Vatican Preacher Promotes Religious Indifferentism in Advent Meditation
The Vatican News portal reports on the third Advent meditation delivered by Roberto Pasolini, the Preacher of the Papal Household, before antipope Leo XIV and the Roman Curia on December 19, 2025. Titled “The Universality of Salvation: A Hope Without Conditions,” the sermon recycles modernist tropes of “encounter” and “journey” while systematically dismantling the Church’s missionary imperative. Pasolini claims Christ’s light “does not impose itself” and demands the Church abandon doctrinal clarity to “recognize that not everything belongs to her or can be controlled.” This deliberate confusion between divine truth and human searching epitomizes the apostate orientation of the conciliar sect.
Naturalization of Salvation and Denial of Supernatural Order
Pasolini’s assertion that Christ connects human searches “toward a fuller meaning” constitutes a fundamental betrayal of Catholic soteriology. The preacher declares:
“God is more interested in our truth than in superficial goodness.”
This inversion of priorities – elevating subjective “truth” over objective sanctity – directly contradicts the Council of Trent’s condemnation of those who claim “faith alone suffices” (Session VI, Canon VII). By reducing the Incarnation to a mere illuminator of human experiences, Pasolini denies the ex opere operato efficacy of sacraments and the necessity of sanctifying grace. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane explicitly condemns this naturalism: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but a kind of interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously discovered” (Proposition 22).
Attack on Ecclesial Authority and Sanctifying Mission
The meditation’s core thesis demands the Church renounce her divine mandate:
“The world does not expect… another discourse indicating what should be done, but… a community that… is not afraid to show itself for what it is.”
This dismissal of the Church’s teaching authority echoes the Modernist heresy condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which exposed the error that “the Church’s dogmas are to be harmonized with science and history” (§13). Pasolini’s call to abandon “moral purity” claims in favor of “sincerity” constitutes blasphemy against the Spouse of Christ, whom Scripture declares “without spot or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:27). Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors anathematizes the notion that “the Church is not a true and perfect society entirely free” (Error 19).
Idolatry of “Journey” Over Doctrine
The Magi narrative is weaponized to promote perpetual doctrinal ambiguity:
“Sometimes the truth asks to be followed even before it is fully understood.”
This gnostic formulation justifies theological experimentation contrary to Dei Filius: “Faith… is a supernatural virtue whereby… we believe that the things which He has revealed are true” (Chapter III). Pasolini’s demand that the Church “accept to leave her own securities” repudiates St. Vincent of Lerins’ Commonitorium, which commands adherence to “what has been believed everywhere, always, by all” (II.6). The preacher’s claim that God speaks through “unexpected ways” outside Scripture and Tradition aligns with condemned proposition 64 in Lamentabili: “Scientific progress demands that concepts of Christian doctrine be reformed.”
Universalist Heresy and Denial of Original Sin
Pasolini’s conclusion reveals the meditation’s poisonous fruit:
“Every human life carries within itself a light, a vocation, a value that cannot be erased.”
This Pelagian assertion denies the radical wound of Original Sin which darkens intellect and weakens will (Council of Trent, Session V). Pius XI’s Quas Primas demolishes such naturalism: “Christ… is to reign… to whom all should render most obedient service” (§18). The preacher’s fantasy that evangelization means “helping others recognize the light that already dwells within them” constitutes apostasy from Christ’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations… teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).
Conclusion: Apostasy Masquerading as Piety
Pasolini’s meditation exemplifies the conciliar sect’s theological bankruptcy. By substituting psychologized “encounter” for dogmatic certainty and missionary zeal, the Vatican apparatus fulfills Pius X’s warning about Modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth” (Pascendi §39). As the true Church teaches through Leo XIII: “The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God” (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus §13). Only by rejecting this neo-pagan “gospel of accompaniment” and returning to integral Catholic doctrine can souls be saved from the darkness enveloping the counterfeit church occupying Rome.
Source:
Pasolini: May the Church foster encounter as she sets out to know God (vaticannews.va)
Date: 19.12.2025