Open letter to Pope Leo XIV: The heresy of Modernism lives on through Vatican II: Legal scholar Raymond Marcin has urged the Pope to reject Vatican II’s path, calling it a covert revival of what St. Pius X condemned as the ‘synthesis of all heresies.’
Wed Jan 14, 2026 - 7:31 am EST Editor’s note: Below follows the full text of an Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV by Emeritus Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America Raymond B. Marcin. (LifeSiteNews) — Your Holiness, The purpose of this letter is to express a concern regarding the path that our Catholic Church has been following for six decades now in the wake of its Second Vatican Council. In your address to the College of Cardinals on Saturday, May 10, 2025, just two days after your election as Pope, you described that path with clarity and invited the entire College of Cardinals to commit themselves completely to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council in these words: In this regard, I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, from which I …