The Apostolic Journey of a Modernist Usurper: A Study in Naturalistic Pelagianism
The cited article from Vatican News (25 February 2026) announces the upcoming “Apostolic Journeys” of “Pope Leo XIV” to Monaco, Africa, and Spain. It presents these trips as a continuation of the pastoral itinerary begun by his predecessor, “Pope Francis,” framing them within the post-conciliar paradigm of “dialogue,” “peace,” and “fraternity.” This narrative, however, constitutes a profound and deliberate rejection of the immutable Catholic doctrine on the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the missionary mandate of the Church, as definitively taught before the dawn of the Modernist apostasy. The article’s very language and omissions expose the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect, which operates not as the Catholic Church but as a paramasonic structure intent on promoting a naturalistic, human-centered religion utterly alien to the Faith of our fathers.
1. The Naturalistic Reduction of Papal Ministry to Humanitarian Diplomacy
The article describes the journeys in purely sociological and geopolitical terms: “encounter the most diverse types of countries and situations,” “attention to the least, the poor,” “focused on peace,” “commitment to peace,” “migratory routes.” This is a deliberate, systematic omission of the supernatural purpose of the Papacy. The Pope, as Vicar of Christ, is not a humanitarian ambassador or a UN delegate; his primary duty is to preach the Gospel, to convert nations to the Catholic Faith, and to publicly proclaim the exclusive rights of Christ the King over all societies. As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, the feast of Christ the King was instituted precisely to counteract the secularism that “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and to remind rulers that they must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The article’s complete silence on the necessity of Catholic conversion for individuals, families, and states is a damning indictment. It replaces the “sacrum imperium” (holy empire) of Christ with the profane imperium of humanistic “dialogue.”
The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ. (Quas Primas)
This fundamental truth is not merely “relativized” by the article; it is entirely absent. The visits to Muslim Algeria and the emphasis on “fraternity” with non-Catholics directly contradict the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the notion that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Prop. 16) and that “the civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Prop. 44). The article’s framework is one of indifferentism, the very pestilence Pius IX anathematized.
2. The Omission of the Social Kingship of Christ: A Direct Assault on Quas Primas
The encyclical Quas Primas is the Magna Carta of Catholic social doctrine. It states unequivocally that the “plague” of secularism must be combated by publicly restoring the reign of Christ. The article, in its entire description of the journeys, makes zero reference to this core doctrine. Instead, it speaks of “peace” in a vague, naturalistic sense, divorced from the peace that “the King of Peace brought to earth” only when “all willingly accept the reign of Christ.” The visit to Spain, a nation historically Catholic but now deeply secularized, is presented as a cultural event (inaugurating a tower in a modernist basilica) rather than a prophetic call to national conversion and the re-establishment of the rights of the Catholic Church over the state. This is the exact opposite of Pius XI’s directive: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The article’s Jesus is a “good moral teacher” whose “kingdom” is a private sentiment, not the sovereign Lord of all nations whose laws must govern constitutions, education, and public morality.
3. “Fraternity” with Islam: The Indifferentism of the Syllabus Condemned
The description of Algeria is particularly revealing: Christians are “a small minority and a seed of fraternity.” This phrase is a masterpiece of Modernist ambiguity. It suggests a mere coexistence and mutual respect, a “fraternity” based on shared humanity, not on the unity of the one true Faith. This is the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Prop. 15) and “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Prop. 18). The Catholic Church has never taught that a seed of “fraternity” exists with Islam; she teaches that Islam is a false religion leading souls to damnation, and that the only fraternity is in Christ, into which non-Catholics must be brought through conversion. The article’s language is a direct implementation of the “ecumenical project” described in the Fatima file, opening the way to “religious relativism.” It is a spiritual betrayal of the millions of souls in Algeria who live in the darkness of Mohammedan superstition.
4. The Heresy of “Dialogue” Over Conversion: A Rejection of the Great Commission
The entire premise of the journeys—”encounter,” “dialogue,” “peace-building”—is Pelagian and naturalistic. It assumes that human effort, good will, and mutual understanding can build a better world without the absolute necessity of grace and the submission of all societies to the law of Christ. This is the “cult of man” condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu. The article never once mentions the Great Commission: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them… teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). The “apostolic journey” of a true Pope would be a royal progress of Christ the King, demanding the conversion of nations and the suppression of public worship of false gods. Instead, we have the “pastoral visit” of a modernist “bishop” of Rome, who, like his predecessors since John XXIII, treats other religions as equals and sees his role as a promoter of worldly peace, not the exclusive rights of the Catholic Church. This is the synthesis of all heresies: the substitution of a natural, fraternal, interreligious project for the supernatural, exclusive, and imperious reign of Christ.
5. The Sedevacantist Reality: An Antipope’s Journey in the Abomination of Desolation
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the foundational error of the entire article is its acceptance of “Pope Leo XIV” as a legitimate Pontiff. The theological arguments from the file on sedevacantism are clear and irrefutable. A manifest heretic, by the unanimous teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine and the entire pre-1958 Magisterium, ceases to be Pope ipso facto. The public, persistent, and obstinate promotion of the errors condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu and the Syllabus—religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogma, the separation of Church and State—constitutes public heresy. Therefore, the occupant of the Vatican since John XXIII is a series of antipopes. The “Holy See Press Office” is a department of a false church. The “Apostolic Journeys” are not journeys of the Successor of Peter but of a modernist agitator touring the world to promote the apostasy of the “Church of the New Advent.”
A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope. (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice)
The article’s language of “resuming his pilgrimages” and “pastoral visits” is the language of a man who believes himself to be a shepherd, but who is in fact a hireling who does not enter by the door (John 10:1). He visits the “least” and the “poor” but feeds them with the naturalistic bread of social justice, not the supernatural Bread of Life, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is denied to them in the Novus Ordo. He goes to the “migratory routes” but does not call for the conversion of Muslims to the one true Faith. He goes to Spain but does not demand the re-establishment of Catholicism as the sole religion of the state, as required by the Syllabus (Prop. 77). Every action described is a negation of the Catholic Faith and an affirmation of the Masonic principles of the “new world order” that the post-conciliar church serves.
6. The Symptomatic Silence: No Mention of Sin, Judgment, or the Supernatural
The most grave accusation against the article is its complete and total silence on the supernatural. There is no mention of:
- Sin and the necessity of repentance and conversion.
- The state of grace and the necessity of the sacraments (Baptism, Confession) for salvation.
- The Particular and General Judgment and the eternal destinies of Heaven and Hell.
- The Sacrifice of Calvary renewed in the Traditional Mass, which is the source and summit of the Church’s mission.
- The exclusive salvific mediation of the Catholic Church (“Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus“).
- The duty of the state to recognize the Catholic religion as the sole religion and to prohibit public worship of false gods.
This silence is not accidental; it is doctrinal. It is the hallmark of the Modernist, who reduces religion to a “life” and an “experience” and rejects the intellectual, propositional, and juridical nature of Revelation. The article represents a religion of feelings (“fraternity,” “peace,” “encounter”) over a religion of dogmas, a religion of man over a religion of God. It is the religion of the Antichrist, who will present himself as a promoter of global peace and unity while denying the exclusive reign of Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination Stands
The article is a perfect specimen of post-conciliar propaganda. It uses the vocabulary of Catholicism (“Apostolic Journey,” “Holy Father,” “faith”) to promote a religion that is its precise opposite. The journeys described are not missions of conversion but tours of apostasy, designed to cement the acceptance of the conciliar sect’s errors among the nations. The true Catholic, holding to the Faith as it was before the apostasy of 1958, must reject this entire spectacle with horror and contempt. He recognizes that the man called “Pope Leo XIV” is a manifest heretic and antipope, that the “Vatican News” is a mouthpiece of the false church, and that these journeys are a sacrilegious parody of the true papal mission to preach the exclusive Kingship of Christ and to bring all nations into the one fold of the Catholic Church. The only legitimate “Apostolic Journey” today is the witness of the small remnant who hold fast to the unchanging Faith, confessing the truth in the face of this global abomination of desolation.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to make Apostolic Journeys to Africa, Spain and Monaco (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.02.2026