EWTN News reports that the current usurper on Peter’s throne, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), has issued a message — signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin — offering prayers for parents who have lost a baby, coinciding with the Day for Life in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The message speaks of God’s “divine love” giving meaning to every person’s life and invites parents to find “consolation and peace” in prayer and the sacraments. The bishops organizing the event emphasize the “full humanity of the child in the mother’s womb” and denounce abortion. On the surface, this appears to be a straightforward pro-life statement. But what does it truly reveal about the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect?
The Usurper Speaks — But With Whose Authority?
Let us begin with the most fundamental question: Who is Leo XIV? He is Robert Prevost, installed in the Vatican after the resignation of the heretic Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), himself a successor to the apostate John Paul II (Karol Wojtylya). This entire line traces back to John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), who convened the Second Vatican Council — the abomination of desolation spoken of by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). The Council’s documents, particularly Dignitatis Humanae (on religious liberty), Nostra Aetate (on non-Christian religions), and Gaudium et Spes (on the Church in the modern world), constitute a formal rupture with the perennial Magisterium of the Church.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned as error proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” Proposition 80 went further: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” These are precisely the errors that Vatican II enshrined as doctrine. The “pope” who speaks through EWTN News is the heir of this revolution — a man who occupies the Vatican but possesses no authority from Christ, for “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II:30).
The Language of Naturalism: “Divine Love” Without the Cross
Consider the language employed in this message: “God’s divine love gives meaning to the life of every person and, far from ending with death, invites us to a new fullness in eternity.” This is the therapeutic, sentimental vocabulary of modernist pastoralism. Where is the mention of baptism? Where is the Church’s constant teaching on the limbus infantium — the limbo of infants — and the absolute necessity of baptism for salvation? Where is the call to parents to ensure their child is baptized in extremis?
The pre-conciliar Church taught with clarity that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215; Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 1302). This dogma was reaffirmed by Pope Pius IX in Quanto conficiamur (1863), who while acknowledging the possibility of invincible ignorance, never abandoned the principle that incorporation into the Church through baptism is the ordinary means of salvation. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that baptism is necessary for infants no less than for adults.
Yet Leo XIV’s message — and the accompanying bishops’ statement — speak of every child being “wanted, created, and loved by God” and possessing “an immortal soul” without once addressing the sacramental destiny of that soul. This is the hallmark of modernist theology: it speaks of God’s love while remaining silent on the means of grace. It offers consolation without truth. It speaks of “eternity” without defining the conditions for attaining it.
Pope St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), identified this exact tendency as the essence of Modernism: “The religious sentiment… is placed on a level with the natural sentiment, and since the religious sentiment is only a kind of natural sentiment, it follows that the one can be treated as the other.” The “divine love” spoken of by Leo XIV is precisely this — a natural sentiment dressed in supernatural language, stripped of dogmatic content.
The Sacraments as Therapy
The message urges parents to find support “especially in a life nourished by prayer and the sacraments.” But which “sacraments”? The conciliar sect has systematically destroyed the sacramental life of the faithful. The so-called “Mass” celebrated in the vast majority of their structures is the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI (Montini), a Protestantized rite designed by the crypto-Masonic commission that included six Protestant “observers.” Theologians such as Fr. Louis Bouyer admitted that the new Mass was conceived as a service that “could no longer have the character of a true sacrifice.”
The “Eucharist” distributed in these structures is, at best, of doubtful validity given the changes to the matter (use of unleavened bread of uncertain composition, inclusion of grape juice) and the substantial alterations to the form of consecration. At worst, it is an idol — a piece of bread adored by those who have abandoned the true faith. To urge grieving parents to seek consolation in such “sacraments” is to lead them to spiritual poison.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), taught that Christ’s kingdom “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, to be distinguished by modesty of conduct, and to hunger and thirst for justice, but also to deny themselves and carry their cross.” The cross — suffering offered in union with Christ’s sacrifice — is entirely absent from Leo XIV’s message. In its place: the language of “support,” “accompaniment,” and “consolation” — the vocabulary of a therapeutic culture, not of the Catholic faith.
The Pro-Life Cause Co-opted by Apostates
The bishops’ statement denounces abortion and affirms that “life begins at the moment of fertilization.” This is, of course, the constant teaching of the Church. Pope Sixtus V, in Effraenatam (1588), imposed excommunication latae sententiae on anyone procuring abortion at any stage of pregnancy. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2350 §1) maintained this penalty. The Church has always rejected voluntary abortion.
But what is the value of this affirmation when it comes from bishops who have embraced the very errors that make abortion possible? The conciliar sect’s teaching on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae, 1965) — condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus — provides the philosophical foundation for the legal protection of abortion. If the state has no duty to suppress false religions, as Vatican II teaches, then by extension it has no duty to suppress the “false religion” of secular humanism that demands abortion as a “right.” The pro-life witness of these bishops is self-contradictory: they condemn the fruit while nurturing the root.
Moreover, the bishops’ statement speaks of the unborn child’s “infinite dignity” and “unique and eternal relationship with God” — language that, while not formally heretical, is deployed in a context that systematically avoids the question of what happens to the soul of an unbaptized child. The Church’s teaching on this matter, while nuanced, has never been one of comfortable assurance. The Council of Florence (1439) taught that those who die in original sin alone go to infernum — though with lesser suffering than those who committed actual sin. Theologians have debated the nature of the limbus puerorum, but the conciliar sect’s silence on this point is not accidental — it is part of its broader project of eliminating the supernatural from its discourse.
The Omission That Condemns
What is most revealing in this message is not what it says, but what it omits:
- No mention of baptism as the means by which the child’s soul is cleansed of original sin and incorporated into the Church.
- No mention of the necessity of the state to recognize Christ the King and to legislate in accordance with divine law — the teaching of Pius XI in Quas Primas.
- No mention of the social reign of Christ — the obligation of civil society to protect the unborn not merely as a matter of “human rights” but as a matter of divine law.
- No mention of the true Mass — the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary — as the source of grace for the living and the dead.
- No mention of the Church’s authority to demand that civil rulers suppress crimes against the innocent — a authority affirmed by every pope from St. Peter to Pius XII.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught: “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 kind, and each fixed within certain limits.” The conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching in favor of “dialogue” with the world — a dialogue in which the world sets the terms and the Church merely accommodates.
Conclusion: The Voice of the Stranger
Our Lord warned: “The sheep follow him, for they know his voice. But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers” (John 10:4-5). The voice heard in this message is the voice of the stranger — the voice of naturalism, of therapeutic religion, of a “Church” that has exchanged the supernatural faith of Christ for the humanism of the world.
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid orders — does not offer “consolation” without truth. She offers the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments instituted by Christ, and the uncompromising demand for the social reign of Christ the King. She tells parents not only that their child is loved by God, but that the child must be baptized, that the state must protect the innocent, and that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church.
Leo XIV’s message is a symptom of the disease that has consumed the conciliar structures: the reduction of the Catholic faith to a system of natural morality and emotional support, stripped of dogma, stripped of authority, stripped of the cross. It is the voice of the abomination of desolation — and the faithful must flee from it.
“He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters” (Matt. 12:30).
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Pope Leo XIV prays for parents who have suffered the loss of a baby (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.06.2026