The Vatican News portal reports that on September 27, 2026, the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) met with seven victims of clerical sexual abuse at the bishop’s residence in Lourdes, France, during his apostolic journey. The encounter, lasting two hours, was orchestrated by the French “Bishops’ Conference” and the Conference of Men and Women Religious of France, selecting participants from roughly forty groups. The “Pope” listened privately, prayed with some, thanked them for testimony, expressed “closeness,” committed to ensuring “this evil is not repeated,” and asked for prayers. Earlier, addressing the French “bishops,” he referenced the 2021 CIASE report—claiming over 210,000 victims since 1950—and urged “utmost vigilance” on the “path already taken” of transparency and reform. This sordid theatrical production exposes the conciliar sect’s total substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church for a secular public-relations campaign of damage limitation and sociological management.
The Theatrics of the Neo-Church: A Public Relations Operation
The cited article describes a meticulously stage-managed event: victims “selected” by the very structures implicated in the cover-up; a “deliberate choice” of a small number to allow “substantive exchange” as the antipope “himself had requested”; letters from excluded groups handed over for optics. This is not pastoral charity; it is crisis management. The language of the “Holy See Press Office” statement—”listening to their stories,” “proposals to ensure that this does not happen again,” “work together so that the community… might increasingly become a place where men and women… can find comfort and healing”—is the vocabulary of the therapeutic state, not the Mater et Magistra. The “Pope” imparts a “blessing” upon those who have been devastated by the very ministers of the neo-church, yet there is zero mention of the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrament of Penance, or the divine justice that cries out to heaven for the souls of both predators and their enablers. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ,” and that Kingdom demands reparation to the offended Majesty of God, not merely “comfort and healing” for wounded psyches. The entire spectacle is a liturgical act of the new religion of man, centered on horizontal solidarity rather than vertical propitiation.
The Linguistic Deception: Therapeutic Newspeak Replacing Catholic Truth
Analyze the rhetoric: “wound of abuse,” “painful testimony,” “culture of prevention and protection,” “transparency, reforms and compensation.” These are the shibboleths of the novus ordo secularist lexicon. The article notes the “Pope” called for “utmost vigilance” and praised the “courageous measures” of the French “bishops” guided by the CIASE report. Nowhere does one find the words sin, sacrilege, eternal damnation, scandal (in the theological sense of leading souls to hell), or excommunication. The “wound” is treated as a psychological trauma requiring “healing” and “comfort,” not as a spiritual catastrophe requiring conversion, penance, and the restoration of the sacred. This linguistic evacuation of the supernatural is the hallmark of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Condemned Prop. 26). Here, “action” means bureaucratic compliance with secular safeguarding norms; “belief” in the divine constitution of the Church and the terror of the Last Judgment is entirely absent.
The Theological Vacuum: Absence of the Supernatural Remedy
The gravest accusation against this Lourdes meeting is its radical silence on the supernatural order. The victims met the “Pope” at the “Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes”—a site of authentic miracles wrought by the Immaculate Conception to confirm the dogma. Yet the article records no call to the Rosary, no invocation of the Immaculate Heart for the conversion of sinners, no reference to the Most Holy Sacrifice offered in reparation for sins crying to heaven. The “Pope” “spent a few moments in prayer with some of them”—a vague, Protestantized “moment” devoid of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite. The “blessing” imparted at the end is, in the hands of a manifest heretic occupying the See of Peter, invalid and potentially sacrilegious. St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism, teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” Robert Prevost, as a adherent of the Vatican II sect (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), is a manifest heretic; he ipso facto lost all jurisdiction before any declaration (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). His “blessing” confers no grace; his “listening” offers no absolution. The true remedy for the victims—and for the perpetrators—is the Traditional Latin Mass, the unadulterated Sacraments, and the integral Catholic Faith preserved only outside the conciliar structures.
The CIASE Idol: Substituting Secular Sociology for Ecclesiastical Judgment
The article elevates the CIASE report (Commission Indépendante sur les Abus Sexuels dans l’Église) as the guiding light for the “Bishops’ Conference.” This commission, established by the “bishops” themselves in 2018, operates on purely naturalistic, sociological, and juridical premises. It treats the Church as a human institution subject to state oversight, counting “210,000 minors” and “3,000 priests” as statistical data points. This is the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 19, 20, 42): “The Church is not a true and perfect society… it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church… In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails.” The CIASE report is the fruit of the conciliar church’s surrender to the Civitas Dei of the Masonic Republic. By accepting its findings as the basis for “reform,” the French “bishops” and their “Pope” in Lourdes formally acknowledge the supremacy of the secular state over the Ecclesia. They have replaced the Canones with the Code Pénal, the Sancta Sedes with the République. The “utmost vigilance” demanded by Leo XIV is vigilance against canonical liability and media scandal, not vigilance over the depositum fidei and the salus animarum.
The Invalidity of the “Bishops” and Their “Reforms”: Canon 188.4 and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio
The article mentions “Bishop Gérard Le Stang of Amiens, president of the Council for the Prevention of and Fight against Paedophilia within the French Bishops’ Conference.” This title alone is a badge of the new religion: a “bishop” whose primary episcopal function is compliance with secular safeguarding bureaucracy. But more fundamentally, these men are not bishops of the Catholic Church. They were “ordained” in the Paul VI rite (1968), which is doubtfully valid at best, invalid in substance due to the alteration of the form and intention required for the Sacrament of Order. Even if materially valid, they hold office in the conciliar sect, having publicly defected from the Catholic Faith by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality). As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates from Bellarmine and Canon 188.4: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt confirms: “Joining, or enrolling in, a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” The “French Bishops’ Conference” is a non-Catholic sect. Their “reforms,” “transparency,” and “compensation” are the acts of laymen usurping ecclesiastical authority. They possess no jurisdiction to bind or loose, to govern, or to “ensure this evil is not repeated.” Their “courageous measures” are null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio).
The Ultimate Diversion: Concealing the Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
The meeting in Lourdes serves a diabolical purpose: it diverts attention from the root cause of the abuse crisis—the Great Apostasy initiated at Vatican II. The “False Fatima Apparitions” file correctly identifies the strategy: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” Here, the “external threat” is the abuse scandal itself, weaponized to demand more “reform,” more “synodality,” more “lay participation”—i.e., more Modernism. The “Pope” expresses “closeness” to victims but never condemns the heresies that destroyed the seminaries, the religious life, the liturgy, and the priestly identity. He never mentions that the “priests” named—Preynat, Tartu, Pierre—were formed in the conciliar revolution, steeped in the “new theology” that denied the sacrificial priesthood and the objective moral law. The CIASE report covers 1950–2020; the explosion coincides precisely with the conciliar catastrophe. The “Pope” in Lourdes is the guardian of that catastrophe. His “commitment to ensuring this evil is not repeated” is a commitment to perpetuating the conciliar sect under a veneer of “safeguarding.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The Lourdes encounter is a masterpiece of the mysterium iniquitatis operating in the “structures occupying the Vatican.” It parades the suffering of victims—real, horrific suffering caused by wolves in shepherds’ clothing—as a prop for the legitimacy of the usurpers. It offers psychotherapy where absolution is needed; bureaucracy where canonical sanction is required; human rights where divine rights are violated. The true Church of Christ, the Ecclesia Militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid bishops and priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the reparation of these sins, where the Catechism of Trent defines the gravity of sacrilege, and where the Syllabus of Pius IX remains the bulwark against the “synagogue of Satan” (Pius IX, Allocution Quibus quantisque). The faithful must flee the conciliar sect (Mt 24:15-16), reject its false shepherds, its invalid sacraments, and its Masonic “safeguarding” commissions, and cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers—the only Ark of Salvation. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
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Pope to abuse victims: I am committed to ensuring this evil is not repeated (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.09.2026