VaticanNews portal (January 10, 2026) reports on “Pope” Leo XIV’s meeting with Rome’s youth, emphasizing themes of overcoming loneliness through “encountering God and neighbor” while warning against virtual relationships. The event – held in the modernist Paul VI Hall – featured emotional gestures and vague spiritual exhortations that conceal doctrinal bankruptcy.
Sacrilegious Substitution of True Communion
The article describes a “moving embrace” between the usurper and youth, presenting physical proximity as salvific. This theatrical display replaces ex opere operato (by the work performed) grace of sacraments with emotional manipulation. Nowhere does the text mention Confession as remedy for sin or the Holy Eucharist as verum Corpus Christi (true Body of Christ). Instead, we find the blasphemous claim that “prayer is the most concrete act a Christian performs” – contrary to the Council of Trent’s definitive teaching that “the Sacrifice of the Mass is truly propitiatory” (Session XXII, Chapter 2).
The counterfeit “pope” reduces Christianity to social activism: “to change society we must first change ourselves.” This Pelagian formulation ignores original sin and the necessity of sacramental grace. Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize…Christ’s kingship, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (n.19). The VaticanNews piece inverts this truth, suggesting human effort precedes divine action.
Naturalistic Rhetoric Masks Doctrinal Vacuum
Modernist terminology permeates the report:
“encountering God and one’s neighbor”
This phraseology deliberately avoids specifying how one encounters God – through valid sacraments administered by properly ordained priests. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1256) reserves Eucharistic worship to bishops and priests, yet the article describes youth gatherings in “parishes, oratories, and charities” without verifying their sacramental validity or doctrinal orthodoxy.
The usurper’s poetic reference to Christ as “Sun of justice” (Sol Iustitiae) constitutes sacrilege when uttered by one promoting religious indifferentism. True Catholic teaching declares: “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council). The article’s emphasis on “gray and anonymous world” transforms Catholicism into self-help psychology, abandoning the Church’s mission to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Omissions That Condemn
The 1,200-word report exhibits six critical silences proving apostasy:
- No mention of mortal sin or hell – condemned by Pius XII as “pernicious error” (Humani Generis, 1950)
- Zero references to Mary as Mediatrix – contrary to Leo XIII’s Adiutricem Populi
- Absence of Eucharistic adoration – rejected by Vatican II’s liturgical destruction
- No distinction between Catholic prayer and Protestant “personal relationship”
- Failure to condemn contraception, fornication, or gender ideology
- Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship – the central theme of Pius XI’s entire pontificate
The article’s final irony – “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s inversion of Catholic mission. The true Church brings Christ’s sacrifice to altars, not heretical messages to smartphones. As St. Pius X warned: “The Modernists substitute for faith a sentiment which originates in a need of the divine” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 14). This Roman spectacle confirms the Vatican institution has become what Cardinal Pie called “a sect more hostile to Catholicism than open unbelief.”
Source:
Pope to young people: We are made for truth, not virtual connections (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.01.2026