https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/christ-has-a-womb-the-surrealist?r=5mfttc&triedRedirect=true
Christ Has a Womb: The Surrealist Theology of Leo’s JubileeA nun preached theology before the Roman Curia while Leo XIV sat silent. What she said, and what he allowed, was surreal.Chris JacksonJun 15, 2025
"At the June 9 Jubilee of the Holy See, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, a nun sat before the Roman Curia and delivered a theological meditation while Leo XIV looked on without correction. Her name was Sister Maria Gloria Riva of the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, and her speech was filled with mystical language, poetic flourishes, and disturbing theological distortions.
Most notable was this image:
Quote “The merciful womb of Mary and the Divine Infant are depicted as open frames—jubilee doors of hope. At the centre of Mary’s womb is Jesus; and at the centre of the Divine Infant’s womb is the Eucharistic Bread.”
Let that sink in: the womb of the Divine Infant.
Not Mary’s womb. Not metaphorical receptivity. But Jesus, God made man, as a child, depicted with a womb containing the Eucharist.
The Lord of Heaven and Earth, the Logos incarnate, the eternal Son who was born of woman, is now presented as having a womb of his own.
And Leo XIV sat silently while this was preached: before cardinals, bishops, clergy, religious, and Vatican staff, as part of the official Jubilee program."
"The image Sister Riva offers is a theological violation, a surrealist inversion of the Incarnation. If Our Lord contains a womb, He is no longer the New Adam. He becomes a self-generating hermaphrodite; a cosmic Christ whose humanity is symbolic rather than real. This is esoteric gnosticism.
This distortion is not accidental. It fits a broader pattern of gender confusion infecting contemporary spirituality: an attempt to feminize Christ, dissolve the distinction between Creator and creature, and reimagine the Eucharist as cosmic symbol rather than bloody sacrifice. The Real Presence is reduced to a visual metaphor, bread in a mystical womb, not the Body offered on Calvary."
"And through all this, Leo XIV sat silently.
This was the official meditation of the Jubilee of the Holy See. Cardinals were present. Vatican officials were gathered. The bishop of Rome presided. And a nun sat where no nun has ever sat before, publicly delivering theological instruction to the assembled hierarchy of the Church, including the Pope himself.
This is no longer the age of lay “lectors” or nuns giving TED Talks. This is the normalization of feminine spiritual authority, not at the margins, but at the center of ecclesial life. Riva didn’t sneak onto the stage. She was invited to teach the Pope."