
A record number of American adults entered the Catholic Church at Easter 2026, yet simultaneously distancing themselves from liberal bishops who are promoting LGBT normalisation, suppressing traditional worship, and prioritising progressive politics over Scripture and historic Church teaching. This deepening fracture within the world's largest Christian institution signals the accelerating apostasy warned of in end-times prophecy, where institutional religion abandons biblical truth while maintaining outward religious form. Scripture warns that in the last days many will 'not endure sound doctrine' but will 'turn away from the truth and turn aside to myths' (2 Timothy 4:3-4), and that a great falling away will precede the return of Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:3).