Assisi Assembly Exposes Deepening Apostasy in Italian Ecclesiastical Structures
Vatican News portal reports that “Pope” Leo XIV will conclude the 81st General Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference in Assisi on 20 November 2025. The assembly, focused on “pastoral priorities,” “safeguarding,” and “Catholic education,” epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of divine mandate in favor of human-centered pragmatism.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The assembly’s agenda reveals a Church no longer concerned with the depositum fidei (the deposit of faith) but obsessed with organizational mechanics. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s address on “pastoral perspectives” emerging from Italy’s “Synodal Path” confirms the triumph of procedure over doctrine—a direct violation of Pius X’s condemnation of Modernist activism in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). By reducing ecclesial life to bureaucratic priorities, the Italian episcopate implicitly denies St. Paul’s warning: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema” (Gal 1:8).
The document “Teaching Catholic Religion: A Laboratory of Culture and Dialogue” epitomizes this apostasy. Catholic catechesis is degraded to a “laboratory”—a term implying experimentation—while “dialogue” replaces conversion as the goal. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The Italian “bishops” invert this truth, making the Faith subservient to secular culture.
Assisi: Stage for False Ecumenism
Holding the assembly in Assisi—site of John Paul II’s blasphemous 1986 interreligious summit—symbolizes the conciliar sect’s commitment to religious indifferentism. The “prayer for peace” led by Cardinal Zuppi will likely repeat the sacrilege of treating false religions as equal to Catholicism, violating the First Commandment and Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code, which forbids Catholics from participating in non-Catholic worship.
The choice of Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica compounds the scandal. This sanctuary, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin’s intercession, is exploited to legitimize a gathering that ignores her true role as Virgo Fidelis (Virgin Most Faithful)—destroyer of heresies. Where St. Francis preached penance and submission to Rome, his city now hosts “clerics” who undermine both.
Safeguarding as Smokescreen for Doctrinal Bankruptcy
The “prayer for victims and survivors of abuse” led by Archbishop Ivan Maffeis continues the conciliar sect’s strategy: weaponize legitimate outrage over clerical crimes to deflect from doctrinal corruption. While true justice demands punishment of predators, the assembly reduces this crisis to a public relations exercise. Nowhere does the agenda mention the root cause: collapse of sacramental discipline and abandonment of Thomistic formation.
Compare this negligence to Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Illius Magistri (1929), which mandated that Catholic education form souls to “fly from vice, desire virtue, and attain to it by the exercise of their free will.” The Italian “bishops” instead prioritize secular “safeguarding” protocols—procedural Band-Aids on a gangrenous limb.
Illegitimate Shepherds, Invalid Assembly
The very notion of “bishops” gathering under antipope Leo XIV exposes the structural fraud of the conciliar sect. As Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) taught, valid episcopal consecration requires not only proper form but orthodox intent. These men, ordained with the Paul VI rite—whose defects were condemned by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1976—lack jurisdiction and legitimacy.
Their discussion of “Catholic education” is particularly grotesque. The 1917 Code’s Canon 1374 mandated that “teachers in any schools whatsoever must distinguish themselves by sound doctrine and integrity of life”. Yet the conciliar sect’s schools—like the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University—now promote gender ideology and climate hysteria. The assembly’s document will only accelerate this betrayal.
Conclusion: Return to the Kingship of Christ or Perish
The Assisi assembly embodies the conciliar sect’s final mutation: a bureaucratic NGO masquerading as a church. Its “pastoral priorities” exclude the only priority that matters—instaurare omnia in Christo (to restore all things in Christ), as St. Pius X commanded.
Until Italy’s Catholics recognize that these “bishops” are wolves in miters—usurpers who’ve abolished the Social Reign of Christ the King—the nation will spiral deeper into chaos. Let them heed Our Lord’s warning: “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be uprooted” (Matt 15:13). Only by rejecting the conciliar sect and returning to the immutable Mass and doctrine can the Church’s true hierarchy—and Italy’s soul—be restored.
Source:
Pope to conclude Italian Bishops’ Assembly in Assisi on 20 November (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 07.11.2025