The Usurper’s Sentimental Naturalism: Leo XIV Reduces the Elderly to Instruments of Secular Humanism
VaticanNews portal reports (June 10, 2026) that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” has sent a letter via Cardinal Pietro Parolin to participants of a Vatican symposium titled “A Bridge Toward Heaven,” calling for “greater respect for the elderly” and criticizing the “logic of performance and competition” in modern society. The message, read at the June 10 symposium in Rome, praises the “fragility” of the elderly as a “profound lesson” for youth, asserting that “the value of an existence is not measured by the yardstick of efficiency or self-sufficiency but by the capacity to love and to let oneself be loved, to give and to receive.” This sentimental rhetoric, stripped of supernatural content, reduces the dignity of the elderly to a purely naturalistic and horizontal framework, omitting entirely the Catholic teaching on suffering, redemptive merit, and the eternal destiny of the soul.




