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leadership with the Catholic Church, there will be elected a Pope who is not 

a Roman Catholic. 

    This Pope will be Catholic, since at that time all of the Protestant 

Churches will have united with the Catholic Church. But he will not be from 

the Roman Catholic part of the Catholic Church. He will be from the new 

parts of the Church which came from the Protestant Churches. At that time, 

the Church will be reorganized into seven parts, one part from the Latin rite 

of the Catholic Church, one part from the Eastern Churches, and five parts 

from the Protestant Churches.  The Churches of the East will be united 

within the Eastern rite of the Catholic Church. All parts of the one Church 

will be fully united in faith and leadership. 

    The new parts of the Catholic Church, which came from the Protestant 

Churches and the Eastern Churches, will retain many aspects of their way of 

worshipping God and of following Christ. Yet they will accept all of the 

teachings of the one holy Catholic Church and the authority of the Pope. 

Many of the leaders from the Protestant Churches will become leaders in the 

Catholic Church along side leaders from every part of the Church, along 

side Roman Catholic leaders of the Church. 

    For example, there are some churches in the United States which have 

converted from the Anglican faith to the Catholic faith. When an Anglican 

minister and most of his congregation converts to Catholicism, the minister 

may become a Catholic priest. Such a minister, if he is married, does not 

have to separate from his wife to become a Catholic priest. The members of 

such a church worship God at Holy Mass, yet their worship service retains 

some of the prayers from the Book of Common Prayers used by Anglicans. 

This is a foreshadowing of the future of the Church. 

    Some Catholics will be upset when the Protestant Churches unite with the 

Catholic Church (Luke 15:25 32). May God correct them. Jesus prayed that 

all His disciples be one (John 17:21 23). His prayer shall not fail. 

 5. `And when men will convert, God will restore peace to the world.'   

    This saying applies to every age, for war is a punishment from God for sin 

(as Our Lady said at Fatima). However, it particularly applies to the end of 

the Forty Years, when the Arab occupation of Europe ends. During the 

occupation, the Arab forces will oppress and persecute Christians. There will 

be no end to the suffering until people are converted. True peace can only 

come through prayer and conversion, not through weapons of war. One sign 

of conversion will be the unification of all Christians in one, holy Catholic 

Church. However, this unification will not be the completion of the 

conversion, but will be one major step in the process of conversion.