November 2025 – Page 75 – Antipope John XXIII

Traditional Catholic church interior with a portable altar surrounded by clerics from the 1958 conclave, reflecting spiritual privilege and institutional favoritism.

Divini Pastoris (1958.11.12)

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This brief Latin text, issued as motu proprio “Divini Pastoris” by John XXIII on 12 November 1958, grants to specific prelates and clerics who served in the recent conclave: (1) the privilege of a portable altar according to canon 822 §3 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, with some restrictions; and (2) a one-time free reception of apostolic letters and provisions for any benefices granted to them. The entire document is framed as an act of paternal benevolence toward conclave officials and attendants, rewarding their service with spiritual and legal favors.

A traditional Catholic missionary scene in Papua in 1959, reflecting the true mission of the Church before conciliar changes.

Apostolic Constitutions

Portus Moresby (1959.07.16)

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John XXIII’s apostolic constitution “Portus Moresby” (1959) reorganizes mission territories in Papua by carving new ecclesiastical jurisdictions—Yule Island vicariate and Daru prefecture—from the existing Port Moresby vicariate, assigning them to specific missionary congregations, and redefining borders with Samarai. Behind the seemingly technical redrawing of lines and the bureaucratic invocation of papal authority stands the incipient program of conciliar subversion: the transformation of the apostolic hierarchy into an administrative apparatus preparing the “Church of the New Advent” in place of the Mystical Body of Christ.

A traditional Catholic priest stands solemnly in front of the New York World's Fair pavilion dedicated to the Apostolic See, reflecting on the contrast between timeless faith and modern worldliness.

Messages

Nuntius radiophonicus ad expositionem Neo-Eboracensem (1962.10.31)

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In this short radiophonic message of 31 October 1962, John XXIII sends his greetings for the opening of the New York World’s Fair pavilion dedicated to the so-called Apostolic See. He praises the event as a testimony to human ingenuity and labour for “civilisation,” expresses hope that it will bind peoples together in friendship for the “common good,” and voices confidence that technological progress will effectively serve “spiritual advancement,” upon which “secure peace and true prosperity” are said to rest. The entire text is a courteous benediction of technical progress and international cooperation in purely natural terms, attaching to it the prestige of the Roman Pontificate.

A solemn scene depicting the signing of the Apostolic Constitution 'Lagosensis' by 'John XXIII' in a Vatican room, surrounded by cardinals in red robes.

Apostolic Constitutions

Lagosensis (Kadunaënsis) (1959.07.16)

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This Latin text is an Apostolic Constitution of John XXIII from 16 July 1959, by which he elevates the diocese of Kaduna in northern Nigeria to a metropolitan archdiocese and erects a new ecclesiastical province (Kadunaensis) with Kaduna as metropolitan see and Jos and Otukpo as suffragan dioceses, juridically detaching them from Lagos and Onitsha and granting the new metropolitan the usual canonical rights, privileges, and obligations, to be executed through the papal delegation and recorded according to curial formalities.

A solemn Catholic priest in liturgical vestments holds a map of the newly erected Apostolic Vicariate of Goma, surrounded by indigenous clergy in a lush African landscape.

Apostolic Constitutions

Bukavuensis (1959.06.30)

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The Latin text under examination is the apostolic constitution by which John XXIII reorganizes the missionary jurisdiction in the then Belgian Congo, detaching territories from the Apostolic Vicariate of Bukavu to erect a new Apostolic Vicariate of Goma, formally entrusted to indigenous clergy. It delineates borders in meticulous civil-geographical terms, confirms all ordinary canonical rights and duties for the new circumscription, delegates execution to the apostolic delegate, and closes with the usual juridical formulas of perpetuity, nullity of contrary acts, and sanctions for disobedience. The entire document presents itself as an act of pastoral solicitude and missionary promotion, yet it stands as an early juridical symptom of the conciliar subversion to come, cloaking the mutation of the Church’s nature in seemingly neutral cartography and bureaucratic piety.

A traditional Catholic bishop in full liturgical regalia stands solemnly before the cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Hiroshima, Japan.

Apostolic Constitutions

Hiroshimensis (1959.06.30)

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The document “Hiroshimensis,” dated 30 June 1959 and signed by antipope John XXIII, declares the elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Hiroshima to the rank of a diocese, assigns it as suffragan to Nagasaki, entrusts it to local clergy, orders the establishment of a cathedral chapter and seminary, regulates temporal goods, and mandates execution through the Apostolic Internuncio and the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith,” claiming perpetual canonical force for all these provisions within the conciliar structure.

Traditional Catholic bishop in Santa Cruz do Sul Cathedral contemplating the usurpation of authority under John XXIII.

Apostolic Constitutions

Constitutio Apostolica Portalegrensis in Brasilia (1959.06.20)

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The Latin text attributed to John XXIII announces the erection of a new ecclesiastical circumscription in Brazil, the so-called Diocese of “Sanctae Crucis in Brasilia” (Santa Cruz do Sul), by detaching specified municipalities from the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, defining territorial limits, designating Santa Cruz do Sul as episcopal see, raising the parish church of St John the Baptist to cathedral rank, determining suffragan dependence on Porto Alegre, ordering the creation of a chapter or diocesan consultors, prescribing at least an elementary seminary, regulating economic support for the new structure, and imposing canonical procedures for documents and governance. All of this is wrapped in solemn legalistic formulas asserting universal jurisdiction and demanding unconditional obedience to the will of the signer.

A traditional Catholic scene depicting John XXIII addressing the Filipino people during the 1959 missionary year, highlighting the subtle subversion of missionary language.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Philippinarum Insulas (1959.12.06)

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The text is a short Latin address of John XXIII to the hierarchy and faithful of the Philippine islands on the occasion of a “missionary year,” praising their zeal, exalting the spread of the “Kingdom of Christ” through missionary initiatives, commending the collaboration of clergy and laity, and imparting a blessing under the patronage of Our Lady of the Rosary, with emphasis on generosity for missions and the universal scope of the “Catholic religion.” The entire allocution, though clothed in traditional vocabulary, already reveals the programmatic redirection of apostolic mission toward sentimental activism and proto-conciliar humanism that would shortly blossom into the conciliar revolution.

Traditional Catholic priest holding decree in Ruanda-Urundi highlands, symbolizing doctrinal tension between authentic mission and conciliar revolution.

Apostolic Constitutions

Constitutio Apostolica NGOZIENSIS – KITEGAËNSIS (1959.06.11)

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The text establishes, by decree of John XXIII, a new Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura (in then-Ruanda-Urundi) carved out of the Vicariates of Ngozi and Kitega, entrusted in principle to indigenous clergy, with the usual juridical rights and obligations of such missionary circumscriptions; it presents this purely administrative act as an expression of zeal for the propagation of the faith and local ecclesial maturity. In reality, it is an early and highly symptomatic piece of the conciliar revolution: a technocratic partition of territories that cloaks the demolition of authentic Catholic mission under the rhetoric of decentralisation, promotion of indigenous elites, and subjection of the Church to the geopolitical designs of the same forces condemned by Pius IX and St. Pius X.

A solemn gathering of Marian Congregations in Novara, Italy, 1959, reflecting traditional Catholic piety and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Speeches

LA IOANNES PP. XXIII NUNTIUS RADIOPHONICUS (1959.08.20)

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John XXIII’s 1959 radio message to the Marian Congregations gathered in Novara is a brief, ornate exhortation that praises their zeal, presents them as a disciplined “pious militia” within the Church, urges total Marian consecration, and reads the contemporary age as specially “Marian,” calling them to spread devotion to the Blessed Virgin and to adapt their lay apostolate, in organized fashion, to the circumstances of modern times. Behind this seemingly pious rhetoric stands the proto-program of the conciliar revolution: the instrumentalization of Marian devotion to prepare a laicized, anthropocentric apostolate, detached from the integral doctrine of Christ the King and subordinated to the soon-to-emerge neo-church of Vatican II.