Vatican News portal (January 23, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV plans five Lenten visits to Roman parishes, meeting “various parish groups” and celebrating “Mass” between February 15 and March 15. Cardinal Baldo Reina, vicar general for the occupied Diocese of Rome, calls these “true pastoral visits” enabling “pastoral plan” development. This theatrical imitation of episcopal ministry constitutes a brazen sacrilege against the divine constitution of Holy Mother Church.
Usurpation of Episcopal Authority: A Criminal Masquerade
The fraudulent title “Bishop of Rome” claimed by the antipope directly violates Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) automatically deprives manifest heretics of office, as St. Robert Bellarmine establishes: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). Since the conciliar sect promulgates heresies condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (e.g., denial of Christ’s divinity in Proposition 27), these “pastoral visits” constitute not spiritual care but public reinforcement of apostasy.
Pseudo-Sacramental Charade Mocks Christ’s Sacrifice
The “Mass” celebrated by antipope Leo XIV bears no resemblance to the Most Holy Sacrifice defined at Trent. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) condemns any rite altering “the essential character [of Mass] as a true and proper Sacrifice.” The conciliar sect’s Eucharistic rite, by abandoning the Canon Missae and propitiatory intention, reduces the Sacrament to “a table of assembly” (Synod of Pistoia condemnation). As the Syllabus states, such liturgical innovations “propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Error 79). Each invalid “consecration” performed during these visits constitutes sacrilegious simulation, drawing souls into idolatry.
Naturalistic Pastoral Model Denies Supernatural Order
Cardinal Reina’s emphasis on “meeting parish groups” and “developing pastoral plans” exposes the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric heresy. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” By replacing the Church’s divine mission (salus animarum) with bureaucratic “pastoral regions,” these visits enact the condemned modernist error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Lamentabili, Proposition 58).
Lenten Subversion: From Penance to Public Relations
True Lenten observance requires mortification to “make reparation to the Divine Majesty for the sins of men” (Roman Missal, Ash Wednesday Collect). The antipope’s Sunday “celebrations” transform penitential season into entertainment, fulfilling Pius IX’s condemnation of those who “omit feast-day observances and replace them with profane banquets” (Syllabus, Error 64). This sacrilegious inversion mocks St. Paul’s admonition: “We are ambassadors for Christ, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20).
Heretical Clericalism: Reina’s Diabolical Disorientation
Cardinal Reina’s claim that antipapal visits “follow the footsteps of his predecessors” blasphemes against true popes like St. Pius X, who wrote in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist… lies to God and to man by making profession of faith without believing it.” The “great joy” expressed over these visits demonstrates the conciliar sect’s adoption of condemned theological liberalism, which Pius IX called “that insanity… namely, that freedom of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (Quanta Cura).
The conciliar sect’s Lenten spectacle confirms St. Paul’s warning: “For such false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:13-14). True Catholics must flee these “pastoral visits” as occasions of sin, clinging to the depositum fidei guarded by traditional clergy who maintain apostolic succession outside the occupied Vatican structures.
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Pope Leo XIV to visit five parishes in Rome during Lent (vaticannews.va)
Date: 23.01.2026