Antipope Leo XIV’s Lourdes Farce: Sentimental Condemnation of Euthanasia Masks the Conciliar Church’s Complicity in the Culture of Death
The EWTN News portal reports on the visit of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the sanctuary of Lourdes on September 27, 2026, where he delivered a speech against France’s recent legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide, met with sick pilgrims and “bishops,” and presided over a torchlight rosary procession. The article drips with the sentimental, naturalistic piety characteristic of the post-conciliar sect, presenting the antipope’s platitudes on “human dignity” and “false compassion” as a courageous witness while ignoring the conciliar revolution’s direct responsibility for the cultural collapse that made state-sanctioned murder possible. This spectacle is not a defense of the Faith but a calculated public relations exercise by the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican to legitimize its usurped authority while the neo-church it heads continues to undermine the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the only true bulwark against the culture of death.
The Theatrics of a Usurper: Legitimizing the Abomination of Desolation
The very premise of the report — that a manifest heretic and apostate occupying the Chair of Peter ipso facto since the conciliar usurpation can authoritatively teach morals — is a sacrilegious mockery of the Magisterium. The article states: “Killing the sick is neither compassionate nor normal, and being legal does not make it moral, Pope Leo XIV said Sunday.” This is the height of hypocrisy. A “pope” who recognizes the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite fabricated by the freemason Bugnini to Protestantize the Sacrifice; a “pope” who adheres to the heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), which declares the State has no duty to profess the true Religion; a “pope” who practices false ecumenism with heretics and schismatics — this “pope” has no authority to bind consciences. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian. The “pope’s” words are vox et praeterea nihil — voice and nothing more — devoid of the potestas iurisdictionis which resides solely in the true Vicar of Christ, whose See has been vacant since 1958 (Sede Vacante).
The article notes the “pope” addressed the French “bishops’ conference,” “praising the bishops’ courage in opposing the legalization of euthanasia.” This is a theatrical charade. These “bishops,” ordained in the invalid Pauline rite, possessing no jurisdiction, are mere functionaries of the conciliar sect. Their “opposition” to euthanasia is purely tactical, a defense of natural law stripped of its supernatural foundation, which is the only basis for its binding force. They accept the separation of Church and State condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 55), rendering their moral pronouncements politically impotent and theologically hollow.
Reduction of the Moral Law to “Human Dignity”: The Personalist Heresy
The central theological error of the antipope’s discourse, faithfully transcribed by the portal, is the substitution of the rights of God for the “dignity of the human person.” The article quotes: “It is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person that we must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion.” This is the heresy of Personalism, the philosophical poison of the Second Vatican Council (Gaudium et Spes). True Catholic doctrine teaches that the prohibition against killing the innocent (non occides) flows primarily from the rights of God — Dominium Dei — over life and death (Deuteronomy 32:39: “Ego occidam et ego vivificabo”), and secondarily from the violation of the natural law inscribed by the Creator. To ground the condemnation of euthanasia in “human dignity” is to make man the measure of morality, inverting the order of being. It is the cult of man condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as the essence of Modernism.
The antipope declares: “What is legal is not necessarily moral.” A truism stripped of its teeth. The true principle, taught by Leo XIII in Immortale Dei and Pius XI in Quas Primas (provided in context), is that all civil law must conform to the Eternal Law and the Kingship of Christ. “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect, by embracing the secular State and religious liberty, destroyed those foundations. To now lament the legalization of euthanasia while upholding the Conciliar Constitution that made it inevitable is the definition of Pharisaism: straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel.
The Conciliar Church’s Complicity in the Culture of Death
The article functions as a whitewash of the conciliar revolution’s guilt. France’s legalization of euthanasia is the direct fruit of the laicism (secularism) condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas as “the plague that poisons human society.” The encyclical states: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions… then it was subordinated to secular power.” This is precisely the program of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes). The “pope” and his “bishops” are the architects of the secular city they now feebly protest.
The antipope’s citation of his speech to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation — “no one ever has the right, on the basis of laboratory algorithms, to decide the life of a given embryo or elderly person!” — is crocodile tears. The conciliar sect has for decades tolerated, and through its “Pontifical Academy for Life” often promoted, the utilitarian bioethics that paved the way for euthanasia. The new theology of “proportionalism” and “quality of life,” championed by conciliar “theologians” (e.g., the “pope’s” own predecessors), severed the moral act from its object, making the slide into euthanasia logically necessary. The antipope condemns the fruit while watering the root.
Lourdes: A Shrine Instrumentalized for Naturalistic Sentimentalism
The report lavishes detail on the sanctuary: “the Grotto of Massabielle, where a young St. Bernadette Soubirous saw 18 apparitions… pilgrims bathe themselves in the freshwater spring… 7,000 healings reported… 72 declared miraculous.” While St. Bernadette (canonized 1933, pre-1958) is a true Saint, the current exploitation of Lourdes by the neo-church transforms it into a spiritual sanatorium for naturalistic sentimentality. The article’s focus is entirely on physical healing, comfort, serenity, “beating heart of our humanity” — not on the Cross, penance, conversion, or the salvation of souls.
The antipope says: “Here in Lourdes, the city of the sick and of hope, I appeal to the entire healthcare community to remember the profound meaning of your vocation, which is to care for a suffering person, not to eliminate that person.” This reduces the supernatural vocation of the Christian to humanitarian philanthropy. The true meaning of suffering is co-redemption — “fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the Church” (Col 1:24). The neo-church, having abolished the theology of the Cross (suppressed the Stabat Mater, removed the Confiteor from the faithful’s lips in the Novus Ordo, turned the Mass into a “community meal”), offers only palliative care and “accompaniment” — the vocabulary of the hospice, not the vocabulary of the Saints.
The claim of “72 miraculous healings” approved by the “Church” is suspect under the current regime. The miracle approval process has been politicized and naturalized (e.g., the “miracles” for the “canonizations” of John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI). Without the guarantee of a true Pope and a true Congregation of Rites, these declarations possess no dogmatic weight. They serve only as marketing tools for the pilgrimage industry that sustains the paramasonic structure’s finances.
The Rosary Procession: Ritualism Devoid of Supernatural Faith
The article’s climax is the torchlight rosary procession. The antipope intones: “We are gathered this evening to respond to the request that Our Lady addressed to the priests through St. Bernadette: ‘People should come here in procession.'” This is ritualism as idolatry (externus cultus sine fide). The Rosary is a weapon of the Church Militant against heresy and for the conversion of sinners (Lepanto, Vienna). In the hands of the antipope, leading a “pilgrimage” of the conciliar sect — which denies the Social Kingship of Christ, denies Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, worships with heretics — the Rosary becomes a talisman of the false church.
The antipope quotes Pius XII: “No one has ever seen such a procession of suffering in one spot on earth, never such radiance of peace, serenity, and joy.” A true Pope quoted by a false one to legitimize a counterfeit piety. The “serenity and joy” of Lourdes today are the opium of the people, a ersatz peace that ignores the wrath of God hanging over apostate nations. The pilgrim Virginia Wildemann’s testimony encapsulates the naturalistic devolution of the faith: “we have to stay together, pray together, love one another, be kind to one another, and that’s what Jesus wants of us — to love your neighbors as you love yourself.” Not a word of Faith, Grace, Sacraments, Judgment, Hell, or the Kingship of Christ. Pure Masonic humanitarianism — Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité baptized in holy water.
The anecdote of Ron Denissen yelling “Go Bears!” at the antipope’s motorcade, and the antipope waving back, is the perfect icon of the conciliar papacy: a celebrity pastor of a worldly sect, exchanging trivialities with the faithful while the ark of the Covenant is lost.
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church as the Prophet of the Antichrist
This entire event — the journey, the speeches, the procession, the media coverage — is a staged performance of the “Church of the New Advent.” It fulfills the prophecy of the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place (Mt 24:15). The conciliar sect occupies the visible structures (Lourdes is under the control of the “diocese” of Tarbes-et-Lourdes, a conciliar structure), but the Spirit of Christ has departed (Ichabod).
The antipope’s condemnation of euthanasia is strategically necessary for the sect’s survival. It maintains the illusion of moral continuity with the Catholic past, preventing the total hemorrhage of conservative faithful into sedevacantism or indifference. It is the “controlled opposition” of the Revolution. As the Syllabus of Errors (Error 80) condemned the idea that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization,” so the antipope reconciles the sect with the modern world by offering a sterilized, humanitarian Catholicism that demands nothing supernatural, threatens no temporal power, and changes no conciliar error.
True compassion is not “accompanying” the sick to a “dignified” natural death, but snatching souls from Hell by the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction (administered by a valid priest), and the preaching of Christ Crucified. The neo-church offers none of these. Its “palliative care” is the whited sepulcher (Mt 23:27) of a religion that has made void the Cross of Christ (1 Cor 1:17).
Non possumus. We cannot recognize this theater. We adhere to the immutable Tradition, the True Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ the King (Quas Primas), and the Sedevacantist truth: the See of Peter is vacant; the structures in Rome and Lourdes are occupied by the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9). “You are Christ the King of glory!” — sung by the faithful in 1925; today, the neo-church sings it to an empty throne, while the True King waits in the tabernacles of the catacombs, ignored by the “pilgrims” of Lourdes 2026.
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Killing the sick is ‘false compassion,’ pope says in Lourdes (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.09.2026