Empty Tomb, Empty Words: Neo-Modernist Resurrection Discourse Reveals Ecclesial Apostasy
Portal VaticanNews reports (November 5, 2025) that “Pope” Leo XIV during a general audience presented Christ’s Resurrection as “the Event that is the foundation of faith” which should “revolutioniz[e] how we live” and provide “the lodestar towards which we can direct our seemingly chaotic lives.” The antipope claimed this Paschal mystery fulfills humanity’s “thirst for meaning” amid evil and suffering, insisting that “every day is Easter” through “living remembrance” in the Eucharist. He quoted St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) to suggest human nature constantly seeks transcendence despite mortality, concluding the Resurrection constitutes “the most beautiful, joyful, and overwhelming news” satisfying our demand for meaning. The article concludes by framing the Resurrection as changing history through the women discovering the empty tomb.
Naturalization of the Supernatural: Resurrection Reduced to Psychological Crutch
The discourse presents a textbook case of Modernist reductionism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Divine reality is placed on the same plane as human reality, and thus the way is opened to the annihilation of all religion – atheism.” When the antipope declares the Resurrection “not an idea, not a theory, but the Event,” he employs linguistic subterfuge to mask his actual doctrine. The term “Event” here functions as a Modernist trope divorcing Christ’s victory from its dogmatic content, reducing it to subjective experience – precisely the error condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907) propositions 22 and 25:
“The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts… Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.”
Nowhere does the address mention Christ’s triumph over sin or the necessity of conversion for salvation – the very absence of which proves the neo-church’s apostasy. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes the true royal dimensions of Christ’s victory: “He it is that shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles…and in His name shall the Gentiles hope (Matthew 12:21). This kingdom is spiritual and concerned with spiritual things…It would be a grave error…to say that Christ has no authority over civil affairs.” Yet the antipope’s “Paschal hope” pointedly avoids demanding Christ’s social kingship, instead offering psychological comfort for “confusing, unacceptable, and incomprehensible” events – a therapeutic deity for therapeutic times.
Eucharistic Fraud and the Destruction of Sacramental Ontology
The reference to “living remembrance through Eucharist” constitutes blasphemous equivocation. The Council of Trent (Session XIII, Chapter IV) dogmatically defines: “In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered Himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner.” Contrast this with the antipope’s claim that “every day is Easter” through Eucharistic celebration. By reducing the propitiatory sacrifice to “living remembrance,” he enacts the very Modernist sabotage condemned in Lamentabili propositions 45 and 49:
“Not everything that St. Paul relates about the institution of the Eucharist (1 Cor 11:23-25) is a historical fact… The elders fulfilling supervisory functions at Christian gatherings were appointed by the Apostles as priests or bishops to ensure order… but they did not, in the proper sense, continue the apostolical mission.”
The true Paschal mystery requires the ex opere operato efficacy of valid sacraments administered by priests ordained in apostolic succession – precisely what the neo-church destroyed through its invalid sacramental rites following Paul VI’s Missale Romanum (1969). When antipope Leo XIV speaks of Eucharist transmitting resurrection hope, he deceives souls into eating “bread which strengthens man’s heart (Psalm 103:15)” rather than the true Body of Christ.
Anthropocentric Eschatology Replacing Divine Judgment
Most damning is the complete omission of Christ’s return as Judge – the necessary counterpart to His resurrection. The antipope’s selective quotation of St. Francis’ Canticle of the Sun (“no living man can escape [death]”) deliberately stops before the Poverello’s conclusion: “Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Blessed those whom death will find in Your most holy will.” This Modernist trick mirrors Bergoglio’s manipulation of St. Edith Stein’s writings to suggest “the human person always longs to have being given to us anew” – implying salvation through existential striving rather than sanctifying grace.
Compare this to Pope Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi (1943): “Only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.” The neo-church’s “Paschal hope does not disappoint” heresy directly contradicts St. Paul’s warning: “If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema (1 Corinthians 16:22).”
Gnostic Resurrection Versus Apostolic Proclamation
The final appeal to the women at the empty tomb epitomizes the neo-church’s corruption of Scripture. The Modernist “mysterious youth dressed in white” replaces St. Mark’s explicit “angel (Mark 16:5)” – a deliberate demythologization condemned by Pius X’s Biblical Commission (1907). Moreover, the antipope stops at the angel’s announcement (Mark 16:6) while omitting Christ’s subsequent command: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned (Mark 16:15-16).”
This calculated silence exposes the conciliar sect’s true mission: not the salvation of souls through fides et baptismus, but a universalist “transmission of hope” divorced from doctrine. As Cardinal Billot warned in De Ecclesia Christi (1921): “When the Church ceases to condemn, she ceases to be the Bride of Christ and becomes a harlot accommodating all errors.” The empty tomb proclaimed by antipopes leads not to resurrection life, but to the spiritual death foretold in the Third Secret of Fatima – a truth suppressed by the very Masonic forces now occupying the Vatican.
Source:
Pope at Audience: Christ's Resurrection brings hope to darkness of human history (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 05.11.2025