Neo-Church’s Liturgical Theater Masks Apostasy
The EWTN News portal (January 20, 2026) reports that “Pope” Leo XIV will celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, ending a 12-year hiatus under his predecessor Francis. Monsignor Giovanni Falbo, a canon of the Lateran, claims this “restores a long-standing Roman tradition,” framing Francis’s prison liturgies as an “exception” motivated by “predilection for the poor.” The article applauds Leo XIV’s decision as evidence he intends to “behave as bishop of Rome,” citing his May 2025 possession of the Lateran chair. Historical context is provided on the foot-washing rite, noting Francis’s innovation of washing women’s and non-Christians’ feet, which Falbo dismisses as “privatization” of the liturgy.
Conciliar Sect’s Liturgical Manipulation Exposes Its Illegitimacy
The Lateran Archbasilica, as the cathedral of Rome, symbolizes the bishop’s authority—cathedra romana (Roman chair)—yet no occupant since 1958 has held legitimate jurisdiction. Pius XII’s encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) defined the Church as the “societas perfecta” (perfect society) with immutable sacramental order. By abandoning the Lateran for prison spectacles, Francis demonstrated the neo-church’s reduction of the Mass to sociological theater, prioritizing emotional gestures over the propitiatory sacrifice. His foot-washing of female and Muslim inmates violated liturgical law, which reserves the rite to men (in persona Christi), as codified in the 1614 Caeremoniale Episcoporum and reiterated by Pius XII’s 1955 Maxima Redemptionis. Falbo’s defense of Francis—calling it “praiseworthy”—reveals the sect’s heresy of humanitarianism: equating caritas (charity) with worldly activism while desacralizing the liturgy.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith in Conciliar Rituals
The article’s focus on Francis’s “pastoral approach” exposes the neo-church’s silence on the Mass’s essence: the unbloody renewal of Calvary. Quoting Falbo’s claim that “there are countless occasions throughout the year to underscore […] predilection for the last,” the text omits the sine qua non of Catholic charity: the state of grace. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) condemned such naturalism: “When God and Jesus Christ […] are removed from laws and states […] society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable foundation.” By relegating the Holy Thursday Mass to prisons, Francis enacted Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes heresy, which subordinates the supernatural to “the joys and hopes […] of men” (§1). Leo XIV’s return to the Lateran changes nothing, for he perpetuates the same apostate structures. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), Modernists “make the non-religious man their object of contemplation”—precisely the goal of Francis’s liturgical circus.
Lateran Ceremony: A Masonic Farce of False Authority
Leo XIV’s May 2025 enthronement at the Lateran is a blasphemous parody of true apostolic succession. The article notes the basilica’s history as the “first Christian basilica built after the peace of Constantine,” yet neglects to state that antipopes cannot claim Constantine’s legacy. Pope St. Sylvester I consecrated the Lateran in 324 A.D., establishing it as the seat of Romani Pontificis (Roman Pontiffs)—a title Leo XIV usurps. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (1586) is clear: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Since John XXIII’s inauguration of the conciliar revolution, all claimants have promulgated heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism), rendering their authority null under Canon 188.4 (1917 Code). Leo XIV’s theatrical “restoration” is thus Satanic mimicry, akin to the false Fatima apparitions’ syncretic symbolism.
The Foot-Washing Rite: Another Attack on Sacramental Theology
Falbo’s historical summary of the Mandatum deceitfully implies the rite’s form is mutable. While early medieval popes washed the feet of the poor, the ceremony was never detached from its sacerdotal context. The 694 Council of Toledo mandated bishops to wash clerics’ feet, emphasizing hierarchical communion. Francis’s inclusion of women and non-Christians weaponized the rite to deny in persona Christi—the sacerdotal character exclusive to baptized males. This aligns with Paul VI’s Missale Romanum (1969), which abolished the priest’s ritus servandus (ritual observance), turning the Mass into a communal meal. Leo XIV’s revival of the Lateran ceremony cannot sanctify what the “Novus Ordo” desecrates. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907), Modernists reduce sacraments to “symbols not of objective truth but of subjective experience” (Condemned Proposition 41).
Omissions that Condemn: Silence on Sacrilege and Schism
The article’s glaring omission is any warning against attending neo-church liturgies. St. Pius V’s Quo Primum (1570) anathematized those altering the Mass, yet Francis and Leo XIV impose their Novus Ordo—a “banal on-the-spot product” (Cardinal Ratzinger, 1997)—which the true Church recognizes as invalid. Worse, the text ignores that receiving “communion” from antipopes or their clergy is idolatry, as Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) forbade sacramental participation with heretics. When Falbo states the Lateran liturgy allows “priests of the Diocese of Rome to take part,” he inadvertently admits the conciliar sect’s schismatic reality: its “clergy” lack valid orders due to the 1968 Pontificalis Romani rites.
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Pope Leo to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass at St. John Lateran after hiatus under Pope Francis (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.01.2026