Leo XIV’s Seminarian Address: Modernist Subversion Under Guise of Tradition
Catholic News Agency reports from Vatican City (November 5, 2025) that antipope Leo XIV addressed Peruvian seminarians from the “San Carlos y San Marcelo” seminary, emphasizing “piety without doctrine becomes fragile sentimentality” and “doctrine without prayer becomes sterile.” The letter urges seminarians to pursue “balance” between prayer and study while claiming priesthood constitutes “a total gift of one’s existence” rather than bureaucratic function. The antipope invokes his prior experience teaching at the seminary and quotes St. Augustine’s The City of God on freedom. The article concludes with Leo XIV assuring seminarians they “have a place in the heart of the successor of Peter.”









