October 2026
Aping Mammon
"You cannot serve God and mammon."
- Jesus Christ
"It is not right that we serve the time. We must serve the Lord."
- Saint Athanasius
"Then I saw an apparition of the Mother of God, and she said that the tribulation would be very great…They must pray above all for the Church of Darkness to leave Rome."
- Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, 25 August 1820
Worldly awards bestowed by worldlings on, or in the name of worldly pontiffs is a damning feature of our man-centred synodal era. Far from a sense of Catholic joy and satisfaction over secular recognition of Christ's Vicar on earth and the Church he shepherds, nowadays these 'honours' induce long yawns of dismay and derisive eye rolls. Especially when awarded by heretical institutions like Philadelphia's Villanova University.
A pseudo-Catholic body steeped in gender ideology and endless associated scandals, it was 'Augustinian' Villanova that imbued Robert Prevost with the Modernism he now peddles from the papal throne. Unsurprisingly, therefore, our 'Augustinian' pope is now set to endorse his alma mater by fronting a Villanova conference on 13 October, where he will present an eco-award bearing his name. Note: not an award for fidelity—to the Catholic Faith and its undiluted preaching to a hedonistic world inured to sin—but, rather, an award to honour infidelity—by way of commitment to the Green Cult that has nothing to do with Catholicism and everything to do with the eco-pagan Modernism embodied by apostate Villanova and its famous graduate.
It is bad enough that a pope would lend credibility to such a wildly subversive institution instead of suppressing it (—typically, one of its adjunct professors in theology and religion, a lesbian LGBT activist, states that she can only remain Christian by imagining "Jesus is Black and queer"). Yet insult has been added to injury by way of the cringeworthy award, "The Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal," and its presentation by Leo in the just as squirmworthy Laudato Si garden created in Castel Gandolfo by his heretical predecessor: the globalist eco-warrior he mimics and has all but canonised.
It goes without saying that Laudato si, Jorge's infamous Green Recyclical, is the inspiration for the ghastly back-slapping conference surrounding the award and its promotion of environmental stewardship, collaborative environmental initiatives, and (you guessed!) "integral human development" and social justice.
Of course, that should read socialistic justice. Or, more pointedly—given Leo's zealous promotion of communist organisations and his recent approval of still more Chinese bishops sponsored by Xi Jinping—communistic justice. Just as the conference, "Responding to the Cries of the Earth and the Poor," should read: "Responding to the Cries of the Sheep Betrayed by the Shepherds."
Tragically, we cannot expect to hear liberating sounds of penitential regret for this socialist complicity—in environmentalism, migrationism, femininism, mRNAvaxism, homosexualism and every other globalist "ism" pushed by the enemies of Christian faith and life. Certainly not while the Eternal City remains hostage to the devil: to the hordes of demons that infest and occupy it.
"Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God," Paul VI famously lamented on 29 June 1972. While Roman exorcist Father Gabriel Amorth also stated in 2001 that "Legions of demons have installed themselves in the Vatican," confirming 15 years later: "Yes, Satan is in the Vatican." In which case nothing will change until he and his filthy minions are cast out by popes who prioritise the supernatural over the natural—who perceive that ecclesiastical repentance, reparation, and purifying exorcisms of Vatican City itself are more urgent than prizes, conferences, gimmicks and giveaways devoted to climate scaremongering and other scams designed to enrich the scammers and their bagmen. Until then, we will continue to be scourged by ecclesiastics consecrated to God's service yet marching in lockstep with Mammon: more concerned with 'building a better world' than rebuilding a Church in ruins.
We should expect, for example, that Leo, like Francis, will continue his very eager public reception of pro-aborts and LGBT icons—most recently the aging pro-abortion rock star Patti Smith.
In a twitter post, Father Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, excitedly reported that the moment Smith entered the room to meet Leo "something happened… a spark was lit – one that came with ... a profound sense of emotion and of a shared mission in this challenging world."
Apparently not the least bothered by pro-abort Smith's denunciation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade, saying it broke her heart, or by her godless and blasphemous hit songs (that typically declare: "the night belongs to lust", and "Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine"), Spadaro gushed about this meeting of 'better world' buddies:
Two Americans. Two Chicagoans. Two remarkable figures whose voices speak hope to a divided world: the “priestess of rock,” as #PattiSmith is often called, and the Holy Father, #PopeLeoXIV.
We should also expect more mammonistic papal stunts. Like Leo's onstage iceberg-blessing last October, involving a massive chunk of ice flown in from Greenland for the day to highlight Iceberg Armageddon: a meltdown perennially touted, never actualised, and recently disavowed by the chief touters themselves (see articles herein). Only wilful ignorance on Leo's part can possibly account for his making that false prediction his own. Ditto his servile promotion of other failed apocalyptic climate prophecies.
Meantime, as entire episcopates rail against the Faith and side with our enemies, Leo continues to appoint homo-friendly, TLM-hostile bishops all over—as with his new secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy who ticked both those boxes. Thereby, he leads the hierarchy in mocking the Faith and the faithful—to devastating effect, as captured in daily headlines like these:
• Crisis beneath the crisis: When the faithful can't recognise the Pope
• Pope’s classmate exposes Vatican synodality document as ‘The Great Deception’
• The Church won't speak clearly — because of homosexuals in the clergy
"No man can serve two masters," warned Our Blessed Lord. "For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." [Matt. 6:24] This speaks directly to the praise and applause sought by promoting and parroting globalist narratives in word and deed. A cowardly and treacherous pursuit painful to observe in lay Catholics, it is infinitely more insufferable where ecclesiastics are concerned, since they represent the public face of the Church. Yet all we experience are ever more exasperating betrayals as LeoChurch—the seamless extension of FrancisChurch—apes the world. That it no longer does so with Bergoglian fury is cold comfort. For, the razing of the Faith has ramped up under his mild-mannered successor, whose wan, opaque half-smile now appears even more sinister than Jorge's trademark scowl.
Harsh? Hardly! Simply consider these tell-all stats gleaned from his first encyclical, Magnificent Humanity, which bows not to God but to man—and, above all, to Francis, who is referenced more than anyone else: quoted 35 times; cited 55 times. By way of contrast, its 40,000+ words contain only 9 mentions of Jesus; no Council is cited other than Vatican II; while the Catholic Church is not mentioned, but rather a synodal church.
Ponder, too, the destructive synodal 'reformers' with whom Leo makes common cause—such as the following we find listed among his 15 new Consultors for the Dicastery for Religious Life (now headed by a feminist nun). Earthbound creatures obsessed with Marxist themes—'structures', 'equality', 'deconstruction' and all things 'New'—the salvation of souls does not figure in their revolutionary synodal designs. Gloria TV reports:
Less Uniformity in Liturgy, More Creativity
Indian Sister Maria Nirmalini, A.C. was a member of the Synod on Synodality (2023) and hoped for “liturgical reform, particularly of the Mass with less emphasis on uniformity and more on creativity.” In the same VaticanNews.va interview she demanded "inclusion of women in all leadership/decision making processes in the Church." She wrote an exceptionally enthusiastic tenth-anniversary tribute to Francis in 2023. She called his pontificate "a new kind of leadership, a new way of being church."
Pro Female Ordination, Pro-Homosexual
Sr Patricia Murray, I.B.V.M. (Loreto Sister) is probably the most revealing appointment on the list. She is the former Executive Secretary of the ultra-liberal International Union of Superiors General (UISG). She has been a prominent promoter of Francis’s vision of synodality within women’s religious life.
During Murray's tenure, UISG worked extensively with the UN, climate advocacy, and immigration and the pro-abortion 'Sustainable Development Goals'. In a 2021 conference on synodality, Sr Murray said that "if the Vatican's synod process is to succeed, discussion of hot-button topics like women's ordination and women deacons cannot be silenced."
At the October 2023 Vatican Synod briefing Murray was directly asked about homosexuals. She replied: "How does the Church give a sign and symbol for hurts that have been caused? There is a deep awareness of the pain and suffering that has been caused."
“Jesus Christ was Revolutionary and Subversive”
Br Emili Turú Rofes, F.M.S., a Catalan Marist Brother and former Superior General of the Marists (2009–2017), described synodality as what "the Lord expects of the Church in this millennium." Speaking to young Marists in 2018, he described Christ as "a revolutionary and subversive figure," stating: "Jesus blew apart the religious system of his time."
Since January 2019, Rofes has served as Director of Faith and Praxis for Global Leadership, a Marist project providing consultancy to religious congregations (68 communities in 2024). Its vision revolves around ‘New Cosmology,’ ‘New Physics,’ the ‘Historical Jesus,’ ‘deconstructing,’ and ‘New Spirituality.’
New Model of Hierarchy
Sr María Rosaura González Casas, S.T.J. (Society of St Teresa of Jesus), is a Mexican religious sister, psychologist and Extraordinary Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
In an October 2022 interview with Europa Press she said that women had often been treated within the Church as "second-class people," blaming "ecclesial culture and hierarchical structures."
In March 2023 she said in a talk on synodality that structural change was necessary in the Church as "there is no synodality without equality" for women. In her 2025 book Verdad y Reparación ("Truth and Reparation") she confronted "structural intra-ecclesial sin” and sought “new practices and structures."