Cinematic Apostasy: Vatican’s Embrace of Naturalistic Art Exposed
Vatican News portal reports on November 15, 2025 that antipope Leo XIV received filmmakers including Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett, claiming cinema expresses “humanity’s deepest spiritual search” and “longing for the infinite.” The usurper of Peter’s throne praised film as “an intersection of desires, memories and questions” that educates minds and gives pain “new meaning,” while quoting apostate Paul VI’s modernist appeal to artists. This sacrilegious spectacle reduces religion to emotional manipulation through moving images – the antithesis of Catholic sacramental theology.
Naturalism Masquerading as Spirituality
The conciliar sect leader’s assertion that cinema “ignites the eyes of the soul” constitutes theological vandalism against Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which declared Christ alone as King over minds and wills. When the antipope claims darkened theaters facilitate spiritual receptivity, he inverts the Church’s teaching that “the sensual man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of God” (1 Cor 2:14). Pius X’s Lamentabili sane explicitly condemned the modernist error that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20) – precisely the anthropocentric heresy underlying this cinematic idolatry.
“Cinema combines what appears to be mere entertainment with the narrative of the human person’s spiritual adventure”
This blasphemous equivalence between amusement and supernatural life violates the Council of Trent’s anathema against those who claim sacraments and pious practices “were instituted solely to foster faith” (Session VII, Canon 5). The true Church maintains that “extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (outside the Church there is no salvation), not “extra cinematographum.”
Omission of Supernatural Order
Nowhere does the antipope mention Christ’s Redemption, the necessity of baptism, or the Four Last Things – the systematic silencing of Catholic eschatology revealing the conciliar sect’s materialist foundation. His praise for films exploring “human dignity” while omitting Original Sin directly contradicts Pius IX’s Syllabus condemning those who deny “the whole human race, in consequence of the sin of Adam, has fallen from primitive innocence” (Error 5).
The article’s revelation that Leo XIV listed “The Sound of Music” among favorite films exposes the poverty of this pseudo-religion: Salzburg landscapes substituted for sacraments, emotional crescendos replacing contrition. Where St. Pius X warned against “the pest of indifferentism” (Pascendi, 37), the Vatican occupiers promote aesthetic universalism – the very “democratization of the Church” our Framework commands us to reject.
The Algorithm of Apostasy
Antipope Leo’s admonition to resist “algorithmic logic” while extolling cinema’s unpredictability constitutes supreme hypocrisy. The conciliar sect itself operates on the modernist algorithm of doctrinal evolution, where “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Lamentabili, Proposition 58). His call to “make cinema an art of the Spirit” parodies the Holy Ghost’s work, reducing Veni Creator Spiritus to a film score cue.
When the antipope quotes Paul VI’s 1965 address to artists – that grotesque moment when the Church’s violators first extended their bloody hand to cultural revolutionaries – he confirms the uninterrupted apostasy: from Montini’s embrace of atheist sculptors to Prevost’s courtship of Hollywood globalists. The eternal Church responds with St. John Chrysostom’s cry: “Non licet!” – It is not permitted to exchange divine mysteries for shadow plays.
As true Catholics flee the abomination of desolation occupying Vatican halls, we recall Pius XI’s uncompromising stand: “Christ must reign in the mind of man” (Quas Primas), not through flickering screens but by submission to dogma. Let film stars have their oscars – we keep our eyes fixed on the only Awarder of crowns who declared: “Ego sum lux mundi” (I am the light of the world) – not Spielberg, not Blanchett, and certainly not the antipope who trades miters for director’s chairs.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to movie makers: Film can portray ‘longing for the infinite’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.11.2025