Prayer as Evangelization: Apostasy Masquerading as Piety
The EWTN News portal (January 30, 2026) reports on a meeting between antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and members of the “Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network,” where the usurper declared prayer an “integral part of evangelization.” The article describes this organization’s work in disseminating monthly “prayer intentions” to “tens of millions” and promoting a “Eucharistic Youth Movement.” This pseudo-papal exhortation continues the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith with naturalistic activism devoid of doctrinal substance.
Reduction of Evangelization to Human Action
Antipope Leo XIV’s assertion that intercessory “prayer is not external to the evangelical work” constitutes a modernist inversion of Catholic soteriology. The Church has always taught that evangelization begins with prayer and sacramental grace, not as a mere component of human effort. The Baltimore Catechism (Q. 581) states: “The chief means of spreading the Kingdom of God are prayer, the sacraments, and good works performed under the influence of divine grace.” By equating prayer with evangelistic work, the conciliar sect reduces the supernatural mission of the Church to horizontal human activity.
The antipope’s praise for distributing monthly “intentions that touch upon the challenges facing humanity” reveals the neo-church’s anthropocentric focus. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “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.” The true apostolate prioritizes conversion of souls over worldly problem-solving.
False Ecumenism Disguised as Compassion
“The spirituality of your apostolate of prayer is rooted in the heart of Jesus, which allows you to know Our Lord more intimately and to be more compassionate…”
This vague “heart of Jesus” spirituality echoes condemned modernist subjectivism. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” By omitting the necessity of Catholic doctrine for salvation, the antipope promotes indifferentism. True compassion demands warning souls about eternal damnation – not “empathy” that ignores doctrinal errors.
The article’s claim that this network helps the “baptized understand they are friends and apostles of Christ” ignores the sacramental reality. As Lamentabili Sane (1907) states: “The Church listening cooperates… in defining truths of faith” (condemned proposition 6). Apostolic identity comes from union with the hierarchical Church, not feelings of “friendship” divorced from dogmatic truth.
Youth Formation in Naturalism
Antipope Leo’s emphasis on forming “the next generation of intercessors” through the “Eucharistic Youth Movement” constitutes sacrilege. The conciliar sect’s “eucharistic” events bear no resemblance to the true Sacrifice of the Altar. Pope Pius XII warned in Mediator Dei (1947): “The worship paid to the Eucharist… strongly urges the soul to reap fruits of sanctification.” The post-conciliar “Mass” being table-centered invalidly simulates the Catholic liturgy, rendering their “Eucharistic” initiatives spiritually void.
The article’s silence about repentance, grace, or the Four Last Things exposes the neo-church’s naturalism. As the Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches: “The primary duty of all Christians is to save their own souls.” By reducing prayer to intentions about “humanity’s challenges,” the conciliar sect denies the lex orandi, lex credendi principle – substituting Catholic eschatology with temporal utopianism.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Prayer is an integral part of evangelization (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.01.2026