The National Catholic Register, propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) visited the Institut Catholique de Paris on September 26, 2026, to address a “Provincial Ecclesial Assembly” examining a purported decade-long rise in adult baptisms in France. The antipope declared this statistical increase “God’s surprising work” and urged a “wise balance” between welcoming newcomers “as they are” and educating them in the “tenets of the faith.” “Archbishop” Laurent Ulrich of Paris hailed the 45,000 responses to a synodal consultation as evidence of “the work of the Lord.” Catechumens testified to finding faith through personal reading, the COVID-19 pandemic, and comparative study of the Quran and New Testament. A “Sister” Christine Kohler spoke of a “missionary impulse” to become “missionary disciples.” This spectacle of the neo-church celebrating its own demographic metrics in a Masonic republic constitutes not the expansion of Christ’s Kingdom but the metastasis of the abomination of desolation where extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is replaced by the heresy of universal salvation through subjective “search for meaning.”
The Usurper on the Throne of Peter: A Manifest Heretic Without Jurisdiction
The very premise of this report — that Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” possesses any authority to address the Church in France — is a diabolical fiction refuted by the immutable Magisterium. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “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 “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms that Bellarmine’s fifth opinion — that a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto, without any declaratory sentence — is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers. John of St. Thomas, quoting Bellarmine, declares: “A heretic is not a member, therefore he cannot be the head of the Church… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”
Prevost, as a willing participant in the conciliar apostasy — upholding the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the new Mass — is a manifest heretic who ipso facto forfeited any claim to the papacy before his “election.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio infallibly decrees that if any Cardinal or “Roman Pontiff” has “defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy,” his promotion “shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The 1917 Code (Canon 188.4) confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” No “synodal assembly,” no demographic survey, no media spectacle can confer jurisdiction on a non-Christian occupying the Vatican.
The “Synodal Assembly”: A Masonic Parody of Ecclesiastical Governance
The “Provincial Ecclesial Assembly of Île-de-France” — 350 people from eight dioceses meeting for “synodal discussion on ‘Catechumens and Neophytes'” — is a revolutionary conventicle masquerading as Church governance. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns as error: “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). The conciliar “synodality” inverts the divine constitution: it replaces the monarchical hierarchy instituted by Christ — pasce oves meas (John 21:17) — with a democratic “consultation” of 45,000 lay voices. This is the ecclesiology of the people of God condemned by Pius XII in Mystici Corporis and by the Holy Office in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), which anathematized the proposition: “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” (Prop. 6).
The “Assembly” discusses “new perspectives for the life of our Church” — a phrase dripping with Modernist evolutionism. Lamentabili Prop. 53 condemns: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution.” The “synodal” process is the operationalization of this heresy: the Church becomes a permanent constituent assembly, forever “discerning” new doctrines to accommodate the world.
Statistical Idolatry: Baptism Without the Faith, Numbers Without Grace
The article trumpets: “In 2026, France recorded more than 20,000 adult and adolescent baptisms, a 20% increase from the already record-high number in 2025, which saw a 45% increase from 2024 figures.” This numerology of the neo-church is a sacrilegious mockery of the sacrament of regeneration. The Council of Trent defines baptism as the sacramentum fidei — the sacrament of faith — which “contains the grace of justification” (Sess. VII, Can. 1). But what “faith” is professed in the conciliar rite? A vague “search for meaning,” “personal hardship,” “inner impulse” — the subjectivist religion of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili, Prop. 25).
The catechumen Loïs Barbichon “came to faith during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely through reading… an inner impulse, a desire to be baptized.” Jaoide’s journey “began when he read both the Quran and the New Testament… struck by the figure of Jesus.” This is not supernatural faith (fides divina) but natural religious sentiment — the religiositas naturalis that Pius IX condemns in the Syllabus: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). The “baptism” administered in the new rite, by ministers of dubious orders, within a sect that denies extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, is at best doubtful in validity, at worst a sacrilegious simulation. The 20,000 souls are not incorporated into Christ’s Mystical Body but enrolled in the counter-church of the Antichrist.
“Welcoming as They Are”: The Heresy of Accompaniment Without Conversion
The antipope’s directive to “strike a wise balance between welcoming new members as they are and educating them in the tenets of the faith” encapsulates the entire pastoral strategy of the conciliar revolution: affirm the sinner in his sin, delay the demand for conversion, obscure the necessitas praecepti of the moral law. This is the hermeneutic of mercy that nullifies the hermeneutic of truth. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declares: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently: He is said to reign also in the wills of men… because He inclines our free will and conquers it with His inspiration.” The true Church does not “welcome as they are”; she commands: “Convertimini!” (Matt. 4:17). The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that the first grace of baptism is the remission of all sin — which presupposes contrition and firm purpose of amendment. The neo-church’s “accompaniment” replaces metanoia with accommodatio.
France: The Eldest Daughter of the Church Reduced to a Mission Field for the Neo-Church
The article notes: “According to France’s national demographic institute, more than half of French adults report no religious affiliation. While 29% of the population identifies as Catholic, the survey found only 8% say they go to Church regularly.” This is the bitter fruit of laicism — the laïcité born of the 1789 Revolution, the Masonic separation of 1905, and the surrender of the hierarchy at Vatican II. Pius XI in Quas Primas diagnosed this plague: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.” The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) — yet the conciliar sect celebrates its “growth” within this Masonic framework.
The “Diocese of Saint-Denis,” a “quartier sensible” where “20 people were baptized during the Easter vigil in a single parish,” is presented as a triumph. But what is baptized? A “Sister” Christine Kohler of the “Little Sisters of the Gospel” — a post-conciliar institute founded on the renovated religious life condemned by Pius XII in Sacra Virginitas — speaks of “missionary disciples” bearing witness to “what gives us life.” This is anthropocentric activism, not the gloria Dei. The Quas Primas warns: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Without the regnum Christi publicly acknowledged, France remains a nation in rebellion against its King, and the neo-church’s “baptisms” are but the anesthesia administered to the dying patient.
The Quran and the New Testament: Indifferentism as Evangelization
The most damning detail: Jaoide “read both the Quran and the New Testament… struck by the figure of Jesus.” The antipope and “Archbishop” Ulrich offer no correction, no warning, no proclamation of the absolute uniqueness of Christ — nullus alius nomen sub caelo datum est hominibus in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). This silence is the loudest profession of the conciliar heresy: that all religions are “paths to God.” The Syllabus condemns: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18) — how much more the Quran, which denies the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection! Lamentabili Prop. 27 anathematizes: “The Gospels do not prove the Divinity of Jesus Christ, but it is a dogma which Christian consciousness has derived from the concept of the Messiah.” The neo-church’s “catechumens” comparing Scripture with the Quran is the practical application of this Modernist poison.
The “Missionary Impulse”: Protestantized Activism Without the Mass
Sister Kohler boasts: “It is no longer simply: ‘I live my faith and I live it within my parish.’ There is now this desire to share it, to become missionary disciples.” This Protestantized vocabulary — “missionary disciples,” “bear witness,” “share faith” — replaces the missio ad gentes of the true Church: “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 “mission” has no sacerdotium, no sacrificium, no regnum. It is pure naturalism — the Catholic Action of Pius XI perverted into humanitarian NGOs. Quas Primas insists: “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will.” The neo-church’s “mission” serves the kingdom of man, not the Kingdom of Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing Where It Ought Not
This entire spectacle — the antipope, the false archbishop, the synodal assembly, the statistical idolatry, the subjective conversions, the interreligious indifference, the Masonic republic as backdrop — is the fulfillment of the prophecy of St. Paul: “For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers according to their own lusts, and will turn away their hearing from the truth, and will be turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:3-4). The “growth” celebrated is the growth of the tares (Matt. 13:25). The true Church of Christ — una, sancta, catholica, apostolica — endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid bishops and priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, where the Syllabus and Quas Primas and Pascendi are believed, where extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is proclaimed, where Christ the King reigns. The conciliar sect’s “baptisms” are the seal of the Antichrist (Apoc. 13:16). Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Matt. 12:30). Let the faithful flee the abomination of desolation and cleave to the immutable Tradition — usque ad consummationem saeculi.
Source:
Pope Addresses ‘Surprising’ Catholic Growth in Secular France (ncregister.com)
Date: 26.09.2026