Conciliar Sect’s False Ecclesiology Masquerading as Catholic Unity
VaticanNews portal (November 9, 2025) reports on a Sunday Angelus address by “Pope” Leo XIV, marking the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. The usurper of Peter’s throne claims the true sanctuary of God is Christ, whom he describes as “the only mediator of salvation” uniting humanity to the Father. He reduces the Church to a “spiritual edifice” of “living stones” called to spread “mercy, consolation and peace” through “witness of life,” while lamenting that “frailties and mistakes of Christians” obscure the Church’s holiness—a holiness he paradoxically divorces from sacramental grace by declaring it dependent solely on God’s “gift” rather than cooperation with the means of salvation. The article concludes with an invocation to Mary as “Mother of the Church” devoid of her true mediatory role. This modernist distortion exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic annihilation of the Church’s visible, hierarchical, and sacramental nature.
Evisceration of the Church’s Visible and Hierarchical Reality
The address declares the Church to be merely “Christ’s body, His members” engaged in “spiritual worship” through “witness of life.” This deliberate ambiguity erases the societas perfecta (perfect society) defined by Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The Church is a society far more perfect than any other… instituted by Christ for the salvation of all mankind.” By reducing the Church to an invisible “spiritual edifice,” the usurper denies Pius XII’s teaching in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) that the Mystical Body is “identical with the Roman Catholic Church,” governed visibly by the Supreme Pontiff and bishops in communion with him.
Worse, the claim that the Lateran Basilica “represents the driving force of the faith entrusted to and preserved by the Apostles” is a demonstrable falsehood. The true Apostolic Deposit resides exclusively in the Ecclesia Docens (Teaching Church), which the conciliar sect abandoned when Paul VI imposed the heretical Novus Ordo Missae (1969). As Pope Pius IX solemnly taught in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), it is heresy to assert that “the Roman Pontiffs have… usurped the rights of princes” (Proposition 23) or that “the Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Proposition 21).
Naturalism in the Guise of “Spiritual Perspective”
The Angelus exhorts the faithful to “train our hearts to have this spiritual outlook” to overcome “clichés and prejudices” against the Church. This language echoes Modernism’s subjectivism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The dogmas of faith are to be understood only in their practical sense as preceptive of action” (Proposition 26). By framing the Church’s holiness as a “gift” unaffected by “our merits,” the usurper denies the necessity of sanctifying grace and the sacraments—a heresy explicitly rejected by the Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 10).
Moreover, the citation of Benedict XVI’s Introduction to Christianity—a work suffused with Hegelianism—exposes the conciliar sect’s allegiance to theological evolutionism. St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) identified this as the Modernist tactic: “To the Modernists… both conscience and science are supreme guides when speaking of laymen.” When “Pope” Leo XIV speaks of Christ as “the door that opens wide for us and leads us to the Father,” he omits the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) doctrine defined at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and reiterated by Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam (1302).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship: A Silent Apostasy
Notably absent is any reference to the Regnum Christi (Kingship of Christ) over nations—the very essence of the Lateran Basilica’s dedication. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) established this feast to combat secularism, declaring: “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.” In contrast, the Angelus reduces the Church’s mission to spreading “mercy, consolation and peace“—a humanitarian agenda indistinguishable from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
This aligns with the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty, condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15). By invoking Mary merely as an “intercessor” without acknowledging her as Mediatrix Omnium Gratiarum (Mediatrix of All Graces), the usurper further undermines the hierarchy of redemption established by God.
Conclusion: A Pseudo-Church Repeating Ancient Heresies
The Angelus epitomizes the conciliar sect’s ecclesiology: a Gnostic body divorced from dogma, sacraments, and hierarchy. As Pope Pius XII warned in Humani Generis (1950), such errors “appear under the semblance of piety… to distort the Sacred Deposit of Truth.” The true Church remains only in those who reject the Vatican II apostasy and cling to the lex orandi, lex credendi (law of prayer is the law of belief) embodied in the Traditional Mass. Let the faithful remember St. Paul’s admonition: “Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema” (Galatians 1:8).
Source:
Pope at Angelus: We are Christ's Church meant to joyfully walk with Him (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.11.2025