The Conciliar Sect’s “Pope” Leo XIV has addressed the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on its 150th anniversary, urging it to “respect the role of journalists and the dignity of readers” in the age of artificial intelligence. The message, reported by EWTN News on March 6, 2026, frames the newspaper’s mission in purely naturalistic and sociological terms: guaranteeing source transparency, cultivating the “human dimension of the story,” and maintaining authority. The antipope congratulates the paper for bearing witness to the “printed press as a vehicle for disseminating not only news but also ideas and culture as a living leaven of the society that your newspaper has helped to build.” He makes no reference to the supernatural end of man, the Social Kingship of Christ, the salvation of souls, or the duty of the press to propagate the one true Faith. This silence is not incidental; it is the very essence of the post-conciliar apostasy, reducing the Church’s mission to the building of a terrestrial society and the promotion of a vague, natural “human dignity” utterly detached from the grace of Christ and the commandments of God.
Theological and Doctrinal Bankruptcy: A Gospel of Naturalism
The entire message is a manifesto of the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X. It presents a “church” whose primary concern is the temporal order, the “leaven of society,” and the “human dimension,” while remaining utterly silent on the salus animarum—the salvation of souls, which is the supreme law of the Church (Canon 1350, 1917 Code of Canon Law). This is a direct repudiation of the teaching of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, which established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life.” The encyclical states unequivocally: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope Leo XIV’s message operates entirely within the framework of the “secularism of our times” which Pius XI called a “plague that poisons human society.” There is not a single word about the duty of states and all human institutions to publicly recognize and obey Christ the King. The “dignity” he speaks of is the pagan dignity of man as an autonomous being, not the Catholic dignity of a creature redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ and subject to His absolute dominion.
Symptomatic Omissions: The Ghost of the Supernatural
The analysis must focus on what is omitted, for this is where the apostasy is most clearly revealed. The article contains:
- Zero mention of Jesus Christ as King, Redeemer, or Judge.
- Zero mention of the Church as the necessary Ark of Salvation, the sole dispenser of grace.
- Zero mention of grace, the sacraments, or the state of grace.
- Zero mention of sin, the devil, or the ultimate end of man (heaven or hell).
- Zero mention of the duty to convert nations and rulers to the Catholic Faith.
This is not an oversight; it is a systematic exclusion of the supernatural order. It is the precise error of the “moderate rationalism” condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 8): treating theological matters in the same manner as philosophical sciences, and the “indifferentism” of Proposition 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” By speaking only of “ideas and culture” and “human dimension,” the conciliar message assumes the very indifferentism Pius IX anathematized. The “dignity of readers” is presented as an intrinsic, natural right, whereas Catholic doctrine teaches that true dignity is supernatural, conferred by Baptism and membership in the Church, and is violated by sin. The antipope’s framework is the naturalistic, pantheistic “human dignity” of the Enlightenment, not the theological virtue of hope based on the Blood of Christ.
Linguistic Analysis: The Language of the Apostate
The language is bureaucratic, optimistic, and managerial—the exact tone of the “Church of the New Advent.” Phrases like “living leaven of society,” “cultivating the human dimension,” and “keep pace with the times” are the slogans of the conciliar revolution. They echo the “progress,” “dialogue,” and “engagement with the modern world” of Gaudium et Spes, a document St. Pius X would have condemned as the “synthesis of all heresies” (as he did of Modernism in Pascendi Dominici Gregis). The phrase “respect the role of journalists” elevates a natural, civil profession to a quasi-sacred status, while the role of the Catholic priest—to offer the Holy Sacrifice and save souls—is marginalized and implicitly relegated to the same natural plane. The warning about AI is not about the moral evil of technology used to spread error or facilitate sin, but about maintaining “authority” and “transparency”—concerns of a corporate board, not the Magisterium of the Church tasked with guarding the Deposit of Faith.
Confrontation with Catholic Doctrine Before 1958
The unchanging doctrine of the Church, as taught by all pre-conciliar popes and councils, stands in absolute opposition to the naturalistic humanism of the article.
- The Primary Duty is the Salvation of Souls: The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1350) states: “The supreme and perpetual end of the Church is the glory of God and the eternal salvation of souls.” The antipope’s message has no “glory of God” and no “eternal salvation of souls.” It is therefore a negation of the Church’s very reason for existence.
- The Social Kingship of Christ is Non-Negotiable: Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas taught that Christ’s reign “encompasses all men” and that “states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The antipope’s silence on this duty is a denial of Christ’s royalty. The Pope further warned that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men,” implying that the state’s happiness depends on its submission to Christ. The conciliar message replaces this with the “leaven of society” built on secular ideas.
- Religious Indifferentism is Anathema: The Syllabus of Errors (Props. 15, 16, 17) condemns the ideas that every man is free to embrace any religion, that any religion leads to salvation, and that the Catholic Church is not the unique path to salvation. By speaking of “ideas and culture” without specifying that they must be informed by and subservient to Catholic truth, the antipope’s message implicitly accepts the indifferentist premise that all “ideas” are equally valid leaven. This is the error of “national conversion without evangelization” attacked in the file on Fatima, applied here to the sphere of media.
- The Purpose of the Press is to Serve the Church: Pre-conciliar moral theology (e.g., Tanquerey, Synopsis Theologiae Moralis) held that the press’s primary duty is to promote truth, especially supernatural truth, and to avoid scandal. The concept of a “free press” with “dignity” independent of the Church’s moral law is a product of the French Revolution, condemned by Pius IX. The article’s call for “transparency” and “human dimension” are vague natural law principles that, divorced from the Church’s authority, become tools for the propagation of error.
The “Human Dimension” as a Mask for Apostasy
The phrase “cultivating the human dimension of the story, which only experience can provide” is particularly sinister. It is a direct echo of the “experience” and “consciousness” of the Modernists condemned by Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Props. 20, 22, 59). Proposition 59 states: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The “human dimension” prioritizes the mutable, subjective experience of man over the immutable, objective truth of God. It reduces the Gospel to a “story” among many, to be evaluated by its “human” impact. This is the antithesis of the Catholic view, where the supernatural truth of Revelation is the measure of all human stories. The antipope’s advice is not to report stories in light of the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), but in light of a vague, immanent “human experience.” This is the theology of the “Church of the New Advent,” where the sacred is replaced by the secular, and the supernatural by the psychological.
Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect and Return to Tradition
This message from “Pope” Leo XIV is not a benign pastoral letter on journalism. It is a stark revelation of the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of the Catholic Faith. It demonstrates that the post-1958 hierarchy operates on a entirely different theological foundation—one of naturalism, indifferentism, and apostasy. The “dignity” it promotes is the dignity of man as an autonomous, self-creating being, the very pride condemned in the Syllabus (Prop. 3: “Human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood”). The “mission” it assigns to the press is the mission of the world, not of the Church. The true Catholic press, as taught by Popes before the council, exists to defend the Faith, attack error, and form souls in Catholic doctrine. The true dignity of the reader is his supernatural destiny as a child of God and member of the Church, a dignity violated by sin and restored by grace. The conciliar message is a gospel of the world, for the world, and by the world. It must be utterly rejected by all Catholics who wish to remain in the one true Church, which endures in those who hold the integral, immutable Faith and are led by valid bishops and priests in communion with the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The only “respect” due is the respect for the absolute primacy of God’s laws and the Social Kingship of Christ the King, to which all human institutions, including the press, must be subordinated.
Source:
Pope to Italian newspaper: In age of AI, respect role of journalists and dignity of readers (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.03.2026