Neo-Church’s All Souls’ Day Spectacle Reveals Apostate Eschatology

Vatican News (November 2, 2025) reports on usurper Leo XIV presiding over a pseudo-liturgy at Rome’s Verano Cemetery, where he declared God “has opened for us the way to eternal life” through Christ’s Paschal mystery, framing remembrance of the dead as “hope for the future” rather than supernatural reality. The ceremony featured modernist distortions of Catholic eschatology, reducing the Church’s suffrages for the faithful departed to naturalistic sentimentality.

Naturalization of Death and Omission of Eschatological Realities

The article’s description of the event reveals a deliberate suppression of dogma:

“Christian faith… helps us to experience our memories as more than just a recollection of the past but also, and above all, as hope for the future.”

This formulation carefully avoids mention of Purgatory, particular judgment, or the necessity of grace-filled suffrages – doctrines defined at Lyons II (1274) and Trent (Session XXV). Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor (1928) condemned such omissions as “detracting from the glory of the expiation of Christ” by ignoring the Church’s munus sanctificandi (sanctifying office).

Notably absent is any reference to the Mass as propitiatory sacrifice for the dead. Leo XIV’s bouquet-laying ritual at a secular tomb (“Antonia Coccia Nicolini and family”) exemplifies the neo-church’s equivalence of Catholic burial with civil memorialization, condemned by Benedict XIV’s Ex quo primum (1756) as “indifferentism in death cults.”

Subversion of the Four Last Things Through Linguistic Manipulation

The usurper’s homily employs semantic shifts to evacuate eschatology of its terror and majesty:

“Hope for the future” replaces spes beatitudinis aeternae (hope of eternal blessedness)
“Unending feast” obscures the Particular Judgment (De fide, Lateran IV)
“Journey towards our goal” naturalizes the soul’s transit through Purgatory (De fide, Florence)

St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Purgatorio (II:12) decries such language as “the poison of Calvinism, dissolving the bonds between Church Militant and Suffering.”

Cult of Man Replaces Suffrages for the Dead

The article highlights how the ceremony centered on anthropocentric sentiment:

“We continue to carry them with us in our hearts… their memory remains always alive within us amid our daily lives.”

This contradicts the Council of Trent’s decree on Purgatory (1563), which mandates prayer, alms, and especially the “Sacrifice of the Mass” as suffragia for the departed. The replacement of liturgical intercession with psychological remembrance constitutes apostasy from lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief).

Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) explicitly condemned such innovations: “When rites are stripped of their sacrificial nature to become mere commemorations… they cease to be means of sanctification and become vehicles of error.”

Crypt Visit Confirms Apostolic Succession Rupture

The report concludes with Leo XIV praying at “the crypt of Saint Peter’s Basilica for the deceased Popes” – a blasphemous act given that these include antipopes from John XXIII onward. St. Pius V’s Regnans in Excelsis (1570) declares that usurpers of the Apostolic See “forfeit all jurisdiction,” making prayers for their souls as “Popes” sacrilegious. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) confirms that public defection from faith (apostasia a fide) voids any claim to ecclesiastical office.

Syllabus of Errors Resurgent in Neo-Church Rituals

This spectacle embodies multiple condemned propositions from Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum (1864):

#17: Denial that non-Catholics cannot attain eternal salvation (implied by naturalized eschatology)
#21: Rejection of the Church’s authority to define Catholic faith as the only true religion
#64: Demand for “reform of Christian doctrine” to reconcile with modernity

Moreover, the cemetery’s Masonic-inspired architecture (Vespignani’s statues representing Enlightenment virtues) provides fitting backdrop for conciliarism’s abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation).

As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “When the Modernist speaks of religious experience, he shuts out all intellectual content – reducing faith to sentimental effusions divorced from dogma.” Leo XIV’s ceremony consummates this heresy, stripping All Souls’ Day of its expiatory power and reducing it to psychological therapy for the living.

Source::
Pope on All Souls' Day: God has opened for us the way to eternal life (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 02.11.2025