November 2025 – Page 46 – Antipope John XXIII

John XXIII delivering the Allocutio of 12 May 1962 in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, with the Central Preparatory Commission seated in reverent attention. The scene is bathed in soft, natural light filtering through stained glass windows depicting traditional Catholic iconography.

Allocutio IOANNIS XXIII (1962.05.12)

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In this address of 12 May 1962, John XXIII congratulates the members of the Central Preparatory Commission shortly before the opening of Vatican II, praises their labours and expresses serene confidence that the coming council – often styled by him a “new Pentecost” – will bring abundant fruits for the Church and even “for the whole human race,” while warning moderately against excessive trust in earthly institutions and stressing the need for orderly preparation, public information, and pastoral openness. This apparently pious and tranquil text is in fact a programmatic manifesto of the coming conciliar revolution, cloaking a radical reorientation of the Church’s mission under biblical phrases and sentimental optimism.

Pope John XXIII addressing bishops during his 1962 allocution at the Vatican, highlighting the doctrinal concerns and the contrast between traditional Catholicism and conciliar optimism.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.04.03)

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John XXIII’s allocution of 3 April 1962, delivered at the close of the fifth session of the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II, offers a self-congratulatory panorama of the preparatory work, exalts harmonious debate among bishops, praises contemporary interest in the liturgy, endorses the modern means of social communication and “progress” of arts and sciences, laments difficulties facing missions, and concludes with sentimental symbolism (the “golden rose”) as an omen of joy and hope for the coming council. In reality, this speech is a programmatic manifesto of horizontal optimism, naturalistic trust in modern culture, and deliberate muting of the integral Catholic combat against error—an omen not of renewal, but of doctrinal disarmament and ecclesial self-dissolution.

A solemn image of a secret consistory in Vatican City in 1962, presided over by John XXIII, featuring cardinals in traditional scarlet robes.

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LA IOANNES PP. XXIII SACRA CONSISTORIA (1962.03.19)

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The text records the secret consistory of 19 March 1962 under John XXIII: formal acts regarding the Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals, an allocution on the death of cardinals, laments about restrictions on civil and religious liberties, announcement and creation of ten new members of the College of Cardinals, and the programmatic decision that all cardinals, including those of the diaconal order, are to receive episcopal consecration, all set within the ideological horizon of the impending Vatican II. The entire document is a carefully choreographed manifesto of a new power-structure and a new ecclesiology that already severs itself from the perennial doctrine of the Church and replaces it with a sacralised, bureaucratic progressivism.

A Catholic bishop addressing an assembly in a Vatican hall with traditional religious symbols and stained glass windows.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII on Christian Unity Secretariat (1962.03.08)

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The text is a brief allocution of John XXIII to the members and consultors of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (Secretariatus pro unitate christianorum assequenda) in March 1962, praising their work in preparing Vatican II, exalting their “charity” toward non-Catholics, extending benevolent language even to all “upright and God-fearing men” as cooperators of the Kingdom of God, and presenting the Secretariat’s activity as a legitimate continuation of the Church’s pastoral mission in the spirit of Trent. It is precisely in these apparently pious formulas that we see the programmatic displacement of the Catholic doctrine of the one Church by an irenic, humanistic, and proto-syncretic rhetoric that prepares the conciliar revolution.

Pope John XXIII delivering a 1962 allocution to bishops and cardinals in a traditional Roman basilica, with dim candlelight and a sense of foreboding.

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La allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.02.27)

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The text is a brief allocution delivered by John XXIII on 27 February 1962 at the close of the fourth session of the Central Preparatory Commission for the so‑called Second Vatican Council. He praises the work on seminary and studies reform, evokes the Tridentine decrees on priestly formation, laments contemporary difficulties, exhorts to foster vocations and holy priests, and sentimentally recalls St Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows as an ideal of youthful sanctity, ending with pious encouragement and an “apostolic blessing.” From the standpoint of unchanging Catholic doctrine, this gentle discourse is not anodyne, but a calculated chrysalis in which the future demolition of priesthood, seminaries, and sacral life is wrapped in sugar-coated rhetoric and weaponised sentimentality.

Antipope John XXIII addressing the Central Commission for Vatican II in 1962, surrounded by cardinals and clergy in traditional liturgical vestments in a grand Vatican hall adorned with religious art.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Commissionem Centralem (1962.02.20)

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At the opening of the fourth session of the Central Commission preparing the so‑called Vatican II, John XXIII addresses cardinals and officials with condolences for deceased members, sentimental Marian references (notably to Czestochowa), praise for the Polish hierarchy, and a pious-sounding exhortation that their labors serve “the glory of God” and the preparation of a “perfect people” for the Lord. Beneath this polished facade lies the serene self-presentation of a man already engaged in subverting the integral Catholic order: the speech is a calm overture to revolution disguised as continuity.

Pope John XXIII speaking to the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II in 1962, standing in a Vatican hall adorned with Catholic iconography.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.01.23)

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Venerable Brothers and beloved sons – thus speaks Roncalli, presenting with self-satisfied serenity the completion of another preparatory session for the so‑called Second Vatican Council. He praises the “central commission,” exalts the global collaboration of experts, bishops, universities, laity; he repeats the vocabulary of “joy,” “service,” “unity,” and announces two acts: a universal call to prayer for the Council and a document promoting the Latin language in seminaries. The entire allocution is a soft-focus celebration of organizational zeal and consensual optimism surrounding an event that, as history proved, would become the detonator of the conciliar revolution.

John XXIII delivering his 1961 allocution in a Vatican Hall, surrounded by bishops and experts, with traditional Catholic symbols in the background.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1961.11.07)

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At this plenary session address of November 7, 1961, John XXIII extols the work of the Central Commission preparing the so-called Second Vatican Council, praises the zeal of bishops and experts drafting schemas, invokes worldwide expectations (including those “separated from the Church” and even non-baptized), calls for confidence, human cooperation, respect for the “human person,” and presents the coming Council as a response to contemporary aspirations for peace, progress, and unity; in doing so, he proposes a council oriented not to the condemnation of errors and the restoration of the social Kingship of Christ, but to dialogue with the world and reassurance of mankind.

A somber depiction of John XXIII delivering an allocution at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1961. The scene reflects the naturalistic and sentimental tone of the conciliar era.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Domum Cattolicam Studiorum Universitatis a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu (1961.11.05)

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The allocution attributed to John XXIII on 5 November 1961 briefly celebrates the inauguration of the Roman house of the so‑called Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, praises its founders and benefactors (especially Agostino Gemelli), recounts with sentiment the continuity from Pius XI and Pius XII, extols medical science united with “Christian wisdom,” and invokes Mary as Seat of Wisdom and Health of the Sick over this institution dedicated to medical teaching in Rome. It is a short, congratulatory discourse presenting the fusion of academic medicine and a vague Christian inspiration as a noble apostolate for the good of man, without one word about the primacy of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the necessity of the state of grace, the rights of Christ the King over States, or the errors devouring the Church and universities at that very hour; this silence itself unmasks the text as a symptom of the conciliar revolution that prefers sentimental naturalism to integral Catholic faith.

John XXIII addressing Jesuits in Rome, 1961. Solemn scene in a candlelit hall with ornate architecture, depicting the Pope's allocution to the Society of Jesus.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad sodales Societatis Iesu (1961.10.01)

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This brief Latin allocution of John XXIII on 1 October 1961, addressed to Jesuits gathered in Rome, praises their global apostolate, exalts their special vow of obedience to the Roman See, and urges them to persevere in fidelity to the “Successor of Peter,” spreading piety, moral integrity, and truth among all social classes. It closes with an affectionate blessing, depicting the Society of Jesus as a consoling vanguard of ecclesial service under his authority. In reality, this address is a concentrated programmatic signal: the harnessing of the once-militant Ignatian order into obedient instruments of the conciliar revolution and the coming neo-church.