EWTN News reports that the current usurper occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), addressed members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography on May 25, 2026, decrying what he termed “a time of drastic sterility” in Europe. He warned that “purportedly family-friendly policies” simultaneously “exalt abortion as a right” and “undermine the very foundation of the desire to start a family.” He described Europe’s demographic decline as “an urgent challenge” and “the pandemic of loneliness,” urging parliamentarians to promote “the fundamental dignity of all persons” and the family “founded on marriage between a man and a woman” as the solution. He called for “a fresh springtide for the family” to “transform the winter chill of our aging populations.” This address, while containing a passing mention of abortion, is a masterclass in the modernist art of diagnosing symptoms while refusing to name the disease — the systematic, state-sponsored, and culturally enforced murder of innocents and the apostate dismantling of Christian civilization by the very institutions he addresses.
The Demographic Crisis as a Fruit of Apostasy, Not Its Antithesis
The demographic collapse of Europe is not a mystery, nor is it an accident of history. It is the direct, foreseeable, and divinely permitted consequence of the rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ, which Pius XI proclaimed with luminous clarity in Quas Primas (1925): “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.” The “founding fathers of the EU institutions” whom Leo XIV claims rejected “Christian inspiration” were, in fact, the heirs of the very liberalism, secularism, and Masonic principles that Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors — particularly proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This is precisely the spirit that animates every word of Leo XIV’s address.
The decline of birth rates across all EU countries since 2004, the median age reaching 44.9 years — these are not merely statistics, as Leo XIV himself noted, but the fruits of a civilization that has expelled God from its laws, its schools, and its public life. As Pius XI declared: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — 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 demographic winter is the harvest of the seeds of laicism that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society” — “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” Yet Leo XIV, rather than calling for the restoration of Christ the King’s public reign over European nations, instead addresses the European Parliament — the very legislative engine of this apostasy — as though it were a partner in solving the crisis it created.
The Cowardly Omission: Abortion as “Right” Is Not Merely a “Discrimination Against Motherhood”
The most revealing feature of this address is what it says about abortion and, more importantly, what it refuses to say. Leo XIV states that policies “simultaneously promote discrimination against motherhood, exalt abortion as a right, and undermine the very foundation of the desire to start a family.” Note the careful, bureaucratic framing: abortion is presented as one item in a list of demographic dysfunctions, a “contradictory claim” of “purportedly family-friendly policies.” There is no mention — not a single word — of the fact that abortion is the direct, intentional killing of an innocent human being, a crime against God’s law, an act that cries to heaven for vengeance, and the most fundamental violation of the Fifth Commandment. There is no call to criminalize it, no demand for its abolition, no invocation of the Church’s perennial teaching that those who procure or cooperate in abortion incur automatic excommunication (Codex Iuris Canonici 1917, canon 2350).
Instead, abortion is reduced to a “right” that is merely “exalted” — as though the problem were rhetorical excess rather than the legalized slaughter of millions. This is the language of a bureaucrat managing public opinion, not of a shepherd defending the flock. As St. Pius X taught in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned proposition 58: “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.” The entire demographic discourse of the conciliar sect operates within this framework — treating human persons as economic units, “human capital” whose absence creates labor shortages, not souls whose murder constitutes the gravest of crimes against the Creator.
“The Fundamental Dignity of All Persons” — A Modernist Mantra Empty of Supernatural Content
Leo XIV’s appeal to “the fundamental dignity of all persons” is the quintessential modernist refrain, stripped of all Catholic theological content and reduced to the language of secular human rights — the very “cult of man” that the pre-conciliar Magisterium consistently condemned. True human dignity, in Catholic teaching, derives from man’s creation in the image and likeness of God, his redemption by the Precious Blood of Christ, and his supernatural destiny to eternal beatitude. As Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas: “Christ possesses, in a word, dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature, meaning that His authority is based on that wonderful union called hypostatic.” Human dignity is inseparable from the recognition of Christ’s kingship and the obligation of every person and every state to submit to His law.
By contrast, the “dignity of all persons” as invoked by Leo XIV is indistinguishable from the language of the United Nations, the European Union, and every secular institution that simultaneously defends the “right” to abortion, the “right” to sodomy, and the “right” to gender ideology. This is the dignity of man apart from God — which is to say, no dignity at all, but rather the negation of dignity through the denial of man’s supernatural end. Pius IX condemned this very error in the Syllabus, proposition 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations.”
The “Pandemic of Loneliness” — Diagnosing the Symptom, Ignoring the Cause
Leo XIV’s reference to “the pandemic of loneliness” is perhaps the most symptomatically modernist element of his entire address. Loneliness in Europe is not a mysterious epidemiological phenomenon; it is the direct consequence of the destruction of the family, the dissolution of Christian community, the replacement of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the conciar “memorial meal,” and the systematic eradication of the supernatural life from European culture. The true “pandemic” is the pandemic of apostasy — the abandonment of the Faith by the very “clergy” who were supposed to guard it.
As the Defense of Sedevacantism document establishes through the authoritative teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian.” The post-conciliar occupants of the Vatican, by embracing religious liberty, ecumenism, and the evolution of dogma, have manifested themselves as heretics and thus cannot exercise any authority in the Church. Leo XIV’s address to the European Parliament is not the voice of Peter but the voice of the conciliar sect — a paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958 and transformed it into an instrument of the world.
Partnership with the Architects of Demographic Collapse
The meeting took place during a Conference on the Family and Demography attended by the European commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Šuica; Italy’s minister for family, Eugenia Roccella; and the OSCE special representative on demographic change and security, Gudrun Kugler. These are representatives of institutions that have legalized abortion, promoted contraception, normalized sodomy, and systematically dismantled the legal protections of the Christian family. Leo XIV’s call for policies to be “developed and formulated in partnership with civil society” is a call for collaboration with the very forces that have engineered the demographic catastrophe he purports to lament.
This is the perennial strategy of the conciar sect: to engage in “dialogue” with the enemies of the Church, to seek “common ground” with those who murder innocents, and to offer “unchanging principles” that are in fact so vague and naturalistic as to be meaningless. As Pius XI warned: “When the people were to be strengthened in common danger or confirmed against the snares of heretical errors, or when they were to be moved and inflamed to meditate with greater piety on some mystery of faith or a certain divine benefit, celebrations were introduced.” The feast of Christ the King was instituted precisely to combat the secularism that Leo XIV now addresses as a partner rather than an enemy.
The True Remedy: Restoration of Christ the King’s Social Reign
The only true solution to the demographic crisis — and to every crisis afflicting modern civilization — is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ over all nations, families, and individuals. This requires, first and foremost, the recognition that the current occupant of the Vatican is not the Vicar of Christ but a manifest heretic who has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. As Bellarmine taught: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.”
Second, it requires the restoration of the true Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary — which is the source and summit of the Church’s life and the font of all grace. The conciliar “Mass” is a Protestantized memorial that has stripped the faithful of the graces necessary to live the Christian life, including the grace to embrace generous motherhood and fatherhood.
Third, it requires the explicit, public, and unconditional rejection of abortion as the murder of innocent human beings, the repeal of all laws legalizing it, and the imposition of canonical penalties on those who promote or cooperate in it. This is not a matter of “policy” or “partnership” but of divine law, which no human authority can contravene.
Leo XIV’s “fresh springtide for the family” is a hollow metaphor, a seasonal image devoid of doctrinal substance. The true springtide is the return to Tradition — to the unchanging Catholic Faith proclaimed by the Fathers of the Council of Trent, defended by St. Pius X against the Modernists, and enshrined in the Social Kingship of Christ the King. Until that restoration occurs, the demographic winter will only deepen, for as Our Lord Himself warned: “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a house divided against a house falls” (Luke 11:17). Europe, having divided itself against Christ, reaps the whirlwind — and the usurper on Peter’s throne offers it not the Cross, but a press conference.
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Pope decries ‘drastic sterility,’ discrimination against motherhood in Europe (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.05.2026