Prison Jubilee Masquerade: Naturalism Replaces Catholic Penology
Vatican News portal (December 14, 2025) reports on a Mass celebrated by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) for the “Jubilee of Prisoners,” invoking themes of hope, “reparation,” and “reconciliation” while systematically erasing the supernatural dimensions of justice and repentance. The event epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of Catholic truth with anthropocentric sentimentalism.
Subversion of Justice Through Sentimental Reductionism
The article’s claim that “no human being is defined only by his or her actions” directly contradicts the Church’s immutable teaching on imputability and personal responsibility. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Prop. 56). By divorcing actions from their eternal consequences, the antipope denies the very foundation of Catholic moral theology: that every soul will be judged secundum opera eius (Rev 20:13).
The invocation of “justice as a process of reparation and reconciliation” excludes the necessity of sacramental confession and satisfaction, reducing divine justice to social therapy. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly states that nations rejecting Christ’s reign “renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior,” resulting in societal collapse. This prison jubilee exemplifies such rebellion by replacing expiatio with worldly rehabilitation schemes.
Naturalistic “Hope” Versus Supernatural Charity
Antipope Leo’s appeal to “hold the rope with the anchor of hope” perverts the theological virtue of hope (virtus theologica) into a psychological crutch. True Christian hope, as defined by the Council of Trent, is “a certain expectation of eternal life” (Session VI, Chap. XVI), contingent upon sanctifying grace and perseverance. In contrast, the conciliar sect’s “Jubilee of Hope” offers empty emotionalism detached from the sine qua non of repentance and conversion.
The call for “workers of justice and charity” ignores the Church’s doctrinal precision: justice (iustitia) demands restitution for sin, while charity (caritas) requires leading souls to the Una Vera Fides. The article’s silence on inmates’ need for sacramental confession, Eucharistic reparation, and submission to Christ the King reveals its alignment with modernist indifferentism condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Prop. 65: “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into…liberal Protestantism“).
Omission of Eternal Realities: A Heretical Silence
Nowhere does the antipope mention hell, final judgment, or the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). This omission exemplifies the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Pascendi Dominici Gregis’ condemnation of modernists who “destroy the gratuity of the supernatural order” (Encyclical, §37).
The sacrilegious incensing of a modernist statue “of Our Lady with the Child Jesus” during this invalid liturgy compounds the blasphemy. True Catholic veneration demands doctrinal purity, as Pius XII taught: “Marian devotion must be grounded in sound theology, lest it degenerate into sentimentalism” (Munificentissimus Deus).
Structural Apostasy: The Fruits of Vatican II
This prison jubilee embodies the conciliar revolution’s core errors:
1. Religious indifferentism: Equating pagan “compassion” with Catholic charity (against Pius IX’s Quanta Cura).
2. Naturalization of grace: Presenting “flowers blooming in prisons” as autonomous human achievements rather than fruits of redemption.
3. Rejection of Christ’s Social Kingship: No demand for prison reforms to include Catholic chaplains, sacraments, or submission to ecclesiastical authority.
The referenced “Bull Spes non confundit” continues Bergoglio’s heresies by advocating penal amnesty without requiring repentance. True justice demands poena temporalis to expiate sin, as Aquinas explains: “Punishment balances the disorder introduced by offense” (STh II-II, Q108, A4).
The Sedevacantist Imperative
While the conciliar sect orchestrates this saccharine theater, faithful Catholics recall Pius XI’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states…the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas). Until Roman authorities renounce modernism and return to integral Tradition, no act emanating from them – however “merciful” in appearance – can mask their ontological rupture from the Church of All Time.
Source:
Pope Leo: Flowers can bloom even in prisons (vaticannews.va)
Date: 14.12.2025