The EWTN News portal reports on a “Jubilee Year of St. Francis” exhibit at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, featuring a purported first-class relic of the saint’s blood, historic artworks, and models of the California missions, all under the patronage of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the local “archbishop” Salvatore Cordileone. This spectacle, cloaked in the language of “peace,” “holiness,” and “pilgrimage,” is a quintessential manifestation of the conciliar sect’s strategy: the exploitation of authentic Catholic piety and historical patrimony to legitimize a counterfeit hierarchy and a false religion that has abandoned the integral Catholic faith for a naturalistic humanitarianism.
The Usurpation of Authority: An Antipope’s “Decree” and a False Hierarchy’s “Indulgences”
The article’s foundation is the declaration by “Pope Leo XIV” — Robert Prevost, the current usurper of the See of Peter — that a “special Year of St. Francis shall be proclaimed.” From the perspective of the integral Catholic faith, this act is null and void ab initio. As the theological principles compiled in the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrate, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the New Mass. Prevost, as a cardinal of the conciliar sect and prefect of its “Dicastery for Bishops,” is a manifest adherent of this apostasy. His “decree” carries no more canonical weight than the edict of a layman.
Consequently, the “plenary indulgences” designated by “Archbishop” Cordileone are equally invalid. The power to grant indulgences resides in the potestas iurisdictionis of the true Roman Pontiff and those bishops in communion with him. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 23): “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals” — a proposition the conciliar sect has fulfilled in its very constitution. The faithful who seek indulgences through these channels are deceived, their souls endangered by a false confidence in a jurisdiction that does not exist. The article’s casual mention of “bearing in mind that all the conditions for receiving a plenary indulgence must be met” omits the primary condition: valid jurisdiction in the true Church.
Relics in the Service of the Neo-Church: Material Piety Divorced from Supernatural Faith
The centerpiece of the exhibit — a “first-class relic of St. Francis’ blood taken from the side wound of the stigmata” — is presented as an object of veneration within the “Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption,” a building occupied by the conciliar sect. While the relic itself may be authentic (the Franciscans of La Verna have guarded it for centuries), its exposition in this context serves a diabolical purpose: to anchor the faithful in sensible devotion while their souls are starved of the true Mass, the true priesthood, and the true doctrine. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the modernist error that “the Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). Here, the “Church listening” — the conciliar faithful — are fed sensory experiences (relics, art, “illuminated manuscripts”) while the “Church teaching” — the unchanging Magisterium — is systematically denied by their hierarchy.
The article notes the display of an “illuminated manuscript of the ‘Canticle of the Creatures’ commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute.” This detail is revealing. The “Benedict XVI Institute” is an organ of the neo-church, named after Joseph Ratzinger, a principal architect of the conciliar revolution. The “Canticle of the Creatures,” while a beautiful composition of the Seraphic Father, is here instrumentalized to promote a Franciscanism stripped of its doctrinal spine: the absolute primacy of Christ the King, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, and the horror of sin. The exhibit’s focus on “peace,” “witness,” and “holiness of life” — echoing the antipope’s decree — reduces sanctity to a vague humanitarian ideal, devoid of the sacrificium laudis of the True Mass and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus dogma.
The California Missions: A Glorious Past Betrayed by a False Present
The article waxes nostalgic about the 21 California missions founded by Franciscan friars under St. Junípero Serra (canonized by the antipope Francis in 2015, rendering the “canonization” null). It states they “were built by the Spanish empire to secure the California coast, spread Catholicism, and integrate Native American populations into Spanish colonial society.” This historical framing, while factually accurate in its broad strokes, serves a pernicious theological function: it presents the missions as mere historical landmarks and “active Catholic parishes” under the current hierarchy, obscuring the fact that the Catholicism they were built to spread has been eclipsed by the conciliar counterfeit.
The missions today are staffed by “priests” ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite (post-1968), offering the “Mass” of Paul VI — a Protestantized memorial service that denies the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary. As the Syllabus condemns (Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The missions were founded precisely to unite civil society to the Church under the Kingship of Christ. Today, they function as museums and “parishes” of a sect that teaches religious liberty (Syllabus, Prop. 15, 77, 79) and renders to Caesar the things that are God’s. The article’s mention that “most are still standing today and function as active Catholic parishes” is a lie: they function as outposts of the abomination of desolation.
Linguistic Deception: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The article’s language is a masterclass in modernist obfuscation. Terms like “faithful Christian,” “model of holiness,” “witness of peace,” “pilgrimage,” and “plenary indulgence” are used in their material sense while being emptied of their supernatural reality.
- “Faithful Christian”: In the mouth of the antipope, this means one who adheres to the conciliar “magisterium,” not one who holds the integral Catholic faith entire and inviolate.
- “Witness of peace”: A Masonic keyword. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that “peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Pax Christi in Regno Christi). The “peace” promoted by the neo-church is the pax romana of the Masonic city of man, the “fraternity” of the Fratelli Tutti encyclical, which knows no King but Man.
- “Jubilee Year”: A true Jubilee is convoked by a true Pope for the remission of sins and the renewal of Christian life through the true sacraments. This “Jubilee Year of St. Francis” is a fabrication of the usurper, indistinguishable from the “Year of Mercy” or “Year of St. Joseph” — marketing campaigns for a false religion.
The article quotes “Father” Saul Tambini, OFM, from the “Papal Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli”: “We have to celebrate St. Francis because we know how much the Franciscan presence deeply shaped this place.” Note the purely sociological, historical rationale. Not a word about the salvation of souls, the conversion of sinners, the rights of Christ the King, or the damnation awaiting those who die outside the true Church. This is the laicism Pius XI denounced in Quas Primas: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions.”
The Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on the Mass, the Priesthood, and the Kingship of Christ
The gravest accusation against this article and the event it promotes is its total silence on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Catholic priesthood, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King. There is no mention of the Tridentine Mass, the only valid rite of the Latin Church. There is no call for the conversion of the “archdiocese” to the true Faith. There is no warning that the “Cathedral” is a profaned temple where the Novus Ordo is celebrated, where the Tabernacle is often relegated to a side chapel, where the Real Presence is denied by the very “priests” who simulate the sacrifice.
Pius XI, instituting the Feast of Christ the King, declared: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society… For this reason, Paul the Apostle… told them to obey them not as men, but solely because they represent Christ.” The San Francisco exhibit does the opposite: it invites the faithful to venerate a relic under the authority of men who reject Christ’s Kingship in the public order, who dialogue with false religions, who permit abortion and “same-sex marriage” in the civil law without excommunicating the Catholic politicians responsible.
The “Knights of St. Francis,” founded by Angela Alioto (a politician and former “supervisor” of San Francisco), are presented as a lay initiative. The article quotes her: “I absolutely believe it’s in our city because we’re the city of St. Francis.” This is civic pride masquerading as piety. The true Knight of St. Francis would be a miles Christi fighting for the restoration of the Mass of All Times and the recognition of Christ’s Kingship over California, not organizing museum exhibits in a conciliar cathedral.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Systemic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
This event is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the Church of the New Advent. As the False Fatima Apparitions document analyzes the Fatima operation as a Masonic psychological operation diverting attention from “modernist apostasy within the Church,” so this Franciscan Jubilee diverts attention from the vacancy of the Holy See and the extinction of the true Mass in the official structures.
The exhibit’s components form a perfect synthesis of conciliar religion:
- False Authority: Antipope Leo XIV and “Archbishop” Cordileone.
- False Worship: Veneration of relics in a church where the True Mass is banned.
- False Ecumenism: The “Canticle of the Creatures” as a bridge to pagan ecology (Laudato Si’).
- False History: The missions presented as living parishes of the neo-church.
- False Spirituality: “Peace” and “holiness” defined by the world, not by the Cross.
The Syllabus (Prop. 80) condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The conciliar sect has done exactly this. The Franciscan Jubilee in San Francisco is its bitter fruit: a celebration of the “city of St. Francis” that has become the capital of sodomy, abortion, and techno-tyranny, presided over by a hierarchy that offers relics instead of the Bread of Life, and “indulgences” instead of the remission of sins through the true keys of Peter.
Conclusion: Flee the Abomination of Desolation
The faithful Catholic, reading this EWTN report, must see through the incense and the gold leaf to the spiritual void beneath. No grace flows from the jurisdiction of heretics. No indulgence is gained by pilgrimages authorized by usurpers. No true devotion to St. Francis exists apart from the integral Catholic faith he professed, the Mass he offered, the poverty he embraced in imitation of the Crucified, and the obedience he rendered to the true Roman Pontiff.
The relic of St. Francis’ blood, if truly authentic, cries out not for veneration in the cathedral of the antipope, but for the restoration of the Holy Sacrifice on its altar. “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christians” (Tertullian), but the blood of the Seraphic Father, exposed in a temple where the Novus Ordo is celebrated, becomes a testimony against the sacrilege. Let the true children of St. Francis — those who keep the Rule, the Faith, and the Mass of 1962 — withdraw from this spectacle. “Go out from her, my people, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues” (Apoc. 18:4). The Jubilee that matters is the eternal one in the Kingdom of Christ the King, where the true Pope reigns, the true Mass is offered, and St. Francis intercedes for his sons who have not betrayed his legacy for a mess of conciliar pottage.
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Jubilee Year of St. Francis brings rare relic, historic art to San Francisco (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.10.2026