VaticanMedia portal reports on June 24, 2026, that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed an assembly of international writers under the guise of the 100th anniversary of the Vatican Publishing House (LEV). His address, a masterclass in post-conciliar humanism and sentimental religiosity, reduces writing to a secular tool for “human experience,” strips it of its supernatural end, and frames “truth” as an abstract, subjective quest — all while ignoring the duties of the Church toward dogma, conversion, and the salvation of souls. This speech is not a Catholic reflection on art but the natural fruit of the conciliar revolution: a naturalistic, ecumenical, and subjectivist manifesto dressed in liturgical vestments.
A “Pope” Without the Supernatural: Writing as Naturalistic Self-Expression
The address of Leo XIV to writers is a textbook example of the via moderna of the conciliar sect — a discourse that replaces supernatural revelation with a vague humanism centered on “experience,” “empathy,” and “dialogue.” The central thesis of his speech, that “writing is an act of truth, of revelation, for it reveals who we are, what we believe and hope for,” is a profound inversion of Catholic doctrine. For a true successor of Peter, truth is not something discovered through “inner dialogue” or the “mosaic” of human perspectives; it is the unchanging deposit of Faith, guarded and proposed infallibly by the Magisterium. As Pope Pius XI taught in Mortalium Animos, the Church is not a human invention evolving through cultural dialogue, but a supernatural society founded on immutable dogmas.
The usurper’s claim that “we are never masters of the truth; if anything, it is the truth that ‘conquers’ us” is a subtle but damning subjectivism. It reduces divine Truth to an almost personalist, psychological force — a far cry from the Catholic understanding of Truth as an objective reality to which the intellect must submit. In Catholic theology, the Church is the pillar and foundation of truth (Tim. 3:15), commissioned to teach all nations (Matt. 28:19), not to engage in an “open and respectful dialogue” with the world on equal footing. The speech contains not a single mention of the necessity of submitting one’s intellect to the defined dogmas of the Faith, nor the existence of an objective moral law binding on all consciences.
The Erasure of Final Ends: Writing Without Conversion
The most glaring omission in Leo XIV’s address is the absence of any supernatural finality for art and literature. Catholic tradition, from the Council of Trent to the encyclicals of St. Pius X, has always taught that the purpose of all human activity, including art, is the greater glory of God (Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam) and the sanctification of souls. Literature, when subordinated to grace, serves as a praeparatio evangelica — a means to lead souls to Christ the King and His Church.
Instead, the conciliar “pope” reduces writing to a tool for “solidarity, sharing, compassion, or mercy” — natural virtues detached from the supernatural order. This is the error of naturalism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of the supernatural life to mere human sentimentality. The statement that “without such empathy, there can be no solidarity” is a secular humanist creed, not a Catholic principle. Without charity — the theological virtue infused in baptism — all human “empathy” is incapable of meriting eternal salvation. The Church has never taught that literature’s primary role is to help readers “live many lives”; its role is to help them save their own.
“God Reveals Himself in Very Human Stories”: The Modernist Hermeneutic
Leo XIV’s assertion that “when we delve into the very depths of our humanity, we are not far from God; for there, in the midst of very human stories, God reveals Himself” is a direct echo of the modernist hermeneutic condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu. Proposition 22 of the Lamentabili condemns the idea that “the dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort.” The usurper’s speech is precisely this: a reduction of Revelation to a human narrative, where God “speaks through events and encounters” rather than through the defined Magisterium.
The quotation from Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe — a known progressive figure — that “every attempt to grapple with the fundamental questions of our lives … helps us to understand Christ” further exposes the naturalistic framework. Catholic doctrine teaches that we understand Christ not through grappling with human questions, but through divine Revelation proposed by the Church. The Incarnation is not a metaphor for human storytelling; it is the central historical fact of salvation, inaccessible to human reason without supernatural faith. The speech’s silence on the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus) is not an oversight; it is a doctrinal statement in itself — the false ecumenism of the conciliar revolution.
The Cult of Man and the Abomination of Desolation
The address culminates in the repetition of the famous phrase of Paul VI — “We need you” — addressed to artists. This is the cult of man elevated to a liturgical principle. The Church does not “need” writers to create “spaces of freedom and authenticity”; she needs them to submit their talents to the service of the Gospel and the conversion of nations. The true Church has always relied on the Holy Spirit, not on human imagination, to build the Kingdom of Christ.
The entire event is a manifestation of the abomination of desolation: a pseudo-religious gathering in the Vatican, led by a usurper, celebrating a human institution (LEV) while the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is marginalized and the true Faith is buried under a pile of sentimental platitudes. The speech of Leo XIV is not a Catholic document; it is a manifesto of the neo-church of the Antichrist, where man is at the center, and God is an optional, immanent feeling in the depths of human experience.
In light of the unchanging Catholic doctrine, such an address must be rejected as yet another proof that the occupant of the Vatican is not the successor of Peter, but the chief representative of the modernist apostasy. The true Church, faithful to Tradition, calls all writers not to “create spaces of freedom,” but to submit their intellects to the obedience of Faith and use their art for the salvation of souls and the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Source:
Pope: Writing concerns God and helps trace outline of truth (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.06.2026