November 2025 – Page 45 – Antipope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII addressing Vietnamese clergy during a Marian Congress in Saigon, 1959, reflecting traditional Catholic devotion and the tension with the emerging conciliar revolution.

Nuntius Radiophonicus Dato Mariali Conventui Vietnamensi (1959.02.19)

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In this radio message dated 19 February 1959, John XXIII addresses the Vietnamese hierarchy on the occasion of a Marian Congress in Saigon, commemorating both the Lourdes centenary and three centuries since the appointment of the first Apostolic Vicars in Vietnam. He praises the Marian devotion of the Vietnamese faithful, exalts historic missionary labors and martyrs, notes the growth of the indigenous clergy and Catholic population, expresses paternal sympathy for Catholics in the persecuted northern regions, and appoints Cardinal Gregorio Pietro Agagianian as papal legate to the celebrations, granting blessings and spiritual favors.

John XXIII delivering a radio message to Japanese Catholics in 1959, symbolizing the subtle subversion of the conciliar revolution.

Speeches

Nuntius radiophonicus dato christifidelibus Iaponiae (1959.02.16)

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On 16 February 1959, John XXIII delivered a short Latin radio message from the Vatican to the Catholics of Japan, marking the beginning of Vatican Radio broadcasts in Japanese. He greets the hierarchy and faithful, praises Japanese cultural virtues, urges that their Christian faith shine through kindness and moral integrity, and invokes Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary to bless Japan with light, protection, and prosperity. Behind this seemingly devout salutation, however, stands the inaugural stylistic matrix of the conciliar revolution: sentimental humanism, diplomatic flattery, and the quiet displacement of the Kingship of Christ and the rights of the one true Church by a soft-focus admiration of natural virtue and national culture.

A reverent scene in St. Peter's Basilica during the canonization of Blessed John of Ribera by John XXIII, highlighting traditional Catholic piety and doctrinal firmness.

Homilies

LA IN SOLLEMNI CANONIZATIONE BEATI IOANNIS DE RIBERA (1960.06.12)

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The text is a Latin homily delivered in St. Peter’s Basilica on Trinity Sunday by John XXIII during the solemn canonization of John of Ribera. It opens with a doctrinally sound praise of the Most Holy Trinity, presents Ribera as a model bishop of deep Eucharistic piety, pastoral zeal, and doctrinal firmness against Protestant errors, exhorts the faithful (especially those under persecution) to perseverance in the Catholic faith, and concludes with a prayer from the Mass of the Holy Trinity.

Solemn moment in St. Peter's Basilica during the pseudo-canonization of Carlo a Sezze and Joaquina de Vedruna by John XXIII.

Homilies

A A A LA IN SOLLEMNI CANONIZATIONE BEATI CAROLI A SETIA (1959.04.12)

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In this Latin homily, John XXIII commemorates the “canonization” of Carlo a Sezze and Joaquina de Vedruna as models of universal attainable holiness: Carlo as a humble Franciscan religious absorbed in Eucharistic devotion and penance, Joaquina as noblewoman, wife, mother, widow, and foundress engaged in charitable and educational works. He extols their virtues, proposes them as exemplars for all states of life, and concludes by asking their intercession so that his pontifical initiatives and plans, already announced to the “universal Catholic world,” may bear fruit in unity and temporal peace among nations.

A solemn gathering of Redemptorist superiors listening to John XXIII's allocutio in a traditional chapel.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Redemptoristas (1963.02.08)

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John XXIII’s speech to the Redemptorist superiors (8 February 1963) flatters the congregation for its growth, urges the revision of its Rule and Constitutions “in view of current needs,” insists this be done without “bending to the world,” exhorts fidelity to St. Alphonsus, praises Redemptorist missions, and asks their prayers and sacrifices for the ongoing Second Vatican Council. It is a short, apparently pious allocution, presenting John XXIII as benign guardian of religious life and of the spirit of St. Alphonsus. In reality, it is an ideological programmatic piece: a controlled demolition manual for traditional religious life, cloaked in sentimental rhetoric, placed at the service of the conciliar revolution and the nascent neo-church.

A reverent portrait of John XXIII delivering the 1962 Vatican II allocution in St. Peter's Basilica, surrounded by bishops in traditional liturgical vestments.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.08)

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The allocution delivered by John XXIII on 8 December 1962 at the close of the first period of Vatican II presents the first session as a providentially guided, Marian-framed beginning of a grand ecclesial renewal; it exalts the unprecedented global episcopal gathering, praises the initial liturgical schema, anticipates uninterrupted conciliar labor leading to a “new Pentecost,” and projects the Council’s fruits as a youthful revitalization of the Church and an expansion of Christ’s kingdom in the modern world. In reality, this speech is the self-celebration of an already operative revolution: a programmatic manifesto of the conciliar sect, cloaking rupture with Tradition under pious rhetoric, sentimental Marian imagery, and the abuse of Catholic vocabulary.

Pope John XXIII addressing the council fathers in St. Peter's Basilica during Vatican II, 1962

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.07)

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At the close of the first session of Vatican II, John XXIII addresses the assembled council fathers in St. Peter’s Basilica with expressions of joy, gratitude, and paternal affection. He praises their work, highlights the “spectacle” offered to the world by the gathered hierarchy, underlines fraternal unity and “charity in truth,” and points to the Council’s purpose as making the Gospel better known and applied in contemporary life and culture. He frames the event as a luminous manifestation of the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” invoking Mary’s protection and concluding with his “Apostolic Blessing.”

John XXIII delivering the opening address at the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica, 1962.

Speeches

CONCILIUM OECUMENICUM VATICANUM II SOLLEMNITER INCHOATUR (1962.10.11)

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The allocution of John XXIII at the solemn opening of the so‑called Second Vatican Council presents this assembly as a providential, joyful “new Pentecost,” proposes a shift from doctrinal condemnation to “the medicine of mercy,” extols contemporary developments as signs of divine providence, and defines the Council’s primary task as preserving the “deposit of faith” while adapting its mode of expression to the modern world so that modern man may more readily receive it.

Pope John XXIII delivering an allocution in St. Peter's Basilica on June 20, 1962, surrounded by cardinals and bishops in traditional liturgical attire.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.06.20)

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The text is a Latin allocution delivered by John XXIII on June 20, 1962, at the close of the seventh session of the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II. He exults over three years of conciliar preparation, praises the work of commissions (theological, disciplinary, ecumenical, laical, technical), links the council to a “mystical tower” of peace, invokes global collaboration of hierarchy and laity, calls for universal prayer, and symbolically ties his own name “John” to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist as a programmatic key to the coming council. The allocution crowns the entire preparatory phase, presenting Vatican II as a providential, Spirit-led, and peace-bringing event for the whole human family — and thus reveals with crystalline clarity the anthropocentric, naturalistic, and ecclesiologically subversive program of the conciliar revolution.

A young seminarian kneeling in prayer in a traditional Catholic chapel, surrounded by religious texts and vestments, evoking pre-conciliar piety and devotion.

Speeches

Allocutio IOANNIS XXIII (1962.05.26)

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In this allocution of 26 May 1962, John XXIII addresses participants of an international meeting on vocations to the priesthood, praising their efforts, insisting on prayer for holy and industrious clergy, and exhorting to form seminarians through good family, parish, and ecclesiastical examples. He commends discipline, piety, chastity, and pastoral dedication, proposing his own childhood attraction to the priesthood as an edifying anecdote, and concludes with encouragement and a “Vicarius Christi” tone, blessing the work of fostering priestly vocations.