Naturalistic Pseudo-Gospel Replaces Supernatural Faith in Vatican Event
Vatican News portal (December 1, 2025) reports on an encounter between antipope Leo XIV and youth in Bkerké, Lebanon. The event featured testimonies from volunteers and a speech where the usurper of Peter’s throne urged attendees to “plan, dream, and do good” despite societal crises. The address invoked secularized concepts of peace, friendship, and “charity as a universal language,” while referencing post-conciliar figures like Carlo Acutis and avoiding any mention of repentance, sacraments, or the Social Kingship of Christ.
Eclipse of the Supernatural Order
The speech constitutes a masterclass in religious naturalism. By proclaiming that “there is still time to plan, dream, and do good” without grounding this call in the necessity of sanctifying grace, the antipope substitutes Pelagian self-reliance for Catholic soteriology. The Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith from Vatican I condemns this approach: “If anyone says that man can be justified before God by his own works… without the grace of God through Jesus Christ: let him be anathema” (Canon 1 on Justification).
“Peace… cannot be an idea, contract or moral principle. The risen Christ must be this foundation.”
This statement exemplifies the hermeneutic of equivocation. While superficially naming Christ, the address reduces Him to a symbolic foundation stone for worldly peace – directly contradicting Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ.” The deliberate omission of Christ’s regnum sociale (social kingship) exposes the modernist denial of His authority over nations.
Subversion of Sanctity Through Counterfeit Models
The invocation of “Carlo Acutis” as an exemplar constitutes spiritual sabotage. This post-conciliar “blessed” exemplifies the neo-church’s replacement of contemptus mundi with technological accommodationism. Contrast this with St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists place in their pantheon all the false heroes of human error.” True saints like St. Louis IX – who organized Crusades to reclaim Christ’s earthly inheritance – are replaced with computer-obsessed adolescents who pose no challenge to secular hegemony.
The reference to Lebanese “saints” canonized after 1958 continues this pattern. St. Charbel Makhlouf (canonized 1977) has been transformed into an ecumenical prop, his rigorous asceticism airbrushed to fit the conciliar agenda. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane: “The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable” (Condemned Proposition 53) – a heresy embodied in this repurposing of holy figures.
Sacramental Desert in a Sea of Sentiment
Nowhere does the address mention:
– The necessity of baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
– The Mass as propitiatory sacrifice
– Sacramental confession for sins
– The Four Last Things
Instead, youths are advised to “look only at God” through subjective silence and carry rosaries as talismans. This transforms religion into therapeutic self-help, fulfilling Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55). By reducing prayer to mindfulness techniques, the antipope enacts Luther’s project of replacing sacramental mediation with private sentiment.
False Peace Built on Apostate Foundations
The call for “peace” through “mutual help” and “reconciliation” constitutes apostasy from the missionary mandate. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura explicitly condemns the notion that “the best condition of civil society is that wherein no duty is recognized by the government of correcting… offenders of the Catholic religion.” True peace requires submission to Christ the King, not secular conflict resolution.
“True love cannot have a time limit… build a greater ‘we’, open to society as a whole and to all of humanity.”
This universalist declaration violates the First Vatican Council‘s definition of the Church as “a supernatural society, distinct from every other human society” (Session III, Ch. 1). The conciliar sect’s embrace of religious indifferentism (“open to all humanity”) fulfills St. Pius X’s warning: “The enemies of the Church disguise their errors as philosophical systems” (Pascendi, #2).
Theological Terrorism Against Catholic Youth
Most grievously, the address weaponizes youthful idealism against the Faith itself. By praising youths who “refused to be discouraged by injustices and bad examples, even those in the Church,” the antipope legitimizes dissent from immutable doctrine. This inverts St. Paul’s command: “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8).
The event’s culmination – distributing rosaries while denying the sacramental economy – embodies the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: retain Catholic symbols while evacuating them of supernatural content. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Satis Cognitum: “The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion… whoever receded in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium.”
Source:
Pope to young people: There is still time to dream, plan, and do good (vaticannews.va)
Date: 01.12.2025