Ante Christi Adventum, Ecclesia probationem subire debet finalem quae fidem plurium credentium labefactabit. Persecutio, quae eius peregrinationem comitatur in terris, deteget « mysterium iniquitatis » sub forma religiosae fallaciae hominibus afferentis simulatam eorum problematibus solutionem penso pretio apostasiae a veritate. Fallacia religiosa suprema illa est Anti-Christi, id est, cuiusdam pseudo-messianismi in quo homo se ipsum glorificat loco Dei Eiusque Messiae qui in carne venit.
Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
- Cathecismus Catholicae Ecclesiae 675. -
