Naturalistic Moralizing Masks Apostasy in Neo-Church’s Gambling Critique
Catholic News Agency (December 30, 2025) reports that antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) addressed the National Association of Italian Municipalities, condemning gambling as destructive to families while promoting “social cohesion” through secular humanitarianism. The article highlights his appeal to “civic harmony” and reference to Caritas Italy statistics on gambling addiction, framing the issue through sociological rather than theological lenses. This modernist reduction of morality to social engineering epitomizes the neo-church’s abandonment of its supernatural mission.
Erasure of Sin and Supernatural Order
The antipope’s address reduces gambling from a peccatum mortale (mortal sin) threatening eternal damnation to a mere social pathology. Where Pius XI’s Quas Primas declared Christ’s reign over “individuals, families, and states,” Prevost speaks only of “social alliance for hope” and “integral human development.” The term “sin” appears nowhere in his discourse – a telling omission revealing the conciliar sect’s naturalism. Canon 2354 of the 1917 Code explicitly classified habitual gambling as ecclesiastical crime requiring priestly intervention, not municipal policy solutions. By reducing spiritual catastrophe to mental health statistics, the neo-church fulfills Pius IX’s warning in the Syllabus of Errors against those who “place the Church’s doctrine on par with false religions” (Proposition 18).
“We cannot forget other forms of loneliness from which many people suffer: mental disorders, depression, cultural and spiritual poverty…”
Note the equivocation: “spiritual poverty” appears as one item in a list of psychosocial conditions, divorced from sanctifying grace. Contrast this with Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili (Proposition 25) of those who base faith on “probability.” True shepherds would demand repentance and reception of the Sacrament of Penance, not bureaucratic “social cohesion.”
Herodian Oppression in Modernist Guise
Prevost’s comparison of Herod’s infanticide to modern “inhuman power” rings hollow while his sect promotes the same slaughter through abortion advocacy. The article mentions “listening to the least among us,” yet the conciliar hierarchy globally supports politicians who legalize child murder – Bergoglio himself praised pro-abortion militants as “good Catholics.” This hypocrisy exposes their Herod-like nature: saevus in infirmos, liberalis in scelus (fierce against the weak, indulgent toward wickedness).
The invocation of Giorgio La Pira – a “social gospel” modernist – as model administrator confirms the neo-church’s Marxist tendencies. When Prevost urges “authentically human relationships among citizens,” he apes Rousseau’s social contract, not Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Authentic Catholic governance requires submission to Christ the King, not secular “civic harmony.” As Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Quas Primas §18).
Structural Apostasy in Omissions
The article’s silence on the following proves the conciliar sect’s apostasy:
- No mention of reparation through Eucharistic adoration or rosary – the true remedies against vice. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei mandated sacramentals as “arms” against spiritual enemies.
- No warning that gambling halls operate with Vatican banking complicity. Banco Ambrosiano’s collapse under Freemason Marcinkus revealed the rot.
- No call for municipal leaders to consecrate governance to the Sacred Heart – the very remedy Pius XI prescribed for societal ills.
Instead, Prevost offers warmed-over sociology. His plea to “plan the best future for their lands” echoes the Communist Manifesto’s call for “rational exploitation of lands.” Authentic Catholic social doctrine demands restoration of the Regnum Christi, not UN Sustainable Development Goals repackaged as “integral human development.”
False Shepherds Breed Wolves
This moralizing charade cannot mask the conciliar sect’s culpability in gambling epidemics. By eliminating Friday abstinence (Paulus VI, Paenitemini), suppressing penitential practices, and replacing confession with “community service,” modernists destroyed the ascetic safeguards protecting families. When Prevost cites Caritas statistics, he ignores how his sect’s Novus Ordo missal removed the Confiteor‘s strike-breast gesture – a physical rejection of repentance. As Leo XIII warned: “Remove grace, and virtue becomes impossible” (Divinum Illud Munus §10).
The true solution? Pius X prescribed in Vehementer Nos: “Let States return to the Church what belongs to her.” Municipal leaders must suppress gambling dens, enforce blue laws, and mandate public veneration of Christ the King – not parrot UN social programs. Until the conciliar sect repents of its naturalism and returns to integral Catholic doctrine, its moralizing remains what Pius XI called “the smoke of Satan” in God’s temple.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV warns against gambling, which ‘ruins many families’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 30.12.2025