Vatican News reports on a conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University honoring St. Rose of Lima (1586-1617), organized by Peru’s embassy to the Holy See with support from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The event featured “Cardinal” Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle promoting the saint as a “perpetual missionary” inspiring youth through example rather than doctrine. Sister Raffaella Petrini of the Vatican Governatorate described the saint as “forever young,” while a Peruvian-funded statue depicting Rose’s mystical marriage to Christ will be installed in the Vatican Gardens on January 31 under “Pope” Leo XIV’s presidency. Speakers emphasized her “relevance” to modern ecological concerns and service-oriented spirituality.
Illegitimate Canonization and Cultic Innovation
The article uncritically cites Rose of Lima’s 1671 canonization by Clement X, ignoring the sine qua non conditions for valid canonizations outlined by Pope Benedict XIV in De Servorum Dei Beatificatione: “No honor of public cult may be paid to any servant of God without the judgment of the Roman Pontiff” (Lib. I, c.42). Post-1958 antipopes lack jurisdiction to approve devotions, rendering this statue’s installation an act of sacrilege. The statue’s anchor-and-rosary symbolism perverts traditional iconography by depicting Rose “radiant and smiling” rather than emphasizing her via dolorosa of extreme penances—a deliberate omission exposing the conciliar sect’s rejection of sacrificial holiness.
Naturalization of Supernatural Grace
“Cardinal” Tagle’s assertion that Rose inspires through “examples rather than formal teachings” constitutes Modernist vital immanence, condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi (§6) as reducing faith to “religious sentiment bubbling up from the hidden depths of the subconscious.” This contradicts St. Rose’s documented adherence to Thomistic spirituality under Dominican direction. Bishop Carlos García Camader’s video message compounds this error by divorcing “search for truth” from doctrinal submission, echoing the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of those who “separate charity from truth” (Prop. 14).
Syncretic Rituals and Masonic Aesthetics
The statue’s creation “from materials entirely sourced from Peru” reflects the conciliar sect’s neo-pagan material fetishism, condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta Cura as “equating false religions with the one true Church.” Sister Petrini’s description of the statue’s “style of holiness” signals architectural Modernism, violating Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (§62) prohibition against “innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely requires them.” The anchor—symbolizing Protestant “hope” rather than Catholic fortitude—demonstrates the Vatican Gardens’ descent into interreligious syncretism.
Anti-Doctrinal “Missionary Movement”
Tagle’s call for a new “missionary movement” based on Rose’s example constitutes apostasy from Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam declaration that “outside the Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.” By reducing evangelization to social engagement (as when “Cardinal” Castillo claims Rose found “grace in daily work”), the conference denies the Council of Trent’s teaching that justification requires “the infusion of sanctifying grace” (Session VI, Chap. 7). This transforms mission work into horizontal activism—the very “cult of man” denounced in Pius XI’s Quas Primas (§18).
Conclusion: Counterfeit Holiness for a Counterfeit Church
The symposium’s avoidance of Rose’s heroic mortifications—sleeping on broken glass, self-flagellation, lifelong virginity—reveals the conciliar sect’s hatred for passio Christi spirituality. Her repurposing as an eco-friendly “lily among thorns” (per “Pope” Bergoglio’s misappropriated Song of Songs reference) completes the modernist desacralization foretold in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (§65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true science except by transforming into non-dogmatic Christianity.” True devotees must reject this blasphemous spectacle and return to Rose’s actual legacy: contemptus mundi and total submission to the Social Kingship of Christ.
Source:
Cardinal Tagle: St. Rose of Lima inspires a new missionary movement (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.01.2026