St. Jerome finished his Commentary on Daniel around AD 407, and he would not let his readers turn the Antichrist into a demon: “not the Devil or some demon, but one of the human race, in whom Satan will wholly take up his residence in bodily form.” Joe walks through what a Doctor of the Church actually taught about the Antichrist – who he is, how long he reigns, where he dies – and the one question Jerome flatly refused to answer.
Plus, Nick Cavazos joins Joe on the surge of Catholic conversions on American college campuses. Hallow’s data has OCIA registration up 87.6% year over year across nearly 60 schools – Texas A&M at 204 candidates, Ole Miss up 244%. It is real. It also sits inside a much harder number: Pew’s Religious Landscape Study finds Catholicism has lost 8.4 people for every one it has gained through religious switching in the United States. Both are true, and we take the whole picture.
