Vatican News, the official propaganda organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, publishes an interview with French academic Dr. Alexandra Maclennan on the occasion of the “Apostolic Journey” of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to France. The piece trumpets a tripling of adult baptisms since 2022—from 4,278 to a projected 13,234 in 2026—heralding a “new generation of Gen Z Catholics” and the antipope’s popularity “beyond the Catholic sphere.” Maclennan acknowledges parish mergers, priest shortages, and the recent passage of end-of-life legislation, yet frames these as mere challenges to be met with “creative inspiration” and “synodal pathway” conversion. The article is a masterpiece of Modernist deception: it celebrates quantitative growth within a false church while the Kingdom of Christ the King is publicly repudiated by the French state and the conciliar hierarchy alike.
The Illusion of Growth: Baptism into the Conciliar Sect, Not the Catholic Church
The central claim of the article—that adult baptisms have “more than tripled since 2022″—is presented as a sign of the Holy Ghost’s action. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a diabolical inversion of the truth. These souls are not being incorporated into the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Ecclesia, but into the conciliar sect, the “Church of the New Advent,” whose “sacraments” are administered by ministers devoid of jurisdiction and often of valid orders, under the authority of a manifest heretic who sits not on the Chair of Peter but on the throne of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15).
Dr. Maclennan states: “The number of adult baptisms has more than tripled since 2022… It’s a tangible expression of a nationwide spiritual desire.” This “spiritual desire” is precisely the fomes peccati exploited by the father of lies. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) than that of Jesus Christ, and His Kingdom “encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians”. Entry into this Kingdom requires fides catholica entire and inviolate, not the vague “spirituality” peddled by the neo-church. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). The baptisms celebrated in the Novus Ordo rite, often with defective matter, form, or intention by “priests” ordained in the invalid 1968 rite, or by lay ministers in “parishes” merged into administrative units, are at best doubtful, at worst null. Even if valid in extremis, they initiate the recipient into a communion that professes heresies condemned by Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the evolution of dogma (Prop. 58, 59), the Church as a mere human community evolving (Prop. 53), and the denial of Christ’s divine constitution of the hierarchy (Prop. 55, 56).
The Antipope’s Spectacle: Sentimentalism Substituting for the Social Kingship of Christ
The article fawns over the antipope’s “smile,” his “tears,” his “deep peace,” and his mention of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. “We all saw the way he teared up receiving the ring and the way he radiates deep peace, I think, inspires the whole country.” This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI: “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 “popularity in mainstream public opinion” of a “pope” who is accepted by the secular, Masonic French Republic is the infallible sign of his non-Catholicity. As Our Lord warned: “Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets” (Luke 6:26).
Leo XIV’s “letter to French Catholics on the centenary of the canonization of three French saints” is an act of a private individual, a usurper. Canonizations post-1958 are null and void, performed by antipopes lacking the charism of infallibility. The “Norman ancestry” and the marketing of Carmelite spirituality serve only to emotionalize the faithful, distracting them from the theological vacuum at the heart of the neo-church. The “ring” he received is the fisherman’s ring of a false fisherman; the “peace” he radiates is the pax mundi, not the Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
The “Synodal Pathway”: Institutionalizing the Heresy of Collegiality and Democracy
Maclennan explicitly praises the “synodal pathway” which has driven parish mergers, calling it “a new call to conversion, to a deeper level of faith, to a deeper understanding of what the Church is.” This is the heresy of conciliarism dressed in synodal vestments. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The “synodal pathway” destroys the divine constitution of the Church (Episcopatus by divine right, not by “synodal consensus”) and subjects the immutable deposit of faith to the hermeneutic of evolution condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 54: “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness”).
The practical result—“parish mergers have not helped, placing huge parishes in the hands of diminishing numbers of devoted but overworked pastors”—is the deliberate dismantling of the parochial structure established by the Council of Trent. The creation of “more committees… more meetings… complicated decision-making” replaces the potestas iurisdictionis of the parish priest with bureaucratic collegiality. This is the democratization of the Church, the ecclesia populi Dei of Vatican II, which is a Protestantized ecclesiology.
Secularism Triumphant: The End-of-Life Law and the Silence of the Hirelings
The article admits: “the new end-of-life legislation that was passed in July… Catholics had prayed and mobilized… But the legislation was passed.” Cardinal Aveline, the president of the French “Bishops’ Conference,” is quoted saying “the spiritual benefit of the Pope’s visit will vastly outweigh the anxieties of political life… a thorn in the side.”
This is apostasy in action. The French state legalizes murder (euthanasia/assisted suicide), violating the Fifth Commandment and the natural law, and the “hierarchy” of the neo-church responds with pietistic quietism. Pius XI in Quas Primas thunders: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ… will very severely avenge these insults, because His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments.” The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41).
The “bishops” of the conciliar sect have no jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”). They are hirelings (John 10:12) who flee when the wolf—secular legislation—attacks the flock. Their “prayer and mobilization” is a theatrical substitute for the potestas coactiva and the duty to excommunicate Catholic politicians who vote for infanticide and euthanasia. The antipope’s visit is explicitly framed as “comfort and reassurance” in the face of this legislative wound—a sedative for the conscience rather than a trumpet call to battle for the Kingship of Christ.
False Saints and False Unity: The Cult of Man Replaces the Cult of God
Maclennan lists St. Thérèse, St. Joan of Arc, St. Francis de Sales, St. Bernard, St. Martin, St. Norbert, St. Vincent de Paul, St. John Vianney. While these are true saints of the Catholic Church, their invocation by the neo-church serves a syncretic purpose. The article notes: “people in France continue to pray to the saints when they are in trouble… grannies who have kept the Church going since biblical times.” This “grandmother’s religion” is tolerated by the Modernists as a useful opiate for the masses while they dismantle the dogmatic and liturgical foundations of the faith.
The neo-church’s “canonizations” (Kolbe, John Paul II, Ulma family, Newman, Faustina) are invalid—acts of a false “pope” canonizing Modernists, Freemasons, or dubious mystics. The article’s focus on “popularity,” “devotion,” and “legends” reduces the Communio Sanctorum to a cultural heritage project. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). By placing true saints on the same devotional plane as the “saints” of the conciliar calendar, the neo-church promotes religious indifferentism (Error 16, 17, 18).
Lourdes: A Shrine Occupied by the Abomination of Desolation
Maclennan describes Lourdes as “a place where the universal Church can be experienced in a quite unique way… a place of universal devotion to the Virgin Mary.” This is a lie. Lourdes, like Fatima (exposed in the provided context as a Masonic psychological operation with “mass optical manipulation” and “ritualistic 200-year cycles”), has been transformed into a center of the neo-church’s false ecumenism. The “universal Church” experienced there is the ecclesia conciliaris, where the True Mass is banned, the rosary is recited in vernacular novelties, and the message of penance is replaced by “dialogue” and “healing” devoid of the Cross. The “healing” witnessed is often psychosomatic or diabolical counterfeit, designed to legitimize the false apparitions and the false hierarchy that controls the sanctuary.
Conclusion: The Vessel is Not Rocked—It Is Sunk
Maclennan concludes: “The Catholic Church in France at the moment… is at a watershed… a vessel that has been rocked in the storm… my hope is that it finds new creative inspiration with the visit of Pope Leo for a future of unity and healing.”
There is no vessel. The Catholic Church in France—the true Church—survives only in the catacombs, in the chapels of validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rites) who reject the conciliar sect and its antipopes, holding fast to the Quo Primum Mass, the unchangeable dogma, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King. The “vessel” Maclennan describes is the ark of the neo-church, built not by Noah but by the architects of Babel, sailing not on the waters of baptism but on the flood of apostasy.
The tripling of baptisms is not a springtime; it is a harvest of souls for the antichrist. The “Gen Z Catholics” are being formed in the smoke of Satan (Paul VI’s inadvertent truth). The only remedy is not “creative inspiration” from an antipope, but the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo), beginning with the recognition that the See of Peter is vacant (Sedes Vacans) since 1958, and the rejection of the paramasonic structure in Rome as the synagoga Satanae (Apoc. 2:9). “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters” (Matt. 12:30). The conciliar sect gathers only for the slaughter.
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French academic: ‘Number of adult baptisms has tripled since 2022' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.09.2026