The VaticanNews portal (February 11, 2026) reports on a general audience where the antipope Leo XIV falsely claims that “the Word of God responds to our thirst for meaning” while systematically undermining the immutable principles of divine revelation. The article presents the conciliar sect’s heretical reinterpretation of Dei Verbum as normative, omitting all reference to the dogmatic constitution’s rupture with the Church’s bimillennial teaching on biblical inspiration and inerrancy. This catechesis exemplifies the neo-church’s deliberate substitution of personal religious experience for objective truth.
Naturalistic Reduction of Divine Revelation to Human Dialogue
The antipope’s assertion that “Revelation is understood as a dialogue” constitutes a direct attack on the Catholic doctrine that revelation is locutio Dei ad homines (God’s speech to men) requiring unconditional assent. Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum explicitly condemned the notion that “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to continual progress” (Proposition 5). By framing Scripture as mere conversation rather than divine mandate, the conciliar sect implements the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 22): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but are an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously evolved.”
Omission of Scriptural Inerrancy and Ecclesiastical Authority
Notably absent from this “catechesis” is any affirmation of the Church’s perennial teaching on biblical inerrancy. Leo XIV’s silence regarding the dogmatic constitution Dei Filius of Vatican I – which definitively declared “the books of the Old and New Testament…have God for their author” (Session 3, Chap. 2) – exposes the conciliar sect’s adherence to modernist biblical criticism. The article’s claim that Scripture finds its “rightful home in the Church” perverts the authentic teaching that the Church is columnam et firmamentum veritatis (the pillar and ground of truth – 1 Tim 3:15). As Pius XII affirmed in Humani Generis (1950): “The sacred magisterium alone has the duty of guarding and interpreting the deposit of faith.”
Substitution of Missionary Apologetics With Ecumenical Relativism
The antipope’s statement that Scripture “propels the Church beyond herself; it opens her continually to the mission towards everyone” disguises the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s exclusive salvific mission. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “Christ’s kingdom embraces all men…Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ” (§18). The article’s promotion of “dialogue” directly contradicts Pius IX’s condemnation of the heresy that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Syllabus, Proposition 17).
Sacramental Desacralization Through Liturgical Manipulation
The reference to Scripture sustaining the community “through the celebration of Mass and the Sacraments” constitutes blasphemous irony given the conciliar sect’s destruction of the Roman rite. By omitting any mention of the propitiatory sacrifice or the Real Presence – doctrines inextricably linked to Scripture’s testimony – the antipope reduces the Mass to a communal gathering. This implements the modernist agenda condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They assert that the Sacraments have their origin in the fact that the Apostles and their successors…explained and amplified the idea of Christ…to respond to the circumstances and needs of the Church” (§38).
Theological Consequences of Rejecting Christ’s Kingship
The most grievous omission lies in the complete absence of reference to Christ’s social kingship. While quoting St. Jerome’s “ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” the antipope deliberately avoids the full implications of Christological truth – namely that the Word Incarnate demands regnum sociale Christi (the social reign of Christ) over all nations. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly warned that “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” (§1). The conciliar sect’s silence on this dogma exposes its fundamental apostasy from Catholic truth.
Source:
Pope at Audience: the Word of God responds to our thirst for meaning and truth (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.02.2026