A Beaut of An Antipope

Well, the folks in the “resist while recognize” sector of the counterfeit church of conciliarism sure have a “beaut” of a “pope” on their hands.

Unlike his immediate predecessor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took delight in contradicting the defined teaching of the Catholic Church while mocking and reviling those within his false religious sect who tried to defend that defined teaching, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is trying to appear “reasonable” as he defends Joseph Bernardin’s “seamless garment,” which was last discussed on this site in This Did Not Just Happen, part one, as the basis by which one of the prime conciliar movers and shakers in his election on May 8, 2025, the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel, Blase Cupich, was justified to bestow an award upon the thoroughly pro-abortion, pro-sodomite United States Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) despite his unapologetic support for the chemical and surgical execution of innocent children under the cover of the civil law:

— Pope Leo XIV did not rebuke Cardinal Blase Cupich for honoring pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award, and said that those who support the death penalty are “not really pro-life.”

On September 30, a journalist from EWTN asked Leo what he thinks about Illinois Sen. Durbin being set to receive an award from Cupich despite his support for abortion.

Leo gave a long-winded answer that appeared to imply he did not have a problem with Durbin receiving the award.

“I think that it is very important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during … 40 years of service in the United States Senate,” he stated. “I understand the difficulty and the tensions but I think, as I myself have spoken to in the past, it is important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the Church.”

“Someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” the Pope said. “Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

“So, they are very complex issues, I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would ask first and foremost that there would be greater respect for one another and that we search together both as humans beings, in that case as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics to say we really need to look closely at all these ethical issues and to find the way forward as Church.”

“The Church teaching on each one of these issues is very clear,” he added. (Pope Leo says support for death penalty is ‘not pro-life,’ defends awarding pro-abortion Durbin.)

Several quick comments.

First, Francis Prevost/Leo XIV contradicted himself by saying: (1) “I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them [the life issues]; and then by saying (2) “The Church teaching on each one of these issues is clear.”

Well, the Catholic Church is the infallible expositor of the Divine Positive Law, which is part of Divine Revelation, and the infallibly authoritative teacher of all that is contained in the Natural Law, which is knowable by reason and does not depend upon human acceptance for its binding force or validity. She alone has all truth on moral teaching.

Second, as I have noted so many times before, there is absolutely zero moral equivalence between the slaughter of innocent preborn children and the death penalty. Innocent life is always inviolable, and the taking of innocent human life, willful murder, is one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.

To emphasize the gravity of this crime, Pope Pius XI explained the terrible fate that awaits in public life who betray the innocent preborn to the bloody hands of baby butchers:

Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves. Among whom we must mention in the first place infants hidden in the mother's womb. And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them, but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from earth to Heaven. (Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930.) 

This statement from the pen of a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter is enough in itself to disqualify Richard Durbin from the sacramental life of the Catholic Church, no less from receiving honors that he not only does not deserve but wind up emboldening the wicked in this life, are impediments to an evil doer’s conversion and thus repentance before he comes face-to-face with the Avenger of innocent blood, which has cried out from earth to Heaven.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has thus kneecapped what was a growing list of “conservatives” within the conciliar “hierarchy” within the United States of America in a manner worthy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself, and those “bishops” would have had left stranded in the cold if Richard Durbin, who is a demagogue to the rotten core of his being, had not declined the award that Blase Cupich wanted to bestow on him because of the controversy Cupich’s invitation engendered.

Third, it is very clear that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV lives in world shaped by leftist ideology and the false narratives that flow therefrom.

The false “pontiff’s” comments about the rough treatment of illegal immigrants, most of whom were brought into the United States of America by Latin American drug cartels whose members have flooded our urban and rural areas with a tidal wave of fentanyl and other illegal drugs that addict American citizens and has brought with it countless violent attacks, many of them fatal, against innocent American citizens.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV must either be ignorant about or completely uninterested in the victims of illegal immigrants whose plight at the hands of Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers he considers to be the moral equivalent of the daily slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical and surgical means.

It is therefore an entirely open question whether Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has heard about or even cares to be informed about the violent murders of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungarary, or scores of others slaughtered by these "heralds of hope." No, the conciliar "popes" and their "bishops" have existed in a delusional world that is detached from reality as they shed crocodile tears for those who been used by drug and human traffickers to violate the just laws of other nations to regulate immigration and thus to prevent the very sorts of violent crimes that men such as Prevost/Leo refuse to admit have been committed.

Indeed, a Mexican cartel member recently told a reporter for Cable News Network that the life of being a cartel member involves murdering and exploiting others.

An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader admitted President Trump’s aggressive border policies have made the illegal work of the powerful Mexican drug gang more difficult in an interview with CNN.

An anonymous member of El Chapo’s former gang explained that Trump’s immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black-market tradecraft in a bizarre interview with the news station’s senior national correspondent, David Culver, in the back of an SUV.

“From killing to coordinating smuggling operations, he says he’s done it all,” Culver said, referring to Trump.

“Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making your job tougher?” He asked the confessed killer and cartel boss.

“Oh yeah. Yeah,” the gang member — dressed in a black mask, sunglasses, black gloves, and a hat to conceal his identity — admitted flatly.

“So it’s becoming more difficult, you think?” Culver prodded.

“Yep,” the supposed gangbanger said.

The CNN report further revealed that cartels are now charging much more to get migrants across the southern US border because of the Trump crackdown on illegal migration.

Border-hoppers are now expected to pay $10,000 each instead of about $6,500 per person prior to the Trump-era policies, according to Fox News.

The hardened criminal said that though he has killed people, he considers himself a good person.

“I did what I had to do,” he said.

In the interview, the Sinaloan cartel leader expressed that he came forward to speak with CNN, hoping to deter others from joining drug gangs. 

“It’s not a life. It’s not good,” the man said in broken English.

“Once you get in, you can’t get out,” he warned in Spanish.

The anonymous man is not the first Sinaloan cartel member to credit the Trump administration for its robust approach to halting the human and drug trafficking operations at the southern border.

Margarito “Jay” Flores Jr., who made millions with his twin brother as members of El Chapo’s cartel, praised the president in an interview last month.

“I think the aggressive approach is going to send a strong message to every drug trafficker across Latin America and places like Venezuela that’s used as a transport hub from Mexican cartels and Colombian organizations,” Flores told Fox News.

That “aggressive approach” is continuing with the United States prepping for attacks against drug gangs deep inside Venezuela, according to an NBC News report. (Sinaloa Cartel leader admits Trump's border crackdown is working in CNN interview.)

Thus, we have the irony of a cartel member praising the administration of President Donald John Trump for its crackdown on illegal immigration while a man who is thought to be the Vicar of Christ on earth says that to be “pro-life” one must oppose efforts to deport illegal immigrants and to prevent the flow of such illegal immigrants into the country in the first place.

Utter nonsense.

Total leftist ideology.

While it is one thing to disagree with an indiscriminate deportation of nonviolent foreign nationals who have entered another country illegally, it is completely without regard to Catholic moral theology concerning the hierarchy of evils to claim that deportation policies are equally immoral as willful murder.

Finally, true son of the conciliar revolution equated the deliberate taking of innocent preborn life with the imposition of capital punishment upon a malefactor convicted of a capital offense by a jury of his peers after following the administration of the due process of the law.

Holy Mother Church has taught us that the death penalty is part of the Natural Law right and duty of a just civil state. Its existence in the Natural Law is immutable.

For the likes of men such as the conciliar revolutionaries to be correct, the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity not only hid the true meaning of doctrines for over nineteen hundred years, He permitted true popes and the Fathers of Holy Mother Church's twenty true general councils to condemn propositions that have, we are supposed to believe, only recently been "discovered" as having been true. Blasphemous and heretical.

I will let Saint Thomas Aquinas provide the antidote to this rank heresy on the death penalty:

Objection 1. It would seem unlawful to kill men who have sinned. For our Lord in the parable (Matthew 13) forbade the uprooting of the cockle which denotes wicked men according to a gloss. Now whatever is forbidden by God is a sin. Therefore it is a sin to kill a sinner.

Objection 2. Further, human justice is conformed to Divine justice. Now according to Divine justice sinners are kept back for repentance, according to Ezekiel 33:11, "I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live." Therefore it seems altogether unjust to kill sinners.

Objection 3. Further, it is not lawful, for any good end whatever, to do that which is evil in itself, according to Augustine (Contra Mendac. vii) and the Philosopher (Ethic. ii, 6). Now to kill a man is evil in itself, since we are bound to have charity towards all men, and "we wish our friends to live and to exist," according to Ethic. ix, 4. Therefore it is nowise lawful to kill a man who has sinned.

On the contrary, It is written (Exodus 22:18): "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live"; and (Psalm 100:8): "In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land."

I answer that, As stated above (Article 1), it is lawful to kill dumb animals, in so far as they are naturally directed to man's use, as the imperfect is directed to the perfect. Now every part is directed to the whole, as imperfect to perfect, wherefore every part is naturally for the sake of the whole. For this reason we observe that if the health of the whole body demands the excision of a member, through its being decayed or infectious to the other members, it will be both praiseworthy and advantageous to have it cut away. Now every individual person is compared to the whole community, as part to whole. Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good, since "a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump" (1 Corinthians 5:6).

Reply to Objection 1. Our Lord commanded them to forbear from uprooting the cockle in order to spare the wheat, i.e. the good. This occurs when the wicked cannot be slain without the good being killed with them, either because the wicked lie hidden among the good, or because they have many followers, so that they cannot be killed without danger to the good, as Augustine says (Contra Parmen. iii, 2). Wherefore our Lord teaches that we should rather allow the wicked to live, and that vengeance is to be delayed until the last judgment, rather than that the good be put to death together with the wicked. When, however, the good incur no danger, but rather are protected and saved by the slaying of the wicked, then the latter may be lawfully put to death.

Reply to Objection 2. According to the order of His wisdom, God sometimes slays sinners forthwith in order to deliver the good, whereas sometimes He allows them time to repent, according as He knows what is expedient for His elect. This also does human justice imitate according to its powers; for it puts to death those who are dangerous to others, while it allows time for repentance to those who sin without grievously harming others.

Reply to Objection 3. By sinning man departs from the order of reason, and consequently falls away from the dignity of his manhood, in so far as he is naturally free, and exists for himself, and he falls into the slavish state of the beasts, by being disposed of according as he is useful to others. This is expressed in Psalm 48:21: "Man, when he was in honor, did not understand; he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them," and Proverbs 11:29: "The fool shall serve the wise." Hence, although it be evil in itself to kill a man so long as he preserve his dignity, yet it may be good to kill a man who has sinned, even as it is to kill a beast. For a bad man is worse than a beast, and is more harmful, as the Philosopher [Aristotle] states (Polit. i, 1 and Ethic. vii, 6). (Saint Thomas Aquinas,, Question 64, Summa Theologica.)

The conciliar revolutionaries have advanced arguments about human “dignity” while placing a false concept of “mercy” over justice, thereby once again creating a false dichotomy between justice and mercy. This is nothing other than a complete rejection of right reason and of Holy Writ itself. To assert that the Holy Mother Church erred in the past by her support of the imposition of the death penalty according to the particular circumstances of the time is say that the Catholic Church has never been the spotless, mystical spouse of her Divine Founder, Invisible Head and Mystical Bridegroom, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Despite Robert Francis Prevost's attempt to claim that opposition to the death penalty is "pro life," no one can say legitimately that the civil state does not have the authority to put criminals adjudged guilty after the exhaustion of the means of due process of law to death.

Innocent human life is inviolable. Life adjudged guilty of a crime is not inviolable. The imposition of the death penalty by the civil state is not an exercise in vengeance. It is an exercise in the administration of justice, that is, the imposition of a just penalty upon one who has grievously wounded the common good.

The death penalty, if administered in a Catholic state that was subordinate to the Social Reign of Christ the King, would also be viewed an exercise of spiritual mercy upon the doomed felon. One who knows that he is going to die at certain time on a certain date is far more likely to make a good Confession of his sins and to be a companion in eternity of Saint Dismas, the Good Thief, than he would be if languished in a prison for the rest of his life, dying a bad, sacramentally-unprovided-for death from a sudden heart attack after thirty years of incarceration.

One of the supreme ironies of our time is that many Catholics who are vocal about their opposition to the death penalty are equally vocal about their support for baby-killing under cover of law. Those who have committed grievous crimes are showered with admiration. Those who have committed no crime are reviled as "burdens" to be eliminated from existence.

Furthermore, no Catholic trained in Thomistic thought and who understands, therefore, the different principles at work in the Fifth Commandment is permitted to equate the taking of innocent human life in the womb, either by chemical or surgical means, with the justified execution of an actual criminal who has had a fair trial and has been sentenced to death for his crime or crimes. The Catechism of the Council of Trent notes the following about this matter:

Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime or murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence. Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Whether the death penalty should be imposed on any particular person is a judgment that must be made by the civil authorities. Some persons might well be deserving of clemency. Others might not be. However, the simple Catholic truth is this: the civil state has the authority to put malefactors to death and no one has any more authority to say that it does not than he has to say that there are eight persons in the Divine Godhead. 

We turn, as always to Our Lady, who holds us in the crossing of her arms and in the folds of her mantle. We must, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit, trusting that we might be able to plant a few seeds for the Triumph of that same Immaculate Heart.

We may not see until eternity, please God and by the graces He sends to us through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, the fruit of the seeds we plant by means of our prayers and penances and sacrifices, given unto the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We must remain confident, however, that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ wants to us, as unworthy as we are, to try to plant a few seeds so that more and more Catholics in the conciliar structures, both "priests" and laity alike, will recognize that it is indeed a sin to stand by He is blasphemed by Modernists, that He--and His true priesthood--are to be found in the catacombs where no concessions at all are made to conciliarism or its wolves in shepherds' clothing.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, 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 Balthasar, pray for us.