The Conciliar Sect’s “Supernatural” Naturalism
The Vatican News portal reports that on February 28, 2026, the antipope known as “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) addressed Spanish seminarians. He urged them to cultivate a “supernatural view of reality,” quoting G.K. Chesterton and warning that life becomes “disordered” without a relationship with God. The speech centers on avoiding the “unnatural”—a life where God is marginalized—and stresses interior formation over mere activity. While using traditional-sounding language, the address is a masterclass in conciliar naturalism, systematically omitting the entire supernatural economy of the Catholic Church and promoting the very modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X and Pius IX.
1. Factual Deconstruction: A Relationship Without a Sacramental Foundation
The article presents “Pope Leo XIV” stating: “When that relationship becomes obscured or weakens, life begins to become disordered from within.” This statement, while seemingly orthodox, is fundamentally vacuous. It presents “relationship with God” as a vague, subjective, psychological state, detached from the objective, sacramental channels of grace instituted by Christ. The speaker completely omits:
- The Sacrifice of the Mass as the central, unbloody re-presentation of Calvary, the primary source of all supernatural life. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, Christ’s reign is exercised through the Church, and the Holy Sacrifice is its core act: “The Church… by constantly providing spiritual nourishment to people, gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women.” The address is silent on the Mass, reducing “relationship” to personal piety.
- The Sacraments as necessary means of salvation. Baptism is the gateway, Confirmation the seal, Penance the remedy for post-baptismal sin. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the notion that “the Christian community introduced the necessity of baptism, adopting it as a necessary rite” (Proposition 42). The antipope’s framework treats “relationship” as a matter of personal decision, not sacramental incorporation into Christ.
- The necessity of the state of grace. A priest living in mortal sin is not merely “disordered”; he is an enemy of God, incapable of supernatural action. The address’s soft language of “weakening” relationships avoids the stark reality of peccatum mortale and its eternal consequences.
2. Linguistic Analysis: The Tone of Subjective Humanism
The language employed is characteristic of post-conciliar humanism:
- “Supernatural view of reality”: This is a modernist trope. It reduces the supernatural to a “perspective” or “lens” one can choose to adopt, rather than an objective order of grace invading nature. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), condemned the Modernist who “regards dogmas as… interpretative and intellectual elaborations of the religious sense” (cf. Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Proposition 22). A “view” is a human construct; the Catholic supernatural is God’s free gift and sovereign action.
- “Allow the Lord to transform them in the ordinariness of each day”: This phrasing echoes the post-conciliar obsession with “everyday life” and “ordinary moments” as loci of revelation, a clear echo of Nouvelle Théologie and secularized mysticism. It contrasts sharply with the Catholic call to extraordinary sacrifice, mortification, and the pursuit of heroic virtue as the path to sanctity. The “ordinariness” here is a naturalistic category.
- “See God act and to recognize how He works”: This is pure subjectivism. Catholic theology demands we know God’s action through His revealed word and sacraments, not through the unreliable and potentially delusional “recognition” of one’s own feelings or experiences. The modernist, according to Pius X, “regards the religious sense as the sole cause of all the religious truths which are contained in the Bible” (Pascendi).
3. Theological Confrontation: Silencing the Kingship of Christ
The most damning omission is the complete absence of Christ the King. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) is the definitive magisterial document on this point
Source:
Pope: Life becomes disordered without relationship with God (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.02.2026