Speeches – Page 5 – Antipope John XXIII

John XXIII addresses seminarians at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, 1959, highlighting the contrast between traditional Catholic reverence and the emerging conciliar revolution.

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Collegium Americanum (1959.10.11)

amdg / 2025-11-11

On October 11, 1959, John XXIII delivered a festive allocution at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, marking the centenary of the seminary. He extols the College’s history, praises the hierarchy and faithful of the United States, emphasizes institutional growth, academic and technical progress, and charitable initiatives, and presents the College as a model of “loyal collaboration” between hierarchy and people under “God’s Providence.” He highlights Roman formation as a unifying ecclesial center and closes by announcing procedural advancement in the cause of Elizabeth Seton, all in a tone of congratulatory optimism and civic-religious harmony. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this speech is an early and eloquent manifesto of the conciliar revolution: naturalistic, sentimental, ecclesiologically hollow, and oriented toward a Church reconciled with liberal America rather than subjected to the social Kingship of Christ.

A traditional Catholic depiction of John XXIII's secret consistory in 1959, marking the shift from traditional doctrine to conciliar humanism.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1959.12.14)

amdg / 2025-11-11

The Latin allocution of John XXIII of 14 December 1959, delivered in secret consistory, announces the creation of new “cardinals,” surveys the first year of his reign, exalts international visits and sentimental devotions, laments social and geopolitical problems, and presents with great optimism the coming Roman Synod and the planned “Ecumenical Council” as instruments for the renewal and “youth” of the Church. It is precisely in this apparently serene, pastoral discourse that one perceives the programmatic shift from the Catholic Church of Christ the King to a conciliatory humanistic association preparing the conciliar revolution.

A solemn scene in St. Peter's Basilica as John XXIII accepts his papacy, with cardinals observing quietly.

Speeches

Ioannes XXIII (1958.10.28)

amdg / 2025-11-11

The text is the first official allocution by Angelo Roncalli as “John XXIII” upon his election, delivered in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica on 28 October 1958. He theatrically presents himself as trembling before the “chalice of bitterness” of the supreme office, interprets the vote of the conclave as a clear sign of God’s will, explains his choice of the name Ioannes by a sentimental chain of associations (his father, his baptismal parish, the Lateran, Mark the Evangelist, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist), and concludes by invoking these two Johns as exemplars and protectors of his ministry, aspiring—even “unto the shedding of blood”—to their holiness and fortitude.

Pope John XXIII addressing the College of Cardinals in 1958, highlighting the shift towards sentimental collegiality over traditional papal authority.

Speeches

A A A LA DISCORSO DEL SANTO PADRE GIOVANNI XXIII (1958.11.04)

amdg / 2025-11-11

On 4 November 1958, in the Aula dei Paramenti, Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) addressed the College of Cardinals shortly after his election. In the brief allocution, he thanks the Cardinal Dean for the homage, speaks of his “smallness,” emphasizes affective bonds with the cardinals as his “pontifical family,” and repeats: “Dominus est legifer noster; Ipse salvabit nos.” The Dean’s address in turn assures him of the cooperation of the Sacred College and invokes the image of Peter’s barque, asking that “all sheep from the rising to the setting of the sun” be brought into the one fold and that in Christ be established a “kingdom of truth and life… holiness and grace… justice, love and peace.”

Oil painting of Pope John XXIII delivering his 1958 secret consistory allocution in the Apostolic Palace with newly created cardinals, including future Paul VI.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1958.12.15): Engineered Collegiality and the Seeds of the Conciliar Sect

amdg / 2025-11-11

John XXIII’s 15 December 1958 secret consistory allocution is a self-congratulatory proclamation of his elevation, a sentimental survey of global well‑wishing (including from non-Catholics), a lament about the persecution of Catholics in China framed through obedience to Rome, and above all a juridical act: the creation of twenty-three new cardinals, among them Giovanni Battista Montini and other future architects of the conciliar revolution. Behind the incense of piety and appeals to unity lies the deliberate construction of an episcopal and “cardinalatial” bloc destined to enthrone post-1958 novelties and to transform the visible structures of the Church into the conciliar sect.

John XXIII addressing the 1960 International Thomistic Congress, symbolizing the subversion of Thomistic doctrine by the modernist agenda.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Congressum Thomisticum (1960.09.16)

amdg / 2025-11-11

John XXIII’s allocution to participants of the 1960 International Thomistic Congress outwardly praises the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas, extols Leo XIII’s Thomistic program, commends the study of Aquinas’ moral doctrine, and links Thomistic moral principles to the preparation and hoped-for fruits of the then-upcoming Vatican II, especially “the triumph of the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ” and concord among peoples through moral formation and caritas. Beneath this apparently pious homage to St. Thomas, the text strategically subordinates immutable doctrine to an irenic, horizontal, conciliar agenda, weaponizing the Angelic Doctor as a façade for the coming revolution of Vatican II and thus corrupting both his name and his doctrine.

A solemn gathering of traditional Catholics in the Lateran Basilica for the First Roman Synod in 1960, invoking the Blessed Virgin Mary and saints.

Speeches

Chirographum quo prima Romanae Dioecesis Synodus celebranda indicitur (1960.01.16)

amdg / 2025-11-10

Pietro Roncalli, styling himself John XXIII, announces by this brief chirograph the convocation of the “First Synod” of the Diocese of Rome, to be held in the Lateran Basilica on January 24, 1960, declaring its aims to be the revival of “Catholic faith,” the improvement of “Christian morals,” and the adaptation and strengthening of clerical and lay “discipline” to the “necessities” of the contemporary age, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Salus Populi Romani,” St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and the Roman patrons. Behind this seemingly pious and concise note stands the programmatic self-exposure of the conciliar revolution: an operation that usurps Catholic language in order to inaugurate the demolition of the very Faith it pretends to promote.

Pope John XXIII delivering an allocution to Filipino bishops and faithful in a grand cathedral.

Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Philippinos (1959.12.06)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The allocution delivered by John XXIII on 6 December 1959 to the bishops and faithful of the Philippine Islands, gathered for a “missionary year” culminating in Manila, outwardly praises zeal for the spread of the “Kingdom of Christ,” commends support for missionary works, invokes classic biblical formulas about redemption “from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” and flatters the supposed generosity and Catholic identity of the Filipino people. It frames all this under his guidance and in continuity (at least verbally) with Pius XII, emphasizing contributions of prayer, example, and financial support for missions, and concludes with a Marian invocation and apostolic blessing. Behind this pious facade, however, the text functions as a subtle reprogramming of missionary consciousness, subordinating authentic Catholic apostolate to the emerging conciliar mentality that will soon dissolve the very notion of conversion into diplomatic expansion of a future neo-church empire.

Pope John XXIII addressing Marian Congregation members in Novara, 1959. A solemn scene in a grand cathedral with traditional attendees.

Speeches

A A A LA IOANNES PP. XXIII NUNTIUS RADIOPHONICUS… (1959.08.20)

amdg / 2025-11-10

John XXIII’s 20 August 1959 radio message to the members of the Marian Congregations gathered in Novara is a short exhortation praising their past merits, encouraging their apostolic zeal, and urging them to be devoted children and propagators of the Blessed Virgin Mary, emphasizing consecration to her, imitation of her virtues, and collaboration with the hierarchy in lay apostolate initiatives aligned with the 1957 Roman Congress of the Lay Apostolate. Behind this seemingly pious Marian rhetoric, however, stands the programmatic soft-launch of a horizontal, laicized, sentimentally Marian, and ultimately Modernist deformation of Catholic life that prepared the way for the conciliar revolution.

A traditional Catholic Pentecost celebration in a historic European church with priests in liturgical vestments and a bishop delivering a radio address.

Speeches

Nuntius radiophonicus «Veni Creator» (1959.05.17)

amdg / 2025-11-10

At Pentecost 1959, the newly elected antipope John XXIII addressed a brief radiophonic message to conclude a pan-European broadcast of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, sung in seven major churches across Europe. In elevated but generic language, he rejoices that this coordinated liturgical-musical event allegedly mirrors the Cenacle, presents it as a “new song” of charity, unity and peace, and ends with a Trinitarian doxology and blessing. From the perspective of unchanging Catholic doctrine, this seemingly pious fragment is the polished liturgical mask of an already advancing revolution: a sentimental, horizontal, pan-European spectacle replacing the concrete, dogmatic mission of the Holy Ghost and preparing the stage for the conciliar apostasy and the usurpation of Christ’s public Kingship.