The VaticanNews portal (December 19, 2025) features Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) introducing a new edition of Brother Lawrence’s “The Practice of the Presence of God”, published by the conciliar sect’s publishing house. The antipope claims this 17th-century text profoundly shaped his spirituality, praising its emphasis on “continually calling God to mind” through “small acts of praise” and a “personal relationship” with God. He compares Brother Lawrence’s approach to St. Teresa of Ávila’s alleged “God of the pots and pans,” asserting this path is “accessible to all” and overcomes “every moralism.” The entire commentary reduces the supernatural life to subjective sentimentality, exemplifying the neo-modernist corrosion of Catholic asceticism.