The cited article reports that the antipope styling himself “Leo XIV” delivered a video message to the sixth assembly of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), lamenting the “growing deterioration” of the natural environment and promoting themes of “synodality,” “inculturation,” and the construction of a Church with an “Amazonian face.” This presentation is a quintessential manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy, reducing the Catholic mission to a naturalistic, pantheistic concern for the planet while omitting the supernatural ends of the Church and the absolute kingship of Christ over all nations.
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The central focus of the message is the “growing deterioration of the natural environment.” This prioritization of ecological concerns stands in stark, heretical opposition to the unchanging Catholic doctrine that the primary purpose of the Church is the salvation of souls. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, establishing the feast of Christ the King, explicitly condemned the secularism that removes God from public life, stating: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope’s lamentation echoes the errors of the modern world condemned in the Syllabus of Errors, particularly the error that “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39) and the separation of Church and State (Error 55). Here, the “Church” functions as an NGO for environmental activism, a role Pius XI identified as the plague of secularism: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
The article’s language is saturated with naturalism. The metaphor of the “shihuahuaco” tree as a “sanctuary for numerous species” and the Church as a “safe haven that generates and protects life” elevates creation to a quasi-sacramental status while blasphemously demoting the Church, the “Ark of Salvation,” to an ecological preserve. This is a direct inversion of Catholic teaching. The Church is not primarily a protector of biodiversity; it is the “Mystical Body of Christ,” the sole dispenser of grace and truth, whose ultimate goal is the Beatific Vision. The antipope’s silence on the salus animarum—the salvation of souls—is the gravest accusation. He speaks of “abuse and exploitation” and “respect for life in all its forms, especially human life,” yet remains utterly silent on the supreme abuse: the loss of eternal life through mortal sin, the exploitation of souls by false religions, and the intrinsic evil of abortion and
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Pope Leo XIV laments ‘growing deterioration’ of the Amazon’s natural environment (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.03.2026