Vatican’s Boasted Attendance Figures Conceal Apostasy’s Hollow Core
Vatican News portal (December 30, 2025) reports over 3 million people attended events led by antipope Leo XIV and his predecessor Jorge Bergoglio (“Francis”) in 2025, with 2.9 million participating since Leo XIV’s May election. The article emphasizes numerical growth—250,000 at December “Angelus” events, 295,000 at October audiences—as evidence of the “conciliar sect’s” vitality.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The report reduces the Church’s mission to crowd metrics, exemplifying the naturalism condemned by Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ […] were removed from laws and states […] the entire human society had to be shaken” (Ubi arcano, 1922). Not once does the article mention grace, valid sacraments, or souls converted from error—the true marks of the Church (Mystici Corporis Christi, Pius XII). Instead, it peddles the modernist lie that “the Church is not a true and perfect society” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 19).
“2,913,800 visitors have been recorded […] 796,500 attended liturgical rituals”
These “liturgical rituals” constitute sacrilege, as the Novus Ordo Missae violates the Council of Trent’s definition of the Mass as propitiatory sacrifice (Session XXII, Canon 1-3). Pius XII warned that “changes in sacred rites risk shipwreck in faith” (Mediator Dei, 1947). By celebrating invalid sacraments, the Vatican occupiers commit spiritual fraud—a “table of assembly” (Isaias 28:8) incapable of conferring grace.
Theological Crimes Concealed Beneath Statistical Veneer
1. False Shepherds: Leo XIV, like his predecessors, lacks jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 states that public defectors from Catholic faith ipso facto lose office. The Vatican II sect’s denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Pius IX, Quanto conficiamur) and promotion of false ecumenism (Pius XI, Mortalium animos) manifest formal heresy. St. Robert Bellarmine declares such figures “deprived of jurisdiction […] by notorious heresy” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30).
2. Invalid Sacraments: The article’s “796,500 attended liturgical rituals” implies validity where none exists. Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus (1559) nullifies elections of pre-conciliar heretics, while Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896) condemns invalid Anglican rites mirrored in the Novus Ordo.
3. Omission of Duty: No warning appears that participating in these rites—whether “Masses” or “Angelus” prayers led by apostates—constitutes material cooperation with idolatry (Exodus 20:3-5). Pius X condemned silence in the face of error as “most pernicious” (Pascendi, 1907).
Ritualistic Crowds Signal Apostasy, Not Renewal
The December “250,000 at Angelus” parallels the “miracle of the sun” at Fatima—a natural phenomenon (optical refraction) exploited for psychological manipulation. As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes: Freemasonry employs “mass optical manipulation […] to implant messages.” Similarly, Vatican News uses crowd statistics to simulate legitimacy while advancing religious indifferentism (Pius IX, Syllabus, Proposition 15).
The report’s jubilant tone masks Catholicism’s actual state: a remnant preserving Tradition outside conciliar structures. True Catholics heed Pius XI’s mandate: “When the sweetest Name of our Redeemer is omitted […] it must be confessed more urgently” (Quas Primas, 1925). They reject the Vatican II sect’s “broad and liberal Protestantism” (St. Pius X, Lamentabili, Proposition 65) and its theater of false unity.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution
This numerical triumphalism flows from Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which substituted the Church’s divine mission with worldly dialogue. As the Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can […] reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The article’s omission of doctrine, penance, and conversion reveals the conciliar sect’s essence: a human NGO aping the Church while denying her soul.
True shepherds—not usurpers—would echo St. Augustine: “What does it profit to gain the world, but lose souls?” The “3 million” statistic is satanic arithmetic: counting bodies while damning souls. Only return to integral Tradition—the Mass, doctrine, and hierarchy unchanged—can restore Christ’s reign. Until then, the conciliar abomination “sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
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2025 in numbers: Over 3 million faithful visited the Vatican (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.12.2025