The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal reports that the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has declared the death penalty “inadmissible” in a social media message for the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2026. The antipope stated: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it attacks the inviolability and dignity of the person.” He claimed that “the common good can be protected and the requirements of justice can be safeguarded without resorting to capital punishment: effective penitentiary systems have already been developed that protect citizens and, at the same time, do not entirely deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.” The message carried the Masonic-globalist hashtag #NoDeathPenalty. This pronouncement followed the “secretary of state,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, condemning the planned public execution of Nidal Hassan in the United States as “unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle” and asserting the death penalty “does not serve as a deterrent.” The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Archbishop” Paul Coakley, expressed “shock and great sorrow.” This coordinated attack on the God-given right of the sword (jus gladii) constitutes a formal heretical repudiation of the perennial Magisterium, exposing the conciliar sect as the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15).
Repudiation of the Perennial Magisterium: Heresy Against Divine Justice
The declaration that the death penalty is “inadmissible” (inadmissibile) is not a mere pastoral prudential judgment; it is a dogmatic corruption that contradicts the defined teaching of the Holy Ghost speaking through the Church for two millennia. The Council of Trent, under pain of anathema, teaches that the civil magistrate exercises the power of life and death legitimately: “Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder” (Catechism of the Council of Trent, Part III, Decalogue, Fifth Commandment). Pope Pius XII, addressing the First International Congress of the Histopathology of the Nervous System (September 14, 1952), explicitly affirmed: “Even in the case of the death penalty the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. Rather public authority limits itself to depriving the offender of the good of life in expiation for his guilt, after he, through his crime, deprived himself of his own right to life.” By declaring this divinely instituted penalty “inadmissible,” the antipope Leo XIV does not “develop” doctrine; he denies the authority of God Who commanded: “He that sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man” (Gen. 9:6). This is the error of Modernism 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.” The conciliar sect has replaced the immutable justice of God with the sentimental humanitarianism of the world.
The Naturalistic Perversion of “Dignity” and “Redemption”
The antipope’s rhetoric — “inviolability and dignity of the person,” “possibility of redemption,” “effective penitentiary systems” — reeks of naturalistic personalism, the philosophical poison of the Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et spes. This language deliberately conflates the supernatural dignity of the baptized as a temple of the Holy Ghost with a naturalistic “dignity” inherent to every human being regardless of state of grace, a concept foreign to Catholic theology and borrowed from Masonic Declarations of the Rights of Man. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the sinner, by departing from the order of reason, “falls away from the dignity of man” (Summa Theologiae, II-II, q. 64, a. 2). The true “possibility of redemption” for a murderer is not endless incarceration in a “penitentiary system” — a modernist invention — but the salutary fear of imminent death which concentrates the soul on eternity, prompting sincere contrition and sacramental Confession. As St. Alphonsus Liguori writes: “The death penalty is a great mercy for the sinner, because it forces him to think of his salvation.” The antipope’s “redemption” is purely temporal and sociological — the rehabilitation of a citizen for secular society — utterly silent on the state of grace, the Sacraments, the Last Judgment, and Hell. This silence is the gravest accusation: the conciliar sect no longer believes in the supernatural order.
Usurpation of the Jus Gladii: Rebellion Against Christ the King
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (provided in context), proclaims the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations and their laws: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The power of the sword (jus gladii) is delegated by Christ the King to the civil authority ex jure divino (Rom. 13:4: “For he is God’s minister to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil”). By declaring the exercise of this delegated power “inadmissible,” the antipope usurps the Kingship of Christ, substituting the lex humana of the United Nations and Masonic lodges for the lex divina. This is the precise error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 39, 55, 77): “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits… The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church… 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’s “Cardinal” Parolin echoes this Masonic naturalism when he calls a public execution “unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle” and denies its deterrent value — a lie refuted by all criminological history and the very words of Pius XII: “The State… depriving the offender of the good of life in expiation for his guilt.” Expiation (expiatio) is a supernatural concept; the conciliar sect has evacuated it of all meaning.
The Symptomatic Unity of the Conciliar Apostasy
This episode reveals the systemic coherence of the conciliar revolution. The antipope, his “secretary of state,” and the “USCCB president” speak with one voice — the voice of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their target is Nidal Hassan, a Muslim terrorist who murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood. The conciliar sect’s horror at his execution exposes its false ecumenism and religious indifferentism: it values the temporal life of an infidel enemy of Christ above the vindication of divine justice and the protection of the common good. The Syllabus (Prop. 16, 18) condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation… Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” Today, this indifferentism extends to Islam and all false sects. The hashtag #NoDeathPenalty is the digital signature of the globalist anti-Christ, aligning the conciliar sect with the UN, the EU, and every Masonic lobby. As the Syllabus (Prop. 54) warns: “Kings and princes are not only exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction.” The conciliar sect has surrendered the jus gladii to the secular power, becoming the chaplain of the New World Order.
Sedevacantist Certainty: The Chair is Vacant
A true Pope cannot teach heresy. The dogmatic constitution Pastor Aeternus (Vatican I) defines that the Holy Ghost was promised to the successors of Peter “not that they might by His revelation make known some new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles.” The declaration that the death penalty is “inadmissible” is a new doctrine contradicting the deposit of faith. Therefore, Robert Prevost (Leo XIV) is a manifest heretic who, by that very fact (ipso facto), has lost the papacy, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30; cited in Defense of Sedevacantism context). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” The See of Peter is vacant since 1958. The conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church; it is the Church of the New Advent, the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) foretold by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus context: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength.”
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith and the True Kingship of Christ
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus of St. Vincent of Lérins, must reject this diabolical novelty. The death penalty is a divine institution for the temporal order, a participation of the civil magistrate in God’s own justice (Deus ultor est). To call it “inadmissible” is to call God Himself inadmissible. The only remedy for the chaos unleashed by the conciliar apostasy is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ — Instaurare omnia in Christo — through the Traditional Latin Mass, the unchanging doctrine of the Fathers and Councils, and submission to bishops and priests who maintain valid Orders and the true Faith outside the conciliar structures. “You are Christ the King of glory!” (Quas Primas). Let the nations tremble before His justice, and let the conciliar sect be anathema. Anathema sit.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Calls the Death Penalty ‘Inadmissible’ After Announcement of Public Execution in US (ncregister.com)
Date: 12.10.2026