Vatican News portal (20 November 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s visit to the Augustinian monastery of Santa Chiara in Montefalco, Italy. The article describes his participation in a simulated “Mass,” shared meals with nuns, and exchanges of gifts including Sagrantino wine. Abbess Maria Cristina Daguati praises the antipope’s “peacemaking personality” and “unarmed and disarming” nature, while emphasizing themes of “synodality” and “fraternity.” The monastery claims continuity with St. Clare of Montefalco (canonized 1881), presenting the event as spiritual renewal.
Illicit Sacraments and the Nullity of Antipapal Acts
The article’s central fraud lies in presenting this sacrilegious pantomime as Catholic worship. Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) establishes that Christ’s kingship demands “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” – authority denied by antipope Leo XIV through his promotion of religious indifferentism. The so-called “Mass” celebrated by this usurper lacks validity not merely due to invalid ordinations (post-1968 rites being suspect), but because he lacks any jurisdictional authority (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope”).
The nuns’ acceptance of this simulation constitutes formal cooperation in apostasy. Canon 188 §4 (1917 Code) declares ecclesiastical offices vacant by public defection from faith, while Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the modernist reduction of sacraments to “merely human symbols” – precisely what occurs when antipopes “celebrate” invalid rites. Their presentation of wine underscores the blasphemy: “Take away from the Mass the propitiatory sacrifice and nothing remains but a hollow ceremony” (Council of Trent, Session XXII).
Syncretism Disguised as Augustinian Spirituality
Abbess Daguati’s claim that the antipope discussed “Augustinian vocation” constitutes theological forgery. The Rule of St. Augustine demands submission to legitimate ecclesiastical authority, which the conciliar sect has systematically destroyed.
“We seek to share [life with Christ] through prayer and fraternity”
exposes the replacement of dogmatic faith with naturalistic sentimentality – condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 15, 21, 77). Authentic Augustinianism teaches “No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother” (St. Cyprian), not this false “fraternity” with usurpers.
The 2026 calendar blending antipope Leo XIV’s speeches with Augustine’s writings demonstrates doctrinal syncretism. Pius X’s Pascendi denounced modernists who “corrupt the sacred texts by mingling human elements” – here institutionalized through sacrilegious iconography. The article’s silence on the monastery’s fidelity to pre-conciliar liturgical books or doctrinal formation proves its complete absorption into conciliar apostasy.
Cult of Personality Replacing Cultus Dei
Vatican News’ hagiographic portrayal – “unarmed and disarming” antipope, crowds “thronging medieval streets” – mimics worldly political theater. Contrast this with Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas: “When men have scorned the reign of the Redeemer, they have become exiles from His Kingdom”. The nuns’ gifts of wine and artisanal products reduce spiritual communion to bourgeois aestheticism, fulfilling Pius X’s condemnation of those who “despise the sacred and prefer the profane” (Lamentabili, Proposition 41).
Most damning is the omission of any mention of:
- Reparation for blasphemies committed by the conciliar sect
- Prayer for the antipope’s conversion
- Adoration of Christ the King as mandated by Quas Primas
The monastery has become a tourist attraction – “14th-century frescoes” promoted while the lex orandi is destroyed. True cloistered life, as defined by Pius XII’s Sponsa Christi, requires separation from modernist contamination, not photo-ops with antipopes.
Conclusion: Montefalco as Microcosm of Apostasy
This event epitomizes the conciliar sect’s inversion of Catholic ecclesiology. A validly canonized saint (Clare of Montefalco) is weaponized to legitimize invalid rites performed by a manifest heretic. The Syllabus condemns such equivocation: “The Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). Until these nuns renounce communion with antipopes and return to the vera ecclesia, their monastery serves not Christ the King, but the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matthew 24:15).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV visits Augustinian Monastery in Montefalco (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.11.2025