Leo XIV claims that Christ founded a “religious movement” - in direct contradiction to Church teaching and the Gospel.
The recently published document The Path of Hope was signed by the heads of three Vatican dicasteries and approved by Leo XIV on 22 June. It states in §10:
“Early Christianity developed from the movement initiated by Jesus and his disciples, distinguishing itself from the various forms of Judaism over time.”
That’s the liberal Protestant view associated with figures such as Albert Schweitzer.
It clashes with propositions explicitly condemned by St Pius X in Lamentabili sane.
Condemned sentences are:
§59: Christ “inaugurated a religious movement adapted to, or to be adapted to, different times and places.”
§60: “Christian doctrine was originally Judaic. Through successive evolutions, it first became Pauline, then Joannine and finally Hellenic and universal.”
Catholic teaching states: Christ did not merely initiate a movement that gradually became Christianity. He founded one Church. He established it on Peter (Mt 16:16–18), instituted the Eucharist and the New Covenant in His Blood (Mt 26; Lk 22:20), and commanded sacramental baptism (Mt 28:18–20).
The historical separation of Christians from Judaism unfolded over time. The foundation of Christ’s Church did not.
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