Conciliar Sect Mocks Sacred Tradition with Invalid Pallium Ritual
Vatican News portal reports on January 21, 2026, that antipope Leo XIV participated in a distorted version of the ancient pallium ritual, receiving two lambs on the feast of St. Agnes. The article describes this as part of a tradition where the lambs’ wool will later be woven into pallia for modernist “archbishops.” This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s sacrilegious theater, replacing divinely instituted sacramental reality with empty naturalistic pageantry.
Illegitimate Usurper Presides Over Defiled Rite
The report falsely labels the antipope as “Pope” Leo XIV, despite his manifest heresy and lack of jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine established: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) confirms automatic loss of office for public defection from faith. Since the antipope adheres to Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism), his blessing holds no spiritual validity.
The article admits changes to the tradition: “In recent years… the Pope does not bless the lambs at the Vatican.” This reveals the sect’s contempt for continuity. True Catholic tradition requires immutable rites, not adaptable ceremonies subject to bureaucratic whims. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei condemned altering sacred rites to suit modern tastes.
Pallia Crafted for Schismatic Prelates
The pallium—a symbol of metropolitan authority—presupposes communion with the true Church. As Pius XI declared in Quas primas: “The Church… demands full freedom and independence from secular authority” (¶30). Modernist “archbishops” reject this by:
- Promoting false ecumenism (contra Mortalium animos)
- Celebrating invalid Novus Ordo rites
- Denying Christ’s Social Kingship (condemned in Quas primas ¶18-19)
Their pallia signify not apostolic succession, but adherence to the conciliar revolution. The wool—blessed by an antipope and processed by religious indifferent to doctrinal collapse—becomes a symbol of schism, not unity.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article fixates on zoological and artisanal details (“Trappist farm,” “Benedictine nuns shear them”) while omitting the sacramental significance of the pallium. This reflects Vatican II’s naturalism, which Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors:
“Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress…” (Proposition 5)
True Catholic tradition emphasizes the pallium’s mystical symbolism:
- The lamb represents Christ as sacrificial victim (Is 53:7)
- White wool signifies purity of doctrine
- Six crosses denote the fullness of Christ’s authority
By reducing this to folklore (“ancient legend about her life”), the conciliar sect denies the lex orandi, lex credendi principle.
Silence on True Martyrial Witness
St. Agnes’ true legacy—virginal martyrdom resisting pagan compromise—is ignored. Her witness condemns the sect’s:
– Collaboration with anti-Christian governments
– Betrayal of persecuted Christians
– Scandalous interreligious events
Pius X’s Lamentabili sane condemned the very modernist historiography employed here: “The Gospels… the result of philosophical investigations” (Proposition 7). The conciliar sect manufactures traditions while suppressing the Depositum Fidei.
Conclusion: Sheep’s Wool Over Wolf’s Teeth
This ritual exemplifies the abomination of desolation: invalid ministers performing empty rites in occupied churches. True Catholics recognize:
– No jurisdiction exists in the conciliar sect
– All post-1958 “sacraments” are doubtfully valid at best
– Only bishops consecrated before 1968 retain apostolic succession
As Christ warned: “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” (Mt 7:15). The pallium-lambs become unwitting symbols of the faithful led to slaughter by modernist wolves.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV presented with lambs on feast of St. Agnes (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.01.2026