men married one another.
So in the case of the Papal Election, ask this priest, how to ask for the Sanation of an invalid papal election? Do we shoot a letter off in a rocket and wait for Christ to send back a letter of sanation? And then ask him, what possibly could be the meaning of UDG n. 76, if sanation could heal every defect in a papal election. And surely he is not claiming that the Church can grant a sanation, tacitly, as if the Church had authority over the Papal Office. For it is de fide that the office of Saint Peter is subject to the jurisdiction of no one but Jesus Christ. Therefore no one has the authority to grant a sanatio for an invalid election other than He.
Moreover, unlike all other offices in the Church, the office of Roman Pontiff is not an office which exists by ecclesiastical right, but by divine right. If one could appeal to sanation regarding irregularities which invalidate a papal election, what would Christ’s words mean, when He said, “Whatsoever you bind upon earth, shall be bound in Heaven”? Does He think Jesus Christ is slovenly lazy cleric who condones and excuses every violation, even of papal laws regarding papal elections?
The priest you know has found a cosy vague idea to use as an excuse from admitting injustice in the Church. But his idea is directly refuted by 3 popes: Paul IV, Saint Pius V, and John Paul II, all of who affirm that there can be invalid elections the invalidity of which causes no right to be conferred, and no need to appeal to a tribunal to recognize that it is invalid.
However, there is absolutely no need to appeal to the principle of sanation, when the Cardinals can simply redo an election, since you cannot appeal to that principle when repentance is possible of itself to heal the irregularity.
As for Cardinal Mueller appealing to the principle of sanation regarding the invalid renunciation of Pope Beneict XVI or the invalid election of Bergoglio in 2013, ask him for a link to the report in which Mueller is claimed to have said this, since I do not remember such.
The historical reality, however, refutes all such claims, since in the Roman Church has never accepted an invalid election of the Roman Pontiff as valid. If this priest thinks otherwise, let him cite the case, for I am willing to dispute it.
In fact, the only way to fix the problem of an invalid election is to hold a valid election, which is what the Save Rome Project is about. All the Clergy of Rome know this and no one to my knowledge disputes this.
Ah, my bad! DDS is Dr. Deep state, a YouTube and Locals Catholic oriented deep state / deep church analyst. Kerry there is a big advocate of The Holy Face also.
Hello Kerri! I’m thinking you must be Kerry from DDS?
Hi Mark, No, probably not the Kerry you’re thinking of. I’m in Australia. What is DDS?
Two of the forms of the Sins Against the Holy Ghost are Impugning the Known Truth and Obstinacy in Sin.
The Reason, Reasoning, Reasons, Lucifer, (Master Theoretician of Conspiratorial Lies), and his conspirators were damned and banned to Hell is/are they fully knew, they fully willed(chose), they fully rebelled, they fully re-belled, they fully waged war, they fully rejected, they fully dissented, they fully (dis-, mal-, mis-) applied, they fully un-accepted The[(o)-God] One and Only, The[(o)-God] Only One Who Alone, AllOne, AllWhOne Is God, The[(o)-God] Way, The[(o)-God] Truth, The[(o)-God] Life.
Our Lady of Good Success @ Quito, Ecuador informed us, through Mother Marianna de Jesus Torres, that Masonry, the Illuminati, the Elite, would dominate the world from the middle of the 20th century.
Our Lady of La Salette informed us, through cowherds Melanie and Maxine, that Rome would apostatize and become the Seat of the Anti-Christ.
Our Lord informed us @ Rome, through the simultaneous private audiences to Satan and Leo XIII in 1884, that Satan given the power and time to ‘destroy’ the Church, would not prevail, because He would provide for His Own, including the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, Leo XIII composed and ordered said at end of each Low Mass.
The Periti, the experts, the Consiglieri to the Holy Spirit of V2 rejected the Schemata prepared for the Council (V1 reconvened). As did Pope St. John XXIII. As did Pope St. Paul VI, as (T)he(y) also rejected petitions, by the Bishop of Fatima and others, to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
There are demons, legions of demons, in the Vatican.
—Fr. Gabriel Amorth as Exorcist of Rome (Read his books)
https://www.chiesaviva.com/paoloVI%20beatoin.pdf
https://fisheaters.com/praeternaturalworldfrx.html
Fr. Gabriele Amorth A.D.+20100311
https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/chief-exorcist-rev-gabriele-amorth-devil-vatican/story?id=10073040
[March 11, 2010, Amorth confesses, “The devil resides in the Vatican.”
via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Amorth fn16>ABCNews]
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5740 Famed exorcist says ‘legions of demons’ have lodged at Vatican March 16, 2010 Catholic World News (l o d g e d)
In an interview with Stefano Maria Paci published in 30 Giorni in 2001, Fr. Amorth sharply criticized the post-Vatican II revision of the rite of exorcism. In this interview, he spoke about “the legions of demons that have taken up residence in the Vatican. The smoke of Satan enters everywhere… I have no doubt that the devil tempts especially the leaders of the Church, as he tempts all leaders.” https://sspx.org/en/news/rip-father-gabriele-amorth-7964
http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_2564_l1.htm Il fumo di Satana nella casa del Signore | (legioni)
http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_2564_l1.htm «… AND DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL». Interview with Father Gabriele Amorth Satan’s smoke in the house of the Lord (legions) (Translate option)