Vatican Bureau reports that on April 21, 2026, the conciliar sect commemorated the first anniversary of the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio — the apostate who occupied the chair of Peter under the name “Pope Francis” — with a memorial “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where his remains were interred. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the ceremony, while Robert Prevost — the current usurper styling himself “Pope Leo XIV” — sent a written message from Africa praising Bergoglio’s “solidarity with the poorest” and his “missionary zeal.” The cardinal reading Prevost’s message quoted the deceased antipope’s characteristic phrase: “the Gospel of mercy ‘to everyone, everyone, everyone.'” Re described this as an invitation to “preserve the spiritual legacy” of Bergoglio, summarized by slogans such as “the joy of the Gospel,” “the mercy of God,” and “the smell of the sheep.” A plaque was unveiled commemorating Bergoglio’s visits to the Marian icon “Salus Populi Romani,” and Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas led the final prayer at the tomb, invoking the theme of the 2025 Jubilee: “hope does not disappoint.” Over 20 million pilgrims reportedly visited the tomb during that jubilee year. This entire spectacle is not merely a memorial for a deceased man — it is the ritualistic veneration of the principal architect of the post-conciliar apostasy, and every element of it exposes the theological bankruptcy of the neo-church that has replaced the Catholic Church.
The “Mercy” of a False Prophet: Exposing the Core Heresy
The most revealing element of this commemoration is the invocation of Bergoglio’s signature phrase: “the Gospel of mercy ‘to everyone, everyone, everyone.'” This is not a Catholic expression. It is a slogan designed to dissolve the necessity of conversion, the reality of sin, and the absolute requirement of the Catholic faith for salvation. The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a Gospel of indiscriminate mercy — it is a Gospel of truth, judgment, and salvation through the one true Church. As Pope Pius IX declared in Quanto conficiamur (1863), while acknowledging that those invincibly ignorant of the Catholic faith may not be held guilty before God, the Church has never taught that mercy dispensed outside the sacraments and outside the true faith constitutes salvation. The phrase “to everyone, everyone, everyone” is a deliberately engineered ambiguity that, in practice, means: mercy without repentance, communion without confession, salvation without conversion — the very antithesis of the Gospel.
Prevost’s message further stated that Bergoglio “took up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council and urged the Church to be open to mission, a guardian of the world’s hope.” This is the language of the post-conciliar revolution in its purest form. The so-called “Second Vatican Council” was not a legitimate ecumenical council of the Catholic Church — it was a revolutionary assembly convened by the heretic Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) and executed by his successors, which systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine on religious liberty, ecumenism, the nature of the Church, and the liturgy. To describe its “legacy” as something to be “taken up” and perpetuated is to openly profess adherence to the very heresies condemned by every Pope from Pius IX to Pius XII.
Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei (1885), taught with absolute clarity: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within certain limits which are defined by its own nature and special object.” The post-conciliar “Church” has abandoned this teaching entirely, positioning itself not as the supernatural society divinely instituted for the salvation of souls, but as a “guardian of the world’s hope” — a naturalistic, humanitarian organization indistinguishable from the United Nations or any other secular body concerned with temporal welfare. This is precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), where he identified the Modernist tendency to reduce the Church to a purely social and humanitarian institution, stripping it of its supernatural character.
“The Smell of the Sheep”: A Slogan That Stinks of Modernism
Cardinal Re summarized Bergoglio’s “spiritual legacy” with three phrases: “the joy of the Gospel,” “the mercy of God,” and “the smell of the sheep.” Each of these is a masterwork of Modernist rhetoric — empty of doctrinal content, rich in emotional manipulation, and designed to replace the hard truths of the Catholic faith with a feel-good religiosity that offends no one and converts no one.
“The smell of the sheep” is perhaps the most revealing. It implies that the primary duty of the Church’s pastors is not to teach, govern, and sanctify — not to preach the necessity of baptism, confession, and communion of the true faith — but to be among the people, to share their condition, to be “pastoral” in the most superficial sense. This is the exact inversion of the Catholic understanding of the pastoral office. As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas (1925), the reign of Christ the King extends over all men and all societies, and the Church’s mission is to lead souls to eternal happiness — not to wallow in the temporal condition of the flock. The true shepherd smells not of the sheep but of the supernatural — of the sacraments, of sacrifice, of the otherworldly fragrance of grace. The reduction of the pastoral office to sociological proximity with the laity is a hallmark of the Modernist heresy, which St. Pius X defined as the synthesis of all errors.
The phrase “the joy of the Gospel” is equally suspect. It was the title of Bergoglio’s 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, a document riddled with ambiguities, naturalistic language, and implicit rejections of Catholic moral teaching. The “joy” it proclaimed was not the joy of possessing the truth and living in sanctifying grace — it was the joy of a Church that no longer demands conversion, that no longer condemns sin, that no longer insists on the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation. It is the joy of apostasy dressed in the language of celebration.
The Tomb as Shrine: Idolatry and the Cult of Personality
The physical details of the commemoration are themselves deeply revealing. A “special plaque” was blessed and unveiled to commemorate Bergoglio’s visits to the Marian icon “Salus Populi Romani.” His remains were venerated with holy water by Cardinal Makrickas. Over 20 million people visited his tomb during the 2025 Jubilee Year. This is not Catholic devotion — it is the construction of a cult of personality around a deceased antipope, complete with pilgrimage, relics, and ritual veneration.
The Catholic Church has always venerated the tombs of true popes and saints, but only after rigorous investigation of their lives, their orthodoxy, and their miracles. Bergoglio was subjected to none of this — because the conciliar sect does not possess the authority to canonize anyone. The “canonizations” performed by the post-conciliar antipopes are null and void, as the Church cannot act through those who are not her legitimate members. The veneration of Bergoglio’s tomb is therefore not Catholic devotion — it is idolatry, the worship of a false image of what the papacy should be.
Moreover, the choice of burial site is itself significant. Bergoglio requested burial at St. Mary Major, near the icon “Salus Populi Romani” (“Health of the Roman People”). This icon, while ancient and venerable, has been co-opted by the conciliar sect as a symbol of its own false mariology — a mariology that emphasizes Mary as “mother of mercy” and “companion of the journey” rather than as the Virgin of Virgins, the Queen of Heaven, and the Mediatrix of all graces in the traditional Catholic sense. The placement of Bergoglio’s remains near this icon creates a false association between the antipope and authentic Catholic Marian devotion, an association that is both dishonest and blasphemous.
The 2025 Jubilee: A Counterfeit Holy Year
Cardinal Makrickas recalled that the 2025 Jubilee Year, inaugurated by Bergoglio with the bull Spes non confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”), drew over 20 million people to St. Mary Major and to Bergoglio’s tomb. This “jubilee” was a counterfeit — a parody of the true Holy Years proclaimed by legitimate popes throughout the centuries. The Catholic Jubilee is a time of penance, conversion, and the gaining of true indulgences through the sacraments of the Church. The 2025 “Jubilee” was a celebration of the post-conciliar revolution, centered on the theme of “hope” — but a hope detached from faith, detached from the sacraments, detached from the true Church.
The true Catholic understanding of hope is defined in the Council of Trent: Spes non confundit — “hope does not disappoint” — because it is founded on the promises of God and the merits of Jesus Christ, received through the sacraments of the Catholic Church. The conciliar sect’s use of this phrase is a theft — the appropriation of Catholic language to describe a naturalistic, humanistic “hope” that has no supernatural foundation. It is the hope of the world, not the hope of the saints.
The Message from Africa: Prevost’s Complicity
The fact that Robert Prevost — the current usurper — sent a message from Africa praising Bergoglio is not surprising. Prevost is a product of the same conciliar system that produced Bergoglio. His message, read aloud by Cardinal Re, was a continuation of the same Modernist program: praise for “missionary zeal” (meaning the dissolution of Catholic identity in dialogue with the world), “solidarity with the poorest” (meaning naturalistic humanitarianism detached from the supernatural order), and the perpetuation of the “legacy of the Second Vatican Council” (meaning the continuation of the apostasy).
Prevost’s use of Bergoglio’s characteristic phrase — “to everyone, everyone, everyone” — is a declaration of doctrinal continuity. It signals that the current occupant of the Vatican intends to pursue the same program of dissolution, the same false mercy, the same naturalistic reduction of the Church’s mission. There is no rupture between Bergoglio and Prevost — there is perfect continuity, because both are products of the same revolutionary system.
The Absence of Truth: What Was Not Said
The most damning aspect of this entire commemoration is what was not said. There was no mention of the true nature of the papacy — the supreme, full, immediate, and universal jurisdiction of the Roman Pontiff as the Vicar of Christ on earth. There was no mention of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation — extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. There was no mention of the reality of sin, the necessity of repentance, the existence of Hell, or the obligation of all men and nations to submit to the reign of Christ the King.
There was no mention of the true Mass — the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of Calvary, offered by validly ordained priests using the traditional Roman Rite. The “Mass” celebrated on April 21, 2026, was the Novus Ordo — the fabricated “liturgy” of Paul VI (Montini), which Pope Pius VI, in his Constitution Auctorem Fidei (1794), would have recognized as a departure from the Catholic theology of the propitiatory sacrifice. There was no mention of the sacraments as they truly are — efficacious signs of grace instituted by Christ — but only of “mercy” and “hope” in the abstract, detached sacramental reality.
There was no mention of the true Church — the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. Instead, the conciliar sect — the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican — was implicitly presented as the Church, and Bergoglio was implicitly presented as a legitimate pope.
This silence is the gravest accusation. It is the silence of apostasy — the deliberate omission of the truths that the Modernists have suppressed, the truths that would expose the entire post-conciliar edifice as a counterfeit. As St. Pius X wrote in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), the Modernists do not openly deny the faith — they redefine it, empty it of content, and replace it with naturalistic substitutes. The commemoration of Bergoglio’s death is a perfect illustration of this method: the language of faith is retained, but its meaning is hollowed out and filled with the content of the world.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The first anniversary of Bergoglio’s death was not a Catholic act of remembrance — it was a ritual of the conciliar sect, designed to consolidate the cult of personality around its most prominent apostate and to signal the continuity of the Modernist program under the new antipope, Robert Prevost. Every element of the commemoration — the slogans, the veneration of the tomb, the counterfeit jubilee, the message from Africa — was a reaffirmation of the post-conciliar apostasy and a rejection of the unchanging Catholic faith.
The true Church endures — not in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, not in the structures of the Vatican, not in the “Masses” and “jubilees” of the conciliar sect — but in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the heresies of the Second Vatican Council, who recognize that a manifest heretic cannot be the head of the Church, and who await the restoration of the true papacy and the true Mass. The commemoration of Bergoglio’s death is a reminder of how far the conciliar sect has fallen — and of how urgently the faithful must cling to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church, which no revolution can destroy.
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Cardinals in Rome remember Pope Francis as missionary to all 1 year after death (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.04.2026