Vatican News portal reports (03 September 2026) that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed seminarians from the Pius XI Regional Seminary in Molfetta and the Episcopal Seminary of Aversa, reducing the priestly vocation to a subjective “relationship with Jesus” and a communitarian “journey” devoid of the sacerdotium‘s sacrificial essence. This address manifests the total apostasy of the conciliar sect: it substitutes the character indelebilis of Holy Orders for modernist “accompaniment,” the Sacrificium Prophetiae for naturalistic activism, and the Regnum Christi for a horizontal “mission” stripped of the Cross.
The Usurper’s Address: A Catechism of Conciliar Apostasy
The cited article relates that the antipope framed the seminary “experience” around “learning to be with the Master, Jesus” and “climbing the mountain” to “remain with Him,” declaring this “the heart of the seminary experience.” He insisted that the call comes “not from merit, but only by a free choice on the part of God the Father,” and that the seminarians’ presence is “a sign of hope for the whole Church.” Formation, he claimed, allows “time for discernment in the midst of a fast-paced and noisy world,” emphasizing “community” and “ecclesial mediation.” Finally, he ordered them “coming down from the mountain, because the mountain is not a refuge,” to “proclaim to all the beauty of Faith in Jesus Christ, the good news of salvation – the salvation given to us through Mary.”
Every phrase drips with the putrefaction of the nouvelle théologie. The antipope speaks not as Vicarius Christi but as a motivational coach for a religious NGO. The sacerdos is not formed by “remaining with Jesus” in a sentimental sojourn; he is configured to Christus Sacerdos et Victima by the character impressed at ordination, to offer the Hostia immaculata for the propitiationem peccatorum (Council of Trent, Sess. XXII, can. 1). The antipope’s silence on the Sacrificium Missae, on peccatum, on gratia sanctificans, on the potestas ordinis and potestas iurisdictionis, is not an omission—it is a positive denial of the Catholic priesthood.
Factual Level: The Nullity of Conciliar “Formation”
The seminaries named—Pius XI Regional Seminary in Molfetta, Episcopal Seminary of Aversa—are structures of the conciliar sect, erected under the Codex Iuris Canonici of 1983, which itself is a product of the conciliar revolution. Their “formation” follows Pastores Dabo Vobis (1992) and Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (2016), documents that replace the scholasticus cursus of philosophy and theology (mandated by Trent, Sess. XXIII, c. 18; Canon 1364 CIC 1917) with “human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral pillars”—a Masonic quadrilateral designed to produce functionaries, not alter Christus.
The antipope’s reference to “study, discipline, and the stages of the journey” as “necessary elements of formation” grounded in “a relationship with God” inverts the Thomistic order: gratia supponit naturam, but gratia is not a “relationship”—it is a participatio naturae divinae (2 Pet 1:4) conferred ex opere operato by the sacraments. The conciliar “seminary” has no valid sacraments because it lacks valid bishops (ordained in the rito novus of 1968, which defects in form and intention per Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, 1896). Therefore, these men are not seminarians; they are laymen in clerical costume, trained for a Protestantized “presbyterate” that denies the propitiatory Sacrifice.
Linguistic Level: The Rhetoric of the “Church of the New Advent”
The vocabulary is deliberately evacuated of supernatural density. “Experience,” “journey,” “discernment,” “community,” “accompaniment,” “sign of hope,” “newness of life”—these are the buzzwords of the hermeneutica continuitatis, the linguistic virus of Vatican II. The antipope says Jesus calls “those whom He wanted” (Mk 3:13), but strips the text of its sacramental efficacy. The Apostles were not called to a “community experience”; they were constituted Princes of the Church with potestas ligandi et solvendi (Mt 16:19; 18:18; Jn 20:22-23).
The phrase “salvation given to us through Mary” is a calculated ambiguity. True Catholic theology teaches: Salus per Christum in Maria—Mary is the Mediatrix omnium gratiarum by divine appointment, subordinate to the Unicus Mediator (1 Tim 2:5). The antipope’s formulation, severed from the Sacrificium Calvariae and the Sacramenta, reduces Our Lady to a spiritual channel for a generic “salvation,” ripe for ecumenical consumption. This is the Mariology of the paramasonic structure, not the Corredemptrix of Pius XI and Pius XII.
Theological Level: Confrontation with the Immutable Magisterium
1. The Priesthood is a Sacrifice, Not a “Relationship”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches that Christ’s Kingship is legislative, judicial, and executive: “Christ Jesus is given to men as Redeemer, in whom they are to place their hope, but at the same time He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience”. The priest shares in this munus regendi and munus sanctificandi precisely by offering the Sacrificium Eucharisticum. The antipope’s “remain with Jesus” is a Modernist substitution of sentiment for ontology, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “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, condemned). The antipope makes the priesthood a “practical function” of accompaniment.
2. No Salvation Outside the Una Sancta and the Sacerdotium
The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (prop. 16). The conciliar sect’s “seminary” forms men for a “priesthood” that celebrates an invalid “Mass,” administers invalid sacraments, and preaches a false gospel of libertas religiosa (condemned, Quanta Cura, 1864; Syllabus, prop. 77-79). The antipope’s “sign of hope” is a sign of contradiction (Lk 2:34)—hope for the kingdom of Antichrist.
3. The Automatic Loss of Office of Manifest Heretics
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates conclusively: a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction. Bellarmine: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2.30). Canon 188.4 (1917): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559): promotion of a heretic is “null, void, and of no effect.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV has publicly defected by teaching religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the New Mass. Leo XIV is not Pope; he is a layman usurping the Chair of Peter.
Symptomatic Level: The Masonic Architecture of the “New Priesthood”
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file exposes the Masonic operation behind the conciliar revolution: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The antipope’s address is the mature fruit of this operation. The seminaries are factories for the novus ordo presbyter—a functionary of the civitas terrena, stripped of potestas sacra, trained in dialogue and encounter (Masonic virtues), ignorant of anathematizations and damnationis poena.
The mention of “Pius XI Regional Seminary” is a cruel irony. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). Today, his namesake seminary produces agents of that very laicism. The antipope’s “coming down from the mountain” is the descent from Calvariae vertice to the plains of Babylon. The true priest ascends the altar of sacrifice; the conciliar “presbyter” descends to the “people of God” for a communal meal.
The Verdict: No Vocations in the Conciliar Sect
St. Alphonsus Liguori teaches: “Without the priesthood, there would be no sacrifice, no sacraments, no Church, no salvation.” The conciliar sect has no priesthood, therefore no sacrifice, no sacraments, no Church, no salvation. The young men in Molfetta and Aversa are not discerning a vocation; they are being recruited into a counter-church that fulfills the prophecy of 2 Thess 2:3-4: “the man of sin… sitting in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God.”
The only true seminary is the Seminarium Traditionis where bishops with valid orders (consecrated ante 1968 in the Roman Pontifical) form priests in the Tridentinum, the Summa Theologiae, the Breviarium Romanum, and the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V. All else is vanitas vanitatum and stramentum ad ignem (1 Cor 3:12-15).
Let no Catholic be deceived. The antipope’s words are venenum in calice. “Separate yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing” (2 Cor 6:17). The Regnum Christi is not built by “remaining with Jesus” in a conciliar seminary; it is built by the Sacrificium Perpetuum of the True Mass, offered by true priests, under true bishops, in communion with the true Pope—ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia—and Peter is not in the Vatican.
Source:
Pope Leo to seminarians: Learn to remain with Jesus (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.09.2026