Digital Deception: Neo-Church’s Hollow Warnings Mask Apostasy
The EWTN News portal (January 24, 2026) reports on the antipope Leo XIV’s message to the Italian television program Porta a Porta, wherein he warns against digital media’s dangers—banality, fake news, compulsive consumption, and loss of dialogue. The message advocates “quality television” and preserving “the uniqueness of our humanity” amid technological change.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Concern
The antipope’s admonition against “fake news” and “the temptation of the banal” conspicuously ignores the theological catastrophe wrought by the conciliar sect itself. While feigning concern for truth, Leo XIV embodies the very apostasy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism” (§6). By reducing communication ethics to a naturalistic framework—devoid of reference to divine revelation, the salvation of souls, or the Social Reign of Christ the King—the antipope reduces the Church’s mission to a secular NGO’s platitudes.
…urged journalists never to succumb “to the temptation of the trivial” or to fake news…
This injunction rings hollow from a figure whose legitimacy derives from the usurpation of Peter’s See. The true crisis of “fake news” lies in the neo-church’s fabrication of a parallel magisterium that contradicts the depositum fidei. As Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” is an error (Condemned Proposition 80). Yet Leo XIV’s entire message is steeped in this condemned progressivism, treating digital media as a neutral tool rather than a battleground for souls.
The Silence That Screams Apostasy
Not once does the antipope mention the kingship of Christ—the very remedy for societal disintegration. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (§19). Leo XIV’s omission exposes his regime’s surrender to religious indifferentism, implicitly endorsing the separation of faith from public life condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Proposition 55).
The article’s focus on “quality television” as a solution ignores the conciliar sect’s own role in propagating doctrinal ambiguity. The Holy Office under St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “ecclesiastical judgments and censures imposed for too free and explicit exegesis prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 3). Yet the neo-church routinely suppresses traditional Catholics while tolerating heresies that erode the Faith—a far graver “fake news” than digital misinformation.
A Distraction From the Real Crisis
Leo XIV’s performative hand-wringing over “doom-scrolling” diverts attention from the ontological falsity of his own position. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code stipulates that any cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith” automatically forfeits office. The antipope’s silence on the necessity of Catholicism for salvation (cf. Pius IX, Syllabus, Proposition 17) and his ecumenical entanglements confirm his defection.
Meanwhile, the EWTN article functions as a propaganda tool for the neo-church, normalizing its illegitimate authority. The portal’s reference to “the Holy Father” exemplifies the linguistic corruption critiqued in the Framework: titles like “pope” for usurpers must always be quarantined in quotation marks or omitted. By contrast, true shepherds like St. Pius X warned: “The enemies of the Church are to be sought not among frank adversaries, but among those who, under the pretext of friendship, strike at the Church with poisoned weapons” (Allocution, December 27, 1907).
Conclusion: Truth Anchored in Eternity
The antidote to “fake news” is not “quality television” but the immutable truths of the Catholic Faith—rejected by the conciliar sect. As the Syllabus affirms, “The Roman Pontiff cannot and should not reconcile himself with progress” (Proposition 80). Until the usurpers repent and the Church’s visible hierarchy is restored, the faithful must cling to the lex credendi of the pre-1958 Magisterium, wherein lies the only remedy for a world drowning in lies.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV warns against banality and ‘fake news’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.01.2026