Has the end begun?

^{by Rob Kerby, Senior Editor}

Has Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation ushered in the beginning of the end of the world? Two ominous prophecies would seem to point to it. One is a 900-year-old prophecy made by an Irish archbishop named Malachy. The other is by none other than Nostradamus, the 16th century French stargazer whose mystical writings have seemingly foretold world events over the last 500 years.