The Vatican News portal (December 29, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s address to Italian municipal officials, framing societal ills through purely secular lenses while ignoring the Church’s divine mission. The article states:
“The ‘demographic crisis’, the ‘struggles’ of families and young people, social isolation among the elderly… environmental pollution, and ‘social conflicts’ are among the biggest problems faced by towns and cities across Italy.”
Antipope Leo allegedly decried gambling as a form of “loneliness” ruining families, invoking modernist priest Don Mazzolari’s call for “a way of looking at one another, and a way of coming together as brothers and sisters.” The piece culminates in blasphemous equivocation between Herod’s infanticide and “inhuman power,” while paradoxically presenting the Nativity as revealing “the most authentic aspect of all power.” This constitutes a deliberate obfuscation of Catholic social doctrine through sentimental naturalism.
Eclipse of the Supernatural Order
The entire discourse operates within the condemned framework of naturalism (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Propositions 3, 56-64). By reducing the Church’s mission to solving temporal problems through “authentically human relationships,” the conciliar sect denies the primacy of the supernatural end of man (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Nowhere does the address mention:
- The necessity of sacramental grace to combat vice
- The duty of civil authorities to recognize Christ’s social kingship
- The eternal consequences of sin beyond familial “ruin”
This silence constitutes implicit denial of the juridical authority of Christ over nations established in Scripture: “He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Psalms 72:8). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly condemns such omissions: “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.“
Freemasonic Roots of Social Activism
The citation of Don Mazzolari – a suspected modernist collaborator with Marxist elements – reveals the address’s ideological lineage. His call for Italy’s need of “a way of feeling, of living” rather than infrastructure echoes Masonic anti-dogmatism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 80). This is the language of the cult of man excoriated by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “It is pride which fills Modernists with that confidence in themselves and leads them to hold themselves up as the rule for all.“
The antipope’s focus on gambling as a statistical “increase” rather than mortal sin demonstrates the conciliar sect’s adoption of sociological methodology over Thomistic moral theology. True Catholic remedy would require:
- Public recognition of gambling as violation of the 7th Commandment
- Restoration of penal laws against usury and public vice
- Promotion of Eucharistic reparation for societal sins
Sacrilegious Christological Reductionism
By framing Christ’s Nativity merely as a model of “responsible power,” the address commits theft of the Divine Majesty. The Incarnation’s purpose was not social reform but propitiation for sin through the Blood of the Lamb (1 Peter 1:18-19). Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis affirms that Christ’s kingdom “is spiritual and concerned with spiritual things,” not reduced to ethical paradigms.
The article’s concluding reference to Herod’s massacre as “inhuman power” ignores the theological gravity of deicidal intent. Early Church Fathers recognized Herod as figure of Antichrist, not mere political tyrant. St. Quodvultdeus’ Paschal Homily declares: “He kills the Innocents in Bethlehem; he seeks one life, and encompasses the death of many.” The conciliar sect’s refusal to identify modern Herods (abortionists, gender ideologues) constitutes complicity in their crimes.
Operative Masonic Strategy
This address implements Stage 3 of the “Fatima” Masonic operation outlined in theological analyses – “takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of authentic doctrine, ecumenical reinterpretation.” By engaging municipal officials on purely natural grounds, the conciliar sect:
- Normalizes apostate hierarchy’s collaboration with secular powers
- Diverts attention from Vatican II’s destruction of sacramental life
- Prepares grounds for civil enforcement of religious indifferentism
As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane, such “evolution of dogma” constitutes formal heresy. The true remedy remains unchanged: “Instaurare omnia in Christo” – To restore all things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10). Until the conciliar sect abandons its naturalistic heresies and submits to the Social Kingship of Christ the King, its paternalistic posturing remains diabolical deception.
Source:
Pope Leo: Gambling ruins families (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.12.2025