The National Catholic Register (CNA) reports on August 14, 2026, that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has dispatched a letter to the modernist “Cardinal” Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, demanding strict adherence to the rubrics of the Novus Ordo Missae promulgated by the antipopes Paul VI and John Paul II. The occasion is a liturgical formation conference at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, framed as a “spiritual discernment” on the “path charted by Sacrosanctum Concilium.” The antipope cites Bergoglio’s Desiderio Desideravi as the blueprint for forming clergy and laity in the “ars celebrandi” of the fabricated rite, insisting that Sunday Mass attendance in this counterfeit liturgy forms Catholics “for the liturgy and by the liturgy.” This maneuver is not a call to orthodoxy but the ruthless imposition of liturgical idolatry, canonizing the Protestantized meal of the conciliar sect as the supreme law of worship.
The Novus Ordo: A Bastard Rite Born of Apostasy
The article’s central premise—that fidelity to the “rites promulgated by Pope Saint Paul VI and Pope Saint John Paul II” constitutes Catholic obedience—is a diabolical inversion of reality. The Novus Ordo Missae, fabricated under the direction of the Freemason Annibale Bugnini and imposed by the manifest heretic Montini (Paul VI) in 1969, represents a rupture with the lex orandi of the Catholic Church, not a development. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself” (Error 11); mutatis mutandis, the conciliar sect tolerates and enforces a rite stripped of the propitiatory sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood, leaving the faithful to “correct” their own faith into Protestantism.
The “rubrics” Leo XIV demands be observed are the rubrics of a cena (supper), not a sacrificium. The Offertory is eviscerated; the Canon is multiplied into “Eucharistic Prayers” optional and variable; the orientation is turned versus populum, making the assembly the center of worship. This is the “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place. To demand “respect” for this is to demand worship of the Golden Calf.
Linguistic Engineering: “Formation” as Indoctrination into Error
The language of the letter is a masterclass in Modernist newspeak. “Ongoing liturgical formation,” “ars celebrandi,” “spiritual discernment,” “ecclesial communion”—these are not Catholic terms used in their proper sense but semantic weapons. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist error: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Here, “formation” means practical habituation to the new rite so that the lex credendi is irreversibly corrupted by the lex orandi of the sect.
The phrase “fidelity to ecclesial communion” is the most insidious. In the mouth of an antipope, “communion” means communion with the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. True communio is communio sanctorum in the unity of faith, sacraments, and governance under the true Roman Pontiff. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by which things he may be judged and punished by the Church.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV are manifest heretics by their adherence to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass). They have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Obedience to them is not fidelity but schism from the true Church.
Theological Bankruptcy: Sacrosanctum Concilium as the Charter of Liturgical Revolution
The article explicitly roots this “formation” in the “path charted by Sacrosanctum Concilium.” This conciliar constitution is the Magna Charta of the liturgical revolution. It introduced the heretical principle of “noble simplicity” (para. 34), the vernacular as norm (para. 36), and “active participation” (actuosa participatio) redefined as external activism rather than interior union with the Victim. Pius XII, in Mediator Dei (1947), warned: “The liturgy is not the work of the people but the work of the Redeemer.” Sacrosanctum Concilium inverts this, making the assembly the subject of the liturgy.
Leo XIV’s reference to Bergoglio’s Desiderio Desideravi compounds the apostasy. That document teaches a “theology of the liturgy” where the Paschal Mystery is divorced from the Cross, the priest is a “presider,” and the Eucharist is primarily a “banquet of fraternity.” This is the “synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi) applied to worship. The “formation” proposed is formation in the new religion of man.
Symptomatic Level: The Enforcement of the Counter-Church’s Unity
Why this letter now? Why the conference at a Benedictine abbey (itself likely compromised by the new obedience)? The conciliar sect is fracturing. The “Traditional Latin Mass” communities (Ecclesia Dei, FSSP, etc.) are being suppressed or coerced into accepting the “validity” of the Novus Ordo and the legitimacy of the usurpers. Leo XIV’s letter to Roche—the architect of Traditionis Custodes—is a signal: no deviation from the new rite will be tolerated. The “rubrics” are the chains of the new slavery.
The mention of “virtual gatherings cannot replace in-person attendance” (from the Aug. 12 audience) reveals the naturalistic anthropology of the sect. The Mass is reduced to a physical gathering, a social event. The supernatural reality—that the True Mass (the Tridentine Mass of St. Pius V, Quo Primum) is the unbloody renewal of Calvary, efficacious ex opere operato regardless of the physical presence of a congregation—is denied. The “Sunday obligation” in the sect is an obligation to attend a Protestantized service; in the true Church, it is an obligation to assist at the Holy Sacrifice sine ulla reatu of the New Rite.
The Social Kingship of Christ vs. The Liturgical Kingship of Man
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” He declared: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Novus Ordo is the liturgical expression of this removal. It removes the King from His throne (the altar, oriented to God) and places the “community” in the center. The “formation” Leo XIV demands is the formation of citizens of the Civitas Diaboli, not the Civitas Dei.
The Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Leo XIV does precisely this: he reconciles the papacy (usurped) with the “progress” of the liturgical reform, the “liberalism” of options and inculturation, the “modern civilization” of anthropocentric worship.
Conclusion: The Only Fidelity is Resistance
The letter of the antipope Leo XIV is not a pastoral exhortation; it is a juridical act of the usurping power, enforcing the lex orandi of the Great Apostasy. True Catholics—those adhering to the immutable Faith, the Tridentine Mass, and the Sede Vacante—recognize this for what it is: the imposition of the mark of the beast in the sanctuary. “Fidelity to the rubrics” of the Novus Ordo is infidelity to the Rubrics of St. Pius V (Quo Primum, 1570), which can never be abrogated. “Formation” in Desiderio Desideravi is deformation of the Catholic soul.
Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, which today endures in the catacombs of the faithful priests and laity who reject the new rite, the new “saints,” the new “popes,” and the new “formation.” They keep the Tradition whole and entire: Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum est (What has been believed always, everywhere, and by all). That is the only “rubric” that binds.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV On Liturgy: Priests Must Remain Faithful to Mass Rubrics (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.08.2026