Benedictine Betrayal: Conciliar Sect’s False Monasticism Exposed
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (November 12, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s visit to Sant’Anselmo Church in Rome, commemorating the 125th anniversary of its consecration. The antipope invoked Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium while urging Benedictines to engage with “modern challenges” through “prayer, study, and holy life,” framing monasticism as merely a “place of growth, peace, hospitality, and unity” rather than a fortress against modernity. This synodal distortion of Benedictine spirituality reveals the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of Catholic asceticism.
Illegitimate Authority Masquerading as Peter’s Successor
The article’s acceptance of Leo XIV as “Holy Father” constitutes material cooperation with apostasy. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates:
“A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… Bellarmine states: ‘A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member'”
The ceremony’s theatricality – Schröder handing church keys to this usurper – mimics valid ecclesial acts while denying their substance. True monks would emulate St. Anselm’s defiance of royal usurpers, not genuflect to modernist occupiers.
Vatican II’s Anthropocentric Revolution
The antipope’s citation of Sacrosanctum Concilium exemplifies the conciliar inversion of Catholic ecclesiology:
“the Church [as] human and divine, visible yet endowed with invisible realities… present in the world and yet a pilgrim”
Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas:
“The kingdom of Christ… is opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness – and requires its followers not only to renounce earthly riches and possessions… but also to deny themselves and carry their cross.”
The conciliar text’s equivocal “and yet” dialectic replaces the Church’s militant identity with postmodern ambiguity.
Naturalization of Monastic Life
Nowhere does the article mention the Benedictine vows’ supernatural ends: the Opus Dei, contemplation of divine mysteries, or preparation for judgment. Instead, monasticism is reduced to providing “hospitality” and becoming a “beating heart” of dialogue – terms closer to Rotary Club idealism than St. Benedict’s Regula. The original 1900 foundation under Leo XIII sought to combat modernism through ressourcement, not accommodation. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns:
“The Church ought to reconcile herself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80)
Omission of the Unbloody Sacrifice
The report’s silence about the Most Holy Sacrifice offered at Sant’Anselmo exposes the conciliar sect’s eucharistic heresy. Traditional Benedictine monasteries centered existence around the Tridentine Mass, not vague “commitment to holy life.” The article’s reference to the church as “place of encounter between space and time” echoes Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary mysticism, condemned by Pius XII in Humani generis as conflating Creator with creation.
False Ecumenism Replaces Conversion
The antipope’s call to “bring all those we meet” deliberately avoids the Benedictine mandate to convert pagans. St. Boniface felled Thor’s oak; modern “Benedictines” erect interfaith prayer spaces. Pius XI’s Quas primas reminds:
“Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.”
The conciliar sect replaces this missionary imperative with indifferentist “encounter.”
Conclusion: Spiritual Sabotage of the Benedictine Charism
This anniversary celebration constitutes liturgical abuse – a validly consecrated church being profaned by false worship led by an antipope. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili sane:
“The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Error 63)
True Benedictines must flee these occupied structures and rebuild authentic monastic life in catacomb communities, preserving the vetus ordo against the conciliar antichurch’s destruction.
Source:
Pope asks Benedictines to confront modern challenges with prayer, study, holiness (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.11.2025