The ‘Spiritual Renewal’ of the Conciliar Sect: A Doctrine of Naturalism and Apostasy
Summary of the Conciliar Message
The Vatican News portal reports a message from the apostate antipope “Pope” Leo XIV, delivered by his Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to the 70th Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. The message exhorts participants to focus on “deepening your relationship with Jesus,” being “faithful and joyful disciples,” and discovering “Jesus’ Eucharistic presence as an unfailing source of comfort and strength.” The gathering, themed ‘Wrapped in Mercy, Hope Renewed,’ is presented as an opportunity for “true spiritual renewal.” This summary, while factually reporting the content, reveals a thesis of profound doctrinal and spiritual corruption: the message systematically omits the supernatural ends of the Church, reduces religion to subjective experience, and promotes a naturalistic humanism utterly alien to the integral Catholic faith.
1. Factual Deconstruction: The Omission of the Supernatural
The article presents a message utterly devoid of the essential, non-negotiable elements of Catholic doctrine. There is no mention of sin, no call to repentance, no reference to the necessity of sanctifying grace, no warning of divine judgment, and no insistence on the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. The focus is exclusively on a personal, affective “relationship” and “encounter,” which are subjective states, not objective theological realities. The “Eucharistic presence” is reduced to a source of “comfort and strength,” severing it from its essential nature as the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the principal act of public worship owed to God. This is a deliberate excision of the supernatural order, replacing it with a religious sentimentality.
2. Linguistic Analysis: The Rhetoric of Modernist Subversion
The language employed is the hallmark of post-conciliar Modernism. Phrases like “deepening your relationship with Jesus,” “authentic teacher arouses the desire for truth,” “leads to a true encounter with the Lord,” and “building up a lasting and life-giving culture” are vague, naturalistic, and immanentist. They define the purpose of religious education not as the inculcation of revealed dogma and the formation of souls in the life of grace, but as the cultivation of personal fulfillment and societal harmony. The term “culture” is used in a worldly sense, echoing the errors of Gaudium et Spes and the “humanism” of the conciliar revolution. The tone is therapeutic and encouraging, not prophetic and corrective. This linguistic choice is not accidental; it is the vehicle for the “synthesis of all heresies” condemned by St. Pius X.
3. Theological Confrontation: Against the Kingship of Christ and the Rights of the Church
The message stands in direct, diametrical opposition to the immutable doctrine of the pre-conciliar Church. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, instituted the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism which “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The Pope taught that Christ’s kingdom is “primarily spiritual” but that this does not negate His “unlimited right over all that is created.” He explicitly stated that rulers and states have the duty to “publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” and that all law and governance must be ordered on “the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles.” The antipope’s message says nothing of this. It contains no call for the social reign of Christ the King, no condemnation of the secular state that “does not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior,” and no reminder of the final judgment where Christ will “avenge these insults” done to His royal dignity. This silence is a formal repudiation of Quas Primas.
Furthermore, the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX condemns in the most severe terms the very errors implicit in the congress’s theme and message. Error #15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” The congress, by its very existence as an inter-denominational gathering (implied by its scale and theme), operates on the principle of religious indifferentism. Error #77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” The “hope renewed” and “mercy” wrapped in vague terminology cannot coexist with the Catholic doctrine that the State must recognize the Catholic religion as the sole true religion and the Church’s rights. Error #19: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.” The congress, held under the auspices of a modernist ecclesiastical structure that collaborates with civil authorities on equal footing, embodies this error. The message applauds “awareness” and “authenticity” while remaining silent on the Church’s sacra potestas (sacred power) and her divine right to freedom from secular control.
4. Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This message is not an anomaly; it is the logical fruit of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). The conciliar documents, particularly Dignitatis Humanae (on religious freedom) and Gaudium et Spes (on the Church in the modern world), explicitly repudiated the Syllabus of Errors and the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ. The language of “relationship,” “encounter,” “renewal,” and “culture” is the direct legacy of the Modernist heresies condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Proposition #26 from Lamentabili states: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” This is precisely the operational principle of the congress: doctrine is subordinated to “building a culture” and “spiritual renewal,” which are human projects. The antipope’s message is a practical application of this condemned proposition.
5. The Sedevacantist Perspective: The Authority of a True Pope vs. The Usurper
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, which recognizes that a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code), the speaker of this message cannot be the Vicar of Christ. A true pope, adhering to the unchanging faith, would have condemned this congress as a gathering of naturalism and would have commanded the Archbishop of Los Angeles to suppress it. Pope Pius IX, in his Allocution Maxima quidem, condemned the separation of Church and State and the idea that the civil power can define the rights of the Church—the very principles underlying such a congress. The antipope’s praise for it demonstrates his adherence to the condemned errors of the Syllabus. His message is not a “call to renewal” but a ratification of apostasy. The use of the title “Pope” for this individual is a sacrilege; he is a member of the “conciliar sect” that has occupied the Vatican since the death of the last true pope, Pius XII.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The message to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress is a quintessential document of the post-conciliar apostasy. It replaces the sacrifice of the Mass with a “Eucharistic presence” of comfort, the kingdom of Christ with a “life-giving culture,” and the dogma of faith with a subjective “desire for truth.” It is a perfect expression of the “naturalistic and immanentist philosophy” condemned by St. Pius X. The “spiritual renewal” it promises is the renewal of man in his own image, not the renewal of the world in Christ the King. Those who participate in this congress, under the auspices of the conciliar hierarchy, are being fed the poison of Modernism. The only true renewal is the return to the immutable Faith, the rejection of the antipopes and their sect, and the adherence to the Catholic Church as she existed before the catastrophic revolution of Vatican II. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, true peace and order flow only from the public recognition of the reign of Christ the King—a reign utterly absent from the “hope” of this neo-Catholic gathering.
Source:
Pope hails LA Religious Education Congress as a time for true spiritual renewal (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.02.2026