What should Catholics believe about the end of the world? The answers are in a major new book saluted by the Vatican's newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. The end of the world is an unmistakable focus of Christ's teaching. Yet contemporary Catholic preaching ignores it -- leaving it almost exclusively to Protestants, and to the growing number of believers in private revelations or Marian messages.

“This book does not intend further to multiply such messages,” writes Fr. Livio Fanzago, a Rome-educated theologian and director of Europe’s largest Catholic radio network, Radio Maria. Instead, Fr. Livio seeks to acquaint ordinary Catholics with the Biblical and Church teachings necessary “to evaluate various kinds of speculation about the end of the world” ... to read the signs of the times and recognize the evils of our age ... to prepare ourselves spiritually for the end whenever it may come ... and to discern the answers to such urgently important questions as:

• What will be the content of the “supreme religious deception” that will lead countless Catholics to abandon their faith? Can we see it already at work in our own time?
  
• Will the Antichrist be a clerical traitor? A religious leader? A politician? A collective phenomenon? Some combination?
  
• How will the Antichrist succeed in posing as the friend, even protector, of the Catholic Church -- while seducing its members into apostasy and destroying its authority?
  
• Which of us will be most vulnerable to seduction? Which of us will best prepared to persevere -- and how will we be put to the test?
  
• Will the Antichrist’s appearance coincide with the end of the world? Or must a “thousand year kingdom” elapse first?
  
• Which prophetic visions or private revelations about the end times fall within the bounds of right doctrine? Which don’t?
  
• Have the end times begun?