Catholic News Agency portal reports on the November 18 feast commemorating the dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul, detailing their historical construction under Emperor Constantine, architectural evolution through Renaissance and Baroque periods, and current spiritual significance during the 2025 Jubilee Year. The article emphasizes tourism statistics, artistic achievements, and quotes “Pope” Francis urging faithful to “open the doors” of the Church. This presentation reduces the basilicas’ sacred purpose to ecclesial theme parks while concealing their current desacralization under conciliar occupation.
Historical Revisionism Concealing Apostolic Betrayal
The article’s historical summary omits the sede vacante reality since 1958, instead presenting a seamless continuity between Constantine’s basilicas and the current structures controlled by antipopes. While correctly noting that “Constantine commissioned the construction of two separate basilicas over the burial sites of St. Peter and St. Paul,” it deliberately avoids stating that these sacred sites now serve as stages for anti-Catholic ceremonies presided over by antipopes. The consecration dates (326 AD for St. Peter’s and 330 AD for St. Paul’s) are cited without acknowledging that subsequent “reconsecrations” by post-conciliar figures lack validity, as Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) established that only bishops with proper sacramental form and intention can consecrate churches.
“Pope Urban VIII solemnly consecrated the magnificent Basilica of St. Peter… on Nov. 18, 1626.”
This selective historical framing ignores Urban VIII’s role in suppressing true Catholic resistance during the Galileo affair, foreshadowing the conciliar sect’s ongoing warfare against dogma. More grievously, the article praises Pius IX’s 1854 consecration of St. Paul’s Basilica while suppressing his Syllabus of Errors (1864) which condemned the very religious indifferentism now promoted at these sites.
Architectural Vanity Replacing Sacramental Substance
The lavish description of Bernini’s 94-foot bronze baldacchino exemplifies the conciliar sect’s fixation on aesthetic spectacle over doctrinal fidelity. While accurately noting the canopy “stands directly above the tomb of St. Peter,” the article remains silent about the sacrilegious “ecumenical” ceremonies regularly conducted there by antipopes who deny Peter’s primacy. The baldacchino’s symbolic keys and papal tiara have become cruel mockeries when displayed by men who reject the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma Peter proclaimed.
“The Holy Door of this major basilica was designed by Enrico Manfrini in preparation for the 2000 Jubilee Year.”
This reference to “Holy Doors” constitutes blasphemous revisionism. As Pius XII declared in Mediator Dei (1947), jubilees require the integrity of Catholic faith for validity. The “2000 Jubilee” referenced was presided over by the antipope John Paul II – a Freemason collaborator who kissed Korans and hosted pagan rituals in St. Peter’s Square. The article’s admiration for the “Byzantine door” from 1070 AD tacitly condemns the Vatican II sect’s modernist vandalism, which replaced Catholic art with abstract heresies like the “Resurrection” bronze monstrosity in Paul VI Hall.
Spiritual Counterfeiting of Apostolic Witness
The article climaxes with pure apostasy by quoting “Pope” Francis: “”The jubilee will be a time of grace, during which we will open the Holy Door so that everyone may cross the threshold of that ‘living sanctuary’ who is Jesus.”” This universalist heresy directly contradicts St. Paul’s warning: “Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God?” (1 Cor 6:9). The notion that pagan tourists and schismatics can meritoriously “cross the threshold” through architectural portals mocks the true Holy Door – baptismal regeneration and submission to Rome’s magisterium.
“For Christian pilgrims, the two major basilicas hold a greater spiritual significance that links their faith in Jesus and his Church to two of its most faithful apostles.”
This statement constitutes theological fraud. The conciliar sect has severed all connection to the apostles through its heresies. As Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable” (Proposition 53). When the article celebrates the basilicas enabling pilgrims to link with apostles through “teachings and witness,” it omits that the Vatican II sect teaches precisely the Modernist doctrines Pius X anathematized – religious liberty, ecuŠ¼enism, and collegiality – all denied by Peter and Paul.
Symptomatic Omission of Ecclesial Catastrophe
The most damning evidence lies in what the article excludes. No mention of:
1. The desecration of St. Peter’s tomb during the 1940-1958 excavations confirming apostolic burial, which orthodox Catholics accept but conciliarists ignore as they dismantle the Petrine office.
2. The replacement of the Confessio’s traditional lamps and prayers with barren modernist architecture.
3. The Pachamama idolatry performed in these basilicas during the 2019 Amazon Synod.
4. The explicit denial of Peter’s supremacy by antipopes who claim “the Petrine ministry is a form of service without power” (Bergoglio, 2023).
The article’s closing reference to the basilicas’ Holy Door opening dates (2024-2026) constitutes chronological heresy. True Catholics follow Pius XII’s Maxima Redemptionis (1955) establishing fixed 25-year intervals, not the arbitrary “Jubilee of Hope” invented by antipopes to supplant eschatological hope with naturalistic utopianism.
Conclusion: Basilicas Held Captive by Apostates
As the Roman Catechism decreed: “Where Peter is, there is the Church.” These consecrated spaces now function as anti-ecclesial museums celebrating apostasy. Until the usurpers are expelled and true popes reclaim the Chair of Peter, no amount of architectural praise can mask the stench of heresy permeating these desecrated shrines. Let the faithful heed Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas (1925): “Nations will be happy when they accept the reign of Christ” – not the reign of conciliar revolutionaries occupying apostolic tombs.
Source:
3 things to know about the 2 papal basilicas dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul in Rome (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.11.2025