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A Dominican priest in traditional habit stands on a rocky shore in the Solomon Islands, holding a crucifix aloft as native Islanders gather in reverence.

Insularum Salomonicarum (1959.06.11)

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The document “Insularum Salomonicarum” (11 June 1959), issued in Latin under the name of John XXIII as an apostolic constitution, performs a seemingly technical act: it detaches specified islands of the Solomon archipelago from the existing Northern and Southern apostolic vicariates and erects a new apostolic vicariate of the “Western Solomon Islands,” entrusting it to the Dominicans, with the usual juridical faculties and obligations. It wraps this territorial rearrangement in language about the limitless expansion of the Kingdom of Christ and exhorts the missionaries to make the fertile lands of the Solomons rich in Christians, legally armoring the act with the standard formulae of papal authority and canonical penalties.

Behind this façade of administrative piety stands the incipient program of the conciliar revolution: the instrumentalization of ecclesiastical structures to prepare the global neo-church, already embryonic in 1959, which would soon betray the Kingship of Christ and dissolve the very missionary mandate it claims to advance.

A solemn Catholic scene depicting Pope St. Pius X in a traditional chapel with devout faithful praying in the background.

Speeches

Veni Creator Spiritus (1959.05.17)

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On May 17, 1959, during Pentecost, John XXIII delivered a brief radio message concluding a pan-European broadcast of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, sung in seven major churches and commented on by local prelates. The text evokes the Cenacle, compares the radio event to the multinational wonder of Acts 2, praises a “new song” of charity, unity, peace and victory, and ends with a Trinitarian profession and blessing.

A sedevacantist priest in traditional vestments stands solemnly in front of a historic Catholic cathedral in Simla (Shimla), India, holding a copy of the 'Delhiensis et Simlensis' document, with the Himalayan mountains in the background.

Apostolic Constitutions

Delhiensis et Simlensis (1959.06.04)

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The Latin text promulgated by John XXIII under the name Constitutio Apostolica “Delhiensis et Simlensis” (4 June 1959) announces the erection of a new so‑called diocese of Simla, carved out of the then archdiocese of Delhi and Simla, assigning territories in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, designating Simla (Shimla) as its center with the former co-cathedral of St. Michael and St. Joseph as its cathedral, regulating its status as suffragan to Delhi, prescribing a seminary, a chapter or diocesan consultors, defining the episcopal mensa, and entrusting execution to the Apostolic Internuncio and the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.” It is presented as a pastoral response to the alleged flourishing of the faith in India and a sign of missionary growth.

A group of bishops, clergy, and laity praying the rosary in a traditional Catholic church with a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Speeches

A A A La Ioannes PP. XXIII Nuntius Radiophonicus (1959.04.27)

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This radiophonic message of John XXIII (27 April 1959) urges bishops, clergy, religious, and laity to intensify Marian prayers during May for the success of the announced “ecumenical council,” invoking Mary as intercessor, highlighting her presence at Pentecost, and presenting widespread supplications as the privileged means to obtain divine assistance for this undertaking. The entire text, while externally clothed in traditional Marian vocabulary, functions as a pious-smelling curtain concealing and preparing the greatest subversion of the Catholic Church in history: the conciliar revolution against the Kingship of Christ and against the unchangeable faith.

A solemn Catholic bishop in traditional vestments praying in front of a historic cathedral in Tehuantepec, Mexico, embodying the spiritual gravity of the 1959 apostolic constitution Verae Crucis - Tehuantepecensis.

Apostolic Constitutions

Verae Crucis — Tehuantepecensis (1959.05.23)

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The presented apostolic constitution, issued by antipope John XXIII in 1959, announces the detachment of territories from the Archdiocese of Veracruz and the Diocese of Tehuantepec in Mexico in order to create a new diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla, defines its boundaries, appoints its metropolitan (Veracruz), regulates the erection of a seminary and a future cathedral chapter, and lays down canonical-administrative norms for implementation, all under the pretense of pastoral utility and more efficient governance of souls. In reality, this seemingly technical decree manifests the juridical self-assertion and incipient ecclesiological mutation of the coming conciliar sect, dressing future apostasy in the solemn style of pre-conciliar law in order to occupy Catholic structures from within.

A group of clergy and laity praying solemnly in a traditional Catholic church before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Messages

NUNTIUS RADIOPHONICUS (1959.04.27)

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In this brief radiophonic message of 27 April 1959, antipope John XXIII calls bishops, clergy, religious, and laity to intensified Marian prayers during May, explicitly to obtain from the Blessed Virgin the “happy outcome” of the then newly announced so‑called Ecumenical Council. He presents Mary as powerful mediatrix, closely united with the Church from Pentecost, urges public and domestic devotions, Rosaries, novenas before Pentecost, and sacrificial offerings of the sick and of children’s prayers, so that, through this united supplication, a “new Pentecost” may smile upon the Christian family and favor his conciliar project. In reality, this apparently pious exhortation is the spiritual packaging of the greatest subversion in Church history: a sentimental Marian veil thrown over the preparation of the conciliar revolution that would enthrone laicism, religious relativism, and the cult of man, in direct betrayal of the Kingship of Christ and the integral Catholic faith.

A reverent depiction of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Tlaxcala, Mexico, with Pope John XXIII and Archbishop Angelorum in prayerful reflection.

Apostolic Constitutions

Angelorum-Mexicanae (Tlaxcalensis) (1959.05.23)

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The Latin text presents an apostolic constitution of John XXIII, by which he detaches territory from the Archdioceses of Puebla de los Ángeles and Mexico to erect the new diocese of Tlaxcala, defining its borders, cathedral (St Joseph in Tlaxcala), suffragan relation to Puebla, basic provisions regarding seminary, canons or diocesan consultors, diocesan goods, and procedural norms for execution by the Apostolic Delegate in Mexico. It is a meticulously juridical act of territorial and administrative reconfiguration which, under the guise of pastoral concern, consolidates the new conciliar regime in Mexico and presupposes as unquestionable the authority of the very architect of the revolution against the Catholic order.

Vietnamese Marian Congress 1959 with clergy and faithful in a cathedral, reflecting pious devotion and historical contrast with conciliar revolution.

Messages

Nuntius Radiophonicus ad Conventum Marialem Vietnamensem (1959.02.19)

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In this short radio message of 19 February 1959, John XXIII addresses the Vietnamese hierarchy on the occasion of a Marian Congress in Saigon, commemorating both the Lourdes centenary celebrations and the 300th anniversary of the establishment of Apostolic Vicariates in Vietnam. He praises Marian devotion, exalts the memory of missionaries and martyrs, rejoices at the numerical growth of Catholics (about 1.5 million), commends the indigenous clergy, expresses sorrow for those in the North unable to attend because of political circumstances, assures them of his spiritual closeness, and appoints Gregory Peter Agagianian as his legate for the event, concluding with a so‑called “Apostolic Blessing.” The entire tone is one of diplomatic congratulation, sentimental encouragement, and historical celebration—while remaining radically silent about the modernist subversion already emanating from Rome, thus revealing the inner contradiction of a message that invokes Catholic language while serving the nascent conciliar revolution.

Catholic bishop in Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar, representing the contested Apostolic Constitution with traditional devotion and historical backdrop.

Apostolic Constitutions

Constitutio Apostolica «Ambatondrazakaensis» (1959.05.21)

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The text promulgated under the name of John XXIII and titled De Diego Suarez — Tananarivensis (Ambatondrazakaënsis) formally erects a new territorial diocese in Madagascar (Ambatondrazaka), carved out from the territories of Diego Suarez and Tananarive, entrusting it to clergy of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, defining its cathedral, its suffraganeus dependence on Tananarive, its seminary, chapter (or diocesan consultors), revenues, curial order, and delegating the execution to Marcel Lefebvre as Apostolic Delegate.

A traditional Catholic bishop addressing Japanese Catholics in front of a Japanese temple, symbolizing the need for conversion and the exclusive truth of the Catholic Faith.

Speeches

A A A LA IOANNES PP. XXIII NUNTIUS RADIOPHONICUS… (1959.02.16)

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On 16 February 1959, a few months after his usurpation of the Apostolic See, John XXIII delivered a brief Latin radio message to the Catholics of Japan to mark the inauguration of Japanese-language broadcasts from Vatican Radio. He greets the hierarchy and faithful, praises Japanese cultural virtues—ancient refinement, strength, patient endurance, artistic brilliance—and exhorts Catholics to let their faith shine through mildness and moral uprightness. He assures them of his prayers through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoking Christ as “O Oriens, splendor of eternal light and sun of justice,” that the Japanese may be enlightened and enabled to embrace the riches of the Gospel and be preserved from evils, granted prosperity and blessings in time and eternity. This apparently pious address, however, is an early and symptomatic manifesto of the horizontal, humanistic, and irenic religion that will soon explode in the conciliar revolution, subtly replacing the militant, exclusive Kingship of Christ with a saccharine naturalism and vague benevolence.

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