Naturalistic Spectacle Replaces Sacramental Ministry in Conciliar Sect’s Performance
VaticanNews portal (December 17, 2025) reports a gathering in the Paul VI Hall where antipope Leo XIV addressed sick and disabled attendees ahead of the general audience. The article states he offered “a special blessing” and wished “that the joy of the Christmas season may accompany all of you,” framing the encounter as protection from “inclement weather” to ensure their “comfort.” This theatrical display epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of supernatural priorities in favor of psychologized sentimentality.
Substitution of Sacramental Duty for Emotional Manipulation
The event’s logistics betray its doctrinal bankruptcy. By confining the infirm to the Paul VI Hall—a modernist architectural blasphemy inaugurated in 1971—the conciliar sect physically enacts its ruptura with sacred tradition. The antipope’s justification—“We wanted to protect you a little from the elements: from the cold especially”—reduces pastoral care to climate control, ignoring the Church’s immutable mission: “Go, teach all nations… administering the sacraments” (Matthew 28:19-20). Pius XI’s Quas Primas condemns such naturalism: “When once men recognize… the royal prerogatives of Christ, they will not fail to acknowledge the Church’s perfect right to freedom…” (§18).
Notably absent is any mention of the Sacrament of Anointing the Sick, the Mass, or exhortations to offer sufferings in reparation for sin. The antipope’s promise that attendees “always be in the hands of the Lord” substitutes vague emotional assurance for the objective graces of Extrema Unctio, violating the Council of Trent’s decree that “this sacred anointing was instituted by Christ our Lord as a true sacrament” (Session XIV). The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the sacraments are merely excitory signs of faith” (Proposition 41), yet here sacramental reality is replaced with Hallmark-card theology.
Omission of Redemptive Suffering Exposes Modernist Apostasy
The article’s focus on “joy” severed from the Cross reveals the conciliar sect’s Pelagian optimism. Leo XIV’s exhortation to find “love that only God can give us” deliberately avoids mentioning that divine love flows ex opere operato through sacraments, not emotional experiences. Compare this to Pius XII’s teaching: “By suffering for us, [Christ] not only provided us with an example… but He also merited for us… the power to follow His footsteps” (Mystici Corporis, §55).
The event’s timing during Advent—a penitential season—further underscores the inversion. Traditional liturgy prepares souls through fasting and contrition; here, “Christmas joy” becomes a therapeutic tool detached from the Via Dolorosa that makes Bethlehem’s crib salvific. This aligns with Bergoglio’s heretical claim that “the Son of God became man to free us from the obsession with suffering” (2015 interview)—a direct contradiction of Hebrews 5:8 (“He learned obedience by the things which he suffered”).
Symptomatic Silence on Eschatological Reality
Most damning is the complete absence of references to Judgment, Purgatory, or the necessity of sanctifying grace for salvation. When the antipope states the infirm are “in the hands of the Lord,” he omits the Church’s doctrine that those dying in mortal sin face eternal separation from God (Council of Florence, Session 11). This echoes Vatican II’s relativistic Gaudium et Spes (§22), which implies all people are “united with the Paschal mystery” regardless of faith.
The VaticanNews portal’s complicity is manifest in its saccharine framing—calling the event “slightly more personal” while ignoring that true personal care requires administering the Last Rites. As St. Alphonsus Liguori warns: “The first duty of priests is to provide the dying with the sacraments. To fail in this is to become a murderer of souls” (The Eternal Truths). By reducing priesthood to a modality of social work, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius X’s prophecy: “Modernists substitute for the divine reality a reality purely human” (Pascendi, §36).
Source:
Pope Leo to the sick: May the joy of Christmas accompany you all (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.12.2025