The Vatican’s “Pray with the Pope” Campaign: A Modernist Substitution for True Piety
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 8, 2026) reports on a new initiative from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication titled “Pray with the Pope,” where antipope Leo XIV proposes monthly prayers for worldly challenges. Jesuit “Fr.” Cristobal Fones describes this as an effort to create “a shared inner experience” that “aspires to transform life from within” through “a spiritual experience” adapted to modern “busy and noise-filled daily lives.” The campaign offers a generic prayer focusing on humanistic themes like “serving the most vulnerable” and “building bridges,” while omitting any mention of repentance, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ.
Illegitimate Authority Masquerading as Spiritual Leadership
The very premise of this campaign is theologically null. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) definitively states that a heretic cannot hold papal office. As the occupant of the Vatican openly promotes religious indifferentism and other heresies condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, his prayers carry no spiritual authority. The article’s claim that “the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is currently present in more than 90 countries” constitutes spiritual fraud, as the conciliar sect lacks jurisdiction to establish authentic Catholic institutions. When Leo XIV speaks of “the word that makes us sons and daughters, brothers and sisters,” he employs the language of Freemasonry condemned in Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus, not the doctrinal precision required of Christ’s Vicar.
“Teach us to listen to you each day in the Scriptures, to let ourselves be challenged by your voice, and to discern our decisions from the closeness to your heart.”
This prayer exemplifies Modernist subjectivism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 25), which rejects the notion that “faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.” True Catholic prayer submits to the Church’s magisterium, not personal “discernment” based on emotional experiences. The replacement of the Rosary – the weapon given by Our Lady at Fatima to combat modern errors – with this vague “scriptural meditation” continues Bergoglio’s war against Marian devotion documented in Desiderio Desideravi (2022).
Naturalism Disguised as Spirituality
The campaign’s stated purpose to “counteract the globalization of indifference” reduces religion to social activism, violating Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas that “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ.” While the article mentions prayer intentions for “children with incurable diseases” and “end of war,” it omits the only solution Catholicism offers: conversion to the One True Faith. The complete silence about Hell, judgment, and the need for sacramental confession exposes the campaign’s naturalistic foundations. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns in Proposition 63: “It is lawful to refuse obedience to legitimate princes” – how much more to antipopes promoting heresy?
Theological Omissions Reveal Apostasy
Nowhere in the 416-word prayer does Leo XIV mention:
- The propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary present in the Mass
- The necessity of Mary’s intercession (Ad Caeli Reginam, 1954)
- The Church’s exclusive claim to salvation (Mortalium Animos, 1928)
- Reparation for sins through penance
This aligns with the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of Catholic soteriology. When the prayer speaks of “serv[ing] the most vulnerable,” it implies the material poverty focus condemned in Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris as communist infiltration. The emphasis on “building bridges” directly contradicts Pius IX’s condemnation of religious liberty in Quanta Cura (1864).
Structural Apostasy in Digital Vestments
The campaign’s distribution through platforms like “Hallow” and “RezandoVoy” continues the Vatican II experiment of adapting the Faith to modern technology – a violation of Pius X’s condemnation in Pascendi of Modernists who “wrap their doctrines in a veil of ambiguity.” The claim that 22 million people participate in this network proves nothing but the fulfillment of Our Lady’s warning at La Salette: “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
True Catholics must recognize this campaign for what it is: a psychological operation preparing the world to accept the coming one-world religion. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned in 1987: “When Rome returns to Tradition, we will return to Rome.” Until then, we cling to the Missale Romanum of Pius V, the Catechism of Trent, and the doctrinal certainty they provide against the conciliar sect’s endless innovations.
Source:
‘Pray with the Pope’: Leo XIV proposes monthly prayer for the challenges of the world (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.01.2026