The Vatican News portal reports that the antipope Leo XIV, through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has addressed greetings to the Synod of the Methodist and Waldensian Churches convened in Torre Pellice from August 22 to 26, 2026. The message frames the encounter around the theme of artificial intelligence, urging Christians to “bear witness together to the freedom of human beings created in the image and likeness of God” and to “advance technology without allowing the human heart to regress,” citing a passage from the pseudo-encyclical Magnifica humanitas. The Synod’s agenda includes peace, social justice, ecumenism, human rights, and sustainability—an entirely naturalistic program devoid of supernatural content. This gesture constitutes a formal act of apostasy, legitimizing a Protestant sect historically condemned by the Church and substituting the Kingship of Christ with a Masonic humanitarianism centered on technology and vague “freedom.”
The Ecumenical Perversion: Communicating in Sacred Things with Heretics
The very act of the antipope sending “best wishes” to a Protestant synod is a direct violation of the divine law prohibiting communicatio in sacris with those outside the Church. The Waldensians, a sect originating in the 12th century, were condemned as heretics by Pope Lucius III in 1184 (Ad abolendam) and subsequently by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). The Syllabus further anathematizes the indifferentist notion that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). By addressing this assembly as a legitimate ecclesial body and invoking the “Holy Spirit” upon its proceedings, the usurper Leo XIV formally denies the unicity of the Church of Christ, which subsistit in the Catholic Church alone (Mystici Corporis, Pius XII), and embraces the heresy of ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in [non-Catholic] assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises.”
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The message’s focus on artificial intelligence and the “human heart” reveals the anthropocentric inversion at the core of the conciliar sect. The antipope speaks of “freedom of human beings created in the image and likeness of God” but omits entirely the necessitas baptismi, the necessity of supernatural grace, the Kingship of Christ over all nations, and the final end of man: the beatific vision. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) teaches 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” and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” subject to Christ’s law. The Waldensian Synod’s agenda—peace, social justice, human rights, sustainability—is a perfect embodiment of the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which Pius XI identifies as “the plague that poisons human society.” The antipope’s collaboration with this agenda confirms that the conciliar sect has abandoned the missio ad gentes for a Masonic project of global governance under the guise of “technological ethics.”
The Pseudo-Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Cult of Man
The reference to a pseudo-encyclical titled Magnifica humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) exposes the theological essence of the antipapacy: the deification of man. This title parodies the true encyclicals of the Magisterium (Divini Redemptoris, Mit Brennender Sorge, Humani Generis) and signals a religion no longer centered on Deus Magnus but on Homo Magnus. The phrase “advance technology without allowing the human heart to regress” is a vacuous sentimentalism that replaces the theological virtues with a technocratic moralism. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “the dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26) and that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). The antipope’s message is the practical application of these condemned errors: doctrine is dissolved into “witness,” truth into “dialogue,” and the Church into an NGO for “human rights.”
Sedevacantist Confirmation: The Automatic Loss of Office for Manifest Heresy
This public act of ecumenism with a heretical sect provides yet another demonstration that the claimants to the Holy See since 1958 have forfeited their office ipso facto by manifest heresy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (Book 2, Ch. 30): “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 Wernz-Vidal commentary on Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares that if a Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The antipope Leo XIV, by formally recognizing a Protestant assembly as a partner in “Christian witness,” has publicly defected from the Catholic faith defined by the Council of Trent and Vatican I. He is not a Pope; he is a layman occupying the Vatican palaces, a pseudepiscopus leading a paramasonic structure.
The Waldensian Sect: A History of Rebellion Against the Church
The Waldensians are not “brothers in Christ” but a sect founded on the rejection of the visible Church, the priesthood, the Mass, and purgatory. Their integration with the Methodists compounds the error, uniting two communities born of the Protestant revolt which the Council of Trent anathematized: “If anyone shall say that the sacrifice of the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving… let him be anathema” (Session 22, Canon 3). The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19)—a principle the Waldensians have historically embraced by submitting to state control. The antipope’s embrace of this sect is not “dialogue”; it is a ratification of the Reformation’s principle of private judgment, the “poisonous fruit” of which Pius IX identified as the source of all modern errors.
Artificial Intelligence as the New Tower of Babel
The choice of artificial intelligence as the thematic vehicle for this ecumenical encounter is profoundly symbolic. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Deus Revelatus, now worships the Deus Machina. The call to “advance technology without allowing the human heart to regress” assumes a Pelagian optimism about human nature unaided by grace, ignoring the dogma of original sin defined at Trent (Session 5). The “freedom” invoked is the liberal Masonic liberty condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”). True freedom, as the Church teaches, is libertas propter excellentiam—freedom for excellence, ordered to the truth of Christ (Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II, though the document is modern, the principle is Thomistic). The antipope’s “freedom” is license, the libertas indifferentiae of the devil.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
What the message omits condemns it more eloquently than what it contains. There is no mention of:
- The Social Kingship of Christ the King (Quas Primas)
- The necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
- The conversion of the Waldensians to the true Faith
- The reality of sin, judgment, hell, and the need for the Sacraments
- The Immaculate Heart of Mary or the Rosary as remedies for the world’s evils
This silence is the signature of the Antichurch. As Pius XII warned in Humani Generis (1950), “Some imprudently and indiscreetly hold that evolution… explains the origin of all things… [and] introduce into philosophy and theology a new system… which they call ‘evolutionism.'” The conciliar sect has evolved into a purely horizontal humanitarian agency. Its “Synods” are parliaments of unbelief; its “encyclicals” are manifestos of the New World Order.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of Tradition
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the Magisterium prior to 1958, must recognize this event for what it is: a public manifestation of the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15). The structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church; they are its counterfeit. The true Church endures in the remnants of the faithful who preserve the Traditional Latin Mass, the unaltered Catechism of Trent, and the profession of the Anti-Modernist Oath of St. Pius X. We do not “dialogue” with heresy; we anathematize it. We do not seek “common witness” with Protestants; we pray for their conversion. We do not look to “artificial intelligence” for salvation; we look to the Cross. Non praevalebunt—the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church built on Peter, not upon the shifting sands of Robert Prevost’s paramasonic sect.
Source:
Pope to Waldensian Synod: Bear witness together to the freedom of God’s children (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.08.2026