The National Catholic Register reports that on June 24, 2026, the usurper in the Vatican, “Pope” Leo XIV, met with 28 authors to mark the centenary of the Vatican Publishing House. His address praised writing as a human act leading to God, completely ignoring the supernatural order, the salvation of souls, and the true mission of the Church. This address is a perfect distillation of the conciliar revolution’s reduction of the Faith to a naturalistic humanism.
A “Pope” Without the Supernatural: The Address as a Manifesto of Naturalism
The address delivered by Leo XIV to a gathering of secular authors is a theological void, a speech that could have been delivered by a humanist philosopher or a Protestant modernist, but never by a true successor of St. Peter. The very framing of the event reveals the bankruptcy of the conciliar “church”: a celebration of the Vatican Publishing House’s 100th anniversary, an institution that has been a primary vehicle for the dissemination of modernist, ecumenistic, and naturalistic literature since the advent of the Great Apostasy after 1958.
The central thesis of the address, as reported, is that writing is an “act of truth, of revelation” that “reveals who we are” and “leads to God.” This is a quintessentially modernist proposition. It elevates human artistic expression to the level of revelation, blurring the line between natural human activity and supernatural faith. The true Catholic position, as taught by the perennial Magisterium, is that revelation closed with the death of the last Apostle. Human art, however noble, is not revelation. It can reflect truth, but it is not the source of truth. The modernist error, condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*, is precisely this: the confusion of human consciousness with divine revelation, the idea that religious truth evolves and is expressed through human experience and sentiment.
The Omission of Jesus Christ and the Supernatural Life
The most damning aspect of this address is what is completely absent. There is no mention of Jesus Christ as the sole Way, Truth, and Life. There is no mention of the necessity of baptism, of the state of grace, of the Real Presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, of the necessity of the One True Church for salvation. There is no mention of sin, repentance, or the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. This is not an oversight; it is the very essence of the religion of man invented by the architects of the post-conciliar revolution.
Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas*, taught with anathemas that the reign of Christ the King extends over all nations and individuals, and that to remove Him from the laws and constitutions of states is to sow the seeds of discord and societal ruin. The address by Leo XIV does not acknowledge Christ’s royal authority. It does not call for the social reign of Christ the King. It does not even acknowledge the existence of a supernatural order to which man is subordinate. Instead, it offers a vague, pantheistic notion that “when we delve into the very depths of our humanity, we are not far from God.” This is the condemned heresy of immanentism, the idea that God is found within human nature itself, rather than through the gratuitous gift of supernatural grace merited by the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Cult of Man and the Religion of Humanity
The address is a perfect expression of what Pius XI called the “plague that poisons human society,” namely, secularism and laicism. The “pope” does not call for the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith. He does not call for the evangelization of the authors or their readers. Instead, he urges them to “inspire others to be drawn to the truth” through their writing. But what truth? The truth of human experience? The truth of subjective emotion? The truth of a god who is merely the depths of human nature?
This is the religion of humanity, the naturalistic humanism condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* of Pius IX. Proposition 62 of the Syllabus condemns the idea that “the principal articles of the Apostles’ Creed did not have the same meaning for the first Christians as they do for contemporary Christians.” The modernist “evolution of dogmas” is on full display here. The very concept of fixed, immutable truth is replaced by a subjective, evolving “truth” that is “revealed” through human artistic expression. The “pope” states, “We are never masters of the truth; if anything, it is the truth that ‘conquers’ us.” This is a subtle but profound error. It suggests that truth is an impersonal force, rather than a Person: Jesus Christ, Who said “I am the Truth.”
The Vatican Publishing House: A Century of Modernist Propaganda
The occasion of the address, the 100th anniversary of the Vatican Publishing House (LEV), is itself a scandal. Founded in 1926, LEV was once a guardian of Catholic truth, publishing the works of the Saints, the Fathers, and the Magisterium. Since the advent of the conciliar sect, it has become a primary instrument for the dissemination of modernist, ecumenistic, and naturalistic errors. It publishes the works of heretics and apostates, the “writings” of the antipopes, and the texts of the new “catechism” which is a corruption of the true Catechism of the Council of Trent.
To celebrate this institution without a single word of repentance for its role in the Great Apostasy is to celebrate the very mechanism of the destruction of the Faith. The true Catholic position is that the Vatican Publishing House, as an institution of the conciliar sect, has no authority to publish in the name of the Church. Its publications are not acts of the true Magisterium, but acts of the usurping regime occupying the Vatican.
The Authors: Witnesses to the Religion of Man
The choice of authors invited to this “papal” audience is revealing. They are secular, Jewish, and Protestant writers. There is no evidence that any of them are practicing Catholics in the traditional sense, or that they profess the integral Catholic Faith. The “pope” does not call them to conversion. He does not preach the Gospel to them. He flatters them. He tells them their writing “leads to God.” This is the false ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in *Mortalium Animos*, which forbids the faithful from participating in non-Catholic religious gatherings or to appear to approve of false religions.
The comments of the authors after the audience confirm the naturalistic character of the event. Jonathan Safran Foer, a Jewish author, praised writing for fostering “empathy for others’ suffering.” This is the religion of human solidarity without the supernatural virtue of charity. Paul Elie praised the “pope” for acknowledging the threat of artificial intelligence to literature. This is the religion of man, concerned with earthly technological threats, but utterly silent about the eternal destiny of souls.
The Silence on the Real Mission of the Church
The true mission of the Church, as defined by the perennial Magisterium, is to teach all nations, to administer the sacraments, and to lead souls to eternal salvation through Jesus Christ. The address by Leo XIV reduces the Church’s mission to a vague promotion of “humanity” and “truth” through literature. There is no mention of the necessity of the true Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, for the propitiation of sins. There is no mention of the necessity of true priests, ordained according to the traditional rite, to offer the Holy Sacrifice. There is no mention of the necessity of the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
This address is a pastoral and theological disaster. It is a sermon of the religion of man, preached by a usurper in the Vatican, to an audience of secular humanists. It is a perfect illustration of the state of the conciliar sect: a naturalistic, man-centered “church” that has abandoned the supernatural order, the salvation of souls, and the true God.
The Verdict of Catholic Doctrine
The address is not merely a poor speech; it is a symptom of the deep-seated heresy that has infected the conciliar structure since its inception. It embodies the very errors condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* and the *Syllabus of Errors* of Pius IX. It is a practical application of the modernist principle of the “evolution of dogmas,” the idea that religious truth is not fixed and immutable, but evolves with human consciousness and culture.
The true Catholic response to this address is not to critique its literary merits, but to reject it as a teaching act of a heretical antipope. The faithful must cling to the perennial Magisterium, to the immutable truths of the Catholic Faith, and to the true sacraments administered by true priests in communion with the true Church. The address is a call to the religion of man, a religion without sacrifice, without priesthood, without Christ. It is a religion of the Antichrist.
The words of St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* are more relevant than ever: “We are not dealing with a modernist heresy, but with a modernist spirit, which is the father of all heresies. The modernist spirit is the spirit of the world, the spirit of the devil, who is the father of lies. The faithful must be on their guard against this spirit, which seeks to destroy the Faith from within, by corrupting the sources of revelation and the teaching authority of the Church.”
The address by Leo XIV is a perfect manifestation of this modernist spirit. It is a call to abandon the supernatural order, to embrace the religion of man, and to worship the creature rather than the Creator. The faithful must reject this address, and all the works of the conciliar sect, and return to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Faith, which alone leads to the true God, Jesus Christ Our Lord, through the intercession of His Blessed Mother, Mary, and the true sacraments of His Holy Church.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Writing Is an Act of Humanity That Leads to God (ncregister.com)
Date: 24.06.2026