Conciliar Sect’s Baptismal Charade Masks Sacramental Subversion
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (January 11, 2026) reports on antipope Leo XIV baptizing 20 infants of Vatican employees in the Sistine Chapel. The article frames the ceremony as a continuation of a tradition allegedly begun by John Paul II in 1981. Antipope Leo XIV is quoted stating faith is “more than necessary” and comparing it to basic physical needs, while explaining baptismal rites through naturalistic symbolism. The report omits any doctrinal examination of sacramental validity or the spiritual danger posed by the conciliar sect.
Illicit Sacraments From Usurped Authority
The ceremony presumes the validity of sacraments administered by one occupying the Holy See illegitimately. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly voids the office of any cleric publicly defecting from Catholic faith. As the “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates, manifest heretics – including those promoting religious indifferentism – lose jurisdiction automatically. St. Robert Bellarmine states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… for he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian” (*De Romano Pontifice*). When antipope Leo XIV claims to “transform [children] into new creatures,” he engages in sacrilegious simulation, for the sacrament requires not only proper matter and form but a minister possessing valid Holy Orders – which the conciliar sect’s “ordinations” lack due to invalid rites since 1968.
Theological Reductionism in Sacramental Language
The antipope’s homily reduces faith to a utilitarian necessity:
“If food and clothing are necessary to live, faith is more than necessary, because with God life finds salvation.”
This equivocation hides the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus doctrine defined at the Fourth Lateran Council. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the proposition that “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). By omitting the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation, the antipope implies salvation exists outside the Church – a heresy condemned in Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam.
Naturalism in Sacramental Symbolism
The explanation of baptismal rites exemplifies modernist reductionism:
“The water of the font is the washing in the Spirit… the white garment is the new robe… the candle lit from the paschal candle is the light of the risen Christ.”
This transforms sacraments into mere natural symbols, denying their ex opere operato grace. The Holy Office under St. Pius X condemned such naturalism in Lamentabili: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Proposition 41). Pius XII’s Mediator Dei affirms sacraments confer grace “of their own power”, not through subjective sentiment.
Omission of Supernatural Realities
Nowhere does the antipope mention Original Sin’s guilt requiring baptismal regeneration (Council of Trent, Session V) or the eternal consequences of dying unbaptized. The “Quas Primas” encyclical by Pius XI emphasizes Christ’s Kingship over individuals and societies – a truth absent from this ceremony. The article’s silence on parents’ duty to raise children in integral Catholic faith (including rejecting conciliar errors) constitutes gross pastoral negligence.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This ritual exemplifies the conciliar sect’s strategy: maintain Catholic aesthetics while gutting doctrine. The article’s celebration of a “tradition begun in 1981” reveals its post-conciliar foundation – John Paul II having promulgated the invalid 1983 Code of Canon Law. As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus, those believing “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80) embrace apostasy. When antipope Leo XIV claims baptism “unites us in the one family of the Church,” he falsely implies unity exists between Catholic truth and his sect’s errors.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV baptizes 20 infants in Sistine Chapel, tells parents faith is ‘more than necessary’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 11.01.2026