The EWTN News portal reports that Assisi is preparing to welcome thousands of pilgrims for the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis, with the main celebrations scheduled for October 3–4 under the presidency of “Cardinal” Matteo Maria Zuppi, “papal legate” of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), and in the presence of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The program includes the “Transitus,” liturgies, cultural events, and explicit praise for the 1986 interfaith gathering convened by the antipope John Paul II, while the “bishop” of Assisi, Felice Accrocca, hails the “Poverello” as a prophet of “interfaith dialogue,” “care for our common home,” and a “vision of society rooted in peace, fraternity, and hope.” This spectacle is not a Catholic commemoration of a saint but a brazen manifestation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, reducing the Seraphic Father of the Church to a mascot for Masonic fraternity, religious indifferentism, and the dethronement of Christ the King.
The Usurpation of Sacred Space by the Conciliar Sect
The very framework of this celebration reveals the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The “papal legate” Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime acts on behalf of Leo XIV, a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality), has ipso facto lost the papacy according to the immutable principle articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he may be judged and punished by the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms that Bellarmine teaches the automatic loss of jurisdiction for manifest heresy before any declaratory sentence, citing Wernz and Vidal: “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, the “legation” of Artime is a juridical nullity, and the “Mass” celebrated by Zuppi is, at best, a simulation of the Unbloody Sacrifice, devoid of the intentio faciendum quod facit Ecclesia in the true sense, celebrated within a structure that has substituted the lex orandi of the Council of Trent for the Protestantized Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI.
The presence of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella, a servant of the secularist Republic, presiding over a putatively religious ceremony, is the perfect icon of the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas. That encyclical, issued precisely to combat the “plague of secularism,” declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The spectacle of a secular head of state “welcoming” pilgrims at a Catholic shrine is the triumph of Error 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” St. Francis, who kissed the leper and embraced Lady Poverty, would have fled from this adulterous embrace of the City of Man masquerading as the City of God.
The Idolatry of “Interfaith Dialogue” and the 1986 Abomination
The article explicitly links the 800th anniversary to the 40th anniversary of the interfaith gathering for peace convened by St. John Paul II in Assisi in 1986. This is the smoking gun. The 1986 Assisi meeting was not a “gathering for peace”; it was a syncretistic abomination where the Vicar of Christ (or his usurper) placed the true God on the same level as idols, inviting pagans, Muslims, Buddhists, and animists to “pray” to their false deities in the very city of the Seraphic Saint. This act violated the First Commandment, the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, and the entire Tradition of the Church which teaches that “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), a truth Pius XI reiterates in Quas Primas (footnote 29).
The “bishop” Accrocca dares to claim that St. Francis is “ahead of us” regarding “interfaith dialogue”. This is a diabolical inversion. St. Francis went to the Sultan to convert him, not to “dialogue” on equal footing. The Fioretti recount that Francis offered to walk through fire to prove the truth of the Catholic Faith. The conciliar sect replaces the martyrdom of witness with the apostasy of dialogue. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18) and “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The 1986 Assisi event was the liturgical enactment of these condemned errors. To celebrate its anniversary alongside the death of St. Francis is to spit on the Saint’s tomb.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to Naturalistic “Fraternity”
The rhetoric of “fraternity,” “common home,” and “peace” devoid of the Social Kingship of Christ is the precise language of the Masonic “Fraternité” and the encyclical Fratelli Tutti of the antipope Bergoglio. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingdom is “primarily spiritual” but extends to “all men… whether individuals, families, or states” and that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The “fraternity” spoken of by Friar Moroni – “The Lord gave me brothers” – is twisted from a supernatural bond of charitas in veritate (charity in truth) into a naturalistic solidarity of “50 friars from 20 different countries” united not by the unity of Faith and Sacraments, but by a vague humanitarianism.
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file correctly identifies the Masonic strategy: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism.” Assisi 1986 and 2026 are the operational realization of this syncretism. The “peace” sought is the pax romana of the New World Order, not the pax Christi in regno Christi. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” is false (Error 79), affirming that religious liberty does corrupt. This celebration is a celebration of that corruption.
The Invalidity of the Novus Ordo Rites and the Nullity of the “Legate”
The “solemn Mass” celebrated by “Cardinal” Zuppi is the centerpiece of the fraud. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1969, represents a radical break in the lex orandi, suppressing the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Real Presence theology, and the Priesthood ordained to offer it. As the Implementation instructions mandate: “Sacraments and religious practices are true only in communion with the true Church… Other pseudo-Catholic and modernist practices… are hidden or overt religious syncretism, idolatry, and Satanism.” The “Transitus” and the liturgies in the Basilica are therefore not Catholic worship but the liturgy of the ecclesia novae aedificatae, the church of the New Advent, which is a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The “Cardinals” and “Bishops” presiding are, in the vast majority, men ordained in the invalid Paul VI rites of 1968/1976 or consecrated in the invalid 1968 rite of episcopal consecration. Even if validly ordained sede vacante (before 1968), their public adhesion to the conciliar sect constitutes the crimen haeresis and schisma, separating them from the Mystical Body. St. Cyprian teaches: “He who has not the Church for his mother cannot have God for his Father.” The “papal legate” Artime derives his authority from a non-Pope; his mission is a mission to confirm the faithful in error.
Carlo Acutis: A Post-Conciliar Idol for the Neo-Church
The article mentions “Carlo Acutis, who, although not from Assisi, asked to be buried there” as a fruit of the saint’s impact on “new generations.” Acutis, “beatified” and “canonized” by the antipopes Francis and Leo XIV, is a construct of the neo-church: a “saint” of the internet age, perfectly tailored for the aggiornamento narrative. His “miracles” are adjudicated by a tribunals devoid of canonical jurisdiction. The promotion of Acutis in Assisi serves to legitimize the false sanctity of the conciliar calendar, which includes the “canonizations” of John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and the Ulma family (the unborn child unbaptized, hence not a martyr). This is the sanctification of the Revolution. The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file notes the principle: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Those who “canonize” are not Popes; their acts are null.
The Silence on Sin, Grace, and the Necessity of the Catholic Church for Salvation
The gravest accusation against this entire spectacle is its total silence on the supernatural order. There is no mention of original sin, actual sin, the necessity of Baptism, the state of grace, the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as propitiation for sin. St. Francis founded his Order on holy poverty, chastity, and obedience for the salvation of souls. The conciliar sect celebrates his death by celebrating man. This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI as the essence of laicism. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The Assisi 2026 program is pure pragmatism: “charitable initiatives,” “cultural events,” “fraternity.” The Credo is replaced by the Agenda 2030.
Conclusion: Return to the Francis of the Gospel, Not the Francis of the World
The 800th anniversary of the dies natalis of St. Francis should be a call to penance and conversion, a return to the Regula Bullata and the Testament where the Saint commands: “Let the clerics… hold the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ… as something most precious.” Instead, the structures occupying Assisi offer a circus maximus of indifferentism, presided over by usurpers, legitimized by a secular state, and applauded by a media apparatus (EWTN/ACI Prensa) that serves as the propaganda arm of the abomination of desolation. True Catholics, adhering to the Sede Vacante reality since 1958, reject this parody. They know that “The prayer prescribed by the Church is the rule of faith” (Lex orandi, lex credendi – Pius XI, Quas Primas), and the prayer in Assisi today is the prayer of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). Non possumus. We cannot communicate in sacris with those who have dethroned Christ the King. The true homage to St. Francis is to keep the Faith entire and inviolate, sine macula et ruga, outside the conciliar sect, waiting for the Restoration of All Things in Christ.
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Assisi to welcome thousands of pilgrims for 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.09.2026