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National Catholic Register (May 26, 2026) reports that “Pope” Leo XIV, addressing the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography, lamented what he termed a “time of drastic sterility” in Europe, attributing it to a “rejection of the Christian inspiration of the founding fathers of the EU institutions.” He criticized policies that “simultaneously promote discrimination against motherhood, exal[t] abortion as a right, and undermin[e] the very foundation of the desire to start a family.” The “pope” called for “solidarity between generations” and emphasized the family “founded on marriage between a man and a woman” as the solution to Europe’s demographic decline, urging policies that “always promote the dignity of human beings.” This speech, while superficially echoing Catholic social teaching, operates entirely within the framework of modernist naturalism, reducing the Church’s mission to secular demographic management, ignoring the supernatural order, and failing to call for the Social Reign of Christ the King—the only true remedy for societal collapse.

National Catholic Register portal (May 26, 2026) reports on an “immersive exhibition” of the Sistine Chapel in Sydney, Australia, launched ahead of the 2028 International Eucharistic Congress. The event, attended by Barbara Jatta of the Vatican Museums, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, and Australian Ambassador Keith Pitt, promotes a virtual experience of Michelangelo’s frescoes as an “evangelizing” tool. Archbishop Fisher quoted Goethe: “Until you have seen the Sistine Chapel, you can have no adequate conception of what man is capable of.” The exhibit is touted as a precursor to a hoped-for visit by antipope Leo XIV, continuing the post-conciliar obsession with spectacle and the reduction of sacred art to a tourist attraction.