November 2025 – Page 74 – Antipope John XXIII

A traditional Catholic depiction of Blessed Joaquina de Vedruna de Mas in prayer, symbolizing her sanctity and maternal charity.

Materna caritas (1959.04.12)

amdg / 2025-11-08

Materna caritas is an April 12, 1959 Latin decretal letter in which the usurper John XXIII narrates the life of Joaquina (Joachima) de Vedruna de Mas, praises her virtues as wife, mother, widow, and foundress of the Carmelites of Charity, rehearses the earlier stages of her cause, and solemnly promulgates her canonization together with Charles of Sezze as an act “ad honorem Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis” and for the “augmentation” of the Church. The text presents the recognition of her sanctity and miracles as a definitive exercise of papal authority and an expression of the Church’s maternal charity.

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows praying at Isola del Gran Sasso shrine in traditional Passionist habit with 19th-century pilgrims in reverent devotion.

Apostolic Letters

Quantum dilectionis (1959.04.10)

amdg / 2025-11-08

Quantum dilectionis is an Apostolic Letter of John XXIII, issued in 1959, that proclaims St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Gabriel a Virgine Perdolente) the principal heavenly patron of the Abruzzi (Aprutium) region, extolling his cult, highlighting the shrine at Isola del Gran Sasso as a center of piety, and decreeing liturgical rights and privileges accordingly; beneath the seemingly pious surface, this act functions as an early ritual consolidation of the conciliar usurpation, parasitically appropriating a pre-conciliar saint to lend supernatural prestige to an emerging neo-church that would soon betray the very faith Gabriel professed.

A solemn image depicting the usurpation of apostolic authority through the elevation of the dubious Fatima cult, showing a bishop holding a document titled 'Qui huius saeculi' in a grand cathedral.

Apostolic Letters

Qui huius saeculi (1959.03.23)

amdg / 2025-11-08

Qui huius saeculi is an act of John XXIII by which the structures occupying the Vatican, allegedly in virtue of “apostolic” authority, designate the “Virgin of Fatima” as principal patroness (together with St. Dominic) of the Diocese of Santo Domingo de Nueve de Julio in Argentina. In a few paragraphs of pious-sounding Latin, this text fuses the paramasonic Fatima operation with diocesan life, binds it liturgically, and presents devotion to “Our Lady of Fatima” and the reign of her Immaculate Heart as a privileged path of salvation for “those who tread the dark paths of this age.” This apparently small act is in reality a symptom and instrument of a new religion: it enthrones a fabricated apparition, relativizes the exclusive Kingship of Christ, and subordinates authentic Marian devotion to a political-ecumenical project that serves the conciliar sect rather than the Catholic Church.

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor of the Church, depicted in traditional Franciscan habit with a Scripture book, set in a 16th-century chapel with Marian symbols.

Apostolic Letters

Celsitudo ex humilitate (1959.03.19)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The document under consideration is an Apostolic Letter of John XXIII, “Celsitudo ex humilitate,” issued 19 March 1959, by which he solemnly declares Saint Lawrence of Brindisi a Doctor of the Universal Church, exalting his Franciscan humility, his linguistic and theological erudition, his anti-Protestant polemics, his Marian doctrine, and his services to princes and peoples, and ordering his liturgical cult as Doctor throughout the Church.

Pope John XXIII signs the 'Boni Pastoris' motu proprio document in Vatican City surrounded by Roman Curia officials and historical religious artifacts.

Apostolic Letters

Boni Pastoris (1959.02.22)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The document titled “Boni Pastoris,” issued motu proprio by John XXIII on 22 February 1959, reorganizes and strengthens the Roman structure responsible for cinema, radio, and television, transforming the existing body into a “Pontifical Commission for Cinematography, Radio and Television” with stable curial status and wide coordinating, consultative, and promotional competences. It presents these modern media as providential instruments, to be used for “moral uplift,” evangelization, youth education, and the diffusion of “truth,” and establishes juridical norms to centralize oversight of Catholic initiatives in these fields under the See of Rome.

Historic Church of Saint Mercurialis in Forlì, Italy, with devout faithful in prayer, reflecting traditional Catholic devotion and solemnity.

Apostolic Letters

Urbis Fori Livii (1959.01.16)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The text is a brief Latin decree of the usurper John XXIII, in which he confers on the church of Saint Mercurialis in Forlì (Foro Livii) the title and privileges of a minor basilica, appealing to its antiquity, artistic value, popular attachment, and the cult of Saint Mercurialis as first bishop of the city. It is a perfectly characteristic specimen of the early rhetoric of the conciliar revolution: externally pious and canonico-bureaucratic, yet functioning as a liturgical-anthropological ornament on the façade of an authority that had already defected from the integral Catholic faith, transforming sacred titles into decorative tokens within a paramasonic system usurping the name of the Church.

Exterior view of the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Seven Sorrows in Pescara, Italy

Apostolic Letters

Pientissima Virgo (1959.01.16)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The Latin text under the title “Pientissima Virgo,” dated 16 January 1959 and attributed to John XXIII, grants to the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Seven Sorrows in Pescara the title and juridical privileges of a Minor Basilica, with a brief historical note on the sanctuary, a mention of the supposed miraculous discovery of the image, the devotion of the faithful, and the involvement of the Capuchins; it concludes by invoking “apostolic” authority to ratify the concession in perpetuity.

A reverent Catholic priest kneeling in prayer before the altar of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, with historical and theological tension between tradition and the conciliar revolution.

Apostolic Letters

Opere nobilissimo (1959.01.14)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The document “Opere nobilissimo” of John XXIII grants plenary and partial indulgences, as well as privileged-altar status, to the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, under specified conditions (confession, “Communion,” prayers for the “pope,” etc.), presenting this as a continuation of the beneficent tradition of previous pontiffs and as a stimulus to piety for pilgrims visiting the basilica. It is a short text, liturgically framed and juridically precise, whose center of gravity is the attachment of spiritual favors to a place personally linked to John XXIII’s earlier career, bound to prayers “ad mentem Summi Pontificis.” In reality, this apparently pious concession is a calculated piece of the new regime’s spiritual engineering, instrumentalizing the treasure of the Church to bind souls to an emergent conciliar sect and to the person of a future antipope, thereby poisoning authentic devotion at its source.

Historical church of Notre Dame de Joie in Pontivy, France, during a solemn ceremony conferring the title of minor basilica by John XXIII.

Apostolic Letters

Gaudii Nuntia (1959.01.10)

amdg / 2025-11-08

In this Latin decree, John XXIII confers the title and privileges of a minor basilica upon the parish church of “Notre Dame de Joie” in Pontivy (diocese of Vannes), appealing to ancient Marian devotion, the historical veneration of an image of the Blessed Virgin, the gratitude for deliverance from cholera in 1696, and the architectural and devotional significance of the church; the text clothes a purely juridical act of conferring an honorary title in solemn formulae asserting the efficacy, permanence, and authority of his decision.

The Blessed Virgin Mary under the title 'from the Most Holy Rosary de Arma' as principal patroness of Sonsón diocese with Bishop Albertus Uribe Urdaneta and faithful in prayer.

Apostolic Letters

INCLITAM DEI GENETRICEM (1958.11.28)

amdg / 2025-11-08

The document attributed to John XXIII under the title “Inclitam Dei Genetricem” is a brief act by which the newly elected author, in his first year, “confirms and constitutes” the Blessed Virgin Mary under the local title of “from the Most Holy Rosary de Arma” as principal heavenly patroness of the diocese of Sonsón (Colombia), granting the corresponding liturgical honors and privileges, and wrapping this act in the standard formulae of alleged apostolic authority and perpetual validity.