The EWTN News portal reports that the Vatican secretary of state, “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, commenting on the 2026 United States midterm elections which returned Democratic Party majorities in both chambers of Congress, expressed hope that “reason and common sense prevail” and spoke of seeking “ways of working together for the good of the country.” Parolin further normalized the unprecedented act of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) casting a ballot in an American election, stating “he remains a U.S. citizen and therefore has every right to do so.” This episode manifests the complete capitulation of the conciliar sect to the religion of democratic naturalism and the total abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Enthronement of Naturalism as Supreme Principle
The statement by Parolin that “Let’s hope that reason and common sense prevail” reveals the summum bonum of the post-conciliar hierarchy: not the glory of God, not the salvation of souls, not the rights of Christ the King, but the vague, contentless idol of “reason and common sense” — which in the mouth of a Modernist always means human reason divorced from divine revelation. This is the very essence of the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 3): “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations.” Parolin does not invoke the lex divina or the regnum Christi; he invokes the autonomous reason of the Enlightenment, the same “reason” that guillotined the King of France and dethroned Christ in the public square.
Democracy: The False God of the Conciliar Sect
Parolin’s refusal to make “categorical statements as ‘democracy has won'” while simultaneously hoping for “collaboration” with the victors exposes the duplicitous rhetoric of the neo-church. The conciliar sect does not condemn democracy; it manages it. It does not proclaim Non est potestas nisi a Deo (Rom 13:1); it negotiates with the usurpers of divine authority. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Parolin’s “hope for collaboration” with a regime built on the Syllabus-condemned principle that “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Prop. 39) is not diplomacy — it is apostasy. It is the practical application of the heresy condemned in Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
The Antipope as Citizen: The Ultimate Scandal of Incarnational Inversion
“It never happened with Italian popes, nor with Polish popes, nor with German popes, but in the end at least he was a citizen. I believe he remains a U.S. citizen and therefore has every right to do so.” With these words, Parolin reduces the Vicar of Christ — or rather, the usurper of that title — to a mere functionary of the American imperium. A true Pope is not a citizen of any earthly power; he is Pater et Pastor of all nations, Judex supremus to whom kings and presidents must answer. The dogmatic truth expressed by Pius XI — Christus regnat, “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII) — is inverted: here the “pope” subjects himself to the authority of Caesar, rendering to Caesar what belongs to God (Matth 22:21 perverted).
This act of voting is not a benign civic exercise; it is a public profession of faith in the religion of democratic statism. It signifies that the conciliar “pontiff” recognizes the legitimacy of a political order that “thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God” (Quas Primas). By casting a ballot, Leo XIV implicitly affirms that the source of law is the will of the people (vox populi, vox dei — the Masonic blasphemy) rather than the lex aeterna of God. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 56): “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.” The antipope’s vote is the ceremonial ratification of this Modernist principle.
The Theological Impossibility of a Heretic Exercising Jurisdiction
The very premise of Parolin’s statement — that Leo XIV “remains a U.S. citizen” and acts as “pope” — collapses under the weight of Catholic doctrine on the papacy. As demonstrated in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically” (ipso facto). St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A Pope who is 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.” The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and collegiality (Lumen Gentium) — each condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Therefore, Robert Prevost is not Pope; he is a manifest heretic who “cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30).
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — still binding on the true Church — declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The public defection of the conciliar “popes” from the integral faith is a matter of public record. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio confirms: “…if at any time it shall appear that any… Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” No declaration is needed; the heresy itself vacates the office. Parolin’s reference to “Pope Leo XIV” is thus a reference to a non-existent entity, a phantom of the Masonic “Operation Fatima” designed to legitimize the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
Peace Without Christ: The Masonic Chimera
Parolin’s hope that “new leadership in the U.S. would advance peace in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia” — “For a long time we have been hoping and trying to do everything possible to close the very painful chapter of Ukraine… We live and wait” — exposes the pax christiana counterfeit of the conciliar sect. True peace is tranquillitas ordinis (St. Augustine), the order established by Christ’s Kingship. Pius XI declared: “Oh, what happiness we would enjoy if individuals, families, and states allowed themselves to be governed by Christ… Then at last… sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands, when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him.” The conciliar sect seeks peace sine Christo — through diplomatic maneuvering, international organizations, and the “dialogue” condemned by Pius IX (Prop. 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”). This is the peace of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9), the pax masonica that serves the “pre-established goal” of the sects to “make [the Church] disappear completely from the earth” (Pius IX, Allocution Quibus quantisque).
The Fatima Diversion and the Russia Consecration Myth
The file on False Fatima Apparitions demonstrates that the entire Fatima apparatus — including the “consecration of Russia” narrative — is a “Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church” designed to “divert attention from modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century” and to “legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy” under the guise of “conversion of Russia” without specifying Catholicism. Parolin’s hope for peace in Ukraine — a conflict framed by the neo-church in Fatima-esque terms of “consecration” and “conversion” — is the direct fruit of this diabolical disinformation. The “Miracle of the Sun” was “mass optical manipulation (natural phenomenon) and mass panic and autosuggestion”; the Third Secret was concealed and reinterpreted for ecumenical ends. The conciliar sect’s “peace initiatives” are not supernatural; they are the Stage 3 of the Masonic operation: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.”
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Betrayal
The rhetoric of Parolin — “reason and common sense,” “collaboration,” “working together,” “manage it,” “citizen,” “right to do so” — is the language of the Civitas Terrena, stripped of all supernatural reference. There is no mention of gratia, peccatum, iudicium, regnum Dei, salus animarum. This silentium de rebus divinis is the gravissima accusatio. As Pius XI taught, the annual feast of Christ the King was instituted “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” Parolin’s vocabulary is the vocabulary of laicism. He speaks as a functionary of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, not as a Prince of the Church.
The Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This episode is not an anomaly; it is the logical and necessary fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae. The conciliar sect has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Quas Primas). It has “equated the Christian religion with other false religions and shamelessly placed it in the same category” (Quas Primas). It has “subordinated [the Church] to secular power and almost surrendered [it] to the arbitrament of government and rulers” (Quas Primas). The antipope voting in a Masonic republic’s election, and his “secretary of state” praising the outcome as a victory for “reason and common sense,” is the reductio ad absurdum of the conciliar error. It fulfills the prophecy of St. Pius X: “The pursuit of novelty in the investigation of the foundations of things leads in our times to deplorable consequences, abandoning all restraint… they aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu).
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith
The only remedy is the integral Catholic faith — the recognition that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958 (or 1963), that the conciliar sect is the Church of the New Advent, the abomination of desolation, and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) than Jesus Christ, whose Kingship is absolute, universal, and immediate over every creature. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The faithful must “fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King” (Quas Primas), rejecting the false “pope,” the false “cardinals,” the false “peace,” and the false “reason” of the world. Non praevalebunt (Matt 16:18).
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Cardinal Parolin on U.S. midterm elections: ‘Let’s hope that reason and common sense prevail’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.11.2026