The National Catholic Register portal (EWTN) reports on the publication of Stories in Flight: 80 Years of Air Transport in Italy, a book co-authored by veteran ITA Airways flight attendant Rino Anastasio and Filippo Anastasi. The work compiles anecdotes from Anastasio’s 45-year tenure coordinating “special flights” for the claimants to the papal throne from John Paul II to the current usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article details mundane episodes — fighter jet escorts after September 11, 2001, Benedict XVI’s query about fuel amid Alitalia’s bankruptcy, and Francis’s birthday surprise of six giant cakes and twelve bottles of champagne for the flight attendant. The piece uncritically enumerates the “apostolic journeys” of each claimant: 109 for John Paul II, 24 for Benedict XVI, 47 for Francis, and now Leo XIV’s travels to Africa, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain, France, and South America. This celebratory chronicle of aerial logistics exposes the neo-church’s reduction of the Petrine ministry to a globetrotting public relations enterprise, wholly devoid of supernatural mission and doctrinal integrity.
The Usurpers’ Itinerary: A Geography of Apostasy
The article presents a veritable cursus honorum of the conciliar antipopes, listing their travels as if frequency of flight miles constituted a mark of legitimacy. John Paul II (Wojtyła), Benedict XVI (Ratzinger), Francis (Bergoglio), and now Leo XIV (Prevost) are paraded as successive “popes” in an unbroken line. This succession is a fabrication. The See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958. John XXIII (Roncalli) inaugurated the great apostasy by convoking the Second Vatican Council, a concilium latrocinium (robber council) that promulgated heresies on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the nature of the Church (Lumen Gentium). Every claimant since has ratified and advanced this revolution. The article’s casual reference to “St. Paul VI” — “canonized by Pope Francis on Oct. 14, 2018” — compounds the sacrilege. Montini (Paul VI) was the architect of the Novus Ordo Missae, the protestantized liturgy that replaced the Sacrificium Propitiatorium (Propitiatory Sacrifice) with a communal meal. His “canonization” by the apostate Bergoglio is nulla, irrita, et invalida (null, void, and invalid), lacking any canonical force, performed by one who himself occupies the throne of iniquity.
Hagiography of the Heresiarchs: “Saints” of the Synagogue of Satan
The text repeatedly applies the title “St.” to John Paul II and Paul VI. These “canonizations” are the supreme act of the neo-church’s auto-demolition. Wojtyła, the “pilgrim pope” celebrated here for 109 journeys, was the chief executor of the conciliar revolution. He promulgated the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which enshrined religious liberty and collegiality; he assented to the 1986 Assisi abomination, placing the true God on par with idols; he “beatified” and “canonized” modernists en masse. His “canonization” by Bergoglio in 2014 was a political act ratifying the novus ordo establishment. As for Montini, his cause was fast-tracked by the very revolution he midwifed. The article’s citation of these “canonizations” as factual markers of holiness is a deliberate falsification of the sensus fidelium, imposing the neo-church’s false saints upon the faithful as models of sanctity. True canonization requires the charisma infallibilitatis of a true Pope; neither Wojtyła nor Bergoglio possessed it.
Reduction of the Papacy to Aerial Logistics
The article’s focus — fuel concerns, fighter jet escorts, birthday cakes, champagne — reveals the naturalistic core of the conciliar papacy.
“Pope Benedict, with his little glasses, looked up from the newspaper and said to me: ‘But you did put fuel in the plane, right?'”
“In the morning, the pope asked the gendarmes to buy six giant cakes and 12 bottles of champagne to celebrate my birthday…”
This is the summa of the “apostolic journey”: logistical anxiety and worldly festivity. Where is the munus docendi (teaching office)? Where is the munus sanctificandi (sanctifying office)? Where is the munus regendi (governing office)? The true Pope, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, is the Vicar of Christ the King, whose potestas legislativa, iudicialis, et coactiva (legislative, judicial, and coercive power) extends over all nations and individuals for the salvation of souls. “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The neo-church’s “popes” traverse the globe not to bring nations under the Social Reign of Christ the King, but to dialogue with false religions, legitimize secular powers, and generate media content. Their flights are not apostolic; they are apostatic.
The “Apostolic Journey” as Ecumenical Betrayal
The article enumerates destinations: Kazakhstan, France, Africa, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain, South America. Each stop is an occasion for the falsa ecumenismo condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928) and by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). John Paul II’s 129 countries visited were 129 occasions of scandal: kissing the Koran, praying in mosques, hosting pagan rituals in the Vatican gardens. Benedict XVI’s “journey” to Turkey included the Blue Mosque prayer. Francis’s “journeys” have produced the Abu Dhabi declaration (2019), stating that “pluralism of religions is willed by God” — a formal heresy against the First Commandment and the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Leo XIV’s itinerary to Turkey, Lebanon, and France continues this trajectory. The article’s silence on the doctrinal content of these visits is not an omission; it is complicity. The neo-church’s “outreach” is the operatio diaboli (work of the devil) dissolving the Church’s divine constitution.
Canonical Nullity of the Conciliar “Papacy”
The article assumes the legitimacy of the claimants based on electoral procedure and acceptance by the “College of Cardinals.” This is the heresy of conciliarism and papal positivism. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (by that very fact), without need of declaration. St. Robert Bellarmine: “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.” Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559): “…if any Cardinal… or even the 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.” The conciliar claimants, by their public profession of Vatican II heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, liturgical reform), are manifest heretics. They are not Popes. They are antipopes. Their flights are not “papal flights”; they are the travels of private individuals usurping the Chair of Peter.
The “Miracle of the Sun” Parallel: Mass Psychological Manipulation
The article functions as a minor key of the False Fatima Apparitions file’s analysis of the “Miracle of the Sun”: “mass optical manipulation (natural phenomenon) and mass panic and autosuggestion.” Here, the “miracle” is the media spectacle of the “pope on a plane.” The faithful are conditioned to equate the Petrine ministry with aerial visibility. The fighter jets escorting John Paul II after 9/11 — “John Paul II called me and asked: ‘But what are those?’ I replied: ‘Holy Father, those are our guardian angels escorting us.'” — this anecdote is crafted to sacralize the secular power of the state (fighter jets) as divine protection for the usurper. It is theatrical theology, replacing the Potestas Clavium (Power of the Keys) with the potestas aeronautica. The birthday cakes and champagne for a flight attendant — “Perhaps it was one of the most beautiful joys of my life” — reduce the Vicar of Christ to a benevolent celebrity. This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The ITA Airways Complicity: Civil Power Serving the Usurpation
The article notes: “The Vatican does not own airplanes… it charters commercial airliners, using ITA Airways (Italy’s national carrier) for flights departing from Rome.” This is the exsequatur of the Italian state to the neo-church, the very error condemned in the Syllabus (Error 41: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs”). The Italian Republic, a secular Masonic construct born of the Risorgimento’s theft of the Papal States, provides the material means for the antipopes’ global propaganda. ITA Airways (formerly Alitalia) is the vehiculum of the abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation). The flight attendant’s 45-year career spans the entire conciliar occupation; he is a functionary of the usurpation, his anecdotes now packaged as “history” to legitimize the illegitimate.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Not one word in the article mentions: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the salvation of souls, the conversion of infidels, the condemnation of error, the Kingship of Christ, the Final Judgment, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, the Sacraments, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, the Rosary, the Brown Scapular, the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith. This silence is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns the neo-church more than any explicit heresy. The true Church is supernatural in origin, end, and means. The conciliar sect is naturalistic in every fiber. Its “popes” are CEOs of a global NGO; their flights are business trips. The article is a prospectus for this NGO, written by a loyal employee, published by a captured media outlet (EWTN/National Catholic Register), consumed by a laity anesthetized by decades of falsa traditio.
Conclusion: The Flight into Egypt vs. The Flight into Apostasy
The Holy Family fled to Egypt to preserve the Infant God from Herod’s sword. The conciliar antipopes fly to the nations to accommodate the modern Herods of secularism, Islam, Judaism, Protestantism, and Freemasonry. Every mile flown by these usurpers increases the distance between the neo-church and the Catholic Church. The true Church remains where She has always been: in the catacombs of the faithful who keep the Traditio integra (integral Tradition), the Mass of all ages, the unchanging dogma, the Social Reign of Christ the King. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing the hymn Crudelis Herodes). The antipopes have taken the earthly things — the planes, the palaces, the media, the “canonizations,” the billions — and lost the Kingdom of Heaven. Their flight logs are a record of perditio animarum (destruction of souls). Non praevalebunt (They shall not prevail).
Source:
New Book Recounts Stories of Papal Flights From John Paul II to Leo XIV (ncregister.com)
Date: 06.11.2026