Modernist Betrayal in Assisi: Antipope Prevost’s False Synodality Exposed
The VaticanNews portal (20 November 2025) reports on Robert Prevost’s (“Leo XIV”) address to the Italian pseudo-bishops during his visit to Assisi, where he closed the 81st General Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI). The antipope called for placing “Christ at the center” while promoting synodality, pastoral care for the poor and elderly, and protection of minors. Prevost invoked St. Francis of Assisi’s legacy to advocate a church “without reticence and fears” that develops “a culture of encounter.” The assembly drew on Italy’s “Synodal Path,” with pastoral guidelines to be finalized in May 2026.
Subversion of Christ’s Kingship Through Naturalistic Sentimentalism
The address exemplifies the conciliar sect’s fundamental betrayal of regnum Christi (Christ’s Kingship). When Prevost claims “we have more than ever the need to place Jesus Christ at the center,” he commits theological fraud by divorcing Christ from His immutable doctrinal and juridical authority. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes that Christ’s kingship demands “the entire human race [be] subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” through submission to His divine laws and the Church’s magisterium. Prevost’s “center” is a hollow Christ stripped of judicial power – reduced to a symbol of horizontal “fraternity” and “dialogue.”
The appeal to St. Francis serves Masonic syncretism. True Catholic hagiography recognizes the Poverello as the alter Christus who rebuilt the Church through obedience to Papal authority and doctrinal orthodoxy – not through the “bold choices” of synodal committees. The 1864 Syllabus of Errors condemns such manipulation of saints to promote religious indifferentism (Proposition 15).
Synodality as Revolutionary Hermeneutic Against Divine Constitution
Prevost’s assertion that synodality means “walking together of Christians with Christ and toward the Kingdom of God” constitutes heresy against the hierarchical constitution of the Church. The 1907 decree Lamentabili Sane condemns the Modernist error that “the Christian community introduced the necessity of baptism” (Proposition 43) – establishing that sacramental economy flows from divine institution, not communal consensus. By framing synodality as a “grace of communion that animates… ecclesial relationships,” Prevost revives the condemned Modernist tenet that doctrine evolves through collective consciousness (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 22).
The true Catholic position was articulated by Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794): “The proposition which establishes the exaltation of the throne of Peter only to maintain with vigilance the unity of the Spirit… is heretical”. Christ established His Church as a monarchy, not a democracy walking toward some eschatological kingdom – She already is the Kingdom incarnate through apostolic succession.
Omission of Supernatura! Order: The Silent Apostasy
The gravest indictment lies in what Prevost’s address omits:
- No mention of the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), reducing pastoral care to therapeutic “listening” rather than salvation of souls.
- No reference to sacramental grace as the sole means of sanctification, substituting it with humanitarian “care for the poor.”
- No distinction between true peace (pax Christi in regno Christi) and worldly pacifism. The Syllabus condemns equating “peace” with religious indifferentism (Proposition 79).
This naturalism fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism” (Chapter 3). By focusing exclusively on horizontal “fractures” while ignoring mankind’s vertical rebellion against God, the address reduces the Church to a NGO managing social discontent.
Protection of Minors as Smokescreen for Doctrinal Corruption
Prevost’s call for “culture of prevention of every form of abuse” rings hollow amid his silence on the conciliar sect’s gravest abuse: sacrilegious sacraments and false ecumenism. The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes how Modernists use “protection” narratives to centralize power while ignoring spiritual dangers: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts”. True protection begins with guarding the Deposit of Faith (1 Timothy 6:20), not bureaucratic safeguarding programs.
Theological Bankruptcy of the “Italian Synodal Path”
The impending 2026 pastoral guidelines will formalize Italy’s apostasy. When Prevost praises “communities that are open, hospitable, and welcoming,” he promotes the condemned error of religious liberty (Syllabus, Proposition 77). The Church’s mission isn’t to “welcome questions” but to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19) through doctrinal clarity. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864) anathematizes those who claim “the best condition of civil society is where no duty is recognized by the government of correcting… offenders of the Catholic religion”.
Conclusion: Assisi as Anti-Ecclesial Theater
Prevost’s Assisi performance continues the scandal begun by John Paul II’s 1986 interreligious meeting – condemned by Archbishop Lefebvre as “the denial of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ”. The true St. Francis would weep at this sacrilege. Let faithful Catholics recall Pius XI’s injunction: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty” (Quas Primas). Only by rejecting the conciliar sect and returning to integral Catholic tradition can Christ’s social reign be restored.
Source:
Pope to Italian Bishops: We are first called to look to Jesus (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.11.2025