Another 20 Years of This? Leo XIV and the Ongoing Sacrilege of the Novus Ordo

Pro-Abortion/ LGBT Canadian PM Receives Communion at the Papal Mass

It began with scandal and shows no sign of letting up.

At Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass, pro-abortion Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has publicly supported abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia, was seen receiving Holy Communion. Just as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden had done at papal Masses under Francis. No discipline. No denial. No concern for the Eucharist or the souls of public heretics receiving it in defiance of Canon Law and St. Paul.

As LifeSiteNews reported: “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney … was pictured appearing to receive Holy Communion at Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass.” There was no attempt to enforce the Church’s law that “those obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion” (Canon 915). Just silence.

Kneeling Discouraged, Reverence Dismissed

The Archdiocese of Louisville added its own contribution to the week’s liturgical decline by issuing guidelines that discourage kneeling for Communion. According to their directive, “The norm in the United States is that the faithful stand to receive Holy Communion. This has not changed. Kneeling is not the norm.”

But it should be.

Receiving Communion in the hand is one of the great modern sacrileges in the Church, and it began in disobedience. Communion in the hand was initially introduced, not by mandate of the Church, but by liturgical vandals in Europe who did it without permission. Rather than stop it, Paul VI caved. In his 1969 instruction Memoriale Domini, he admitted that the practice was widespread due to disobedience, but instead of crushing it, he allowed it by indult; setting a precedent of spineless indulgence that the hierarchy has followed ever since.

The Novus Ordo: Built for Defiance

This is the heart of the crisis: the liturgy itself has become a vehicle of defiance. It no longer forms the faithful in reverence. It instead trains them in rebellion.

The Novus Ordo, as it is typically celebrated, invites sacrilege. It permits the faithful to receive the Body of Christ like a cracker at a drive-thru window. It brings women and laypeople into the sanctuary; something never permitted in traditional Catholicism. The sanctuary, in the traditional Roman Rite, is the domain of the ordained. It is a sacred space, not a performance stage for readers and lay ministers.

St. Paul’s Command Rejected

St. Paul made this clear:

“Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith. But if they would learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.” (1 Cor. 14:34-35)

And again, earlier in the same epistle:

“Every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.” (1 Cor. 11:5)

These weren’t suggestions. They were commands, apostolic in origin, divinely inspired, and enforced by the Church for nearly two thousand years. The pre-Vatican II Church treated them as such. St. Paul himself says: “The things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.” (1 Cor. 14:37)

But the modern Church has abandoned both mandates. In today’s Novus Ordo parishes, women routinely enter the church unveiled, speak from the sanctuary, and read the very words of Scripture aloud, often while the Pope himself sits in passive observance.

The result is a liturgy that makes a public show of contradicting the Apostle’s directives both in word and gesture. Silence is replaced with lay commentary. Veiling is replaced with fashion. Sacred tradition is replaced with feminist novelty.

If we believe that Scripture is inspired by God, then violating it, especially in the context of the liturgy, is not just poor judgment. It is sacrilege.

Girl Altar Boys: From Condemned Evil to “Pastoral Option”

The sight of girls in cassocks serving at the altar is now so common that few even question it. But for over a millennium and a half, the Church had only one word for it: evil.

In the fifth century, Pope Gelasius I condemned the very idea, rebuking bishops in southern Italy for allowing women to “serve at the sacred altars” and declaring the practice a “reprehensible custom” that must be abolished. The tradition was clear and universally upheld: the sanctuary is not a place for women.

Pope Innocent IV reaffirmed this in the thirteenth century, stating explicitly that women must never presume to serve at the altar and that such service must be “altogether refused.”

In the eighteenth century, Pope Benedict XIV condemned the idea with finality, calling it “evil” and insisting that the Church must preserve “the discipline handed down by the Apostles.” This wasn’t fringe. This wasn’t local. This was the consistent, authoritative teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.

And yet now? In the post-Vatican II age of rupture, the evil has been baptized as virtue.

First came the disobedience: priests and bishops allowing girls to serve at Mass despite the clear prohibition.

Then came the surrender: Rome’s 1994 indult permitting bishops to allow female servers if they felt like it.

Then, finally, the endorsement, Pope Francis amending canon law in 2021 to make female altar service part of the Church’s official structure.

So an “evil” condemned by Benedict XIV is now a norm under Leo XIV.

This isn’t a development, it’s a defection. The post-conciliar hierarchy watched a condemned evil practice become a tolerated option and then a celebrated feature of the new liturgy. And they never lifted a finger to stop it.

The sanctuary is no longer guarded. It is open to anyone: no tonsure, no ordination, no tradition. Just a willingness to serve a rite that no longer remembers its own theology.

Another twenty years of this, and most Catholics won’t even know that the Church ever taught otherwise.

No Correction from Leo XIV

Leo XIV presides over this mess without protest. Like his conciliar predecessors, he sits silently as sacrilege unfolds.

The truth is this: the Novus Ordo is the Mass of indifference. It shrugs at Scripture. It treats 1,969 years of liturgical tradition as optional. It promotes female lectors, girl altar boys, lay “ministers,” and Communion in the hand as if they were the norm rather than the aberration. But they’re not. They’re all violations of what was once held to be sacred.

And now Leo XIV carries it all forward with a smile and a shrug.

The Road to 2045: Irreversible Decay

Twenty more years of this will do irreversible damage. What is already a near-universal abuse will be seen as infallible practice. By 2045, it won’t just be rare to see kneeling, veils, or silence, it will be mocked as fringe extremism. The defiance of St. Paul will have been normalized for a full century.

If a future pope finally wakes up and says, “Oops. Sorry for 100 years of defying God,” what credibility will the Church have left?

A Crisis of Fidelity, Not Preference

This is not a matter of style or preference. It is a matter of fidelity. Of obedience. Of reverence.

And as long as the Novus Ordo is allowed to trample divine law, to desecrate the Eucharist, and to ignore the Apostles, the crisis will not end.

Pope Leo XIV may wear white. He may smile and speak softly. But every day he presides over this disobedient liturgy without correction is a day the Church sinks deeper into apostasy.

There is no sign of reversal. And there won’t be; unless Catholics have the courage to say what too many fear: this liturgy must be abolished, and the traditional Mass restored.

Until then, the sacrilege continues.