The EWTN News portal (via its Spanish-language service ACI Prensa) reports on an audience granted by the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to members of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation on June 22, 2026, marking the centenary of the birth of the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. The article, penned by Nicolás de Cárdenas, centers on the testimony of Karin Lejeune, the scientist’s daughter, who extols the “friendship” between her father and the antipope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) as the sustaining force that “kept hope alive” during Lejeune’s persecution by the French secular state and the modernist hierarchy in France following the legalization of abortion. The piece highlights Lejeune’s appointment as first president of the Pontifical Academy for Life by Wojtyła in 1994, his declaration as “Venerable” by the antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) in January 2024, and an anecdote regarding the 1981 assassination attempt on Wojtyła, during which Lejeune allegedly exclaimed, “I wish it were me.” The article presents a portrait of a tender father and brilliant scientist whose “gaze” and “empathy” defined his sanctity, entirely devoid of any reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Confessional State, or the doctrinal corruption of the conciliar sect’s leadership. This report epitomizes the neo-church’s substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church for a naturalistic humanitarianism, legitimized by the false authority of manifest heretics occupying the Vatican.
The Usurpation of Authority: Antipopes Legitimizing a Modernist Institute
The entire narrative rests upon the fraudulent premise that the individuals exercising authority in the Vatican since 1958 are legitimate Roman Pontiffs. The article speaks of “Pope Leo XIV,” “Pope Francis,” and “St. John Paul II” as if they hold the keys of Peter. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, grounded in the perpetual Magisterium and the principles of Canon Law (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code) and the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, a manifest heretic automatically loses the papacy ipso facto, without need of declaration. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of claimants beginning with John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) has publicly professed the heresies of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the evolution of dogma, and the separation of Church and State. Therefore, Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”), Jorge Bergoglio (“Francis”), and Karol Wojtyła (“John Paul II”) are not Popes but antipopes, usurpers of the Holy See. Their “appointments,” “decrees of heroic virtue,” and “audiences” possess zero canonical or juridical validity. They are acts of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel and Our Lord (Matt. 24:15).
The Pontifical Academy for Life, founded by Wojtyła in 1994 and headed by Lejeune, is not an organ of the Catholic Church but a modernist instrument designed to legitimize the conciliar sect’s “dialogue” with the world on bioethics, often compromising on the absolute inviolability of life from conception by engaging in the language of “human rights” and “dignity” detached from the Kingship of Christ and the divine positive law. Lejeune’s presidency of this body signifies not a defense of the Faith, but an integration into the neo-church’s project of “humanitarian Catholicism”.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of Sentimental Philanthropy
The article’s language reveals the theological vacuum at the heart of the conciliar religion. Karin Lejeune speaks of her father’s “Calvary,” “hope,” “friendship,” “gaze,” “tenderness,” “availability,” and “empathy.” Nowhere does the text mention sanctifying grace, the state of grace, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Kingship of Christ, the conversion of nations, or the damnation of the impenitent. The word “Calvary” is profaned by application to a professional and social ostracism, stripping the Cross of its redemptive, propitiatory meaning as the Unbloody Sacrifice perpetuated on the altar. “Hope” is reduced to psychological resilience sustained by human friendship with a heretic, not the theological virtue anchored in God’s promises. “Empathy” — “suffering with” — replaces compassio, suffering with Christ for the salvation of souls.
This is the language of the “Church of the New Advent,” the religion of man prophesied by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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 article presents a sanctity without the Cross of Christ, a charity without the truth of the Faith, a “servant of the poor” who serves the poor on the terms of the Masonic Republic. The “open door” of the Lejeune home on Rue Galande, the “bar” for friends, is elevated as a model of Christian life, while the Social Kingship of Christ — the very purpose of the Incarnation according to Pius XI (“He received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created”) — is utterly absent.
Theological Bankruptcy: Humanitarianism vs. The Rights of Christ the King
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches infallibly that Christ’s Kingdom is primarily spiritual but extends to all human society: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical condemns the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism,” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) explicitly condemns the propositions that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77).
The article celebrates a man who fought abortion within the framework of the Masonic French Republic, appealing to “human rights” and “scientific evidence,” not the Divine Law and the Kingship of Christ. Lejeune’s “ostracism by the Church in France” was persecution by the modernist hierarchy — the same hierarchy that implemented the Vatican II revolution, the New Mass, and religious liberty. His “consolation” came from Wojtyła, the architect of the Assisi abominations, the kisser of the Quran, the promoter of the “theology of the body” which obscures the primary end of marriage, and the “canonizer” of the Modernist John Henry Newman. To present this friendship as a sign of God’s favor is to call good evil and evil good (Isa. 5:20).
The declaration of Lejeune as “Venerable” by Bergoglio is a farce. The modernist “canonization” process — abolished in substance by the novelties of 1983 and 2005, and exercised by antipopes — produces “saints” of the neo-church: John Paul II (heretic, apostate), John XXIII (Modernist), Paul VI (promulgator of the Novus Ordo), Teresa of Calcutta (universalist), Oscar Romero (Liberation Theology). These are not canonizations protected by infallibility but acts of the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) to canonize the Revolution. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, the automatic loss of office for manifest heresy (Bellarmine, Wernz/Vidal, Canon 188.4, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio) renders all such acts null and void. Lejeune may die in the state of grace — God alone judges — but his public association with the conciliar sect’s structures and his acceptance of honors from antipopes are objective scandals that the article whitewashes into hagi as “holiness.”
Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This EWTN/ACI Prensa piece is not an anomaly; it is the standard operating procedure of the conciliar sect’s media apparatus. It demonstrates the modus operandi of the “Church of the New Advent”:
1. Anthropocentrism: The focus is on the human person (Lejeune, the disabled, the father) as an end in himself, not as a subject of Christ the King ordered to supernatural beatitude.
2. Naturalism: The fight for life is waged on the terrain of “science,” “human rights,” and “dignity” — categories of the Enlightenment — rather than on the terrain of Divine Revelation, Natural Law as participation in Eternal Law, and the Social Kingship of Christ.
3. False Ecumenism/Interreligious Dialogue: By legitimizing the antipopes, the article implicitly endorses the Assisi paradigm: all religions praying together for “peace” and “life,” indifferent to the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma.
4. Sentimentalism replacing Asceticism: “Tenderness,” “gaze,” “open house,” “empathy” replace mortification, doctrinal rigor, hatred of error, and the militia Christi.
5. Legitimization of the Usurpers: The article functions as propaganda for the “Leo XIV” regime, portraying him as a benevolent father receiving the “Lejeune Foundation,” just as it portrays Wojtyła and Bergoglio as holy fathers. This is the “disinformation strategy” Stage 3 described in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation” — here applied to the narrative of “pro-life saints” legitimizing the anti-papacy.
The “miracle” required for Lejeune’s beatification will doubtless be a medical cure, investigated by the modernist “Congregation for the Causes of Saints” under norms that presuppose the validity of the Novus Ordo and the Vatican II sect. No true miracle can legitimize a cultus authorized by an antipope. As Pope Celestine I taught regarding Nestorius (cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file): “He who has departed from the faith with such preaching cannot depose or remove anyone.” A fortiori, he cannot canonize or beatify.
The Silence That Condemns
The gravest accusation against this article is its silence. It does not mention:
– The Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas).
– The condemnation of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State (Syllabus, Quanta Cura, Immortale Dei).
– The invalidity of the Novus Ordo Missae and the sacrilege of the new “sacraments”.
– The heresies of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Nostra Aetate, Unitatis Redintegratio, Gaudium et Spes).
– The sedevacantist position — the only coherent Catholic response to the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958.
– The necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass and valid sacraments for the life of grace.
– The Final Judgment, Hell, and the necessity of Baptism of Water for salvation.
This silence is not accidental; it is systemic. The conciliar sect cannot speak of these things because its very existence depends on their denial. EWTN, founded by the Modernist “Mother Angelica” (a Poor Clare of the Novus Ordo), is a propaganda arm of the neo-church, designed to keep “conservative” Catholics trapped within the structures of the antichurch, feeding them a diet of humanitarian sentimentality and “pro-life” activism that never challenges the principium of the Revolution: the dethronement of Christ the King.
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith
The article on Jérôme Lejeune is a masterpiece of deception. It takes a man of undeniable scientific talent and natural virtue, places him in the arms of antipopes, wraps him in the vocabulary of modernist “empathy,” and presents him as a model for the faithful. It is a counterfeit icon of sanctity produced by the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place.
True Catholics — those who adhere to the unchanging Magisterium, the Traditional Latin Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the sedevacantist necessity — must reject this narrative entirely. We honor Lejeune’s scientific discovery of the trisomy 21 cause of Down syndrome, but we condemn his collaboration with the conciliar sect and the exploitation of his memory by the usurpers. There is no “hope” in friendship with heretics; there is only hope in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of Kings, whose reign the neo-church denies and whose Vicar it has expelled. As Pius XI commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The Lejeune Foundation, EWTN, and the “Leo XIV” regime refuse this obedience. We, the faithful remnant, render it.
Non praevalebunt. The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church of Christ, which subsists in the bishops and priests who maintain the Tradition integral and entire, outside the structures of the Vatican usurpation.
Source:
‘Thanks to John Paul II, my father always kept hope alive,’ Jérôme Lejeune’s daughter says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.07.2026