The National Catholic Register (NCRegister) portal reports on preparations for a summit convened by the antipope Leo XIV, scheduled for October in Rome, which will gather presidents of bishops’ conferences worldwide to address what he terms the “marriage crisis.” The initiative, preceded by a study day at the Casina Pio IV hosted by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, focused on the formation of priests in accompanying young people, engaged couples, and married couples in faith. Speakers, including Fr. Andrea Bozzolo, rector of the Pontifical Salesian University, discussed the challenges posed by secularization, cohabitation before marriage, and the perception of marriage as a mere “formality or social rite.” The article highlights the need for priests to present Christian marriage as an “authentic experience of faith” and to help couples “recognize the presence and action of God in the concrete history of their bond.” This summit, the first of its kind since Francis’s 2019 meeting on sexual abuse, aims to outline a long-term strategy for the Church’s response to contemporary marital challenges. However, the entire approach, rooted in the post-conciliar paradigm, fundamentally misdiagnoses the disease and offers a remedy that exacerbates the spiritual ruin of souls.
The Symptom, Not the Disease: Secularization as a Consequence of Apostasy
The article, echoing the sentiments of the antipope Leo XIV and his modernist advisors, identifies “secularization” as the primary cultural context challenging marriage. Fr. Bozzolo laments that marriage is no longer perceived as a “decisive moment” and that cohabitation has become a “preparatory path” or “trial stage.” He speaks of a “liquid society” where relationships are fluid and unstable. This analysis, while superficially accurate in describing the symptoms, completely ignores the root cause: the systematic destruction of faith and morals by the conciliar sect itself since 1958.
The “marriage crisis” is not an external threat but an internal hemorrhage. It is the direct and predictable fruit of the abomination of desolation that has taken over the Vatican. The post-conciliar revolution, with its embrace of religious liberty, ecumenism, and the cult of man, has gutted the supernatural life of the Church. When the “Church” herself no longer proclaims the indissolubility of marriage with clarity, when she admits divorced and “remarried” adulterers to “Communion,” when she promotes a false “mercy” that denies the reality of sin, she has already signed the death warrant of Christian marriage. The “secularization” decried by Bozzolo is merely the world imitating the apostasy of the neo-church. As Pope Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The crisis of marriage is a crisis of faith, and the conciliar sect, having destroyed the faith, now seeks to manage its consequences with worldly “pastoral” strategies.
The Language of Compromise: “Not Blaming, but Not Trivializing”
Perhaps the most revealing passage in the article is Fr. Bozzolo’s statement on cohabitation: “The Church should ‘not blame’ young people who ask to marry after living together, but it also should not ‘trivialize’ premarital cohabitation, because ‘it is not the correct way’ to arrive at the altar.” This is the quintessential language of modernist compromise, a language designed to offend no one and convert no one. It is the language of the hermeneutics of discontinuity applied to morality.
Cohabitation outside of marriage is not merely “not the correct way”; it is a mortal sin, a grave offense against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, and a public scandal. It is concubinage, plain and simple. The Church has always taught, with St. Paul, that “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10). To say “not blame” is to deny the existence of sin. To say “not trivialize” is a hollow gesture that means nothing in practice. This is the “false mercy” of the conciar sect, which, as St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, leads to the “corruption” of doctrine under the guise of “more serious criticism” and “historical method.” The Church’s duty is not to “accompany” sinners in their sin but to call them to repentance, to conversion, and to the sacrament of Confession. As Our Lord said, “Go, and now sin no more” (John 8:11). The conciliar approach is to “go, and sin comfortably, for we will not blame you.”
The Ontological Value of Love: A Smoke Screen for Subjectivism
Fr. Bozzolo attempts to elevate the discourse by stating that “love has ontological value — and not merely psychological value — and that is why marriage is a privileged vehicle for the biblical revelation of the face of God.” This sounds profound but is, in reality, a smoke screen for the subjectivism that pervades the conciar sect. By focusing on “love” as an abstract, ontological category, he detaches it from the concrete, objective reality of the sacrament.
Marriage is not a “vehicle for the biblical revelation of the face of God” in some vague, poetic sense. It is a sacrament, instituted by Christ, which confers grace and imposes indissoluble obligations. Its “ontological value” is not a philosophical abstraction but a theological reality rooted in the divine law. The Council of Trent, in its Canon I on the Sacrament of Matrimony, anathematizes anyone who says that “matrimony is not truly and properly one of the seven sacraments of the evangelic law, instituted by Christ our Lord, but that it was invented in the Church by men.” The conciliar focus on “love” and “experience” is a hallmark of the modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, where he described the modernist as one who “puts the basis of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called ‘the vital immanence of God.'” This is the “cult of man” replacing the worship of God.
The “Formative Approach”: Integrating Worldly Wisdom
The article emphasizes the need for a “formative approach” in seminaries that integrates “biblical wisdom, theological understanding, an awareness of contemporary cultural trends, and attentive listening to the real experiences of families.” This is a recipe for the complete destruction of priestly formation. The seminary is not a school for sociologists or psychologists; it is a forge for saints and soldiers of Christ.
The “awareness of contemporary cultural trends” is precisely what the Church must reject, not integrate. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 80, it is an error to say that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The “real experiences of families” are not the norm; the law of God is the norm. The purpose of priestly formation is not to “listen” to the world but to teach the world, to preach the Gospel, and to administer the sacraments. As St. Paul wrote, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema” (Gal. 1:8). The conciliar “formative approach” is a betrayal of the priestly office, reducing the priest to a “facilitator” of human experiences rather than a minister of divine mysteries.
The “Pastoral Challenge”: A Euphemism for Surrender
Fr. Bozzolo describes the current situation as “a pastoral challenge of the first order.” This is a euphemism for surrender. The “challenge” is not to find clever ways to accommodate the world but to preach the truth, even if it is unpopular, even if it means being called “rigorist” or “Jansenist.” The Church has always faced “pastoral challenges,” from the persecutions of the Roman Empire to the heresies of the early centuries. The response was not to “accompany” the persecutors or to “integrate” their cultural trends but to confess the faith unto death.
The conciliar sect, having lost the faith, can only speak the language of “challenges,” “strategies,” and “accompaniment.” This is the language of corporate management, not of the Church of Christ. As Pope Leo XIII wrote in Immortale Dei, “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within limits which are defined by its own nature and special object.” The conciliar “pastoral challenge” is a direct result of the Church’s abdication of her divine mandate, a surrender to the “prince of this world” (John 12:31).
The Summit of Usurpers: A Meeting of Apostates
The article notes that the last time such a summit was convened was in 2019, when the apostate Francis gathered the presidents of bishops’ conferences to address the “wound of sexual abuse.” That summit, like this one, was a masterclass in misdirection. The “sexual abuse crisis” was not caused by a lack of “safe environment” protocols but by the homosexual network that has infested the clergy since the relaxation of discipline after the Second Vatican Council. The conciliar sect, having created the crisis, then convened a summit to “address” it, thereby drawing attention away from its own complicity.
Similarly, this “marriage summit” is not a genuine attempt to restore Christian marriage but a public relations exercise to demonstrate that the conciar sect is “doing something” about a crisis of its own making. The participants are not shepherds but hirelings (John 10:12), men who have betrayed their ordination oaths and who now seek to manage the ruins of Christendom. As Our Lord said, “The hireling, and he who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep.” The “wolf” is not secularism but the apostasy of the conciliar hierarchy itself.
Conclusion: The Only True Remedy
The only true remedy for the “marriage crisis” is the restoration of the integral Catholic faith, the true Mass, and the sacraments administered by validly ordained priests in communion with the true Church. The conciar sect, being a paramasonic structure and an abomination of desolation, is incapable of offering any solution. Its “summits” and “study days” are exercises in futility, like a doctor prescribing aspirin for a cancer he himself has caused.
The faithful must reject this modernist farce and cling to the unchanging teaching of the Church. Marriage is a sacrament, indissoluble, and ordered toward the procreation and education of children and the mutual sanctification of the spouses. Any “pastoral approach” that compromises this truth is not merely inadequate but gravely sinful. As Pope Pius XI declared in Casti Connubii, “We admonish, therefore, priests, who hear confessions, and others who have the care of souls, that they do not allow the faithful entrusted to them to err regarding this most grave law of God.” The conciar “priests” have not only allowed the faithful to err; they have led them into the abyss. Let the faithful flee from this modernist Babylon and seek refuge in the Ark of Salvation, the true Church of Christ, which endures in the remnant who profess the integral Catholic faith.
Source:
Vatican Prepares Pope Leo XIV Summit On Marriage Crisis (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.04.2026