The official mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, Vatican News, reports on the imminent visit of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the Basilica of St. John Lateran for the Diocesan Assembly of Rome, scheduled for 18 September 2026. The Vicar General, “Cardinal” Baldo Reina, outlines a program steeped in the vocabulary of the Second Vatican Council: synodality, communion, mission, participatory bodies, and networking among parishes. The “cardinal” identifies the “major emergencies” not as the loss of the Faith or the scandal of the Novus Ordo, but as the weakening of family bonds, youth addiction, and housing poverty—lamenting that “in Rome, it is difficult to die of hunger, but people certainly die of loneliness.” He admits the “proclamation of the Christian faith is struggling to connect with people’s everyday lives” and points to the “Jubilee of Redemption 2033” and the “Jubilee of Youth” as signs of hope. This assembly is not a convocation of the Church Militant to defend the Kingship of Christ; it is a managerial meeting of a bankrupt NGO administering the ruins of Christendom.
The Usurper at the Lateran: A Mockery of the Papal Primacy
The very premise of this gathering is a blasphemy against the Divine Constitution of the Church. Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who adheres to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality, sits in the Chair of Peter *de facto* but not *de jure*. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (*De Romano Pontifice*, Lib. II, Cap. 30). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms Bellarmine’s position: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Therefore, Prevost’s presence at the Lateran—the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome—is not a pastoral visit but an occupation. His “presiding” over the assembly is the act of a layman clothed in purple, a persona ficta exercising a jurisdiction he forfeited by his public profession of the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism.
Synodality: The Democratic Idol Substituting Divine Monarchy
The “cardinal” Reina explicitly states the goal: “We are strengthening the bond between the bishop and his Diocese… the Diocese to mature in terms of synodality, communion and mission.” This term synodality is the neologism of the conciliar revolution, designed to dismantle the monarchical constitution of the Church established by Christ. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declares unequivocally: “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will… His kingdom is primarily spiritual… Christ not only is to be adored as God by angels and men, but that angels and men are to be obedient and subject to His dominion as Man.” The Church is a perfect society (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 19 condemned), a monarchy where the Pope, as Vicar of Christ, governs with supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power. The conciliar “synodality” inverts this order, making the “People of God” the source of authority, a direct application of the condemned proposition: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Syllabus, Prop. 19). Here, the “civil power” is the democratic assembly of laity and clerics. The “participatory bodies,” “network among neighbouring parishes,” and “diocesan pastoral council” are the scaffolding of a counter-church built on the Masonic principles of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, not on the Potestas Sacra of the Keys.
Anthropocentric “Emergencies”: The Gospel of Social Work Replaces the Gospel of Salvation
The “major emergencies” listed by Reina—family breakdown, youth addiction, housing costs, loneliness—are treated as purely sociological pathologies. “In Rome, it is difficult to die of hunger, but people certainly die of loneliness; they die because they lack work; they die because not everyone has a home.” This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism”). The “cardinal” speaks the language of a social worker, not a Prince of the Church. Where is the mention of mortal sin? Of the Four Last Things? Of the necessity of the state of grace? Of the Social Kingship of Christ as the *only* remedy for societal decay? Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken” (*Quas Primas*). The housing crisis is a symptom of the rejection of Christ the King; the “synodal assembly” proposes to treat the symptom by deepening the rejection.
The “Jubilee of Redemption 2033”: A Modernist Invention Mocking the True Jubilee
Reina looks ahead to a “Jubilee of Redemption in 2033”. This is a fabrication of the conciliar sect. The true Jubilees are years of remission of sins and punishments granted by the Vicar of Christ exercising the Power of the Keys for the salvation of souls, centered on the Roman Basilicas and the confession of the true Faith. The “Jubilee 2033” is a centennial celebration of the Redemption stripped of its soteriological content, transformed into a globalist festival of “fraternity.” It mirrors the “Jubilee of Youth” cited as an “encouraging sign” because of “huge numbers.” Numerus non facit veritatem. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Prop. 79). The “Jubilee of Youth” gathers youth in a pan-religious atmosphere of emotionalism, confirming them in the error that “religion” is an experience rather than the virtus religionis rendering due worship to the True God.
Missionary Mandate Without the Mandate to Convert
Reina invokes the “missionary mandate that embraces everyone” and the need to reach those who “no longer set foot in our parishes.” But the conciliar “mission” explicitly denies the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Church for salvation. Vatican II’s *Unitatis Redintegratio* and *Nostra Aetate*, and the subsequent “Directory for Ecumenism,” teach that non-Catholics can be saved in their false religions. This contradicts the defined dogma: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, cited in *Quas Primas*, n. 29). The “proclamation of the Christian faith struggling to connect” is an admission that the conciliar “new evangelization”—which proposes Christ without the Church, the Cross without the Sacrifice, the Kingdom without the King—is a catastrophic failure. The true missionary mandate is “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt 28:19-20). The conciliar sect “accompanies” and “listens”; the Church conquers for Christ the King.
The Structural Ruin: Churches in the Center, Souls in the Periphery
The “cardinal” notes: “Most of the churches are concentrated in the city centre, while most people are concentrated in the outskirts.” This geographical fact is a metaphor for the spiritual reality of the conciliar sect. The magnificent basilicas—built by the Faith of our Fathers for the True Sacrifice—are museums for tourists and stages for the Novus Ordo “assembly.” The “outskirts” are mission territory *because* the conciliar clergy abandoned the Parochial System and the Catechism of the Council of Trent for “pastoral teams” and “Caritas workers.” The solution proposed—”network among neighbouring parishes,” “highly trained pastoral workers”—is bureaucratic reorganization. The true solution is the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass and the integral Catechism in every parish, the lex orandi, lex credendi that built Christendom. As Pius XI warned: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom” (*Quas Primas*). The conciliar sect has dissolved the Orders and neutered the clergy.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Abomination of Desolation Administering Its Own Collapse
This Diocesan Assembly is the modus operandi of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). It mimics the external forms of the Church—basilicas, vestments, titles, assemblies—while denying the substance: the Papacy, the Mass, the Priesthood, the Dogma, the Kingship of Christ. The “cardinal’s” language—“investment,” “participatory bodies,” “network,” “advisory bodies,” “market forces,” “highly trained pastoral workers”—is the lexicon of the corporate world, the language of the City of Man masquerading as the City of God. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Prop. 80). This assembly *is* that reconciliation. It is the final stage of the Masonic operation described in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “Third Secret” of the true Fatima (whatever its content) was the warning against this very apostasy; the conciliar sect has buried it under “synodality.”
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The gathering at the Lateran tomorrow will be a liturgy of the conciliar sect’s true god: Man. There will be no Te Deum for the Social Kingship of Christ, no condemnation of the errors of the age, no call to the conversion of the nations to the Catholic Faith. There will only be “testimonies” of a family, a youth, a Caritas worker—homo mensura—and the concluding remarks of a usurper validating the revolution. “We would like to return to the centrality of Christ,” says Reina. Quod non fecerunt in quinquaginta annis, non facient in crastino. They cannot return to the centrality of Christ because they have dethroned Him. They have enthroned the “collegial” bishop, the “synodal” assembly, the “autonomous” conscience. The true Church of Rome—the remnant faithful to Tradition, the Mass of All Time, and the Papacy of the pre-1958 line—looks upon this spectacle not with envy, but with the holy horror of Elias facing the prophets of Baal. Dominus ipse est Deus.
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Cardinal Reina calls for strengthening bond between Pope and his diocese (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.09.2026