Vatican News portal (January 21, 2026) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s general audience catechesis regarding the Second Vatican Council’s Dei Verbum document. The article asserts that “Christians know God the Father and entrust themselves to Him with confidence” through Jesus Christ, who allegedly “reveals the Father to us by involving us in His own relationship with Him.” The antipope claims that “the fulfillment of revelation takes place in a historical and personal encounter” where “we discover that we are known in our deepest truth.” He concludes by misquoting St. Paul’s assurance that “nothing can separate us from God’s love.” This presentation constitutes a complete evaporation of Catholic soteriology into modernist subjectivism.
Reduction of Revelation to Emotional Experience
The conciliar sect’s distortion of divine revelation reaches its apex in the claim that “Dei Verbum states, ‘The deepest truth about God and the salvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the fullness of all revelation.'” This deliberately omits the Council of Trent’s condemnation of those who claim revelation continues beyond the Apostolic Age (Session IV). The modernist equation of revelation with “relational knowledge” rather than depositum fidei (the deposit of faith) constitutes heresy. As Pope St. Pius X warned: “Modernists place the cause of faith in… a special religious sense” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 14).
Omission of Sacramental Economy
Nowhere does the antipope mention baptism as the necessary means of becoming “filii in Filio” (sons in the Son). The Council of Florence’s Cantate Domino (1442) dogmatically declares: “No one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced… can be saved, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” The conciliar sect’s focus on “personal encounter” while omitting sacramental validity demonstrates its apostate nature. St. Thomas Aquinas clarifies: “The sacraments are necessary for salvation” (Summa Theologica III, q.61, a.1).
Humanism Masquerading as Christology
The claim that “God has communicated Himself to us… manifested to us our true identity as His children” ignores original sin’s devastation. Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) condemns those who “forget the original sin” which corrupted human nature. By presenting adoption as automatic rather than through sacramental regeneration, the conciliar sect promotes the Pelagian heresy condemned at the Council of Ephesus (431 AD).
Naturalization of the Supernatural
The assertion that “the integral humanity of Jesus tells us the truth of the Father” dangerously implies Christ’s human nature per se reveals divinity – a Nestorian error condemned at Ephesus. The antipope’s claim that “Jesus Himself invites us to share His perception of reality” constitutes psychological projectionism condemned by Pius X: “The Modernists make their vaunted experience the sole explanation of all religious facts” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 22).
Universal Salvation Heresy
The concluding misappropriation of Romans 8:31 (“If God is for us, who is against us?”) omits Paul’s conditional “his qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti” (for those called according to His purpose). The antipope’s universalist implication contradicts Pope Innocent III’s declaration: “We are compelled to believe and hold one holy Catholic Church… outside of which no one at all is saved” (Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 1).
Omission of the Church’s Mediation
Throughout this catechesis, the conciliar sect systematically avoids mentioning the Catholic Church as necessary for salvation – a direct contradiction of Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Condemned Proposition 17). The antipope’s exclusive focus on “God’s love” while ignoring judgment, hell, and the necessity of sanctifying grace reveals the neo-church’s anti-dogmatic essence. As Leo XIII declared: “The Church alone is… the interpreter and guardian of revelation” (Satis Cognitum, 8).
The conciliar sect’s catechesis constitutes spiritual poison – a cocktail of Modernist subjectivism, Lutheran fideism, and indifferentist universalism. As Our Lord warned: “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing” (Mt 7:15). True Catholics must reject this anti-gospel and cling to the unchanging faith defined at Trent and proclaimed by all legitimate pontiffs before the Vatican II apostasy.
Source:
Pope at Audience: We are God's beloved children (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.01.2026