Thanksgiving Pies and Baseball Bats: The Profane Theater of Vatican’s Anti-Pope
The VaticanNews portal (27 November 2025) reports on the first international trip of “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Turkey, emphasizing the “distinctly American gifts” he received aboard the papal flight: pumpkin pies, a baseball bat, and a syncretic Marian icon. The article describes the antipope’s jovial interactions with journalists, including jokes about security checks and discussions of the Wordle game, while omitting any reference to the spiritual purpose of an apostolic journey. This carnivalesque spectacle reveals the conciliar sect’s total surrender to worldly triviality and its rupture with the immutable Catholic tradition.
Profanation of Papal Dignity Through Secular Spectacle
The report’s focus on Leo XIV’s reception of a baseball bat—a relic of secular sports culture—exposes the conciliar sect’s contempt for the sacred office of the papacy. The Church has always taught that the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864), endowed with the grave responsibility of guarding divine truth and shepherding souls toward eternal salvation. Yet here, the usurper of the Apostolic See reduces his role to that of a celebrity, quipping about airport security while accepting trivialities. The article’s language—”smiling,” “joked,” “Happy Thanksgiving!”—frames the anti-pope as a figure of amusement, not a successor of Peter charged with “feeding the sheep” (John 21:17).
This debasement mirrors the conciliar revolution’s broader rejection of the sacerdocium (priesthood) as a supernatural reality. As Pius XI emphasized in Quas Primas (1925), Christ’s kingship demands that civil and religious authorities submit to His reign, not trivialize His representatives into purveyors of holiday cheer. The baseball bat, a symbol of American utilitarianism, becomes a weapon against the Church’s transcendent mission, reducing the Petrine office to a platform for cultural pandering.
Syncretism in Sacred Art: The Our Lady of Guadalupe Icon
The article highlights a “Byzantine-style icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe” gifted to Leo XIV, which it claims “symbolically links Latin America’s Marian tradition with the iconography of the Christian East.” This syncretic artifice—crafted by a Spanish artist—epitomizes the conciliar sect’s heresy of religious indifferentism. The Church has always condemned the blending of distinct liturgical and devotional traditions as a violation of the lex orandi, lex credendi principle. As Pius IX’s Syllabus unequivocally states: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18)—a premise this icon implicitly advances by equating Eastern Orthodox aesthetics with Latin piety.
Moreover, the true Our Lady of Guadalupe apparition (1531) was a miraculous affirmation of Catholic exclusivity, converting millions of indigenous people away from pagan idolatry. To distort her image through Eastern iconography—a tradition historically separated from Rome—is to deny the uniqueness of Catholic truth. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) condemned such Modernist distortions, declaring that “the interpretation of Holy Scripture given by the Church… is not to be scorned” (Proposition 2). Yet the conciliar sect perpetuates an aesthetic relativism that undermines the unity of faith.
The Scandal of Naturalism and Omission of the Supernatural
Nowhere does the article mention prayer, penance, or the salvation of souls—the very ends of any apostolic endeavor. Instead, it dwells on Leo XIV’s Wordle game and his brother’s remarks about Thanksgiving stuffing. This deliberate omission reflects the conciliar sect’s naturalistic worldview, which St. Pius X identified as the core of Modernism: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili, Proposition 20). The antipope’s interaction with Elias Turk—a journalist traumatized by war—exemplifies this error. While Turk requested rosaries for his nephews, the report reduces the encounter to a “light moment,” ignoring the Church’s duty to preach “the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8) amid human suffering.
True popes, such as Pius XI, used such journeys to condemn errors and proclaim Christ’s kingship. In contrast, Leo XIV’s voyage is a diplomatic pantomime, devoid of doctrinal substance. The Syllabus of Errors anathematizes this very approach: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). By embracing secular holidays and games, the conciliar sect confirms its apostasy from the Faith.
Conclusion: A Church in Captivity to the World
The gifts received by Leo XIV—pies, a bat, and a syncretic icon—are emblems of the conciliar sect’s bondage to modernity. As Pius XI warned, societies that reject Christ’s reign “heavily oppress people” and “contribute to the destruction of people and nations distant from God” (Quas Primas). The VaticanNews portal’s gleeful reportage of this spectacle is not merely journalistic negligence but a symptom of the broader apostasy foretold in Scripture (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4). Until the conciliar sect renounces its naturalistic heresies and returns to the immutable Tradition, such profanations will only multiply, deepening the Church’s visible eclipse.
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Pies and a baseball bat: The gifts Pope Leo XIV received on the papal flight to Turkey (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 27.11.2025