Leo XIV’s Angelus: Gospel Distortion and Naturalistic Apostasy
The EWTN News portal (January 25, 2026) reports on the usurper Leo XIV’s Angelus message, which reduces the Gospel to a tool for humanistic “trust” while omitting the necessity of conversion and the sovereignty of Christ the King. The address, delivered in St. Peter’s Square, emphasizes overcoming “isolation” through engagement with “all individuals, cultures, religions, and peoples”—a clear endorsement of religious indifferentism.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
Leo XIV asserts that Christ began His public ministry in Galilee—a “multicultural,” “predominantly pagan territory”—to illustrate that God “excludes no one” and enters “the complexity of human situations.” This deliberately obscures the raison d’être of Christ’s mission: “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). The true Church has always taught that Christ’s outreach to pagans aimed not at affirming their errors but at converting them. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men. His empire rests not on the consent of the multitude but on the eternal decree of God” (1925). By equating pagan cultures with divine truth, Leo XIV violates the First Commandment and implicitly denies Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
Christians “must overcome the temptation toward isolation,” living the Gospel in every setting “as a leaven of fraternity and peace among all individuals, cultures, religions, and peoples.”
This statement epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. The Church’s mission is not to serve as a “leaven of fraternity” among false religions but to convert all nations (Matthew 28:19). Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) or that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). Leo XIV’s rhetoric aligns with Martin Luther’s “priesthood of all believers,” not Catholic ecclesiology.
Neglect of Christ’s Authority and the Duty of Nations
While invoking “peace” for Ukraine and the Middle East, Leo XIV suppresses the only means to achieve it: the public reign of Christ the King. His vague plea to “intensify efforts to end this war” ignores the divine mandate that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1373) obliges Catholics to “strive to procure the freedom and prosperity of the Catholic Church” in society. By reducing peace to “respect for peoples,” Leo XIV subordinates divine law to secular humanism—a betrayal condemned by Pius XI as “the apostasy of society from God” (Quas Primas).
Modernist Ecumenism and the Desacralization of Scripture
The usurper’s endorsement of the “Sunday of the Word of God”—instituted by Bergoglio—further exposes his modernism. Scripture is treated not as the inerrant Word of God but as a malleable tool for dialogue. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemns such relativism: “Ecclesiastical judgments and censures imposed for too free and explicit exegesis prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” (Proposition 3). Leo XIV’s vespers with “representatives of other Christian denominations” perpetuates the heresy that the Church is one among many equals—a direct assault on Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos, which forbids Catholics from participating in interfaith gatherings that imply “all religions are equally pleasing to God.”
False Beatifications and the Cult of Man
Leo XIV’s reference to Raoul Follereau—a secular humanitarian—as a model of charity epitomizes the conciliar sect’s inversion of virtue. True Catholic charity seeks the salvation of souls, not merely temporal relief. The beatifications of modernist figures like the “Ulma Family” (who died for aiding Jews, not for the faith) or “Maximilian Kolbe” (whose martyrdom is disputed) reveal the sect’s abandonment of doctrinal rigor. Canon 2039 of the 1917 Code requires proven miracles and heroic virtue for beatification—standards discarded by the neo-church in favor of political expediency.
The Silence That Condemns
Nowhere does Leo XIV mention the necessity of repentance, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ. His Gospel is stripped of the supernatural, reduced to a call for psychological “trust” and social activism. This mirrors the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 20). The true Church teaches that “faith is the beginning of human salvation” (Council of Trent), not a therapy for indecision.
Leo XIV’s Angelus is a masterclass in apostasy: a naturalistic parody of the Gospel that elevates human solidarity above divine truth. As Pius IX warned: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” is an error that leads souls to perdition (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 80).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: The Gospel calls us to trust and resist the temptation to withdraw (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.01.2026