The Vatican News portal (27 September 2026) reports on a carefully staged encounter between the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and seven victims of clerical abuse in Lourdes, presenting it as a moment of “deep listening,” “profound empathy,” and even “reconciliation” for a self-professed atheist who attended the invalid Novus Ordo service and made the sign of the cross. This media spectacle, masquerading as pastoral care, exposes the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect: it substitutes naturalistic sentimentality for divine justice, sociological jargon for moral theology, and media optics for the munus of the Petrine office which the usurper does not possess.
Theatrical Empathy as Substitute for Divine Justice
The article drips with the language of therapeutic modernity: “deep listening,” “incredible empathy,” “non-verbal communication,” “transformative encounter.” Nowhere is there mention of justitia, poenitentia, or reparatio. The antipope is described as “profoundly affected, deeply wounded,” speaking of “open wounds” — the vocabulary of the psychologist, not the Vicar of Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingship demands legislative, judicial, and executive power: “He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience… concerning the judicial authority… He Himself says… the Father has given all judgment to the Son.” The antipope’s “listening” replaces judgment; his “empathy” replaces the potestas iudicandi. This is not the regnum Christi but the regnum hominis, the kingdom of man so solemnly condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — here the Church is reduced to a secular NGO offering trauma counseling).
The Conciliar Sect’s Instrumentalization of Victims
The victims are paraded before the cameras as props in a public relations operation. The article notes they “worked for a month to establish the format,” “prepared everything together,” and “the arrangements were worked out directly with him.” This is not pastoral solicitude; it is choreography. The antipope “requested a very small number” — initially five, then seven — ensuring intimacy for the cameras. One victim, Jean-Marie Delbos, a “well-known atheist,” states he attended the “Mass” for the first time in 60 years and “made the sign of the cross.” This is presented as a triumph. In reality, it is a diabolical mockery: an unbaptized (or apostate) soul participating in a Protestantized memorial meal, validated by a manifest heretic who has no authority to bless, much less absolve. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny the propitiatory nature of the Mass (Session XXII, Can. 3); the Novus Ordo, fabricated by Bugnini and his Masonic consultants, is a cena, not a sacrificium. To present attendance at this abomination as spiritual progress is to lead souls to hell under the guise of mercy.
Absence of the Supernatural: Pure Naturalism
Read the article closely: not a single reference to gratia sanctificans, peccatum mortale, iudicium particulare, infernum, or satisfactio. The “systemic nature” of abuse is invoked — a sociological category borrowed from the CIASE report, a document produced by the conciliar church in collaboration with the secular French state. The antipope “has a very clear view of the systemic dynamics,” we are told. This is the language of the Modernist, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”; Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”). The eternal truth that peccatum mortale kills the soul and cries to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10) is replaced by “systemic dynamics” and “prevention measures.” The Syllabus condemns the error that “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56). Here, the divine sanction is entirely absent; only “measures,” “vigilance,” and “outside organizations” remain.
Invalid “Mass” and Sacrilegious “Blessings”
The article states Delbos “went to Mass for the first time in 60 years… when he saw the Pope… I made the sign of the cross.” This “Mass” was the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite fabricated in 1969 which de facto denies the Real Presence, the Propitiatory Sacrifice, and the Ministerial Priesthood — as Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci warned in their Critical Study (1969). The antipope, a manifest heretic who professes the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality), cannot validly celebrate the Holy Sacrifice. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice 2.30) that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by that very fact.” Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Therefore, the “blessing” the antipope gave — “he put both arms around me… he gathered us together and said, ‘I bless you'” — is at best a null act, at worst a diabolical mockery of the benedictio sacerdotalis. The victim, an atheist, received a hug from a layman in white vestments and calls it “eternity.” This is the abominatio desolationis standing where it ought not (Mk 13:14).
The Masonic Pedagogy of “Listening” Over Judgment
The antipope’s “academic background in law” is highlighted: “He knew my story and asked very precise questions… he is a committed man… determined.” This is the technocratic ideal: the administrator-manager who “does the work beforehand.” But the papal office is not a managerial position; it is the vicaria potestas of Christ the King. Pius XI in Quas Primas insists: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… the annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The antipope does not remind the French state of its duty to honor Christ; he collaborates with its secular commissions (CIASE). He does not demand the conversion of the abusers to the Catholic Faith; he “listens” to victims. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The conciliar sect has surrendered to the state, and this meeting is the theater of that surrender.
False “Reconciliation” Without Conversion
Delbos says: “This has brought me reconciliation… I have a new understanding of the Church, of this Pope who has shaken me.” But reconciliatio requires conversio, confessio, absolutio by a valid priest, and satisfactio. The atheist remains an atheist; the abusers are not named, not excommunicated, not handed over to the secular arm (as the Church’s immemorial discipline requires for clerics guilty of crimen pessimum). The antipope proposes no canonical penalties, no restoration of the Tridentinum, no condemnation of the homosexual networks in the seminaries — only “joining forces with outside organizations.” This is the “ecumenism of the blood” so dear to Bergoglio: a unity of sentiment that ignores the fides quae creditur. St. Cyprian teaches: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The conciliar sect is not the Church; its “reconciliation” is a lie.
The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This spectacle is the inevitable fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes anthropology: man at the center, God marginalized. The “Church” becomes a “field hospital” (Bergoglio’s phrase) for the wounded of this world, not the Ecclesia Militans leading souls to heaven. The Syllabus (Error 77) condemns: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The conciliar sect lives this error daily. The antipope’s “empathy” is the new gospel, replacing the Evangelium of the Cross. The victims are used to legitimize a usurper who has no title to the Chair of Peter. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates from Bellarmine, Wernz-Vidal, and Canon 188.4: a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto. Leo XIV, by professing the conciliar heresies, is not Pope. His “blessing” is void; his “Mass” is invalid; his “listening” is the serpent’s hiss in the garden.
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith
The only remedy for the scandal of clerical abuse is the restoration of the integrum Catholicum: the Traditional Latin Mass, the uncompromising preaching of the Four Last Things, the rigorous screening of seminarians (excluding homosexuals per the 1961 Instruction Careful Selection and Training of Candidates), the enforcement of Canon 2359 §2 (perpetual deposition for clerics guilty of crimen nefandum), and the recognition that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958. The Lourdes spectacle is a ludibrium — a mockery. Faithful Catholics must flee the conciliar sect (fugite ex medio eius, Jer 51:45), cleave to bishops and priests who maintain the Traditio without compromise, and pray for the true Pope’s revelation. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The gates of hell shall not prevail — but they have seized the Vatican. The true Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition.
Source:
Abuse victims in Lourdes: ‘Pope listened deeply, was pained by our stories’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.09.2026