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Is Cardinal Eijk implying that Pope Francis is acting in the Spirit of the Antichrist?

Did Netherlands Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk today imply that Pope Francis is acting in the spirit of the Antichrist? Eijk said: "Observing that the bishops and, above all, the Successor of Peter fail to maintain and transmit faithfully and in unity the deposit of faith... I cannot help but think of Article 675 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 'The Church's ultimate trial Before Christ's second coming... will unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of religious deception... apostasy from the truth.'" (National Catholic Register, "Cardinal Eijk: Pope Francis Needed to Give Clarity on Intercommunion," May 7, 2017) According to Onepeterfive, the Catechism of the Catholic Church Article "675 is... footnoted with... eight" scriptural footnotes. Two of those footnotes explicitly speak of antichrists: 2 John 7- "[T]his is a seducer and an antichrist." 1 John 2:18- "Antichrist cometh, even now there