American Catholics’ Favorable View of Antipope Leo XIV Reveals Depth of Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal reports that 70% of self-identified Catholic voters in the United States hold favorable views of antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”), with only 4% expressing unfavorable opinions. The survey conducted by RealClear Opinion Research and EWTN News claims that frequent Mass attenders show marginally higher approval (75%) than occasional attenders (66%). The article notes this represents higher favorability than the previous antipope (“Francis”) received during his usurpation of the papacy.
Theological Nullity of “Papal” Popularity Contests
The very premise of measuring “favorability” towards an antipope constitutes a radical inversion of Catholic ecclesiology. Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia (Where Peter is, there is the Church) – but since the illegitimate election of Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”), the See of Peter has been vacant. As Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis (1945) explicitly states: “The Church has the right, by the provision of divine law, to elect the Pontiff; no other has any right to intrude in this election.” The conciliar sect’s false elections violate every canonical norm, rendering all subsequent “popes” mere usurpers.
The article’s celebration of Prevost’s American birth exposes the nationalist heresy condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” True Catholics measure leaders by their fidelity to Tradition, not geographical accidents of birth.
Sacrilegious Equivalence Between Mass Attendance and Apostasy
The survey’s correlation between “Mass attendance” and approval of the antipope demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete destruction of sacramental theology. Since Paul VI’s invalid Missale Romanum (1969), the Novus Ordo service constitutes simulated liturgy at best, sacrilegious parody at worst. As Pope Pius VI condemned in Auctorem Fidei (1794): “It is not licit to introduce new rites and to innovate in the substance of the sacraments.”
“Among those who attend Mass at least once per week, about 75% hold a favorable view”
This statistic proves most “weekly Mass attenders” in the conciliar sect participate in invalid rites administered by clergy of dubious orders. The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici (Canon 804 §2) mandates: “No one is permitted to assist at the sacred rites of non-Catholics.” True Catholics recognize attendance at Novus Ordo services as communicatio in sacris with heretics.
Political Partisanship Replaces Theological Discernment
The article notes slight variances in approval between Democrat (74%), Republican (70%), and independent (63%) voters. This reduction of the Faith to political categories constitutes blasphemous subordination of the supernatural to natural order. Pope St. Pius X’s Notre Charge Apostolique (1910) condemned this error: “The Church… cannot be called democratic without a betrayal of her divine mission.”
Nowhere does the article mention Prevost’s heresies – his denial of Christ’s Social Kingship, promotion of false ecumenism, or attacks on traditional morality. This silence exemplifies the conciliar sect’s hermeneutic of rupture condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “They affirm that the Church is unable to determine the true sense of Sacred Scripture.”
Omission of Heresies Reveals Apostate Agenda
The article praises Prevost’s political meddling while omitting his most egregious heresies:
- His endorsement of immigration policies violating Immortale Dei‘s principle that “no one may with impunity outrage the… laws of nature and nature’s God” (Pope Leo XIII, 1885)
- His rejection of Christ’s exclusive mediation, condemned by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum (1864): “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18)
- His silence on abortion and sodomy, contrary to Casti Connubii‘s declaration that “no reason… can make what is intrinsically against nature become conformable to nature” (Pope Pius XI, 1930)
The 26% “neutral” respondents likely represent souls instinctively recognizing something amiss, yet trapped in the conciliar sect’s epistemological prison. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Satis Cognitum (1896): “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 would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium.”
Conclusion: Statistics as Symptoms of Ecclesial Death
These poll numbers don’t measure Catholic opinion but quantify the success of six decades of conciliar apostasy. When 70% of nominal Catholics approve an antipope who denies fundamental dogmas, it confirms Pope Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernism leads to “the annihilation of all religion.” The solution remains unchanged: Dominus Iesus (2000) notwithstanding, only return to integral Catholic Tradition – without compromise, without exception, without delay.
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Poll: 70% of American Catholics view Pope Leo XIV favorably, only 4% unfavorably (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 11.12.2025