VaticanNews portal reports on December 8, 2025 that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) encouraged crowds in St. Peter’s Square to “believe as Mary did” during an Angelus address for the Immaculate Conception feast. The article emphasizes his call for a “generous assent” to God’s mission, paralleling the Blessed Virgin’s fiat, while highlighting a later ceremony at Rome’s Spanish Steps where flowers were placed before a Marian statue. The portal frames this as continuity with Catholic tradition, stating Baptism allows Christ to “live in us” like Mary’s “special grace”.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Immaculate Conception
The conciliar sect’s leader reduces the Privilegium Marianum – defined infallibly by Pius IX in Ineffabilis Deus (1854) – to mere inspirational rhetoric. Pius XI condemned this modernist tactic in Miserentissimus Redemptor: “When once the mystery is proposed apart from the veil with which the faith covers it and by which it is not so much obscured as illumined… it is no longer the mystery of our faith.” By equating Mary’s “yes” with human “acts of service” and “mundane efforts”, the antipope commits sacrilege against the singularis privilegia (singular privileges) of the Theotokos.
“The ‘yes’ of the Mother of the Lord is wonderful, but so also can ours be… from the most extraordinary gestures to the most mundane and ordinary efforts”
This blasphemous egalitarianism contradicts the Council of Trent’s anathema against those who “rashly assert that all the works of God can be done equally by all” (Session 6, Canon 18). Mary’s fiat was possible only through her Immaculate Conception – a truth omitted in this Angelus address. St. Maximilian Kolbe (a true martyr before conciliar corruption) taught: “Never at any time was the Blessed Virgin Mary subjected to Satan. From the first instant, she was immaculate.” The portal’s silence on this doctrinal foundation exposes its naturalism.
Sacramental Invalidity in the Conciliar Sect
The claim that “Baptism allows Jesus to live in us” constitutes grave deception. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) established immutable sacramental form, while Paul VI’s invalid Novus Ordo rites – including Baptism – lack proper matter, form, and intention. The article’s failure to mention ex opere operato validity conditions proves doctrinal bankruptcy. St. Alphonsus Liguori warns in Theologia Moralis: “Sacraments administered by heretics are invalid if they alter the form instituted by Christ.”
Moreover, the antipope’s citation of Augustine – “we also believe, because that which came to be [in her] can also benefit us” – is twisted to suggest universal salvation. This contradicts the Saint’s actual teaching in De Natura et Gratia: “Through Mary alone did the Lord come to us without any preceding merits.” The portal’s promotion of “prayer and concrete acts of love” as salvific constitutes semi-Pelagianism condemned by Orange II (529 AD).
Masonic Symbolism in Marian Devotions
The Spanish Steps ritual – with firemen placing flowers on a statue – bears hallmarks of Masonic spectacle. Pius VIII’s Litteris Altero (1830) condemned such “theatrical exhibitions which pervert the simplicity of sacred rites.” True Catholic Marian devotion, as defined in Leo XIII’s Supremi Apostolatus Officio, requires “public supplications… to crush the serpent’s head.” The absence of references to Mary’s role in crushing heresy reveals the sect’s alignment with Genesis 3:15’s enemies.
Symptomatic Omission of Dogma
Nowhere does the article mention:
1. Mary’s mediation (Mediatrix Omnium Gratiarum)
2. Her perpetual virginity (Lateran Council 649)
3. Her Assumption (Munificentissimus Deus, 1950)
This systematic omission fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi about modernists who “empty doctrine of its supernatural content.” The portal’s description of Mary having a “completely pure heart” employs Protestantizing language foreign to Trent’s anathemas against justification by inner disposition alone.
The conciliar sect’s Mariology constitutes not faith but sentimentality – a “cult of man” masked in Marian trappings. As St. Louis de Montfort prophesied in True Devotion: “The devil will instigate cruel persecutions… placing snares for the faithful servants and true children of Mary.” Those attending “Mass” under antipapal authority commit idolatry, not devotion. Only by rejecting the conciliar sect and returning to true Catholic bishops can Mary’s Immaculate Heart triumph.
Source:
Pope at Angelus: Believe as Mary believed, say ‘yes’ to God (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.12.2025