Catholic News Agency reports on December 25, 2025, about antipope Leo XIV’s numerous encounters with infants during public appearances at the Vatican. The article features photographs showing the antipope holding, blessing, and embracing babies during general audiences and liturgical events throughout 2025, accompanied by sentimental descriptions of these interactions as “sweet moments.” This staged manipulation of infant innocence constitutes a sacrilegious exploitation of children’s vulnerability to manufacture false legitimacy for an illegitimate claimant to the Petrine office.
Exploitation of Infant Innocence for Public Relations
The calculated photographic documentation of these encounters reveals the modernist sect’s desperate attempt to fabricate the appearance of apostolic fatherhood. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, Christ’s kingship demands recognition that “all the rights of which families and States are composed” must be subordinated to divine authority (n. 32). These images constitute a blasphemous inversion – using children as props to suggest spiritual paternity where none exists. The true Church teaches that valid sacramental authority comes not from emotional displays, but from unbroken apostolic succession maintained through doctrinal fidelity.
Theological Vacuum in Blessing Counterfeits
When the article states “Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby,” it commits a grave deception against the faithful. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1148) reserves sacramental blessings to validly ordained priests acting in persona Christi (in the person of Christ). As St. Thomas Aquinas explains: “The sacramental character is exclusively imprinted by ordained ministers… for the sanctification of the people” (Summa Theologica III, Q63, A3). The conciliar sect’s “blessings” lack ontological reality, being performed by one whose “episcopal consecration” derives from the invalid Paul VI rite and who publicly professes heretical doctrines condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Propositions 15-18).
Omission of Baptismal Necessity
Notably absent from these sentimental displays is any reference to the necessity of infant baptism for salvation – the very foundation of Catholic teaching on children. The Council of Trent infallibly declared: “If anyone says that baptism is optional… let him be anathema” (Session VII, Canon 5 on Baptism). Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (n. 22) reaffirmed that baptism constitutes “the washing of regeneration” without which no soul enters Christ’s kingdom. The antipope’s baby-kissing theater substitutes emotional manipulation for the urgent sacramental duty of ensuring children’s incorporation into the Mystical Body through valid baptism – impossible under his false sacramental system.
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith
The article’s focus on physical interactions (“embraces a crying baby,” “greets young children”) exposes the conciliar sect’s complete reduction of religion to natural sentimentality. Contrast this with the Church’s perennial teaching that “the supernatural life is the only true life,” as Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange explains in The Three Ages of the Spiritual Life. True shepherds warn parents of their grave duty to preserve children’s innocence from worldly corruption, as Pius XI emphasized in Divini Illius Magistri: “Education belongs pre-eminently to the Church… because of the supernatural order” (n. 12). Modernist baby-worship replaces this supernatural vision with a diabolical parody of paternal care devoid of sacramental efficacy.
Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
This manipulative spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s total abandonment of the Church’s divine mission. Where St. Pius X mandated in Lamentabili Sane the condemnation of modernist errors denying sacramental validity (Propositions 39-51), antipope Leo XIV performs liturgical theater to conceal his sect’s sacramental bankruptcy. The photographs function as iconic representations of the “abomination of desolation” – counterfeit sacraments administered by false shepherds in the Vatican’s profaned spaces. As Our Lord warned: “By their fruits you will know them” (Matthew 7:16). These images bear the poisonous fruit of an ecclesial structure that substitutes photo opportunities for valid sacraments and emotional manipulation for doctrinal truth.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo meets the tiniest members of the flock — babies (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.12.2025