VaticanNews portal reports the planned pilgrimage of Athletica Vaticana—the Holy See’s sports association—carrying an “Olympic and Paralympic Cross” to Milan’s Basilica of San Babila for the Winter Games. The January 29 Mass, presided over by “Archbishop” Mario Delpini and “Bishop” Paul Tighe, will inaugurate a “Church of Athletes” during the Olympic Truce period. The cross, constructed from fifteen global wood types, previously passed through St. Peter’s Holy Door during the Jubilee of Sport with antipope Leo XIV. This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalistic humanism and religious indifferentism.
Profanation of Sacred Symbols Through Olympic Syncretism
The very concept of an “Olympic Cross” constitutes sacrilegious adulteration, merging pagan竞技 symbolism with the instrument of humanity’s redemption. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) definitively taught that “He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths…” (n. 33). The article’s boast that Thomas Bach—president of an organization promoting gender ideology and globalism—processed through St. Peter’s Holy Door with this hybrid object reveals the depth of apostasy. This violates Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code prohibiting communicatio in sacris with heretics and idolaters.
The cross’s construction from woods representing nations engaged in formaliter heretical religions (Russian Orthodoxy, Chinese atheism, etc.) compounds the blasphemy. As the Council of Trent decreed: “If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism…let him be anathema” (Session VII, Canon 2)—a principle extending to sacramentals. A cross incorporating materials from schismatic and pagan regions implicitly denies the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma defined at Florence (Session 11, 1442).
Desecration of Sacred Space for Naturalistic Worship
Transforming San Babila into a “Church of Athletes” inverts the basilica’s consecrated purpose. The 1917 Code’s Canon 1161 §2 mandates that consecrated churches “cannot be turned to profane uses without sacrilege.” The article’s description of “various celebrations and events linked to the Games” confirms this sacrilege, reducing the house of God to a sports entertainment venue.
This follows the conciliar playbook outlined in Paul VI’s Sacrificium Laudis (1966), where he praised sport as “a school of human virtues.” Contrast this with Pope Pius XII’s 1945 address to Italian athletes: “Sport must not become the altar of a new idolatry…when it usurps the place of God in the human heart.” The “Olympic Truce”—a UN initiative replacing Christ’s peace with political pacifism—further demonstrates the substitution of Catholic eschatology with Masonic universalism.
Modernist Hierarchy’s Capitulation to Globalist Agenda
The involvement of “Archbishop” Delpini and “Bishop” Tighe—both appointed by antipopes—exposes their role as agents of apostasy. Tighe’s Dicastery for Culture and Education actively promotes the LGBT agenda through events like the 2023 “Sport for All” conference featuring transgender activists. Their concelebration at this sacrilegious Mass constitutes participatio in sacris with the Olympic cult, condemned by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “A dangerous idea…that all religions are more or less good and praiseworthy.”
Athletica Vaticana itself embodies the conciliar revolution’s anthropocentrism. Founded under antipope Bergoglio in 2019, it implements his Gaudete et Exsultate (2018) heresy that “social engagement [is] a constituent dimension of evangelization.” This rejects the Church’s divine constitution as the societas perfecta (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, 1885), reducing her to a NGO promoting UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Olympic Truce: Secular Substitute for True Peace
The article’s praise for the Olympic Truce—a UN resolution demanding cessation of conflicts during games—reveals the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalistic pacifism. This directly contradicts Pius IX’s Syllabus condemning the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). True peace derives solely from Christ’s Kingship, as Pius XI taught: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas, n. 32).
The Olympic movement’s explicit ties to Freemasonry (Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the games under Grand Orient influence) make this collaboration doubly scandalous. As Leo XIII warned in Humanum Genus (1884): “They plan the destruction of the Church’s holy institutions…to oppose the reign of Christ with the reign of man.”
Conclusion: Rejecting the Neo-Church’s Pantheon of Man
This sacrilegious spectacle confirms the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Catholic identity. From the Olympic Cross’s syncretic construction to the blasphemous desecration of sacred space, every detail manifests the anathema sit condemned at Vatican I (Session 3, Chapter 3). True Catholics must heed Pius XII’s 1950 warning: “The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin.” Only by rejecting the neo-church’s apostate structures and cleaving to the unchanging Faith can we remain faithful to Christ the King.
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Athletica Vaticana to bring Olympic Cross to Milan for Winter Games (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.01.2026