The National Catholic Register reports that on April 21, 2026, aboard the papal flight from Angola to Equatorial Guinea, the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) marked the first anniversary of the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio — the apostate who sat on the usurped throne as “Francis” — with effusive praise, calling him a “great gift” and urging prayers that he “is already enjoying the mercy of the Lord.” This act is not merely sentimental nostalgia; it is a public liturgical endorsement of the most destructive pontificate in the history of the Church, a pontificate that accelerated the demolition of Catholic doctrine, worship, and discipline. To canonize Bergoglio’s memory while the faithful still bleed from his wounds is to pour salt into the wound and to declare, in the clearest possible terms, that the conciliar revolution continues unabated.
The Canonization of Apostasy: Leo XIV’s Eulogy for the Architect of Ruin
Leo XIV’s words are worth examining with surgical precision, for they reveal not only his own theological bankruptcy but the uninterrupted continuity of the post-conciliar apostasy. He said:
> “I would like to remember, on this first anniversary of his death, Pope Francis, who gave and offered so much to the Church through his life, his witness, his words, and his actions.”
“Gave and offered so much to the Church.” One must ask: what did Bergoglio give? He gave us Amoris Laetitia, which opened Holy Communion to public adulterers. He gave us the Abu Dhabi Declaration, which proclaimed that God “wills the plurality of religions” — a proposition condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos as “deliramentum.” He gave us the suppression of the traditional Mass through Traditionis Custodes, an act of liturgical vandalism without precedent. He gave us the “canonization” of heretics and the promotion of open sodomites to positions of influence. He gave us the betrayal of the Church’s missionary mandate by reducing the Gospel to a program of environmentalism, open borders, and UN sustainable development goals. These are the “gifts” Leo XIV celebrates.
St. Robert Bellarmine, whom the conciliar sect claims to revere while betraying his every principle, taught that a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Bergoglio’s public, notorious, and obstinate heresies — documented over twelve years of pontificate — place him squarely within Bellarmine’s category. Leo XIV’s invocation of prayers for Bergoglio’s soul — “Let us pray that he is already enjoying the mercy of the Lord” — is a tacit admission that his eternal destiny is uncertain, which is itself a devastating indictment, yet Leo immediately follows it with thanksgiving for the “great gift of Francis’ life,” as though the faithful should be grateful for the greatest persecution the Church has endured since the Arian crisis.
“Closeness to the Poor”: The Marxist Reduction of Charity
Leo XIV praised Bergoglio’s “closeness to the poorest, the smallest, the sick, children, and the elderly.” This language is revealing in its deliberate omission. True Catholic charity is ordered toward the salvation of souls and the glory of God; it is exercised through the sacraments, preaching, and the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as understood by the perennial Magisterium. The conciliar sect’s “closeness to the poor” is a naturalistic, horizontal charity indistinguishable from secular humanitarianism — indeed, indistinguishable from the program of any NGO or the United Nations.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the error that the Church’s mission can be reduced to social service. He wrote:
> “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations but also to those who, by receiving baptism, belong to the Church, even though error has led them astray or discord has separated them from it, and His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
The Church’s primary work is not hospitals and schools — though these are legitimate fruits — but the sanctification of souls through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the administration of the sacraments, and the preaching of the integral Gospel. When Leo XIV praises Bergoglio’s “closeness to the poor” without a single mention of the sacraments, the conversion of souls, or the preaching of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, he reveals that he operates within the same naturalistic framework that Pius XI condemned as the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.”
“Universal Fraternity”: The Masonic Slogan Enshrined
Perhaps most damning is Leo XIV’s praise of Bergoglio’s emphasis on “universal fraternity, saying he sought to promote authentic respect for every man and woman and to foster a spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood rooted in the Gospel.”
“Universal fraternity” is not a Gospel concept. It is a Masonic slogan, enshrined in the motto of the French Revolution — Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — and condemned repeatedly by the Magisterium. Pope Leo XIII, in Humanum Genus (1884), identified “fraternity” as one of the three pillars of Masonic naturalism, a false fraternity that denies the necessity of divine grace and the supernatural order:
> “The partisans of the sects… say that all men are alike, and that, therefore, neither in social life nor in religion is there any reason why one should be subject to another… Hence they aim at the establishment of the so-called ‘universal fraternity’ of all men.”
The only true fraternity is that which exists within the Catholic Church, founded on the common possession of sanctifying grace, the true faith, and the sacraments. Outside the Church, there is no fraternity — there is only the kingdom of Satan. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). Bergoglio’s “universal fraternity” was precisely this reconciliation with the world — a fraternity with Buddhists, Muslims, animists, and atheists that implicitly denies the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
Leo XIV’s endorsement of this “fraternity” is not a minor rhetorical flourish. It is a reaffirmation of the Abu Dhabi Declaration’s teaching that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions” are “willed by God in His wisdom” — a proposition that is formally heretical, as it contradicts the defined dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church and that God does not will false religions.
The “Mercy” Heresy: Forgiveness Without Repentance
Leo XIV recalled Bergoglio’s message of mercy, pointing to the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy as part of his legacy:
> “Let us pray that he is already enjoying the mercy of the Lord, and let us give thanks to the Lord for the great gift of Francis’ life to the whole Church and to the entire world.”
The “mercy” of Bergoglio was not the mercy of the Catholic Church — which requires contrition, confession, and amendment of life. It was a naturalistic “mercy” that dispensed with truth, that absolved without confession, that welcomed without conversion. It was the mercy of the woman caught in adultery without the command “Go, and sin no more” (John 8:11). This false mercy is the antithesis of the Gospel, for Our Lord Himself taught that “not every one that saith to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 7:21), and that “unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).
The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy was used by Bergoglio to grant all “priests” the faculty to absolve the sin of abortion — a reserved sin — and to promote the reception of Communion by the divorced and “remarried,” directly contradicting the teaching of John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio (1981) and the Council of Trent’s canons on the sacraments. Leo XIV’s praise of this “legacy” is a ratification of sacrilege.
The Silence That Condemns: What Leo XIV Did Not Say
The most telling aspect of Leo XIV’s remarks is not what he said, but what he omitted. There was:
– No mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the very heart of the Church’s life, which Bergoglio systematically attacked through Traditionis Custodes and the promotion of the Novus Ordo as a mere “meal.”
– No mention of the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament — the dogma that defines Catholic worship and that the conciliar sect has effectively denied through its sacrilegious “communion” services.
– No mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith — the missionary mandate given by Christ Himself: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations” (Matt. 28:19).
– No mention of sin, hell, or the last things — Bergoglio’s favorite omission, faithfully continued by his successor.
– No mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix — the conciliar sect’s systematic downgrading of Our Lady in favor of ecumenical “dialogue.”
– No mention of the social reign of Christ the King — the doctrine Pius XI declared essential for the peace of nations.
This silence is not accidental. It is the silence of apostasy — the deliberate suppression of the truths that the world finds offensive, in order to achieve the “universal fraternity” that is nothing other than the united worship of man against God.
The Broader Context: Continuity of the Conciliar Revolution
Leo XIV’s eulogy for Bergoglio must be understood within the broader context of his Africa tour — a continent where the conciliar sect competes with Islam and Protestantism for adherents by offering a diluted, naturalistic “gospel” indistinguishable from secular development programs. His discussions with Angola’s president about “health care and education” and “ways to improve public services” reveal the same horizontal, worldly orientation that characterized Bergoglio’s pontificate.
When asked about cooperation between Church and state, Leo XIV said “the two can work together for the good of the people while maintaining distinct roles.” This is the language of the post-conciliar “religious freedom” condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos. The Church does not “cooperate” with the state as one NGO among many — she demands that the state recognize the kingship of Christ and submit to her authority in all matters touching the salvation of souls.
Conclusion: The Abomination Continues
Leo XIV’s remembrance of Bergoglio is not a private opinion — it is a public act of the one who claims the Chair of Peter, made aboard the papal plane, in the presence of journalists, and disseminated worldwide. It is a formal, official endorsement of everything Bergoglio represented: the destruction of the Mass, the betrayal of the faith, the embrace of the world, and the reduction of the Church to a humanitarian NGO.
The faithful who still cling to the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the Apostles, the faith of the Council of Trent, the faith of St. Pius X and Pius XI — must recognize that the conciliar sect has no intention of reform, no capacity for repentance, and no connection to the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ. The abomination of desolation continues in the holy place, and the faithful must flee to the desert — to the chapels, the hidden Masses, the faithful priests who still offer the true Sacrifice and preach the true Gospel.
As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), Modernism is “the synthesis of all heresies” — and the conciliar sect, from John XXIII through Bergoglio to Leo XIV, is its fullest manifestation. Let us pray for the true Church, which endures in the faithful who refuse to bend the knee to Baal, and let us await the day when Christ the King will reign — not in the structures of the abomination, but in the hearts of the faithful and over all the nations of the earth.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Recalls Pope Francis a Year After His Death (ncregister.com)
Date: 21.04.2026