Speeches – Page 2 – Antipope John XXIII

Traditional Catholic bishop in a basilica holding an open missal with 'Unam Sanctam', surrounded by shadows symbolizing the absence of Christ's Social Kingship.

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.06.20)

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John XXIII’s address of 20 June 1962 triumphantly celebrates the completion of the three-year preparatory work for the Second Vatican Council, exalting human collaboration, organizational structures, and an optimistic vision of history and “unity” as signs of the Spirit guiding his initiative. He presents the coming Council as a luminous dawn for the Church and humanity, calling for widespread prayers and meditation—above all on the Gospel of John—to accompany what he hails as a providential and pacifying event. From the perspective of unchanging Catholic doctrine, this self-congratulatory discourse is not an innocent preface to a council, but the manifesto of a new religion: an anthropocentric, historicist, and diplomatically irenic program that prepares the systematic relativization of dogma, the subordination of the Church to the modern world, and the eclipsing of the social Kingship of Christ by the cult of man.

John XXIII addressing bishops at St. Peter's Basilica during the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII in Sollemni SS. Concilii Inauguratione (1962.10.11)

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On 11 October 1962, at St Peter’s, John XXIII solemnly opens the so‑called Second Vatican Council, presenting it as a providential, joyful event for the whole Church and the world. He extols past councils, claims this council aims not to condemn but to “present” Catholic doctrine more effectively, rebukes “prophets of doom” who see grave dangers in modern times, praises contemporary political and social conditions as opportune, proposes a new pastoral style emphasizing mercy over severity toward error, and frames the Council as service to “unity” and to modern humanity. In one sentence: this programmatic speech is the manifesto of a new religion, in which immutable doctrine is quietly subordinated to a worldly, naturalistic, and anti-traditional project that breaks with the integral Catholic Faith of all ages.

John XXIII addresses cardinals during a consistory on 15 November 1962, announcing the canonization of four beatified men linked to the Vatican II Council.

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Allocutio in consistorio (1962.11.15)

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Venerable Brothers, the Latin text presented is a brief allocution attributed to John XXIII, delivered at a single consistorium on 15 November 1962, in which he announces with satisfaction the unanimous consent of those present to the canonization of four beatified men (Peter Julian Eymard, Antonio Maria Pucci, Francis Mary of Camporosso, and Vincent Pallotti), praises the spiritual fruits expected from raising them to the altars, recalls the intercessory power of the saints, and links these planned canonizations explicitly with the recently opened Vatican II, asking that their intercession obtain a happy course and abundant fruits for the council. This seemingly pious text is in fact a highly concentrated manifesto of the new cultic and ecclesiological order of the conciliar revolution, in which the authority of the Church is hijacked to manufacture “saints” for the neo-church and to sacralize its apostasy.

A traditional Catholic depiction of the closing of Vatican II's first session in 1962, highlighting John XXIII's allocution and the shift from doctrinal gravity to emotional display.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.07)

amdg / 2025-11-11

At the close of the first session of Vatican II on 7 December 1962, John XXIII addresses the assembled council fathers in Saint Peter’s Basilica. He congratulates them for their work, praises the “spectacle” of the gathered hierarchy, emphasizes unity, optimism, Marian devotion, and expresses the hope that the Council will make the Gospel more widely known and effective in modern civil life. He presents the Council’s purpose as adapting the expression of faith and morals so that Christ’s message may penetrate “every area of civil culture” and thanks the bishops for their collaboration with him in this project.

Pope John XXIII delivering his 1962 allocution in St. Peter's Basilica, surrounded by bishops in ceremonial vestments.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.08)

amdg / 2025-11-11

The speech of John XXIII on 8 December 1962, closing the first period of Vatican II, celebrates the Council as a luminous epiphany of the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” extols the presence of civil authorities, glorifies the slow and “pastoral” method, presents the conciliar commissions as continuing the work between sessions, and prophesies a “new Pentecost” and an expansion of Christ’s Kingdom and peace in the world through implementation of conciliar norms. It is a self-congratulatory manifesto of humanistic optimism in which the alleged “ecumenical council” is exalted above all previous councils as a unique event for the Church and “civilization.” This text is not a Catholic allocution but the early self-unmasking of the conciliar revolution that replaces the reign of Christ the King with the cult of man and the sovereignty of the world.

A solemn Vatican hall with John XXIII surrounded by cardinals during a secret consistory in 1961.

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Consistorium secretum (1961.01.16)

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The Latin text records a secret consistory held on 16 January 1961 under John XXIII: formal transfer of the Camerlengo’s insignia, an allocution surveying global anxieties and hopes, insistence on “peace” and international solidarity, praise for episcopal and lay collaboration, optimistic references to the preparation of the coming ecumenical council, and the creation of four new cardinals from different nations to reflect the universality of the “Church.” Beneath the courteous curial prose, this allocution manifests the programmatic displacement of the supernatural mission of the Church by a horizontal, naturalistic, pseudo-pastoral agenda that would soon crystallize into the conciliar revolution.

Solemn depiction of John XXIII addressing the Central Commission preparing Vatican II in a grand Vatican hall adorned with stained-glass windows and frescoes.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Commissionem Centralem (1961.06.12)

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John XXIII’s allocution of 12 June 1961 to the Central Commission preparing the so-called Second Vatican Council is a self-congratulatory inauguration of the preparatory work: he celebrates the rapid organization of commissions and secretariats, praises the global expectation surrounding the future council, compares it with previous ecumenical councils, invokes the Holy Ghost and a litany of saints, and exhorts the assembled prelates to proceed confidently with their labors so that the council may leave “indelebilia vestigia” on the life of the Church. Beneath this calm, devotional language, the speech reveals the spiritual program: an anticipatory legitimation of a new agenda, a manipulation of tradition to authorize rupture, and the subtle displacement of the supernatural marks of the Church by the optimism of worldly consensus.

Pope John XXIII addressing the Central Commission for Vatican II in 1961, surrounded by cardinals and bishops in a grand hall adorned with Catholic symbols.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1961.06.20)

amdg / 2025-11-11

The allocution of John XXIII to the members of the Central Commission preparing Vatican II (20 June 1961) is a self-congratulatory address praising the progress of commissions, the consultation of bishops, universities, clergy and laity, and the global expectations surrounding the coming council. He presents the council as a luminous, pastoral aggiornamento, emphasizes procedural questions (participants, experts, voting, languages), insists the event concerns the entire Church and even “all peoples,” and frames it as a benevolent, open, almost parliamentary encounter of the “Sacred Hierarchy” with the world’s desires. In one sentence: it is the programmatic manifesto of a naturalistic, horizontal, and ecclesiologically subverted project that would soon enthrone the conciliar sect in place of the Catholic Church.

Pope John XXIII delivering an allocution in a Vatican hall, reflecting naturalistic pacifism and lacking supernatural clarity.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1961.07.06)

amdg / 2025-11-11

On July 6, 1961, John XXIII delivered a brief allocution to the preparatory commission on the apostolate of the laity for the so‑called Second Vatican Council. The speech, occasioned by bloody events in Algeria, calls for prayers for peace among nations, for reconciliation of opposed parties, and for a concord founded on justice and charity, with a particular appeal to leaders of peoples that they may be enlightened to secure “true, secure and stable peace.”

A traditional Dominican friar in a historic Roman church, holding a closed breviary, with St. Dominic depicted in a stained-glass window behind him.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Fratres Praedicatores (1961.09.25)

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John XXIII’s allocution to the superiors and members of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), delivered on 25 September 1961, outwardly praises their fidelity to Rome, their attachment to their founder, their vocation of preaching, study, missions, youth formation, and publishing, and exhorts them to unite “nova et vetera” (new and old) in their life and apostolate in order to respond to “the needs of the times” and to aid the Apostolic See. Behind this apparently pious rhetoric, the speech functions as a programmatic attempt to conscript a historic doctrinal Order into the conciliar revolution, to subordinate Thomistic preaching to aggiornamento, and to prepare the mutilation of the Order into an instrument of Modernism.