The Vatican News portal reports that on 31 July 2026, the nonagenarian “Cardinal” Ernest Simoni — a creature of the Bergoglian antipapacy — presided over a Novus Ordo service at the former Spaç labor camp in Albania, while the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) dispatched a message framing the communist persecution in purely naturalistic categories of “human dignity,” “freedom,” and “peace.” The article celebrates Simoni’s clandestine “Masses” under communism — celebrated with invalid matter (flour cakes and grape juice) and within a false sacramental economy — as heroic fidelity, while the antipope’s message makes not a single reference to the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, or the conversion of Albania to the true Faith. This spectacle is not the veneration of martyrs but the canonization of religious liberty, the supreme Masonic dogma, under the guise of commemorating anti-communist suffering.
The Neo-Church’s Theatrical Commemoration: A Factually Corrupt Narrative
The cited article presents a carefully curated hagiography of Simoni, ordained in 1952 under Pius XII but fully incorporated into the conciliar revolution. It notes he was “initially sentenced to death as an enemy of the people” and later “commuted to imprisonment,” yet omits the decisive fact: Simoni accepted the Novus Ordo Missae, the false “sacraments” of the reform, and the jurisdiction of the usurpers from John XXIII onward. His 18 years of suffering, however severe, were endured by a priest who would later legitimize the very apostasy that now destroys the Faith in Albania and worldwide. The article states he “celebrated Mass from memory in Latin” using “flour cooked over makeshift stoves” and “juice squeezed from grapes.” This is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Catholic Church — which requires wheaten bread and wine of the grape, fermented, offered by a validly ordained priest with the intention of doing what the Church does — but a simulation of the Sacred Mysteries with invalid matter and, after 1968, within a false rite. The “miner’s helmet” displayed as a relic becomes a prop in the neo-church’s theater of “witness,” divorced from the Crown of Thorns which is the only true glory of the martyr.
The antipope’s message, read at the conclusion, prays for those “buried in unmarked graves” that “their memory may remain alive and serve as a constant reminder to new generations of the inviolable dignity of every human person, the value of freedom, and the commitment to peace.” Not a word for the conversion of souls, the rights of Christ the King, the condemnation of atheistic communism as a diabolical revolt against God, or the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. This is the “humanism” condemned by Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925).
Linguistic Engineering: The Vocabulary of the Paramasonic Structure
The article’s rhetoric is saturated with the lexicon of the Declaration on Religious Liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) — “inviolable dignity,” “freedom,” “peace,” “human person.” These terms, stripped of their supernatural referent (the Imago Dei ordered to the Beatific Vision), function as Masonic countersigns. The Syllabus of Pius IX anathematizes the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). Yet the antipope’s message, echoed by the portal, proclaims precisely this separation by reducing the martyr’s witness to a generic testimony for “human rights.”
The phrase “no prison can separate a person from the love of God” (citing Romans 8:35–39) is weaponized to suggest that sacramental communion with the visible Church is irrelevant — a classic Modernist equivocation condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Proposition 6). The “love of God” here is abstracted from the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, from the necessity of Baptism, from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. It is the “love” of the Cult of Man, not the Charity of Christ which demands obedience to His Commandments (John 14:15).
Theological Bankruptcy: No King, No Priesthood, No Sacrifice
The central theological crime of this event is the total absence of Christ the King. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The Spaç commemoration, orchestrated by the neo-church, is laicism in liturgical vestments. It honors the victims of communism while ignoring the King whose rights communism violated. It celebrates “freedom” while denying the only true freedom: libertas filiorum Dei (Romans 8:21), found only in submission to Christ’s threefold authority — legislative, judicial, executive (Quas Primas).
The “Mass” itself is a sacrilegious farce. The article describes the matter as “bread using flour cooked over makeshift stoves” and “juice squeezed from grapes.” Canon 814 of the 1917 Code requires panis triticeus (wheaten bread) and vinum de vite (wine of the vine, naturally fermented). Unfermented grape juice is invalid matter; the “bread” described is not unleavened wheaten bread but a flour paste. Even if the matter were valid, the Novus Ordo Missae — promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1969 — defects in form and intention, having replaced the propitiatory Sacrifice with a “memorial of the Lord’s Supper” oriented toward the “assembly.” As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic (and every post-1958 claimant to the papacy is a manifest heretic by adherence to Vatican II’s errors) ipso facto loses all jurisdiction: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30). Therefore, the “bishops” and “priests” of the conciliar sect possess no valid orders (the 1968 ordinal is deficient in form and intention) and no jurisdiction. Simoni’s “Masses” in prison, if celebrated with the traditional rite and valid matter before his adhesion to the apostasy, may have been materially valid; but his later “Masses” within the neo-church, and the service at Spaç, are idolatry — the worship of a false god constructed by the hermeneutic of rupture.
Symptomatic Exposure: The Systemic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
This event is not an anomaly but the essence of the post-conciliar structure. The “Cardinal” Simoni, the “Pope” Leo XIV, the Vatican News portal — all function as organs of a paramasonic structure whose true religion is humanitarianism. The commemoration at Spaç serves the same purpose as the “interreligious” meetings at Assisi: to replace the Social Kingship of Christ with the “fraternity” of the Cult of Man. The article’s closing appeal for newsletter subscriptions and donations (“support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home”) reveals the commercial-proselytizing nature of the neo-church: it peddles the words of an antipope as spiritual nourishment.
The silence on the Third Secret of Fatima, the silence on the Masonic infiltration denounced by Leo XIII (Humanum Genus), the silence on the necessity of the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart (as a specific act of the Pope in union with the bishops) — all are eloquent. The neo-church cannot condemn communism as a satanic revolt because it has embraced the errors of Russia (religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism) which are the internal application of the same Masonic principles. As the False Fatima Apparitions file argues, the Fatima narrative has been weaponized to “divert attention from modernist apostasy within the Church.” The Spaç spectacle performs the same diversion: it points to the external enemy (dead communism) to obscure the internal enemy (living Modernism in the Vatican).
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of the True Mass
The faithful Catholic, confronted with this grotesque parody, must recognize that the true Church of the Martyrs is not in the Spaç ceremony but in the hidden Most Holy Sacrifice offered by valid priests in communion with the Sede Vacante episcopate. The blood of the Albanian martyrs cries out not for “human dignity” but for the Rex Regum whose Kingdom shall have no end (Daniel 7:14). Non praevalebunt (Matthew 16:18) — the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church built on Peter, not against the counterfeit edifice occupying the Vatican. Let us reject the neo-church’s idolatry, cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, and pray for the Restoration of All Things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10), beginning with the restoration of the True Mass and the True Papacy.
Source:
Pope to Cardinal Simoni: No prison can separate a person from God's love (vaticannews.va)
Date: 01.08.2026