Conciliar Sect Exploits St. Francis Relics for Apostate Spectacle
EWTN News portal reports that approximately 350,000 people have registered to venerate the bodily remains of St. Francis of Assisi during a month-long exhibition (February 22 – March 22, 2026) in the Lower Basilica of Assisi. This event coincides with a purported “jubilee year” declared by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), falsely offering “plenary indulgences” until January 10, 2027. The article frames this as a “unique spiritual gift for the entire Church,” ignoring the doctrinal bankruptcy of post-conciliar structures.
Sacrilegious Simulation of Indulgences
The apostate Vatican’s “Apostolic Penitentiary” claims the faithful may obtain indulgences by visiting Franciscan churches while fulfilling three conditions: sacramental confession, Holy Communion, and prayers for the antipope’s intentions. This constitutes double sacrilege:
- Sacramenta non sunt – post-conciliar “sacraments” lack validity due to:
- Invalid ordination rites (Paul VI’s Pontificalis Romani, 1968)
- Heretical intent in liturgical reforms (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947)
- The demand to pray for a manifest heretic violates Communicatio in sacris (Council of Trent, Session VII)
“The Church is able to remit these consequences of sin, since God has made her steward of the fruits of redemption.”
This statement presumes the conciliar sect retains the Church’s authority – a heresy condemned by Pius IX: “They are not the Church who have defected from the Catholic Faith” (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 21). True indulgences require communion with the Mystical Body of Christ, impossible through counterfeit sacraments.
Naturalistic Corruption of Relic Veneration
The article reduces the sacred relics to a “historical and spiritual importance,” emphasizing their physical preservation while omitting their sacramental purpose: to inspire imitato Christi through St. Francis’s authentic virtues of poverty, penance, and obedience to pre-conciliar doctrine. Instead, the display serves as:
- Ecumenical theater: The “living mirror of the Gospel” description implies Francis exemplified a false “Gospel of fraternity” embraced by apostates like Bergoglio.
- Masonic spectacle: The 800-year cycles (1226-2026) mirror occult numerology evident in Fatima’s 200-year ritual cycles (1717-1917-2017).
St. Francis’s true legacy is betrayed by the conciliar sect’s actions:
| Authentic Franciscanism | Conciliar Distortion |
|---|---|
| “My God and my All!” (spiritual focus) | Bodily remains as “revealed treasure” (material focus) |
| Submission to Holy Church (Letter to All Clerics) | Subversion to antipapal structures |
| Rule approved by Innocent III (1209) | Jubilee approved by antipope (2026) |
Omission of Doctrinal Warnings
The article fails to warn Catholics that:
- Venerating relics under heretical authorities constitutes cooperation with apostasy (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos)
- Assisi’s basilica has hosted pagan ceremonies (1986, 2002, 2011), desecrating holy ground
- St. Francis would condemn the conciliar sect’s religious liberty errors (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 77-79)
Nowhere does the text mention Christ’s Kingship – the central theme of Franciscan spirituality. Instead, it promotes a naturalistic “Gospel of ecology” antithetical to St. Francis’s Letter to the Faithful: “We must hate our bodies with their vices and sins.”
Conclusion: A Satanic Mockery
This exhibition continues Assisi’s 40-year trajectory as the headquarters of global apostasy. The “special issue of the magazine San Francesco Patrono d’Italia” will inevitably promote the conciliar sect’s modernist distortions, just as the 2015 tomb-opening served ecumenical agendas under antipope Bergoglio. True Catholics must reject this sacrilege, recalling St. Francis’s warning: “They have become wolves in sheep’s clothing by their works, though by their words they pretend to be shepherds” (Admonition XIX).
Source:
Hundreds of thousands register to venerate relics of St. Francis of Assisi (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.02.2026