Modernist “Pope” Reduces Lent to Naturalistic Spirituality

The Vatican News portal reports that “Pope” Leo XIV, in his Angelus address for the Third Sunday of Lent, reflected on the Gospel of the Samaritan woman, framing Jesus’ interaction as a model for “attentive service” and “authentic discipleship” focused on quenching “spiritual thirst” and transcending “us versus them” divisions. He quoted the non-Catholic Jewish author Etty Hillesum and emphasized the Samaritan woman as an “evangelizer,” concluding with a call to serve those “thirsting for truth and justice” through Mary’s intercession. This presentation systematically omits the supernatural, dogmatic, and hierarchical realities of the Catholic faith, reducing the Lenten journey to a vague, humanistic spirituality devoid of the necessity for sacramental grace, the dogma of the Catholic Church as the sole ark of salvation, and the divine judgment awaiting all souls.