Denial of Objective Truth or Denial of the One Truth? Leo XIV’s Modernist Equivocation
EWTN News portal reports that on May 11, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, known as Leo XIV, during an audience with the Vatican Observatory Foundation, declared that “the principal threat facing both religion and science today is the denial of the very existence of objective truth.” He further lamented the “irresponsible exploitation of both people and the natural world,” emphasizing the Church’s commitment to “rigorous and honest science” and the role of astronomy in evoking “wonder.” While superficially appealing, this statement, when scrutinized through the lens of integral Catholic doctrine, reveals a profound Modernist equivocation that subtly undermines the supernatural mission of the Church, reduces her prophetic voice to mere environmentalism, and implicitly denies the absolute, revealed Truth of God in favor of a naturalistic “objective truth” accessible to human reason alone.







