The National Catholic Register (NC Register) portal reports that the Vatican antipope, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), has announced a June 26–27 consistory of cardinals, framing it as a follow-up to the January 2026 sessions. Central to his letter is the explicit call to “relaunch” Evangelii Gaudium, the apostolic exhortation of his predecessor Francis, which he describes as a “significant point of reference” and a “breath of fresh air” for the conciliar sect. This directive, couched in the language of “missionary boldness” and “pastoral conversion,” reveals not a return to Catholic truth but a deepening entrenchment of modernist principles that reduce the Church’s divine mandate to a program of humanistic outreach, devoid of the supernatural necessity of conversion to the one true Faith and submission to Christ the King.
The Kerygma Redefined: From Salvation to Sentiment
At the heart of Leo XIV’s directive is the elevation of Evangelii Gaudium as the guiding star of the neo-church’s mission. He praises it for “refocusing everything on the kerygma as the heart of our Christian and ecclesial identity.” Yet, this “kerygma” is stripped of its Catholic substance. True kerygma, as taught by the Church for two millennia, is the proclamation of Jesus Christ as the sole Savior, the necessity of baptism for salvation, the reality of sin and judgment, and the imperative of conversion to the Catholic Church. It is the preaching that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
In contrast, the kerygma of Evangelii Gaudium, as interpreted and endorsed by Leo XIV, is a sentimentalized call to “renew encounter with Christ” and move “from a faith merely received to a faith truly lived and experienced.” This language, while sounding pious, is fundamentally naturalistic. It prioritizes subjective experience over objective truth, personal feeling over doctrinal clarity. It is the kerygma of the modernist, who, as St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), reduces dogmas to “a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Proposition 22), and who believes that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Leo XIV’s call to “renew encounter” without specifying the content of that encounter — namely, submission to the fullness of Catholic truth — is an invitation to religious subjectivism, the very antithesis of the Church’s mission.
Mission Without Doctrine: The Heresy of “Attraction”
Leo XIV further elaborates on the nature of mission, stating it must spread “through attraction rather than conquest.” He defines it as an “integral mission, holding in balance explicit proclamation, witness, commitment and dialogue, and yielding neither to the temptation of proselytism nor to a merely institutional mentality of preservation or expansion.” This statement is a masterclass in modernist equivocation.
First, the rejection of “proselytism” is a direct contradiction of the Church’s divine mandate. Our Lord Jesus Christ commanded, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). The Church has always understood this as a duty to convert souls to the true Faith. To label this sacred obligation as “proselytism” — a term now used pejoratively to imply coercion or manipulation — is to deny the Church’s right and duty to seek the conversion of all men. This aligns perfectly with the condemned errors of religious indifferentism, as articulated in the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (1864), which rejects the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15), and that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17).
Second, the call for “dialogue” and rejection of “conquest” reflects the ecumenical spirit of Vatican II, which Pius XI foresaw and condemned in Mortalium Animos (1928), warning that such dialogue would lead to the “destruction of the unity of the Church” and the “confusion of truth and error.” Leo XIV’s vision of mission is not one of bringing souls to the Barque of Peter, but of engaging in a horizontal dialogue with the world, where the Church’s role is to “listen, accompany, and heal” rather than to teach, govern, and sanctify. This is the mission of the Abomination of Desolation, a church that has traded its divine commission for worldly relevance.
The “Small Flock” Mentality: Surrender to the World
Perhaps most revealing is Leo XIV’s statement that “even when the Church finds herself in a minority, she is called to live with confident courage, as a small flock bringing hope to all, mindful that the aim of mission is not its own survival, but the communication of the love with which God loves the world.” This is a stunning admission of defeatism. The Catholic Church, founded by Christ with the promise that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18), is not a “small flock” destined for minority status. It is the ark of salvation, the sole means by which souls are saved.
To accept minority status as a permanent condition is to deny the Church’s divine mission and the Kingship of Christ over all nations. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), explicitly condemned the idea that the Church could be separated from the state or that Christ’s reign could be limited to the private sphere. He wrote, “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Leo XIV’s vision of a “small flock” is a betrayal of this teaching, an acceptance of the laicism and secularism that Pius IX condemned as a “plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas).
The Consistory: A Theater of Collaborative Apostasy
The very structure of the consistory, with its emphasis on “synod and synodality as an instrument and style of collaboration,” reveals the democratic, modernist nature of the conciliar sect. The Church is not a democracy; it is a divinely instituted hierarchy, where authority flows from Christ to Peter and his successors, and through the bishops to the faithful. Synodality, as practiced in the neo-church, is a mechanism for dismantling this hierarchy, replacing the authoritative teaching of the Magisterium with the consensus of committees and focus groups.
The fact that the cardinals chose to focus on “the mission of the Church in the world today” and “synodality” while setting aside “the liturgical question” and “relations between the Holy See and episcopal conferences” is telling. The liturgy — the sacred worship of God — is deemed less important than the horizontal, worldly mission of “dialogue” and “accompaniment.” This inversion of priorities is a hallmark of the modernist, who, as St. Pius X noted, seeks to “reform the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Lamentabili, Proposition 64) to align with “modern progress.”
Conclusion: The Deepening of the Apostasy
Leo XIV’s call to relaunch Evangelii Gaudium is not a call to renewal but a call to deepen the apostasy. It is a reaffirmation of the modernist principles that have hollowed out the Church since the Second Vatican Council. By prioritizing experience over doctrine, dialogue over proclamation, and minority status over the universal Kingship of Christ, the neo-church continues its descent into religious indifferentism and naturalistic humanism.
The true mission of the Church is not to “communicate love” in some vague, sentimental sense, but to preach Christ crucified, to administer the sacraments, and to bring souls into the one true Faith. As Pius XI declared, “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas, quoting St. Augustine). Until the neo-church repudiates its modernist errors and returns to the unchanging teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium, it will remain what it is: a counterfeit church, leading souls not to salvation, but to perdition.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Calls June Consistory of Cardinals, Says ‘Evangelii Gaudium’ Must Be Relaunched (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.04.2026