Vatican Apparatus Exploits Persecution Narrative to Promote Syncretism
The VaticanNews portal (November 16, 2025) reports on an Angelus address by antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) during the “Jubilee of the Poor,” wherein he describes persecuted “Christians” as “witnesses of truth, justice, hope.” The antipope claims Christ’s words in Luke 21 provide comfort amid global conflicts and that persecution manifests through both “weapons and death” and “ideological manipulation.” He asserts martyrs demonstrate “God’s grace is capable of transforming even violence into a sign of redemption,” concluding with an invocation to Mary as “Help of Christians.” This performance epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith with anthropocentric sentimentality.
Naturalization of Martyrdom: Erasure of Dogmatic Essentials
The Angelus address reduces martyrdom to generic “bearing witness to truth,” deliberately omitting conditio sine qua non (the indispensable condition) for true martyrdom: death suffered explicitly for the Catholic Faith. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares: “While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer… the kingship of Christ… would be cast aside” (¶ 24). The conciliar sect’s equivocal use of “Christian” includes heretical communities, betraying Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). By refusing to specify extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, antipope Prevost implies validity in false religions—a heresy anathematized by Cantate Domino (1441).
Subversion of Eschatology: Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Prevost’s focus on “persecution at the end times” conceals the conciliar sect’s rejection of Christ’s temporal reign. Contrast this with Pius XI’s uncompromising teaching: “Nations… will not enjoy peace unless they submit to the rule of our Savior” (Quas Primas, ¶ 1). The Angelus reduces “justice” and “hope” to secular ideals, ignoring their foundation in divine law. Nowhere does Prevost mention the duty of states to submit to Christ the King, thereby endorsing the Masonic separation of Church and state condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 55).
Marian Devotion as Theatrical Prop
The appeal to Mary as “Help of Christians” rings hollow when the conciliar sect systematically destroys authentic Marian piety. Compare Prevost’s empty invocation with Leo XIII’s Adiutricem Populi (1895), which ties Marian intercession to “the defense of the Church… against heresies”. The antipope’s Mary is a nebulous comforter—not the Terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata (Terrible as an army set in array) of tradition. This aligns with the modernist desacralization decried in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They reduce to a meaningless formula the invocation of the Blessed Virgin” (¶ 16).
Omission of the Church’s Singular Role
The Angelus ignores the Church’s divine constitution as the unicus locus salutis (sole ark of salvation). Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) states unequivocally: “They who do not belong to the visible Body of the Catholic Church… cannot be certain of their salvation” (¶ 103). Prevost’s vague “brothers and sisters” implicitly validates schismatic communities, violating Pius IX’s condemnation of indifferentism: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Proposition 18).
Conclusion: Persecution Narrative as Ecumenical Weapon
This Angelus continues the conciliar sect’s strategy of exploiting persecution to advance religious indifferentism. By divorcing “witness” from doctrinal fidelity, antipope Prevost crafts a syncretic martyrdom palatable to Freemasonry. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views” (Proposition 63). The true Church, however, remains militans—not through modernist dialogue, but by upholding Regnavit a ligno Deus (God reigned from the wood).
Source:
Pope Leo: Persecuted Christians are witnesses of truth, justice, hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.11.2025