Neo-Church’s Empty Consolation Masks Apostasy in Crans-Montana Tragedy

VaticanNews portal (January 15, 2026) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s meeting with families affected by the Crans-Montana fire that killed 40 and injured 119 on New Year’s Day. The usurper of Peter’s throne offered what the article describes as “words of faith and consolation,” stating: “Be assured of Christ’s closeness and His tenderness… He shares it and carries it with you.” The pseudo-pontiff invoked Christ’s resurrection and recommended turning to “Our Lady of Sorrows,” while avoiding any mention of repentance, judgment, or the four last things. This spectacle of empty comfort epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s true mission: the salvation of souls through the unadulterated Catholic faith.

Naturalistic Sentiment Replaces Supernatural Faith

The conciliar sect’s leader declared himself “deeply moved” while peddling spiritual platitudes divorced from Catholic soteriology. His statement that “the faith that dwells within us illuminates the darkest moments” constitutes theological vagueness condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists place in the inner feeling the whole of their law.” Nowhere does he specify that this “faith” must be the one true Catholic faith (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), nor does he distinguish between theological virtue and emotional consolation.

When the antipope claims “Jesus goes before us on this path of death and resurrection,” he omits the essential Catholic teaching that Christ’s redemption applies only to those in the state of grace who die repentant. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly teaches that Christ’s kingship demands “public veneration and obedience” from rulers and citizens alike – a truth glaringly absent from this modernist performance.

Omission of Essential Catholic Doctrine

The article’s description of the event reveals the conciliar sect’s systematic doctrinal bankruptcy:

He acknowledged that their hearts today are pierced, as was the heart of Mary at the foot of the Cross, reiterating, “Mary, at the Cross, seeing her Son, Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, is close to you in these days, and it is to her that I entrust you.”

This distorted Mariology ignores Our Lady’s true role as co-redemptrix who participates in Christ’s sacrifice. True Catholic devotion, as defined by Pope Leo XIII in Octobri Mense, views Mary as “the intermediary through whom was poured out every grace” – not as a therapeutic figure divorced from repentance and conversion.

Most damningly, the antipope never mentions:

  1. The necessity of dying in the state of grace for salvation
  2. The obligation to pray for the dead to alleviate their purgatorial sufferings
  3. The eternal consequences of unrepentant mortal sin
  4. The need for sacramental confession and perfect contrition

This silence constitutes pastoral malpractice under Catholic moral theology. The Council of Trent (Session 25) decreed: “Prayers for the dead are to be piously and devoutly made” – a truth the conciliar sect buries beneath secular psychologizing.

Conciliar Revolution’s Poisoned Fruits

The article’s description of the antipope “joining in mourning the victims” while praying “to the Lord to welcome the deceased into his dwelling of peace and light” presumes universal salvation – a heresy condemned by Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council: “No one can be saved… outside the Catholic Church.” This modernist approach mirrors Paul VI’s blasphemous prayer for atheist Teilhard de Chardin: “Oh God, he believed in you! ” (General Audience, July 10, 1963).

The conciliar sect’s focus on “support[ing] the courage of those who suffer” replaces the Church’s true mission defined by Pope Pius XI: “to lead men to eternal happiness” (Quas Primas). When VaticanNews speaks of “words of faith and consolation” without specifying which faith, it confirms the neo-church’s embrace of indifferentism – explicitly condemned in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15).

Counterfeit Sacraments and False Compassion

The article’s depiction of the antipope “inviting those present to join him in saying an Our Father and a Hail Mary” constitutes spiritual fraud. As the Holy Office decreed in 1949 regarding communists and their collaborators: “It is illicit to request, work for, or grant ecclesiastical burial to public sinners.” By leading prayers without first ensuring participants were in the state of grace, the antipope mocks the Church’s discipline.

True Catholic compassion would have:

  1. Urged immediate confession of sins through perfect contrition
  2. Offered conditional sacramental absolution to those in schism
  3. Organized masses according to the Tridentine rite for the dead
  4. Warned against presumption of salvation

Instead, the conciliar sect offers what Pope St. Pius X called in Pascendi “a sentiment which originates in a need of the divine… a movement of the heart” – the very essence of modernist heresy.

Mary as Political Prop in Neo-Church Theater

The article’s focus on “Our Lady of Sorrows” distorts authentic Marian devotion. Nowhere does the antipope mention:

  • Our Lady’s Fatima warnings about unrepentant sinners going to hell
  • Her role as Mediatrix of All Graces
  • The necessity of wearing the Brown Scapular as her promise of salvation

This selective Mariology reduces the Mother of God to a comfort blanket, denying her prophetic voice that called for “penance, penance, penance!” at La Salette – an apparition the conciliar sect ignores because it condemns modernist clergy.

When VaticanNews claims the antipope “entrusts” victims to Mary without requiring repentance, it inverts true Catholic teaching. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis: “No one… can be in the bonds of her love unless he loves Christ.” This false entrustment presumes universal salvation – a heresy condemned by St. Augustine: “God created some men for glory and others for damnation” (Enchiridion, 100).

Silence on Judgment: The Ultimate Apostasy

The most damning omission remains the antipope’s failure to mention the particular judgment each victim faced immediately after death – a dogma defined by Pope Benedict XII in Benedictus Deus (1336). His empty words about “eternal light” without reference to hell constitute implicit universalism condemned by:

  1. Council of Florence (1439): “The souls of those who depart in mortal sin go down into hell.“
  2. Pope Innocent III (Fourth Lateran Council): “He will come to judge the living and the dead… the wicked to everlasting fire.“

This calculated silence confirms the neo-church’s complete apostasy from Catholic eschatology. As true shepherds, the antipope and his modernist collaborators will answer for every soul deceived by their false compassion on the day when “the books were opened… and the dead were judged by what was written in the books” (Revelation 20:12).

Source:
Pope Leo meets families of victims of Crans-Montana fire   (vaticannews.va)
Date: 15.01.2026