Assisi Pilgrimage Masks Apostasy: A False Pope’s Empty Gestures
The Catholic News Agency reports on the November 20, 2025 visit of “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Assisi, where he prayed at the tomb of St. Francis and addressed the Italian Bishops’ Conference. The article emphasizes his adoption of the Franciscan name, references St. John Paul II’s 1979 declaration of Francis as “patron saint of ecology,” and describes emotional crowds greeting the antipope despite inclement weather. The report concludes with details of a Mass celebrated at an Augustinian monastery linked to St. Clare of Montefalco.
Illegitimate Authority Profaning Sacred Spaces
The spectacle of a Vatican usurper praying before the relics of St. Francis constitutes sacrilegious theater. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly voids the office of any cleric who publicly defects from Catholic faith, while Pope Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares such elections “null, void and without effect.” When “Leo XIV” claims that “the world seeks signs of hope,” he embodies the naturalistic inversion condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). His presence transforms sacred sites into stages for apostasy.
Ecological Syncretism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article’s reference to Francis as “patron saint of ecology” reveals the neo-church’s radical departure from Catholic ontology. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) established Christ’s social kingship, declaring: “Nations will be happy only when they accept the divine truth that the Church of Christ must ‘teach all nations'” (§18). By contrast, the ecological designation reduces sainthood to environmental activism – a pure expression of the Modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “The dogmas of faith are to be held only according to their practical sense; that is, as perceptive norms ordering action but not ordering belief” (Error 26). This distortion fulfills St. Pius X’s warning that Modernists would reduce religion to “a certain kind of intuition and sentiment” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §14).
Omissions Expose Doctrinal Bankruptcy
Nowhere does the article mention:
- Christ’s imperative: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19)
- Francis’ actual mission: “Preach the Gospel at all times; use words if necessary”
- The Syllabus of Errors‘ condemnation of those claiming “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55)
Instead, we find bureaucratic references to “the 81st general assembly” of conciliar bishops – men who, according to Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (1794), incur automatic excommunication for promoting “the heretical doctrine which pretends that that re-established unity may be compromised or subjected to any compromise whatsoever” (§34).
Sacrilegious Liturgy at Montefalco
The description of “Mass” celebrated by the antipope at St. Clare’s monastery compounds the outrage. As Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) established immutable sacramental form, and Paul VI’s invalid rites lack proper matter and intention, this ceremony constitutes simulated worship. The true St. Clare (canonized 1255) who received the Privilegium Paupertatis would recoil at this pantomime performed by a man whose “ordination” descends from Annibale Bugnini – architect of the Novus Ordo destruction.
Conclusion: Silence Speaks Louder Than Applause
When the article records crowds cheering “Long live the pope!” during driving rain, it unknowingly echoes Psalm 2: “The kings of the earth stand up, and the princes conspire together against the Lord and against his Christ.” The true Church remains in catacombs, not stadiums; her priests offer the Immemorial Mass, not ecological platitudes. As the real St. Francis warned: “All who love the Lord with their whole heart… must beware of the cleverness and wisdom of this world.” Let this spectacle remind us that only uncompromising fidelity to pre-1958 doctrine preserves the Faith amidst the Great Apostasy.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV prays at tomb of St. Francis of Assisi (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025