VaticanNews portal (January 28, 2026) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s general audience catechesis, continuing his series on the Second Vatican Council by promoting the heresy of doctrinal evolution through the lens of Dei Verbum. The antipope asserts that Sacred Scripture and Tradition form a “living and organic reality that develops,” claiming this “deposit” remains with the “Church” as a guide through history’s complexities. This constitutes a complete inversion of Catholic truth.
Scripture and Tradition as Evolving Entities: A Direct Assault on Dogmatic Immutability
The conciliar sect’s assertion that “the Word of God is not fossilized, but rather it is a living and organic reality that develops” directly contradicts the infallible teaching of the Council of Trent: “[The Holy Synod] following the example of the orthodox Fathers, receives and venerates with equal affection of piety and reverence all the books both of the Old and of the New Testament […] as having been dictated, either by Christ’s own word of mouth or by the Holy Ghost” (Session IV, Decree Concerning the Canonical Scriptures). The heretical notion of doctrinal development promoted here was condemned by Pope Pius IX: “The doctrine of faith which God has revealed has not been proposed as a philosophical discovery to be perfected by human ingenuity, but as a divine deposit entrusted to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared” (Ex Quo, 1869).
“Thanks to the Holy Spirit, Tradition understands it in the richness of its truth and embodies it in the shifting coordinates of history.”
This statement embodies the modernist heresy of vital immanence condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “The dogmas which the Church professes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but a kind of interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has acquired by laborious effort” (Proposition 22). The true Catholic position was definitively stated by Pope Pius XII: “For the deposit of faith entrusted to the Church is exactly like a precious deposit committed to a trust, the owners of which demand its constant and inviolate preservation” (Humani Generis, 21).
Newman’s Ghost: The Trojan Horse of Doctrinal Corruption
The antipope’s citation of John Henry Newman as an authority reveals the conciliar sect’s allegiance to modernist thought. Newman’s theory of doctrinal development was condemned by Pope St. Pius X as leading to “the evolution of dogma, that is, from primitive germ to its full development in liberal Protestantism” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 26). The 1910 Oath Against Modernism required all clergy to swear: “I hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious… but a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source.” Newman’s elevation as a “saint” by Bergoglio confirms his status as a modernist precursor.
Substitution of Magisterium With Collective Subjectivism
The article’s claim that Tradition develops through “‘contemplation and study made by believers'” and “‘a penetrating understanding of the spiritual realities which they experience'” constitutes pure Gnosticism. This contradicts the dogmatic teaching of the First Vatican Council: “The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard sacredly the revelation transmitted through the apostles and the deposit of faith, and might faithfully set it forth” (Pastor Aeternus, 4). The conciliar sect replaces objective revelation with subjective experience – the very heresy Pope Pius X identified as Modernism’s essence: “[The Modernist] makes of the believer, of the believer’s sentiments, the rule of faith” (Pascendi, 14).
The “Living Teaching Office” Fraud: When False Shepherds Usurp Divine Authority
“‘the living teaching office of the Church, whose authority is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ'”
This false appeal to authority ignores the Church’s immutable teaching that heretics lose all jurisdiction (Code of Canon Law 188 §4). The conciliar sect’s leaders, having publicly espoused heresies condemned by Quas Primas (Christ’s social kingship), Mortalium Animos (false ecumenism), and Quanta Cura (religious liberty), manifestly lack any teaching authority. As St. Robert Bellarmine established: “A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30).
Omission of the Church’s True Marks: Apostolicity Sacrificed to Novelty
The article’s complete silence about the immutability of doctrine exposes the conciliar sect’s rupture with Catholic Tradition. Contrast this with Pope Pius XII’s definitive teaching: “The Church that Christ founded is no less immutable than the doctrine She transmits” (Mystici Corporis, 65). The true Church’s marks of unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity require doctrinal continuity – a mark conspicuously absent in the Vatican II sect which has instituted new sacraments, a new mass, and a new ecclesiology.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing in the Holy Place
This catechesis constitutes spiritual poison, embodying all seven Modernist heresies identified in Pascendi: agnosticism (denying knowable truths), vital immanence (faith as subjective experience), evolution of dogma, denial of dogma’s immutability, symbolic interpretation of Scripture, reformulation of sacraments as symbols, and demolishing the Church’s constitution. As Our Lord warned: “When you see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place – let the reader understand” (Matthew 24:15). The only proper response is that commanded by Pope Leo XIII: “Fly from false prophets, from wolves in sheep’s clothing who by sweet words and flattery deceive the hearts of the innocent” (Satis Cognitum, 10).
Source:
Pope at Audience: The Word of God is the guide for our existence (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.01.2026