The cited article from the National Catholic Register (via CNA) reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” will open an international congress on infertility in Rome on October 16–18, 2026. The event, titled “The Splendor of the Human Person: Safeguarding Fertility, Healing Infertility,” is organized by the conciliar sect’s academic apparatus—the “Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,” the “Toniolo Institute,” the “Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation,” and the “International Scientific Institute Paul VI”—under the patronage of the “Italian Episcopal Conference.” The antipope will inaugurate the gathering after a “Mass” celebrated by “Cardinal” Matteo Zuppi, with “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin delivering the opening address. The congress celebrates the 25th anniversary of the ISI-Paul VI and the 50th anniversary of the Center for Natural Fertility Regulation, explicitly framing its work as a continuation of the teaching of the false “saints” “Paul VI” and “John Paul II.” This spectacle is not a defense of Catholic morality but a manifestation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: the reduction of the supernatural order to naturalistic technocracy, the legitimation of the “therapeutic” manipulation of human generation, and the enthronement of the “culture of waste” under the guise of combating it.
The Usurper’s Theater: A False Pontiff Presiding Over a False Magisterium
The article presents the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as a legitimate authority inaugurating a “Catholic” congress. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a grotesque simulation. Since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant; the line of claimants beginning with John XXIII are manifest heretics who, by the very fact of their public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), have lost all jurisdiction ipso facto according to the constant teaching of the Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic, by that very fact, ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV confirms that any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous consent of cardinals. Therefore, every act of this usurper—whether “audiences,” “Masses,” or the inauguration of congresses—is devoid of any ecclesiastical authority. It is the theater of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The article notes the “Mass celebrated by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi.” This is the Novus Ordo Missae, the Protestantized “memorial” fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini under Paul VI, which suppresses the propitiatory sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood. Participation in or celebration of this rite is a public profession of the new religion of the conciliar sect. Zuppi, Parolin, Giuliodori—these are not cardinals or bishops of the Catholic Church but functionaries of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their titles must be enclosed in quotation marks as a permanent testimony to their nullity.
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Vocabulary of Naturalism and the Erasure of the Supernatural
The title of the congress—”The Splendor of the Human Person: Safeguarding Fertility, Healing Infertility”—reveals the anthropocentric inversion at the heart of the conciliar sect’s ideology. There is no mention of God, grace, the supernatural end of man, the sacrament of Matrimony as a path to sanctity, or the primary end of marriage: the procreation and education of children for heaven. Instead, we find “scientific, anthropological, and ethical challenges,” “responsible procreation,” “preconception health,” “therapeutic approaches compatible with Christian ethics,” and “integration between scientific research, medical care, and a Christian anthropological vision.”
This language is the dialect of naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (prop. 3, 4, 5, 58): “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood… No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter.” The congress treats fertility as a biological variable to be “safeguarded” and infertility as a pathology to be “healed” by technique. The “Christian anthropological vision” invoked is a vague, contentless slogan—the hermeneutic of continuity’s favorite mask—which in practice means the acceptance of the modernist distinction between the “biological” and the “personal,” opening the door to the very technologies (IVF, gamete manipulation, surrogacy) that the true Church condemns as violations of the natural law and the dignity of the child.
The phrase “culture of waste” (cultura dello scarto) is a Bergoglian neologism, a sociological category substituting for the theological reality of sin and the culture of death. It frames the murder of the unborn and the manufacture of children in laboratories as a failure of “inclusion” rather than a rebellion against the Creator. This is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God.
Theological Bankruptcy: The “Paul VI” and “John Paul II” Mythology
The article explicitly states that the congress “is intended to continue the teaching of St. Paul VI on human fertility and responsible procreation, later developed by St. John Paul II.” This is a double blasphemy. First, neither Montini (Paul VI) nor Wojtyła (John Paul II) were popes; both were manifest heretics who publicly taught errors against the faith (religious liberty in Dignitatis Humanae, ecumenism in Unitatis Redintegratio, the new ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium, the assassination of the Mass). They cannot be “saints.” Their “canonizations” by the antipope Bergoglio are null and void, acts of a non-pope declaring non-Catholics to be in heaven—a diabolical mockery of the Church’s infallibility.
Second, the reference to “Paul VI on human fertility” points to Humanae Vitae (1968). While that encyclical formally condemned artificial contraception, it did so within the framework of the new “personalist” anthropology of Vatican II, introducing the concept of “responsible parenthood” which has been weaponized by the conciliar sect to justify the use of natural family planning (NFP) with a contraceptive mentality—precisely the “contraceptive mentality” that Pius XI condemned in Casti Connubii (1930): “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.” The congress’s focus on “fertility roadmaps,” “preconception health,” and “therapeutic approaches” signals the full flowering of this mentality: the reduction of the marital act to a fertility management project.
Furthermore, the “International Scientific Institute Paul VI” (ISI) was founded in 2001 by the “Pontifical Academy for Life” under the auspices of the false “pope” John Paul II. Its very existence is a fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “Center for Natural Fertility Regulation” (1976) is the institutionalization of the NFP industry, which has replaced the Catholic doctrine of marital chastity and openness to life with a technical system of “fertility awareness” marketed to the laity as a “Catholic method.” This is the Jansenist rigorism condemned by the true Church—replacing grace with technique, the cross with a calendar.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as the Handmaid of the Technocratic State
The congress is organized by the “Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,” the “Toniolo Institute of Higher Studies,” and the “Agostino Gemelli University Hospital Foundation.” These are not Catholic institutions but appendages of the Italian state and the global technocratic order, funded by public money and integrated into the national health system. The “Italian Episcopal Conference” (CEI) is a canonical fiction—a “college of bishops” with no authority in traditional canon law, created by Vatican II’s Christus Dominus to implement collegiality and nationalize the Church. Its president, Zuppi, is a notorious modernist, promoter of the “synodal path” and the LGBT agenda.
The congress brings together “health professionals, married couples, and parents” to share “testimonies” and “clinical research.” This is the methodology of the synodal church: experience replaces revelation, the “people of God” replaces the teaching Church, and the “sensus fidei” of the laity replaces the Magisterium. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 6): “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening.” This is the democratization of doctrine, the essence of Modernism.
The article mentions “therapeutic approaches compatible with Christian ethics.” In the conciliar sect, this phrase is a cipher for the acceptance of “low-tech” reproductive technologies (ovulation induction, surgical correction of tubal blockage) while formally rejecting IVF—but only because IVF is currently politically inconvenient. The logic of the “therapeutic approach” is that the child is a right to be secured by medicine, not a gift to be received from God. This is the Pelagianism of the modern world: salvation by technique. The true Catholic doctrine, as taught by Pius XI in Casti Connubii, is that “the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children” and that “the secondary ends… are mutual aid and the remedy of concupiscence”—all ordered to the supernatural end of sanctification. The congress inverts this order: the “health” of the couple and the “prevention of infertility” become the primary goals, subordinated to a vague “dignity of the person” detached from the Creator.
The Silence That Condemns: Omission of the Supernatural Order
What the article does not say is the loudest accusation. There is no mention of:
– The necessity of the state of grace for the worthy reception of the sacrament of Matrimony.
– The duty of spouses to pray, fast, and accept the cross of sterility as a participation in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
– The condemnation of all artificial manipulation of human generation (IVF, ICSI, gamete donation, surrogacy, prenatal diagnosis with eugenic intent) as grave sins against the natural law and the rights of the child.
– The reality of the particular judgment, hell, and the eternal destiny of souls—the only ultimate context for “human fertility.”
– The Social Kingship of Christ, which demands that civil law protect the indissolubility of marriage, prohibit contraception and abortion, and criminalize reproductive technologies.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) teaches: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The congress is a perfect embodiment of this removal. It presents a “Christian anthropology” that is perfectly compatible with the secular state’s agenda of demographic management, “reproductive health,” and the commodification of human life. It is the laicism condemned in Quas Primas: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.”
The Masonic Signature: Dates, Institutions, and the “Paul VI” Cult
The article notes the congress marks the “25th anniversary of the International Scientific Institute Paul VI (ISI)” and the “50th anniversary of the Center for Natural Fertility Regulation.” The year 1976 (founding of the Center) is the year of the “Synod of Bishops” on the family, the peak of the post-conciliar revolution. The year 2001 (founding of ISI) coincides with the consolidation of the “Pontifical Academy for Life” under the control of the “theologians” of the new religion. The choice of “Paul VI” as the patron of the institute is deliberate: Montini is the architect of the conciliar apostasy, the pope who promulgated the Novus Ordo, who gave the pallium to the schismatic Athenagoras, who instituted the “Synod of Bishops,” and who—despite Humanae Vitae—allowed the destruction of Catholic morality by his silence and his appointment of modernist bishops. The cult of “Paul VI” is the cult of the revolution.
The venue—the “Catholic University of the Sacred Heart” (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)—was founded by the modernist priest Agostino Gemelli, a Franciscan who collaborated with the fascist regime and later with the Christian Democrats, embodying the synthesis of Catholicism and secular power that Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The “Toniolo Institute” is named after Giuseppe Toniolo, a “Catholic sociologist” whose “Christian democracy” prepared the way for the Church’s capitulation to the liberal state. These are the institutions of the clerico-liberal societies condemned in the Syllabus (Section IV).
Conclusion: The Congress as a Ritual of the New Religion
This congress is not a Catholic initiative. It is a ritual of the Church of the New Advent, the neo-church erected by the enemies of Christ upon the ruins of the visible structures of the Church. It gathers the “experts” of the world—doctors, bureaucrats, “theologians,” “couples”—to celebrate the idolatry of technique, the worship of the “human person” abstracted from God, and the legitimation of the conciliar sect’s moral theology of compromise. The antipope Leo XIV presides as the high priest of this cult, giving it the appearance of Catholic legitimacy.
The true Catholic response is not to “engage” with this congress, nor to propose “better” natural family planning, nor to seek “therapeutic approaches compatible with Christian ethics” within the framework of the anti-Church. The true response is the proclamation of the integral faith: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The true Church subsists in the bishops and priests who retain valid orders (conferred before 1968) and who profess the unchanging doctrine of Trent, Vatican I, and the pre-1958 Magisterium. The faithful must flee these structures of apostasy, assist at the true Mass of the ages, practice the true moral theology of the saints, and pray for the restoration of the papacy and the conversion of the usurpers. “You are Christ the King of glory!” (Pius XI, Quas Primas)—not the king of a technocratic fertility industry.
Non praevalebunt. (Matt. 16:18)
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to Open International Congress on Infertility in Rome (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.10.2026