Summary: A Call to Psychological Renewal Masquerading as Gospel
[Vatican News] reports that the antipope styling himself “Pope Leo XIV” delivered an Angelus reflection on the raising of Lazarus (John 11). The address frames the Gospel event as a universal symbol of personal liberation from “selfishness, materialism, violence and superficiality,” urging listeners to be “renewed by his grace, to walk in the light of love.” The message centers on an interior, individual transformation, omitting any reference to sin, judgment, the necessity of the sacraments, or the Social Kingship of Christ. It concludes with a plea for Mary’s help to live “these holy days” with faith, without mentioning the Mass, the Passion’s sacrificial nature, or the Church’s authority. The underlying thesis is that the modern man’s problem is psychological imprisonment, solved by a vague, interior “grace” that empowers moral effort.