The cited article reports that "Pope" Leo XIV is seeking "liturgical peace" by encouraging bishops to find "concrete solutions" for the "generous inclusion" of those adhering to the Vetus Ordo, while operating within "the guidelines established by the Second Vatican Council." It presents this as a shrewd, unifying move that transcends Pope Francis' restrictive Traditiones Custodes without formally repealing it. The commentary frames this as a wise, institutional adjustment aimed at healing divisions and fostering a generational renewal within the Church, praising the pontiff's pragmatism and Curial appointments as steps toward a "Roman" and "institutional" governance.
This analysis represents a profound naturalistic and modernist deception. It treats the post-conciliar sect as the Catholic Church, assumes the legitimacy of Vatican II, and reduces the sacred liturgy to a matter of pastoral accommodation, thereby perpetuating the systematic apostasy that began in 1958. The article's entire premise is built on the acceptance of a false church and the rejection of the immutable truths of Catholic theology.
The Naturalistic Foundation: A Church of Human Solutions
The article operates on a purely naturalistic plane, discussing the Church as a human institution facing sociological challenges like secularization and generational change. It speaks of "liturgical peace," "inclusion," and "institutional adjustments" as if the primary problem were pastoral friction rather than heresy and apostasy. This is a direct contradiction of the supernatural nature of the Catholic Church, which is the Mystical Body of Christ, a divine institution whose primary end is the salvation of souls, not human harmony.
Pius XI's encyclical Quas Primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, establishes the true foundation: "When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed." The article's silence on the public reign of Christ the King over individuals, families, and states is damning. It accepts the secularist principle of the separation of Church and State, condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 55: "The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church"). The concern is not for Christ's kingship but for the institutional Church's "presence" in a secularized world.
The Modernist Hermeneutic: Vatican II as a "Guideline"
The article's central error is its treatment of the Second Vatican Council as a legitimate source of "guidelines" for liturgical reform. This is the heresy of evolution of dogma, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 54: "Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness"). Vatican II is not a "guideline" but a revolution that introduced doctrinal novelties on religious liberty, ecumenism, and the nature of the Church, all of which are contrary to the unchanging faith.
The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the principles underlying Vatican II's approach. Error 15: "Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true." Error 16: "Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation." Error 77: "In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State." The article's advocacy for "inclusion" of those attached to the old rite, while operating within the conciliar framework, is a practical application of this indifferentist error. It treats the choice between the authentic Roman Rite and the post-conciliar "Mass of Paul VI" as a matter of pious preference, not of Catholic identity versus heresy.
The Omission of the Supernatural: Silence on Doctrine and Salvation
The article is conspicuously silent on the essential supernatural ends of the Church. There is no mention of the sacrifice of Calvary, which is the essence of the Holy Mass. The Most Holy Sacrifice is not a "celebration" or a "meal" but the true, propitiatory sacrifice offered to God. The post-conciliar liturgical reform deliberately obscured this, as admitted by its architects. The article's focus on "liturgical peace" and "inclusion" reduces the Mass to a human community event, aligning with the condemned proposition in Lamentabili (Proposition 41: "The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator").
Furthermore, there is no discussion of the state of grace, the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation, or the duty of the Church to condemn error. The Syllabus (Error 21) condemns the notion that "The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion." The article's entire framework assumes a pluralistic "fold of Catholic tradition" where various liturgical preferences coexist, which is a denial of the uniqueness of the true faith. This omission is the gravest accusation: it reveals a complete subordination of the supernatural to the natural, of dogma to diplomacy.
The Sedevacantist Reality: A Usurper's Maneuver
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, "Pope" Leo XIV is not the Vicar of Christ but a manifest heretic occupying the See of Rome. According to St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the provided file on sedevacantism, a manifest heretic "by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head." The entire conciliar hierarchy, from John XXIII onward, has propagated the errors of Vatican II, which are condemned by Lamentabili and the Syllabus. Therefore, Leo XIV's actions are those of a sectarian leader managing his organization's internal tensions, not a Catholic pontiff governing the Church.
His "shrewd" statement is a calculated political move to absorb traditionalist opposition without retracting the conciliar errors. By citing Vatican II's "guidelines" and omitting Traditiones Custodes, he signals a softer enforcement of the same doctrinal revolution. This is not a return to tradition but a tactical refinement of the modernist strategy. The appointments of bishops like Randazzo and Pegoraro are part of a "generational change" aimed at consolidating the conciliar sect's control through personnel who understand "how the Curia operates"—i.e., the mechanisms of the post-Vatican II administrative machine.
The Symptomatic Error: Unity Through Compromise, Not Truth
The article praises Leo XIV for wanting to "absorb these divisions and restore them to unity" and for "meeting and listening to everyone." This is the spirit of aggiornamento and false ecumenism, which seeks unity through dialogue and compromise rather than through the profession of the one true faith. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregis (which Lamentabili reinforces), identified the Modernist principle of "the reconciliation of the believer with the scientist, and of the Catholic with the liberal" as a core error. True unity is found only in Catholic truth; false unity is the unity of apostasy.
The article's hope for "liturgical peace" is a peace of the cemetery for Catholic doctrine. It asks traditionalists to accept the legitimacy of the conciliar "Mass" and the council that produced it, while offering them a degree of permission to use the old rite. This is the "two-tiered" church of Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum, which itself was a betrayal. The true Catholic position, as taught by the Church before the apostasy, is that the Roman Rite is the exclusive liturgical expression of the Catholic faith, and any alteration that changes its essence (as the Pauline reform did) is illicit and sacrilegious. To "include" those who recognize this truth within a system that promotes heresy is to betray the truth.
Contrast with True Catholic Teaching
True Catholic teaching, as defined before the Modernist contamination, demands the public and exclusive reign of Christ the King. Pius XI in Quas Primas states: "It is necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man… in the will… in the heart… in the body." The article's world is one where Christ's reign is reduced to a private devotional option, and the state is presumed autonomous. This is the secularism Pius XI called "the plague that poisons human society."
The Syllabus of Errors (Error 24) condemns the idea that "The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect." The article accepts the complete secularization of public life, discussing the Church's role in terms of "presence" and "influence" rather than the social kingship of Christ. It is a document of the "abomination of desolation" standing in the holy place, managing the ruins of the Church while promoting the errors condemned by Pius IX and Pius X.
The claim that Leo XIV's pontificate is "taking a clear direction: No break with the previous pontificate, but a clear return to a pontificate that is 'Roman' in form" is the height of deception. The "previous pontificate" (Francis) was a continuation of the conciliar revolution. A "return" to a pre-conciliar form without the content of the faith is a diabolical imitation. The true Church, which endures in those who hold the integral faith outside the conciliar structures, prays for the conversion of the usurpers and the restoration of the Hierarchy, not for the success of their managerial projects.
In conclusion, the article is a piece of apologetics for the post-conciliar sect. It naturalizes the Church, relativizes dogma, and promotes a false unity based on compromise with heresy. It is a symptom of the "systematic and conscious" apostasy described in the file on sedevacantism, where the focus is on "external threats" and institutional survival while the "main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church" is ignored and perpetuated. The only "liturgical peace" possible for the Catholic soul is the peace of adhering to the unchangeable Roman Rite and the unchanging faith, in communion with the bishops who have never accepted Vatican II's errors—a communion that does not exist within the conciliar structures.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Toward a Liturgical Turning Point? (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.03.2026