Vatican News Portal Whitewashes Anthropocentric Heresies in “Pope” Leo XIV’s Transhumanism Comments
The Vatican News portal reports on December 10, 2025 that antipope Leo XIV criticized transhumanism during a general audience, stating that “death is not opposed to life” and claiming Christ’s resurrection reveals death as “a constitutive part” of existence leading to “eternal life.” While superficially rejecting technological immortality, the address fundamentally distorts Catholic eschatology by omitting the supernatural realities of particular judgment, hell, and the necessity of sacramental preparation for death. The commentary concludes with naturalistic appeals for peace in Thailand-Cambodia border clashes devoid of any reference to mankind’s submission to Christ the King.
Theological Reductionism Masquerading as Orthodoxy
The portal presents Leo XIV’s statement that “death is not opposed to life” as compatible with Catholic teaching, yet this phrasing dangerously echoes Hegelian dialectics rather than Thomistic ontology. Nowhere does the antipope specify that death entered the world through original sin (mors est poena peccati), as defined by the Council of Trent (Session V). His vague assertion that death constitutes “the passage to eternal life” deliberately ignores the dogmatic distinction between the viatorium (earthly pilgrimage) and terminatorium (eternal destination), implying universal salvation.
“The Pasch of Jesus gives us a foretaste… of the fullness of what will happen after death.”
This selective quoting of St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Preparation for Death constitutes theological malpractice. The portal omits Leo XIV’s failure to emphasize the saint’s central thesis: death’s spiritual gravity requires immediate conversion, frequent confession, and perfect contrition to avoid eternal damnation. St. Alphonsus warns: “The mistake about the time of death has cast numberless souls into hell” – a truth systematically suppressed in the neo-modernist presentation.
Transhumanism’s Materialist Roots Left Uncondemned
While critiquing technological immortality promises, the address never identifies transhumanism’s essential heresy: the denial of the spiritual soul and substitution of human ingenuity for divine grace. Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) explicitly condemned such materialist anthropologies:
“Others destroy the true concept of original sin… along with the concept of sin in general as an offense against God, to substitute a merely biological or social interpretation of man and his destiny.” (HG 26)
The antipope’s rhetorical question – “could science itself guarantee us that a life without death is also a happy life?” – exposes his naturalist framework. Authentic Catholic response would cite Psalm 89:48 (“What man can live and not see death?”), while condemning transhumanism’s Pelagian attempt to achieve Edenic immortality through technology rather than sacramental regeneration.
Sacramental Silence: The Omission That Damns
Nowhere does the portal mention Leo XIV exhorting the faithful to receive Last Rites – the Viaticum that Holy Mother Church provides as armor for death’s battle. This omission continues Vatican II’s destruction of ars moriendi, replacing sacramental certainty with psycho-spiritual platitudes. Compare this vacuous address with Pope Pius XII’s 1957 radio message:
“At the hour of death… the priest comes as the ambassador of Christ… to purify the soul in the Blood of the Lamb, to strengthen it with divine food, to place it in the arms of its Father and Creator.”
The portal’s description of cemeteries as places modern man avoids illustrates the neo-church’s abandonment of prayers for the dead. Where are the references to Purgatory, indulgences, or the Requiem Mass? The dead become abstract “beloved populations” rather than souls needing suffrages – a humanitarian reductionism Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas as “the plague of our age, liberalism.”
Diplomatic Apostasy: Naturalism Replaces Social Kingship
In addressing Thailand-Cambodia border clashes, Leo XIV commits the very error Pius XI denounced: “States have rebelled against Christ and still rebel” (Quas Primas 18). His plea to “cease fire and resume dialogue” ignores Christ’s royal mandate that nations submit to His authority (Regnabit, December 11, 1925). The portal applauds this secular pacifism while censoring the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of religious indifferentism:
“Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true.” (Syllabus #15)
Terminological Subversion: How Language Betrays Doctrine
The portal’s language systematically replaces Catholic terminology with ambiguous novelties:
– “Happy eternity” substitutes for “Beatific Vision”
– “Fullness of life” replaces “Sanctifying Grace”
– “Great trial of death” obscures “Particular Judgment”
This corruption follows Paul VI’s admission that post-conciliar reforms intended “to change the mentalities, the attitudes, the intentions” (November 23, 1973). When Leo XIV speaks of Christ preparing “the home where we are awaited,” he evokes Luther’s heretical Heimholungstheologie (theology of homecoming) rather than the Church Militant’s cry: “De mortuis cura nobis, Domine” (Have mercy on the dead, O Lord).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV criticizes transhumanism: ‘Death is not opposed to life’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.12.2025