Celestial Honors for a Usurper: The Neo-Church’s Cosmic Vanity
The EWTN News portal reports that the Vatican Observatory has named an asteroid “Gioacchinopecci” after the individual who occupied the Chair of Peter under the name Leo XIII, alongside asteroids named for other figures tied to the institution’s history. The article presents this as a celebration of the “Church’s” supposed harmony with science, quoting the 1891 motu proprio *Ut Mysticam* to suggest that the “Church” has always embraced “true and solid science.” The piece further notes that Leo XIII is the third “pope” to receive such an honor, following Gregory XIII and Benedict XVI, and that the observatory’s telescopes were relocated from Rome to Castel Gandolfo and eventually to Arizona due to light pollution. What the article conceals beneath its veneer of pious scientific celebration is the profound theological rot of a conciliar sect that dares to invoke the name of a true pontiff while systematically dismantling everything he defended.





