Bergoglian “Hope” as Cover for Apostasy
VaticanNews portal reports on 20 December 2025 that antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) concluded his “Jubilee Year” with a plea to remain “pilgrims of hope” who “generate life and renewal.” The address reduces Christianity to a naturalistic activism devoid of supernatural finality.
Naturalization of Theological Virtues
The usurper of Peter’s throne declares: “Without hope, we are dead; with hope, we come into the light,” divorcing hope from its formal object (objectum formale) – eternal beatitude. This transforms a theological virtue into a psychological crutch. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns such reductionism: “When very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from customs… human society had to be shaken” (n.18).
The invocation of Romans 8:24 (“For in hope we were saved“) is weaponized to serve a horizontal eschatology. Antipope Leo XIV asserts hope “brings forth life” while omitting that this life is gratia sanctificans (sanctifying grace) obtained solely through valid sacraments. The Council of Trent (Sess. VI, Chap. 7) declares justification impossible without “the laver of regeneration or the desire thereof,” a truth absent from this neo-modernist discourse.
Marxist Dialectics Masquerading as Charity
The appeal to “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” echoes liberation theology condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Socialism, communism… are frequently reprobated in the severest terms” (Error 64). St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) anathematizes the notion that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish… then Greek and universal” (Proposition 60) – precisely the evolutionary framework underlying this eco-Marxist rhetoric.
When the antipope laments “resources concentrated in the hands of a few,” he invokes class warfare alien to Catholic social teaching. Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) affirms property rights as natural law while commanding charity – not redistribution by revolutionary violence.
Gnostic Subversion of Redemption
The assertion that “suffering becomes the suffering of childbirth” distorts Colossians 1:24. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) clarifies that Christians “fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ” through participation in Christ’s sacrificial merits, not through immanentist struggle.
Bergoglio’s puppet declares: “Jesus wants to be born again. We can give Him body and voice,” reducing the Incarnation to perpetual human activism. This echoes Modernist condemned propositions in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation could not be other than the consciousness acquired by man of his relation to God” (Proposition 22).
Omissions That Condemn
Nowhere does this “audience” mention:
– The necessity of membership in the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
– The Kingship of Christ over nations (Quas Primas)
– The propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass
– The Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell)
The silence on these dogmas constitutes apostasy by omission. As Pius XI warned: “States must obey Christ… otherwise they will perish” (Quas Primas, n.21).
Seditious Mariology
The blasphemous claim that Mary gave “face, body and voice to the Word of God” inverts the hypostatic order. The Council of Ephesus (431 AD) defined Mary as Theotokos (God-bearer) precisely to affirm Christ’s divine nature pre-existing His temporal birth. This Bergoglian formulation suggests the creature formed the Creator – a heresy condemned in St. Pius X’s oath against Modernism.
Conclusion: Operation of Error
This “Jubilee” epitomizes the “abomination of desolation” (Dan 9:27) foretold in Catholic prophecy. When antipope Leo XIV proclaims “to hope is to see this world become the world of God,” he advances the immanentist millenarianism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 64). True hope lies not in conciliar novelties, but in the restoration of Christ’s Social Reign through the recognition of His royal rights (Quas Primas, n.25). Let the faithful recall St. Paul’s warning: “Though we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema” (Gal 1:8).
Source:
Pope: Even as Jubilee ends we remain pilgrims of hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.12.2025