Conciliar Sect’s Madrid Assembly Exposes Apostate Priesthood Model
Conciliar Sect’s Madrid Assembly Exposes Apostate Priesthood Model
Vatican News portal reports on February 9, 2026 about antipope Robert Prevost’s (“Leo XIV”) letter to clergy of the conciliar sect’s Madrid archdiocese, framing secularization as inevitable while promoting a naturalized priesthood detached from dogmatic foundations. The text exemplifies the conciliar revolution’s complete abandonment of the sacerdotal mission defined by the Council of Trent.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Priesthood
The antipope’s directive for priests to become “men configured to Christ” constitutes theological subterfuge, divorcing configuration from its ex opere operato (by the work performed) sacramental reality. Trent’s Session XXIII canon 4 anathematizes precisely this modernist distortion: “If anyone says that by sacred ordination the Holy Spirit is not given… let him be anathema.” The letter reduces configuration to subjective experience rather than ontological transformation through valid Holy Orders – nonexistent in the conciliar sect since the 1968 Pontificalis Romani invalidation of holy orders.
Silence on Sacrificial Essence of Priesthood
Nowhere does the text mention the priest’s primary duty: “to offer sacrifice, forgive sins, and dispense the sacraments” (Catechism of St. Pius X). This mirrors Paul VI’s apostate definition in Ministeria Quaedam (1972) that reduced priesthood to “service of the community.” The true priesthood exists “to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins” (Hebrews 5:1) – a reality annihilated by the conciliar sect’s invalid Novus Ordo Missae.
Heretical View of Secularization
The letter portrays secularization as irreversible cultural evolution rather than diabolical disorientation, stating: “the progressive disappearance of shared points of reference… this common substratum has been notably weakened.” This directly contradicts Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemning the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). True shepherds combat errors, not capitulate to them.
Omission of the Church’s Militant Nature
Absent is any reference to the ecclesia militans (Church militant) battling “the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness” (Ephesians 6:12). The conciliar sect’s false mercy replaces spiritual warfare with sociological analysis, exemplified by diagnosing cultural ills as “the absolutization of well-being” rather than punishment for collective apostasy. Where St. Pius X’s Pascendi condemned modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth,” this text embraces their evolutionary worldview.
Fraudulent Appeal to St. John of Ávila
The antipope’s invocation of St. John of Ávila (canonized 1970) constitutes historical revisionism. This Doctor of the Church wrote: “The priest is another Christ… His anointing comes from God” (Audi Filia), upholding the Council of Trent’s sacramental theology. To coopt him for the conciliar sect’s invalid priesthood is sacrilege. The true Church requires validly ordained priests, not the conciliar sect’s “ministers of the assembly” devoid of sacramental power.
False Dichotomy Between Action and Being
The letter’s contrast between “men defined by multiplication of tasks” versus “men configured to Christ” creates a gnostic false dichotomy. Catholic action flows from sacramental being – a unity maintained for centuries until Vatican II’s Presbyterorum Ordinis fabricated artificial tensions between “being” and “doing.” The true priest acts ex persona Christi (in the person of Christ) precisely through administering valid sacraments, not through modernist “pastoral charity.”
Conclusion: Apostasy Institutionalized
This Madrid assembly epitomizes the conciliar sect’s completed apostasy. When “popes” no longer demand conversion but discuss “educating our gaze” to secularism, they fulfill St. Pius X’s warning: “The Modernist as priest speaks with respect of the Church… but pay attention and you will find that he is speaking of the ideal Church” (Pascendi 41). True Catholics recognize this structure as the “abomination of desolation” (Matthew 24:15) – a counterfeit church preaching another gospel (Galatians 1:8-9).
Source:
Pope to Spanish priests: 'Be holy and configure yourselves to Christ' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.02.2026