Vatican’s New Year Message: Empty Hope Amidst Apostasy
The Vatican News portal (December 31, 2025) compiles reflections from six post-1958 antipopes—Paul VI, John Paul II, John XXIII, Benedict XVI, Leo XIV (Prevost), and Francis—on the new year. The article presents their messages as centered on “thanksgiving,” “hope,” and earthly virtues like “kindness,” while omitting the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of repentance, and the Four Last Things. The portal frames 2026 as a “blank page” for humanistic endeavors, epitomizing the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Catholic eschatology.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article reduces the Church’s mission to promoting vague “virtues” disconnected from grace. Pope Benedict XVI allegedly urged gratitude but omitted the Te Deum’s true purpose: thanksgiving for the triumph of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas). His statement—”To overlook this goal of our lives would be to fall into the void”—fails to identify the goal: salus animarum (salvation of souls). Similarly, Paul VI’s reflection on time as a “fleeting moment” ignores eternity, reducing life to a “moving point” devoid of sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity).
“Hope is generative… Without hope, we are dead; with hope, we come to the light.”
This statement attributed to Pope Leo XIV exemplifies the conciliar inversion of virtue. True hope, defined by the Council of Trent as “the confident expectation of divine glory and eternal happiness” (Session VI, Canon XIII), is replaced with a naturalistic impulse for earthly progress. The phrase “hope is generative” echoes Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary heresy, condemned by Pius XII in Humani Generis (1950).
Omission of Christ’s Kingship: A Silent Apostasy
The antipopes’ collective silence on the Social Reign of Christ the King exposes their rejection of Catholic dogma. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) anathematized the view that “States must be separated from the Church,” yet the article promotes John XXIII’s call to “build a house that does not collapse” through human solidarity alone. Nowhere do these figures urge nations to submit to Christ’s authority—a damning omission that fulfills Pius X’s warning against the “modernist doctrine of evolution” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 40).
“The Jubilee is coming to an end; however, the hope that this Year has given us does not finish.”
Pope Leo XIV’s jubilee rhetoric continues the conciliar sect’s blasphemous appropriation of holy years. True jubilees, like those proclaimed by Pius IX and Pius XI, demanded public reparation for sins and consecration of nations to the Sacred Heart—not the “pilgrimage of hope” peddled by usurpers who deny Original Sin.
The False Virtue of “Kindness”
Pope Francis’ appeal to “retrieve kindness” as a civic virtue epitomizes the neo-modernist reduction of holiness to social ethics. Contrast this with St. Augustine: “Charity is ordo amoris (the order of love), the weight of the soul which draws it to its place.” The article’s focus on “humanizing relationships” through kindness ignores the necessity of sanctifying grace, reducing Catholicism to a NGO.
Conclusion: A House Built on Sand
The conciliar sect’s new year message—devoid of references to sin, judgment, heaven, or hell—proves its incompatibility with Catholic tradition. As Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), it is heresy to claim “the Roman Pontiff can… reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). The “house that does not collapse” (John XXIII) is the Church founded on Peter; the Vatican II sect, by denying her immutable doctrines, builds on sand (Matthew 7:26).
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The Popes and the new year: a time for thanksgiving and hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 31.12.2025