Naturalistic ‘Mission’ Denies Christ’s Kingship and the Church’s Exclusivity

Vatican News reports that the antipope known as “Leo XIV” delivered a homily at the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, 2026, in which he invited priests, bishops, and “all Christians” to “spread the fragrance of Christ where the stench of death reigns.” The homily centers on three aspects of the “Christian mission”: detachment, encounter, and the possibility of misunderstanding and rejection. It emphasizes naturalistic themes of reconciliation with the past, “quiet, unobtrusive approaches,” “dialogue and respect,” and learning “to communicate the Gospel… effectively” in secularized contexts. The speech is a masterclass in the modernist language of ambiguity, completely omitting the supernatural foundations of the Catholic mission: the exclusive necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments as the sole means of grace, the social reign of Christ the King, and the absolute duty of every state and society to publicly recognize and obey the Catholic faith. This is not a homily for Catholic priests; it is a manifesto for the conciliar sect’s apostasy, reducing the redemptive work of Christ to a vague, humanistic “fragrance” spread through natural means of dialogue and service.