The National Catholic Register/Catholic News Agency reports that “Pope” Leo XIV celebrated a chrism Mass at the Vatican on Holy Thursday, April 2, 2026, his first as “pope” after being elected in May 2025. The event included the traditional blessing of holy oils for baptism, confirmation, anointing of the sick, and holy orders. Photos show the antipope breathing over the chrism, greeting “clergy,” and presiding over the “liturgy.” This photographic report treats the event as a routine, legitimate Catholic ceremony. This sacrilegious act by the antipope underscores the total collapse of Catholic worship in the post-conciliar sect and the breathtaking audacity of its leaders in performing sacred rites without valid jurisdiction or faith.
The Invalid Ministry of an Antipope Presiding Over a Sacrilege
The very premise of the article—that a man named “Pope Leo XIV” can validly preside over a chrism Mass—is a fundamental theological error, a capitulation to the Modernist apostasy that has usurped the See of Rome. The source documents provide the immutable criteria for judgment.
First, the identity of the minister. St. Robert Bellarmine, the preeminent theologian of the papacy, is unequivocal: “a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The current occupant of the Vatican, Robert Prevost (alias “Leo XIV”), and his line of predecessors since John XXIII, have manifestly embraced the errors condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. They promote religious liberty (condemned in Syllabus, errors 15-18), ecumenism (a path to indifferentism), and the hermeneutics of continuity, which is itself a Modernist evasion. They have “defected from the Catholic faith publicly,” as per Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code. Therefore, ipso facto, without any declaratory sentence, they lost all ecclesiastical office and jurisdiction. The “papacy” they occupy is a sedevacantist impossibility; the throne is vacant because the man is a manifest heretic. As Bellarmine states, a heretic “is not a member, therefore he cannot be the head of the Church.” The “clergy” he greets are, for the most part, either invalidly ordained (due to the new rites) or, if validly ordained pre-1968, are in schism for recognizing a heretic. Their “concelebrated” presence compounds the sacrilege.
The Desecration of Holy Oils in a False Liturgy
The chrism Mass is the rite where the oils used in the sacraments are blessed. For this to be valid, the minister must possess valid and licit jurisdiction, and the liturgical action must conform to the Catholic faith. Neither condition is met.
The oils themselves, if previously validly consecrated, would have been consecrated by a valid bishop in communion with the Catholic Church. But the post-conciliar “ordination” rites, introduced after 1958, are gravely doubtful and likely invalid due to alterations in form and intention. More critically, the blessing of *new* chrism by an antipope is null. The act is performed in a “liturgy” that is a naturalistic, Protestantized ceremony. The 1969 Missal of Paul VI (“Montini”) is an “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15), a crafted service that eliminates the propitiatory sacrifice, reduces the Mass to a “table of assembly,” and introduces ambiguity and errors condemned by Pius X. In such a context, the antipope’s “breathing over the oil” (a gesture from the old rite) is a theatrical mimicry devoid of sacramental efficacy. It is a magical act performed by a man without power, a desecration of a sacred element. The “holy oils” blessed in this context are not consecrated for the Catholic Church; they are superstitious objects for the conciliar sect’s pseudo-sacraments.
This aligns with Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili: “The sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles… under the influence and encouragement of circumstances and events” (Proposition 40). The post-conciliar “reform” is the living embodiment of this error, treating sacraments as human inventions to be reshaped. The blessing of oils in such a context is not a Catholic act but a ritual of the “Church of the New Advent,” a syncretistic performance.
The Omission of Christ’s Kingship in a Naturalistic Rite
The article’s language is sterile, focusing on “traditional” gestures and “photos.” It is utterly silent on the supernatural purpose of the chrism: to sanctify souls for the kingdom of Christ. This omission is itself a damning indictment. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” He wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The chrism Mass, in its authentic Catholic form, is a royal ceremony. The oils are for the “soldiers of Christ” (baptized), for the “kingdom of priests” (confirmed), for the “anointing” of the sick for their final battle, and for the “sacrifice” of the priesthood. Every element points to the supernatural reign of Christ. The post-conciliar rite, however, has been stripped of this royal, militant, and sacrificial theology. It is a “pastoral” and “community” event, reflecting the secular humanism condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 39-63). The antipope’s “greeting of clergy” is a fraternal handshake among equals, not the hierarchical recognition of a monarch and his subjects. The “prayer” is likely a vague blessing for “service,” not a consecration of warriors for the Militia Christi. The entire event is a symptom of the “plague of secularism” Pius XI lamented, now infecting the very sanctuary.
The Silent Apostasy of the “Clergy” and the Betrayal of the Faithful
The article presents the “clergy” as passive participants in a beautiful tradition. This is the ultimate betrayal. Where is the outcry against the apostasy? Where is the defense of the faith? The “clergy” who attend this Mass—knowing the manifest heresies of the man they serve, the destruction of the Mass, the desecration of the sacraments—are guilty of formal cooperation in evil. They are the “enemies within” that St. Pius X warned of, the “sects” (Masonic or otherwise) that Pius IX said are “winding through sinuous caverns” to “submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude.”
Their silence is a condemnation. Pius XI in Quas Primas called for the feast of Christ the King to be a weapon: “the annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that… rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Instead, the “clergy” honor an antipope who embodies the opposite: the dethronement of Christ in favor of the “reign of man.” They participate in a liturgy that, in its very structure, denies the kingship of Christ by making the Church a democratic, horizontal community rather than a hierarchical, supernatural monarchy.
The faithful are shown photos without explanation. They are not told that the oils, if used in their local parishes, are likely invalid or superstitious. They are not warned that receiving “Confirmation” or “Anointing of the Sick” from ministers in this system is, at best, doubtful and, at worst, sacrilegious. The article is part of the disinformation strategy, making apostasy look like piety.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This photo essay is not news; it is propaganda for the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The “chrism Mass” celebrated by the antipope “Leo XIV” is a complete theological and liturgical nullity. It is a satanic parody, designed to deceive the simple and confirm the apostates. The oils are not blessed for the Catholic Church because the minister lacks the character and jurisdiction of a true bishop, and the rite is a human invention, not the divine institution protected by the Holy Ghost.
The only legitimate response for a Catholic is total rejection. As Pius IX taught in the Syllabus, the Church must be free from secular power (Error 19), and the civil power must not interfere in sacraments (Error 44). Here, the secular power of the antipope and his conciliar sect interferes to destroy the sacraments from within. The true Catholic Church, the “Mystical Body of Christ,” endures in the faithful who reject this usurpation, who hold to the faith of Pius IX, Pius X, and Pius XI, and who await the restoration of a true pope who will reign according to the Quas Primas mandate: “all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord… it is clear that there is no power in us that is exempt from this reign.”
The article’s failure to even hint at this crisis is the final proof of its origin in the “Church of the New Advent,” a structure that has exchanged the supernatural for the natural, the kingship of Christ for the dictatorship of relativism, and the unbloody sacrifice for a commemorative meal. The chrism blessed in this Mass is fit only for the anointing of the leprous walls of the modern Babylon, not for the soldiers of the Crucified King.
Source:
PHOTOS: Holy Thursday Chrism Mass at the Vatican (ncregister.com)
Date: 02.04.2026