Author name: amdg

The article from the National Catholic Register, reporting on the activities of the individual occupying the Vatican as “Pope Leo XIV” on Good Friday 2026, describes a liturgical spectacle devoid of supernatural substance. The antipope personally carried the cross during the Via Crucis at the Colosseum, an event framed not as a re-presentation of the one Sacrifice of Calvary but as a symbolic “journey” focused on human authority and dignity. The meditations, authored by a Franciscan friar, emphasized that “every authority must answer before God for the manner in which it exercises the power it has received,” including temporal powers like war and human dignity, and extended this to “the power we exercise in our daily lives.” The antipope concluded by quoting St. Francis of Assisi, praying for the grace “to do for you alone what we know you want us to do and always to desire what pleases you,” and to “follow in the footprints of your beloved Son.” This presentation systematically omits the core Catholic doctrines of sin, propitiatory sacrifice, divine justice, and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King over all nations, replacing them with a vague, humanistic spirituality of “journey” and “footprints.”