The VaticanNews portal (February 6, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV issued a letter titled “Life in Abundance” praising the Milano-Cortina Olympics, urging nations to respect the Olympic truce as “a symbol and promise of a reconciled world,” and promoting “Athletica Vaticana” as an “ecclesial service” that makes sport “a school of life” focused on “sharing” and “walking together.” This sacrilegious document constitutes a complete inversion of the Church’s divine mission by elevating human games above the salvation of souls.
Subordination of Supernatural Order to Naturalistic Humanism
The letter’s central premise – that sport fosters “human fraternity” and serves as an “instrument of peace” – directly contradicts the syllabus errorum of Pius IX, which condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to reconcile herself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). By declaring “a world thirsting for peace” needs Olympic games rather than the Regnum Christi, Leo XIV perpetuates the modernist heresy denounced by St. Pius X: “They would have the Church… adapt herself to the exigencies of the times” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis 26).
Nowhere does this Olympic exhortation mention:
- The necessity of the Social Kingship of Christ as prerequisite for true peace (“He shall judge the nations… they shall beat their swords into plowshares” – Isaiah 2:4)
- The ex opere operato grace of sacraments as the sole means to “life in abundance” (John 10:10)
- The eternal damnation awaiting nations that reject Christ’s authority
This silence proves the document operates within the condemned framework of Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejected the notion that “Revelation could not be… other than man’s consciousness of his relationship with God” (Proposition 21).
Olympic Truce as Pagan Replacement for Divine Law
The call to “rediscover and respect this instrument of hope that is the Olympic Truce” constitutes blasphemous substitution of human conventions for the Pax Christi. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) dogmatically established that true peace flows exclusively from Christ’s universal kingship: “When once men recognize… the royal prerogatives of Christ, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
The Olympic truce – rooted in pagan Greek traditions honoring Zeus – directly violates the First Commandment by positing temporal peace achievable through human accord rather than submission to Divine Law. As the Syllabus of Errors condemned: “The State must be separated from the Church” (Proposition 55).
Athletica Vaticana: Ecclesial Service or Masonic Parody?
The letter’s promotion of “Athletica Vaticano” as bearing “witness to how sport can also be experienced as an ecclesial service” exposes the conciliar sect’s satanic inversion of sacred priorities. Contrast this with St. Paul’s exhortation: “Non coronabitur nisi qui legitime certaverit” (“No one is crowned unless he competes lawfully” – 2 Timothy 2:5) – referring to the spiritual combat against sin, not physical games.
The “Dicastery for Culture and Education” (established by the heretic Bergoglio) orchestrates this sacrilege, reducing the Church’s mission to what Pius X condemned as “the error of the Americanists who place the active virtues above the passive” (Pascendi 56). Nowhere does Scripture or Tradition assign value to “grassroots sport” as ecclesial work, while the Divine Commission explicitly commands: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
Naturalism as Formal Heresy
The document’s repeated naturalistic language (“personal development,” “common good,” “joy of walking together”) manifests the seven modernist propositions condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili:
“The dogmas of faith are to be held only according to their practical sense, that is, as perceptive norms of action, but not as norms of believing” (Proposition 26).
When Leo XIV claims “abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing,” he denies the Gospel truth that “Sine sanguinis effusione non fit remissio” (“Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” – Hebrews 9:22). This Olympic “theology” constitutes apostasy from the Cross.
Omissions Condemning the Conciliar Revolution
The letter’s complete silence on the following reveals its diabolical disorientation:
- Mortal Sin: No warning against athletes and spectators engaging in public immodesty, blasphemy, or desecration of Sundays
- Idolatry: No condemnation of the Olympic flame ritual – pagan worship of Prometheus
- Eternal Salvation: No reminder that games will not save souls from hell
As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, Christ’s kingship demands that “States must conform to the teachings and law of Christ in their legislation, administration, and the education of youth.” The Olympics – with their occult rituals, globalist agenda, and cult of the human body – constitute what Pope St. Pius V condemned as “spectacula diaboli” (spectacles of the devil).
Source:
Pope: Sport is important for humanity, respect Olympic truce (vaticannews.va)
Date: 06.02.2026