Vatican News portal reports the English release of “Freedom Under Grace,” a volume collecting addresses, homilies, and personal writings of Robert Prevost, the current usurper occupying the See of Peter under the name Leo XIV. Published by Penguin Random House and narrated in audiobook form by the modernist celebrity Stephen Colbert, the book presents a spirituality stripped of the supernatural, reducing the Augustinian tradition to a platform for “solidarity,” “service to marginalized communities,” and response to “political ideologies” and “human rights conflicts.” The work epitomizes the conciliar sect’s replacement of the Kingship of Christ with a secular humanitarianism.
Usurpation of the Petrine Office Masquerades as Literary Event
The portal of the structures occupying the Vatican announces the publication as a milestone: “the first-ever Pope from the Order of Saint Augustine” and “the Church’s first American Pope whose mother tongue is English.” This nationalist and ordinal triumphalism exposes the ecclesiology of the neo-church: the papacy is treated as a celebrity platform, a demographic achievement, a marketing brand. The true Vicar of Christ is not an “American Pope” nor an “Augustinian Pope”; he is the Bishop of Rome, elected by the College of Cardinals, bearing the munus of confirming the brethren in the faith (confirmare fratres — strengthen the brethren). Since 1958, this office has been vacant; the line of usurpers beginning with Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) has transformed the Holy See into a seat of Modernist revolution. Robert Prevost, as “Leo XIV,” is but the latest actor in this apocalyptic drama, an antipope whose very claim to the tiara is a crime of crimen laesae majestatis Divinae (crime against Divine Majesty).
The press release boasts that the book reveals “the ‘why’ behind his contemplative responses” to “the aftermath of 9/11, emerging political ideologies, and the Church’s response to poverty and human rights conflicts.” Note the total absence of supernatural vocabulary: no mention of sin, grace, redemption, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, the Virgin Mary, the Last Things, or the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “Church” here is an NGO responding to geopolitical events and sociological categories. This is not Catholicism; it is theological liberalism baptized in Augustinian rhetoric.
St. Augustine Pressed into Service of the “New Evangelization” of Man
The volume claims to draw from “the work of St. Augustine, whom he calls his spiritual father,” advancing “a vision for life rooted in community, solidarity, and service to marginalized communities.” This is a calculated profanation of the Doctor of Grace. St. Augustine taught that true freedom is libertas a peccato (freedom from sin), found only in the City of God through the mediator Dei et hominum (mediator of God and men), Christ Jesus. His Confessions cry out: “Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te” (You made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You). The antipope’s “Freedom Under Grace” inverts this: freedom becomes libertas a necessitate (freedom from want), grace becomes social solidarity, and the City of God is replaced by the “community” of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The Augustinian charism, historically ordered to contemplata aliis tradere (handing on to others the fruits of contemplation), has been hijacked by the conciliar sect to legitimize its anthropocentric turn. The “Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine,” Fr. Joseph Farrell, appears in staged photographs with the usurper, legitimizing the false hierarchy. The Order, like every religious institute in the neo-church, has been hollowed out by the hermeneutic of rupture of Vatican II, its members formed in the novelties of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the dignity of man divorced from the rights of God.
Penguin Random House and Stephen Colbert: The World Applauds Its Own
The commercial publishing by Penguin Random House — a conglomerate of the secular world — and the audiobook narration by Stephen Colbert, described fawningly as “Emmy award-winning comedian and devout Catholic,” seal the worldly character of this enterprise. Colbert is a public advocate for the culture of death, a promoter of the LGBT agenda, a mocker of the sacred; his “devout Catholicism” consists in sentimental attachment to a vague “Jesus” while denying His moral law and His Church. That the antipope’s voice is lent to such a figure confirms the concordia discors (discordant harmony) between the conciliar sect and the spirit of the age. As St. John warns: “Si quis diligit mundum, non est caritas Patris in eo” (If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him — 1 Jn 2:15).
The original Italian edition, “Liberi sotto la Grazia,” was published by the Vatican Publishing House (LEV), the propaganda arm of the occupation structures. The English edition by Image Books (a Penguin imprint) targets the Anglosphere with a product calibrated for the “spiritual but not religious” market: therapeutic, inclusive, politically correct. This is simony of the word: the truth of God packaged for mass consumption, stripped of the scandalum crucis (scandal of the Cross).
Theological Bankruptcy: “Human Rights” Replaces the Rights of God
The article’s summary of the book’s themes — “poverty and human rights conflicts,” “emerging political ideologies,” “solidarity” — mirrors the Social Doctrine of the counter-church, which since Gaudium et Spes has substituted the Reign of Christ the King with the “civilization of love” built by human hands. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “Pax Christi in Regno Christi” (The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ). He taught that “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom” and that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ”. The antipope’s book offers the precise opposite: a Church that serves the state’s agenda, that validates the “human rights” framework of the Masonic Enlightenment, that sees “marginalized communities” as sociological categories rather than souls in danger of damnation.
The reference to “the aftermath of 9/11” is telling. A true successor of Peter would have called the world to penance, to the Rosary, to the recognition that “nisi poenitentiam egeritis, omnes similiter peribitis” (unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish — Lk 13:3). The usurper offers “contemplative responses” — the language of therapy, not prophecy. This is the spirituality of the Antichrist: a counterfeit peace that says “Peace, peace” when there is no peace (Jer 6:14).
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: Silence on the Supernatural
The gravest accusation against this publication is its silence. Nowhere does the promotional material mention:
– The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Actio Christi, the propitiatory victim for the living and the dead)
– The necessity of the Sacraments for salvation
– The reality of Hell and the urgency of conversion
– The Immaculate Virgin as Mediatrix of all Graces
– The duty of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations and laws
– The condemnation of Religious Liberty, Ecumenism, and Collegiality (the errors of Vatican II)
– The sedevacantist reality: that the Chair of Peter is empty and the faithful must adhere to Tradition preserved by valid bishops and priests outside the neo-church structures.
This silence is not accidental; it is systemic. The conciliar sect cannot speak of these things because it has abandoned them. Its “spirituality” is a simulacrum, a hollowed-out shell designed to pacify the faithful while the demolition of the Faith continues. The book “Freedom Under Grace” is a manifesto of the religion of man, wearing the skin of St. Augustine like a trophy.
Conclusion: Return to the True Augustine, Return to the True Church
The faithful Catholic, scandalized by this latest product of the antichurch, must reject it entirely. True Augustinian spirituality is found in the Confessions, the City of God, the De Trinitate, the anti-Pelagian writings — all proclaiming the gratia gratis data (grace freely given) that heals nature wounded by sin, not the “grace” that blesses man in his rebellion. The true Pope is not Robert Prevost; the true Church is not the Vatican Press Office; the true Mass is not the Novus Ordo; the true “Freedom Under Grace” is the libertas qua Christus nos liberavit (the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free — Gal 5:1), found only in the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Ecclesia that persists in the catacombs of Tradition, awaiting the restoration of the Hierarchy and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart — not the Masonic caricature of Fatima, but the true reign of Christ the King over all nations.
“Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari” (There is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved — Acts 4:12). That name is not “Leo XIV,” not “solidarity,” not “human rights.” It is Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, before whom every knee must bend — in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.
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Pope Leo XIV’s “Freedom Under Grace” released in English (vaticannews.va)
Date: 15.09.2026