Antipope’s Empty Condolences Obscure Eternal Truths

The Catholic News Agency portal (January 2, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV expressed “closeness and compassion” through a telegram signed by “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin regarding a deadly fire at Swiss bar Le Constellation. The article emphasizes the human tragedy while mentioning the antipope’s vague invocation of the “Mother of God” and “hope,” devoid of references to repentance, judgment, or the sacraments. This modernist response exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) in favor of naturalistic grief management.

Sacrilegious Equivalence Between Sacred and Profane Spaces

The report describes the fatal incident as occurring in a bar where “nearly 300 people were celebrating New Year’s Eve” – a revelry diametrically opposed to the Catholic practice of beginning the year with the Veni Creator Spiritus hymn. The conciliar sect’s telegram treats this den of intoxication as morally neutral ground, whereas Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas condemns such indifference: “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.” By failing to distinguish between licit gatherings and occasions of sin, the modernist hierarchy confirms its betrayal of Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus (what has been believed always, everywhere, by all).

Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith

The statement’s focus on earthly “suffering in their hearts or bodies” while ignoring the eternal fate of souls reveals the conciliar sect’s materialist worldview. Contrast this with the Catholic teaching articulated in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55 condemned). The conciliar hierarchy operates as a humanitarian NGO, not the custodian of divine truth. True shepherds would have declared:

“Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3)

Instead, the counterfeit “prayer” to “welcome the deceased into his dwelling place of peace and light” presumes universal salvation – a heresy condemned by the Council of Florence (Session 11, February 4, 1442): “None of those existing outside the Catholic Church… can have a share in life eternal.”

Blasphemous Instrumentalization of the Blessed Virgin

The telegram’s invocation that “the Mother of God… bring the consolation of faith” constitutes sacrilege when uttered by those who deny her Immaculate Conception and Mediatrix role. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemns the modernist distortion of Marian doctrine: “The person of Christ was submitted by the Evangelists to a mythical elaboration” (Proposition 16 condemned). The conciliar sect reduces the Theotokos to a spiritual comfort blanket, severing her from her proper context as:

“The terror of demons, the light of confessors, and the life of the faithful” (Roman Breviary)

Systemic Apostasy Manifest in Crisis Response

Three fatal omissions expose the conciliar sect’s complete rupture with Catholic tradition:

  1. No call to penance: The disaster’s occurrence during a drunken celebration warranted a Jeremiad against sin, not secular condolences.
  2. No sacramental urgency: No mention of conditional absolution for victims or Viaticum – a violation of Trent’s decree on Extreme Unction (Session XIV).
  3. No eschatological warning: The absence of “memento novissima” (remember your last ends) preaching confirms the loss of faith in the Four Last Things.

As Pope St. Pius X warned: “The great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy… is the reign of the Antichrist” (Letter on the Sillon, August 25, 1910). The Swiss tragedy becomes another occasion for the conciliar sect to parade its apostasy through saccharine platitudes divorced from redemptive suffering.

Source:
Pope Leo XIV mourns for victims of fire in Swiss bar on New Year’s Eve   (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 02.01.2026