Conciliar Sect Exploits St. Francis for False Jubilee Under Antipope Leo XIV
The National Catholic Register, mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports on Franciscan communities celebrating the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death under a “Jubilee Year” proclaimed by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article details how Capuchins, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regulars are marking the occasion with plenary indulgences, relic exhibitions, “Stations of Saint Francis,” academic conferences, and blessings of animals — all authorized by an antipope and enacted within the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican. This spectacle exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic profanation of Catholic tradition: it hijacks the seraphic father’s radical poverty and Eucharistic devotion to legitimize a counterfeit church that has abandoned the Faith.
The Usurper’s “Jubilee”: A Nullity Masquerading as Grace
The article’s foundational premise is a lie: “Eight centuries later, his death — or transitus, as Franciscans call it — is being commemorated by Catholics around the world as part of a special Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Leo XIV.” There is no “Pope Leo XIV.” Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar apostasy (Vatican II, religious liberty, false ecumenism, the New Mass), has ipso facto severed himself from the Church and cannot hold the papacy. 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. 2, cap. 30). A heretic cannot be the head of the Church because “a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (ibid.). Therefore, the “Jubilee Year,” the “plenary indulgence,” and every faculty attached to them are null, void, and of no effect — nulla, irrita, et invalida (null, void, and invalid). The faithful who imagine they gain an indulgence by pilgrimaging to “designated sites” under the “usual conditions of confession, Communion and prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father” are deceived; they pray for the intentions of an antipope, confess to priests ordained in the invalid post-1968 rite, and receive “Communion” at a Protestantized table. This is not grace; it is a diabolical simulation.
The Conciliar “Franciscans”: Heirs of the Seraphic Father Only in Name
The communities featured — Capuchins of the Western America Province, Poor Clares of Alexandria and Hanceville, Third Order Regular of Steubenville — are not the Order of Friars Minor founded by St. Francis. They are religious institutes of the conciliar sect, erected under the 1983 Code (itself a product of the apostasy) and animated by the spirit of the “New Pentecost.” Their “vocation director,” “Father” Victor Taglianetti, reduces the Poverello to a “patron saint of the Eucharist” while his order celebrates the Novus Ordo, receives “Communion” in the hand, and practices Eucharistic adoration stripped of the dogmatic integrity that requires the Traditional Latin Mass. The article admits: “A lot of people know him as patron of ecology or animals… but I would consider him the patron saint of the Eucharist for his devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.” This false dichotomy reveals the modernist mindset: St. Francis is not “patron of ecology” (a Masonic construct foisted upon him by Paul VI in 1979) nor a mere “Eucharistic devotee” detachable from the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V. He is the alter Christus who bore the stigmata, who demanded “that the Body of the Lord be honored above all things” (Letter to the Superiors of the Order), and who would have anathematized the Novus Ordo as a supper replacing the Sacrifice.
Profanation of the Stigmata: “Stations of Saint Francis” and Blessings of Beasts
The Capuchins’ “Stations of Saint Francis,” modeled on the Stations of the Cross, is a liturgical novelty unknown to Tradition. It substitutes meditation on the Passion of Christ — the only source of merit and redemption — with a hagiographic narrative centered on a creature, however saintly. This is creaturam colere praeter Creatorem (worshipping the creature rather than the Creator, Rom 1:25). Worse, the “blessings of animals” paraded as Franciscan tradition are a post-conciliar invention that trivializes the saint’s radical detachment from creation. St. Francis called animals “brothers” not to bless them in a petting-zoo liturgy but to shame man’s ingratitude toward the Creator. The conciliar sect’s “blessing of pets” is a sacrilegious parody of the Church’s sacramental blessings, reducing the benedictio to a sentimental photo-op.
Mother Angelica’s Legacy: A “Poor Clare” Monastery Built on the New Mass
The article highlights Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, “founded by EWTN foundress Mother Angelica in 1962.” Mother Angelica, though personally pious, was a daughter of the conciliar revolution: she accepted the New Mass, the new rite of profession, and the “pope” of the day. Her “Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration” adore a “Host” confected under the invalid 1969 rite of Paul VI — a rite that omits the canonical words of consecration in their integral form, suppresses the offertory prayers that express the propitiatory nature of the Mass, and replaces the Roman Canon with fabricated “Eucharistic Prayers.” As Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci warned in their 1969 Critical Study: “The Novus Ordo represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.” Perpetual adoration of an invalidly confected Host is idolatry — adoratio indigna — no matter the sincerity of the adorers.
Academic Modernism: “Sister Death, Gate of Life”
Franciscan University of Steubenville — a flagship of the conciliar “renewal” — hosts an academic conference: “Sister Death, Gate of Life.” The title itself betrays a modernist anthropology: death is not a “gate of life” but the stipendium peccati (wages of sin, Rom 6:23), conquered only by the Resurrection of Christ. The conference’s focus on “broader questions surrounding death and human dignity” signals the conciliar obsession with dignitas humana — a Masonic slogan enshrined in Gaudium et Spes — rather than the quattuor novissima (death, judgment, heaven, hell). “Father” Patrick Whittle, who teaches theology there, speaks of Francis’ “lifelong conversion” and “radical call of the Gospel” while remaining in communion with an antipope and a false church. This is the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as continuity: using Catholic vocabulary to advance a counterfeit spirituality.
The Relic Exhibition: Simony Disguised as Piety
The Capuchins’ “ticketed exhibition of relics and medieval works from Assisi” at the Cathedral of St. Mary in San Francisco — organized with the “Knights of St. Francis” — is a scandal. Charging admission to venerate relics is simonia (simony), condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. 25, Decree on Reformation, cap. 9): “Let them not allow any gain to be sought from the relics of saints… nor let them permit any fees to be exacted for the veneration of them.” The “Knights of St. Francis” are a lay confraternity of the conciliar sect, devoid of canonical standing. This event transforms the transitus of the Seraphic Father into a cultural fundraiser — domus mercationis (house of merchandise, Jn 2:16).
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ: The Grave Omission
Nowhere does the article mention the Social Kingship of Christ, the Rights of God, or the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith — the very heart of St. Francis’ mission to “rebuild My Church” (which he understood as the Mystical Body, not a building). Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declared: “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, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The conciliar “Franciscans” celebrate a saint who kissed the leper and embraced Lady Poverty while their “pope” dialogues with false religions, endorses the UN’s “sustainable development goals,” and remains silent as nations legalize infanticide and sodomy. This silence is the loudest condemnation: they have emptied the Cross of its power (1 Cor 1:17) to make the Gospel palatable to the world.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the Conciliar Hierarchy
Every “bishop,” “provincial,” and “abbess” cited in this article holds office in the conciliar sect. By Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (binding divine law): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Public defection requires no formal sentence; it is manifested by adherence to Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism). “Bishop” Mark Bartchak of Altoona-Johnstown, who presides at the Loretto Mass, is a public heretic by his participation in the Novus Ordo and recognition of the antipopes. His “jurisdiction” is null. The “transitus service” he leads is a theatrical performance, not a liturgical act of the Church.
Conclusion: Return to the Porziuncola of Tradition
The 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ transitus is not an occasion for the conciliar sect to stage jubilees, sell tickets, or invent novelties. It is a summons to vera poenitentia (true penance): to reject the antipope, the New Mass, the false sacraments, and the entire paramasonic structure erected since 1958. St. Francis, who “stripped himself of everything so that he could give himself totally to God” (as even the conciliar “Father” Taglianetti admits), would today strip off the conciliar habit, flee the “Franciscan University,” and seek out the catacombs where the true Mass is offered by valid priests holding the unchanging Faith. There is no Jubilee without the Vicar of Christ; there is no indulgence without the Church; there is no Franciscan life without the Cross. Qui non est cum Me, contra Me est (He who is not with Me is against Me, Mt 12:30). The conciliar “Franciscans” are against Him.
Source:
Franciscans Mark 800 Years Since St. Francis’ Death (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.10.2026