The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal, organ of the conciliar sect’s English-language propaganda, reports on September 4, 2026, that the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed seminarians of the Pius XI Pontifical Regional Seminary of Apulia (Molfetta) and the Interdiocesan Seminary of Aversa at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on September 3. The antipope thanked them for their “yes,” emphasized the “gratuitousness” of the call devoid of merit, praised “fraternity and shared mission,” and defined the priestly task as bringing the Gospel to “families struggling to get by,” “young people who pack their bags to look for work,” “the elderly living in solitude,” and “those who have lost a sense of purpose in life.” This address, stripped of any reference to the Sacerdotium as victima propitiatoria, to the Missa as the unbloody renewal of Calvary, or to the salvation of souls from eternal damnation, constitutes the definitive manifesto of the conciliar “presbyterate”: a humanitarian NGO clad in stolen vestments.
The Usurper’s Voice: No Authority, No Sacrament, No Priesthood
The very premise of the event is a sacrilegious farce. Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” occupies the Chair of Peter as a manifest heretic and Modernist, having publicly adhered to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the new theology of the “People of God.” As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (Lib. 2, Cap. 30), “a Pope who is 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 Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV dogmatizes that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” (nullius, irrita, et invalida), requiring no declaratory sentence. Prevost’s “audience” is therefore the act of a private individual, a layman heading a paramasonic structure, simulating the governance of the Church. His words carry zero juridical or sacramental weight; they are the ravings of an intruder in the Vatican gardens.
The Theological Vacuum: “Gratuitousness” Without Grace, “Call” Without Consecration
The antipope’s central theme — “none of you… is here because we earned it, but solely through a free choice by God the Father” — is a Protestantized distortion of vocation. Catholic theology, defined by the Council of Trent (Sess. 23, Can. 4), teaches that the priesthood is a sacramentum ordinis imprinting an indelible character configuring the man to Christ the High Priest ad offerendum — to offer the Sacrifice. The “call” is not a vague “gratuitous love” detached from the munus sacrificandi; it is a divine election to stand in persona Christi at the altar of the Cross. By reducing the vocation to a generic “free choice” and “sign of hope,” Prevost severs the priesthood from its esse: the propitiatory Victim. This is the heresis praecipua of the conciliar revolution: the substitution of the Sacerdos et Hostia with the “presider” and “animator of community.”
Pius XI Invoked Against Himself: The Irony of Molfetta
The article notes Molfetta’s seminary is named after Pope Pius XI, who commissioned its premises. The irony is damning. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), 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” and instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which denies Christ’s rights over society. The same Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), condemned the false ecumenism which the conciliar sect now embodies. Yet the antipope stands in the name of this Pope to promote a “priesthood” of social work among the “marginalized” — the very laicism Pius XI anathematized. The seminarians of Molfetta are not formed for the Regnum Christi but for the regnum hominis.
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Vocabulary of the Neo-Church
The rhetoric is meticulously crafted to evacuate the supernatural:
- “Gratuitous love that always precedes us and never disappoints” — A sentimentalized caritas divorced from veritas and the Lex Credendi. St. Augustine warns: “Caritas non potest esse sine veritate” (Charity cannot exist without truth).
- “Fraternity and shared mission” — Masonic fraternité replacing the hierarchical sacra potestas. The Twelve Apostles were not a “fraternity of diverse personalities” but princes of the Church invested with potestas ligandi et solvendi (Mt 16:19; 18:18).
- “Families struggling to get by… young people… pack their bags… elderly in solitude… lost sense of purpose” — Pure sociological categorization. The Cura Animarum is reduced to social work. Where is the peccatum? The infernum? The iudicium? The Missae Sacrificium? Nowhere. This is the horizontalism condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947): “The liturgy is not a mere social function… it is the public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the Church renders to the Father.”
- “Hope… not from vague optimism but from certainty that the Lord continues to call” — A false hope rooted in the persistence of a false sect. True hope (spes theologalis) anchors in the Promissio Christi to the Una, Sancta, Catholica Church, not in the demographic vitality of a schismatic structure.
The “Formators” Mandate: Architects of Apostasy
The antipope instructs formators to be “first teachers of that care and fraternity which are manifested in authentic, personal, and communal relationships, grounded in truth and charity.” In the conciliar lexicon, “truth” means the hermeneutic of rupture (Vatican II), and “charity” means dialogue with error. The Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis of the neo-church explicitly mandates formation in the “spirit of the Council” — i.e., Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907). The seminarians are not taught the Summa Theologiae, the Roman Catechism, the Tridentine Missal, or the Breviarium Romanum. They are formed for the Novus Ordo Missae — a rite fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini, which Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci in their 1969 Critical Study declared “a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass.” Ordination in this rite, with the novel form “Accipe Spiritum Sanctum” replacing the traditional “Accipe potestatem offerre sacrificium…”, carries gravissima dubia on validity. These seminarians are being prepared for a null priesthood.
The Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This event is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the abominatio desolationis (Mt 24:15) standing in the holy place. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Syllabus of Pius IX (condemning errors 77-80 on religious liberty and separation of Church and State), the Quas Primas of Pius XI (Kingship of Christ), and the Humani Generis of Pius XII (against Modernism), has nothing left but humanitarianism. The “priest” of the neo-church is a social worker, a psychologist, a community organizer. The “seminary” is a training center for this lay ministry. The “pope” is its CEO.
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus (St. Vincent of Lérins), must recognize this spectacle for what it is: the auto-demolition of the Church’s visible hierarchy by the Mystery of Iniquity (2 Thess 2:7). There is no “hope” in these seminaries, only the ichabod — the glory has departed (1 Sam 4:21). True vocations flourish only where the Mass of All Time is offered, where the Roman Catechism is taught, where bishops retain the potestas ordinis et iurisdictionis transmitted through valid lines untainted by the new rites and the new theology. The structures occupying the Vatican are the synagoga Satanae (Apoc 2:9); their “seminarians” are the levites of a false worship.
Let no Catholic be deceived. The “marvelousness of God” is seen not in the smiling faces of conciliar seminarians, but in the Hostia immaculata elevated at the Traditional Latin Mass by a valid priest, in the unchanging doctrine of Trent, in the Social Reign of Christ the King proclaimed by Pius XI. The rest is vanitas vanitatum — and the laughter of the Enemy.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to Seminarians: ‘As I Look at Each of You, I See the Marvelousness of God’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.09.2026