Vatican News portal reports (November 27, 2025) that “Pope Leo XIV” sent a telegram to the “bishop” of Hong Kong following a deadly apartment fire, expressing “spiritual solidarity” with victims while offering vague prayers to the “Almighty” and invoking “divine blessings of strength, consolation, and peace”. The conciliar sect’s leader claims to “commend the souls of the deceased to the loving mercy of the Almighty” without specifying whether this refers to the One True God or some syncretic deity acceptable to Freemasonic universalism. This performative gesture exemplifies the neo-church’s complete abandonment of Catholic eschatology and sacramental theology.
Naturalistic Sentimentality Replaces Supernatural Faith
The telegram’s carefully crafted ambiguity reflects the conciliar sect’s deliberate evasion of Catholic dogmas on the Four Last Things. Nowhere does the antipope mention:
the necessity of repentance, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, suffrages for the dead, or the reality of Particular Judgment immediately following death
This omission constitutes silentium hæreticum (heretical silence) contrary to the Council of Florence’s definitive teaching that “the souls of those who depart in actual mortal sin… descend into hell” (Bull Laetentur Caeli, 1439). The modernist apparatus reduces Catholic pastoral care to secular crisis management, paralleling Martin Luther’s condemnation: “Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe more boldly still” (Letter to Melanchthon, 1521).
Sacramental Dereliction as Institutional Policy
Nowhere does the conciliar “pontiff” urge the administration of Last Rites or encourage reception of Valid Sacraments – unsurprising given that Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963) initiated the destruction of sacramental efficacy. This contradicts Pope Pius XII’s warning that “the first duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the prudence by which the disease is prevented from spreading” (Humani Generis, 1950). The telegram’s focus on “emergency personnel who continue to provide medical assistance” prioritizes natural virtues over supernatural grace – a textbook manifestation of the modernist cult of man condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
Linguistic Analysis Reveals Theological Apostasy
The calculated terminology exposes doctrinal corruption:
- “Spiritual solidarity”: A Gnostic concept alien to Catholic soteriology, implying universal salvation regardless of religious affiliation. Directly contradicts Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302): “Outside the Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sins”.
- “Loving mercy of the Almighty”: Deliberate omission of Christ’s mediatorship, violating the Council of Trent’s anathema against those who say “that God is appeased… without the merit of Christ” (Session XXII, Canon III).
- “Divine blessings of strength, consolation, and peace”: New Age terminology replacing the traditional Requiem aeternam prayers for the dead.
This linguistic shift implements Paul VI’s revolutionary program: “We must shake off the triumphalism that presented the Church as perfect… We must dialogue with the world” (Address to Roman Curia, December 23, 1966).
Theological Subversion Through Omission
The conciliar sect’s refusal to address the state of grace of fire victims constitutes implicit denial of:
- The necessity of membership in the Catholic Church for salvation (Mystici Corporis Christi, Pius XII)
- The propitiatory nature of Christ’s Sacrifice (Quas Primas, Pius XI)
- The Church’s mission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19)
This fulfills St. Pius X’s prophecy that modernists would reduce religion to “a kind of longing for the unknown… which corresponds to religious sentiment” (Pascendi, 28). The telegram’s humanitarian veneer masks apostasy from the Catholic dogmatic principle: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Historical Contrast With Authentic Catholic Response
Compare this modernist vacuity with Pope Benedict XV’s response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic:
“We raise Our suppliac eyes to the Virgin Mary… that she may implore for all the mercy of her Divine Son… We grant to all who, strengthened by the sacraments of the Church, assist the sick… a Plenary Indulgence at the hour of death” (Letter Ad Universos, 1918)
The post-conciliar sect’s abandonment of indulgences, sacramentals, and Marian intercession confirms its status as what Cardinal Bacci termed “a counterfeit church with an anthropological rather than theological focus” (Address to Roman Clergy, September 1971).
Symptomatic of Conciliar Revolution’s Final Stage
This empty ritual represents the institutionalization of the “silent apostasy” predicted by Cardinal Ratzinger in 1990. Having dismantled the sacramental economy, the conciliar sect now operates as a NGO specializing in “spiritual solidarity” – precisely the “religion of man” denounced in Paul VI’s Octogesima Adveniens (1971) as satanic substitution for Christ’s Kingship. As the Church’s last true Vicar warned: “When nations reject the rule of our Savior… they will inevitably decline into pagan barbarism” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925). The charred towers of Hong Kong stand as mute witnesses to civilizations that forget Christus Rex.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV prays for victims of Hong Kong fire (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.11.2025