VaticanNews portal reports that on June 25, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, known as “Pope” Leo XIV, received members of the Italian Swimming Federation at the Apostolic Palace. During this audience, he delivered a statement saturated with naturalistic humanism, declaring that “sport, when practiced well, is medicine for both body and spirit,” and that it integrates the human person toward values such as “commitment, solidarity, and honesty.” He further reduced the theological significance of water to a mere symbol of environmental harmony and a vague recollection of baptism, stating that “to live means learning to move in harmony with others and with the environment around us.” This address is not an isolated incident but a continuation of his June prayer intention for sports to promote peace and his recent letter *Life in Abundance* for the Winter Olympic Games. This address represents a quintessential example of the conciliar revolution’s reduction of the Faith to a humanitarian club, where the salvation of souls is eclipsed by the glorification of the physical form.
The Reduction of Grace to Physical Exercise
The statement by the Vatican occupier that sport is “medicine for both body and spirit” is a direct assault on the Catholic understanding of spiritual health. In the integral Catholic faith, the only true medicine for the soul is grace, obtained through the sacraments and the removal of sin. The Apostle Paul admonishes the faithful: “For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” (1 Tim. 4:8). By elevating swimming and physical competition to a means of spiritual growth, Leo XIV inverts the order of creation, suggesting that the sanctification of the soul can be achieved through athletic discipline rather than through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the sacrament of Penance. This is the heresy of Pelagianism repackaged in athletic wear—the belief that human effort alone, without the necessity of supernatural grace, can lead to spiritual progress.
The Omission of the Supernatural and the Cult of Man
A glaring symptom of this address is the complete silence regarding the primary purpose of human existence: the salvation of souls and the attainment of eternal beatitude. When the conciliar “pontiff” speaks of “human development,” he refers strictly to the natural and temporal order. There is no mention of original sin, the necessity of redemption through the Blood of Christ, or the reality of the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell). Instead, the focus is on “solidarity” and “honesty”—virtues that, while naturally good, are entirely insufficient for salvation without the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity. This reflects the condemnation of Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, which rejects the idea that “the civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” and that the State can direct teaching without the Church’s guidance. Here, the “pope” acts as a director of a secular NGO, promoting a purely horizontal fraternity that ignores the vertical dependence on God.
The Profanation of Baptism and the Symbolism of Water
Leo XIV’s reference to water as a symbol of baptism and “new life in Christ” is particularly egregious in its superficiality. He states: “[Swimming] symbolically recalls an aspect that has been part of us since our motherʼs womb: to live means learning to move in harmony with others and with the environment around us.” This is not Catholic catechesis; it is New Age environmentalism. The water of Baptism is not a symbol of returning to the womb or “moving in harmony with the environment”; it is the laver of regeneration that washes away the stain of original sin and incorporates the soul into the Mystical Body of Christ. By reducing the sacrament to an ecological metaphor, the antipope strips it of its supernatural efficacy. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the modernist tendency to treat sacraments as mere symbols or reminders of the Creator’s presence, rather than as instrumental causes of grace. The conciliar church has fully embraced this condemned modernism, turning the sacred waters of Baptism into a pagan ode to “Mother Nature.”
The “Value of Sports” as a Tool of the Antichrist
The promotion of international sporting events, such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup, as vehicles for “peace” is a hallmark of the religion of man. Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King to explicitly counter the secularism and laicism that remove Christ from public life. He wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The modernist antipope, by contrast, seeks peace not in the Kingdom of Christ, but in the stadium. This is the “peace” of the world that hates the truth. The conciliar sect uses these global gatherings to promote a false ecumenism and a naturalistic unity that bypasses the necessity of the Catholic Church as the sole Ark of Salvation. As the Defense of Sedevacantism notes, a manifest heretic cannot be the head of the Church; thus, the words of Leo XIV are not those of a shepherd, but of a hireling leading the flock to the slaughter of indifferentism.
The Hermeneutic of Continuity as a Smokescreen for Apostasy
Since the beginning of his usurpation, Leo XIV has frequently emphasized the value of sport, even publishing a letter titled Life in Abundance for the Winter Olympics. This title is a blasphemous appropriation of Our Lord’s words: “I am come that they might have life, and might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Christ speaks of supernatural life—sanctifying grace. The conciliar “pope” applies this to the physical vitality of athletes. This is the “hermeneutic of continuity” in action: using traditional Catholic vocabulary to smuggle in the most radical modernist errors. The “abundance” offered by the conciliar sect is the abundance of the flesh, not the spirit. It is the “circus” part of “bread and circuses,” designed to distract the masses from the utter destruction of the Faith occurring within the Vatican walls.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Vatican
The meeting with the Italian Swimming Federation is a microcosm of the conciliar revolution. It is a spectacle of naturalism where the “pope” acts as a cheerleader for the New World Order. The true Church, the integral Catholic Church, recognizes that the body is a slave to the soul and that the soul is a slave to God. The modernist neo-church recognizes that the soul is a slave to the body and that the body is a slave to the “global community.” Until the occupier of the Vatican throne repudiates this humanitarian idolatry and proclaims the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations and all human activities—including sports—he remains an anti-pope and a manifest heretic. “Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16). The temple of God is not a swimming pool, and the Spirit of God is not found in the “honesty” of a competitive race, but in the immutable Tradition of the Holy Roman Church.
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Pope Leo XIV: Sport is an opportunity for spiritual growth (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.06.2026