Parish Visits Mask Apostasy: Antipope’s Lenten Charade Exposed
EWTN News reports (January 23, 2026) that the antipope Leo XIV intends to visit five Roman parishes during Lent, celebrating “Masses” and meeting with “priests” of the occupied Diocese of Rome. The article frames these acts as pastoral continuity, mentioning similar activities by previous usurpers John Paul II and Francis. Cardinal Baldassare Reina is cited claiming 8,020 “priests and deacons” serve the diocese, with only 809 being diocesan clergy. This theatrical display of faux-shepherding constitutes spiritual poison for the faithful.
Illegitimacy Disguised as Ecclesial Normality
The assertion that “the pope is not only the head of the universal Catholic Church, he is also the bishop of the Diocese of Rome” constitutes blasphemous equivocation. Quicumque (“Whosoever”) denies the Catholic faith cannot hold ecclesiastical office (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). When the article states “the pope will also meet with Rome’s priests for the second time,” it obscures the canonical reality:
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares office vacated ipso facto by public defection from Catholic faith. The post-conciliar sect abandoned the depositum fidei through religious liberty (Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae), making its hierarchy spiritually inert shells.
Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Yet this antipope’s reinstatement of Rome’s central sector—canceled by his predecessor—epitomizes the endless revolution condemned by St. Pius X: “Modernists pass from one deformation to another… their system implies the destruction of all religion” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39).
Sacrilegious Counterfeit of Pastoral Care
The claim that these visits include “celebration of Mass” constitutes grave theological fraud. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei dogmatically defined the Mass as “the same sacrifice as that of the Cross.” The Novus Ordo service—promulgated by antipope Paul VI—destroys the propitiatory sacrifice through:
- Elimination of the Offertory prayers
- Protestantized Eucharistic Prayers
- Rubrics permitting versus populum celebration
When the article states “John Paul II managed to visit 317 of 333 parishes,” it whitewashes the apostate who kissed Korans and presided over the Assisi abominations. True shepherds protect the flock from wolves, not lead them into interreligious syncretism. Pius XI condemned such betrayal: “They are guilty of a crime… who permit the sacred name of God to be associated with error” (Quas Primas, 22).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article’s focus on bureaucratic statistics—”8,020 priests and deacons”—exposes the neo-church’s materialist ecclesiology. True priesthood requires not mere numerical counting, but ex opere operato validity and orthodox intent. The 1917 Code’s Canon 1325 §2 demands that ministers must “have the intention of doing what the Church does.” Given the post-conciliar sect’s denial of transubstantiation (implied in its Communion-in-hand policies), all its sacraments remain doubtful at best.
Cardinal Reina’s partitioning of Rome into “five sectors” continues the conciliar obsession with administrative restructuring—a modernist substitute for doctrinal clarity. As St. Pius X warned: “They make their own opinions the rule of their belief… their whole system is infected with false mysticism” (Lamentabili Sane, 62). Nowhere does the article mention confession, grace, or repentance—the actual pillars of Lenten observance.
Conclusion: Flee the Occupied Structures
Antipope Leo’s theatrical “parish visits” continue the neo-church’s strategy condemned by Pius XII: “The adversary has succeeded in… creating a counterfeit religious reality” (Ad Apostolorum Principis, 45). The faithful must recall St. Paul’s injunction: “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?” (2 Cor 6:14). True Catholics recognize no “bishop of Rome” until a successor validly elected according to Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis restores the Petrine office.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to visit 5 Rome parishes during Lent (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.01.2026