The Vatican News portal reports on the “Mass” presided over by “Cardinal” Matteo Zuppi in the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi on October 4, 2026, marking the eighth centenary of the Saint’s death. The ceremony, attended by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and “Cardinal” Ángel Fernández Artime as “Papal Legate,” featured a homily centered on disarmament, dialogue, the “rule of law,” and a universal fraternity devoid of supernatural reference. The antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is cited as a prior endorser of this pacifist narrative. This spectacle constitutes a brazen substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ with a Masonic humanitarian parody, reducing the Seraphic Father’s radical imitation of the Crucified to a secular NGOs manifesto.
The Abolition of the Social Kingship of Christ in Favor of a Masonic “Universal Fraternity”
The cited article reveals the very essence of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: the total excision of Pax Christi in Regno Christi (the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ) in favor of a “peace” born of “dialogue and the rule of law.” “Cardinal” Zuppi declares that “war is not our destiny, and peace begins with us and is the only possible future.” This is the quintessential Modernist heresy condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the reduction of the divine to the human, of the eternal to the temporal. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemns the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Here, the “Pontiff” of the neo-church does precisely that, offering a “peace” negotiated by Masonic lodges and secular states, a pax Romana without Christ the King.
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 Assisi spectacle is the liturgical celebration of this destruction. The presence of President Mattarella, head of a secular republic founded on the rejection of the Pope’s temporal sovereignty (1870), receiving “Communion” (simulated) alongside the “Cardinal” President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, is the imago of the Civitas Diaboli masquerading as the Civitas Dei. The “oil offered by the Umbria Region” and the “votive lamp of Italy’s municipalities” symbolize the complete subordination of the sanctuary to the secular city, the very error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” – condemned as error, meaning the Church must not be separated in the sense of subordination, but here the Church is absorbed by the State).
The Perversion of Franciscan Poverty into Secular Humanitarianism
Zuppi presents Saint Francis as a “poet of life,” a “humble one” who “deflates the arrogance of the powerful with courtesy,” whose “simplicity… holds what is essential.” This is a deliberate falsification. The Poverello of Assisi did not strip himself to become a “peacemaker” in the UN sense; he stripped himself ut nudus nudum Christum sequatur (to follow naked the naked Christ). His “Canticle of the Creatures” is a hymn of the recreated order through the Incarnate Word, not an ecological manifesto for “believers and non-believers” alike, as Mattarella blasphemously frames it: “a universal heritage for women and men of every age… believers and non-believers, Christians and followers of other religions.”
This is the indifferentism condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos, 1832) and Pius IX (Syllabus, Errors 15-18). The “Custos” “Brother” Marco Moroni’s call to safeguard “the dignity of every person, without distinction” – culminating in the proposal for a “children’s hospice” as the “tangible sign of the centenary” – confirms the total horizontalization of the Gospel. Charity has been severed from Truth; the Corporal Works of Mercy are performed as ends in themselves, severed from the Spiritual Works (instructing the ignorant, admonishing the sinner) and the salus animarum. This is the “dogmaless Christianity” (Protestantism) prophesied in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), Proposition 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.”
The Substitution of Supernatural Peace for Naturalist Pacifism
The article’s leitmotif is “disarmament”: “disarm our hands and our hearts.” Zuppi contrasts “weapons” with “dialogue and the rule of law.” This is the vocabulary of the Masonic “Constitution” of 1738/1820, not the Gospel. Christ said: “I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Mt 10:34). The peace of the Church is the tranquility of order (tranquillitas ordinis – St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei XIX.13), an order founded on the Lex Divina and the recognition of Christ’s Kingship. The “peace” of Assisi 2026 is the pax satanae – the cessation of conflict achieved by the surrender of Truth.
“Cardinal” Fernández Artime, in the midnight “Mass,” states: “The things we owned, our achievements, the image we projected of ourselves will not matter. Love will remain. Christ will remain.” Note the order: “Love” (vague, undefined agape detached from Commandments) precedes “Christ.” This is the religion of the “Heart” divorced from the “Truth.” It echoes the condemnation in Lamentabili, Prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” The “Transitus” becomes a metaphor for social activism: “learning, day after day, to die to ourselves so that we may belong ever more fully to Christ” – but a Christ stripped of His Crown, His Cross, and His Judgment.
The Idolatry of “Dialogue” and “Rule of Law” as Surrogates for Divine Law
Zuppi’s assertion that “the divider continues to make solutions more difficult… that we will find peace through weapons rather than through dialogue and the rule of law” exposes the neo-church’s political theology. The “rule of law” (Rechtsstaat) is the modernist idol replacing the Lex Aeterna. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “The civil law prevails” in conflicting laws (Error 42) and that “The secular power has authority… to pass judgment on the instructions issued… by the pastors of the Church” (Error 44). Here, the “pastors” themselves invite the secular power to judge the “solutions,” begging the State for a “dialogue” that legitimizes the State’s autonomy from God.
The “Walk with Saint Francis,” “catechesis and historical re-enactments,” “songs and prayers” – this is theatrum mundi, a liturgical entertainment for the “faithful” who no longer believe in the Missae Sacrificium but in the “sacrifice” of social cohesion. The “bells of all Assisi’s churches rang out” not for the Dies Irae or the conversion of sinners, but for a “Eucharistic celebration” that is a cena (meal) of universal brotherhood. This is the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Mt 24:15): the Masonic “Fraternité” enthroned where the Lamb should be adored.
The Conciliar Sect’s Political Theater: Mattarella and the “Civil Religion” of the Italian State
The address by President Mattarella is the most damning evidence. He hails Francis as a “prophet of peace, love and respect for creation,” a “forerunner of the saints known for their social work,” distinguished from “populist movements of his time” by “the privilege of evangelical poverty.” This is the Masonic Republic of Italy canonizing its own patron saint as a precursor of the welfare state. The “Cardinal” Zuppi speaks of “Italy’s deepest shared roots… a culture that comes from Christ and leads to Christ” – a lie. The roots of post-1870 Italy are the Breccia di Porta Pia, the Laws of Guarantees, the Lateran Pacts (violated by the 1984 Revision), and the 1948 Constitution (Art. 7, 8, 19, 20) which enshrines religious liberty and separation – errors condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas.
The “consecration” of Italy to the “Heart of Jesus” mentioned in the article (referencing Pius X’s decree) is mocked by the very context: a State that legalizes abortion, divorce, “gay marriage,” and euthanasia, presided over by a President who swears on the Constitution, not the Gospel. The “oil” and “lamp” are the tribute of the vassal sect to the secular sovereign.
The Silence on Sin, Grace, and Eternal Damnation: The Gravest Accusation
Read the article again. Search for the words: sin, grace, hell, judgment, conversion, baptism, faith, supernatural, sacrifice, priesthood, Mass, transubstantiation, Real Presence. They are absent. There is only “violence,” “hatred,” “misunderstanding,” “suffering,” “poor,” “dignity,” “hospice,” “palliative care.” This is the heresy of actionism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… He is the source of salvation for individuals and for the whole: And there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” The neo-church offers a “salvation” without the Name, a “Kingdom” without the King, a “Francis” without the Stigmata.
The “Mass” celebrated by “Cardinal” Artime at midnight, by “Brother” Trovarelli at dawn, by “Cardinal” Zuppi at mid-morning – these are not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. They are the liturgical props of a false religion. The “concelebration” itself, the versus populum orientation (implied by “packed with faithful,” “Loggia addresses”), the “Communion” distributed to a President who legislates iniquity – this is sacrilegium and idololatria.
Conclusio: The Assisi 2026 centenary is not a Catholic commemoration. It is a Masonic “Assisi III” (after 1986 and 2011), a ritual of the “Church of the New Advent” sealing the apostasy of the Italian hierarchy and the Italian State. True Catholics, adhering to the Sede Vacante reality since 1958, recognize in this spectacle the mysterium iniquitatis (2 Thess 2:7) operating openly. Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18) – but not through “dialogue,” “rule of law,” or “hospices.” Only through the Regnum Christi restored by the true Vicar of Christ, when the “abomination of desolation” is cast down.
Source:
Cardinal Zuppi in Assisi: Saint Francis reminds us that war is not our destiny (vaticannews.va)
Date: 04.10.2026