Yes, Tom, this is one of those things that has no bearing on our entrance into Heaven.
I am very sorry if I offened you early, TG. That was nto what I meant to do. But I never said the books where anti-catholic, I said Tim Lehaye was anti-Catholic, which he is.
However, the books version of the End-times pope is an entirely different idea from that believed by the Catholic Church. When he wrote about the Pope joining the Anti-Christ, he did not follow the Prophecies of St. Malachy, which teach the 112th pope will be the Anti-Christ, as the Catholic Church believes. Oh no, he wrote that the Pope was an ungodly man who helps the Anti-Christ. The Teaching of Tim Lehaye is TOTALLY different from the belief of the Papal anti-Christ that is held but the Catholics. He did not base his version of the Pope in Left Behind on Catholic douctrine, he based it on Anti-Catholic Bias.
Either way, Tim Lehaye has recently come out saying he is thinks Catholics are not Christians.
I implore you to do a Google search on this False Prophet of a man, Tim Lehaye. What you find will shock you, as it did me.