Vatican Lenten Retreat Preaches Modernist “Idealism” Under Antipope Leo XIV
The VaticanNews portal reports that Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, delivered the second reflection at the 2026 Lenten Spiritual Exercises in the Vatican for “Pope Leo XIV,” Cardinals, and heads of Dicasteries. Varden’s theme, “Bernard, the Idealist,” presents a twelfth-century Cistercian Doctor of the Church through a lens of subjective psychological introspection and relativistic “dialectic,” utterly foreign to the immutable Catholic theology that formed Bernard himself. This event, occurring within the conciliar sect’s highest circles under an acknowledged antipope, exemplifies the systematic replacement of supernatural Catholic doctrine with a naturalistic, human-centered “spirituality” that is the hallmark of the post-1958 apostasy.



