Vatican’s “Leo from Chicago” Documentary Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Cult of Personality
The VaticanNews portal (November 13, 2025) promotes Leo from Chicago, a documentary glorifying antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) through sentimental childhood anecdotes and ecumenical narratives. Family members describe him as “God’s gift to moms,” while friends recall his basement “Masses” using an ironing board as an altar and his Lutheran pastor friend John Snider. The film emphasizes Prevost’s “diplomatic” ability to transform “an unruly little mob into friends” and his baseball fandom, framing these as evidence of pastoral virtue.
Naturalization of the Papacy as Earthly Celebrity Cult
The documentary’s focus on Prevost’s childhood “Masses” blasphemously reduces the Holy Sacrifice to playacting: “using their mother Mildred’s ironing board as an altar”. This sacrilegious trivialization violates the Council of Trent’s anathema against those who “hold that the Mass is only a service of praise or thanksgiving” (Session XXII, Canon 1). The film’s insistence on Prevost’s “sense of humor” and White Sox fandom follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of replacing sancrosancta gravitas (sacred gravity) with a cult of affability. Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas, insisting Christ’s Kingship demands “religious reverence” for authority, not humanist camaraderie.
Ecumenism as Apostasy From Catholic Exclusiveism
The documentary celebrates Prevost’s 45-year friendship with Lutheran pastor John Snider, including their “theological discussions over dinner” and shared viewings of The Blues Brothers. This violates the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18). St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane exitu explicitly denounced the modernist error that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20) – precisely the subjectivist theology enabling such false ecumenism. By elevating this relationship, the conciliar sect confirms its rejection of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Omission of Supernatural Finality Exposes Naturalist Agenda
Nowhere does the film mention Prevost’s adherence to Catholic doctrine – unsurprising given his membership in a paramasonic hierarchy that has rejected the Social Kingship of Christ. The documentary’s silence on Prevost’s role in promoting communion for adulterers (as “Cardinal” Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops) or his Pachamama veneration in Peru proves its propagandistic intent. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, true shepherds must remind rulers that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ,” not fabricate hagiographies about bicycle diplomacy and pizza preferences.
Childhood “Vocation” Narrative Mocks Sacred Priesthood
The claim that Prevost’s vocation was evident when he “celebrated Mass” in the basement parodies true sacerdotal formation. The conciliar sect’s priesthood – invalid since the 1968 Ordinatio Sacerdotalis rite – finds perfect symbolism in this domestic theater. Contrast this with St. Pius X’s warning in Vehementer Nos: “The priest is no mere office-holder… he is the alter Christus.” The film’s emphasis on Prevost “turning an unruly mob into friends” evokes Bergoglio’s “field hospital” metaphor, reducing the Church’s mission to social work while denying the need for conversion.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Sect’s Total Apostasy
This documentary exemplifies the conciliar sect’s final transition from heterodoxy to outright paganism. Its celebration of a man who “was like God’s gift to moms” while presiding over global Catholic demolition proves the fulfillment of Pius X’s prophecy: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 6). By humanizing its false pope through baseball games and snowmobiling tales, the Vatican apparatus confirms its descent into what Pius IX condemned as the “cult of man” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 80).
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A glimpse at the just-released “Leo from Chicago” (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.11.2025