Motu Proprio – Page 2 – Antipope John XXIII

Traditional Catholic seminary classroom in Rome, 1962, with seminarians studying under a professor's guidance.

Fidei Propagandae (1962.10.01)

amdg / 2025-11-12

The Latin text entitled “Fidei Propagandae” (1962.10.01), issued by antipope John XXIII, is presented as a motu proprio elevating the Pontifical Athenaeum Urbanianum to the title and status of “Pontifical Urban University,” framed as a continuation of the work of Propaganda Fide and as an instrument for forming clergy—especially from mission territories—to spread the Gospel worldwide. It praises the Urban College’s history since Urban VIII, stresses academic dignity, legal recognition, and alignment with Pius XI’s Deus scientiarum Dominus, and links this academic promotion explicitly with the imminent Vatican II as a sign of the Church’s universal mission. In reality, this text is a programmatic consolidation of the emerging conciliar sect’s apparatus: it weaponizes missionary language to install a paramasonic, pseudo-academic infrastructure ordered not to the reign of Christ the King, but to the global diffusion of Modernist, naturalistic, and ecumenical ideology.

A reverent depiction of the Pontifical Urban University's historic hall with antipope John XXIII's document 'Fidei Propagandae,' symbolizing the institution's role in the Neo-Church's ecumenical agenda.

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Fidei Propagandae (1962.10.01)

amdg / 2025-11-10

This Latin text, issued by antipope John XXIII on 1 October 1962 under the title “Fidei Propagandae,” pretends to elevate the Pontifical Athenaeum Urbanianum to the status and name of a “Pontifical Urban University,” praising its historic role in missionary formation and aligning its structure with the norms of Pius XI’s Deus scientiarum Dominus, so that it may enjoy full academic recognition in Rome and worldwide. Behind the academic flattery and curial formalism stands a calculated step in weaponizing ecclesiastical institutions for the coming conciliar revolution, subordinating genuine missionary zeal to a humanistic, juridicized, and soon-to-be-modernist apparatus that will export the new religion to the nations.

Image depicting Antipope John XXIII's creation of honorary canons in Roman basilicas before Vatican II.

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Templorum Decus (1962.09.11)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The document promulgated by antipope John XXIII under the title “Templorum Decus” (11 September 1962) announces the creation of “honorary canons” in the three principal Roman basilicas (Lateran, St Peter’s, St Mary Major). It extols the splendour of sacred worship in Rome, invokes the unique dignity of the Eternal City as “head” of Catholic life, and frames this honorary expansion of capitular ranks as both a sign of favor toward certain clergy and a suitable ornament for the imminent “Second Vatican Council.” In essence, it is a juridical-administrative act that clothes itself in pious language to justify multiplying purely titular dignities, while carefully avoiding any clear doctrinal teaching or call to penance.

Already in nuce, this text reveals a liturgical aestheticism and bureaucratic clericalism that serve as a cosmetic veil for the conciliar revolution about to be unleashed.

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Appropinquante Concilio (1962.08.06)

amdg / 2025-11-10

Appropinquante Concilio is the motu proprio of John XXIII establishing the procedural norms, structures, personnel, and voting mechanisms for the upcoming Second Vatican Council: it solemnly anticipates a “marvelous spectacle” of bishops from all nations, defines who are “Conciliar Fathers,” erects commissions, a technical and ecumenical secretariat, an administrative tribunal, sets Latin as the official language, codifies secrecy, and details how schemas are to be proposed, debated, amended, and finally approved for promulgation by the “pope.” Behind its juridical precision, this document is the cold, technocratic blueprint for institutionalized apostasy, architecting the conciliar revolution that would mutilate doctrine, worship, and discipline under a pseudo-Catholic facade.

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Cum gravissima (1962.04.15)

amdg / 2025-11-10

John XXIII’s motu proprio “Cum gravissima” (15 April 1962) decrees that all members of the Sacred College of Cardinals are henceforth to be raised to episcopal dignity, modifying canons so that every Cardinal, including Cardinal Deacons, may act with pontifical rites in their respective churches, while formally preserving the tripartite division (episcopal, presbyteral, diaconal) de iure. The text justifies this institutional engineering by appealing to the “grave” responsibilities of the College, its advisory role to the Roman Pontiff, its international composition as a sign of the Church’s catholicity, and the supposedly more coherent alignment of cardinalitial status with the plenitude of the priesthood.

A solemn image depicting a traditional Catholic cardinal-bishop in a historic suburbicarian diocese, symbolizing the loss of pastoral authority due to the 1962 motu proprio 'Suburbicariis sedibus' by John XXIII.

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Suburbicariis sedibus de suburbicariarum dioecesium regimine (1962.04.11)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The motu proprio issued by John XXIII on 11 April 1962 reorganizes the governance of the suburbicarian dioceses around Rome. It praises the historical link of these sees with the papacy, recalls concern of past pontiffs, and then decrees that: (1) suburbicarian “cardinal-bishops” retain only a titular relationship to their sees without real jurisdiction; (2) a residential bishop, appointed by the Roman pontiff, will be the true ordinary with full diocesan authority; (3) titular suburbicarian “cardinals” enjoy certain liturgical honors and privileges, but are freed from diocesan responsibilities; (4) the suburbicarian dioceses are to form one conference with the diocese of Rome. In essence, the text strips the historic cardinal-bishops of their proper pastoral rule and subordinates the ancient structure to a centralized curial model, thereby manifesting the juridical, theological, and spiritual dislocation characteristic of the conciliar revolution.

A traditional Catholic cardinal-bishop in a historic suburbicarian see near Rome, reflecting reverence and resistance to modernist reforms.

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Ad Suburbicarias Dioeceses (1961.03.10)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The motu proprio “Ad Suburbicarias Dioeceses” of 10 March 1961, issued by John XXIII, suppresses the canonical ius optionis of cardinal-bishops for suburbicarian sees (CIC 1917, can. 236 §3), and reserves to himself and his successors the free nomination of the cardinal-bishops to those historic dioceses surrounding Rome, under the pretext of “changed conditions,” demographic growth, and pastoral needs; it cloaks a cold juridical centralization in pious rhetoric about solicitude for these dioceses.

A sedevacantist Catholic priest in traditional vestments stands solemnly in front of a 1950s broadcasting studio, holding a copy of Pius XII's encyclical 'Miranda prorsus', surrounded by shadowy figures representing the media industry.

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Boni Pastoris (1959.02.22)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The text establishes the so-called Pontifical Commission for Cinematography, Radio and Television as a permanent organ of the Roman Curia, charged with guiding, coordinating, and influencing audiovisual media in accordance with the directives of Pius XII’s encyclical “Miranda prorsus” and subsequent prescriptions, supervising Catholic initiatives in film, radio, and television, and serving as a consultative hub for other dicasteries in all matters concerning these media. It presents itself as pastoral vigilance over powerful modern instruments, claiming to promote moral use of technology while centralizing oversight of communication.

A solemn clergy member holds a Latin document titled 'Fidei Propagandae' before an ancient cathedral, symbolizing the tension between traditional Catholic missions and the conciliar revolution.

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Fidei Propagandae (1962.10.01)

amdg / 2025-11-09

The document issued by antipope John XXIII under the title “Fidei Propagandae” grants the Pontifical Athenaeum Urbanianum the status and honor of a “Pontifical Urban University,” praising its historic role in forming clergy for the so‑called propagation of the faith, especially in mission territories, and aligning its academic statutes with the pre-conciliar norms of Pius XI’s Deus scientiarum Dominus, all framed as a preparation and ornament for the imminent Vatican II. In reality, this text is a programmatic inscription of missionary formation into the emerging conciliar sect: a bureaucratic rebranding that subordinates authentic apostolic mission to the coming revolution of Vatican II and its dismantling of the Kingship of Christ.

St. Peter's Basilica in 1962 with honorary canons during the time of antipope John XXIII.

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Templorum Decus (1962.09.11)

amdg / 2025-11-09

Templorum Decus is a Motu Proprio of antipope John XXIII (1962-09-11) establishing so-called “honorary canons” in the three principal Roman basilicas (Lateran, St. Peter’s, St. Mary Major), granting them seats in choir and external insignia, to “enhance” the splendour of worship and to distinguish certain clergy for merit, especially in view of the imminent Vatican II assembly. Beneath its ornate Latin and appeals to “divine worship,” this text is a cold administrative maneuver: a liturgical ornament wrapped around the nucleus of the conciliar revolution, instrumentalizing the basilicas and their capitular structures to crown the coming apostasy with a semblance of traditional magnificence.