The Neo-Church’s Betrayal: “Littleness” as Apostasy from Christ the King
VaticanNews portal (November 28, 2025) reports on an address by antipope Leo XIV to Turkish Christians, extolling the “strength of littleness.” The article claims this “little flock” exemplifies a Church rejecting “displays of power,” measuring success not by “numerical consensus, economic power, or… influence,” but by worldly irrelevance. This celebration of ecclesial impotence constitutes a radical rupture with Catholic doctrine.
Denial of Christ’s Social Kingship
The antipope’s assertion that “the Kingdom of God does not impose itself with displays of power” flatly contradicts Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which commands civil governments to obey Christ:
“Let rulers of states… fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
Pius XI condemned the very error promoted here—that the Church should abandon Her divine mandate to govern nations. Regnum Christi is not a private spirituality but demands public submission of all states to the One True Faith (Syllabus of Errors, Pius IX, 1864: Condemned Propositions 77-80).
Naturalism Masquerading as Humility
The article’s praise for a Church measuring success by worldly irrelevance constitutes apostasy from Her divine constitution. “God… gave Him to be head over all the Church, which is His body” (Eph. 1:22-23). When antipope Leo XIV claims “the Church strays from the Gospel… when it believes its strength lies in its resources,” he perverts the Church’s institutional nature. Her strength derives from Christ’s promise (“the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”—Matt. 16:18), not bureaucratic minimalism. This naturalistic reduction echoes Modernist heresies condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): that revelation is merely “man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
The Ominous Silence: No Call for Conversion
Nowhere does the article mention the Church’s primary mission: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them…” (Matt. 28:19). The Orthodox—schismatics severed from Peter’s successor—are treated as equals in dialogue, violating Mortalium Animos (Pius XI, 1928):
“The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
This ecumenical betrayal fulfills the Syllabus’ condemnation of those who “equate the Christian religion with false ones” (Proposition 16).
Gnostic Contempt for History
The dismissal of Christendom’s “glorious past” as irrelevant reveals the neo-church’s gnostic hatred of Catholic civilization. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Augustine, Letter to Macedonius, cited in Quas Primas). To mourn this past as mere “power structures” is to reject the Incarnational logic of the Faith—that grace perfects nature. This aligns with Modernism’s evolutionary heresy: “Dogmas… are merely modes of explanation” (Lamentabili, Proposition 54).
Conclusion: Apostasy Disguised as Piety
Antipope Leo XIV’s rhetoric of “littleness” constitutes spiritual sabotage. When he urges Christians to adopt “the gaze of the small, the humble, those without power,” he inverts the Church’s mission. She exists not to grovel before the world but to conquer it for Christ the King. As Pius XI warned:
“The entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation”
—a foundation now openly scorned by Vatican occupiers. Their “strength of littleness” is the death rattle of apostasy.
Source:
The strength of littleness (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.11.2025