searching4mysir
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ORIGINAL: searching4mysir Additionally, these prophecies attributed to St. Malachai have been considered a forgery for a very long time now. Since you don't say who, or on what basis, I can't comment. But the Vatileaks article notes that... Many experts believe that he [Nostradamus] was its creator, and he credited it retrospectively to St. Malachy to prevent himself from being accused of predicting the end of the papacy that would have put the Vatican’s murderous Inquisitors on his tail. I'm not a fan of prophecy, but there are a lot of people who believe in stuff like this and are working to make their beliefs self-fulfilling, so I think it's worth knowing where they're coming from, unless you like surprises. K. Based on the fact that when the "prophecies" were found, they were much more specific for the history, but going forward they were so general you could almost run a truck through them. Additionally, there are papal holes in there. The Register is actually a pretty good Catholic newspaper in terms of orthodoxy to the faith. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-prophecy-of-st.-malachy This in particular: quote:
5. What evidence is there concerning its authenticity? A significant mark against its authenticity is the fact that it was not published until 1595, though St. Malachy died in 1148. There is no record of the prophecy existing in the intervening 447 years. Allegedly, this was because the prophecy lay, forgotten, in a Roman archive, and it was not rediscovered until 1590. This explanation is possible in principle, but the fact that we cannot establish its existence for hundreds of years until after its supposed author's death is also consistent with the claim that it was a forgery composed around 1590 and then "salted" into the archive. ("Salting" is the term used for planting false records in archives.) It also may never have been in the archive but merely claimed to be. While the fact that we have no mention of this document in the hundreds of years between the times of its reported composition and re-discovery does not prove that it is false, it does cast significant doubt on its authenticity. Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-prophecy-of-st.-malachy#ixzz2NS5nsuxL
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