Speeches – Page 9 – Antipope John XXIII

Antipope John XXIII delivering his allocution at the closing of the First Roman Diocesan Synod in 1960, surrounded by cardinals and clergy in St. Peter's Basilica.

Romanae Dioecesis Prima Synodus (1960.01.31)

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The allocution of John XXIII at the solemn closing of the First Roman Diocesan Synod (1960) is an exuberant self-congratulatory discourse glorifying the synod as an “overflowing gift of God,” celebrating the vitality of the Roman clergy, outlining eight pastoral sections (persons, teaching, worship, sacraments, apostolic action, Christian education, administration, charity), and crowning everything with the explicit orientation toward the forthcoming Vatican II as the natural continuation of this “renewal.” It wraps this program in pious language about faith, hope, charity, Eucharistic devotion, and Marian piety, presenting the conciliar project as the mature fruit of Roman pastoral wisdom and the living tradition of Peter’s See.

A devout seminarian in traditional liturgical vestments kneeling in prayer before an altar in the Ignatian church in Rome.

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IOANNES XXIII allocutio (1960.01.28)

amdg / 2025-11-10

John XXIII’s 28 January 1960 allocution to seminarians in Rome, delivered in the Ignatian church during the diocesan synod, presents an apparently pious exhortation: a call to select and form a chosen clergy, to “walk worthily,” to live detached from the world, nourished on Scripture, and faithful to prayer and the Psalms. Yet beneath this edifying surface, the speech quietly installs the foundational motifs of the conciliar revolution: praise of a numerically expansive global clergy oriented to “a new and better ordering” of humanity, a rhetorical separation of “Church” and concrete dogmatic combat, a sentimentalist language masking the coming demolition of integral doctrine, and a proto-ideology of an “adaptable” Church inaugurating a “new order of the ages” consistent with condemned liberalism and Modernism.

A solemn moment during the 1960 Roman Synod, depicting John XXIII addressing Roman clergy in St. Peter's Basilica.

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ROMANAE SYNODI SESSIONES (1960.01.27)

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The allocution delivered by John XXIII on 27 January 1960 at the third session of the Roman Synod presents itself as a spiritual exhortation on the dignity of the priesthood, the pastoral mission of the clergy in Rome, and the model of Christ the Good Shepherd, interwoven with references to St John Mary Vianney, St Gregory the Great, missionary zeal, and the responsibilities of Roman Curia clergy toward the universal Church. Beneath the devotional surface, it subtly reconfigures the understanding of priestly life and ecclesial structure, preparing the way for the conciliar revolution by sentimentalising pastoral language, relativising hierarchical precision, and instrumentalising authentic pre‑1958 authorities to legitimate an emerging counterfeit magisterium.

John XXIII delivering his allocution at the Roman Synod of 1960 in a traditional Roman basilica.

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Romanae Synodi Sessiones: Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1960.01.27)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The speech delivered by John XXIII on 27 January 1960 at the Roman Synod presents itself as a pious exhortation to the Roman clergy: a meditation on the priesthood as participation in the priesthood of Christ, the image of the Good Shepherd, the dignity and duties of priests in Rome, the complementarity of direct and indirect pastoral work, and the model of St. John Mary Vianney and St. Gregory the Great for priestly life and governance. It culminates in an apparently devout appeal that the clergy of Rome live their vocation in union with the “Pope,” serving the salvation of souls under the image of Christ the Good Shepherd.

This seemingly edifying allocution is in reality a carefully constructed veil, covering and preparing the metamorphosis of the Roman clergy from guardians of the supernatural order into compliant functionaries of a new, naturalistic, conciliar religion.

John XXIII addressing clergy during the Roman Synod in the Aula Benedictionum, 1960. The setting is a grand, traditional Catholic basilica with ornate architecture and a sense of sacred solemnity.

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Romanae Synodi Sessiones in Aula Benedictionum (1960.01.26)

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In this allocution on the Roman Synod, John XXIII exhorts clergy to cultivate the “virtues required by the dignity of priests,” organizing his exhortation around three images: the priest’s “head” (doctrine), “heart” (charity and affectivity), and “tongue” (speech). He praises external decorum, ongoing study (with special mention of Scripture, Fathers, St Thomas, liturgy, and canon law), love of Christ and souls, priestly celibacy, and custody of speech, quoting Trent, Scripture, and traditional ascetical authors to outline an ideal of disciplined, edifying priestly life.

John XXIII addressing the Roman Synod in 1960, emphasizing priestly virtues while subtly undermining Catholic doctrine.

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Romanae Synodi Sessiones: II Allocutio (1960.01.26)

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In this allocution of 26 January 1960, the usurper John XXIII addresses the Roman Synod, offering a meditation on the virtues required of priests, structured around three images: the priest as head (doctrine and intellect), heart (affections and charity), and tongue (speech and discretion). He invokes the Council of Trent on clerical decorum, exhorts to serious study (Scripture, Fathers, St Thomas, liturgy, canon law), praises celibacy, calls for interior holiness behind exterior comportment, and warns against sins of the tongue. The text is outwardly edifying, but precisely in this apparently pious, moralizing tone it functions as a subtle manifesto of the conciliar revolution: it empties priestly sanctity of dogmatic militancy, evacuates the primacy of sacrificial worship, and prepares the clergy for the anthropocentric, irenic, modernist deformation that will soon be imposed on the entire structure occupying the Vatican.

John XXIII addressing the Roman Synod in 1960 at the Lateran Archbasilica, surrounded by clergy in traditional vestments, with ancient Catholic symbols in the background.

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Romanae Synodi Sessiones: Sacrum Sacerdotum Munus (1960.01.25)

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In this allocution of 25 January 1960, John XXIII addresses the opening phase of the Roman Synod, invoking Saints Peter and Paul, extolling the sacredness of the priestly office, and urging clergy to holiness through attachment to the altar, the Roman Catechism, and the liturgy. With unctuous rhetoric about sanctity, sacrifice, and Marian-Tridentine piety, he seeks to present his Roman Synod as renewal in continuity with Trent and the Fathers, while carefully avoiding any concrete denunciation of contemporary doctrinal subversion or the nascent conciliar revolution. This apparently pious exhortation is in reality a strategic veil: a luminous preface to darkness, preparing minds and structures for the self-destruction of Catholic Rome under the banner of “holiness.”

John XXIII delivering an allocution during the Roman Synod of 1960 in the Aula Benedictionum, surrounded by clergy in a traditional Catholic setting.

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Romanae Synodi Sessiones in Aula Benedictionum (1960.01.25)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The allocution delivered by John XXIII on 25 January 1960 at the opening session of the Roman Synod is a devotional exhortation addressed to the clergy of Rome, extolling priestly holiness, the dignity of the sacred ministry, the centrality of the Holy Sacrifice, and the exemplary role of priests in doctrine, liturgy, and pastoral life. It invokes Saints Peter and Paul, praises the Roman Catechism, recommends lectio of Saint Paul, and urges meticulous liturgical observance and interior sanctity of the clergy.

Beneath this apparently impeccable language, the speech functions as a carefully staged anesthetic: a traditional-sounding veil cast over the nascent conciliar revolution, disarming vigilance while the foundations of integral Catholic faith are prepared for subversion.

John XXIII delivering his allocution in the Lateran Archbasilica on 24 January 1960, surrounded by cardinals and clergy, with a solemn atmosphere reflecting the prelude to the Roman Synod and Vatican II.

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Sollemnis Romanae Synodi inchoatio (1960.01.24)

amdg / 2025-11-10

The allocution “Sollemnis Romanae Synodi inchoatio,” delivered by John XXIII in the Lateran Archbasilica on 24 January 1960, presents his theological and pastoral program on the eve of the so‑called Roman Synod and in explicit connection with the announced “ecumenical council” that would become Vatican II. He recalls the apostolic Council of Jerusalem, surveys the history of ecumenical councils up to Vatican I, glorifies the conciliar mechanism as an engine of aggiornamento, introduces the Roman Synod as a paradigmatic diocesan event, and outlines broad areas for “renewal” in doctrine, discipline, liturgy, pastoral practice, and formation, under the invocation of the Holy Spirit and with emphatic appeals to unity, “pastoral” adaptation, and spiritual optimism. The entire discourse, while draped in traditional vocabulary, functions as a rhetorical smoke‑screen preparing the systematic subversion of immutable doctrine and discipline in favor of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic, humanistic, and ecumenical agenda — a calculated abuse of conciliar and patristic language to sanctify apostasy.

Giovanni Roncalli addresses the Roman diocesan synod in the Lateran Basilica in 1960, inaugurating a synod ideologically linked to his announced 'ecumenical council.'

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Ioannes XXIII (1960.01.24) Allocutio Synodi Romanae: Program of Conciliar Subversion

amdg / 2025-11-10

Vespers, 24 January 1960, the Lateran Basilica: Giovanni Roncalli, already publicly recognized as John XXIII by the conciliar sect, inaugurates the Roman diocesan synod and ideologically links it with his announced “ecumenical council.” He rehearses the standard narrative of councils from Jerusalem to Vatican I, glorifies the institutional self-confidence of modern Rome, and presents the Synod and the coming Council as instruments for “updating” discipline while ostensibly preserving doctrine. Under devout biblical and patristic coloring, he proposes a new pastoral program in which ecclesiastical structures and norms may be re-shaped to meet “the needs of the times,” allegedly without touching “the immutable truth of the Lord.”