Vatican News, the propaganda organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed three new members to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences: Umberto Longo, director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages in Rome; Francesco Cesareo, president emeritus of Assumption University in Worcester; and Anna Barańska, associate professor at the “John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.” This routine administrative act of the neo-church reveals the unbroken continuity of the Modernist project: the instrumentalization of history to legitimize the apostasy of the Second Vatican Council and its anti-papal claimants.
The Usurper’s Academic Puppets
The appointment of these three figures is not a matter of scholarly merit but of ideological reliability. The conciliar sect, having no mission from Christ to teach, govern, and sanctify, seeks instead the imprimatur of secular academia. The “Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences,” founded in 1954 by Pius XII—a pope whose later years already bore the wounds of the coming crisis—has long since ceased to serve the regnum Christi. It has become a paramasonic structure for the rehabilitation of Modernist narratives, a “Ministry of Truth” for the Church of the New Advent.
The choice of Anna Barańska from the “John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin” is particularly damning. This institution, named after the arch-heretic Wojtyła—who kissed the Quran, prayed with pagans at Assisi, and taught the heresy of religious liberty—is a fortress of the new theology. Her appointment signals that the “historical sciences” in the neo-church are nothing but the hagiography of the conciliar revolution. Francesco Cesareo, hailing from Assumption University in Worcester, represents the Americanist wing of the sect, steeped in the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899), which adapts the Faith to the spirit of democratic pluralism. Umberto Longo, ensconced in the Roman academic establishment, ensures the Romanita of the operation: the control of the narrative at the very heart of the occupied Vatican.
The Committee: A Tool for Historical Revisionism
The article boasts of the Committee’s lineage from the “Cardinal Commission for Historical Studies established by Pope Leo XIII through the Apostolic Letter Saepenumero considerantes (1883).” This is a classic Modernist tactic: usurping the authority of true popes to legitimize the work of false ones. Leo XIII founded that Commission to defend the Church’s history against the falsifications of rationalist historians—the very enemies whose intellectual heirs now sit on this Committee. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3) and that “The method and principles by which the old scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to the demands of our times” (Error 13). The current Committee operates precisely on these condemned principles: history as a purely naturalistic discipline, severed from the supernatural finality of the Church.
The article notes “Numerous appeals have been addressed to the Popes to allow scholars greater and better access to the archival collections.” This demand for “access” is the cry of the rationalist who demands the Church submit her archives to the judgment of the world. Quas Primas teaches that “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will” and that “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church”. The neo-church, however, surrenders the Church’s patrimony to the spirit of the world, treating the Vatican Archives not as the arsenal of truth but as raw material for Modernist deconstruction.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Historical Sciences” in the Neo-Church
The very phrase “Historical Sciences” in the mouth of the conciliar sect is a contradiction in terms. For the Catholic, history is Historia Salutis—the unfolding of Divine Providence. For the Modernist, history is evolution, the very error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Prop. 60) and “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Prop. 58). The Committee’s work, under the chairmanship of the Jesuit “Father” Marek Inglot—a member of an order long since corrupted into the vanguard of Modernism—is to advance this evolutionary historiography. They do not study history to defend the depositum fidei; they study it to dissolve it.
The article mentions the Committee is chaired by a “Jesuit Father Marek Inglot.” The Society of Jesus, once the shock troops of the Papacy, was canonically destroyed by the Modernist usurper Paul VI and its ruins now serve the abomination of desolation. A “Jesuit” presiding over “Historical Sciences” in 2026 is the perfect symbol of the auto-demolition of the Church spoken of by Paul VI himself—a demolition directed from the top of the conciliar pyramid.
Contrast with True Catholic Historiography
True Catholic history is written from the perspective of the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declares: “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 “Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences” of the neo-church operates in the service of the Civitas Diaboli, the secular city that denies Christ’s Kingship. Its historians do not judge events by the standard of Salus animarum suprema lex but by the standards of dialogue, inclusivity, and religious freedom—the very errors condemned in the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77).
Furthermore, the legitimacy of the appointing authority is null. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, cited in the defense of sedevacantism: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member”. Leo XIV, as a manifest adherent of the conciliar heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), is ipso facto deprived of jurisdiction. His appointments are null, void, and of no effect, just as the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV declares regarding heretics elevated to office. The three appointees receive no mission from Christ; they receive a mandate from a usurper to administer the opium of historical relativism to the faithful.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article is a perfect specimen of naturalistic bureaucratese. There is not a single mention of grace, faith, salvation, the souls in purgatory, the Kingship of Christ, or the damnation of heretics. It reads like a press release from a secular NGO or a university department. This silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation. It proves that the “Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences” is not an organ of the Catholic Church, which exists ad majorem Dei gloriam and for the salvation of souls, but an organ of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) which has erected the abomination of desolation in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The true Church, the Ecclesia militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition under valid bishops and priests retaining the Traditional Latin Mass and the unchanging doctrine, has no need of this Committee. Her historians are the Saints, the Fathers, the Doctors, and the Martyrs. Her archives are the Scriptures and Tradition, interpreted by the infallible Magisterium of pre-1958 popes. The neo-church’s committee is a Potemkin village, a facade of scholarly legitimacy masking the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar revolution.
Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, no matter how many “pontifical committees” the antipope stacks with Modernist academics.
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Pope names new members to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.08.2026