Robert Francis Prevost is Unable to See the Wreckage Produced by the Conciliar Revolution

For all of their commitment to the advancement of “novelty,” the conciliar revolutionaries, like most social revolutionaries, including the Commie Mayor of the City of New York, New York, Zohran “Feel the Warmth of Collectivism” Mamdani, keep saying the same old things repeatedly as though no one has ever heard their tired old cliches previously. It is as though, refusing to see the wreckage that their revolution against Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals has produced, they believe that all they must do to make their revolution a success is to keep saying that it has een successful.

It is in this regard that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s remarks in his General Audience address of Wednesday, January 7, 2026, reminds me of the sort of address delivered by the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to the 26^th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on February 23, 1981.

Thus, before wasting my good Catholic time reviewing Prevost/Leo’s address that commenced what he says will be an exegesis about the documents of the “Second” Vatican Council, let me provide you with a few excerpts from Brezhnev’s 1981 address to the CPSU that claimed great successes for the international prestige and for the Soviet economy just eleven years, ten months before the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on December 26, 1991:

Comrades, all these years the Party, its Central Committee and Political Bureau have devoted unremitting attention to strengthening friendship and cooperation with the other socialist countries.

Hand in hand with them we are building a new, socialist world, and a type of truly just, equal, and fraternal relations between states never seen in history before.

This, indeed, is the spirit in which our relations are shaping with the other countries of the socialist community—Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, the German Democratic Republic, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia.

A fundamental unity of views has taken root among us on all major aspects of social and economic development, and international affairs. This is a result of the continuous cooperation of fraternal communist parties, and our common achievement.

The fact that deep mutual understanding, trust, and accord exist between the leaderships of our parties is of great importance.

There have been thirty-seven friendly meetings at summit level in the Crimea during these years. Discarding the formalities of protocol, in a friendly atmosphere, we discussed the prospects of development of our relations and the key problems of world politics, and charted our future tasks. Each meeting yielded something new and useful. For this good cooperation we should like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the leaders of the fraternal countries and parties.

There was a systematic exchange of party and government delegations. Conferences of Central Committee secretaries on questions of international relations, and ideological and organisational Party work have become a regular fixture.

The Party organisations of the Soviet Union and those of the other countries of the socialist community are linked by many threads. They are linked at all levels from republics, territories and regions, down to districts and large enterprises. The cooperation between state bodies, public organisations, and production collectives has grown lively and fruitful.

Spiritual contacts, close links in the fields of ideology and culture have become standard practice.

Relations between states have been called international since olden days. But it is only in our time, in the socialist world that they have truly become relations between nations. Millions upon millions of people take an immediate part in them. That, comrades, is a fundamental gain of socialism, and its great service humanity.

The range of our cooperation extends to more and more spheres. One example is the Intercosmos programme. Cosmonauts of the fraternal countries are not working for science and the national economy alone. They are also performing a tremendously important political mission.

So allow me, from this rostrum, to extend cordial greetings to the space heroes, those brave sons of the socialist countries.

The constitutions of most fraternal countries emphasise the ideas of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. This is a token of deep confidence in our country, and we reciprocate in kind. The new Constitution of the USSR declares friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance with other socialist countries the cornerstone of Soviet foreign policy.

The period under review has convincingly shown the highly influential and beneficial effect of the activity of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, notably its Political Consultative Committee, on European affairs and, for that matter, on world affairs as a whole. Having earlier paved the way to the European Conference, the highest political body of our Treaty has at its sittings in Bucharest, Moscow, and Warsaw come forward with a number of new initiatives which attracted wide attention all over the world. Their main purpose is to defend

detente, to give it an energetic rhythm or, as they say, its second wind. (Leonid Brezhnev, Full text of "Documents and Resolutions. The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union".)

Change a few words here and there, my friends, and you could point to any speech praising the “progress” made by the “Second” Vatican Council in spite of the wreckage that is plain for those who have the slightest degree of intellectual honesty to recognize. Just as Leonid Brezhnev, who was only twenty months away from his death on November 10, 1982, when he delivered his remarks to the CPSU Congress, could not see the Soviet collapse (which is different than the Communist collapse as Communism never went away, especially in Red China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and right here in the United States of America) that was taking place around him, Robet Francis Prevost/Leo XIV cannot see his vaunted “Second” Vatican Council has failed Catholics and thus the world with which the conciliar sect has “reconciled” itself.

Thus, let me begin the doleful work of examining Prevost/Leo’s relatively brief remarks on January 7, 2026:

Brothers and Sisters, good morning and welcome! After the Jubilee Year, during which we reflected on the mysteries of the life of Jesus, we begin a new cycle of catecheses devoted to Vatican Council II and the rereading of its Documents. This is a valuable opportunity to rediscover the beauty and importance of this ecclesiastical event. St. John Paul II, at the end of the 2000 Jubilee, stated: «I feel more than ever obliged to point to the Council as the great grace from which the Church has benefited in the 20th century» (Apostolic Letter, 57). (Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses.)

Comment Number One:

Calling the “Second” Vatican a “great grace from which the Church has benefited in the 20^th Century” is very similar to Leonid Brezhnev praising socialism’s “great progress” just as Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement was shaking the Communist regime to such an extent that it would be just ten months later that Brezhnev ordered Walesa arrested by his Polish stooges and martial law imposed upon the country.

Permit me to do a thumbnail review of the “great grace” that Karol Jozef Wojtyla/John Paul II claimed for the “Second” Vatican Council.

1. The claim that dogmatic truth can be understood in different ways at different times as the vagaries of historical circumstances and the limits of human speech to express the meaning of dogma accurately require constant re-evaluation. This is nothing other than Modernism’s dogmatic evolutionism, the concept of which has been condemned by Pope Pius IX (Syllabus of Errors, December 8, 1864; Vatican Council, Session III: Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Chapter 4, On Faith and Reason, April 24, 1870; Pope Saint Pius X, Lamentabili Sane, July 1, 1907; Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8. 1907; Praestentia Scripturae, November 18, 1907, and The Oath Against Modernism, September 1, 1910, and by Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis, August 12, 1950.)
2. The belief that the Church of Christ “subsists” in the Catholic Church but is not limited to her. Contrary to the very Divine Constitution of the Church and condemned through her history, most recently by: the Vatican Council, Session IV, Dogmatic Constitution of the Church; Pope Leo XIII, Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae, June 29, 1894, Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896; Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)
3. The belief that Protestant and other non-Catholic Christian denominations have elements and truth and sanctification. Condemned as in number 2.
4. The belief that it is necessary to conduct inter-religious “dialogue” to effect that which is said to be “lacking,” namely, Christian unity. Heretical, condemned in the Syllabus of Errors, Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae, Satis Cogntium, and by Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1929.
5. The belief that “inter-religious prayer services” with non-Catholics is pleasing to God. Contrary to Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition and condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.
6. The belief the Judaism is a valid religion that enjoys the favor of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity, and that the Mosaic Covenant has never been abolished. Heretical, contrary to the words of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the consistent teaching of the Church Fathers and condemned by Pope Eugene IV and the Council of Florence in Cantate Domino, February 4, 1442, and most recently by Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)
7. The teaching that false religions have a “right from God” to propagate themselves and to be given ample public space to spread their errors in the name of “religious liberty.” Heretical. Contrary to the First Commandment and condemned consistently by our true popes since its spread in the late-Eighteenth Century. Among these condemnations have been: Pope Pius VI, Brief Quod aliquantum, March 10, 1791; Religious Liberty, a “Monstrous Right", Pope Pius VII, Post Tam Diuturnas; April 29, 1814, POST TAM DIUTURNAS, Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, August 15, 1832; Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus of Errors, and Quanta Cura, December 8, 1864; Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, and Libertas Praestantissimum, June 20, 1888; Pope Pius XII, Ci Riesce, December 6, 1953, who reiterated that error has no rights but that toleration, which had been discussed by Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum, is necessary in today’s world to advance the common good.
8. The belief in separation of church and state. Heretical. Condemned by Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, August 15, 1832; Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus of Errors, and Quanta Cura, December 8, 1864; Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, November 1, 1900, A Review of His Pontificate, March 19, 1902; Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906, Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907, and Iamdudum, May 24, 1911; Pope Benedict XVI, Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum. November 1, 1914; and Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio. December 23, 1922, Quas Primas, December 11, 1925, and Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.)
9. Episcopal collegiality. Contrary to the Divine Constitution of Holy Mother Church. The primacy of the Roman Pontiff was reiterated dogmatically in Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council, First Dogmatic Constitution of the Church of Christ, July 18, 1870.
10. The inversion of the ends of marriage and “natural family planning.” Contrary to Divine Revelation and the Natural Law and specifically condemned by Pope Pius XII on April 1, 1944, and in his Address to Italian Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951.)

Mind you, this is just a partial listing of all that believing Catholics have had to accept as the conciliar revolutionaries keep pushing the envelope, expanding the boundaries and moving the goalposts to get to the point that rank pantheism will be accepted as Catholicism. Most Catholics in the conciliar structures, however, have swallowed all the doctrinal rubbish, all the burning of incense to false idols in temples of false worship, all the elegies of praise in behalf of religious liberty and separation of Church and state, all the liturgical outrages and abominations, all the “papal” warnings about “global warming” and the need to protect the environment, all the “papal” sellouts to Red China, all the “papal” endorsements of “open borders” and socialism—in other words, everything—churned out by their counterfeit church of conciliarism—hook, line and sinker. As I wrote in 2009, they like it!

The conciliar sect’s liturgical revolution, which was designed to accustom Catholics within the conciliar structures to a regime of ceaseless liturgical change as a means to convince them that doctrine and pastoral practice can change just as easily, has decimated belief in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament as a dogmatic matter even though He is not really present in Novus Ordo churches and reduced weekly attendance at what purports to be Holy Mass to near record level lows.

The conciliar revolution against the Catholic Faith has had similar effects by alienating millions upon millions of Catholics from the any semblance of Catholicism and into the waiting arms of Protestant “evangelicals” or “fundamentalists,” especially in Latin America, or into becoming rank unbelievers living accord to worldly and carnal desires. Baptized Catholics who are deprived of true Catholic doctrine and starved of the supernatural nourishment offered them in the true Sacraments become ready prey for the devil and his minions, who do indeed prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

One formerly Catholic country after another in Europe has long ago endorsed almost a panoply of moral evils while embracing materialistic socialism, if not outright Marxism-Leninism, as the conciliar “popes” have celebrated that mythic “civilization of love” and, especially under Jorge Mario Bergoglio, have seen their pro-abort, pro-sodomite, anti-family, anti-freedom globalist leaders indemnified by the conciliar Vatican and its nuncios at almost every turn.

Flushed down the Orwellian memory hole, therefore, are the prophetic words of Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910, and of Pope Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:

And now, overwhelmed with the deepest sadness, We ask Ourselves, Venerable Brethren, what has become of the Catholicism of the Sillon? Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)

This is the “great grace” of the Twentieth Century?

I continue now with Prevost/Leo’s January 7, 2026, remarks:

Along with the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, in 2025 we recalled the 60th  anniversary of Vatican Council II. Although time that separates us from this event is not a lot, it is also true that the generation of Bishops, theologians and believers of Vatican II today are gone. Therefore, while we feel the call not to extinguish the prophecy and continue to search for paths and ways to implement the intuitions, it will be important to get to know it again closely, and to do so not through «hearsay» or interpretations that have been given, but by rereading its Documents and reflecting upon their content. In fact, it’s about the Magisterium which still constitutes today the polar star of the Church’s path. As Benedict XVI taught, «the Conciliar Documents have not lost their relevance over the years; on the contrary, their teachings reveal themselves particularly relevant given the new instances of the Church and of today’s globalized society” (First Message after the Mass with the Cardinal Electors, April  20, 2005). (Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses.)

Comment Number Two:

Relevance to whom?

No one has to rely upon “hearsay” to look, for example, at Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, to understand that its statement that the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church but is not coextensive with her is heretical.

Joseph Alois Ratzinger worked with a Lutheran “observer” at the “Second” Vatican Council to devise the heretical statement that the “Church of Christ subsists within the Catholic Church” that became the linchpin of Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, and thus of the counterfeit church of conciliarism’s “new ecclesiology.”

This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity. (Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964.)

Despite all of the efforts made by defenders of all things conciliar to try to explain how the passage from Lumen Gentium above was not a contradiction of Pope Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis, it is nevertheless the case that Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s “new ecclesiology” of “full communion” and “partial communion” received its official sanction in Lumen Gentium. The seeds were thus planted for a wider and more “generous” application of the “new ecclesiology that Ratzinger himself defended in an interview with the Frankfort Allgemeine newspaper on September 22, 2000, forty-seven days after the issuance of Dominus Iesus on August 6, 2000, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Indeed, the then “Cardinal” Ratzinger boasted that Lumen Gentium recognized that there were other “churches” outside of the Catholic Church:

Q. On the other hand, Eberhard Jüngel sees something different there. The fact that in its time the Second Vatican Council did not state that the one and only Church of Christ is exclusively the Roman Catholic Church perplexes Jüngel. In the Constitution Lumen gentium, it says only that the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him", not expressing any exclusivity with the Latin word "subsistit".

A. Unfortunately once again I cannot follow the reasoning of my esteemed colleague, Jüngel. I was there at the Second Vatican Council when the term "subsistit" was chosen and I can say I know it well. Regrettably one cannot go into details in an interview. In his Encyclical Pius XII said: the Roman Catholic Church "is" the one Church of Jesus Christ. This seems to express a complete identity, which is why there was no Church outside the Catholic community. However, this is not the case: according to Catholic teaching, which Pius XII obviously also shared, the local Churches of the Eastern Church separated from Rome are authentic local Churches; the communities that sprang from the Reformation are constituted differently, as I just said. In these the Church exists at the moment when the event takes place. . .

Q. In short, why cannot the "otherness" of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be compared to the diversity of ecclesial communities? Is Jüngel's not a fascinating and harmonious formula?

A. Among the ecclesial communities there are many disagreements, and what disagreements! The three "persons" constitute one God in an authentic and supreme unity. When the Council Fathers replaced the word "is" with the word "subsistit", they did so for a very precise reason. The concept expressed by "is" (to be) is far broader than that expressed by "to subsist". "To subsist" is a very precise way of being, that is, to be as a subject which exists in itself. Thus the Council Fathers meant to say that the being of the Church as such is a broader entity than the Roman Catholic Church, but within the latter it acquires, in an incomparable way, the character of a true and proper subject.  (Answers to Main Objections Against Dominus Iesus.) 

One can see that the then “Cardinal” Ratzinger had explained the Latin word subsistit had been chosen at the “Second” Vatican Council precisely because it signified that the “Church of Christ” was an entity larger than the Catholic Church herself.

Ratzinger was so bold as to project this heretical belief upon Pope Pius XII, who did not believe that the Eastern Orthodox churches were part of the one Church of Christ that is the Catholic Church, implying that there was a possibility that Papa Pacelli had gotten it wrong, that he might not have agreed with what Ratzinger contended was the “Catholic teaching” contained in Lumen Gentium. He even went so far as to assert that Protestant sects became part of the “Church of Christ” at the moment, which he called “the event,” of their being founded by this or that heretic. That is not what Pope Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943:

Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. "For in one spirit" says the Apostle, "were we all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free." As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith. And therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered - so the Lord commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)

By abandoning this truth of the Catholic Faith, the bishops at the “Second” Vatican Council, led by the soon-to-be “beatified” Giovanni Battista Montini/Paul the Sick showed themselves to have defected from the Catholic Faith. This one defection, among so many others, of course, this one “drop of poison” is a denial of the Divine Constitution of Holy Mother Church, which in and of itself resulted inevitably in the belief that the Church founded by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has something to “learn” from “other religions.” Once one believes such a lie, however, it is easy to come to the specious conclusion that one can find “elements of true love” in the lives of those who are persisting in what are, objectively speaking, Mortal Sins that could, if not confessed before death, lead to eternal damnation and already consign them to lives destined to strike out at anyone who dares to perform the Spiritual Works of Mercy by admonishing them to reform their lives lest they perish in flames of Hell for all eternity.

The “Second” Vatican Council’s false ecumenism is based in a rejection of what the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict disparagingly dismissed as the the “ecumenism of the return”:

We all know there are numerous models of unity and you know that the Catholic Church also has as her goal the full visible unity of the disciples of Christ, as defined by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council in its various Documents (cf. Lumen Gentium, nn. 8, 13; Unitatis Redintegratio, nn. 2, 4, etc.). This unity, we are convinced, indeed subsists in the Catholic Church, without the possibility of ever being lost (cf. Unitatis Redintegratio, n. 4); the Church in fact has not totally disappeared from the world.

On the other hand, this unity does not mean what could be called ecumenism of the return:  that is, to deny and to reject one's own faith history. Absolutely not!

It does not mean uniformity in all expressions of theology and spirituality, in liturgical forms and in discipline. Unity in multiplicity, and multiplicity in unity:  in my Homily for the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul on 29 June last, I insisted that full unity and true catholicity in the original sense of the word go together. As a necessary condition for the achievement of this coexistence, the commitment to unity must be constantly purified and renewed; it must constantly grow and mature. (Ecumenical meeting at the Archbishopric of Cologne English) 

Here is what our true popes have written on the matter of the "ecumenism of the return:"

"It is therefore by force of the right of Our supreme Apostolic ministry, entrusted to us by the same Christ the Lord, which, having to carry out with [supreme] participation all the duties of the good Shepherd and to follow and embrace with paternal love all the men of the world, we send this Letter of Ours to all the Christians from whom We are separated, with which we exhort them warmly and beseech them with insistence to hasten to return to the one fold of Christ; we desire in fact from the depths of the heart their salvation in Christ Jesus, and we fear having to render an account one day to Him, Our Judge, if, through some possibility, we have not pointed out and prepared the way for them to attain eternal salvation. In all Our prayers and supplications, with thankfulness, day and night we never omit to ask for them, with humble insistence, from the eternal Shepherd of souls the abundance of goods and heavenly graces. And since, if also, we fulfill in the earth the office of vicar, with all our heart we await with open arms the return of the wayward sons to the Catholic Church, in order to receive them with infinite fondness into the house of the Heavenly Father and to enrich them with its inexhaustible treasures. By our greatest wish for the return to the truth and the communion with the Catholic Church, upon which depends not only the salvation of all of them, but above all also of the whole Christian society: the entire world in fact cannot enjoy true peace if it is not of one fold and one shepherd." (Pope Pius IX, Iam Vos Omnes, September 13, 1868.)

So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it. During the lapse of centuries, the mystical Spouse of Christ has never been contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be contaminated, as Cyprian bears witness: "The Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse: she is incorrupt and modest. She knows but one dwelling, she guards the sanctity of the nuptial chamber chastely and modestly." The same holy Martyr with good reason marveled exceedingly that anyone could believe that "this unity in the Church which arises from a divine foundation, and which is knit together by heavenly sacraments, could be rent and torn asunder by the force of contrary wills." For since the mystical body of Christ, in the same manner as His physical body, is one, compacted and fitly joined together, it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head. (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

Who is Catholic here?

"Pope" Benedict XVI or Popes Pius IX and Pius XI?

No, we not need “hearsay” as the robber council’s documents themselves along with the words of the conciliar “popes” have created a “new” church with a “new ecclesiology” and a “new liturgy” that has nothing to do with the Catholic Church, she who is the spotless, virginal spouse of her Divine Founder, Invisible Head, and Mystical Bridegroom, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is so blind to the reality of what the “Second” Vatican Council has wrought that he praised Angelo Roncalli’s opening address to the council on October 11, 1962, the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as a bringing the “dawn of a new day of light for the Catholic Church:

When Pope St. John XXIII opened the Conciliar Assembly, on October 11, 1962, he spoke of it as the dawn of a day of light for the whole Church. The work of the numerous Fathers summoned, coming from the Churches of all the continents, in effect paving the way for a new ecclesial era. After a rich biblical, theological and liturgical reflection that had traversed the 20th century, Vatican Council II rediscovered the face of God as Father who, in Christ, calls us to be His children; looked upon the Church in the light of Christ, the light of men, as the mystery of communion and the sacrament of unity between God and His people; initiated an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the whole People of God. (Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses.)

Comment Number Three:

Angelo Roncalli’s council represented the eclipse of the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s Holy Church by daring to assert that errors just fade away on their own, thus dismissing the work of the Fathers, Doctors, martyrs, and confessors to oppose error courageously and without compromise:

In these days, which mark the beginning of this Second Vatican Council, it is more obvious than ever before that the Lord’s truth is indeed eternal. Human ideologies change. Successive generations give rise to varying errors, and these often vanish as quickly as they came, like mist before the sun.

The Church has always opposed these errors, and often condemned them with the utmost severity. Today, however, Christ’s Bride prefers the balm of mercy to the arm of severity. She believes that, present needs are best served by explaining more fully the purport of her doctrines, rather than by publishing condemnations.

Contemporary Repudiation Of Godlessness

Not that the need to repudiate and guard against erroneous teaching and dangerous ideologies is less today than formerly. But all such error is so manifestly contrary to rightness and goodness, and produces such fatal results, that our contemporaries show every inclination to condemn it of their own accord—especially that way of life which repudiates God and His law, and which places excessive confidence in technical progress and an exclusively material prosperity. It is more and more widely understood that personal dignity and true self-realization are of vital importance and worth every effort to achieve. More important still, experience has at long last taught men that physical violence, armed might, and political domination are no help at all in providing a happy solution to the serious problems which affect them.

A Loving Mother

The great desire, therefore, of the Catholic Church in raising aloft at this Council the torch of truth, is to show herself to the world as the loving mother of all mankind; gentle, patient, and full of tenderness and sympathy for her separated children. To the human race oppressed by so many difficulties, she says what Peter once said to the poor man who begged an alms: “Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, that I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk.” In other words it is not corruptible wealth, nor the promise of earthly happiness, that the Church offers the world today, but the gifts of divine grace which, since they raise men up to the dignity of being sons of God, are powerful assistance and support for the living of a more fully human life. She unseals the fountains of her life-giving doctrine, so that men, illumined by the light of Christ, will understand their true nature and dignity and purpose. Everywhere, through her children, she extends the frontiers of Christian love, the most powerful means of eradicating the seeds of discord, the most effective means of promoting concord, peace with justice, and universal brotherhood. (Angelo Roncalli/ John XXIII ‘s Opening Address

Errors just sort of vanish away?

Go tell that to the Mother of God, who gave Saint Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Order of Preachers of which Father Michele Ghislieri, the future Pope Saint Pius V, was a member, her Most Holy Rosary to fight the heresy of Albigensianism, which simply didn’t go away on its own.

One of the first bishops consecrated personally by Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII was Father Albino Luciani, the future “John Paul I,” on December 27, 1958, less than two months after his, Roncalli/John XXIII’s “election.” Is it any accident that Father Luciani had a view of error that was almost identical to that of Roncalli?

John Paul I is often portrayed as a humble, saintly prelate of the Church. His doctrinal stand was very questionable as evidenced by his pastoral letter of 1967 in which he advised his clergy to “see, if instead of uprooting and throwing down [error], it might be possible to trim and prune it patiently, bringing to light the core of goodness and truth which is not often lacking even in erroneous opinions” [Reference 839: Our Sunday Visitor, September 28, 2003, “Celebrating the Smiling Pope,” by Lori Pieper.] This is like a doctor telling his patient: “I won’t take out all the cancer; it might be good for you. (Fathers Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI, Tumultuous Times, p. 530.)

For example, Pope Saint Pius V understood that the heresies of Protestantism were not going to away on their own. They had to be opposed. The children of Holy Mother Church had to be protected from the infection of error. He issued the Roman Missal that bears his name to standardize the offerings of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition around the world, exempting those dioceses (and religious communities) that could prove local usage older than two hundred years, thus preserving the Catholic spirit in the offering of Holy Mass that had begun to be compromised, especially in Germany, as unauthorized innovators sought to accommodate the Mass to appeal to the Catholics who had defected to Protestantism.

No, the “Second” Vatican Council brought the descent of darkness from hell itself upon into lives of unsuspecting Catholics, and to assert, as Prevost/Leo did on January 7, 2026, that this horrible council “rediscovered the face of God as Father who, in Christ, calls us to be His children” is to imply that the Catholic Church had lost the face of God as Father who, in Christ, calls us to be His children” sometime between the pontificates of Saint Peter and Pope Pius XII. This is blasphemy against the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, Who always guided Holy Mother Church infallibly throughout the ages without a shadow of contradiction.

Moreover, to praise the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical travesty for placing ”at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the whole People of God” is to claim that all of Holy Mother’s canonized saints who either offered or assisted at the Immemorial Mass of Tradition throughout the centuries did not participate” interiorly with all their mind, heart, body, soul, and strength during ineffable Sacrifice of the Cross as it was perpetuated in an unbloody manner on altars of sacrifice. “The People of God” is not at the center of the mystery” of the Holy Mass; God is, which is why the priest in the Mass of Tradition address God (“Introibo ad altare Dei) and not the people, as in the case in the conciliar liturgy. (For a fuller discussion of this point please see G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship and such articles as Michael Martin's Boilerplate Liturgical Revolutionary Claptrap.)

We come next to Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s praise of the “Second” Vatican Council’s “opening to the world”:

At the same time, it has helped us to open ourselves to the world and to welcome the changes and challenges of the modern era, in dialogue and co-responsibility, as a Church that wishes to open her arms to humanity, to echo the hopes and anxieties of the peoples, and to collaborate in the construction of a more just and fraternal society.  Thanks to Vatican Council II, «the Church becomes word; the Church becomes message; the Church becomes conversation» (St. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam, 34), committing herself to seek the truth through the path of ecumenism, of inter-religious dialogue and of dialogue with people of good will. (Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses.)

Comment Number Four:

I turn to Pope Leo XIII for a refutation of this “openness” to a world that has embraced all manner of moral evils under the cover of the civil law, a world where open atheism has become more common than ever before in history, a world where sins of all kinds are celebrated openly and propagated widely:

6. We do not wish to exaggerate the masonic power by attributing to its direct and immediate action all the evils which presently preoccupy Us. However, you can clearly see its spirit in the facts which We have just recorded and in many others which We could recall. That spirit, which is the implacable enemy of Christ and of the Church, tries all ways, uses all arts, and prevails upon all means. It seizes from the Church its first-born daughter and seizes from Christ His favored nation, the seat of His Vicar on earth and the center of Catholic unity. To see the evil and efficacious influence of this spirit on our affairs, We have more than a few fleeting indications and the series of facts which have succeeded themselves for thirty years. Proud of its successes, the sect herself has spoken out and told us all its past accomplishments and future goals. It regards the public powers as its instruments, witting or not, which is to say that the impious sect boasts as one of its principal works the religious persecution which has troubled and is troubling our Italy. Though often executed by other hands, this persecution is inspired and promoted by masonry, in an immediate or mediate, direct or indirect manner, by flattery or threats, seduction or revolution.

7. The road is very short from religious to social ruin. The heart of man is no longer raised to heavenly hopes and loves; capable and needing the infinite, it throws itself insatiably on the goods of this earth. Inevitably there is a perpetual struggle of avid passions to enjoy, become rich, and rise. Then we encounter a large and inexhaustible source of grudges, discords, corruptions, and crimes. In our Italy there was no lack of moral and social disorders before the present events — but what a sorrowful spectacle we see in our days! That loving respect which forms domestic harmony is substantially diminished; paternal authority is too often unrecognized by children and parents alike. Disagreements are frequent, divorce common. Civil discords and resentful anger between the various orders increase every day in the cities. New generations which grew up in a spirit of misunderstood freedom are unleashed in the cities, generations which do not respect anything from above or below. The cities teem with incitements to vice, precocious crimes, and public scandals. The state should be content with the high and noble office of recognizing, protecting, and helping divine and human rights in their harmonious universality. Now, however, the state believes itself almost a judge and disowns these rights or restricts them at will. Finally, the general social order is undermined at its foundations. Books and journals, schools and universities, clubs and theaters, monuments and political discourse, photographs and the fine arts, everything conspires to pervert minds and corrupt hearts. Meanwhile the oppressed and suffering people tremble and the anarchic sects arouse themselves. The working classes raise their heads and go to swell the ranks of socialism, communism, and anarchy. Characters exhaust themselves and many souls, no longer knowing how to suffer nobly nor how to redeem themselves manfully, take their lives with cowardly suicide.

8. Such are the fruits which the masonic sect has borne to us Italians. And after that it yearns to come before you, extolling its merits towards Italy. It likewise yearns to give Us and all those who, heeding Our words, remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the calumnious title of enemies of the state. The facts reveal the merits of this guilty sect toward our peninsula, “merits” which bear repeating. The facts say that masonic patriotism is no less than sectarian egotism which yearns to dominate everything, particularly the modern states which unite and concentrate everything in their hands. The facts say that in the plans of masonry, the names of political independence, equality, civilization, and progress aimed to facilitate the independence of man from God in our country. From them, license of error and vice and union of faction at the expense of other citizens have grown. The easy and delicious enjoyment of life by the world’s fortunate is nurtured in the same source. A people redeemed by divine blood have thus returned to divisions, corruptions, and the shames of paganism. (Pope Leo XIII, Custodi di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892.)

The license of error and union of faction have indeed grown while men and their nations have become characterized by the sorts of divisions and corruptions that demagogues have sought such to exploit and to use as justification for the suppression of dissent while totalitarianism is imposed in the name of “saving” the demigod of democracy.

Quite unlike the conciliar “popes,” who have preached “solidarity” with the merchants of error and have treated false religions with respect and familiarity, Pope Leo XIII warned the Catholics of Italy to avoid precisely what the conciliar revolutionaries have endorsed and practiced with ready abandon:

15. Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

16. Every Christian should shun books and journals which distill the poison of impiety and which stir up the fire of unrestrained desires or sensual passions. Groups and reading clubs where the masonic spirit stalks its prey should be likewise shunned. (Pope Leo XIII, Custodi di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892.)

This is one of the best proofs that the counterfeit church of conciliarism cannot be the Catholic Church as it has made its peace with the precepts of the revolution and have indeed sought to “reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the State without God.”

”Leo XIV,” please take note.

To the final part of Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIII’s January 7, 2026, general audience address:

This spirit, this inner attitude, should characterize our spiritual life and the pastoral action of the Church, for we must still carry out more fully the ecclesiastical reform in a ministerial key and, in face of today’s challenges, we are called to continue being attentive interpreters of the signs of the times, joyful heralds of the Gospel, courageous witnesses of justice and peace. Monsignor Albino Luciani, future Pope John Paul I, as Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, at the beginning of the Council wrote prophetically: «There is as always the need to create not so much organisms or methods or structures, but deeper and more extensive holiness. [cf. A. Luciani – Giovanni Paolo I, Notes on the Council, in Omnia Opera, Vol. II, Vittorio Veneto 1959-1962. Speeches, Writings, Articles, Padua 1988, 451-453]. Rediscovering the Council, therefore, as Pope Francis affirmed, helps us to «give back the primacy to God, to the essential, to a Church that is madly in love with her Lord and with all the people He loves” (Homily on the 60th Anniversary of the start of Vatican Council II, October 11, 2022).

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Brothers and sisters, what St. Paul VI said to the Conciliar Fathers at the end of these works, remains also for us, today, a criterion of guidance; the affirmation that the time had come to go out, to leave the Conciliar Assembly to go to the encounter of humanity and bring it the Good News of the Gospel, in the consciousness of having lived a time of grace in which past, present and future were condensed. “The past, because the Church of Christ is gathered here, with her Tradition, her history, her Councils, with her Doctors, her Saints. The present, because we separate ourselves to go out to the world of today, with its miseries, its pains, its sins, but also with its prodigious successes, its values . . . The future is there, finally, in the imperative call of the people for greater justice, their will for peace, their thirst, consciously or unconsciously, for a higher life: which, precisely, the Church of Christ can and wants to give them» (St. Paul VI, Message to the Conciliar Fathers, December 8, 1965).

The same is true for us. Approaching the Documents of Vatican Council II and rediscovering the prophecy and the present, we welcome the rich Tradition of the life of the Church and, at the same time, we question ourselves about the present and renew the joy of running to encounter the world to bring it the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Love, of Justice and of Peace. (Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses.)

Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul VI was very much influenced by the “optimism” that prevailed in the socialist circles in which he traveled, especially as the Archbishop of Milan, and thus his belief that the Catholic Church was to be the servant of “Man” in a world at war with Christ the King underscored the falsity of the entire conciliar enterprise.

As had Pope Pius XI in his first encyclical letter, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922, Pope Pius XII used his last encyclical letter, Meminisse Iuvat, July 14, 1958, to explain that the world needs to be reconciled to Catholicism, not Catholicism with the world:

4. If we weigh carefully the causes of today’s crises and those that are ahead, we shall soon find that human plans, human resources, and human endeavors are futile and will fail when Almighty God — He who enlightens, commands, and forbids; He who is the source and guarantor of justice, the fountainhead of truth, the basis of all laws — is esteemed but little, denied His proper place, or even completely disregarded. If a house is not built on a solid and sure foundation, it tumbles down; if a mind is not enlightened by the divine light, it strays more or less from the whole truth; if citizens, peoples, and nations are not animated by brotherly love, strife is born, waxes strong, and reaches full growth.

5. It is Christianity, above all others, which teaches the full truth, real justice, and that divine charity which drives away hatred, ill will, and enmity. Christianity has been given charge of these virtues by the Divine Redeemer, who is the way, the truth, and the life,[2] and she must do all in her power to put them to use. Anyone, therefore, who knowingly ignores Christianity — the Catholic Church — or tries to hinder, demean, or undo her, either weakens thereby the very bases of society, or tries to replace them with props not strong enough to support the edifice of human worth, freedom, and well-being.

6. There must, then, be a return to Christian principles if we are to establish a society that is strong, just, and equitable. It is a harmful and reckless policy to do battle with Christianity, for God guarantees, and history testifies, that she shall exist forever. Everyone should realize that a nation cannot be well organized or well ordered without religion. (Pope Pius XII, Meminisse Iuvat, July 14, 1958.)

As noted at the beginning of this commentary, the inability of men such as Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV to see the wreckage of the conciliar revolution has much in common with the late Leonid Brezhnev’s inability to see that the socialist enterprise was collapsing in Eastern Europe just as today’s socialists in the West refuse to learn the lessons of the past.

The counterfeit church of conciliarism is not the Catholic Church.

May the Rosaries we pray every help more and more Catholics to see the truth of our ecclesiastical situation in this time of apostasy and betrayal so that, fortified by the reception of the true Sacraments and nourished by immutable teaching of Holy Mother Church, we may be united in prayer for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter and thus of right order in vorh Church and State.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, pray for us.