NEWS: September 26, 2025
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Bird’s Eye View of the News
LIGHTING ONE CANDLE TO GOD, ANOTHER TO THE DEVIL –
In Brazil when a person takes a contradictory position on an important issue we say: “He is lighting one candle to God, and another to the Devil.” There are nuances in this application that I will explain further on in this article. Today, I will apply the saying to Pope Leo XIV.
Latin Mass to be said at St. Peter’s Basilica
In its September 18, 2025 issue, the Argentinean newspaper Clarin from Buenos Aires published the news that Pope Leo XIV had authorized the Traditional Latin Mass according to 1962 Missal to be celebrated by Card. Raymond Burke on October 25 at the Altar of the Chair of Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Details of the ceremony include:
If all this actually takes place, he will be “lighting a candle to God.”
LGBT Jubilee & music concert
Contradictory to this intended traditionalist initiative were two events recently promoted by Leo XIV at the Vatican.
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The first event was the September 6 welcoming of 1,400 LGBT persons who went to Rome on the invitation of Leo to receive the spiritual benefits of the Holy Year. They also had a vigil ceremony, a Mass celebrated that morning at the main church of the Jesuits in Rome, the
Gesù, by Bishop Francesco Savino, vice-president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. In the afternoon they all walked to St. Peter’s Basilica to cross the Holy Doors.
To accept these scandalous people, unrepentant sinners publicly boasting their against-nature lifestyle, is certainly “to light a candle to the Devil.”
The second event was an evening music concert held at St. Peter’s Square on September 13. Performers whose major hits refer to brothels, prostitutes and homosexuals were the featured stars invited to perform “pious” songs on the Vatican stage in a night club / Protestant Revival ambience.
To promote this type of artists and their heretical lyrics was certainly “to light a candle to the Devil.”
Traditionalist pilgrimage
Some weeks before – August 19-21 – the allegedly traditionalist Society of St. Pius X was also invited by Leo XIV to go to Rome and cross the Holy Doors of several Basilicas. It brought to the Vatican about 8,000 of its members. I say allegedly traditionalist because one of its Bishops has affirmed that he accepts 95% of Vatican II, following the guidelines of its founder who also said he would accept Vatican II interpreted in the light of Tradition.
Nonetheless, many rank-and-file Catholics who belong to this organization are authentically good. This can be explained by keeping in mind that the SSPX mission is to gather as many genuinely traditionalist Catholics as possible under its umbrella and bring them back to progressivist Rome as soon as these grassroots can stomach the change.
A great parcel of the public only sees the ensemble of the grassroots. So, for this parcel, by inviting the SSPX to the Jubilee Year Leo XIV made a significant step toward Traditionalism: “a candle lit to God.”
Omitting the Filioque
As one of his radical ecumenical efforts Leo XIV invited many Schismatics and Protestants to a celebration at St. Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica on September 14, 2025.
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He said a Mass on that occasion, but when the time came for the recitation of the Creed, (video here) he purposely omitted the word Filioque. Since the Mass was said in Italian, this means that when it came time to profess the dogma of the Holy Spirit, instead of saying “e
proceed dal Padre e dal Filio” (and proceeds from the Father and the Son), Leo XIV said only “e
proceed dal Padre” (and proceeds from the Father).
We all know that an omission cannot be considered a heresy. However, when someone omits a known dogma expressed in a known formula, although he did not profess a heresy, he clearly became suspicious of heresy. Actually, the more than 1,000-year-dispute about the Filioque – the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and from the Son – and the constant obstinacy of the Schismatics in denying it, makes the omission of Leo XIV a most serious change in Catholic dogma.
That omission sent an implicit message to the Schismatics: “We Catholics will forget this point of our dogma to please you.” It is inadmissible! Certainly by omitting that formula Leo XIV “lit a candle to the Devil.”
Two candles lit...
Now, that I have shown some of the many “candles” that the present Pope “has lit,” let me return to the Brazilian saying “he lit one candle to God and another to the Devil,” to see if its meaning helps us to discern the policy Leo XIV is following.
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For Brazilians, when we apply this saying, we are accusing the man of being blatantly contradictory. It is normally applied to politicians who take this or that contradictory position to please their various audiences. It is tantamount to saying he is a shameless opportunist. It would be similar to the English “he talks out of both sides of his mouth.”
Is this what defines Pope Leo XIV? I hope not, but some of his last initiatives definitely seem to open the doors for such a hypothesis.
Why would a Pope reject coherence in his day-to-day policies and start to act contradictorily? Would he be losing his mental balance? Would he be just a puppet being obedient to opposing non-visible bosses? In this case, who would these bosses be? Or did Leo XIV, with or without the bosses, decide himself that the time has arrived to plunge the Church into a complete chaos – one still greater than what we already have?
I have no answer to these questions, but the lack of direction in the Bark of Peter and the acceleration of its speed toward chaos and destruction can only increase the concerns and afflictions of true Catholics.
Latin Mass to be said at St. Peter’s Basilica
In its September 18, 2025 issue, the Argentinean newspaper Clarin from Buenos Aires published the news that Pope Leo XIV had authorized the Traditional Latin Mass according to 1962 Missal to be celebrated by Card. Raymond Burke on October 25 at the Altar of the Chair of Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Burke to celebrate a Latin Mass in the Chair of Peter Altar at St. Peter's Basilica, below
- The Mass will be the highlight of a pilgrimage called Ad Petri Sedem (Going to the See of Peter) promoted by the organization Popolo Summorum Pontificum, a group of priests and religious who support the TLM.
- On October 24 a Vigil will take place at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina where Card. Matteo Zuppi, a close friend of Francis, will celebrate a Pontifical Vespers for the pilgrimage.
- On October 25 at noon a procession will leave the Basilica of SS. Celsus and Julianus walking toward St. Peter’s Basilica where the ’62 Mass will be celebrated by Card. Burke.
- The pilgrims will additionally receive the Jubilee Year indulgences and benefits.
- This agreement was reached between Pope Leo XIV and Card. Raymond Burke at a private audience on August 22. The Cardinal went to thank the new Pope for a papal letter he received congratulating him on the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination.
If all this actually takes place, he will be “lighting a candle to God.”
LGBT Jubilee & music concert
Contradictory to this intended traditionalist initiative were two events recently promoted by Leo XIV at the Vatican.
The ambience of the music concert was a mix of night club & Protestant revival
To accept these scandalous people, unrepentant sinners publicly boasting their against-nature lifestyle, is certainly “to light a candle to the Devil.”
The second event was an evening music concert held at St. Peter’s Square on September 13. Performers whose major hits refer to brothels, prostitutes and homosexuals were the featured stars invited to perform “pious” songs on the Vatican stage in a night club / Protestant Revival ambience.
To promote this type of artists and their heretical lyrics was certainly “to light a candle to the Devil.”
Traditionalist pilgrimage
Some weeks before – August 19-21 – the allegedly traditionalist Society of St. Pius X was also invited by Leo XIV to go to Rome and cross the Holy Doors of several Basilicas. It brought to the Vatican about 8,000 of its members. I say allegedly traditionalist because one of its Bishops has affirmed that he accepts 95% of Vatican II, following the guidelines of its founder who also said he would accept Vatican II interpreted in the light of Tradition.
Nonetheless, many rank-and-file Catholics who belong to this organization are authentically good. This can be explained by keeping in mind that the SSPX mission is to gather as many genuinely traditionalist Catholics as possible under its umbrella and bring them back to progressivist Rome as soon as these grassroots can stomach the change.
A great parcel of the public only sees the ensemble of the grassroots. So, for this parcel, by inviting the SSPX to the Jubilee Year Leo XIV made a significant step toward Traditionalism: “a candle lit to God.”
Omitting the Filioque
As one of his radical ecumenical efforts Leo XIV invited many Schismatics and Protestants to a celebration at St. Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica on September 14, 2025.
Leo XIV flanked by schismatics & heretics at the St. Paul Outside-the-Walls Basilica
We all know that an omission cannot be considered a heresy. However, when someone omits a known dogma expressed in a known formula, although he did not profess a heresy, he clearly became suspicious of heresy. Actually, the more than 1,000-year-dispute about the Filioque – the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and from the Son – and the constant obstinacy of the Schismatics in denying it, makes the omission of Leo XIV a most serious change in Catholic dogma.
That omission sent an implicit message to the Schismatics: “We Catholics will forget this point of our dogma to please you.” It is inadmissible! Certainly by omitting that formula Leo XIV “lit a candle to the Devil.”
Two candles lit...
Now, that I have shown some of the many “candles” that the present Pope “has lit,” let me return to the Brazilian saying “he lit one candle to God and another to the Devil,” to see if its meaning helps us to discern the policy Leo XIV is following.
Is Leo XIV honoring the Saint or the Devil?
Is this what defines Pope Leo XIV? I hope not, but some of his last initiatives definitely seem to open the doors for such a hypothesis.
Why would a Pope reject coherence in his day-to-day policies and start to act contradictorily? Would he be losing his mental balance? Would he be just a puppet being obedient to opposing non-visible bosses? In this case, who would these bosses be? Or did Leo XIV, with or without the bosses, decide himself that the time has arrived to plunge the Church into a complete chaos – one still greater than what we already have?
I have no answer to these questions, but the lack of direction in the Bark of Peter and the acceleration of its speed toward chaos and destruction can only increase the concerns and afflictions of true Catholics.
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