The National Catholic Register (NCRegister) portal reports on the visit of the usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV,” to Annaba, Algeria, on April 14, 2026. During a concelebrated “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine, the antipope delivered a homily centered on the Gospel encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus, calling the faithful to be “born from above” and urging Christians in Algeria to bear witness through “simple gestures, genuine relationships, and a dialogue lived out day by day.” He praised the perseverance of the local Christian community, invoked St. Augustine and the martyrs, and concluded with the signature modernist refrain: “God is love; he is the Father of all men and women.” The event was attended by several cardinals of the conciliar sect, including Parolin, Tagle, Turkson, and Sarah. The entire discourse is a masterclass in theological emptiness—a外交 exercise dressed in liturgical vestments, devoid of any mention of the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Church, or the supernatural mission of the Church to save souls from eternal perdition.
The Absence of Christ the King: A Diplomatic Church Without a Divine Mission
The most glaring omission in Leo XIV’s homily is the complete silence on the regnum Christi—the Kingship of Christ over all nations, peoples, and individuals. Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He declared with apostolic authority: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
Yet here we have the occupant of the Vatican—a man who claims to be the Vicar of Christ—standing on the soil of St. Augustine, one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, in a land where the Catholic faith once flourished under the episcopate of Hippo, and he says nothing about the obligation of all men and nations to submit to the Kingship of Christ. Not a word about the duty of rulers to publicly acknowledge Christ’s authority. Not a word about the final judgment, where Christ “will very severely avenge these insults, because His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles” (Quas Primas).
Instead, we are offered the anodyne platitude: “Where there is conflict she [the Church] brings reconciliation.” Reconciliation with whom? On whose terms? The Catholic Church does not bring “reconciliation” in the secular, diplomatic sense of conflict resolution between warring factions. The Church brings peace—but only “in the Kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Peace without Christ is not peace; it is the pax diaboli, the false peace of the Antichrist. As Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ—as we lamented—were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
“Born From Above” Without Baptism: A Naturalistic Distortion of Regeneration
Leo XIV’s homily centers on Christ’s words to Nicodemus: “You must be born from above” (John 3:7). The antipope presents this as an “invitation to freedom and new life in God,” which is true in itself—but his entire framing strips the teaching of its supernatural and ecclesial content. He says: “Jesus’ invitation gives rise to the mission of the whole Church, and consequently to the Christian community in Algeria: to be born again from above, that is, from God.”
But what does it mean to be “born from above”? The Catholic Church has always taught, with the Council of Trent, that this regeneration occurs through the Sacrament of Baptism: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). The Church has never taught that one is “born from above” through vague spiritual renewal, “simple gestures,” or “genuine relationships.” This is Protestant interiorism—the heresy that grace is an internal feeling rather than a supernatural reality conferred through the sacraments.
Moreover, the antipope’s exhortation to “be born again from above” is addressed to the Christian community in Algeria as a call to communal renewal, not as a summons to the unbaptized to receive the sacrament. This is the modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the reduction of dogma to a “practical function” rather than as principles of belief. The modernists taught that “the dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26, Lamentabili Sane Exitu). Leo XIV’s homily is a textbook example of this error: faith is reduced to social witness, not assent to revealed truth.
“Dialogue Lived Out Day by Day”: The Ecumenical Heresy in Action
Perhaps the most damning phrase in the entire homily is the antipope’s exhortation to the Christians of Algeria: “Bear witness to the Gospel through simple gestures, genuine relationships, and a dialogue lived out day by day.”
This is the language of the conciliar sect’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (1965), which Pius IX condemned in advance when he declared in the Syllabus of Errors: “It is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79).
The Catholic Church has always taught that the Church is the one true religion, outside of which there is no salvation, and that the state has a duty to suppress false religions in its territory when possible. Pius IX declared: “The Church has the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (condemning the contrary proposition in the Syllabus, Proposition 21). Yet here we have the Vatican’s occupant urging Christians to engage in “dialogue” with a Muslim-majority nation—not to convert them, not to preach the necessity of baptism, but to “bring flavor and light to the places where you live.”
This is not the language of the Church of St. Augustine, who wrote: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus”—outside the Church there is no salvation. This is the language of the neo-church of the Antichrist, which has abandoned the mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19) in favor of interreligious dialogue and mutual enrichment.
The Martyrs Invoked Without the Faith for Which They Died
Leo XIV invokes “the martyrs” and St. Augustine, saying: “Here the martyrs prayed; here St. Augustine loved his flock, fervently seeking the truth and serving Christ with ardent faith.”
But what is a martyr? The Catholic Church teaches that a martyr is one who suffers death in odium fidei—in hatred of the faith. The martyr dies rather than deny Christ. The martyr’s witness is not “simple gestures” or “genuine relationships” but the ultimate profession of faith: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty…” and the refusal to offer incense to false gods.
By invoking the martyrs while simultaneously refusing to preach the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith, the antipope commits a sacrilege against their memory. The martyrs did not die so that their successors could engage in “dialogue” with those who deny the Divinity of Christ. They died precisely because they proclaimed that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
St. Augustine himself, whom the antipope claims as his patron, wrote against the Donatists and Pelagians with uncompromising clarity. He did not engage in “dialogue lived out day by day” with heretics; he refuted them, condemned them, and called them to conversion. The neo-church’s invocation of St. Augustine is a grotesque parody of his legacy.
“God Is the Father of All Men and Women”: The Universalist Heresy
The antipope concludes his remarks with the statement: “God is love; he is the Father of all men and women.”
This phrase, repeated ad nauseam by the conciliar sect, is a deliberate distortion of Catholic teaching. God is indeed love, and He is the Creator of all men—but He is the Father of all men only in the sense of creation and providence, not in the sense of grace and salvation. The Catholic Church teaches that God becomes our Father in a special way through baptism and adoption as sons in Christ. As St. Paul writes: “You have received the Spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15).
To say that “God is the Father of all men and women” without qualification is to deny the necessity of baptism, the reality of original sin, and the distinction between the state of grace and the state of sin. It is the heresy of universalism—the belief that all men will be saved regardless of their faith or works. This was condemned by the Council of Florence (1439), which declared: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal.”
The Concelebrants: A Roll Call of the Conciliar Sect
The article notes that the “Mass” was concelebrated by Cardinals Parolin, Tagle, Turkson, Sarah, López Romero, and Koovakad. This is a veritable gallery of the conciliar sect’s most prominent figures—men who have publicly endorsed the reforms of Vatican II, including its errors on religious freedom, ecumenism, and the liturgy.
Cardinal Parolin, the Secretary of State, has been the architect of the Vatican’s diplomatic agreements with China and other totalitarian regimes. Cardinal Tagle, the former Archbishop of Manila, is a known advocate of interreligious dialogue and “synodality.” Cardinal Sarah, once thought to be a voice of orthodoxy, has consistently refused to break with the conciliar sect and has participated fully in its liturgies and governance.
Their presence at this “Mass” is not incidental—it is a public demonstration of unity with the apostate program of Leo XIV. They are not shepherds of Christ’s flock; they are functionaries of the neo-church, carrying out its program of dissolution and syncretism.
The Basilica of St. Augustine: A Monument to a Faith Betrayed
The Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba was built between 1881 and 1907 under the initiative of Archbishop Lavigerie, a true son of the Catholic Church who dedicated his life to the evangelization of Africa. It was elevated to a minor basilica by St. Pius X in 1914—the same pope who condemned Modernism as “the synthesis of all errors.”
That this basilica should now serve as the stage for the antipope’s diplomatic theater is a profound irony. The faith for which it was built—the faith of St. Augustine, the faith of the martyrs, the faith that conquered the Roman Empire and civilized Europe—has been replaced by a naturalistic humanism that would be unrecognizable to its founders.
The restoration of the basilica in 2013, supported by a “personal donation” from Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, the architect of the hermeneutics of continuity), is itself symbolic: the concilar sect restores the buildings of the Church while destroying its soul.
Conclusion: The Church Does Not “Bring Reconciliation”—She Brings Christ
The Catholic Church does not exist to “bring reconciliation” in the secular sense. She exists to save souls—to bring men to the knowledge of the truth, to the grace of the sacraments, and to eternal life. Her mission is not diplomatic but supernatural. As Christ Himself declared: “I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34).
The homily of Leo XIV in Annaba is a perfect distillation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: a message devoid of doctrine, devoid of the supernatural, devoid of the Kingship of Christ, and devoid of the urgency of salvation. It is the language of the abomination of desolation—a church that has emptied itself of Christ and filled the void with the spirit of the world.
The faithful must reject this counterfeit and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church—the Church of St. Augustine, the Church of the martyrs, the Church that will endure until the end of time, even if her visible structures are occupied by the enemies within.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV in Algeria: Where There Is Conflict the Church Brings Reconciliation (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.04.2026