Assisi Visit Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Apostate Nature
The VaticanNews portal (November 20, 2025) reports that antipope Leo XIV visited the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, calling the saint’s witness “especially important at a time when the world is searching for signs of hope.” The article details his arrival by helicopter, prayer at the tomb, and subsequent meeting with the Italian Episcopal Conference leadership. This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic eschatology in favor of naturalistic sentimentality.
Usurped Authority Masquerading as Catholic Legacy
The repeated reference to “Pope Leo XIV” constitutes a grave deception. As the Defense of Sedevacantism document establishes: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII lacks legitimacy, making this “visit” an act of sacrilege on consecrated ground. When the article states the antipope “reaffirmed the message of hope” at the tomb, it commits the error of equating apostate gestures with apostolic succession.
St. Francis himself would recoil at this exploitation of his resting place. The Quas Primas encyclical (Pius XI, 1925) reminds us: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Yet here we witness the fraudulent head of a counterfeit church coopting a saint who fought ecclesiastical corruption – precisely what this antipope embodies.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article’s emphasis on “hope” devoid of Christ the King exposes the conciliar sect’s core heresy. Nowhere does the antipope mention:
- The Social Reign of Christ as articulated in Quas Primas: “Rulers of states must not refuse public veneration to the reigning Christ”
- The Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell)
- The necessity of sacraments for salvation
Instead, we find generic appeals to “signs of hope” – a phrase echoing the condemned Modernist tenet that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 20). The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) explicitly condemns such naturalism: “All action of God upon man and the world is to be denied” (Proposition 2).
St. Francis Distorted Into Eco-Socialist Icon
The true Franciscan charism bears no resemblance to this spectacle. As the Syllabus states: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). By celebrating St. Francis while promoting environmentalism and interfaith dialogue (as Bergoglio did in his 2020 visit), the conciliar sect engages in doctrinal subterfuge.
Authentic sources reveal St. Francis:
- Received the stigmata while meditating on Christ’s Passion – not “dialogue”
- Preached uncompromising conversion to Muslim sultan Al-Kamil
- Upheld papal authority against all heresies
The article’s silence on these facts constitutes suppressio veri – suppression of truth to advance the conciliar agenda.
Bishops’ Complicity in Apostasy
The meeting with the Italian Episcopal Conference leadership compounds the scandal. These men owe their positions to adherence to Vatican II’s heresies, particularly:
- Religious liberty (condemned in Quanta Cura)
- Ecumenism (condemned in Mortalium Animos)
- Collegiality (condemned in Pastor Aeternus)
As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed.” The bishops’ assembly under an antipope completes the rupture with Apostolic Tradition.
Conclusion: True Hope Resides Only in Christ the King
The rain-soaked crowd crying “Viva il Papa” symbolizes the conciliar sect’s emotional manipulation. True Catholics recognize this spectacle as fulfillment of Pius X’s warning: “The enemies of the Church are no longer outside… but within” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). While the world seeks “signs of hope,” the only authentic hope lies in rejecting these false shepherds and clinging to the semper idem (always the same) faith of our fathers. As the Syllabus concludes: “The Roman Pontiff cannot reconcile himself with progressivism” – a truth demonstrated by this blasphemous Assisi theater.
Source:
Pope Leo visits tomb of St Francis in Assisi (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.11.2025