The Betrayal of a Sacred Trust
The cited article from Vatican News commemorates the 95th anniversary of Vatican Radio, praising its evolution from Pius XI’s 1931 initiative to a modern, multilingual digital platform serving under recent pontificates. It frames this history as a continuous mission of evangelization, highlighting service during wars, the Second Vatican Council, and the papacies of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. The article celebrates “multiculturalism,” integration into the Dicastery for Communication, and the use of artificial intelligence, all while presenting the post-conciliar “Church” as the legitimate continuation of the Catholic Church.
This narrative is a masterful synthesis of deception, masking a profound rupture with Catholic Tradition. Vatican Radio, once an instrument of the true Church under Pius XI, has been transformed into a megaphone for the conciliar sect’s errors. The article’s omissions are as damning as its assertions: it is silent on the mortal sin of religious liberty, the heresy of ecumenism, the abomination of interfaith prayer, and the systematic dismantling of Catholic doctrine since 1958. It treats the post-Vatican II “papacy” as a legitimate succession, thereby committing the fundamental error of recognizing antipopes. This is not a history of faithful service but a chronicle of apostasy, where a tool once used for the reign of Christ the King now broadcasts the “errors of Modernism” condemned by St. Pius X.
1. The Theft of a Catholic Instrument
The article correctly notes that Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, instituted the feast of Christ the King to combat the “secularism of our times” and affirm that “all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord.” Pius XI’s 1931 commissioning of Vatican Radio was an extension of this royal mandate: to use the “most advanced means” to proclaim the exclusive sovereignty of Christ over individuals, families, and states. The first broadcast, in Latin, was addressed “to all peoples and to every creature,” a universal call to obedience to the Unus Dominus.
What the article conceals is that Vatican Radio now serves a diametrically opposed purpose. Under the conciliar popes, it has become an instrument for promoting the “errors” of the Syllabus of Errors. It broadcasts the heresies of “religious freedom” (Syllabus, Error #15), which teaches that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true.” It promotes “ecumenism,” which is the practical application of the condemned proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Error #18). The article’s praise for “multiculturalism” and reaching “existential peripheries” is code for the indifferentism Pius IX anathematized. Vatican Radio no longer calls nations to submit to the Social Reign of Christ; it calls them to submit to the “dictatorship of relativism” identified by Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), a modernist himself.
2. The Linguistic Mask of Apostasy
The article’s language is a study in naturalistic, bureaucratic Modernism. Phrases like “serving the Pope, the Gospel, and communities,” “interpreting events through the lens of Catholic social teaching,” and “a disarmed and disarming communication” are vapid abstractions that empty Catholic truth of its supernatural content. There is no mention of salvation, grace, the state of mortal sin, the Sacrifice of the Mass, or the absolute necessity of belonging to the Catholic Church (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “Gospel” is reduced to a message of vague “hope” and “fraternity,” stripped of its power to convert and damn.
This is the precise “hermeneutics of continuity” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the proposition that “the interpretation of Holy Scripture given by the Church… is subject to more exact judgments and corrections by exegetes” (Proposition #2). The article’s entire premise—that Vatican Radio’s mission can evolve with the times—embodies the condemned Modernist principle that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Lamentabili, #58). The “voice” is no longer the Vox Christi but the vox hominis, the “human person” elevated above God’s law.
3. The Theological Abyss: From Christ the King to the Cult of Man
The central theological error is the substitution of the Social Reign of Christ with the “dignity of the human person.” Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that rulers must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” for “all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord.” The article, however, presents Vatican Radio’s mission as serving “the human person” and “building a more fraternal, supportive, welcoming, and peaceful society”—the exact language of secular humanism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors #58-60).
The article’s celebration of “AI” as a tool is the culmination of this apostasy. Pius XI warned that when “God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Vatican Radio now embraces a technology that, according to its own cited theme (“AI is a tool, not a voice”), seeks to replace human conscience and judgment. This is the logical endpoint of the conciliar “dialogue with the world”: the machine becomes the new oracle, and the “voice of the Pope” is algorithmically distributed, further desacralizing the sacred trust of communication. The pre-conciliar Church viewed technology as a servant of the Gospel; the post-conciliar sect slavishly serves the “progress” Pius IX called a “pest” (Syllabus, Introduction).
4. The Symptom of a Paramasonic Structure
The article’s description of Vatican Radio’s integration into the “Dicastery for Communication” under “Pope Francis” is a smoking gun. This “reform” is part of the broader conciliar revolution that replaced the Catholic Church’s hierarchical, sacramental structure with a “conciliar sect” modeled on Protestant and Masonic principles of collegiality and synodality. The “multicultural” workforce from 69 nations mirrors the “national churches” condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Error #37). The broadcast of “56 languages” is not for the conversion of souls but for the homogenization of doctrine into a bland, acceptable “global” message that offends no one—except the true God.
The article’s silence on the Third Secret of Fatima is particularly telling. The files provided expose the Fatima apparitions as a “Masonic operation” designed to divert attention from the “modernist apostasy within the Church.” Vatican Radio, as a global mouthpiece for the conciliar popes, has been a primary vehicle for this diversion. It has never, under the conciliar popes, condemned the errors of Modernism as St. Pius X did in Pascendi Dominici gregis. Instead, it has broadcast the very “synthesis of all heresies” that Pius X identified. The article’s glowing review of “World Radio Day” (a UNESCO initiative) further proves Vatican Radio’s subservience to the “synagogue of Satan” Pius IX identified, not to the Social Kingship of Christ.
5. The Sedevacantist Verdict: No Legitimate Succession
The article’s foundational lie is the assumption of a continuous, legitimate papacy from Pius XI to “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). The doctrine of sedevacantism, based on the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and theologians like St. Robert Bellarmine, proves that a “manifest heretic” loses his office ipso facto. The conciliar popes, from John XXIII through Francis, have been manifest heretics: they have promulgated the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law states that an office is vacant if a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar popes have done so repeatedly and solemnly.
Therefore, Vatican Radio has not served “nine Popes.” It served Pius XI (a true Pope) and then fell into the hands of a series of antipopes. The article’s reference to “serving the Successor of Peter” is a blasphemous fiction. The true Successor of Peter is not the occupant of the Vatican after 1958; the See has been vacant for 68 years. The “Pope’s Radio” is now the “Antipope’s Radio,” broadcasting the errors of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). The Jesuit administrators mentioned from 1931 onward, if they accepted the conciliar popes, became accomplices in apostasy.
Conclusion: A Call to Abandon the Conciliar Megaphone
Vatican Radio’s 95-year history is a tale of two cities: the first 27 years under Pius XI served the City of God; the subsequent 68 years under the antipopes serve the “city of man.” The article is a propaganda piece for the latter, using the legacy of the former to whitewash a revolution that has led “millions of souls to perdition” (Pius IX, Syllabus). The use of AI, the celebration of multiculturalism, the silence on the extra Ecclesiam dogma—these are not innovations but the logical fruits of the “errors of Modernism” condemned by St. Pius X.
The integral Catholic, adhering to the faith of Pius IX, Pius X, and Pius XI, must reject this article and everything it represents. Vatican Radio, as currently constituted, is a “psycho-logical operation” (to use the terminology of the Fatima file) to keep Catholics attached to the conciliar sect. The true Catholic must instead seek the unadulterated voice of the Church—the voice that condemns error, preaches the necessity of Catholic unity, and proclaims the exclusive reign of Christ the King over all nations. That voice is found not in the digital streams of Vatican News, but in the unchanging Magisterium of the pre-1958 Church and in the remnant faithful who adhere to it, even if they are “reduced to a handful” (Pius IX).
Happy birthday? No. This is a requiem for a once-Catholic institution now lost to apostasy.
Source:
Happy birthday, Vatican Radio: 95 years of serving the Pope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.02.2026