EWTN News portal reports on the publication of a book titled Stories in Flight: 80 Years of Air Transport in Italy, co-authored by veteran ITA Airways flight attendant Rino Anastasio and Filippo Anastasi. The work compiles trivial anecdotes from papal flights spanning the usurpations of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and the current antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). Anastasio recounts episodes such as fighter jets escorting a flight after September 11, 2001, Benedict XVI inquiring about fuel amidst Alitalia’s bankruptcy, and Francis surprising him with birthday cakes and champagne on a return flight from Marseille. The article frames these narratives as a history of papal outreach, listing the number of “apostolic journeys” for each claimant. This hagiography of the anti-church’s jet-set diplomacy exposes the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect, which reduces the Petrine ministry to a celebrity travelogue while the See of Peter remains vacant.
The Manufactured Continuity of the Usurpation
The article constructs a false historical continuity from Paul VI to Leo XIV, presenting the succession of modernist claimants as a seamless line of legitimate pontiffs. It states: “Since Paul VI, papal travel has remained an important means of outreach for the popes. St. John Paul II completed 109 apostolic journeys… Pope Benedict XVI completed 24 apostolic journeys, while Pope Francis completed 47. Pope Leo XIV has also made travel a feature of his ministry…” This enumeration serves a precise ideological function: to normalize the occupation of the Holy See by manifest heretics. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head (De Romano Pontifice). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” The article’s breathless counting of flights and countries visited is not history; it is the chronicling of a paramasonic structure’s global public relations campaign. The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares the elevation of a heretic null, void, and of no effect regardless of unanimous consent. Every “apostolic journey” listed is therefore a journey of a private individual, a usurper exercising no authority, binding no conscience, extending the reign not of Christ the King but of the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel.
Trivialization of the Sacred: Fighter Jets as “Guardian Angels”
The linguistic level reveals the naturalistic rot at the core of the neo-church. Anastasio recounts John Paul II asking about escorting fighter jets: “I replied: ‘Holy Father, those are our guardian angels escorting us.'” This blasphemous equivocation—identifying instruments of secular military power with the heavenly spirits who behold the face of the Father (Matt. 18:10)—encapsulates the conciliar religion: the substitution of the supernatural by the temporal, of grace by geopolitics. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingdom “is primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” and that “He fled and hid, because He did not want the name and honor of king” when the crowds sought to make Him an earthly ruler. The anti-popes, by contrast, travel with the pomp of secular potentates, protected by the very “kings of the earth” who, as the Syllabus of Errors condemns, claim “a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39). The flight attendant’s quip is not a charming anecdote; it is a profession of faith in the City of Man, a denial of the City of God. The true Church has no need of F-16s; her defense is the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis derived from Christ, which the manifest heretic forfeits ipso facto.
The Cult of Man: Birthday Cakes and Champagne on the Altar of the World
The anecdote concerning Francis and the birthday celebration is the theological centerpiece of the article’s impiety. “In the morning, the pope asked the gendarmes to buy six giant cakes and 12 bottles of champagne to celebrate my birthday… When the curtain opened, and these cakes arrived, I was truly moved there. Perhaps it was one of the most beautiful joys of my life.” Here is the cult of man in its purest, most nauseating form. The “pope” of the neo-church acts as a cruise director, dispensing champagne—symbol of worldly revelry—in the flying palace of the usurpation. Lamentabili sane exitu condemns the Modernist error that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and that “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). This birthday spectacle is the liturgy of the new religion: man is the measure, man is the center, man is the god. There is no mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, no mention of the Divine Office, no mention of the salvation of souls. The “flight attendant coordinator” becomes the object of veneration, the recipient of the antipope’s benevolence. This is the theological anthropology of Vatican II realized: the dignity of the human person elevated above the rights of God. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Error 79); here, the liberty of the “pope” to turn the papal flight into a birthday party corrupts the very concept of the Petrine office.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The symptomatic level demands we ask what is absent. In this entire chronicle of 62 years of “papal flights” (1964–2026), there is not a single reference to: the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith; the condemnation of heresy; the defense of the Social Kingship of Christ; the rights of the Church libertas Ecclesiae against the encroaching State; the reality of sin, judgment, hell, or the necessity of the state of grace. The article speaks of “outreach,” “visiting 129 countries,” “fuel concerns,” “bankruptcy troubles,” “birthday surprise.” This silence is the theological signature of the Antichrist. St. Pius X in Lamentabili condemns the Modernist tenet that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). The “religious movement” of the conciliar sect is exactly this: perpetual motion, endless travel, humanitarian photo-ops, and the total eclipse of the Depositum Fidei. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The neo-church’s reliance on ITA Airways (formerly Alitalia), its subjection to Italian bankruptcy laws, its need for fighter jets provided by NATO powers—this is the slavery of the Church to the State, the very condition the Syllabus anathematizes. The true Church, as Pius XI teaches, “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The anti-church, by contrast, charters its freedom from the Italian flag carrier and celebrates it with champagne.
The Masonic Cycle: 1917, 1964, 2026
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file identifies a Masonic operation marked by ritualistic dates: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (Fatima), 2017 (canonization of the seers). The article notes Paul VI’s first flight in 1964—the year the Second Vatican Council concluded its third session, the year Lumen Gentium and Unitatis Redintegratio were promulgated, the year the abomination of desolation was formally installed in the holy place. The current antipope Leo XIV travels to France in September 2026, and the book is published November 2026. The flight attendant boasts 45 years of service (1981–2026), spanning the entire arc of the great apostasy from John Paul II’s first journey to Leo XIV’s South American tour. This is not coincidence; it is the modus operandi of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) which, as Pius IX writes, “winding through sinuous caverns, deceiving many with astute frauds, finally has arrived at the point where it comes forth impetuously from its hiding places and triumphs as a powerful master.” The book Stories in Flight is a commemorative volume for the triumph of the Revolution, a souvenir program for the demolition of the Church.
No Salvation in the Conciliar Sect
The faithful must understand: there is no jurisdiction, no mission, no grace of office in these flights. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV have all publicly defected by word and deed: by assenting to religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting primacy (Lumen Gentium), and the New Mass which de facto denies the propitiatory Sacrifice. They are ipso facto deprived of office. The flight attendant serves not the Vicar of Christ but a layman in white vestments. The “guardian angels” are demons masquerading as light (2 Cor. 11:14). The champagne is the wine of Babylon’s fornication (Apoc. 17:2). Quas Primas declares: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). That name is not John Paul II, not Benedict XVI, not Francis, not Leo XIV. It is Jesus Christ, King of Kings, whose Kingdom “shall have no end” (Luke 1:33), and whose true Vicar awaits the restoration of all things in the hiddenness of the Catacombs, not the spotlight of the global media.
Let the faithful flee the conciliar sect’s airports, its chartered planes, its birthday cakes, and its false shepherds. Let them cleave to the immutable Tradition, the valid Sacraments, the true Bishops and Priests who keep the Faith entire. For the Kingdom of Christ is not of this world (John 18:36), and no amount of jet fuel can lift the anti-church into the supernatural order.
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New book recounts stories of papal flights from John Paul II to Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.11.2026