Modernist Formation Agenda Masquerading as Christian Education
VaticanNews portal reports on an address by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the plenary assembly of the “Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life,” where he promoted a naturalistic vision of Christian formation devoid of sacramental efficacy and hierarchical authority. The text claims antipope Leo XIV “stressed the importance of Christian formation” while emphasizing “the need to prevent all forms of abuse” through communal efforts rather than doctrinal fidelity.
Communal Syncretism Replacing Hierarchical Authority
Antipope Leo XIV’s statement that “It is not the priest alone, or a catechist, or a charismatic leader, who generates faith, but the Church, the united, living Church” constitutes a direct assault on the sacramental economy. The Council of Trent infallibly teaches that faith is transmitted through the Church’s teaching authority (Session XXIV, Can. 7), not through democratic communal experiences. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly reaffirms Christ’s kingship over all creation, delegating authority to ordained shepherds—not amorphous “communities.” By reducing the Church to a “united, living Church made up of families, young people, single people,” the conciliar sect denies the societas perfecta constitution established by Christ (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Condemned Proposition 19).
Naturalistic “Formation” Divorced From Grace
The article’s focus on “formation initiatives” rooted in human love (“the desire to give, to share the overflowing love and joy“) replaces sanctifying grace with emotionalism. This echoes Modernist vitalism condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “For the Modernists, both science and faith lie beneath the consciousness, and within the subconsciousness… both emerge from the soul and live together” (Pius X). True formation requires submission to immutable doctrine, not psychologized “life paths.” Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) warns that such subjectivism “opens the door to the error of the Modernists who hold that the dogmas of faith are to be understood only in their practical aspects.”
Sacrilegious Equivalence Between Natural and Supernatural Life
Antipope Leo XIV’s analogy—”Just as human life is transmitted through the love of a man and a woman, so Christian life is conveyed through the love of a community“—blasphemously equates biological reproduction with the transmission of faith. The Church teaches that grace operates ex opere operato through valid sacraments (Council of Trent, Session VII), not through sentimental “community love.” This Gnostic confusion of nature and grace was anathematized in Lamentabili Sane (1907), Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.”
Systemic Omission of Sacramental Means
Nowhere does the article mention Confession, Holy Eucharist, or the necessity of sanctifying grace—hallmarks of authentic Catholic formation. Instead, it promotes “listening, accompanying, and verification” as primary tools, reflecting the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Thomistic anthropology. St. Pius X’s Acerbo Nimis (1905) mandates that catechists teach “the immutable truths entrusted to the Church” rather than subjective “accompaniment.” The silence on the Mass as the source of grace exposes the neo-church’s protestantized ecclesiology.
“Abuse Prevention” as a Trojan Horse for Moral Relativism
While decrying “abuse of minors,” the text ignores the doctrinal and liturgical abuses that enable such crimes. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1389) penalizes clergy who endanger souls through doctrinal negligence, yet antipope Leo XIV fails to condemn gender ideology or contraception—primary tools of family destruction. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) identifies contraceptive mentality as “a sin against God and nature,” making the neo-church’s silence complicit in cultural decay.
Counterfeit Saints and False Models
The article cites “saints” like Ignatius of Loyola while omitting their militant defense of doctrine—a disingenuous appropriation. St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises demand “to be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it” (Rule 13). By contrast, antipope Leo XIV’s “formation” encourages dialogue with modernity, violating St. Pius X’s condemnation of “the reconciliation of the Church with progress” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 80).
Conclusion: Formation as Apostasy
This plenary assembly epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Its “formation” paradigm—stripped of dogma, sacraments, and hierarchy—fulfills St. Pius X’s warning: “The Modernist sustains and propagates a philosophy which they know to be condemned by the Church” (Pascendi, 40). True Catholics must reject this counterfeit and adhere to the unchanging Magisterium, for “outside the Church there is neither salvation nor sanctification” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Condemned Proposition 17).
Source:
Pope: Christian formation requires patience, accompaniment, safeguarding (vaticannews.va)
Date: 06.02.2026