Conciliar Sect’s Brussels Spectacle Masks Apostasy
VaticanNews portal (January 12, 2026) reports on a Mass celebrated by the antipope’s secretary of state Pietro Parolin at Brussels’ Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula. The event commemorating the building’s 800th anniversary featured appeals for “evangelical boldness” and claims of Christianity’s historical continuity in Europe. This theatrical display epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of sacramental reality with empty cultural nostalgia.
Architectural Symbolism Cannot Sanctify Invalid Rites
The article attempts to legitimize post-conciliar liturgical innovations through historical pageantry:
“a cathedral steeped in eight centuries of history, filled with hundreds of the faithful”
Yet architectural antiquity cannot validate the invalid. The Novus Ordo Missae — promulgated in 1969 by the apostate Montini (“Paul VI”) — constitutes a substantial rupture with the Apostolic Tradition. As the Sacred Congregation of Rites declared under Pius XI: “The rites of the Church cannot be touched by any man, however eminent, since they are protected by the authority of the Church’s universal laws” (Decree Nihil innovetur, September 10, 1928). Parolin’s celebration constitutes not Catholic worship but a sacrilegious simulation.
Naturalism Disguised as “Christian Roots”
Parolin’s homily reduces Christianity to a cultural artifact:
“Christian faith… grows within [history], in concrete places and through real communities”
This evolutionary view directly contradicts Pope St. Pius X’s condemnation: “Modernists place and conceive faith not in the conscience… but as emerging from the hidden recesses of subconsciousness” (Encyclical Pascendi, 18). The Cardinal’s praise for Brussels as “a city born from encounter and the ability to reconcile differences” substitutes the Church’s divine mission (“Teach all nations” – Matthew 28:19) with Masonic syncretism. Where are the warnings against heresy? Where is the call to conversion?
EU Founders Betrayed Christ’s Social Kingship
The article’s reference to Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, and Alcide De Gasperi as models constitutes historical revisionism. These statesmen abandoned Catholic integralism by establishing secular institutions rejecting Regnum Christi. Contrast their vision with Pius XI’s teaching: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 19). The European Union’s foundational documents — denying Christ’s sovereignty — embody the very apostasy condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77).
Theology of Irrelevance Masks Apostasy
Parolin’s admission that
“the Church’s greatest danger is not numerical decline, but irrelevance”
unveils the conciliar sect’s surrender to modernity. Compare this with St. Pius X’s warning: “The Church has no greater enemy than the clergy ignorant of divine things or neglectful of their sacred duties” (Encyclical Haerent Animo, 9). True shepherds measure success by fidelity to doctrine, not worldly influence. The Cardinal’s silence on original sin, judgment, hell, and the necessity of sacraments proves his message conforms to the world — not the Gospel.
Marian Veneer Conceals Ecumenical Apostasy
The article concludes with Parolin entrusting Europe to Mary’s intercession — a blasphemous hypocrisy given his simultaneous promotion of religious indifferentism. Where are the condemnations of Orthodox schismatics? Of Protestant heretics? Of Islamic invaders desecrating Christendom? Our Lady of Fatima warned specifically against Russia’s errors — not “dialogue” with them. This saccharine Marianism mocks the true Mother of God, who crushes heresy underfoot (Genesis 3:15).
This Brussels spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s terminal condition: a rotting corpse clad in medieval vestments, preaching syncretism while desecrating altars. Only the integral Catholic Faith — preserved by faithful priests celebrating the true Sacrifice — can restore Christ’s reign over nations.
Source:
In Brussels, Cardinal Parolin urges Europe to rediscover Christian boldness (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.01.2026