178 Cardinals Gather at Vatican Consistory Amid Global Crisis Warning

Pope Leo XIV convened 178 cardinals for an Extraordinary Consistory, identifying rising polarisation, antisemitism, secularism, and global conflict as defining crises of our age. The gathering of the world's most powerful religious body to address unprecedented global instability aligns with biblical warnings of a final world religious system gaining coordinated influence in the last days. Scripture describes a coming unified religious authority exercising global reach in the end times, patterns increasingly visible as Rome positions itself as moral arbiter amid failing institutions — echoing Revelation 17 and Daniel 7.