On Pentecost 1959, John XXIII addresses a radiophonic “celebration” linking seven major churches across Europe, each singing successive stanzas of the hymn “Veni Creator Spiritus,” which he presents as a symbolic renewal of the Cenacle event, a “new song” of charity, unity, victory, and peace, culminating in a brief doxology to the Most Holy Trinity and a general blessing.
John XXIII’s radio “message” of 20 August 1959 to the Marian Congregation sodalities gathered in Novara is, at first glance, a pious exhortation: it greets Archbishop Józef Gawlina and the assembled clergy and laity; it praises Marian sodalities as “vanguards” of apostolic action; it urges consecration to Our Lady, imitation of her virtues, and generous lay apostolate adapted to “the conditions of our times.” It repeatedly extols Mary as the path to Christ, citing Bernard of Clairvaux, and presents Marian sodalities as a disciplined “pious militia” within the Church, ordered to spreading devotion, defending “holy laws,” and engaging in charitable works in modern society.
Yet beneath the devout surface, this address subtly relocates Marian devotion and lay “apostolate” into the programmatic framework of the incipient conciliar revolution, preparing souls for naturalistic activism, laicized ecclesiology, and submission to a new orientation of the “Church,” in which Our Lady is instrumentalized as a decorative emblem for a coming apostasy rather than as the implacable defender of the integral Catholic faith.
This radiophonic message of John XXIII, addressed to the hierarchy and faithful of the Philippine Islands at the close of a “missionary year” in 1959, praises their initiatives, exalts their zeal for propagating Catholic faith, encourages generosity for “sacred expeditions” and missionary works, and concludes with an ostensibly pious blessing invoking Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary. Behind the ornamented phrases of missionary enthusiasm, however, the text already manifests the subtle displacement of the true Catholic mission by a conciliatory, naturalized, and proto-conciliar vision that would soon mature into the conciliar revolution itself.
On October 29, 1958, shortly after the death of Pius XII, Angelo Roncalli as “John XXIII” delivered from the Sistine Chapel a solemn radio message to the “entire Catholic world.” He presents himself as unexpectedly burdened by the papal office, extends paternal greetings and blessings to the “Sacred College,” bishops, clergy, religious, laity, with particular sympathy for persecuted Catholics, calls civil rulers to peace and disarmament, and appeals to separated Eastern Christians and other non-Catholics to return to unity under the Roman See. The text culminates in a discourse on peace as ordered concord, invoking Augustine and classical authors, and concludes with a Urbi et Orbi-style benediction.
Present in spirit at the inauguration in New York of the building reserved to the so‑called Apostolic See at the universal exposition, the speaker congratulates the organizers, extols technical progress and international cooperation, expresses the hope that technological achievements will contribute to “spiritual progress” as the basis of peace and prosperity, and invokes divine assistance upon this initiative; in a few smooth paragraphs of diplomatic euphoria he reduces the visible presence of the “Holy See” among the nations to a ceremonial endorsement of globalist exhibitionism and naturalistic optimism, without a single word on the Social Kingship of Christ, the true Church, the Most Holy Sacrifice, conversion, sin, or judgment—thus revealing a mentality radically foreign to, and in practice opposed to, integral Catholic doctrine.
The radiophonic message of John XXIII, dated April 27, 1959, exhorts bishops, clergy, religious, and laity to intensified Marian prayers during May for the success of the planned ecumenical council, presenting the Blessed Virgin as powerful intercessor, model of prayer with the Apostles at Pentecost, and heavenly patroness whose aid is sought above all for this impending assembly.
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.
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.
In this brief radiophonic message of 27 April 1959, antipope John XXIII calls bishops, clergy, religious, and laity to intensified Marian prayers during May, explicitly to obtain from the Blessed Virgin the “happy outcome” of the then newly announced so‑called Ecumenical Council. He presents Mary as powerful mediatrix, closely united with the Church from Pentecost, urges public and domestic devotions, Rosaries, novenas before Pentecost, and sacrificial offerings of the sick and of children’s prayers, so that, through this united supplication, a “new Pentecost” may smile upon the Christian family and favor his conciliar project. In reality, this apparently pious exhortation is the spiritual packaging of the greatest subversion in Church history: a sentimental Marian veil thrown over the preparation of the conciliar revolution that would enthrone laicism, religious relativism, and the cult of man, in direct betrayal of the Kingship of Christ and the integral Catholic faith.
In this short radio message of 19 February 1959, John XXIII addresses the Vietnamese hierarchy on the occasion of a Marian Congress in Saigon, commemorating both the Lourdes centenary celebrations and the 300th anniversary of the establishment of Apostolic Vicariates in Vietnam. He praises Marian devotion, exalts the memory of missionaries and martyrs, rejoices at the numerical growth of Catholics (about 1.5 million), commends the indigenous clergy, expresses sorrow for those in the North unable to attend because of political circumstances, assures them of his spiritual closeness, and appoints Gregory Peter Agagianian as his legate for the event, concluding with a so‑called “Apostolic Blessing.” The entire tone is one of diplomatic congratulation, sentimental encouragement, and historical celebration—while remaining radically silent about the modernist subversion already emanating from Rome, thus revealing the inner contradiction of a message that invokes Catholic language while serving the nascent conciliar revolution.
