St. Leo the Great’s Legacy Weaponized to Conceal Modern Apostasy
Catholic News Agency’s November 10, 2025 article superficially recounts St. Leo I’s defense of Christological orthodoxy while ignoring the systematic dismantling of that same faith by the conciliar sect. The portal writes: “Pope Leo I… worked to clarify doctrines related to Christ’s human and divine natures” and quotes modernist “church historian” Thomas Clemmons calling Leo a “pope-theologian” and “remarkable bishop”. Yet this veneer of orthodoxy masks the article’s true function: to create false continuity between Catholicism and the conciliar counterfeit.
The Hypostatic Union Versus the Modernist Dissolution of Dogma
The article correctly notes Leo’s Tome affirmed Christ’s natures are “unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably [united]” (Council of Chalcedon). Yet it omits that today’s Vatican occupiers actively subvert this doctrine through:
- Ecumenical relativism treating Nestorian and Monophysite sects as “sister churches” despite their rejection of Chalcedon (contrary to Pope Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos condemning false ecumenism).
- Anthropocentric Christology reducing Our Lord to a social reformer, as seen in “Pope” Leo XIV’s 2025 Amazon Synod documents emphasizing “ecological conversion” over redemptive sacrifice.
- Sacramental invalidities through the New “Mass” which, as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre warned before his apostasy, obscures the hypostatic union by replacing the propitiatory sacrifice with a communal meal.
The Robber Council of Vatican II Parallels Ephesus 449
CNA mentions the “robber council” (Latrocinium) of Ephesus in 449 that attacked St. Leo’s authority, but suppresses the obvious analogy to Vatican II – a council where:
Modernist wolves in shepherds’ clothing elevated religious liberty (contra Quanta Cura), collegiality (destroying papal monarchy), and false ecumenism (betraying Mortalium Animos).
Just as Eutyches’ followers “brutally assaulted Archbishop Flavian I”, the conciliar sect persecutes true Catholics who defend Leo’s Christology. Where are CNA’s reports on traditional seminaries shuttered by “bishop” Roche? On the FSSPX’s illegitimate suppression for upholding the Mass of Ages? Silence proves complicity.
Benedict XVI’s Praises: A Trojan Horse for Hermeneutic of Ruin
The article weaponizes a 2008 Benedict XVI speech calling Leo “one of the greatest pontiffs”. This is the same Ratzinger who:
- Authored the apostate Assisi gatherings (1986, 2002, 2011) placing Buddhist idols on tabernacle altars.
- Promulgated the blasphemous New “Mass” as Paul VI’s doctrinal architect.
- Advanced the “hermeneutic of continuity” heresy – a theological sleight-of-hand permitting conciliar contradictions of pre-1958 dogma.
By citing this modernist antipope as an authority, CNA exposes its true allegiance: not to Leo’s immutable faith, but to the conciliar sect’s program of doctrinal dissolution.
The Unspoken Crisis: A Church Without Valid Sacraments
Nowhere does CNA warn that attending New “Mass” invalidates the hypostatic union’s liturgical expression. As St. Pius X decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907):
“The faithful owe internal assent to Church condemnations”
– yet millions ingest invalid “communions” from apostate “clergy.”
The article’s final sin? Failing to identify the only refuge for Leo’s faith: bishops ordained before 1968 preserving the true Mass and sacraments. Instead, it peddles the conciliar sect’s narrative that doctrinal chaos is “development” – proving CNA’s role as propagandist for the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
Source:
St. Leo the Great: The pope who clarified the humanity and divinity of Christ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.11.2025