Vatican II’s Distortion of Divine Revelation in Leo XIV’s Catechesis
Catholic News Agency reports on Leo XIV’s January 21, 2026 general audience, wherein the antipope perpetuated the conciliar sect’s false doctrines on divine revelation. The article summarizes his catechesis on Dei Verbum, emphasizing a “relational” revelation that allegedly manifests human identity through Christ’s “true and integral humanity.” This modernist reduction of revelation to interpersonal experience constitutes a complete rupture with Catholic dogma.
Substitution of Ontological Truth for Existential Dialogue
Leo XIV claims divine revelation is “not primarily a set of abstract ideas but a living encounter” involving a “dialogue of covenant.” This language directly contradicts the Church’s teaching that revelation conveys immutable veritates intellectuali (intellectual truths) binding on all men. The First Vatican Council dogmatically defined that God revealed “those things quae divinitus revelata vera sunt (which are divinely revealed as true)” (Dei Filius, Ch. 3). By dismissing propositional truth as mere “abstract ideas,” the antipope resurrects the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: “In the dogmas of the Church, divine reality is to be found present and living” becomes reduced to “symbols of faith” (Lamentabili Sane, #22, 26).
Naturalization of Christ’s Divine Mission
The assertion that “God has manifested to us our true identity as his children” through Christ’s humanity inverts the order of salvation. The Council of Chalcedon (451) defined Christ’s unio hypostatica (hypostatic union) precisely to safeguard the primacy of His divinity in redeeming mankind. Leo XIV’s emphasis on the Incarnation as God “embracing the human condition” omits the essential truth that Christ came primarily to restore the supernatural order destroyed by original sin. Pius XII condemned this horizontalist distortion: “The Word of God did not become man to solve social problems or economic difficulties” (Menti Nostrae, 1950).
Omission of Christ’s Kingship and Final Judgment
Nowhere does the catechesis mention Christ’s divine authority over individuals and societies. This silence exemplifies the conciliar sect’s rejection of Quas primas, wherein Pius XI instituted Christ the King’s feast to combat laicism. While quoting St. Paul’s “If God is for us, who is against us?” (Rom 8:31), Leo XIV suppresses the preceding verse: “Christ who died, and more than that, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us” (Rom 8:34). The antipope’ selective citation hides the judgment awaiting those who reject Christ’s social reign—a truth Vatican II abandoned.
Dei Verbum’s Hermeneutic of Rupture
By framing his catechesis around Dei Verbum, Leo XIV validates a document that redefined revelation as “God sharing Himself” rather than the transmission of defined truths. This contradicts the Church’s perennial understanding articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine: “Divine revelation includes all that is contained in the Word of God, written or handed down, and all that is proposed by the Church as divinely revealed” (De Controversiis). The conciliar text’s vague “living encounter” paradigm opens the door to the very subjectivism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition #3).
Conclusion: Apostasy Disguised as Catechesis
Leo XIV’s audience continues the conciliar sect’s project of replacing Catholic soteriology with anthropological narcissism. By reducing revelation to an identity-affirming “relationship,” denying the primacy of doctrinal transmission, and ignoring Christ’s kingship, this antipope confirms his role as minister iniquitatis (minister of iniquity). As St. Pius X warned: “The enemy has entered the sheepfold in unexpected ways… spreading ruin everywhere” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: In Christ, God shows us our true identity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.01.2026