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A reverent depiction of the 37th International Eucharistic Congress in Munich, 1960, led by Archbishop Joseph Wendel. The scene captures traditional Catholic devotion and the sacredness of the Eucharist.

Gratulationis (1960.08.21)

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The Latin letter “Gratulationis” of 21 August 1960, issued by John XXIII to Joseph Wendel, archbishop of Munich-Freising, is an adulatory note of thanks for organizing the 37th International Eucharistic Congress in Munich. John XXIII praises the “magnificent liberality” of the event, the public display of faith, the collaboration of clergy, laity, and civil authorities, and especially the emotional spectacle of crowds, televised ceremonies, and mass “Communions,” from which he expects fruits of peace, concord, and mutual understanding among nations. He presents this Congress as an “orbis Statio” — a kind of world station of peoples around the Eucharist — and expresses the hope that it will yield enduring spiritual benefits and social peace for all nations redeemed by Christ’s Blood.

Already in this short document, stripped of pious varnish, we see the program of the conciliar sect in nuce: a sentimental, horizontal, media-spectacle “Eucharistic” religiosity instrumentalized to serve humanistic pacifism and inter-national fraternization, with no mention of sin, conversion, doctrinal combat, or the social Kingship of Christ in the integral Catholic sense taught consistently until 1958.

John XXIII presenting a letter to Cardinal Joseph Frings in the Vatican Library, symbolizing the betrayal of tradition for secular achievements.

Letters

Proximo mense Augusto (1960.07.05)

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On 5 July 1960, John XXIII issues a Latin congratulatory letter to Joseph Frings, celebrating the approaching 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination. The text enumerates Frings’ alleged natural virtues and pastoral merits: social sensitivity, organizational achievements in Cologne, international charitable initiatives, and his professed attachment to the Roman See, crowned by a gift of technical equipment for Vatican Radio so that the “voice” of Rome might better reach the world. The tone is uncritical eulogy, glorifying both the recipient and the new orientation of the structures occupying the Vatican.

A reverent depiction of the 1960 National Eucharistic Congress in Piura, Peru, featuring Cardinal Richard James Cushing reading the letter 'Alta stirpe' during a solemn Mass.

Letters

Alta stirpe (1960.06.27)

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The letter “Alta stirpe” of John XXIII appoints Richard James Cushing as papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Piura, Peru, praising the memory of the 1954 Lima congress, extolling Eucharistic devotion, urging frequent Communion, and stressing the need for more clergy—especially for regions of South America exposed to enemies of the Catholic faith—while bestowing an “apostolic blessing” as a pledge of heavenly aid. Already in this short text, the spirit, vocabulary, and implied ecclesiology reveal not Catholic restoration, but the programmatic consolidation of the conciliar revolution under a pious Eucharistic varnish.

A solemn procession during the 1960 International Eucharistic Congress in Munich, reflecting traditional Catholic devotion to the Eucharist as the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary.

Letters

LA IOANNES PP. XXIII (1960.06.27)

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Monachium, the 1960 International Eucharistic Congress, is presented in this letter of John XXIII as a triumphant “liturgical station” of the whole world, a symbol of Eucharistic unity, moral renewal, and a preparatory resonance with his decision to convene the so‑called ecumenical council; he commissions Cardinal Testa as his legate to personify his presence, promote Eucharistic devotion, pray for social order, moral reform, and the spread of “Christ’s religion” throughout the world, framing the entire event as a luminous manifestation of “orthodox faith” and Christian humanism radiating from Munich. One must say it plainly from the outset: this text is a polished manifesto of the conciliar revolution, which instrumentalizes Eucharistic language to inaugurate a naturalistic, ecumenical, and anthropocentric program alien to integral Catholic doctrine.

A solemn scene depicting the signing of the PortaLegrensis in Brasilia decree by antipope John XXIII, surrounded by Catholic clergy in a traditional setting.

Apostolic Constitutions

PortaLegrensis in Brasilia (1959.06.20)

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The constitution “PortaLegrensis in Brasilia (S. Crucis in Brasilia)” of 20 June 1959, issued by antipope John XXIII, decrees the detachment of several territories from the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre in Brazil in order to erect a new diocese named “Sanctae Crucis in Brasilia” (Santa Cruz do Sul). It delineates civil and ecclesiastical borders, designates Santa Cruz do Sul and its parish of St John the Baptist as episcopal see and cathedral, regulates canonical dependence as suffragan to Porto Alegre, orders the erection of a seminary, defines the composition of the episcopal mensa, and prescribes the canonical transfer of archives and clergy in conformity with the 1917 Code of Canon Law.

A solemn Catholic ceremony in 1950s Africa marking the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura.

Apostolic Constitutions

NGOZIENSIS – KITEGAËNSIS (1959.06.11)

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The document issued in 1959 under the name of John XXIII, titled in Latin “Ngoziensis – Kitegaënsis (Usumburaënsis),” decrees, through canonical and territorial provisions, the subtraction of specific regions from the Apostolic Vicariates of Ngozi and Kitega in the then Ruanda-Urundi, in order to erect a new Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura. It praises the work of the Missionaries of Africa, assigns special emphasis to the selection and promotion of indigenous clergy, grants to the newly created vicariate the usual rights and obligations, and clothes the entire act in solemn legal formulas demanding obedience and threatening penalties for non-compliance.

A Catholic priest in traditional vestments with indigenous people on the shore of the Solomon Islands, symbolizing missionary work.

Apostolic Constitutions

Insularum Salomonicarum (1959.06.11)

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The constitution “Insularum Salomonicarum” of 11 June 1959, issued under the name of John XXIII, reorganizes ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the Solomon Islands by detaching specified islands from the Northern and Southern Solomon Islands Apostolic Vicariates to erect a new Apostolic Vicariate of the Western Solomon Islands, entrusted to the Dominicans under the usual dependence on the so‑called Apostolic See. The text clothes a bureaucratic territorial act in pious language about the limitless expansion of Christ’s kingdom, but in reality it showcases the juridical self-assertion of the nascent conciliar regime, instrumentalizing missionary structures as a prelude to the ecclesiological revolution soon to be unleashed.

A traditional Catholic bishop in liturgical vestments stands solemnly before a historic cathedral in Simla, India, holding a scroll representing the 1959 ecclesial decree.

Apostolic Constitutions

DELHIENSIS ET SIMLENSIS (1959.06.04)

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In this Latin act, Angelo Roncalli as “Ioannes XXIII” reorganizes ecclesiastical territories in northern India: he carves out specified districts from the then-archdiocese of Delhi and Simla, erects a new diocese of Simla (Simla–Ambala), assigns it as suffragan to Delhi, designates the cathedral, defines episcopal revenues, orders a seminary and chapter (or diocesan consultors), prescribes canonical governance norms, and entrusts execution to the “Apostolic Internuncio” and the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith”, declaring all contrary provisions null.

A traditional Catholic bishop in liturgical vestments holding a Latin decree, standing in front of a historic Mexican church with stained-glass windows depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and scenes from the lives of the saints.

Apostolic Constitutions

VERAE CRUCIS — TEHUANTEPECENSIS (1959.05.23)

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The Latin text attributed to John XXIII announces, in bureaucratic curial style, the erection of a new territorial structure in Mexico: by detaching municipalities from the Archdiocese of Veracruz and the Diocese of Tehuantepec, it fabricates the Diocese of “San Andrés Tuxtla,” assigns its boundaries, subjects it as suffragan to Veracruz, prescribes a seminary, cathedral chapter, and canonical administration, and wraps the whole in standard juridical formulas of apostolic authority and penalties for non-compliance. In reality, this apparently harmless territorial decree is one of the early juridical instruments of the conciliar usurpation: a cold, administrative act that presupposes—with no proof and against the faith—the legitimacy of the new “pontiff,” and silently organizes the ecclesial battlefield on which the revolution against the Kingship of Christ and the pre-1958 Church will soon be executed.

A solemn Catholic bishop holds the papal bull announcing the erection of the Diocese of Tlaxcala in 1959, with a backdrop of the historic Tlaxcala cathedral and Mexican landscape.

Apostolic Constitutions

ANGELORUM-MEXICANAE (1959.05.23)

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The constitution ANGELORUM — MEXICANAE, issued by John XXIII on 23 May 1959, announces the erection of the new territorial structure called the “Diocese of Tlaxcala,” carved from the territories of Puebla (“Angelorum”) and Mexico City. It details boundaries, designates Tlaxcala as episcopal see with St Joseph’s as cathedral, orders at least an elementary seminary, prescribes sending the best students to the Pontifical Latin American College in Rome, sets norms for the cathedral chapter or diocesan consultors, defines the economic base of the “episcopal mensa,” and entrusts execution to the Apostolic Delegate. In one phrase: this solemn and juridical-sounding act is the administrative signature sealing the prelude to the conciliar usurpation—an apparently innocent reconfiguration of ecclesiastical geography that in fact prefigures the transformation of dioceses into the future infrastructure of the conciliar sect.

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