The Cult of Bergoglio: How the Conciliar Sect Perpetuates the Memory of a Heretic
Vatican News portal reports that on April 21, 2026, the conciliar sect will mark the first anniversary of the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio — the apostate who occupied the Vatican under the name Francis — with a Rosary, a “Mass,” the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, and the release of a hagiographic documentary. The event will include a message from the current usurper, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), read during the “Mass,” and will be broadcast live and streamed globally. The portal describes Bergoglio as “the Pope of mercy” and “the Pope of the peripheries,” and notes that a bronze plaque will be installed declaring that “Francis Supreme Pontiff” paused “126 times in devout prayer” before the icon of Salus Populi Romani and “according to his will, rests in this Papal Basilica.” This orchestrated commemoration is not a neutral act of remembrance — it is a liturgical and ideological operation designed to canonize, by acclamation and sentiment, a man who spent twelve years dismantling Catholic doctrine, elevating naturalistic humanism, and advancing the very errors that the true Church has condemned for centuries.
The Irrelevance of a Heretic’s Wishes to the True Church
The article states that Bergoglio’s mortal remains “according to his will” rest in the Basilica of St. Mary Major. This detail is presented as though it confers a special dignity or legitimacy upon the burial. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the personal wishes of a manifest heretic are entirely irrelevant to the question of how the faithful should regard his memory. The Church has never taught that the burial preferences of a pope — let alone one who has publicly defected from the faith — carry any doctrinal or spiritual weight. St. Robert Bellarmine, in De Romano Pontifice, established with crystalline clarity that “a Pope who is 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.” If Bergoglio was a manifest heretic — and his twelve-year pontificate of doctrinal chaos, promotion of idolatry, and systematic dismantling of Catholic moral teaching renders this beyond reasonable dispute — then he died as a non-member of the Church, and his “will” has no more spiritual significance than that of any other deceased person outside the faith.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, confirms that every ecclesiastical office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Bergoglio’s public acts — his endorsement of civil unions, his opening of the door to communion for the divorced and “remarried,” his promotion of the Abu Dhabi declaration placing all religions on the same plane, his suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, his repeated insults toward those who seek the Most Holy Sacrifice — constitute a public defection from the Catholic faith. He occupied the Vatican, but he did not hold the office of Supreme Pontiff. His burial in a basilica, however ancient, does not change this reality.
The Plaque: A Monument to Sentimentalism, Not Sanctity
The bronze plaque to be unveiled bears the inscription: “Francis Supreme Pontiff, who paused 126 times in devout prayer at the feet of the Salus Populi Romani; according to his will, rests in this Papal Basilica.” The number 126 is presented as evidence of personal piety. But the true Church has never measured holiness by the frequency of one’s visits to a particular shrine. Holiness is measured by fidelity to the Faith, by the avoidance of mortal sin, by the defense of doctrine, and by the sanctification of souls through the sacraments. Bergoglio did none of these things. He undermined the Faith at every turn. He used the language of mercy as a weapon against the moral law, precisely as the Syllabus of Errors warned when it condemned the proposition that “no other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure” (Syllabus, Proposition 58).
The very term “Supreme Pontiff” applied to Bergoglio on a permanent plaque is a lie — not a pious exaggeration, but a direct contradiction of Catholic ecclesiology. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that if any Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy,” his elevation is “null, void, and of no effect.” A heretic cannot be Pope. The plaque enshrines a falsehood in bronze, in a basilica, for the perpetual deception of the faithful. It is a monument not to sanctity, but to the audacity of a sect that dares to inscribe its own fiction in the house of God.
The Documentary: Manufacturing a False Saint Through Archival Manipulation
Vatican News announces a 26-minute documentary, “subtitled in Italian, English, and Spanish,” which “through archival footage and symbolic sequences, recounts the pontificate of ‘the Pope of mercy’ and ‘the Pope of the peripheries.'” This is hagiography by audiovisual means — the construction of a saintly narrative through selective editing, emotional music, and the suppression of everything that Bergoglio actually taught and did. The titles “Pope of mercy” and “Pope of the peripheries” are not neutral descriptors; they are brand labels, carefully crafted by the communications apparatus of the conciliar sect to define Bergoglio’s legacy on its own terms.
What will the documentary omit? It will omit Amoris Laetitia and its devastating consequences for the sacrament of marriage and the moral law. It will omit the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass through Traditionis Custodes, an act of aggression against the faithful that has no precedent in the history of the Church. It will omit the Abu Dhabi declaration, in which Bergoglio signed a document stating that “God wills the pluralism and diversity of religions” — a proposition directly condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true”) and by the Council of Trent, which anathematizes those who say that one may be saved in any religion. It will omit the Pachamama idolatry, the blessing of same-sex unions, the appointment of openly heretical bishops, and the systematic persecution of those who remained faithful to the Most Holy Sacrifice.
The documentary is not journalism; it is propaganda. It is the conciar sect’s attempt to fix the narrative, to ensure that Bergoglio is remembered not as the heretic and apostate he was, but as a kindly grandfather who smelled feet and called people on the telephone. The medium is perfectly suited to the message: emotion replaces doctrine, images replace truth, and sentiment replaces the Faith.
The Message of Leo XIV: Continuity of Apostasy
The article notes that during the commemorative “Mass,” a message from Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) will be read. This is presented as a gesture of continuity and respect. In reality, it is confirmation that the conciliar sect remains entirely committed to the path of apostasy inaugurated by John XXIII in 1958 and carried forward by every usurper since. Leo XIV is not a corrective figure; he is a continuation. His willingness to honor Bergoglio’s memory in a liturgical setting — reading a message during a “Mass” celebrated in the dead heretic’s honor — demonstrates that he embraces the legacy of Modernism, false ecumenism, and naturalistic humanism that Bergoglio embodied.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned that “the plague which poisons human society” is “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors,” and that this plague “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect has gone far beyond mere laicism: it has denied Christ’s reign within the Church itself, replacing the worship of God with the worship of man, the defense of doctrine with the celebration of diversity, and the salvation of souls with the promotion of a vague and contentless “mercy.” Leo XIV’s message will be another expression of this apostasy, dressed in the language of piety but devoid of Catholic substance.
The Rosary and the “Mass”: Simulacra of True Worship
The commemoration begins with a Rosary at 5 p.m. in the Pauline Chapel, followed by a “Mass” at 6 p.m. The Rosary is a true Catholic devotion, but in the hands of the conciar sect, it has been reduced to a ritual ornament — a gesture of cultural Catholicism stripped of its doctrinal content. The “Mass” celebrated in Bergoglio’s memory is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the Church has always understood it. Since the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae in 1969, the “Mass” of the conciliar sect has been a Protestantized assembly that obscures the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice, downplays the Real Presence, and functions primarily as a communal meal and a platform for the expression of the sect’s ideological agenda. To celebrate this rite in memory of a heretic is to compound one sacrilege with another.
The Council of Trent taught that the Mass is “a true and proper sacrifice of propitiation” (Session XXII, Chapter II), offered to God for the sins of the living and the dead. But the propitiatory sacrifice presupposes that the priest is in the state of grace and that the intention of the Church — the conversion of sinners and the glorification of God — is being fulfilled. A “Mass” celebrated by a “priest” of the conciliar sect, in honor of a manifest heretic, with a message from a usurper antipope, in a basilica that has been seized by the forces of Modernism, is not the Holy Sacrifice. It is a counterfeit, and those who participate in it — whether physically or through the passive acceptance of its broadcast — are complicit in the perpetuation of a system that has abandoned the Faith.
What the Article Silences: The True Legacy of Bergoglio
The Vatican News article is a masterpiece of omission. It does not mention a single doctrine. It does not mention the Faith. It does not mention the sacraments as the Church understands them. It does not mention the state of souls. It does not mention the final judgment. It does not mention the obligation of the faithful to resist heresy and to refuse communion with those who preach it. In this silence lies the gravest accusation that can be leveled against the conciliar sect: it has reduced the Church to a humanitarian organization, the papacy to a media brand, and the Faith to a sentiment.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, described Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies” and warned that its adherents “lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers.” Bergoglio was a Modernist. His entire pontificate was an exercise in the application of the Modernist program: the evolution of dogmas, the democratization of the Church, the replacement of doctrine with praxis, the elevation of experience over truth. The documentary, the plaque, the Rosary, the “Mass,” the message of Leo XIV — all of these are expressions of the same Modernist impulse. They are not acts of Catholic worship; they are acts of a sect that has replaced the worship of God with the worship of its own narrative.
The Duty of the Faithful
The faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith have a clear duty: to reject the cult of Bergoglio, to refuse participation in the commemorations of the conciliar sect, and to hold fast to the unchanging teaching of the Church. The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, celebrated by validly ordained priests in union with the true Church, is the only acceptable worship. The Traditional catechism, the traditional sacraments, and the traditional doctrine — as taught by the Church before the apostasy of 1958 — are the only safe guides for the salvation of souls.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). Bergoglio reconciled himself with all three. The conciliar sect now commemorates him as a hero. The faithful must resist this lie with every means at their disposal — by prayer, by the reception of the true sacraments, by the study of authentic Catholic doctrine, and by the refusal to be drawn into the simulacra of worship that the sect offers in place of the real thing.
The plaque in St. Mary Major will bear the words “Francis Supreme Pontiff.” The faithful know better. He was not the Supreme Pontiff. He was a heretic, an apostate, and an enemy of the Church. No amount of bronze, no documentary, no Rosary, and no “Mass” of the conciliar sect will change this truth. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation. And the conciar sect, with its commemorations of heretics and its worship of man, is not the Church.
Source:
Celebrations in memory of Pope Francis (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.04.2026