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A Catholic bishop in traditional vestments stands in the ruins of Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral, holding a scroll with Latin text from the 1959 decree 'Qui cotidie moerore', symbolizing the Church's resilience amid persecution.
Apostolic Constitutions

Qui cotidie moerore (1959.05.04)

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The Latin text promulgated under the name of John XXIII on 4 May 1959, beginning with “Qui cotidie moerore,” announces the removal of the dioceses of Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima from the ecclesiastical province of Tokyo and the erection of a new ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki, elevating Nagasaki to a metropolitan see with Fukuoka and Kagoshima as suffragans, and appointing Paul Aijro Yamaguchi as first metropolitan. The document clothes a purely juridical reorganization in pious language about the growth of the Church in Japan.

A Catholic bishop in traditional vestments stands before African faithful in a mission church in Rhodesia Septentrionalis or Nyassaland, 1959.
Apostolic Constitutions

Rhodesiae Septemtrionalis et de Nyassaland (1959.04.25)

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The document under review, issued under the name of Ioannes XXIII on 25 April 1959, formally erects two new ecclesiastical provinces in British Central Africa: Rhodesia Septentrionalis and Nyassaland. It reorganizes apostolic vicariates into territorial dioceses, designates Lusaka and Blantyre as metropolitan sees, transfers titular prelates to the new diocesan and archdiocesan sees, subordinates these jurisdictions to the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, regulates cathedral locations, seminaries, chapters or consultors, temporal goods, and prescribes canonical norms for governance, all within the framework of the then Roman central authority.

Behind this apparently orderly structuring stands the juridical and theological self-destruction of authority on the eve of the conciliar revolution, revealing how institutional expansion was already being used to prepare an earthly apparatus soon to be turned against the Kingship of Christ and the integral Catholic faith.

A solemn image of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Nzerkoré, Guinea, under the guidance of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), symbolizing the structural promotion of the diocese in 1959 by John XXIII.
Apostolic Constitutions

NZEREKOREENSIS (1959.04.25)

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The constitution “Nzerekoreensis” of John XXIII announces the promotion of the Apostolic Prefecture of Nzérékoré (Guinea), entrusted to the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), to the rank of diocese, subject to Conakry as metropolitan see and dependent on the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, delineating its territory, cathedral, governance, seminary, chapter, and administrative norms, and cloaking all this in pious language about the Church as the tree that spreads over the earth. In reality, this text is an early juridical brick in the construction of the conciliar neo-church, masking an ecclesiological mutation and preparing the displacement of the true apostolic hierarchy by a paramasonic missionary administration oriented not to the reign of Christ the King, but to the new cult of man.

Vatican Basilica during 1959 canonization of Carlo da Sezze and Joaquina de Vedruna by John XXIII, highlighting the subversion of Catholic doctrine.
Homilies

A A A LA IN SOLLEMNI CANONIZATIONE… (1959.04.12)

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In this homily of 12 April 1959, delivered in the Vatican Basilica at the canonization of Carlo da Sezze and Joaquina de Vedruna, John XXIII exalts their lives as proof that sanctity is accessible in every state. He sketches Carlo’s humble Franciscan piety and austerities, his Eucharistic devotion, and Joaquina’s transition from noble married life and motherhood to founding a congregation dedicated to girls’ education and care of the sick, proposing both as models for religious, families, and widows, while concluding with a petition that their intercession aid his pontificate, foster universal unity under “one fold and one shepherd,” and advance temporal prosperity ordered to eternal happiness.

A solemn scene depicting the Apostolic Vicariate of Luebo in the Belgian Congo, with indigenous clergy and missionaries overseeing a territorial division under John XXIII.
Apostolic Constitutions

Luluaburgensis (1959.04.25)

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The text published under the name of Ioannes XXIII and titled “LULUABURGENSIS (LUEBOËNSIS)” announces the territorial division of the Apostolic Vicariate of Luluaburg in the Belgian Congo and the erection of a new Apostolic Vicariate of Luebo, entrusted explicitly to the indigenous clergy, with precise geographic boundaries set by rivers and administrative limits, and executed under the supervision of Alfred Bruniera and Bernard Mels, in continuity with Roman central administration and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. It presents this bureaucratic restructuring as an expression of the expansion of the “Kingdom of Christ” and the life of the “Church” in mission lands.

Angelo Roncalli's coronation as 'John XXIII' on 4 November 1958 in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
Homilies

LA HOMILIA IOANNIS PP. XXIII IN DIE CORONATIONI HABITA (1958.11.04)

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The homily delivered by Angelo Roncalli at his coronation on 4 November 1958 presents his self-understanding as “John XXIII” at the outset of his rule: he addresses the hierarchy and the world, evokes Peter and John, sketches expectations people allegedly have of a “pope,” rejects some of these expectations in favour of the image of the “Good Shepherd,” strongly identifies the Roman Pontiff as the unique door of the sheepfold and Vicar of Christ, insists on evangelical meekness and humility as the governing program, and concludes by binding his pontifical identity to St Charles Borromeo as model of pastoral reform. Behind a pious biblical veneer, this discourse inaugurates the programmatic sentimentalism, anthropocentrism, and deliberate doctrinal deflection that will open the way to the conciliar revolution.

A reverent depiction of the establishment of the Ruthenian Byzantine-rite exarchate in Munich in 1959, with Eastern Catholic faithful kneeling in prayer before a traditional altar.
Apostolic Constitutions

Exarchia in Germania (1959.04.17)

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The constitution under review announces the erection of a Ruthenian Byzantine-rite exarchate in Germany, directly subject to the Roman See, with its seat in Munich, formed for those Eastern faithful displaced by war, and entrusted to an exarch bound to preserve rites and discipline according to Eastern usage while sending candidates for the priesthood to Rome.

Redemptorist superiors praying solemnly in a candlelit chapel during John XXIII's 1963 allocution to the Redemptorists.
Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII ad Redemptoristas (1963.02.08)

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Addressing the Redemptorist superiors gathered in Rome in early 1963, John XXIII praises the institute’s growth and apostolic work, exhorts them to fidelity to their Rule and Constitutions, encourages prudent revision of these norms in light of “the needs of the times,” presents observance of the Rule as the path to sanctity and communal harmony, and urges prayers and sacrifices for the success of Vatican II.

Canons in elaborate choir dress standing solemnly in a traditional Catholic cathedral, reflecting the meticulous attention to external structures described in the 1959 document Culiacanensis.
Apostolic Constitutions

Culiacanensis (1959.04.06)

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In this 1959 document, Angelo Roncalli, acting as “John XXIII,” establishes a collegiate chapter of canons at the cathedral of Culiacán. He specifies: the number of canons and prebendaries; one as Archdeacon, one as theologian, one as penitentiary; the mode of their provision; the partial norms for their prebends; the delegation of execution to the apostolic delegate; and, with remarkable detail, the choir dress and external habits these clerics may use. In other words: an elaborate piece of bureaucratic liturgical-administrative engineering, solemnly promulgated, which in retrospect exposes the central pathology of Roncalli’s regime—meticulous care for external structures and costumes accompanying, and serving as a prelude to, the systematic demolition of the faith.

A solemn candlelit Vatican hall during the closing of the first session of the Second Vatican Council on December 8, 1962. Antipope John XXIII addresses a gathered assembly of bishops and civil representatives. The scene is framed with Marian iconography but contrasts with modernist undertones.
Speeches

Allocutio Ioannis XXIII (1962.12.08)

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The text is an address by antipope John XXIII on 8 December 1962, marking the close of the first session of the so‑called Second Vatican Council. He lyrically links Marian feasts to the Council, praises the spectacle of gathered bishops and civil representatives, justifies the slow procedural beginning, outlines the intersession work by commissions, and exalts hoped-for “new Pentecost,” aggiornamento, and a future flourishing of the “Council’s” reforms throughout the Church and even secular society.

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