The National Catholic Register portal reports that on June 14, 2026, the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) delivered an Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square, offering a characteristically modernist reflection on Matthew’s Gospel in which he proclaimed that “evil crumbles” when the Gospel is lived out, spoke of Christ seeing “the wounds of war and the emptiness of consumerism,” and called the Church to “bring charity where there is misery, hope where there is affliction, faith where there is distrust.” He also recalled his apostolic journey to Spain, mentioned several newly beatified individuals from totalitarian regimes, and expressed closeness to the victims of an earthquake in the Philippines. The entire address is a masterclass in naturalistic humanitarianism — the Gospel reduced to a program of social therapy, stripped of its supernatural content, its demand for conversion, its condemnation of heresy, and its uncompromising proclamation of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. This is precisely the kind of discourse one expects from the conciliar sect that has spent six decades emptying the Faith of its divine content and replacing it with the spirit of the world.
The Gospel According to the Conciliar Sect: A Gospel Without Dogma
The address begins with a seemingly innocuous reflection on Matthew’s account of Christ’s compassion for the crowds. Yet even here, the rot is immediately visible. Leo XIV states that the Gospel passage “draws all who hear it into Jesus’ gaze” and that Christ “sees the oppression that burdens and the violence that causes strength to fade.” This is not the language of the Fathers, the Council of Trent, or any Pope before 1958. This is the therapeutic, subjectivist language of modernist anthropology — the “gaze” of Christ as a metaphor for emotional solidarity rather than the sovereign, judgmental gaze of the God-Man who demands repentance, who came not to bring peace but a sword (Matt. 10:34), and who declared plainly: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Matt. 16:24).
The entire address is structured around a single, devastating omission: there is no mention whatsoever of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, no mention of the sacraments, no mention of the state of grace, no mention of sin as an offense against God requiring supernatural repentance, no mention of the reality of hell, no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations, and no mention of the obligation of all men and all societies to submit to the authority of the one true Church. This is not an oversight. It is the systematic method of the conciliar revolution: to speak endlessly of “the Gospel” while hollowing it of every supernatural, dogmatic, and binding content.
“Evil Crumbles”: A Naturalistic Redemption Without the Cross
The central claim of the address — that “when this Gospel is proclaimed and lived out, evil crumbles like a disease that passes away, like a night giving way to dawn, like death conquered by the risen One” — is a perfect specimen of modernist immanentism. Evil does not “crumble” merely because the Gospel is “lived out” in some vague, humanitarian sense. Evil is conquered only through the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary, made present in the unbloody sacrifice of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, received worthily by souls in the state of sanctifying grace, within the one true Church outside of which there is no salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), taught with crystalline clarity: “The Kingdom of our Savior encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The reign of Christ is not a metaphor for improved social conditions. It is a juridical, public, and binding reality that demands the submission of every individual, family, and nation to His divine law as taught by His Church.
Leo XIV’s language of “evil crumbling” is the language of the 19th-century rationalists and the 20th-century modernists whom Pope Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and in the Lamentabili sane exitu (1907). It is the language of those who, in the words of St. Pius X, reduce the Faith to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Lamentabili, prop. 59) — a movement without dogma, without authority, without the supernatural, and without the Cross.
The Wounds Christ “Sees”: A Catalogue of Modernist Obsessions
Leo XIV declares that Christ “sees the wounds of war and the emptiness of consumerism. He sees faces reduced to masks, families torn apart by evil, and young people misled by false ideals.” This catalogue is revealing not for what it includes but for what it excludes. Christ, according to this address, sees “consumerism” — but does He see the apostasy of bishops and popes who have publicly denied and betrayed His teaching? Christ sees “young people misled by false ideals” — but does He see the false ideals of religious liberty, false ecumenism, the evolution of dogma, and the democratization of the Church that the conciliar sect has imposed upon the faithful for over six decades?
The address is a textbook example of what Pope Pius XI identified as the fundamental error of the age: the removal of Christ and His law from the public life of nations. In Quas Primas, Pius XI lamented: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The “wounds” that Leo XIV identifies are precisely the fruits of this removal — and yet he offers no diagnosis of the root cause, because to do so would require condemning the conciliar revolution itself.
“Workers Into the Field”: The Apostolate of Social Work
The address continues with a description of the “workers” Christ sends into the world: “They must offer God’s comfort to those who suffer by bringing charity where there is misery, hope where there is affliction, faith where there is distrust.” This is the language of the World Council of Churches, not of the Catholic Church. The mission of the apostles — and of the Church founded upon them — is not to “offer God’s comfort” in some diffuse, sentimental sense. It is to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. 28:19), to administer the sacraments instituted by Christ for the salvation of souls, to preach the necessity of repentance and faith in the one true Church, and to condemn error wherever it is found.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned as error proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Leo XIV’s address is a living embodiment of this condemned proposition. The “workers” he describes are not missionaries of the Catholic Faith but agents of a humanitarian program indistinguishable from the activities of any secular NGO.
The Beatifications: Martyrdom According to the Conciliar Sect
After the Angelus, Leo XIV recalls several newly beatified individuals: Václav Drbola and Jan Bula of Moravia, Jan Šwierc and eight companions (Polish Salesian priests), and Nazareno Lanciotti, a Roman missionary priest beatified in Brazil. He describes them all as martyrs “because of their fidelity to Christ” and notes that Lanciotti “defended the poorest in the name of the Gospel.”
The conciliar sect has a long and disgraceful history of beatifying and canonizing individuals whose lives and teachings are incompatible with the integral Catholic Faith. As the files on post-conciliar “saints” demonstrate, Maximilian Kolbe died not for the Faith but for a fellow prisoner; the Ulma family did not die for the Faith; John Henry Newman was a proponent of the evolution of doctrine; Faustyna Kowalska was a pseudo-mystic whose writings were virtually identical to those of the condemned heretic Mother Kozłowska; and Fr. Blachnicki was a crypto-Mason who created the Masonic “Light-Life” movement. The beatification of individuals by the conciliar apparatus carries no guarantee of sanctity, because that apparatus is itself in a state of manifest heresy and schism.
The Apostolic Journey to Spain: Diplomacy in Service of the New Church
Leo XIV expresses gratitude for his “apostolic journey” to Spain, thanking “His Majesty the King,” the bishops, and the Spanish people. The language is that of a head of state, not of the Vicar of Christ. The true Pope — the successor of St. Peter — does not undertake “apostolic journeys” to cultivate diplomatic relations with secular monarchs and modernist bishops. He teaches, governs, and sanctifies the faithful, and he condemns error with the authority of Christ Himself.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, was unequivocal: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The true Pope demands the public recognition of Christ the King by all nations. He does not thank secular kings for their hospitality and speak of “enthusiasm and devotion” in the language of a tourist brochure.
The Earthquake in the Philippines: Natural Piety Without Supernatural Faith
The address concludes with an expression of closeness to the people of the Philippines following an earthquake. “I pray for the deceased and their families, for the wounded and for all those suffering because of this disaster,” Leo XIV says. This is the natural piety of any decent human being. It requires no faith, no Church, no sacraments, no supernatural grace. It is the language of the modernist who, having emptied the Gospel of its divine content, is left with nothing but humanitarian sentiment.
The true Church, in the face of natural disasters, calls the faithful to repentance, to prayer for the conversion of sinners, to the reception of the sacraments, and to the recognition of divine justice. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the notion that the Church should be silent about the supernatural order and confine itself to natural virtue. The Church’s response to suffering is not “closeness” but the proclamation of the whole truth: that suffering is the consequence of sin, that redemption comes only through Christ and His Church, and that the greatest disaster is not an earthquake but the loss of the soul in hell.
The Silence That Condemns
The most damning aspect of Leo XIV’s Angelus is not what it says but what it does not say. In an address of considerable length, there is:
– No mention of the Social Kingship of Christ — the doctrine that all nations are bound to publicly recognize and submit to Christ’s authority, as defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas.
– No mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation — the dogma extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, defined by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Council of Florence, and numerous popes.
– No mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary made present on every altar of the true Church.
– No mention of the sacraments — the ordinary means of grace instituted by Christ for the salvation of souls.
– No mention of the reality of sin, hell, or the Last Judgment — the fundamental truths of the Faith that the conciliar sect has systematically obscured.
– No mention of the duty of all men to convert to the Catholic Faith — the very purpose of the Church’s missionary activity.
– No mention of the errors condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, Pascendi, or Humani Generis — the principal modernist heresies that have devastated the Church since the mid-20th century.
– No mention of the invalidity of the Novus Ordo Missae — the fabricated rite of “Mass” that has replaced the immemorial Traditional Latin Mass and that, as the analysis of the Ottaviani Intervention and the entire tradition of the Church demonstrates, is not a valid expression of the Catholic theology of the propitiatory sacrifice.
This silence is not accidental. It is the silence of an institution that has apostatized from the Faith it was divinely commissioned to preserve and transmit. It is the silence of the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15) — the conciliar sect that occupies the Vatican and the structures of the Church while systematically destroying the Faith from within.
Conclusion: The Gospel That Does Not Save
Leo XIV’s Angelus of June 14, 2026, is a perfect specimen of the modernist Gospel: a Gospel without dogma, without authority, without the supernatural, without the Cross, without the Church, without the sacraments, without the Mass, without the Kingship of Christ, without the necessity of conversion, without the reality of sin and judgment, and without the promise of eternal salvation. It is, in the final analysis, no Gospel at all — for “if I preach the Gospel, it is no glory to me; for a necessity lies upon me. For woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16).
The true Gospel is the one preached by St. Peter, who declared: “There is no salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). It is the one preached by St. Paul, who warned: “If any one preach to you a gospel besides that which you have received, let him be anathema” (Gal. 1:9). It is the one preached by every true Pope from St. Peter to Pius XII — a Gospel that demands the submission of the entire human race to Christ the King and His one true Church.
The conciliar sect, led by the usurper Leo XIV, preaches a different gospel — a gospel of humanitarian sentiment, natural piety, and religious indifferentism. It is the gospel condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, by St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili, and by every faithful Catholic who recognizes that the Faith delivered once and for all to the saints (Jude 1:3) cannot be “developed,” “evolved,” or “reconciled with modern civilization.”
Let the faithful reject this counterfeit Gospel and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church — the Tradition that teaches, without equivocation, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Heb. 13:8), and that the gates of hell shall not prevail against His Church (Matt. 16:18) — not against the conciliar sect that has betrayed Him, but against the true Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic Faith, celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, and reject the apostasy of the post-conciliar revolution.
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Source:
Pope Leo XIV Says Evil Crumbles When the Gospel Is Lived Out (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.06.2026