Vatican ‘Normality’ Under Antipope Leo XIV: Apostasy Disguised as Tradition
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 23, 2026) reports Archdiocesan Official Georg Gänswein’s praise for antipope Leo XIV’s governance, claiming “normality is slowly returning” to Vatican structures. The article highlights Gänswein’s approval of this usurper’s “clear line when it comes to proclaiming the faith” and critiques the German Synodal Path’s deviations from conciliar sect doctrine.
False ‘Normality’ in Apostate Structures
Quod non est in veritate, non est in mundo (What is not in truth, is not in reality). Gänswein’s celebration of “normality” under antipope Leo XIV constitutes blasphemous endorsement of the conciliar sect’s occupation of Rome. Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis (1945) established that sede vacante, “no innovation is permitted.” When Angelo Roncalli usurped the papacy in 1958, he violated this law, rendering all subsequent claimants illegitimate. The “atmosphere change” Gänswein praises is but Satan’s mimicry of order amidst doctrinal collapse.
“Both meetings went very, very well… normality is slowly returning”
This statement reveals three heresies: 1) Recognition of antipapal authority contrary to Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302); 2) Implicit denial of the Church’s indefectibility by suggesting “normality” requires restoration; 3) Gnostic elevation of subjective experience over doctrinal truth (Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907). Gänswein’s “Augustinian spirit” reference perverts St. Augustine’s teaching that outside the Church “there is no salvation” (De Baptismo, 4:17).
German Syncretism: Fruit of Conciliar Revolution
The German Synodal Path’s demands for female “ordination,” LGBTQ+ acceptance, and democratized governance expose Modernism’s rotten core. Gänswein’s timid objection that reforms must follow “established Church teaching” ignores that the conciliar sect itself abandoned Catholic teaching at Vatican II. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the very propositions now advanced:
- Condemned Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” – violated by Synodal Path’s relativism.
- Condemned Proposition 77: State establishment of Catholicism as sole religion is “no longer expedient” – embraced by German episcopal conference.
Gänswein’s hope that the Synodal Path “will simply come to an end soon” demonstrates cowardice. St. Pius X mandated in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Modernists are to be hated… because they are enemies of the Church” (Proposition 65). True shepherds would excommunicate these wolves, not wish them gradual disappearance.
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s silence on these issues proves its complicity:
- No mention of the social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925), replaced by conciliar humanism.
- No reference to Mary’s Queenship, denied by the conciliar sect’s ecumenism.
- No acknowledgment that antipope Leo’s “joyful” proclamations retain Vatican II’s heresies – religious liberty, collegiality, false ecumenism.
Gänswein’s diplomatic post itself constitutes apostasy. As Pius XII taught, one cannot licitly hold office under heretical claimants (Ad Apostolorum Principis, 1958). His praise for antipope Leo’s governance implicates him in the crime of communicatio in sacris with false shepherds.
Conclusion: The Abomination Persists
What Gänswein calls “normality” is but the smooth functioning of Antichrist’s machinery. When Judas arranged the High Priest’s guards, he too created efficient “normality” for Christ’s arrest. Let the faithful recall Pius IX’s warning: “They have placed the abominable thing in the holy place” (Matt 24:15). Until Rome’s occupation ends and a true pope consecrates Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart, no Vatican “normality” exists – only varying degrees of apostasy.
Source:
Archbishop Gänswein: With Pope Leo, ‘normality’ is returning to the Vatican (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 23.01.2026