Speeches – Page 6 – Antipope John XXIII

A priest leading prayers in a historic church with faithful kneeling in devotion, emphasizing Marian piety and reverence during the month of May.

Nuntius radiophonicus de mense Maio et Concilio (1959.04.27)

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The radiophonic message of 27 April 1959 from John XXIII calls the clergy and faithful to intensified Marian prayers during the month of May for the success of the announced ecumenical council. It presents Our Lady as particularly present and active “in our age,” as powerful mediatrix before Divine Mercy, intimately united with the Church, and thus as the natural focus of supplication so that the council may obtain heavenly assistance and a “happy outcome.”

John XXIII delivering a radio message to Japanese Catholics in 1959, symbolizing the subtle subversion of the conciliar revolution.

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Nuntius radiophonicus dato christifidelibus Iaponiae (1959.02.16)

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On 16 February 1959, John XXIII delivered a short Latin radio message from the Vatican to the Catholics of Japan, marking the beginning of Vatican Radio broadcasts in Japanese. He greets the hierarchy and faithful, praises Japanese cultural virtues, urges that their Christian faith shine through kindness and moral integrity, and invokes Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary to bless Japan with light, protection, and prosperity. Behind this seemingly devout salutation, however, stands the inaugural stylistic matrix of the conciliar revolution: sentimental humanism, diplomatic flattery, and the quiet displacement of the Kingship of Christ and the rights of the one true Church by a soft-focus admiration of natural virtue and national culture.

A solemn gathering of Redemptorist superiors listening to John XXIII's allocutio in a traditional chapel.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Redemptoristas (1963.02.08)

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John XXIII’s speech to the Redemptorist superiors (8 February 1963) flatters the congregation for its growth, urges the revision of its Rule and Constitutions “in view of current needs,” insists this be done without “bending to the world,” exhorts fidelity to St. Alphonsus, praises Redemptorist missions, and asks their prayers and sacrifices for the ongoing Second Vatican Council. It is a short, apparently pious allocution, presenting John XXIII as benign guardian of religious life and of the spirit of St. Alphonsus. In reality, it is an ideological programmatic piece: a controlled demolition manual for traditional religious life, cloaked in sentimental rhetoric, placed at the service of the conciliar revolution and the nascent neo-church.

A reverent portrait of John XXIII delivering the 1962 Vatican II allocution in St. Peter's Basilica, surrounded by bishops in traditional liturgical vestments.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.08)

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The allocution delivered by John XXIII on 8 December 1962 at the close of the first period of Vatican II presents the first session as a providentially guided, Marian-framed beginning of a grand ecclesial renewal; it exalts the unprecedented global episcopal gathering, praises the initial liturgical schema, anticipates uninterrupted conciliar labor leading to a “new Pentecost,” and projects the Council’s fruits as a youthful revitalization of the Church and an expansion of Christ’s kingdom in the modern world. In reality, this speech is the self-celebration of an already operative revolution: a programmatic manifesto of the conciliar sect, cloaking rupture with Tradition under pious rhetoric, sentimental Marian imagery, and the abuse of Catholic vocabulary.

Pope John XXIII addressing the council fathers in St. Peter's Basilica during Vatican II, 1962

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.07)

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At the close of the first session of Vatican II, John XXIII addresses the assembled council fathers in St. Peter’s Basilica with expressions of joy, gratitude, and paternal affection. He praises their work, highlights the “spectacle” offered to the world by the gathered hierarchy, underlines fraternal unity and “charity in truth,” and points to the Council’s purpose as making the Gospel better known and applied in contemporary life and culture. He frames the event as a luminous manifestation of the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” invoking Mary’s protection and concluding with his “Apostolic Blessing.”

John XXIII delivering the opening address at the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica, 1962.

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CONCILIUM OECUMENICUM VATICANUM II SOLLEMNITER INCHOATUR (1962.10.11)

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The allocution of John XXIII at the solemn opening of the so‑called Second Vatican Council presents this assembly as a providential, joyful “new Pentecost,” proposes a shift from doctrinal condemnation to “the medicine of mercy,” extols contemporary developments as signs of divine providence, and defines the Council’s primary task as preserving the “deposit of faith” while adapting its mode of expression to the modern world so that modern man may more readily receive it.

Pope John XXIII delivering an allocution in St. Peter's Basilica on June 20, 1962, surrounded by cardinals and bishops in traditional liturgical attire.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.06.20)

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The text is a Latin allocution delivered by John XXIII on June 20, 1962, at the close of the seventh session of the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II. He exults over three years of conciliar preparation, praises the work of commissions (theological, disciplinary, ecumenical, laical, technical), links the council to a “mystical tower” of peace, invokes global collaboration of hierarchy and laity, calls for universal prayer, and symbolically ties his own name “John” to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist as a programmatic key to the coming council. The allocution crowns the entire preparatory phase, presenting Vatican II as a providential, Spirit-led, and peace-bringing event for the whole human family — and thus reveals with crystalline clarity the anthropocentric, naturalistic, and ecclesiologically subversive program of the conciliar revolution.

A young seminarian kneeling in prayer in a traditional Catholic chapel, surrounded by religious texts and vestments, evoking pre-conciliar piety and devotion.

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Allocutio IOANNIS XXIII (1962.05.26)

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In this allocution of 26 May 1962, John XXIII addresses participants of an international meeting on vocations to the priesthood, praising their efforts, insisting on prayer for holy and industrious clergy, and exhorting to form seminarians through good family, parish, and ecclesiastical examples. He commends discipline, piety, chastity, and pastoral dedication, proposing his own childhood attraction to the priesthood as an edifying anecdote, and concludes with encouragement and a “Vicarius Christi” tone, blessing the work of fostering priestly vocations.

John XXIII delivering the Allocutio of 12 May 1962 in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, with the Central Preparatory Commission seated in reverent attention. The scene is bathed in soft, natural light filtering through stained glass windows depicting traditional Catholic iconography.

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Allocutio IOANNIS XXIII (1962.05.12)

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In this address of 12 May 1962, John XXIII congratulates the members of the Central Preparatory Commission shortly before the opening of Vatican II, praises their labours and expresses serene confidence that the coming council – often styled by him a “new Pentecost” – will bring abundant fruits for the Church and even “for the whole human race,” while warning moderately against excessive trust in earthly institutions and stressing the need for orderly preparation, public information, and pastoral openness. This apparently pious and tranquil text is in fact a programmatic manifesto of the coming conciliar revolution, cloaking a radical reorientation of the Church’s mission under biblical phrases and sentimental optimism.

Pope John XXIII addressing bishops during his 1962 allocution at the Vatican, highlighting the doctrinal concerns and the contrast between traditional Catholicism and conciliar optimism.

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Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.04.03)

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John XXIII’s allocution of 3 April 1962, delivered at the close of the fifth session of the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II, offers a self-congratulatory panorama of the preparatory work, exalts harmonious debate among bishops, praises contemporary interest in the liturgy, endorses the modern means of social communication and “progress” of arts and sciences, laments difficulties facing missions, and concludes with sentimental symbolism (the “golden rose”) as an omen of joy and hope for the coming council. In reality, this speech is a programmatic manifesto of horizontal optimism, naturalistic trust in modern culture, and deliberate muting of the integral Catholic combat against error—an omen not of renewal, but of doctrinal disarmament and ecclesial self-dissolution.