Vatican Meeting Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Apostasy and Naturalism
The VaticanNews portal (February 2, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV received Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, followed by meetings with “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin and “Archbishop” Paul Richard Gallagher. Discussions allegedly reaffirmed “solid bilateral relations” between Portugal and the conciliar sect, addressed Storm Kristin’s damage, and superficially mentioned “peace” in Portuguese-speaking nations. The report epitomizes the conciliar sect’s total absorption into naturalistic politics, utterly divorced from Catholic supernatural order.
Illegitimate Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Authority
The very premise of a “pope” receiving heads of state constitutes a grave deception. Leo XIV occupies the Apostolic See illegitimately, as cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV, 1559) declares that manifest heretics cannot hold papal office. The post-conciliar “popes” have publicly espoused heresies like religious indifferentism (contra Quas Primas, Pius XI) and false ecumenism (condemned in Mortalium Animos, Pius XI). St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (II.30) confirms: “A manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope.” Thus, this meeting involves not a Vicar of Christ, but a usurper presiding over an anti-church structure.
Naturalism Replaces Supernal Mission
The emphasis on Storm Kristin’s “painful consequences” exposes the conciliar sect’s surrender to materialist priorities. Contrast this with Pope Pius IX’s Qui pluribus (1846), which condemns those who “substitute natural virtue for supernatural faith.” True shepherds would have denounced Portugal’s spiritual disaster—its legalization of abortion (2007), same-sex “marriage” (2010), and euthanasia (2023)—and called for national penance. Instead, the sect’s leaders parrot UN-style disaster management rhetoric, reducing the Church to a humanitarian NGO.
Fraudulent “Peace” in Service of Globalist Agenda
The vague reference to “peace in Portuguese-speaking countries” masks adherence to the UN’s sustainable development goals rather than the Pax Christi. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “Peace is not possible except in the Kingdom of Christ.” Portugal’s former colonies like Mozambique suffer Marxist insurgencies precisely because they abandoned their Catholic roots. Yet the conciliar sect omits the only solution: restoration of Christ’s Social Kingship through the conversion of nations.
Omission as Apostasy: Silence on Portugal’s Catholic Heritage
Not one word acknowledges Portugal’s historic consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1931) or its mission as “Terra de Santa Maria.” This erasure reflects the conciliar sect’s hatred of Catholic Tradition. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Proposition 55)—a heresy embodied in Portugal’s 1976 secular constitution, which the conciliar sect tacitly endorses by refusing to demand the nation’s return to its Catholic identity.
Theological Atrophy in Diplomatic Language
The claim of “good relations between Portugal and the local Church” constitutes blasphemy when the “local Church” celebrates the invalid Novus Ordo service and “bishops” like José Ornelas Carvalho (Leiria-Fátima) promote paganized “apparition” cults. True Catholics recognize no communion with modernists, per St. Paul’s command: “Auferte malum ex vobis ipsis” (1 Cor 5:13). The conciliar sect’s diplomacy, stripped of salus animarum as its primary end, reduces the Church to a pitiful diplomatic entity begging for secular validation.
Symptom of the Conciliar Revolution’s Anti-Kerygma
This meeting exemplifies the systemic apostasy foretold in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), which condemned the idea that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Proposition 63). By fixating on storm damage while ignoring Portugal’s moral collapse—37% abortion rate in Lisbon, 71% support for euthanasia—the conciliar sect confirms its capitulation to the culture of death. True popes like Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos, 1832) would have publicly denounced Rebelo de Sousa’s anti-life policies rather than exchanging diplomatic niceties.
Source:
Pope Leo receives the President of the Republic of Portugal (vaticannews.va)
Date: 02.02.2026