EWTN News reports on a February 11, 2026 general audience where antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) claimed the Catholic Church is “the rightful home of sacred Scripture,” citing Vatican II’s *Dei Verbum* and Benedict XVI’s *Verbum Domini*. The article notes his lighting of a candle for Our Lady of Lourdes and planned visit to a Vatican grotto replica. This modernist spectacle masks doctrinal corruption through equivocal language.
Subversion of Scripture’s Prophetic Office
The claim that Scripture’s purpose is merely to “make Christ known and open dialogue with God” constitutes heretical reductionism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress” (Proposition 5). By contrast, Prevost’s statement that “the word of God… is inexhaustible” implies evolutionary revelation – a core modernist error condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Proposition 58).
When Prevost quotes Benedict XVI’s assertion that “authentic biblical hermeneutics can only be had within the faith of the Church,” he perverts the Church’s teaching authority. The Syllabus explicitly rejects the idea that “ecclesiastical judgments… prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” (Proposition 3). True Catholic hermeneutics requires submission to unchanging doctrinal definitions, not the “faith of the Church” as reimagined by conciliar revolutionaries.
Dei Verbum’s Rupture With Tradition
The article’s reference to Dei Verbum presenting revelation as “a dialogue” reveals the conciliar sect’s naturalism. Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) taught that revelation consists of propositional truths entrusted to the Church’s magisterium, not ongoing conversation. By claiming “God speaks to humans as though to friends,” Prevost implies equality between Creator and creature – condemned as pantheism in the Syllabus (Proposition 1).
Worse still is the blasphemous equation of Scripture with the Eucharist: “the Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord.” This violates the analogia fidei, elevating a created thing (the biblical text) to divine worship. The Council of Trent (Session XIII, Chapter 5) reserved latria exclusively for the Eucharist, while Scripture receives dulia as a sacred instrument.
Liturgical and Devotional Parody
Prevost’s theatrical candle-lighting before a Lourdes statue continues the conciliar sect’s idolatrous manipulation of traditional piety. The true purpose of Marian devotion – ad Jesum per Mariam – is replaced with empty sentimentalism. Pius XI’s encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor (1928) warned against “new devotions” not rooted in “the ancient and approved forms of piety.”
The article’s reference to the “World Day of the Sick” instituted by Wojtyła (“John Paul II”) exposes the neo-church’s humanitarian inversion. Traditional Catholicism prioritized the salus animarum through sacramental ministry to the sick (Extreme Unction, Viaticum). The conciliar sect replaces this with naturalistic “health care pastoral plans” – precisely the “cult of man” condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (37).
Silence as Apostasy
Nowhere does Prevost mention Scripture’s primary functions according to Tradition:
- As weapon against heresy (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
- As proof of Christ’s divinity (John 5:39)
- As condemnation of modern errors (2 Peter 1:20)
This omission confirms the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s militant identity. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declared Christ’s kingship requires “that individuals, families, and states… allow themselves to be governed by Christ.” Prevost’s focus on “dialogue” and “mission towards everyone” substitutes the Social Reign of Christ with indifferentist ecumenism – condemned in the Syllabus (Proposition 77).
The Antichurch’s Scripture-talk constitutes what St. Pius X called “the artifice of the Modernists” (Pascendi 41): using traditional vocabulary to mask doctrinal corruption. As the true Church maintains in the Oath Against Modernism: “I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport.” No conciliar pseudo-pope can alter this sacred deposit.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church is the rightful home of sacred Scripture’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.02.2026