The EWTN News portal (via its Italian sister service ACI Stampa) reports on the actions of the manifest usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope” Leo XIV, who on November 5, 2026, celebrated the Novus Ordo Missae — a protestantized memorial service masquerading as the Holy Sacrifice — at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica for the repose of seven “cardinals” and 136 “bishops” deceased during the preceding year. The homily, delivered in Latin, invoked the “hope of the resurrection” and the “communion of saints” to justify prayer for the dead, while explicitly admonishing the faithful not to allow remembrance to become “merely nostalgic.” Following this liturgical simulacrum, the antipope descended into the Vatican grottoes to venerate the tombs of the arch-heretics Paul VI (canonized by the apostate Bergoglio), the Venerable Pius XII (the last true Pontiff, whose cause has been manipulated by the conciliar sect), and the modernist Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger). This entire spectacle constitutes a sacrilegious theater of the absurd, wherein a public heretic presides over an invalid rite to honor fellow heretics, thereby confirming the total apostasy of the structures occupying the Vatican.
The Invalidity of the Rite and the Nullity of the Minister
The article states that the antipope “celebrated Mass… at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.” This phraseology conceals the catastrophic reality: the rite employed was the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI, promulgated in 1969, which abolished the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, suppressed the Roman Canon’s integrity, and substituted a protestantized “memorial of the Lord’s Supper” for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. As Pope Pius XII infallibly taught in Mediator Dei (1947), the Sacrifice of the Mass is “the renewal of the immolation of the Cross” (renewal of the immolation of the Cross), not a mere commemoration. The 1969 rite, fabricated by the freemason Annibale Bugnini and his conspirators, manifests a lex orandi utterly alien to the lex credendi of the Catholic Church. Therefore, no grace, no propitiation, no application of the merits of Christ to the souls of the deceased occurs. The “Mass” described is idolatry — the worship of a false liturgy erected in place of the true Sacrifice.
Furthermore, the minister Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic, having publicly adhered to the conciliar errors of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and collegiality (Lumen Gentium). By the principle haereticus non est Christianus (a heretic is not a Christian), and as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (Lib. 2, Cap. 30): “A manifest heretic, by that very fact, ceases to be Pope and head… for he cannot be the head of what he is not a member.” Prevost, as a formal adherent of the Vatican II sect, lacks all jurisdiction and orders (the conciliar rites of ordination and episcopal consecration being doubtful at best, invalid at worst). His “celebration” is a simulacrum performed by a layman in vestments, a sacrilegium crying to heaven for vengeance.
The Canonization of Heretics as “Saints”: The Abomination of the “Communion of Saints”
The article reveals the antipope prayed at the tombs of “St. Paul VI,” “Venerable Pius XII,” and “Benedict XVI.” This triad exposes the diabolical inversion of the conciliar sect’s “communion of saints.”
- “St. Paul VI” (Giovanni Montini): The architect of the Novus Ordo, the promulgator of the heretical Dignitatis Humanae (declaring a right to religious liberty condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos and Pius IX in the Syllabus, Error 15), the signer of the “Common Declaration” with the Anglican heretic Ramsey, the man who declared the “smoke of Satan” had entered the Church. His “canonization” by the apostate Bergoglio in 2018 is null and void ab initio, an act of a non-pope canonizing a non-saint. To venerate him as a saint is idolatry and the cult of a heretic.
- “Venerable Pius XII” (Eugenio Pacelli): The last true Roman Pontiff (died 1958). His cause for canonization, manipulated by the conciliar sect, serves only to legitimize the usurpers who followed him. The title “Venerable” here is a conciliar fabrication. The true Pius XII condemned the very errors (Modernism, Communism, the “new theology”) that the conciliar sect embodies. His body lies in the grottoes as a silent witness against the apostasy surrounding it.
- “Benedict XVI” (Joseph Ratzinger): The quintessential modernist, peritus at Vatican II, prefect of the CDF who silenced traditionalists while promoting the “hermeneutic of continuity” — a sophistry to baptize rupture. His “resignation” (invalid per Canon 188 and the nature of the Petrine office) inaugurated the era of the “pope emeritus” absurdity. He died impenitent in the conciliar errors. To pray at his tomb as if he were a saint is spiritual necromancy.
The antipope’s homily speaks of the “communion of saints” joining “the blessed spirits who already contemplate the face of God and all those who, in heaven or on earth, are making their way toward that radiant goal.” This is a naturalistic, pan-Christian “communion” that erases the distinction between the Church Militant, Suffering, and Triumphant, and presumes the salvation of public heretics. The true Communio Sanctorum exists only within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, extra quam nullus omnino salvatur (outside which no one at all is saved), as defined by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and reiterated by Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam (1302).
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Prayer for the Dead” in the Conciliar Sect
The article quotes the antipope: “For our remembrance of our departed brothers and sisters at the altar of the Lord is founded on the promise that our life, in Christ, is not lost, because it has been redeemed.” And: “If, as Scripture emphasizes, there were no resurrection, it would be pointless to pray for the dead.”
This rhetoric is orthodox in vocabulary but heretical in referent. The “altar of the Lord” in the Vatican Basilica has been desecrated by the Novus Ordo; the “promise” is invoked by a man outside the Church; the “redeemed” life refers to those who died in communion with the conciliar sect — i.e., in schism and heresy. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXII, Can. 3) anathematizes those who say the Mass is not a propitiatory sacrifice. The Novus Ordo is precisely that: a non-propitiatory rite. Therefore, these “prayers for the dead” are opus operatum of a false religion, devoid of supernatural efficacy, and constitute a cruel deception of the faithful who believe they are assisting the souls in Purgatory.
Moreover, the antipope’s admonition — “Let us not allow the memory of the deceased to become merely nostalgic” — reveals the psychologizing, immanentist drift of conciliar theology. The Catholic suffragia for the dead (Masses, indulgences, alms) are objective applications of the Church’s treasury, not exercises in “memory” or “celebrating life.” The shift from requiem aeternam (eternal rest) to “celebrating the risen life” is the hallmark of the funeral rites of the neo-church, which deny the reality of Purgatory and the necessity of satisfaction for temporal punishment. As St. Augustine teaches (Enchiridion, 110): “The Church’s custom of praying for the dead is not to be despised… for the souls of the departed are helped by the piety of the living.” This help is mediated only through the true Sacrifice and the true Church.
The Symptomatic Level: The “Altar of the Chair” as Throne of the Antichrist
The choice of the “Altar of the Chair” (Bernini’s Cathedra Petri) is profoundly symbolic. The Chair of Peter, sign of the teaching authority of the Vicar of Christ, is now occupied by a usurper who teaches error. The prophecy of St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 is fulfilled before our eyes: “The man of sin… sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.” The “temple of God” is the Church; the “sitting” is the usurpation of the papal throne. The liturgical circus described — the printed booklets with names of 143 conciliar prelates, the Latin homily (a veneer of tradition), the grotto pilgrimage to heretics’ tombs — is the liturgical expression of the abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation) standing where it ought not (Mark 13:14).
The article notes the Mass was “customary for the popes to celebrate this Mass every year at the beginning of November.” This ritualization of apostasy creates a false continuity. The true Popes (Pius XII and his predecessors) offered the Missa Defunctorum of the Roman Rite for cardinals and bishops who died in the Catholic faith. The conciliar sect mimics the external form while emptying it of all supernatural content. This is the modus operandi of the Masonic infiltration described in the Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita: “We shall not make the people leave the Church… we shall make them enter a Church which we shall have built for them.”
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Deception
The article’s language — “pontiff,” “celebrated Mass,” “homily,” “communion of saints,” “Eucharistic sacrifice,” “charity of the risen Lord” — is a deliberate semantic hijacking. These terms retain their Catholic definitions in the minds of the readers while referring to invalid realities. This is the equivocatio condemned by the First Vatican Council (Dei Filius, Can. 3): “If anyone shall say that the one, true God… can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason… let him be anathema.” Here, the equivocation is ecclesiological and sacramental: “Church” means the conciliar sect; “Mass” means the Novus Ordo; “Eucharistic sacrifice” means a commemorative meal; “communion of saints” means a pan-religious fellowship.
The phrase “caught up in that reciprocity which the Holy Spirit brings to life in our hearts” is pure Protestant subjectivism (Schleiermacher’s Gefühl), replacing the objective mediation of the Church with an interior “reciprocity.” The reference to “pilgrim brothers and sisters” echoes the conciliar Lumen Gentium (n. 49) which redefines the Church as “People of God” on a journey, obscuring the hierarchical constitution ex jure divino.
The Silence on the Four Last Things: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the homily, as reported, is there mention of Judgment, Hell, Purgatory, the necessity of the state of grace, the horror of sin, or the Dies Irae. The “hope of the resurrection” is detached from the timor Domini (fear of the Lord). This silence is not accidental; it is the essence of the conciliar “anthropocentric turn” (Gaudium et Spes), where man’s “dignity” and “hope” replace God’s rights and justice. The true Missa Pro Defunctis begins: “Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis” — a plea for mercy from a just Judge. The neo-church offers a “celebration of life” for those who may be damned. This is the pastoral crime of the century: leading souls to presumption.
Conclusion: The Vatican is Empty; the Church Endures in the Catacombs
The spectacle of November 5, 2026, is not a papal act but a Masonic psychodrama staged in the ruins of the Vatican. The antipope Leo XIV, the Novus Ordo, the “canonized” heretics, the grotto veneration — all form a coherent system of counter-church, counter-sacrifice, counter-saints. The faithful Catholic, adhering to the quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus (what everywhere, what always, what by all — St. Vincent of Lérins, Commonitorium, 2), must flee this idolatry, assist only at the true Mass of the ages (the Tridentine Rite) offered by validly ordained priests holding the true faith, and pray privately for the dead — especially for the conversion of the usurpers and their dupes — knowing that “the Lord knoweth them that are his” (2 Tim 2:19). The Chair of Peter is vacant; the See is impeded; the Church suffers her Passio in the wilderness. Exsurge, Domine, et judica causam tuam (Arise, O Lord, and judge Thy cause — Ps 73:22).
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Pope Leo XIV: Let us not allow the memory of the deceased to be reduced to mere nostalgia (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.11.2026