LEO BLESSES HINDUS, DENIES PRAYER TO HOLY SOULS

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Getting in first (before the popesplainers): as things now stand in the postconciliar Vatican, yes, it's entirely possible that 'Pope Leo XIV', recuperating after lung surgery, didn't know that the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (DID)  on Friday published a special message to Hindus ahead of their Diwali holiday next week, stressing the Vatican’s commitment to peace “in the spirit of Assisi.”

The Vatican extended its ‘warmest prayerful and festive wishes’ to Hindus on Diwali while suggesting the ‘spirit of Assisi’ could help Christians and Hindus ‘forge pathways of peace’ together. 

But while Indians celebrate their false Hindu religion of Diwali this week, the one true Church (as distinct from the postconciliar cult installed in the Vatican) remembers and prays for the dead. The Holy Souls in Purgatory - including the people we loved so much during their time on earth - endure terrible suffering and depend on our prayers and God's mercy for their release into Heaven. 

However, all that a cursory internet search for Rome's reminders to pray for the dead on the Feast of All Souls was one tepid, anodyne post on Twitter from the (compromised) EWTN Vatican:    

@EWTNVatican

EWTN Vatican

·On the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), the Church remembers and prays for all those who have died, entrusting the souls of the faithful departed

to the loving mercy of God. May they be purified and welcomed into the joy of eternal life.

There. Done. Another liturgical box duly ticked.

In the pre-Vatican II rite, things were very different. Then, on All Souls' Day, priests were expected to say three Masses: one to the Blessed Virgin; one to the Holy Spirit, and one for the faithful departed.

Well, New Zealand celebrated All Souls yesterday. Not likely to have done it by attending Holy Mass: it was Monday, Priests' Day Off. The Catholic Bishops' National Liturgy Office came up with a statement from 2023. And a 2020 quote from 'Pope Francis' which is hardly  a prayer even:"Today, in the thought of so many brothers and sisters who have died, it will do us good to look up." 

So in tune with the Spirit of Vatican II, is it not? Look up, because the brothers and sisters who have died are all in heaven. 

And it's suitably illustrated by the quintessential salon painter of his generation, William Bouguereau, in "In Paradiso". A painting not of souls in torment in Purgatory longing for Catholic suffrage to get them out, but of a soul borne by angels heavenwards, where the false Synodal counterfeit religion would have us believe we're all going anyway, no matter what. Because remember, Protestants find the idea of Purgatory distasteful. So commemoration of its inhabitants is not helpful to the cause of the One World Church.

In Paradisum. William Adolphe Bouguereau

Yesterday, a reader of this blog made her way to an historic graveyard near her home. Unlike Christmas and Easter, which we Antipodeans necessarily celebrate in inappropriate weather and temperatures, the feast ofAll Souls coincides with the English writer H E Bates' "darling buds of May".  In the dappled shade of big trees, old roses and wild flowers were at the height of loveliness as our reader walked among them slowly, praying the Rosary for the dead distractedly, but as devoutly as she could.

Because from November 1 ^to 8 inclusive the faithful can obtain a plenary indulgence applicable to the deceased every day, by devoutly visiting a cemetery and praying for them.

As an incentive to piety she reminded herself of the Catholic teaching that praying for the Church Suffering means these souls pray for us who still labour in the Church Militant (which surely needs prayer now as never before).

"If only you knew with what great longing these holy souls yearn for relief from their suffering. Ingratitude has never entered Heaven." – St. Margaret Mary

Pray for the Holy Souls. DAILY.

Is that Cardinal Tucho Fernandez we see with Leo at the All Souls' Day Mass? 

And another thing: are any 'good Catholics' in the pews of Novus Ordo churches still fretting over the fires of hell or purgatory? Soothed as they are by funeral homilies and eulogies assuring them that the deceased loved one is in heaven already, probably not. 

But any still entertaining pre-Vatican scruples about fire and brimstone can now relax. On the feast of All Souls their Holy Father Pope Leo XIV spoke of the “promise of salvation” made in Scripture which, he said, assures us that “no torment shall ever touch” the souls of the just. 

There are two things wrong with that duplicitous statement. First, Novus Ordo Massgoers are generally poorly catechised and ignorant of Church teaching and easily hornswaggled into believing that they are already 'the just' and in no need of improvement in Purgatory. 

Second, that Scriptural quote is misleading. The  Douay Rheims translation has, instead, "But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them"(Wis 3,1).

That is, the souls of the just shall not be touched by the torment of death of the soul (mortal sin) and its consequence, when unconfessed and unrepented, of Hell. That scriptural verse refers to 'the just' as those who die in the state of grace. 

But very few of 'the just' can be admitted immediately to Heaven without the purifying torment of Purgatory, where their only consolation is the knowledge that they will see God, and their only help is our prayers.

By omitting the two words 'of death' (Hell), Robert Prevost aka Pope Leo XIV denies the Church Suffering of prayers for their release. To be fair, in his All Souls Day Mass homily he included the “beatitude” added by St. Francis of Assisi to his Canticle of the Creatures: “Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, / from whom no living person can escape. / Woe to those who die in mortal sin; / blessed are those whom she finds doing Your most holy will, / for the second death shall do them no harm.”

But would many Novus Ordo Massgoers recognise  mortal sin if it stood up on its hind legs? 

From Pax Orbis:

Every year, the first 8 days of November offer Catholics a special opportunity to exercise charity towards the deceased. 

Through prayer and certain works performed under the conditions laid down by the Church, the faithful may obtain plenary indulgences applicable to souls in purgatory. An ancient practice whose meaning and provisions it is good to recall.

The feast of All Saints, celebrated on November 1, is followed the next day by the commemoration of all the faithful deceased. After honoring the saints who enjoy the glory of Heaven, the Church invites her children to turn to the souls who are still waiting to enter it, in order to come to their aid with their prayers, sacrifices and indulgences.

Death does not end the bonds of charity that unite the members of the Church. Those who have died in the grace of God, but have not fully expiated the consequences of their sins, must complete their purification in purgatory before they can attain eternal bliss. 

Assured of their salvation, these souls can no longer do anything to shorten their sufferings themselves, while the faithful who remain on earth have the power to help them.

What is an indulgence?

Indulgence is the remittance, before God, of the temporal punishment due to sins whose sin has already been forgiven. It does not, therefore, replace the sacrament of penance and does not grant forgiveness of sins, but an indulgence allows for the remission of penalties that remain to be expiated after their absolution.

To grant this remission, the Church draws from her spiritual treasure, made up of the superabundant merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints.

There are two kinds of indulgences. The plenary indulgence remits the entire temporal punishment due to sins, so that a soul that dies after having obtained it, without having contracted a new debt to divine justice, would enter directly into Heaven. Partial indulgence, on the other hand, only restores a part of it.

By granting these indulgences, the Church comes to the aid of human weakness, which makes it so difficult to make complete atonement for sins during earthly life. In this way, she encouraged works of piety and charity, while recalling the need to satisfy divine justice.

This mercy can also benefit the deceased, to whom the faithful can apply indulgences by way of suffrage. For this reason, at the beginning of November, the Church is planning several opportunities to obtain a plenary indulgence in favor of the souls in purgatory.

How do I get an indulgence for the deceased?

On November 2, the day of the commemoration of the faithful departed, a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in purgatory can be obtained by devoutly visiting a church or oratory and reciting the Our Father and an I believe in God, subject to the usual conditions.

From November 1^to 8 inclusive, the faithful can also obtain a plenary indulgence applicable to the deceased every day by devoutly visiting a cemetery and praying for them, even mentally. This prayer is free: no particular formula is imposed.

In both cases, the performance of the prescribed work must be accompanied by the general provisions required by the Church:

1. To be in a state of grace and to perform the prescribed work.
2. To go to confession in the days before or after the work.1
3. Receive Holy Communion.
4. Pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff, for example by reciting the Our Father and a Hail Mary.
5. To be detached from any affection for sin, even venial sin.

This last condition deserves special attention, because it is not enough to perform the prescribed works materially to obtain a plenary indulgence. If the detachment from all affection to sin is lacking, the indulgence obtained is only partial.

The same sacramental confession may be used to obtain several plenary indulgences, while communion and prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff are required for each of them.

An act of charity within everyone's reach

The visit to a cemetery, often carried out out of family fidelity, thus takes on a supernatural dimension when it is accompanied by prayer and the provisions requested by the Church. It is no longer just a question of keeping alive the memory of those who have left us, but of bringing them real help, by contributing to their deliverance from the pains of purgatory.

These first days of November are therefore an invitation not to forget the deceased, especially the most abandoned souls, for whom no one prays anymore. And if we have the power today to help them, tomorrow we may need the prayers of those who will survive us.From November 1 to 8, indulgences for souls in purgatory | SSPX News

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LEO'S PEACE WITHOUT CHRIST AT BILL GATES' ASSISI

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 Catholics all over the world - and the Catholic Church herself - are evidently now in the hands of either a madman or a badman. 

Is there any Catholic who can still seriously believe the so-called Pope Leo XIV to be Vicar of Christ and head of the Mystical Body of Christ?

John Paul II's heretical Assisi meeting in 1984 baptised Vatican II’s errors on false ecumenism and religious indifferentism. That outing deserved obliteration rather than commemoration, but at "Assisi at 40", Leo never once mentioned the name of his Lord, Master and Judge, Jesus Christ. Making the meaningless assertion that "Faith can be embodied in all cultures", instead he embraced the heresy of religious indifferentism.

 

One of the partners in this update on Assisi 1984 was Soka Gakkai, a Japanese neo-Buddhist religious movement that is explicitly non-Christian. Historically, it has practised aggressive conversion methods (*shakubuku*) and has criticized Christianity as a “false” or inferior religion.

Are we surprised then, that the major sponsor of this doubled-down scandal is the diabolical narcissist Bill Gates? Or are we even surprised to learn that very likely, a deal was struck by conservative cardinals before the 2025 conclave which elected such a man as Robert Prevost to the See of Peter? A deal in favour of Prevost over Parolin which was supposed to ensure continuation of the Traditional Latin Mass? https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/burkes-conclave-dinner-and-the-price

At Assisi, the pretender pope Leo declared there to be no such thing as a holy war. 4 Councils and more than 10 holy popes who solemnly approved the Crusades declare that statement to be a downright lie. "Only peace is holy", Leo averred. With this canard, the nominal pope made peace into a god.


That is at once outrageously hypocritical and tragically ironic - and in the context of the looming likelihood of World War III, it places the Second Vatican Council right in the frame for war-mongering. Peace has been denied to the world and to the Church precisely by the postconciliar Church herself: by Pope John XXIII's Vatican-Moscow Agreement by which, in return for Russian Orthodox observers attending the Council, the Church would refrain from any condemnation of Communism. 

That new, secret policy of Ostopolitik (a forerunner of 2018's hush-hush Sino-Vatican deal with Communism) would forbid any mention by the postconciliar Ape of the Church of the "errors of Russia", which the Holy Mother of God promised would be prevented from spreading to every country in the world only by prayer, penance and the consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. Like his predecessors who foisted faux 'consecrations' on the world, Prevost is a deceiver: the world will never have peace until it recognises Jesus Christ as King and Prince of Peace.

The sight of two princes of the Church - Cardinals Kurt Koch and Matteo Zuppi -processing at this lamentable Assisi affair alongside the ludicrous Archbishopress of Canterbury Sarah Mullaly (who has neither the sex or orders required for ministry)  was by comparison with its malicious content a mere bagatelle, a sideshow. 

Catholics need to ask themselves why Rome accepted the filthy lucre of the likes of Bill Gates.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the world’s largest funders of contraception, family planning, and infanticide; Melinda Gates calls herself Catholic but was sadly persuaded by Franciscan Father Richard Rohr (a darling of the postconciliar cult) to reject Church teaching on contraception, and has channelled tens or hundreds of millions into organizations promoting the holocaust of the unborn.

And of course the German Bishops’ Conference was at Assisi. Most German bishops promote the ‘Synodaler Weg’ (Synodal Path), which calls for same-sex unions.

Then at Assisi there was also 'Soka Gakkai', a Japanese neo-Buddhist religious movement that is explicitly non-Christian. Historically, it has practised aggressive conversion methods (*shakubuku*) and has criticized Christianity as a “false” or inferior religion.

Are the pennies dropping yet? What was Assisi all about? Freemasonry. Contraception, abortion, population control. Demolition of the Catholic religion. Religious indifferentism. And who or what benefits from this construct of evil? The globalist elite,  whom 'Pope Leo XIV' and the hierarchy of the postconciliar Catholic cult would seem at least to serve, and possibly even to command.

"The psychopandemic farce, the climate fraud, the Ukrainian crisis, and the threat of nuclear conflict are all part and parcel of the 'destroy everything' plan that the globalist elite sets out to do in order to force society to accept its technocratic tyranny", says Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. It's not for nothing that he was excommunicated by the usurpers in Rome. 

“The Church is the only one, the Roman Catholic! And if there were left upon earth but one Catholic, he would be the one, universal Church, the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail.”

 

“I saw also the relationship between the TWO popes… I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) … Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.”

 

“I saw a secret sect relentlessly undermining the great Church… When the Church had been for the most part destroyed (by the secret sect),and when only the sanctuary and the altar were still standing, I saw the wreckers (of the secret sect) enter the Church with the Beast.”

 

“I saw an apparition of the Mother of God, and she said that the tribulation would be very great. She added that these people must pray fervently with outstretched arms… They must pray above all for the Church of Darkness to leave Rome.”

 

“The Church is in great danger… I see that in this place (Rome) the (Catholic) Church is being so cleverly undermined, that there will hardly remain a hundred or so priests who have not been deceived. They all work for destruction, even the clergy. The great devastation is now at hand.” https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/prophesies-of-blessed-anne-catherine-emmerich/

self-explanatory

 

 From Riaan van Zyl at Integrity Magazine:

When it comes to sheer blasphemous apostasy and unadulterated heresy, this year’s Assisi “at 40” meeting did not disappoint. 

40 years after John Paul II assembled representatives of the world’s religions in 1986, the Vatican has once again celebrated this odious event. The gathering, which concluded on October 27, brought together Conciliar prelates, Protestant representatives, and non-Christian religious leaders under the banner of peace.

Leading those in attendance further into error, instead of preaching Catholic truth, was none other than the papal claimant himself, albeit not in person. In a video message shared with participants during the final ceremony, Leo XIV denied the existence of “holy war,” a claim that would undoubtedly have raised the ire of the popes who commissioned the Crusades.

He failed to mention the name of Jesus Christ, never mind proclaim His Kingship over the world.

Of course, the very nature of a prayer meeting “for peace” with non-Catholic participants has been condemned by multiple popes, including Pius XI, who taught in Mortalium Animos that “such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics” and that the “Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies.”

 

Leo XIII also warned in Immortale Dei (1885) that “to hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name.” So much for that in the conciliar epoch.

John Paul II at Assisi 1986

 

Leo’s syncretistic Assisi gathering yet another sign Catholicism is not welcome in the Conciliar Church

 

John Paul II’s 1986 event put into practice Vatican II’s teachings on false ecumenism and religious indifferentism. 

Integrity Magazine

Leo was unable to attend the scandalous affair because of his recovery from lung surgery. Rather than correcting the doctrinal confusion associated with the original gathering, he enthusiastically endorsed its legacy. Full of bravado, he erroneously declared, “There is no such thing as a holy war: Only peace is holy,” adding that “War can never be waged in the name of God.”

Such remarks fly in the face of 2,000 years of Catholic history and teaching. Mother Church has long distinguished between unjust aggression and legitimate warfare, with both St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas articulating these principles in their works.

Furthermore, the Church has both participated in and initiated military campaigns undertaken in defense of Christendom, Christian populations, and sacred places.

Additionally, the Crusades — despite their human failings and occasional grave abuses — were historically sanctioned by popes as religious undertakings. Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095, while subsequent pontiffs granted spiritual privileges to those fighting in approved campaigns.

Sacred Scripture documents wars that were not merely approved by God but, in many instances, explicitly commanded by Him.

Promoting indifferentism

Leo’s message tragically emphasized peace without the Kingship of Christ. He told his audience that peace must become the “guiding star for all our choices,” contradicting Scripture, which says we are to speak the truth in season and out and teach the Gospel before all else.

Leo praised interreligious dialogue as the path towards a more peaceful world but again did not once mention the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI argued the exact opposite of Leo’s comments in both Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio (1922) and Quas Primas (1925), noting that lasting peace cannot be established while individuals and nations reject Christ and His laws.

It is therefore bold and utterly foolish for Leo to reduce “peace” to a common religious and humanitarian ideal that can supposedly be attained without submission to He who is sovereign over all reality.

Complicit in sacrilege

Another scandalous moment came in the form of remarks by Rabbi David Rosen, one of the speakers at the meeting. Rosen told Vatican News that “nobody can have a monopoly on truth or access to God.

He also praised Nostra Aetate and suggested that different religions represent distinct paths towards the divine. Any member of a Freemasonic Lodge would agree with him, of course.

Further scandal occurred thanks to the participation of Sarah Mullally, the female Anglican Archbishopress of Canterbury, who processed alongside Cardinals Kurt Koch and Matteo Zuppi and participated in the opening proceedings at the Basilica of St. Francis.

WATCH: https://twitter.com/i/status/2115103894011564274

Koch and Zuppi betrayed their own offices by legitimizing this ridiculous role-playing lesbian as an actual cleric, something Holy Scripture and Catholic teaching clearly establish to be ontologically impossible for a woman. Moreover, the Catholic Church does not recognize Anglican orders as valid, regardless of whether the supposed “priest” is male or female.

Betraying the Social Reign of Jesus Christ

Assisi 2026 paid fitting homage to the equally scandal-ridden event of 1986, during which, among other outrages, heretics, schismatics, and adherents of false religions were permitted to conduct ceremonies in sacred spaces.

Most infamous was the placement of a Buddhist statue upon an altar in Assisi, an incident that became emblematic of the religious syncretism surrounding the gathering and the Conciliar Church that continues to condone it.

The latest gathering makes it abundantly clear that the Vatican has no intention of abandoning the Assisi experiment or its underpinning ideology of religious indifferentism.https://integritymagazine.org/2026/10/28/leos-assisi-remarks-reveal-conciliar-churchs-fatal-flaw-peace-without-christ/

         

                     

Riaan Van Zyl is a convert to the faith, an ultra-Traditionalist Catholic Counter-Revolutionary, and advocate for integralism. A seasoned journalist, he has worked as a crime and political reporter, investigative writer, and columnist. His Catholic writing has thus far appeared on his blog, Radical Fidelity. He occasionally commits poetry and lives in Roodepoort, South Africa.