Vatican News portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), through his Secretary of State “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, addressed a letter to the “Bishop” of Lodi, Maurizio Malvestiti, for the 27th Columbanus Day. The message exhorts a “humble and quiet plea for mercy” to enable “enemies to extend a hand to one another,” praising the “perseverance” of an initiative uniting “ecclesial and civic communities across Europe” to “rediscover together the values of the Christian tradition.” The antipope recalls his recent “pastoral visit” to Lodi to honor Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. This communication epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ with a naturalistic, Masonic humanitarianism that knows neither the Cross nor the Crown.
The Usurpation of Peter’s Chair and the Nullity of Modernist Acts
The very source of this letter—a man claiming the name “Leo XIV” while manifestly adhering to the heresies of the Second Vatican Council—renders the document canonically void and theologically toxic. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in *De Romano Pontifice*, 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.” The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms that Bellarmine’s fifth opinion holds that a Pope who is a manifest heretic loses his office *ipso facto*, without need of declaratory sentence. Robert Prevost, by his public profession of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the “hermeneutic of continuity” with the conciliar revolution, is a manifest heretic. He is not the Vicar of Christ; he is an antipope occupying the See of Peter *sede vacante*. His “Secretary of State” Parolin and his “Bishop” Malvestiti are mere functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, devoid of jurisdiction and mission. Every act flowing from this usurpation is null, void, and of no effect, as Pope Paul IV defined in *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*: the promotion of a heretic “shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic “Solidarity”
The letter’s central theme—”Only God’s mercy can fill hearts with genuine solidarity”—exposes the radical inversion of the Gospel operated by the conciliar sect. The term “solidarity” is a Masonic watchword, substituting the supernatural virtue of Caritas (charity ordered to God) with a horizontal, philanthropic “fraternity” devoid of the Truth. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, thundered that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” He instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The antipope’s letter is a textbook execution of this laicism: it speaks of “enemies extending a hand” but is silent on the Rights of Christ the King, silent on the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith, silent on the necessity of the Church for salvation (*Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus*). This is not the mercy of God which converts sinners; it is the “mercy” of the world which anesthetizes them in their sins.
The Penitential Spirit Divorced from Conversion and the True Mass
The call for a “penitential spirit” as “indispensable for every genuine journey of reconciliation” is a cruel mockery of true Catholic penance. The Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, c. 4) defines penance as requiring “contrition of heart… with the purpose of confessing and making satisfaction.” True penance demands conversion to the integral Faith, rejection of heresy, and return to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary—the Traditional Latin Mass. The conciliar sect’s “penitential attitude” is a psychological disposition, a “humble plea” stripped of sacramental efficacy because it is severed from the valid priesthood and the true Mass. As the “False Fatima Apparitions” file notes regarding the modernist deviation: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” Here, the efficacy of the Cross is diminished in favor of a vague “mercy” that demands no doctrinal conformity, no rejection of the conciliar errors, no submission to the Kingship of Christ. It is the penance of the Pharisee who strikes his breast but refuses to enter the Kingdom.
False Ecumenism and the “Values of the Christian Tradition”
The letter praises the gathering of “people of different languages and nations” to “rediscover together the values of the Christian tradition.” This is the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Prop. 15, 16, 17, 18): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true… Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” The phrase “values of the Christian tradition” is a modernist semantic trap. It treats the Deposit of Faith as a cultural heritage—a set of “values” to be shared horizontally—rather than the Truth to be believed under pain of damnation. St. Columbanus, the Irish monk who fought the Arians and corrected Popes for their negligence, would anathematize this ecumenical farce. He wrote to Pope Boniface IV: “We are disciples of Christ… we confess the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost… one God.” He did not dialogue with error; he condemned it. The conciliar sect uses his name to legitimize the very pan-Christian relativism he fought.
The Civic Idolatry of “European Culture”
The reference to “ecclesial and civic communities across Europe dedicated to Saint Columbanus, promoting knowledge of the abbot, his spiritual legacy, and its continuing relevance to European culture” reveals the idol of “Europe” that has replaced the Corpus Christianum. Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas* that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The antipope’s vision limits the horizon to “European culture”—a Masonic construct born of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, explicitly condemned by the *Syllabus* (Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”). By seeking relevance for “European culture,” the sect admits its capitulation to the secular order. It desires not the *Instaurare omnia in Christo* (to restore all things in Christ), but the integration of a neutered Christianity into the New World Order.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini: A Saint Instrumentalized for the Neo-Church
The mention of the “pastoral visit… to pay tribute to Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini” instrumentalizes a true saint (canonized by Pius XII in 1946) for the propaganda of the false church. Mother Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to spread the *Faith* and educate immigrants in Catholic doctrine. The antipope visits her shrine not to call for the conversion of nations to the Kingship of Christ, but to photo-op for “solidarity” and “mercy” stripped of dogma. This is the tactic of the “Church of the New Advent”: canonize or venerate orthodox saints while emptying their witness of its doctrinal content, using them as mascots for the Masonic agenda of “fraternity.”
Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This letter is a perfect specimen of the systemic apostasy diagnosed by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* and *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*. The condemned Modernist propositions live here: “The Church… cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” (Lamentabili, Prop. 5); “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25); “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function… rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The antipope’s message is pure pragmatism: “mercy” works to stop war, therefore let us use it. The Credo is replaced by the Opinio. The Regnum Christi is replaced by the “civic community.” The Cross is replaced by the “hand extended to the enemy”—a gesture which, without the Truth, is not charity but complicity with evil.
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that the line of usurpers begins with John XXIII. Leo XIV is merely the latest manifestation of the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place. His letter to Lodi is not a pastoral act; it is a political manifesto of the paramasonic structure occupying Rome. It offers the world a “mercy” that does not judge, a “solidarity” that does not convert, a “penitence” that does not require the True Faith. It is the religion of the Antichrist: a humanitarianism that looks like Christianity but denies its Power (2 Tim 3:5).
Catholics must flee this voice of strangers (Jn 10:5). True mercy is found only in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of Kings, accessed through the unchanging Faith, the valid Sacraments of the true priesthood, and the submission of all nations to His Sovereign Rights. There is no solidarity in sin, only shared damnation. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Pope: Only God's mercy can fill hearts with genuine solidarity (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.07.2026