EWTN News portal reports on October 12, 2026, that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has declared the death penalty “inadmissible” in a social media message for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, echoing the manifest heresy of his predecessor Bergoglio. The “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin and “Archbishop” Paul Coakley joined the chorus, condemning the scheduled public execution of Nidal Hasan in the United States as a “spectacle” and denying the deterrent value of capital punishment. This coordinated attack on the God-given right of the sword (jus gladii) exposes the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to secular humanism and its definitive rupture with the immutable Magisterium.
The Usurper’s Manifest Heresy: “Inadmissible” Contradicts Divine Revelation
The statement attributed to the antipope — “The death penalty is inadmissible because it attacks the inviolability and dignity of the person” — is a formal heresy against the defined doctrine of the Church. It directly contradicts Sacred Scripture, the unanimous consent of the Fathers, the Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent, and the explicit teaching of Pope Pius XII. St. Paul teaches that the civil magistrate “beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil” (Rom 13:4). The Holy Ghost does not lie; the antipope does.
The Roman Catechism (Catechismus Romanus, Part III, Chap. 5, n. 4), promulgated by St. Pius V by order of the Council of Trent, declares unequivocally: “Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder.” To call this “inadmissible” is to call the Holy Ghost the author of murder.
Pope Pius XII, addressing the First International Congress of the Histopathology of the Nervous System (September 14, 1952), reaffirmed the perennial doctrine: “Even in the case of the death penalty the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. Rather public authority limits itself to depriving the offender of the good of life in expiation for his guilt, after he, through his crime, deprived himself of his own right to life.” The guilt of the criminal forfeits the right to life; the State executes justice, it does not violate dignity. The antipope inverts the order of justice, placing the subjective “dignity” of the murderer above the objective order of divine justice and the common good.
The Linguistic Subversion: Newspeak of the Neo-Church
The vocabulary deployed by the conciliar sect is not accidental; it is the language of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The term “inadmissible” replaces the theological category of “intrinsically evil” or “licit” with a bureaucratic, sociological judgment. It implies a development of doctrine — a evolution of dogma — explicitly condemned in Lamentabili Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” and Proposition 64: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine…”
The phrase “inviolability and dignity of the person” is the idol of modern personalism, the cult of man denounced by Pius XI in Quas Primas. It substitutes the imago Dei in the soul (which can be lost by mortal sin) with an ontological, indefeasible quality of the biological individual. This is the theological foundation of the religion of humanity, the laicism Pius XI identified as the “plague that poisons human society”. The hashtag #NoDeathPenalty signals allegiance to the Masonic internationalist agenda, not the Kingdom of Christ.
The “Cardinal” Parolin’s objection to a “spectacle” and denial of “deterrence” reveals the utilitarian, naturalistic mindset of the neo-church. Justice is not primarily deterrence (a utilitarian calculus) nor is it a private matter; it is vindicative justice (iustitia vindicativa), a moral obligation to restore the order violated by the crime. Public execution historically served as a solemn pedagogical act, a vivid reminder of the wages of sin (Rom 6:23) and the reality of divine judgment. To sanitize punishment is to sanitize sin.
The Theological Bankruptcy: “Redemption” Without Justice
The antipope’s claim that “effective penitentiary systems… do not entirely deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption” exposes a Pelagian soteriology. Redemption is a supernatural grace, not a function of prison reform. The primary end of punishment is retribution (poena vindicativa), satisfying the divine order; the secondary end is correction (poena medicinalis). By making “redemption” (understood naturalistically as rehabilitation) the criterion, the antipope abolishes justice itself. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches (ST II-II, q. 64, a. 2): “The death inflicted by the judge profits the sinner, if he be converted, unto the expiation of his crime; and, if he be not converted, it profits so as to put an end to the sin, because the sinner is thus deprived of the power to sin anymore.” The conciliar sect prefers the sinner retain the power to sin, provided he is comfortable in a modern penitentiary.
Furthermore, the case of Nidal Hasan — a jihadist who murdered 13 and wounded 32 at Fort Hood — is a textbook case for capital punishment. He waged war on the innocent. The refusal to execute him is not mercy; it is dereliction of duty, a violation of the jus gladii entrusted by God to the civil authority. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition: “The civil law prevails” over ecclesiastical law (Error 42) and “The State is the origin and source of all rights” (Error 39). Here, the neo-church inverts the error: it demands the State submit to the neo-church’s novel, anti-dogmatic “teaching” on the death penalty, effectively claiming a magisterial authority over the natural law that it does not possess and cannot exercise validly.
The Symptomatic Reality: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This event is not an isolated “pastoral gesture.” It is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. The Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes (n. 27) began the ambiguity; John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae (1995) introduced the “very rare” exception; Bergoglio formalized the heresy in the Catechism (2018); now “Leo XIV” cements it as a “definitive” teaching via social media. This is the hermeneutic of rupture masquerading as continuity.
As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian.” By denying a truth of the natural and divine law taught universally by the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium, Robert Prevost confirms he is not a member of the Church, therefore not Pope. Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.”
The “Cardinal” Parolin and “Archbishop” Coakley, as agents of this paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, participate in the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3). They do not defend the Faith; they defend the spirit of the world. Their “shock and great sorrow” is not for the souls of the victims crying out for justice (Rev 6:10), nor for the eternal salvation of the murderer who faces God’s judgment unrepentant, but for the image of the neo-church as a benign NGO aligned with the UN’s “human rights” agenda.
Christ the King vs. The Rights of Man
Pius XI in Quas Primas established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this laicism: “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 abolition of the death penalty is the supreme symbol of the State deriving its authority from man, not God. It declares the State has no right to take the life God gave, even when God’s law commands it for the common good.
The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect has done exactly this. It has reconciled itself with the culture of death disguised as a culture of life. It has made the Declaration of Human Rights its new Syllabus.
True Catholics, adhering to the integral Faith preserved outside the structures of the abomination, know that the jus gladii is a delegation of Divine Authority. To deny it is to deny the Kingship of Christ over temporal society. The antipope’s word is ventus (wind); the Word of God remains in aeternum. “He shall rule from sea to sea: and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8). No hashtag, no “synodal” consensus, no Masonic infiltration can alter the eternal decree: “Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God” (Gen 9:6).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV calls the death penalty ‘inadmissible’ after announcement of public execution in US (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.10.2026