Vatican News, the official propaganda organ of the structures occupying the Vatican, reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has sent a letter of gratitude to “Cardinal” Giovanni Battista Re upon the latter’s resignation as Dean of the College of Cardinals. The article, dated 12 October 2026, extols Re’s decades of service to the conciliar hierarchy, particularly under the false “saint” John Paul II (Wojtyła), presenting him as an “edifying witness” of love for the “Church and the Pope.” This sycophantic exchange between two architects of the post-conciliar apostasy perfectly illustrates the mutua admiratio (mutual admiration) that sustains the neo-church: a counterfeit hierarchy honoring its own for the faithful administration of the abomination of desolation.
The Usurper Legitimizes His Own Pretended Authority Through a Fellow Usurper
The very premise of the article is a theological impossibility. Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who publicly adheres to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the new mass, ipso facto lacks the papacy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is 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.” The “letter” from one non-pope to another non-cardinal is not an act of Petrine governance but a theatrical performance designed to maintain the illusion of institutional continuity. The “College of Cardinals” over which Re presided is a canonically null body, its members elevated by antipopes (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, Wojtyła, Ratzinger, Bergoglio) who had already defected from the Catholic Faith. Ex injuria jus non oritur (law does not arise from injustice).
Cardinal Re: A Lifetime of Service to the Revolution
The article enumerates Re’s career as if it were a cursus honorum of sanctity: Assessor of the Secretariat of State (1979), Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops (1987), Substitute of the Secretariat of State (1989–2000), Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (2000). In reality, this trajectory maps the consolidation of modernist control over episcopal appointments. As Substitute and later Prefect, Re was the gatekeeper of the neo-episcopate, ensuring that only men committed to the conciliar revolution received the mitre. He implemented the hermeneutic of rupture at the diocesan level, imposing the Novus Ordo Missae, the new Code of Canon Law (1983), and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) — all instruments of the demolition of the Catholic priesthood and sacrifice. His “rich knowledge of the universal Church” is in fact a comprehensive dossier of the faithful bishops and priests he helped marginalize or remove.
The Canonization of Wojtyła: The Seal of the Antichurch
The article repeatedly invokes “Saint John Paul II” as the authority behind Re’s rise. This is the keystone of the conciliar religion: the “canonization” of the chief architect of the Assisi abominations (1986, 2002), the kisser of the Quran, the promoter of the “theology of the body” that reduces the sacrament of matrimony to erotic phenomenology, the man who declared that the Old Covenant has never been revoked. No true Pope can canonize a heretic. The bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV teaches that “if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Wojtyła’s public heresies are legion; his “canonization” by Bergoglio is a sacrilegious farce that binds no Catholic. Re’s intimate collaboration with him is not a title of glory but a mark of infamy.
“Virtus ex Alto”: A Motto Inverted
The article highlights Re’s episcopal motto, Virtus ex alto (“Strength from on high”), claiming it “bears witness to how you have always known how to invoke and receive strength from the Lord and His grace.” This is blasphemous irony. The “strength from on high” that sustained Re was the grace of state — but a grace of state requires a valid office. A man who spends fifty years enforcing the liturgical revolution, the doctrinal ambiguity of Gaudium et spes, the ecumenical betrayal of Unitatis redintegratio, and the disciplinary chaos of the 1983 Code does not draw strength from God but from the princeps huius mundi (prince of this world). As Our Lord warned: “Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets” (Luke 6:26). The esteem of the “Holy See” — meaning the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican — is the kiss of Judas.
The Rosary as Propaganda Tool
The article mentions Re presiding over a “Holy Rosary prayer gathering in St. Peter’s Square for the health of Pope Francis.” This reveals the superstitious, naturalistic piety of the conciliar sect: the Rosary reduced to a public relations stunt for a dying antipope. The true Rosary is a weapon against heresy, given by Our Lady to St. Dominic to crush the Albigensian error. In the hands of Re and Bergoglio, it becomes a talisman for the preservation of the very revolution that crucifies Our Lady’s Divine Son anew in the Novus Ordo “memorial meal.” Corruptio optimi pessima (the corruption of the best is the worst).
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article — nor in the letter it describes — is there a single mention of the salvation of souls, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ. The entire discourse is bureaucratic, horizontal, and immanentist: “service,” “collaboration,” “coordination,” “esteem,” “gratitude.” This is the language of the Masonic lodge, not the Church of Christ. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “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 conciliar sect has removed Christ from its own internal discourse. Its “Cardinals” and “Popes” are functionaries of a humanist NGO, administering the opus operatum of apostasy.
The Jubilee 2000: A Celebration of the Revolution
The article praises Re’s role in the “Jubilee Year of 2000,” claiming he “effectively directed and coordinated the many offices placed at the service of [Wojtyła’s] teaching and pastoral mission.” That Jubilee was the apotheosis of the conciliar religion: the opening of the “Holy Door” by a heretic pope, the invitation of false religions to pray in Catholic basilicas, the Mea culpa that apologized for the Church’s “sins” while the hierarchy continued its systematic destruction of the Faith. Re was the logistical architect of this blasphemy. His “memorable series of Apostolic Journeys” were triumphal processions of the Antichrist, acclimating the world to a “pope” who worships with pagans rather than converting them.
The “Holy See” as a Synonym for the Conciliar Sect
The article uses the term “Holy See” eleven times, always referring to the post-conciliar bureaucracy. This is a semantic hijacking. The Holy See is the Sedes Petri, the See of Peter, which remains vacant since the death of Pius XII (1958) because every claimant since has been a manifest heretic. The “Holy See” of Vatican News is the See of the Antichrist, the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan) denounced by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors and by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus. When the article says Re is “one of the best-known and most highly esteemed servants of the Holy See,” it means: he is a trusted servant of the Masonic occupation of Rome.
Conclusion: The Mutual Assurance Society of the Damned
This letter, this article, this entire spectacle is the conciliar sect’s self-congratulation. Two men who have spent their lives dismantling the Catholic priesthood, the Holy Sacrifice, the doctrinal integrity, the disciplinary unity, and the missionary mandate of the Church exchange compliments on a “job well done.” They are hirelings who flee at the sight of the wolf (John 10:12), except the wolf is the Modernist heresy they themselves embody. The faithful Catholic reads this and sees the passion of the Church renewed: the true hierarchy imprisoned or exiled, the sacred vessels profaned, the holy place occupied by merchants. Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail) — but the hour of darkness is granted. Let him who has ears, hear: the Chair of Peter is empty, the Novus Ordo is a profanation, and the “Cardinals” and “Popes” of the Vatican are intrusi (intruders) who will answer to the True Judge for every soul they led into the abyss.
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Pope Leo thanks Cardinal Re for service as Dean of College of Cardinals (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.10.2026