Do Roman Catholics believe in the Apochalypse?

[Rollo Tamasi]

The Roman Catholic Catechism is pretty much silent on the issue.
What do they believe?
How does that affect our relationship to them?

 

[Eugene]

Hey Brother, yes they do believe in the end times, and in fact the last book of their Bible is called "The Apocalypse" which is interpreted as "Uncovering" which is a revealing we have named the book of "Revelation." Just as with near every Protestant Church Organization, there are differences in their doctrines from us concerning that period of time to come after this present age. Although I came out of Catholicism, I heard little of "End Time Theology" there, and I'm not expert if their dogma is based on tradition, and the "Apocrypha" which Luther described as literature not written in Hebrew, and the Protestant Church described as not canon. Probably not a lot of help to you.

 

[Malachi]

The Roman Catholic Catechism is pretty much silent on the issue.
What do they believe?
How does that affect our relationship to them?

It was a Spanish Jesuit -- Luis de Alcazar (or Alcasar) -- who created the teachings of Preterism (end-time prophecies ended in 70 AD) in order to shift the attention of the Reformers from the pope as the Antichrist to Nero as the Antichrist. So why bother with Apocalypse, if everything is fulfilled?

Those teachings, unfortunately were accepted by Protestant denominations without a critical assessment, so now we have Preterism entrenched and bitterly opposed to Futurism.

As far as "our relationship to them" evangelical and fundamentalist Christians have nothing in common with the RCC. Yet some evangelicals today believe that the RCC has something to offer and want to "cooperate" with it.

 

[bluegirl]

RCc is Augustinian. As such there is much more fluctuation in their belief than is known, if only because Augustine contradicts himself depending on the text consulted. I was raised catholic (not now!) but don't recall the bible being encouraged although passages were read at church. I was told a while back that the rcc realizes the error of leaving its believers in ignorance. But my first hand experience is that the ignorance and error are too entrenched for change to easily happen, even with good intentions. I could go into what some may think rcc has to offer but in the end it was not able to sway me; there were too many non-biblical doctrines and I spent too many years a prodigal. Yes I am a new Christian. With no church. Too many bad rcc memories kept me from a real conversion for years. Rcc is not preterist but rarely is end times a topic that Catholics think much about.