Wow, that is some wild ad hominem. Apparently you think textual criticism should be subject to theological orthodoxy. Category error.

It's clear St. Paul and the authors of the synoptic gospels believed the eschaton was imminent and the Messiah would soon return.

Paul of Tarsus, writing some fifteen years or so before the fall of Jerusalem:

<<What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.>>

1Cor 7. 25-31

I'm quite sure the Catholic Church recognizes St. Paul as an apostle