The National Catholic Register portal (October 21, 2026) reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed twenty-four new members to the International Theological Commission (ITC), a body fabricated by the false “pope” Paul VI in 1969 as an engine of conciliar innovation. The appointees — six women, Jesuit and “ecumenical” theologians, promoters of the “Synodal Way,” and open dissenters from defined dogma on holy orders, marriage, and the uniqueness of Christ — form a veritable synod of Modernism. The selection, curated by the arch-modernist “Cardinal” Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, confirms that the occupying structures in Rome have abandoned even the pretense of guarding the deposit of faith.
A Body Born of the Conciliar Revolution
The very existence of the ITC is a fruit of the pseudo-Council Vatican II and the revolutionary pontificate of Paul VI. Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingship demands the Church “teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness” by divine right, not by committees of “experts” (Quas Primas, 1925). The ITC, by contrast, is a bureaucratic instrument of the novus ordo sect, designed to legitimize the “hermeneutic of rupture” under the guise of “development.” Its foundation in 1969 coincides with the imposition of the Novus Ordo Missae and the systematic dismantling of the Church’s legislative and doctrinal immunity. That a usurper like Leo XIV now packs it with avowed enemies of the faith is the logical terminus of the conciliar apostasy.
The Feminization of the Clergy: Rebellion Against Divine Constitution
The appointment of six women to a doctrinal commission advising the “pope” is a direct affront to the divine constitution of the Church. Sara Parvis, a Scottish patristics professor, publicly advocates for the sacramental ordination of women as deacons and even for women conferring Extreme Unction — a sacrament reserved to priests by divine institution. She declares she has “no problem with women dressed in clerical collars and cassocks.” This is not mere dissent; it is a rejection of the sacerdotal character conferred only on baptized males (Canon 1024, 1917 Code; Inter Insigniores, CDF 1976, reiterating immutable tradition). The 1917 Code (Canon 188.4) teaches that public defection from the faith vacates office ipso facto; Parvis’s views constitute formal heresy on the nature of the sacrament of Order. Her presence on a “theological commission” signals that the conciliar sect has elevated feminist ideology above the will of Christ, Who chose only men as Apostles.
Sodom’s Blessing and the “Taxidermic” Anthropology
Claudia Leal Luna, a Chilean laywoman consulting for the DDF since 2024, publicly attacked the 2021 Responsum ad dubium of “Cardinal” Ladaria which denied the power to bless same-sex unions. She called its anthropology “somewhat taxidermic” and an “epistemological shock.” The subsequent Fiducia Supplicans (2023), engineered by Fernández, was a repudiation of Catholic moral theology, blessing objectively disordered acts. Leal Luna’s appointment rewards this rebellion. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “the civil government… has a right to… make enactments regarding the administration of the divine sacraments” (Syllabus, Error 44); here, a laywoman dictates sacramental theology to the “Dicastery,” inverting the divine order. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
Religious Indifferentism: “No Historical Religion Is Absolute”
Father Tiago de Fraga Gomes, a Brazilian Jesuit, writes that “no historical religion is absolute” and that the singularity of Jesus “cannot be absolutized to the point of excluding other religions.” This is a formal denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (n. 18). The 2000 CDF document Dominus Iesus — itself a conciliar document — affirmed the unicity and salvific universality of Christ and the Church. Gomes denies even this diluted remnant. His praise of Amoris Laetitia as “the mature fruit of an ecclesial process” initiated by Vatican II exposes the “synodal journey” as a march into apostasy. The Syllabus condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). Gomes embodies this condemned error.
Ecumenism as Apostasy: The Dombes Group and the WCC
Father Michel Fédou, a French Jesuit and Ratzinger Prize winner, is a member of the Groupe des Dombes, a forum of Catholic and Protestant theologians dedicated to erasing the boundaries of the one true Church. Dominican Jorge Scampini has served three terms on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, the Masonic-engineered “ecumenical” body that treats the Catholic Church as one denomination among many. Pius XI teaches: “The Church… demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority… it cannot depend on anyone’s will” (Quas Primas, n. 31). Participation in the WCC submits the Church to a pan-Protestant, naturalist parliament. The Syllabus condemns: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). Fédou and Scampini operationalize this heresy.
Synodality: The Democratic Usurpation of Episcopal Authority
Father Bernhard Knorn and Jan-Heiner Tück are “firm proponents of synodality.” Knorn sees a “close intertwinement between the Second Vatican Council and the Church’s synodal process, including the German Synodal Way” — a movement demanding female “ordination,” homosexual “blessings,” and the abolition of clerical celibacy. Tück supports Amoris Laetitia footnote 351 (admitting adulterers to “Communion”) and calls the dubia “subversive.” This “synodality” is the conciliar replacement of hierarchical governance by a democratic parliament, a Masonic principle condemned by Leo XIII (Humanum Genus) and Pius XI (Quas Primas: “authority was derived not from God but from men… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”). The ITC becomes a rubber stamp for this revolution.
The Rahnerian Contagion: Evolution of Dogma
Father Ángel Cordovilla Pérez is an “expert in salvation, contemporary theology, and the works of Karl Rahner.” Rahner, the architect of the “anonymous Christian” and the transcendental anthropology that dissolves the supernatural into the natural, was silenced under Pius XII and rehabilitated by the conciliar revolution. Cordovilla defends “a theology capable of responding to current challenges… highlighting the importance of synodal and contextual theological reflection.” This is the heresy of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili, Prop. 58). The ITC is now officially Rahnerian.
The “Ratzinger Prize” as a Badge of Modernist Orthodoxy
The article boasts of appointees receiving the “Ratzinger Prize” (Fédou, Béré). Joseph Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”) was the chief architect of the conciliar “hermeneutic of continuity,” a theological fiction masking the rupture of Vatican II. His “theology” — from the “people of God” ecclesiology to the “hermeneutic of reform” — is the intellectual scaffolding of the neo-church. The prize functions as a modernist imprimatur, signaling loyalty to the revolutionary paradigm. That Leo XIV promotes its recipients confirms his continuity with the anti-papacy of the last six decades.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission
Nowhere in the Register’s report — nor in the mandate given to the ITC — is there mention of the salvation of souls, the reality of hell, the necessity of the baptism of water, the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the final judgment. The topics are “Tradition and enculturation of the faith” — code for adapting the faith to the world. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, n. 13). The ITC, like the conciliar sect it serves, is a purely naturalistic, anthropocentric institution. It has no supernatural mission because it has no supernatural head.
Canonical Nullity of the Appointments
Even on the conciliar sect’s own canonical principles, these appointments are null. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV, 1559) declares that if a “Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Leo XIV, by appointing manifest heretics (Parvis, Leal Luna, Gomes) to teach doctrine, confirms his own defection. Furthermore, Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) vacates office for “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The appointees, by their public writings, have vacated any ecclesiastical office they might claim. The ITC is thus a gathering of private individuals usurping the magisterial function, a conventiculum haereticorum.
Conclusion: The Theological Commission of the Antichrist
The International Theological Commission, reconstituted by the antipope Leo XIV, is not an organ of the Catholic Church. It is a theological war room of the conciliar sect, staffed by feminists, sodomite-affirmers, religious indifferentists, Rahnerians, and synodal revolutionaries. Its purpose is to legitimize the abomination of desolation in the Vatican. True Catholics, adhering to the immutable faith of the Fathers, the Councils, and the pre-1958 Magisterium, must reject this body, its members, and its usurper “pope” entirely. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18) — but not through committees of heretics. The Kingdom of Christ is restored only by the integral faith, the true Mass, and obedience to God rather than men (Acts 5:29).
Source:
Pope Leo Names New Theologians to Vatican Advisory Body (ncregister.com)
Date: 21.10.2026