Apostate Rituals: The Pallium Ceremony Under Antipope Leo XIV

Catholic News Agency portal reports that Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) received two lambs in the Vatican’s Urban VIII Chapel on January 21, 2026, reviving a ceremony discontinued since 2017. The lambs’ wool will be woven into pallia – vestments purportedly symbolizing metropolitan archbishops’ communion with Rome. This theatrical display exemplifies the conciliar sect’s sacrilegious parody of Catholic tradition.

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Sacrilegious Substitution of True Apostolic Authority

The pallium ceremony constitutes a blasphemous inversion of ius divinum (divine law). True metropolitan authority derives from cathedrae veritatis (the chair of truth), requiring both valid episcopal consecration and profession of the Catholic Faith (Council of Trent, Session XXIII). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 216 §1) explicitly states: “No one has the right to take part in the divine ministry unless he has been legitimately called and appointed.” Yet these pallia recipients:

“…are bestowed on new metropolitan archbishops on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul”

belong to structures that reject:

1. The Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus dogma (Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam)
2. The Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas)
3. The condemnation of religious liberty (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors §77)

Their “apostolic succession” is null, as post-1968 episcopal consecrations lack proper form and intention (Holy Office Decree Ecclesia Dei, 1949). Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis declared invalid any ordination omitting the essential words: “Accipe potestatem offerre sacrificium…” (Receive the power to offer sacrifice…).

Naturalistic Desecration of Sacred Symbolism

The article reduces sacramental reality to zoological sentimentality:

“The lambs — carried in baskets dressed in white with red roses for St. Agnes’ virginity and martyrdom…”

This violates multiple principles:

• The pallium’s six black crosses symbolize Christ’s wounds, not decorative pins (Innocent III, De Sacro Altaris Mysterio II.1)
• Wool represents the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), requiring consecration by a valid bishop (Pontificale Romanum)
• St. Agnes’ martyrdom (Acta Sanctae Agnetis) witnesses to odium fidei (hatred of faith), not floral pageantry

Modernists omit that the pallium’s three pins symbolize both Christ’s crucifixion nails and the triple authority to: 1) bind and loose, 2) consecrate churches, 3) confirm bishops (Innocent III, Regestrum VII.1). By transferring pallium production to Benedictine nuns:

“The Benedictine nuns of the Basilica of St. Cecilia will take over care of the lambs…”

the conciliar sect grotesquely inverts female religious life from contemplative prayer to animal husbandry – a violation of Sponsa Christi theology (Pius XII, Sponsa Christi).

Ecclesiastical Vandalism of Liturgical Tradition

The ceremony’s interruption (2017-2026) exposes modernism’s contempt for lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief). While traditional rites maintain:

• Annual blessing by the Pope (Ceremoniale Episcoporum, 1886)
• Agnesian lambs raised by Trappists (Circaria XI, Cistercian Statutes)
• Shearing on Holy Thursday (Martyrologium Romanum)

the neo-church substitutes:

“…blessed in the Mausoleum of Constantina, an ancient church close to the Minor Basilica of St. Agnes Outside the Walls, which is temporarily closed.”

This geographical displacement parallels their theological rupture. True pallia require:

1. Wool from lambs blessed by the Pope on St. Agnes’ feast (Caeremoniale Episcoporum, Lib. I, Cap. XII)
2. Weaving by Vatican moniales ordinis sancti Benedicti (Benedictine nuns attached to the Papal Household)
3. Storage super altare beati Petri (upon St. Peter’s altar) until Pentecost (Liber Pontificalis)

The conciliar sect violates all three requirements, rendering their pallia “narrow white vestments” of apostasy rather than sacramental signs.

Silence on Supernatural Reality

The article’s omissions condemn it more than its assertions. No mention appears of:

• St. Agnes’ miraculous virginity preserved in brothels (Passio SS. Agnetis)
• The pallium’s mystical representation of the lost sheep carried by Christ (Luke 15:5)
• The requirement that pallium recipients swear the Professio Fidei Tridentina (Tridentine Profession of Faith)

Instead, we find naturalistic reductionism:

“The wool of the blessed lambs will be used to make pallia — narrow white vestments worn by metropolitan archbishops.”

Pius XI condemned such desacralization: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas §18). The pallium’s black crosses specifically represent:

1. Christ’s five wounds (hands, feet, side)
2. The spear wound (John 19:34)

– totaling six, not “six small black crosses” as decorative elements. This modernist numerology destroys sacrificial symbolism.

Conclusion: Shepherds Who Devour the Flock

Antipope Leo XIV’s pallium theater constitutes Ezekiel’s prophecy fulfilled: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?” (Ezekiel 34:2). True Catholics recognize:

• No valid sacraments exist in the conciliar sect (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis)
• Their rituals are cultus inanis (vain worship) lacking ex opere operato efficacy
• The true Church endures through bishops consecrated before 1968 who reject Vatican II

As St. Agnes’ true pallia once united bishops to Peter’s Chair, today’s counterfeit vestments unite apostates to the “abomination of desolation” (Matthew 24:15). Let the faithful heed Our Lord’s warning: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing…” (Matthew 7:15).

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Source:
Pope Leo XIV receives lambs on feast of St. Agnes   (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.01.2026