Olympic Syncretism: Milan Archdiocese Embraces Vatican’s Profane “Sports Cross”
The “EWTN News” portal reports (January 30, 2026) that the Archdiocese of Milan welcomed a wooden “Sports Cross” created by British artist Jon Cornwall ahead of the Winter Olympics. This object – entrusted since 2012 to dioceses hosting the games – was received during a Mass celebrated by “Archbishop” Mario Delpini, who read a message from antipope Leo XIV calling the games an occasion for “friendship and fraternity.” The event forms part of the “For Each Other” project promoting educational and sporting initiatives during the Milan-Cortina games. This spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of supernatural religion in favor of naturalistic humanism.
Religious Syncretism Through Artistic Paganism
The so-called “Cross of Athletes” constitutes a blasphemous inversion of sacred symbolism. Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine (The Church shrinks from blood) – yet this neutered artifact reduces the instrument of mankind’s redemption to a sports mascot. The wooden cross crafted by Jon Cornwall bears no resemblance to the signum fidei (standard of faith) that conquered death. Rather than displaying the Corpus Domini, it serves as empty theater for what Pius XI condemned as “the cult of man” (Encyclical Quas Primas).
Bishop Paul Tighe’s statement that “we want to celebrate the human spirit that expresses itself in so many ways, including in forms of faith” exposes the operation’s modernist essence. The Holy Office under St. Pius X explicitly condemned the proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 20). This sports cross ritual implements the very heresy anathematized in 1907.
Naturalism Displacing Supernatural Faith
The Mass celebrated at San Babila Basilica coincided with the “Olympic Truce” anniversary – a revived pagan tradition masquerading as peace initiative. Tighe’s claim that “sport speaks a common language” promoting peace constitutes apostasy from Christ’s exclusive mediatorship. Pius XI declared: “Pax Christi in regno Christi – The peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas), affirming Augustine’s teaching that true peace flows solely from submission to divine order.
The article’s emphasis on “educational, cultural, and sporting initiatives” for youth reveals the conciliar sect’s replacement of catechesis with humanist programming. Contrast this with Pius X’s warning: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism” (Encyclical Pascendi). Not a single reference exists in the “EWTN” report about athletes’ eternal salvation, the dangers of scandal, or the necessity of sacramental life – only empty talk of “human spirit” and “common values.”
The False “Pope’s” Apostate Message
Antipope Leo XIV’s message urging “friendship and fraternity” through sports constitutes heresy by omission. The Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). Nowhere does this usurper mention Christ’s kingship over nations or the Church’s duty to convert all men to the true Faith.
The blasphemous equation of Olympic games with Christian witness violates Canon 1399 of the 1917 Code, which prohibits participation in non-Catholic religious rites. As Pius XI taught: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas). By endorsing the Olympic cult, the Milan archdiocese subordinates Catholic truth to pagan pluralism.
True Catholic Mission Versus Conciliar Apostasy
Authentic Catholic action during public events would involve processions of the Blessed Sacrament, public recitation of the Rosary, and street preaching calling pagans to conversion. Instead, the conciliar sect offers a desacralized cross and anthropocentric workshops. This follows the modernist playbook described in Pascendi: “To this end they foster the elimination of all external rites – the sole exception being certain ceremonies which serve to impress the senses.”
The article’s silence about the sacrilege of “communion” being distributed by invalidly ordained ministers at such events compounds the scandal. As the Holy Office decreed in 1949: “No one is allowed to approach even in a passive way the sacred rites of non-Catholics” (Decree Cum Ex Apostolatus). The Milan archdiocese’s embrace of Olympic syncretism constitutes formal cooperation with the “abomination of desolation” predicted in Daniel 9:27.
Source:
Italian archdiocese welcomes Vatican ‘Sports Cross’ ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.01.2026