The National Catholic Register portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) sent a letter to the Chicago White Sox baseball team on September 9, 2026, offering “papal blessings” for their playoff run, praising sport as a “school of life” centered on “sharing,” “respecting others,” and “walking together,” while invoking the “Almighty’s abundant blessings” upon the franchise owner and players. The article celebrates this exchange as a heartwarming convergence of faith and baseball, noting the antipope’s lifelong fandom and attendance at the 2005 World Series. This grotesque spectacle exposes the post-conciliar counter-church not merely as worldly, but as a fully naturalized religious NGO whose “pontiff” functions as a celestial mascot for professional sports franchises.
The Factual Level: A “Pontiff” for the Ballpark, Not for the Cross
The cited article relates that on September 29, 2026 — the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts — the structures occupying the Vatican chose to publicize a letter dated September 9 addressed to Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of a commercial baseball enterprise valued at billions. The correspondence contains zero references to Jesus Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, the salvation of souls, the necessity of baptism, the reality of hell, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King. Instead, the antipope deploys the vocabulary of secular humanism: “school of life,” “abundance does not come from victory at any cost,” “sharing,” “respecting others,” “joy of walking together,” “bonds of friendship and solidarity,” “living and working together in peace.”
The article notes the team’s “improbable journey” from “three consecutive seasons with at least 101 losses” to an 84-78 record and a Wild Card berth. Manager Will Venable is quoted: “The Pope having our back and supporting us means a lot.” Here is the measure of the modernist “church”: its “pope” is valued precisely for the psychological boost he provides to a sports franchise, a purely temporal and commercial entity. The Register, an organ of the conciliar sect, presents this as edifying journalism.
The Linguistic Level: Therapeutic Deism Replaces Catholic Dogma
The letter’s rhetoric is indistinguishable from a motivational speaker or a corporate HR directive. Sport can truly become a school of life — a Pelagian assertion that natural virtue is self-sufficient. Abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing — a utilitarian ethic stripped of the summum bonum. Walking together — the conciliar sect’s favorite slogan (synodality), here applied to baseball. Foster bonds of friendship and solidarity — pure Masonic liberté, égalité, fraternité secularized. Invoke the Almighty’s abundant blessings — a generic theism suitable for a Masonic lodge, carefully avoiding the Name above every name: Jesus Christ (Phil 2:9-10).
The Register’s author, Alyssa Murphy, employs the language of fandom: “divine inspiration,” “unexpected ally,” “papal blessings,” “Vatican backing.” The supernatural order is reduced to a lucky charm for athletic performance. The antipope’s quip — “No comment” on whether he deserves credit for the turnaround — is treated as charming humility rather than the dereliction of a man claiming to be the Vicar of Christ.
The Theological Level: The Abomination of Desolation in the Ballpark
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered: “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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The same encyclical establishes that Christ’s reign encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ. The Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
The antipope’s letter is a practical application of these condemned errors. By blessing a secular sports franchise without demanding its submission to Christ the King, without calling its owners and players to conversion, baptism, and the Catholic Faith, the usurper implicitly affirms the laicism Pius XI called “the plague that poisons human society.” He treats the White Sox as a legitimate sphere autonomous from Christ’s Kingship — a “school of life” parallel to the Church, rather than a human institution bound to recognize the reign of our Savior (Quas Primas).
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code teaches that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” A man who occupies the Chair of Peter — or claims to — and uses that claim to send good-luck notes to a baseball team, invoking a generic “Almighty” while silencing the Name of Jesus, has publicly defected from the integral Catholic Faith. He functions as a chaplain of the civitas terrena, not the Civitas Dei. St. Augustine warns: Two loves have made two cities: love of self unto contempt of God made the earthly city; love of God unto contempt of self made the heavenly city (De Civitate Dei XIV.28). The antipope serves the former.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Final Form — Religious Entertainment
This episode is not an aberration; it is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution. Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes opened the Church to the “modern world”; the post-conciliar “popes” have spent six decades descending from the altar to the stadium. John Paul II performed at youth rallies; Benedict XVI visited a synagogue and a mosque; Bergoglio blessed bicycles, soccer balls, and transgender activists. Now Leo XIV — a Chicago native, a “regular guy,” a “Father Bob” — completes the transformation: the papacy as celebrity endorsement.
The Register article reveals the target audience: not the faithful seeking salvation, but the “nones” and the culturally Catholic who want a Church that blesses their hobbies. The “letter” is a press release. The White Sox Twitter account (@whitesox) amplified it: “Earlier today, a letter from Pope Leo XIV arrived at Rate Field. Go White Sox!” The conciliar sect’s media apparatus (EWTN, Register, Vatican News) coordinates to manufacture “viral moments” of religious sentimentality devoid of supernatural substance.
“With these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty’s abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.”
No invocation of the Most Holy Trinity. No appeal to the Mediatrix of All Graces. No mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The antipope’s “blessing” is a performative utterance, a speech act of the neo-church’s civil religion. It resembles the “blessing” of the fleet, the harvest, the highway — pagan benedictio stripped of sacramental efficacy, reduced to magical thinking for temporal success.
The “Two Lucias” of the Conciliar Sect: Continuity in Rupture
The article notes the antipope attended Game 1 of the 2005 World Series as “Father Bob.” Here is the continuity of the false church: the same naturalistic clerics who administered the novus ordo in 2005 now occupy the Vatican in 2026. The “Two Lucia Sisters” theory from the Fatima dossier — that the visionary was replaced — finds its true application in the conciliar papacy: the man elected in 2025 is not the same office as the man who died in 1958. The office has been mutated into a global humanitarian brand ambassador. Pius XII, in Mystici Corporis (1943), taught that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, not a “community of accompaniment.” The antipope’s letter to the White Sox is a document of the counter-church, the ecclesia maligna foretold by the Fathers.
Conclusion: The Scoreboard of Eternity
The White Sox won their Wild Card opener 6-3. The Register celebrates. The antipope smiles. But “what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” (Mk 8:36). The Chicago White Sox, their owner, their manager, their players, and the millions who read this drivel are perishing for lack of knowledge (Hos 4:6) — knowledge that the true Pope teaches the integral Faith, condemns error, demands conversion, and reigns from the Cross, not the dugout.
The structures occupying the Vatican have abandoned the munus docendi, sanctificandi, regendi for the munus blandiendi — the ministry of blandishment. Let the faithful flee this abomination. Let them cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King — the only Kingdom that “shall not be corrupted” (Dan 7:14). The White Sox will play Game 2. The antipope will write another letter. The Register will publish another puff piece. But the Judge stands before the door (Jas 5:9).
Source:
Pope Leo Pens a Letter to the White Sox Ahead of Their World Series Quest (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.09.2026