Antipope’s Encounter with “Courage International” Exposes Conciliar Moral Bankruptcy
The article from EWTN News portal (February 6, 2026) reports on a meeting between antipope Robert Prevost (posing as “Leo XIV”) and representatives of “Courage International,” an organization claiming to minister to those experiencing same-sex attraction. The article states this constitutes a “historic occasion” where participants discussed chastity as “heal[ing] and strengthen[ing] and restor[ing] the person,” with the antipope allegedly emphasizing “mastering our passions” and “surrender to the will of God.”
Illegitimate Authority Undermines Spiritual Counsel
The very premise of this encounter rests upon the false authority of the conciliar antipope. As Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) establishes: “If at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… prior to his promotion… has defected from the Catholic Faith… his promotion or elevation shall be null, void and of no effect.” The counterfeit “pontiff” participates in the apostasy of the conciliar sect through his adherence to modernist heresies condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) and Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907).
St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice states manifest heretics automatically lose jurisdiction: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (II:30). The conciliar antipope’s promotion of religious indifferentism (contra Quas Primas 11) and ecumenism (condemned in Mortalium Animos) renders this “audience” spiritually void. The article’s reference to “the Holy Father” constitutes material participation in the conciliar sect’s deception.
Naturalistic Anthropology Masquerading as Pastoral Care
“Courage International” operates within the modernist framework that reduces chastity to therapeutic self-mastery rather than supernatural virtue. The article quotes “Fr.” Brian Gannon stating: “We talked about the importance of chastity, how it heals and strengthens and restores the person.” This language echoes the naturalism condemned in Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950), which warned against “those who deride the Catholic notion of original sin and pretend that man’s nature is incorrupt” (DH 3877).
Nowhere does the article mention mortal sin, eternal damnation, or the necessity of sacramental confession—omissions revealing the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic eschatology. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) unambiguously taught that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered and contrary to natural law” (DH 3717), requiring not “accompaniment” but immediate repentance. The reference to “accompany[ing] family members who have a loved one who identifies as LGBTQ” implicitly validates the false “LGBTQ” identity construct condemned by Leo XIII’s Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) as “license masquerading as liberty.”
Theological Omissions Betray Conciliar Apostasy
The article’s claim that antipope Prevost spoke of “real freedom… mastering our passions” directly contradicts the conciliar sect’s own heretical positions. Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia (2016) destroyed the immutable teaching on intrinsically evil acts by permitting communion for public adulterers—a heresy directly enabling the moral relativism this “Courage” meeting pretends to oppose. This theatrical display follows the conciliar playbook described in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists maintain that there is nothing in their doctrines… which is not in harmony with the Church’s professions… Thus they draw their teachings from her and profess to be reverently returning them to her” (DH 3479).
The complete absence of references to sacramental grace, penance, or eternal judgment exposes this encounter as psychological manipulation rather than Catholic ministry. When Gannon analogizes chastity to “learning how to swim,” he reduces spiritual warfare to natural self-improvement—a Pelagian error condemned by the Council of Carthage (418). True Catholic asceticism requires “denying oneself and taking up one’s cross” (Matthew 16:24), not the conciliar sect’s therapeutic moralism.
Structural Complicity in Moral Revolution
“Courage International” functions as a controlled opposition within the conciliar sect’s larger sexual revolution. While paying lip service to chastity, its existence within the apostate structures legitimizes the very hierarchy that promotes homosexual blessings (as seen in the 2024 Fiducia Supplicans declaration). As the Syllabus of Errors condemned those who claim “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80), this meeting constitutes not pastoral care but strategic deception.
The article’s celebration of this “historic occasion” confirms the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of Catholic morality. True shepherds would echo St. John Chrysostom’s warning: “Do not imagine that because a sin is prevalent, it is any less grievous” (Homilies on Romans IV). Instead, this theatrical meeting seeks to placate remaining traditionalists while advancing the conciliar agenda—proving the conciliar sect remains what St. Pius X called “the most pernicious of all the enemies of the Church” (Pascendi 3).
Source:
‘Historic occasion’: Pope Leo XIV meets with same-sex attraction ministry Courage International (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.02.2026