Letters – Page 12 – Antipope John XXIII

A reverent Catholic priest in traditional vestments receives a letter from Pope John XXIII in a sunlit study with religious artifacts, symbolizing the contrast between Brisbane's ecclesiastical growth and doctrinal silence.

A A A LA IOANNES PP. XXIII (1959.05.17)

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The brief Latin letter attributed to John XXIII addresses Archbishop James Duhig of Brisbane on the centenary of the Brisbane diocese, praising the external growth of ecclesiastical structures in Queensland: new dioceses, parishes, schools, hospitals, charitable works, and especially the dedication of a provincial seminary named after Pius XII. It showers benign approval on the planned solemn celebrations and expresses paternal wishes that clergy and faithful progress in charity, obedience, observance of God’s law, and good works, concluding with an Apostolic Blessing.

A reverent depiction of John XXIII addressing the Argentine hierarchy, highlighting the tension between true Catholic faith and conciliar diplomacy.

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Si ingratae mentis (1959.05.11)

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The letter “Si ingratae mentis” of John XXIII, addressed to Antonio Caggiano and the Argentine hierarchy on the anniversaries of diplomatic relations with the Holy See and of the erection of several ecclesiastical provinces, offers formal thanks for “celestial gifts,” praises institutional expansion (new dioceses, parishes, schools, hospitals, Catholic Action), and extols the Argentine State’s decision to participate officially in the celebrations as a sign of harmony between “Petri Sedes” and the nation. Beneath its pious biblical ornament and courtly compliments, this text manifests the already-advanced substitution of supernatural Catholicity by diplomatic self-congratulation and national-religious humanism, prefiguring the conciliar sect’s total betrayal of the kingship of Christ in favor of the modern cult of the State and of man.

Pope Ioannes XXIII in solemn reflection before Roman architecture with Saint Francis in background, symbolizing historical and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism

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Cum natalicia (1959.04.04)

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A brief letter of Ioannes XXIII, dated April 4, 1959, congratulates the Franciscan superiors general on the 750th anniversary of Innocent III’s oral approbation of the Franciscan Rule, praises Saint Francis as model of evangelical poverty and charity, exhorts the Orders to fidelity to their Rule, fervent preaching, and exemplary life, and invokes Mary’s protection and a blessing for their apostolate. This apparently devout exhortation functions as a pious veil covering the nascent conciliar revolution that will exploit the Franciscan name to sanctify naturalism, anthropocentrism, and rebellion against the integral reign of Christ the King.

A solemn Catholic ceremony transferring St. Pius X's relics from St. Peter's Basilica to the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, with John XXIII's legate overseeing.

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Primo exacto (1959.03.29)

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The document “Primo exacto” (29 March 1959) is a brief Latin letter in which John XXIII appoints Giovanni Urbani, Patriarch of Venice, as his legate for solemn celebrations in Venice in honor of St. Pius X, on the centenary of Pius X’s priestly ordination and on the occasion of the temporary transfer of the saint’s relics from St. Peter’s Basilica to the Basilica of St. Mark. John XXIII effusively praises St. Pius X as a vigilant pastor and faithful dispenser of the mysteries of God, approves and extols the planned festivities, symbolically associates himself with them through his legate, and grants a plenary indulgence to the faithful under the usual conditions.

St. Antoninus of Florence, Dominican Archbishop, in traditional habit with a manuscript of his Summa Theologica in the historic San Marco Church.

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A A A LA IOANNES PP. XXIII (1959.02.24)

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Florence commemorates the fifth centenary of the holy death of St. Antoninus, Dominican of San Marco and Archbishop of that city, and Giovanni Roncalli (John XXIII) addresses Cardinal Dalla Costa with paternal greetings, praising the virtues, austerities, pastoral zeal, Marian devotion, and doctrinal writings of the saint, urging the clergy and faithful to imitate his example. He cites Gregory the Great on the bishop as exemplar, recalls the praise of Eugenius IV, Adrian VI, Clement VII, and Pius XI, and concludes with an Apostolic Blessing intended to crown the jubilee celebrations with spiritual fruit. This seemingly edifying letter, however, is a paradigmatic exercise in appropriating an authentic pre-modern saint in order to clothe the nascent conciliar revolution with borrowed credibility, while carefully evading the dogmatic edge of St. Antoninus’ theology and of the pre-1958 Magisterium that condemns precisely the humanistic, liberal, and modernist tendencies embodied by Roncalli and the structures that followed him.

A solemn Marian Congress in Saigon, 1959, with Cardinal Agagianian as papal legate presiding over a pontifical Mass before devout Vietnamese faithful.

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Exeunte Iubilari (1959.01.31)

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John XXIII’s Latin letter “Exeunte Iubilari,” addressed to Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, concerns the appointment of the Armenian patriarch as papal legate to a Marian Congress in Saigon at the close of the centenary year of the alleged Lourdes apparitions. The text praises Vietnamese bishops for organizing a solemn Marian Congress, extols the supposed fruits of devotion to the Immaculate Virgin, declares that the Lord “willed that we have everything through Mary,” and grants to the legate powers to preside, pontifically celebrate, and bestow a plenary indulgence in the name and by the authority of John XXIII on the attending faithful.

A solemn yet theologically deviant Guatemalan Eucharistic Congress in 1959, presided over by Francis Spellman, reflecting the neo-church's shift away from supernatural priorities.

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Certiores quidem (1959.01.29)

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The document is a Latin letter in which John XXIII appoints Francis Spellman as his legate for a Central American Eucharistic Congress in Guatemala (February 1959). It praises Spellman’s prestige, grants him authority to preside “in our name,” and outlines the Congress’s main themes: how the Most Holy Eucharist serves domestic concord, youth education, social harmony between classes, and the perfection of the human person, all ordered to the tranquillity and prosperity of the republic. The text wraps this program in pious formulas and a Marian invocation, but it instrumentalizes the Eucharist for horizontal, socio-political ends and confirms the usurper’s project of replacing the Kingship of Christ with a sacramentalized humanism.

Vietnamese Catholics in traditional attire at a Marian Congress in Saigon, 1959, with clergy and a cardinal legate representing John XXIII's false authority.

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Animo nostro (1959.01.25)

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In this Latin letter of 25 January 1959, John XXIII addresses the apostolic vicars of Vietnam, praising their decision to hold in Saigon a Marian Congress at the close of the Lourdes centenary celebrations and for the tercentenary of the establishment of the first apostolic vicariates in those regions. He extols Vietnamese Catholics’ fidelity, lauds the fruits of the missions, highlights the numerical growth of Catholics and indigenous clergy, expresses paternal solidarity with the faithful in Northern Vietnam suffering difficulties, and appoints Gregory Peter Agagianian as his legate to the celebrations, attaching spiritual favours and his “apostolic blessing.” The entire text, apparently pious and Marian, functions as a subtle manifesto of the nascent conciliar revolution: it instrumentalizes a dubious apparition, glorifies a colonial-missionary model already being emptied from within, silently shifts the axis from the social Kingship of Christ to a pacifist-naturalist rhetoric, and consolidates obedience to a usurped authority in the structures occupying Rome.

John XXIII writing 'Existimationi Nostrae' (1959) in Vatican chambers, symbolizing the duality of praising Romans while subverting its doctrine.

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Existimationi nostrae (1959.01.14)

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This brief Latin letter of John XXIII to Cardinal Giuseppe Pizzardo praises the initiative of the Pontifical Roman Theological Academy to commemorate the nineteen centuries since the sending of the Epistle to the Romans, extols the Epistle as the summit of Pauline doctrine and foundation of Christian theology, encourages deeper theological study and pastoral application of Romans in Rome itself, and concludes with a blessing for increased wisdom and charity. One immediately perceives, however, the characteristic duplicity of the conciliar revolution: the usurper cloaks his future subversion of Pauline doctrine under a pious homage to the very Epistle that anathematizes the false gospel he was about to enthrone.

A reverent image of Pope St. Pius X in a grand cathedral, holding the Syllabus of Errors while German bishops kneel before him.

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In primordio (1958.12.23)

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In this Latin letter dated 23 December 1958, John XXIII addresses cardinals and bishops in Germany, responding to their collective message to Pius XII. He praises their loyalty to the Roman See, extols the German nation’s virtues, expresses compassion for those suffering under communism and displacement, commends fidelity to concordats with the Apostolic See, and exhorts the hierarchy to steadfast pastoral governance, concluding with pious wishes for Christmas peace and the Apostolic Blessing.