VaticanNews portal reports on an Angelus address by “Pope” Leo XIV (8 February 2026) which reduces Christianity to social activism while omitting the necessity of grace, sacraments, and submission to Christ’s reign. The text promotes a naturalistic religion centered on human effort rather than divine truth.
Naturalism Disguised as Gospel Message
The Angelus commentary states:
“Concrete actions of openness and attention towards others will help reignite joy in life… sharing bread with the hungry, bringing the poor and homeless into our homes”
while reducing Christ’s words to therapeutic self-help: “Every wound, even the deepest, will be healed by welcoming the word of the Beatitudes”. This distorts the Gospel into social work divorced from sine qua non conditions: sacramental life, renunciation of sin, and the regnum sociale Christi (social reign of Christ).
Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemns such naturalism: “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). The conciliar sect reverses this hierarchy by suggesting temporal acts create spiritual light rather than vice versa.
Omission of Supernatural Order
The text’s emphasis on “mercy and peace as powers of transformation” ignores the Church’s infallible teaching that grace alone transforms souls. The Council of Trent (Session 6, Canon 8) anathematizes those who claim “the sinner is justified by faith alone without cooperation of good works.” Worse, the address treats Christ not as Verbum caro factum (the Word made flesh) demanding adoration but as a self-help guru:
“Encountering Jesus brings true joy, flavor, and light into daily life.”
This echoes Modernist subjectivism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). By omitting the necessity of baptism, confession, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the conciliar sect reduces salvation to ethical behavior—a heresy explicitly rejected in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) which condemned the proposition that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Proposition 56).
Subversion of Beatitudes
The Angelus perverts the Beatitudes into motivational slogans:
“A way of inhabiting the earth and of living together that must be desired and chosen.”
Contrast this with St. Augustine’s exposition: “The Beatitudes are the perfecting of our actions… directing man to heavenly things, teaching him to despise earthly things” (De Sermone Domini in Monte, I.1.3). Nowhere does the conciliar text mention that the Beati (blessed) inherit Heaven only through sanctifying grace—a truth dogmatized at Trent (Session 6, Chapter 16).
Gnostic Anthropology Replaces Catholic Doctrine
The assertion that God “cares for our names and our uniqueness” smuggles in the personalist heresy of Karol Wojtyła (“John Paul II”), who taught that “the human person is the kind of good which does not admit of use” (Love and Responsibility, p.41). This contradicts Aquinas: “Man is ordained to God as to an end beyond measure” (Summa Theologiae I-II, Q. 113, Art. 4). The true end of uniqueness is not self-affirmation but finis ultimus (ultimate end): Beatific Vision.
When “Leo XIV” claims the faithful become “a city set on a hill” through nebulous “openness”, he omits the conditio sine qua non: submission to the Social Kingship of Christ as defined by Pius XI: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… it is necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man… in the will… in the heart” (Quas Primas, §33). The conciliar sect replaces this with anthropocentric utopianism—precisely the error condemned in the Syllabus (Proposition 80): “The Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.”
Sacrilegious Equivocation on Holy Communion
The Angelus blasphemously trivializes the Holy Eucharist as “the Bread that is broken, which is a life given and a silent love”. This denies transubstantiation—the res et sacramentum (reality and sacrament) of Christ’s true presence—by reducing it to a mere symbol of generosity. The Council of Trent (Session 13, Chapter 4) infallibly declares: “By the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.”
There is also no warning that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures, where the Mass has been reduced to a table of assembly and the rubrics violate the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice, constitutes sacrilege bordering on idolatry. St. Paul warns: “Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord” (1 Cor 11:27).
Conclusion: Apostasy from the King of Kings
The Angelus epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. By replacing the unum necessarium (one thing necessary)—submission to Christ the King—with social activism and psychological comfort, it fulfills Pius X’s warning about Modernists: “They… preach humanism which they dream will be the religion of the future” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §39). Catholics must reject this false gospel and cling to the unchanging depositum fidei (deposit of faith), awaiting the restoration of Christ’s Church.
Source:
Pope at Angelus: God will never discard us (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.02.2026