Vatican Pageantry Masks Apostasy in 2025 “Papal” Transition
Catholic News Agency’s December 30, 2025 article chronicles the death of Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) and subsequent election of Robert Prevost (“Pope Leo XIV”) as milestones in conciliar sect history. The piece presents these events through naturalistic spectacle: “400,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square” for Bergoglio’s funeral, while Prevost’s election as “first American pope” is framed as historic. The narrative ignores doctrinal collapse, instead favoring sentimental imagery – Bergoglio’s hospitalized hands, Prevost praying at Bergoglio’s tomb, and crowds cheering Sistine Chapel smoke.








