The VaticanNews portal (January 31, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV presided over the installation of a Marian mosaic and statue of St. Rose of Lima in the Vatican Gardens, praising the Peruvian saint as a model of “universal vocation to holiness” while quoting the modernist Vatican II document Lumen Gentium. This spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic distortion of sanctity to advance its naturalistic religion.
Illegitimate Usurper Presides Over Sacrilegious Rite
The ceremony’s central figure—referred to as “Pope” in the article—lacks all jurisdictional authority. As St. Robert Bellarmine establishes in De Romano Pontifice, “a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope”. The apostate teachings propagated by Leo XIV and his predecessors since 1958—including religious liberty (contra Mirari Vos), ecumenism (contra Mortalium Animos), and collegiality (contra Pastor Aeternus)—fulfill Bellarmine’s conditions for automatic deposition. Pius XII’s 1945 decree on papal elections (Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis) confirms that no heretic can validly occupy the Apostolic See. Thus, Leo XIV’s “blessing” constitutes sacrilege, as the article itself admits through demonic inversion: “the profound bonds of faith and friendship” unite Peru not with Christ’s Church but with the Vatican occupiers.
Vatican II’s Heretical Anthropology Corrupts Sanctity
Antipope Leo’s appeal to Lumen Gentium‘s claim that “the holiness of the People of God will bring forth abundant fruits” exposes the conciliar revolution’s Pelagian core. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares that holiness flows exclusively from submission to Christ’s social kingship, not democratic participation in some amorphous “people of God.” The article’s emphasis on human activity—“commissioned by the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference,” “created by the ‘Don Bosco Family of Artisans'”—reinforces this works-righteousness heresy condemned by Trent’s decree on justification.
St. Rose of Lima’s true witness becomes weaponized to legitimize apostasy. While the authentic saint practiced severe penance and received mystical graces (Acta Sanctorum, August vol. 5), the article reduces her to a bland “shining example of our vocation” devoid of doctrinal content. This mirrors the modernist tactic condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi: “To the Saints they are wont to attribute a wholly new and erroneous significance; their histories are twisted into something quite different from what they were.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Order
The Vatican Gardens are presented not as a place consecrated to divine worship but as a pantheistic theme park where “everything speaks to us of the Creator and of the beauty of creation.” This Rousseau-esque sentiment contradicts Pope Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae (1899), which anathematizes those who “place nature above grace, or reason above faith.” Nowhere does the article mention:
- The necessity of sacramental grace for sanctification (Trent Sess. VI, Canon 10)
- Christ’s unique mediation (1 Tim 2:5)
- The Four Last Things—death, judgment, heaven, hell—which consumed St. Rose’s spiritual life
Instead, antipope Leo urges generic “witnesses and examples of that holiness in the world today,” reducing the Church’s mission to social activism—precisely the error Pius IX condemned in proposition 80 of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.”
Omissions Reveal Apostate Agenda
The Peruvian Bishops’ Conference—part of the conciliar sect’s parallel hierarchy—commissioned these sacrilegious images. Bishop Carlos Enrique García Camader belongs to an illicit episcopal lineage tracing to Annibale Bugnini’s invalid 1968 sacramental rites. By contrast, St. Pius X’s Sacra Tridentina (1905) demands that sacred art “excite piety and teach truths of faith,” not serve as diplomatic tokens (“renews the profound bonds of faith and friendship”).
The article’s closing appeal—“support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home”—completes the blasphemy. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, Christ alone is King; no antipope’s words merit dissemination. This ceremony constitutes idolatry: worshipping the conciliar sect’s false ecclesiology while desecrating St. Rose’s memory. Traditional Catholics must heed Our Lord’s warning: “If they say to you, ‘Behold, he is in the desert,’ do not go out” (Matt 24:26). The true Church endures outside these occupied structures, preserving the Immaculate Sacrifice and integral Faith.
Source:
Pope: St. Rose of Lima a shining example of our vocation to holiness (vaticannews.va)
Date: 31.01.2026