EWTN News reports that the Vatican has published the message of the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, scheduled for July 26, 2026, under the theme “I Will Never Forget You.” The message, dripping with sentimental naturalism, addresses the loneliness of the elderly, speaks of God’s love as a response to “anonymity,” and invites the young to visit grandparents. It is a text that, while superficially touching on spiritual themes, completely omits the supernatural mission of the Church, reduces the Christian faith to a therapy of comfort, and exemplifies the anthropocentric revolution that has consumed the conciliar sect since 1958.
A Message Devoid of Supernatural Substance
The message of Leo XIV, as reported by EWTN News, is a masterclass in modernist ambiguity. It speaks of God’s love, of prayer, of being “sons and daughters of God,” yet nowhere does it mention the unica salus — the one necessary means of salvation: the Catholic Faith and the sacraments. The elderly are told that “it is never too late to begin turning to him,” but there is no mention of the necessity of repentance, confession, or the state of grace. The entire message is framed within a naturalistic, psychological paradigm: loneliness, fragility, the need for human connection. This is not the language of the Church Militant; it is the language of a secular humanitarian organization.
Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He lamented that “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.” The message of Leo XIV does exactly this: it places the Church’s concern for the elderly on the same plane as any secular charity, stripping it of its supernatural mission. The Church is not called to be a “mother to all” in some vague, sentimental sense; she is the Ecclesia militans, the one ark of salvation, outside which there is no redemption.
The Omission of the Four Last Things
What is most striking about this message is what it does not say. There is no mention of death, judgment, heaven, or hell. There is no call to prepare for the final encounter with God. There is no warning about the dangers of dying in mortal sin. The elderly, who stand on the threshold of eternity, are offered nothing but warm words about God’s love and the importance of family visits. This is a grave dereliction of pastoral duty.
St. Alphonsus Liguori, the Doctor of Moral Theology, wrote extensively on the necessity of preparing for death. He warned that “he who is not prepared to die today, is not prepared to die at all.” The Church has always taught that the primary duty of pastors is to lead souls to salvation, not to provide psychological comfort. The message of Leo XIV reduces the pastoral office to that of a social worker, concerned with the temporal well-being of the body while ignoring the eternal destiny of the soul.
The Cult of Fragility and the Denial of the Cross
Leo XIV tells the elderly: “Do not be afraid of fragility! It is precisely this weakness that holds within itself a new potential that also illuminates the other stages of life.” This language is deeply suspect. It echoes the modernist cult of weakness and vulnerability, which denies the redemptive value of suffering and the necessity of the Cross. The Church has always taught that suffering, when united to the Passion of Christ, has immense supernatural value. St. Paul wrote: “I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Colossians 1:24).
The message of Leo XIV transforms suffering from a means of sanctification into a mere “fragility” to be accepted and even celebrated. There is no mention of the merits of suffering, no call to offer one’s pains for the salvation of souls, no reference to the communion of saints. This is the theology of the conciliar sect: a horizontal, worldly religion that has lost all sense of the supernatural.
The False Ecumenism of “God’s Love”
The message speaks of God’s love as a response to “anonymity” and assures the elderly that God “forgets no one.” While this is true in a general sense, the way it is presented here is dangerously vague. In the theology of the conciliar sect, “God’s love” becomes a universal, indiscriminate force that saves all regardless of faith or sacraments. This is the heresy of indifferentism, condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and by the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (1864), which explicitly condemned 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).
The message of Leo XIV makes no distinction between the faithful and the infidel, between the state of grace and the state of sin. It offers comfort to all, regardless of their relationship with the Church. This is not the charity of Christ, which demands truth; it is the false charity of the world, which sacrifices truth on the altar of sentiment.
The Usurper’s Authority and the Illegitimacy of the Conciliar Sect
It must be remembered that Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is not the Pope. He is a usurper occupying the See of Peter in a line of succession that began with the apostate John XXIII. The conciliar sect, which he represents, has systematically dismantled the Catholic Faith, replacing it with a naturalistic, ecumenical religion that is condemned by the very documents it claims to revere. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX 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). This is precisely what the conciliar sect has done.
The message of Leo XIV is not a papal document; it is the utterance of a heretic and an apostate. It carries no authority, no binding force, and no guarantee of truth. The faithful are not only free but obligated to reject it and to cling to the unchanging teaching of the true Church.
Conclusion: A Call to Return to Tradition
The message of Leo XIV for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is a perfect example of the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect. It offers comfort without truth, love without doctrine, and hope without the Cross. It is a message that would be at home in any secular humanitarian organization but has no place in the Catholic Church.
The true Church, the Church of all ages, calls the elderly not to a vague sense of divine comfort but to a firm preparation for death and judgment. She offers them not the empty words of a usurper but the infinite merits of Christ, the sacraments, and the communion of saints. She reminds them that “the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever” (1 John 2:17).
Let the faithful reject the false comfort of the conciliar sect and return to the unchanging Tradition of the Church, which alone can lead souls to eternal life.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV comforts elderly suffering from loneliness: God’s love ‘forgets no one’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.06.2026