VaticanNews portal reports that “Pope” Leo XIV, addressing presidents of Jesuit colleges and universities in North America, declared these institutions to be “powerful channels” for “systemic change,” solidarity, the “common good,” care for the environment, accompaniment of youth, and reflection on artificial intelligence, while promoting the four Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Jesuits and offering opportunities for migrants and refugees. “Your institutions are called not only to teach your students about the injustices faced by those on the margins of society, but also to be powerful channels in promoting systemic change through proposing new models rooted in solidarity and the common good,” the conciliar antipope said, outlining a program that replaces the supernatural mission of the Church with a naturalistic, humanitarian, and socio-political agenda. Instead of preaching conversion to the one true Catholic Faith, the remission of sins through the sacraments, and the eternal salvation of souls, Leo XIV proposes an ecumenical workshop of “dialogue,” “service,” and “ecological sustainability,” in which the truths of revelation are reduced to vague inspirations for social engineering. The entire address is a symptom of the post-conciliar apostasy, in which the Jesuit order, already condemned by St. Pius X as the vehicle of Modernism, continues its work of dissolving Catholic doctrine into the spirit of the world.
A Mission Without the Supernatural: The Jesuit Heresy in Full Bloom
The address of Leo XIV to Jesuit university presidents is a textbook example of the modernist heresy condemned in Pascendi Dominici gregis and the Syllabus of Errors. The entire speech is constructed upon a deliberate and systematic silence about the supernatural mission of the Church: there is no mention of the necessity of baptism, the state of grace, the Real Presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Traditional Mass, the reality of sin and hell, or the absolute necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation. Instead, the Jesuit “Preferences” — “showing the way to God,” “walking with the excluded,” “journeying with youth,” and “caring for our common home” — are formulated in a way that empties them of their supernatural content and transforms them into a program of naturalistic humanitarianism.
This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus (proposition 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Leo XIV does not merely reconcile; he embraces the world’s categories — “systemic change,” “solidarity,” “common good,” “ecological sustainability” — as if they were the very mission of the Church, while the eternal truths of the Faith are either ignored or reduced to vague sentiments. The Church, as Our Lord instituted it, is not a non-governmental organization for social betterment. It is the Mystical Body of Christ, established for the sanctification of souls and the glory of God through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Jesuit university, as described by Leo XIV, is a counterfeit church, a synagogue of Satan disguised as an academic institution.
The Four Jesuit Preferences: A Modernist Catechism
The four Universal Apostolic Preferences, established in 2019 by the conciliar Jesuit order and now promoted by Leo XIV as the roadmap for Jesuit universities, are a distilled expression of the modernist spirit condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu:
1. “Showing the way to God” — Leo XIV redefines this as: “those who conduct research, those who pursue studies, and those who seek the truth are ultimately seeking God, whether they realize it or not.” This is the condemned modernist proposition that truth is accessible through natural reason and academic research apart from divine revelation, and that the pursuit of knowledge is, in itself, a path to God. It is a direct denial of the necessity of supernatural faith, which requires the explicit preaching of the Gospel and the authoritative teaching of the Magisterium. The Church has always taught that the way to God is through Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word, and His one true Church, not through vague academic “research” that refuses to submit to revealed truth.
2. “Walking with the excluded” — This preference is applied to migrants, refugees, and the poor, but only in a temporal, material sense. There is no mention of the greatest exclusion of all: exclusion from the state of grace through sin, and exclusion from the true Church through heresy, schism, or unbelief. The Church’s mission to the poor is inseparable from the call to conversion and the offer of the supernatural means of salvation. Leo XIV reduces this to a program of “integration” and “enriching student bodies with diverse experiences and perspectives,” which is nothing but the naturalistic social gospel of the conciliar sect.
3. “Journeying with youth” — The Pope speaks of generating “hope in a better future” through “dialogue, service, and prayer,” but this hope is entirely horizontal, rooted in the “resurrection of Christ” as a vague symbol of possibility, not as the literal, historical, and supernatural event that conquers sin and death. The youth are not taught that the resurrection demands repentance, faith, and the observance of the commandments, but that it is a source of psychological optimism for “changing the world for the better.” This is the condemned modernist error that the resurrection is not a historical fact but a symbol of Christian consciousness (cf. Lamentabili, proposition 36).
4. “Caring for our common home” — The care for creation is reduced to “ecological sustainability, simplicity, and gratitude for God’s gifts,” framed in the language of climate change activism and resource exploitation. There is no mention of the doctrine that creation is subjected to vanity because of human sin, that it will be liberated only at the glorious coming of Christ, and that the primary disorder is not carbon emissions but mortal sin. The Jesuit “ecology” is a pagan nature worship dressed in Christian vocabulary, a direct fruit of the religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX (proposition 15): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.”
Migrants, Refugees, and the Erasure of Catholic Ecclesiology
Leo XIV insists that Jesuit universities must “offer opportunities for immigrants, refugees, and those of a lower socio-economic status to have the benefit of an advanced education,” so that they can “integrate more fully into the societies in which they live as well as enrich the wider student bodies with their diverse experiences and perspectives.” This statement is a complete inversion of the Church’s true mission. The Church does not exist to facilitate the socio-economic integration of migrants into secular, globalist societies. She exists to bring all men — migrants, refugees, and natives alike — into the one true Fold, through baptism and the profession of the Catholic Faith.
The Jesuit program, as endorsed by Leo XIV, is a form of religious indifferentism, treating the diverse religious backgrounds of migrants not as errors to be converted from, but as “diverse experiences and perspectives” to be celebrated. This is the condemned proposition of Pius IX (proposition 17): “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.” The Jesuit university, in this vision, becomes a temple of syncretism, where the “way to God” is shown without the necessity of conversion to Catholicism, and where the “hunger for God” is satisfied with interfaith dialogue and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius — which, in their modernist interpretation, are reduced to a technique of psychological discernment rather than a supernatural means of conquering sin and the devil.
Artificial Intelligence and the Abomination of Desolation in the Classroom
Leo XIV’s address to Jesuit presidents also includes a reflection on artificial intelligence, urging these institutions to give a “fresh impetus to the principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine” in a way that is “relevant and effective in addressing the digital revolution.” This is a chilling example of the technological idolatry that characterizes the conciliar Church. The “Church’s Social Doctrine,” as reinterpreted by the post-conciliar sect, is not the application of the eternal moral law of God to the temporal order, but a chameleon-like adaptation to the latest ideologies and technologies. The Jesuit university is to be a laboratory for “new models rooted in solidarity and the common good,” using AI as a tool for social engineering, while the true moral principles of the Church — the absolute prohibition of murder, adultery, sodomy, and blasphemy; the necessity of the sacraments; the reality of the Four Last Things — are ignored or relativized.
This is the logical consequence of the modernist proposition condemned in Lamentabili (proposition 64): “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.” The Jesuit university, as envisioned by Leo XIV, is a reform of Christianity in the image of the world, where the digital revolution replaces the Cross, and artificial intelligence is treated as a field for “discernment” rather than a potential instrument of the Antichrist’s deception.
The Jesuit Order: Perpetual Source of Modernist Subversion
The entire address of Leo XIV is delivered to the Jesuit order, the same order that St. Pius X identified in Pascendi Dominici gregis as the vehicle of Modernism, the “synthesis of all heresies.” The Jesuit “Universal Apostolic Preferences,” established in 2019 by the conciliar structures, are not a return to the authentic Ignatian charism, which was always ordered to the greater glory of God (Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam) and the salvation of souls through the Catholic Faith. They are a modernist counterfeit, replacing the supernatural end with temporal goals, and the authority of the Magisterium with the spirit of the world.
Leo XIV’s call to “continue the Jesuit tradition” of forming “men and women for others” is a direct continuation of the post-conciliar dissolution of religious life. The authentic Jesuit tradition, as lived by the saints of the pre-conciliar Society of Jesus, was one of strict obedience to the Papacy, fidelity to the Thomistic theology of the Church, and a militant defense of the Faith against heresy. The modern Jesuit order, as promoted by Leo XIV, is a paramasonic structure, dedicated to the advancement of the conciliar revolution and the destruction of Catholic Tradition from within.
The Catholic Response: Rejection of the Conciliar Counterfeit
The address of Leo XIV to Jesuit university presidents is not a call to renewal but a manifesto of the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord (Mt 24:15). It is a complete abandonment of the supernatural mission of the Church in favor of a naturalistic, humanitarian, and globalist program that serves the interests of the world and its prince, Satan. The Jesuit university, as described by Leo XIV, is not a Catholic institution but a synagogue of Satan, where the truths of the Faith are denied by omission, the sacraments are ignored, and the eternal salvation of souls is sacrificed on the altar of “solidarity,” “ecological sustainability,” and “artificial intelligence.”
The true Catholic response is not reform of these institutions but their complete rejection. The faithful must have no part in the Jesuit order, its universities, or any of the conciliar structures that promote this modernist apostasy. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili sane exitu, the modernists are “the enemies within”, and their work is a “synthesis of all heresies” that aims at the destruction of the Faith from within. The Jesuit university, as envisioned by Leo XIV, is a laboratory for the Antichrist, and the faithful must flee from it as they would from the plague.
The only true way to “show the way to God” is through the preaching of the Catholic Faith, the administration of the sacraments, and the offering of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The only true “solidarity” is the communion of saints in the one true Church. The only true “hope for young people” is the promise of eternal life through Christ crucified and risen, not the vague optimism of “changing the world for the better.” The only true “care for creation” is the restoration of all things in Christ, not the pagan worship of nature. The faithful must reject the entire modernist program of Leo XIV and the Jesuits, and cling to the immutable Catholic Tradition, which alone leads to the true God and eternal salvation.
Source:
Pope: Universities are powerful channels to promote solidarity and common good (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.06.2026