The Vatican News portal reports that the antipope known as “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) has announced a series of pastoral visits for 2026 to Pompeii, Naples, Acerra, Pavia, Assisi, Rimini, and Lampedusa. These visits, framed as a “pastoral tour,” are presented as moments of prayer, meeting with clergy and citizens, and participation in events like the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death and the Meeting for Friendship among Peoples. The article, dated 19 February 2026, explicitly links these journeys to the legacy of “Pope Francis,” particularly his 2013 visit to Lampedusa, and highlights the canonization of St. Bartolo Longo (October 2025) as context for the Pompeii stop. The underlying thesis of this itinerary is the post-conciliar “Church of the New Advent’s” complete abandonment of the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church in favor of naturalistic humanism, ecumenical apostasy, and the secular “cult of man.”

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Theological and Doctrinal Bankruptcy of the Itinerary

1. The Illegitimacy of the Actor: A Usurper’s Pilgrimage

The entire premise of this “pastoral tour” collapses under the weight of the fundamental Catholic doctrine that a manifest heretic cannot hold the papal office. The source file on sedevacantism demonstrates from St. Robert Bellarmine, the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4), and Pope Paul IV’s bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* that a pope who publicly defects from the Catholic faith loses the papacy *ipso facto*, without any need for a formal declaration. The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII and continuing through “Pope Francis” to the current antipope “Leo XIV” is defined by their public embrace of Modernism, religious liberty, and ecumenism—all solemnly condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors* (e.g., Errors #15, #16, #77, #80) and by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili sane exitu* (e.g., Propositions #20, #21, #22, #65). Therefore, the individual identified as “Pope Leo XIV” is not a legitimate Vicar of Christ but a modernist intruder, and his “pastoral visits” are acts of usurpation within the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. His journeys are not those of a shepherd but of an agent of the “abomination of desolation” (cf. Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place.

2. Pompeii: Syncretism and the Profanation of the Rosary

The first stop is the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii, founded by St. Bartolo Longo, canonized by the antipope in 2025. This shrine is a locus of sentimental, naturalistic devotion utterly divorced from the Catholic theology of the Most Holy Rosary as a compendium of the Gospel and a weapon against heresy and error. The focus on the “Supplication” and the “prayer” of Longo reflects the post-conciliar reduction of Marian piety to a vague spirituality of “motherly intercession” stripped of its doctrinal content and militant character against the enemies of the Church. The *Syllabus of Errors* condemns the separation of Church and State (#55) and the idea that the civil power can define the rights of the Church (#19). Yet, the shrine’s very existence as a “pontifical” site under a modernist hierarchy represents the Church’s subordination to a naturalistic, sentimental religiosity. Furthermore, the “miracle of the sun” associated with Fatima—a phenomenon the source file exposes as “mass optical manipulation (natural phenomenon) and mass panic and autosuggestion” and a “Masonic operation”—has parallels in the superstitious aura surrounding Pompeii. The article’s silence on the supernatural efficacy of the Rosary as a propitiatory sacrifice and a means of grace, in favor of “gathering” and “prayer,” exposes the bankruptcy of this stop: it is a pilgrimage to a religious theme park, not to the House of God.

3. Naples and Acerra: The Heresy of “Laudato Si’” and the Cult of the Earth

The visit to Acerra in the “Land of Fires” is explicitly tied to the environment, with the article noting the postponed 2020 visit by “Pope Francis” to commemorate the encyclical *Laudato si’*. This is a direct manifestation of the modernist error condemned by Pius IX: “The civil power… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (#41) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (#55). The focus on “environmental pollution” and “mortality rates” shifts the Catholic concern from the salvation of souls to the naturalistic “well-being and interests of society” condemned in *Syllabus* Error #40. The article’s language about “illegal disposal of toxic waste” and “Triangle of Death” frames the Church’s mission as a social work agency aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a direct contradiction of Pius XI’s teaching in *Quas Primas*: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The true “land of fires” is the spiritual wasteland created by Modernism; the true “pollution” is the toxin of apostasy. The article’s omission of any call to public penance, conversion, and the reign of Christ the King over economic and social life is a damning silence.

4. Lampedusa: The Apostasy of “Welcoming” Over Salvation

The visit to Lampedusa is the most explicit embrace of the naturalistic “cult of man.” The antipope will “offer comfort and encouragement to the guests at various hotspots and to those who assist them.” This is a direct repudiation of the Catholic doctrine that the primary duty of the state is to protect its people and promote the common good according to the law of Christ. Pius XI in *Quas Primas* states: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The state’s happiness depends on its recognition of Christ’s kingship. The modern “welcoming” ideology, which treats borders as irrelevant and national sovereignty as an obstacle, is a form of the “principle of non-intervention” condemned in *Syllabus* Error #62, but applied inversely: it is an aggressive intervention to dissolve the Christian nation. The article’s focus on “victims” and “migrants” without a single reference to the necessity of Baptism, the threat of Islam, or the duty of rulers to protect the flock from invasion, reveals a complete surrender to the “errors of our time” that Pius XI identified as the cause of society’s ruin. The “comfort” offered is not the supernatural comfort of the sacraments and the true Faith, but the naturalistic comfort of social services, aligning the “Church” with the “synagogue of Satan” (cf. Pius IX’s *Syllabus* concluding allocution).

5. Pavia and Assisi: The Cult of the Saints Perverted

The visits to Pavia (tombs of St. Augustine) and Assisi (St. Francis) are particularly perverse. The antipope, who “repeatedly described himself as a ‘son of St. Augustine,’” will visit the shrine of the great Doctor of the Church. Yet, St. Augustine’s theology is utterly incompatible with Modernism. Augustine fought Pelagianism and Donatism, defending grace and the authority of the Church. The antipope’s “Augustinian” self-identification is a grotesque parody, as his entire program promotes the Pelagian “cult of man” and the Donatist-like rejection of hierarchical authority (except his own usurped power). The *Lamentabili sane exitu* condemns the proposition that “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (#54)—the very foundation of the post-conciliar “hermeneutic of discontinuity.” The visit to Assisi for the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death is the apex of apostasy. St. Francis was a man of absolute orthodoxy, submission to the Pope, and crusading zeal. The “Meeting for Friendship among Peoples” in Rimini, which the antipope will attend, is a direct descendant of the Assisi “spirit of Assisi” gatherings, which *Lamentabili* would condemn as the synthesis of all errors: the placing of “false religions” on a par with Catholicism, the denial of the uniqueness of the Church as the sole ark of salvation, and the reduction of religion to a vague “friendship” among peoples. The article’s silence on St. Francis’ stigmata, his total poverty, and his devotion to the papacy is a silencing of the supernatural in favor of a sentimental, ecological “Franciscan” myth.

6. Rimini: The “Meeting for Friendship” as the Abomination of Ecumenism

The final stop is the “Meeting for Friendship among Peoples.” This event, born from the post-conciliar ecumenical and interreligious fever, is a direct violation of the *Syllabus of Errors*: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (#18) is condemned. The “friendship” promoted is not Catholic charity but the indifferentism that Pius IX anathematized. The antipope’s participation, especially after his Assisi visit, is a public act of apostasy. It signifies the “neo-church’s” official embrace of the “ecumenism project” exposed in the Fatima file: “The imprecise formulation… opens the way to religious relativism… It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The “Meeting” is the institutionalization of this relativism. The article presents this as a positive event, a “Eucharistic celebration,” but in the context of the post-concurgical “Mass” which is a “table of assembly” and not the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary, this is sacrilege. The true Catholic mission, as defined by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*, is to “reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord” through the preaching of the exclusive reign of Christ the King, not to “friend” with pagans and heretics.

Symptomatic Analysis: The Systematic Omission of the Supernatural

Across all these visits, the article is characterized by a profound and deliberate silence on the core realities of the Catholic Faith: the state of grace, the necessity of the sacraments for salvation, the horror of mortal sin, the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven), the absolute authority of the Church as the sole dispenser of salvation, and the social reign of Christ the King as the only foundation for peace. This silence is the gravest accusation. The *Syllabus* condemns the error that “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (#21). The entire itinerary operates on the opposite principle: that all religions are paths to God, that the Church’s role is social service, and that “dialogue” and “friendship” are higher than conversion. The language is consistently bureaucratic, managerial (“pastoral visits,” “calendar,” “events scheduled,” “meeting with the citizens”), and humanitarian. This is the naturalistic, Masonic “disinformation strategy” described in the Fatima file, now applied to the entire post-conciliar “Church”: Stage 3, “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “Third Secret” of our time is the complete apostasy of the Vatican hierarchy; the “ecumenical reinterpretation” is this very tour, where the King of Kings is presented as a social worker and ecological advocate.

Conclusion: A Call to Rejection and Return

The itinerary announced by the Vatican News portal is not a pastoral program but a roadmap of apostasy. It systematically replaces the Catholic dogma of the Social Kingship of Christ with the dogma of the human person as the center of all things. It replaces the sacrament of penance with environmental activism, the sacrifice of the Mass with “Eucharistic celebrations” in the context of heretical “fraternities,” and the mission to convert nations with the mission to “welcome” invaders and “befriend” pagans. Every stop—Pompeii’s sentimental Marianism, Acerra’s eco-heretical focus, Lampedusa’s rejection of national sovereignty, Assisi’s syncretistic “Franciscanism,” Rimini’s ecumenical abomination—is a brick in the wall of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place. The only Catholic response, in line with the unchanging Faith before 1958, is total rejection. As the *Syllabus* declares: “The Catholic Church… has always and everywhere taught that the civil power is subject to the religious, and that no one can be saved who does not embrace the Catholic faith” (implied in Errors #15-18). The “Church of the New Advent” is a counterfeit. The faithful must flee this modernist Babylon and adhere to the immemorial Faith, outside of which there is no salvation.

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Source:
Pope to visit Pompeii, Naples, and Lampedusa on pastoral tour of Italy   (vaticannews.va)
Date: 19.02.2026