The Vatican News portal (December 29, 2025) reports that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) met Spanish pilgrims from the Parish of Santo Tomás de Villanueva in Alcalá de Henares, encouraging them to imitate their patron saint’s “love for the poor, profound interior life, tireless work, and apostolic zeal.” The article emphasizes the “preservation of the saint’s life and legacy” through unspecified parish works, while the antipope blessed pilgrims after praising their “support of the Successor of Peter.” This staged spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of supernatural faith with humanitarian activism.
Subversion of Sanctity Through Selective Omission
The neochurch’s reduction of St. Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555) to a social worker constitutes blasphemous distortion. The Augustinian bishop’s true sanctity derived from his heroic fidelity to Catholic Tradition – a reality conspicuously absent from the antipope’s remarks. Where the saint fought Protestant heresy as Archbishop of Valencia, the conciliar sect embraces ecumenism; where he distributed alms as overflow of sacramental grace, Bergoglianism preaches philanthropy divorced from penance. The antipope’s praise for the saint’s “unceasing pursuit of continual prayer” rings hollow when his own sect has abolished the Divine Office’s integral recitation, replacing it with vernacular banalities condemned by Pius XII as “actus irreverentiae” (Mediator Dei, 158).
Sacramental Desert in the Name of “Community Service”
Not once does the Vatican News account mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass – the true purpose of Catholic pilgrimage. Instead, the pilgrims’ 1,900km journey culminates in an invalid “blessing” from a manifest heretic occupying Peter’s chair. This parallels the conciliar sect’s broader apostasy: replacing sacramental economy with “apostolic zeal” detached from ex opere operato grace. St. Thomas distributed alms only after ensuring the poor received catechesis and sacraments, understanding that “non in solo pane vivit homo” (Matthew 4:4). The antipope’s focus on “works and gestures” institutionalizes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
Linguistic Betrayal of Catholic Orthodoxy
The article’s vocabulary exposes its theological bankruptcy. “Tireless work” replaces divine grace; “apostolic zeal” substitutes for sacramental efficacy; “community” displaces Mystical Body. The diabolical inversion culminates in describing the antipope as “Successor of Peter” – an impossibility for one publicly denying extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Pius IX, Quanto conficiamur moerore). The pilgrims’ alleged “support” through “generosity” evokes the simoniacal practices condemned by the Council of Chalcedon, suggesting financial transactions beneath spiritual pretenses.
Silence Screams Heresy
Four grave omissions prove the article’s apostate character:
- No mention of the pilgrims attending valid Mass – likely replaced by Novus Ordo bread-breaking ceremonies invalidated by Paul VI’s illicit rubrics.
- Absence of reference to Confession – Bergoglianism having reduced penance to “dialogue” and “accompaniment.”
- Concealment of St. Thomas’ actual theology: “Without the Most Holy Sacrament, there would be no Church, no hope, no salvation” (Homily on Corpus Christi).
- Failure to warn that receiving “Communion” in conciliar structures constitutes idolatry, given their invalid matter and form.
Operation of the Antichrist
This spectacle fulfills Pius X’s prophecy: “The Modernists substitute for the divine reality a reality purely human” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39). By transforming pilgrimage into personality cult and sanctity into social work, the conciliar sect enacts Masonic plan to “replace altar philanthropy” (Grand Orient document, 1887). The “saint” becomes tool for naturalism – precisely as the Blessed Virgin warned at La Salette before conciliarists suppressed her message. Until Catholics recognize these “abominations of desolation” (Matthew 24:15) and return to true priests offering true Mass, such sacrileges will multiply under the counterfeit church’s regime.
Source:
Pope to Spanish pilgrims: Follow Jesus with the saints' examples (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.12.2025