Vatican News portal (January 16, 2026) reports the death of Angelo Gugel, described as a “Papal Chamber Assistant” to John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI, highlighting his presence during the 1981 assassination attempt against John Paul II. The article portrays Gugel’s service as exemplary, quoting his recollections of working with these figures and emphasizing personal anecdotes like John Paul II supposedly aiding Gugel’s wife during a high-risk pregnancy. The piece frames these antipopes as legitimate successors of Peter while omitting any doctrinal analysis of their heterodox reigns. This uncritical celebration of servants to conciliar antipopes reveals the neo-church’s total severance from Catholic ecclesiology.
Canonization of Conciliar Functionaries as Substitute for Sanctity
The article’s hagiographic tone towards a mere ceremonial attendant exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect. Where true Catholic journalism would focus on the state of Gugel’s soul and his fidelity to the Depositum Fidei, Vatican News elevates worldly service to antipopes as the supreme virtue. Pius XI’s Quas Primas reminds us that Christ’s Kingship demands “not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him” (1925) – a standard systematically violated by the figures Gugel served. The portal’s emphasis on Gugel’s “sober elegance that never sought attention” underscores the neo-church’s reduction of holiness to bourgeois respectability, replacing the martyrdom-seeking faith condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) which denounced Modernist attempts to “place dogmas in a merely practical function“.
Service to Antipopes as Complicity in Apostasy
Gugel’s decades-long collaboration with the conciliar antipopes constitutes formal cooperation with ecclesial subversion. The article boasts how John Paul II “read me the homily he would deliver shortly thereafter: ‘Do not be afraid! Open, indeed, throw wide the doors to Christ!’” – precisely the 1978 address inaugurating Wojtyła’s program of Assisi apostasies and ecumenical betrayals. True Catholics recognize this as the rallying cry of the anti-church, diametrically opposed to Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors which condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). That Gugel assisted in polishing these heresies’ presentation makes him an enabler of what Pius X called “the synthesis of all errors” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
Nowhere does the article mention Gugel’s adherence to Catholic sacraments or the Traditional Mass, focusing instead on “his legs were trembling” during first encounters with antipopes. The miracle anecdote about his daughter’s birth reduces divine intervention to sentimental coincidence: “‘Deo gratias,’ the Pope exclaimed” after medical complications resolved. This mirrors the naturalistic hermeneutic condemned in Lamentabili Sane which rejected interpretations where “faith is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Proposition 25). The true Catholic understands that valid sacraments administered by properly ordained priests – absent in the conciliar sect since the 19681 invalid ordination rites – constitute the only channels of grace.
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s silence speaks volumes:
- No mention of Gugel’s stance on the Traditional Latin Mass versus the invalid Novus Ordo service
- No examination of whether he maintained communion with true Catholic bishops like Ngo Đình Thục or Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
- No critique of John Paul II’s heretical acts: kissing Korans, Assisi syncretism, or promulgating the invalid 1983 Code
- No warning that receiving “sacraments” from antipopes constitutes sacrilege
Such omissions confirm Vatican News as propaganda arm of the “abomination of desolation” (Dan 9:27) occupying Peter’s Chair.
Conclusion: True Obedience Demands Resistance
The conciliar sect’s beatification of functionaries like Gugel exposes its inverted hierarchy of values. Where St. Thomas teaches “it is praiseworthy to disobey the precepts of superiors when they command something against God” (Summa Theologica II-II Q104 A5), Gugel’s career exemplifies blind obedience to usurpers. Let true Catholics remember Pius XII’s warning: “He who adheres to the teaching Church… knows that Christ and His Vicar constitute one single Head” (Mystici Corporis, 1943) – a unity shattered when Angelo Roncalli seized the papacy in 1958. Gugel’s story serves not as inspiration, but as cautionary tale of how “goodwill” service to antipopes aids the destruction of faith.
TAGS: Antichurch, Angelo Gugel, Vatican News, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Conciliar Apostasy, Modernism, False Obedience, Sedevacantism, Ecclesial Subversion
1 Sacramental validity determined by uninterrupted apostolic succession through traditional rites, per Pope Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896)
Source:
Angelo Gugel, private attendant to three Popes, dies aged 90 (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.01.2026