EWTN News reports that on March 28, 2026, the antipope known as “Pope Leo XIV” addressed youth and catechumens in Monaco, praising the local patroness, Saint Devota, and the post-conciliar “saint” Carlo Acutis. His message centered on “courageous witness,” the “vitality of one’s relationship with Christ,” and the primacy of “love” over material distractions. The speech, devoid of supernatural substance, epitomizes the modernist apostasy that has consumed the Vatican II sect.
The Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Spirituality
The address by “Pope Leo XIV” is a masterclass in theological vacuity, replacing the immutable doctrines of the Catholic Faith with a nebulous, sentimental humanism. Speaking at the Church of Sainte-Devote, he stated: “What gives solidity to life is love: first and foremost, the fundamental experience of God’s love, and then — as a reflection of that — the illuminating and sacred experience of mutual love.” This reduction of the Faith to a subjective “experience” is a direct echo of the Modernist heresies solemnly condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu. Proposition 25 of that decree anathematizes the notion that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities,” which underpins the entire “relationship” paradigm. Faith is not an emotional “experience” but a supernatural virtue infused by God, requiring assent to the entire body of revealed truth defined by the Church. The pope’s silence on the necessity of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments as necessary means of grace, or the duty to submit the intellect to the Magisterium reveals the naturalistic core of his message. This is the “doctrinal minimalism” that Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned as part of the “plague of indifferentism” (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”).
The Pseudo-Sainthood of Carlo Acutis: A Modernist Icon
The invocation of “Saint Carlo Acutis” as an exemplar for youth is a profound scandal and a definitive marker of the apostasy. The “canonization” of this figure by the conciliar hierarchy is null and void, as the process itself is invalid and the individual’s life and teachings are saturated with the errors of the age. Carlo Acutis, promoted as a “digital apostle,” represents the fusion of secular celebrity culture with a sanitized, doctrine-free version of Catholicism. His alleged “friendship with Christ” is presented as a personal, affective bond, wholly divorced from the rigorous, dogmatic, and sacrificial call to carry the cross and hate one’s own life (Luke 14:26-27). This aligns perfectly with the condemned proposition from Lamentabili: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The “saint” is a creation of the post-conciliar church’s obsession with relevance, utterly foreign to the integral Catholic vision of sanctity as heroic virtue, penance, and martyrdom for the Faith. The true Catholic saints are those who loved Christ to the point of shedding blood or dying of exhaustion in His service, not those who mastered website design.
The Omission of Supernatural Reality: The Gravest Sin
The most damning aspect of the Monaco address is its complete silence on the supernatural end of man and the means to achieve it. There is no mention of:
- Original Sin and the absolute necessity of Sanctifying Grace for salvation.
- The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. The pope’s vague talk of “true happiness” shies away from the terrifying reality of the particular judgment and the eternal consequences of rejecting God.
- The Sacramental System instituted by Christ as the ordinary channel of grace. Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, and especially the Holy Eucharist as the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary are the pillars of Catholic life, utterly ignored.
- The Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, promulgated on the feast of Christ the King, thunders: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society…” The Monaco speech speaks of “witness” but never of the duty of states and societies to publicly recognize and obey Christ the King, a cornerstone of Catholic social doctrine condemned as an “error” by the Syllabus (e.g., Errors 77-80 on the separation of Church and State). The pope’s “love” is a private, interior sentiment, not the public, juridical, and cultural dominance of Christ’s laws over all human legislation.
This silence is not accidental; it is the very essence of the Modernist “abomination of desolation.” As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici gregis (referenced in Lamentabili), Modernists “conceive of a sort of double religion… one for the learned, and another for the simple, which they call ‘popular.’” The Monaco speech is pure “popular” religion: feel-good, experience-based, and doctrinally empty.
The Heresy of Subjective “Relationship” vs. Objective Doctrine
The central theme, “the vitality of one’s relationship with Christ,” is a Trojan horse for heresy. Catholic theology, as defined by the Council of Trent and the constant Magisterium, teaches that our relationship with God is objective, established and nourished through the Sacraments and obedience to the Commandments. It is not a matter of subjective feeling. The pope’s framework, where “restlessness finds peace” through clearing away “virtual validation of thousands of ‘likes,’” is pure Pelagian optimism, suggesting man can achieve inner peace through his own efforts and correct “experiences.” This contradicts the Catholic dogma of grace as a free, unmerited gift. The “relationship” language is a direct import from Protestant and Modernist theology, which reduces religion to a personal, emotional connection, nullifying the necessity of the Church as the sole ark of salvation and the hierarchical, sacramental institution Christ founded.
Leo XIV: The Manifest Heretic on the Throne of Peter
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the speaker in Monaco is not a valid pope. The theological arguments for sedevacantism, based on the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and theologians like St. Robert Bellarmine, are clear: a manifest heretic cannot be a member of the Church, and therefore cannot be its head. Bellarmine states unequivocally: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” (from *De Romano Pontifice*). The actions and words of “Pope Leo XIV” provide daily evidence of manifest heresy:
- He venerates a “saint” (Carlo Acutis) whose cult promotes a religion of “experience” over dogma, aligning with the condemned errors of Lamentabili (Props. 25, 26).
- He preaches a “gospel” of love that omits the necessity of the Church for salvation, echoing the indifferentism condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 15-17).
- He operates within and actively promotes the conciliar sect’s structures, which are built on the heresies of Vatican II (e.g., Dignitatis humanae on religious liberty, condemned by Pius IX).
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which remains the definitive law, states an office is vacated by “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The public, consistent, and obstinate propagation of errors by “Leo XIV” and his predecessors constitutes this very defection. Therefore, the See of Peter is sede vacante, and the structures occupying the Vatican are a paramasonic abomination leading souls to perdition.
Conclusion: A Call to Return to the Fortress of Tradition
The Monaco address is not a pastoral talk; it is a symptom of a terminal apostasy. It offers the world a Catholicism without Catholicism—a religion of feelings without truth, of “love” without law, of “witness” without dogma. It is the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution, which replaced the Social Kingship of Christ with the “dialogue” of the “Church of the New Advent.” The true Catholic response is not to “give everything to God” in the vague sense proposed by the antipope, but to give everything to the God of Revelation, as He has made Himself known through His Infallible Church, in the Sacrifice of the Mass, and through the unchangeable Magisterium. The youth of Monaco, and all Catholic youth, must be called to reject this modernist poison and to seek refuge in the immutable Tradition, which alone can lead them to eternal life. The only legitimate authority is that of the true bishops and priests who uphold the Faith of all time, in communion with none of the post-1958 usurpers.
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Pope Leo XIV to youth of Monaco: 'Do not be afraid to give everything to God' (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.03.2026