Antipopes of the Antichurch
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Apostolorum choro (1962.04.30)
Sancti Iacobi Minoris’ nineteenth centenary of martyrdom provides the pretext for this Latin letter of John XXIII to Basil Heiser, head of the Conventual Franciscans. The text praises Saint James the Less and Saint Philip, commends the Roman Basilica of the Holy Apostles as an appropriate center of celebration, and links renewed devotion to the Apostles with hopeful expectations for the then-forthcoming Second Vatican Council, presenting it as a springtime of “spiritual renewal” under their patronage.
Amantissimo Patris (1962.05.03)
This Latin letter, issued by the usurper John XXIII to Gregory Peter Agagianian, commemorates the 40th anniversary of Pius XI’s motu proprio Romanorum Pontificum on the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. It praises Pauline Jaricot’s work, recounts the institutionalization and centralization of missionary funding under the Roman Curia, exhorts bishops, clergy, laity, and even newly founded “young Churches” to greater participation in Papal Mission Societies, and explicitly links this mobilization to the then-upcoming Vatican II as a great hope for worldwide missionary renewal. Beneath its devotional and bureaucratic language, the text functions as a programmatic manifesto: subordinating authentic missionary zeal to a conciliar, global, naturalistic project detached from the integral Catholic faith and ordered to the emerging conciliar sect.
Sexaginta annos (1962.05.26)
This brief Latin letter of John XXIII to Benedict Aloisi Masella, on the 60th anniversary of Masella’s priestly ordination, offers congratulatory praise for his long service in various diplomatic and curial roles, invokes a generic blessing on his past and present offices (including as Prefect of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments and Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica), and ends with an “Apostolic Blessing” for him and those present at the celebration. It is a short, apparently benign panegyric whose suave courtesies, precisely in their apparent harmlessness, reveal the entire programmatic inversion of the Catholic priesthood and hierarchy that characterizes John XXIII and the conciliar revolution he inaugurated.
Quamvis religiosam (1962.07.10)
The Latin text under review is a congratulatory letter of John XXIII to Eugene Tisserant on the 25th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. It offers laudatory praise for Tisserant’s “pastoral” activity as bishop of Ostia, Porto, and Santa Rufina, extols his governance, invokes abundant heavenly helps, and grants him, for a chosen day, authorization in the name and “authority” of John XXIII to impart a blessing with a plenary indulgence to the faithful present.
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