EWTN News Staff reports on the apostolic journey of the usurper Robert Prevost, who calls himself “Pope Leo XIV,” to Algeria, the first leg of a multi-nation African tour spanning April 13–23, 2026. The coverage details his visit to the Great Mosque of Algiers alongside Islamic dignitaries, his “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba, and his veneration at the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa. The report frames these events as gestures of interreligious reconciliation and pastoral charity. Beneath this veneer of piety lies the unmistakable fruit of the conciliar revolution: a manifest act of religious indifferentism, a public fraternization with the enemies of Christ the King, and a further consolidation of the abomination of desolation that has occupied the Vatican since 1958.
The Great Mosque of Algiers: Fraternization with the Enemies of Christ
The most damning image from this entire Algerian sojourn is the photograph of Robert Prevost standing alongside Rector Mohamed Mamoun Al Qasimi at the Great Mosque in Algiers. Let there be no equivocation: this is not diplomacy. This is not pastoral prudence. This is the public, ceremonial fraternization of a self-styled successor of Peter with the ministers of a religion that explicitly denies the Divinity of Jesus Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Redemption, and the very possibility of supernatural revelation.
The rector of a mosque — a building consecrated to the worship of a god who is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but rather a demonic counterfeit that rejects the Incarnation — was received with honor by the occupant of the Vatican. They stood together. They posed together. The conciar machinery presented this as a gesture of “dialogue.” But what dialogue is possible with those who deny the fundamental truths of the Catholic faith? Quid cum tibi ad commune, Deo et Mammona? (“What communion hath light with darkness?” — cf. 2 Cor. 6:14).
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15), and further condemned the notion that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16). The visit to the Great Mosque is not merely a disciplinary infraction — it is the lived, enacted heresy of indifferentism, the practical denial that the Catholic Church is the sole ark of salvation. Pius IX declared in Proposition 17 that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” — and this too was condemned. Yet here stands the usurper in the mosque, implicitly affirming that Islam is a legitimate path to God, that the Koran is a vehicle of truth, that the god of Muhammad is the God of Jesus Christ.
This is the “spirit of Assisi” made flesh and paraded before the cameras of the world. John Paul II — that apostate who knelt in prayer with pagans and animists at Assisi in 1986 — inaugurated this scandal. Benedict XVI continued it. And now Leo XIV carries the torch forward with the full apparatus of the conciliar sect. The visit to the Great Mosque of Algiers is not an aberration; it is the logical, inevitable fruit of Dignitatis Humanae, the conciliar declaration on religious freedom that Pius IX condemned in advance as the “pest of indifferentism.”
The Basilica of Our Lady of Africa: Marian Devotion in the Service of Syncretism
The report notes that Prevost visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa in Algiers, where he greeted young Catholics, met with the local community, and spoke from the pulpit. On the surface, this appears to be an act of Marian piety. But the context transforms it into something far more sinister.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Africa was built in the nineteenth century in a city where Catholics were a colonial minority. Its famous inscription — “Our Lady of Africa, pray for us and for the Muslims” — has long been a flashpoint for those who recognize that the Catholic Church does not pray for non-Catholics as though their religion were legitimate, but rather prays for their conversion. To pray for Muslims is to pray that they receive the grace of conversion to the Catholic faith, the one true Church outside of which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). To pray for them “and for the Muslims” as though Islam were a valid religious framework within which one might find God is to deny the very purpose of prayer and the mission of the Church.
The conciliar sect has systematically emptied Marian devotions of their supernatural, missionary content and repurposed them as instruments of interreligious “encounter.” Our Lady of Fatima — whose message was, according to the conciliar reinterpretation, reduced to a vague call for “peace” — becomes a bridge to Islam rather than a summons to consecration and conversion. The visit to this basilica, in the immediate context of the mosque visit, confirms this pattern: Mary is no longer the Virgin Most Powerful who crushes the head of Satan, but a sentimental figure of “hospitality and friendship,” as the report itself notes in describing the Augustinian Missionary Sisters’ center.
The “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine: Sacrilege on Holy Ground
Perhaps the most grotesque element of this entire charade is that Robert Prevost celebrated his so-called “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba — the ancient Hippo, where one of the greatest Doctors of the Church shepherded his flock, combated heresies, and defended the integrity of Catholic doctrine against Pelagians, Donatists, and Manichaeans.
St. Augustine, who wrote De Civitate Dei — The City of God — in which he articulated the absolute distinction between the heavenly city and the earthly city, between the Church and the world, between Christ and Satan, would have recognized immediately what Prevost represents. The bishop who celebrates a counterfeit liturgy — the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite composed by the apostate Annibale Bugnini with the collaboration of six Protestant “observers” — in the basilica of the Doctor of Grace is not honoring St. Augustine. He is desecrating his memory.
The 1962 Missale Romanum, the Traditional Latin Mass, is the liturgy that St. Augustine himself would have recognized as the authentic worship of the Catholic Church — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, offered ad maiorem Dei gloriam, with the priest facing the altar, speaking the words of consecration in the sacred tongue, and the faithful receiving the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ kneeling and on the tongue. What Prevost offers is a communal meal, a Protestantized assembly, a “table of gathering” that the Council of Trent explicitly condemned as a corruption of the Holy Sacrifice.
Pope St. Pius V, in his Apostolic Constitution Quo Primum (1570), perpetually established the Roman Missal and forbade any alterations to it, under pain of divine judgment. The Novus Ordo Missae is a direct violation of this perpetual decree. To celebrate it in the basilica of St. Augustine is to heap sacrilege upon sacrilege, to profane the memory of the saint who gave the Church its most profound theology of grace, sacrament, and ecclesial authority.
The Archaeological Site of Hippo: Pilgrimage Without Faith
The report notes that Prevost visited the historic archaeological site of Hippo. One must ask: what does the usurper seek at Hippo? Does he seek the intercession of St. Augustine? Does he seek to learn from the saint’s uncompromising defense of Catholic truth against every form of heresy and worldly compromise? Or does he seek merely a photo opportunity, a backdrop of ancient stones from which to project the image of a “humble pilgrim”?
The conciliar sect has a long history of visiting the sites of authentic Catholic civilization while simultaneously dismantling the faith that built them. They walk the catacombs while denying the reality of martyrdom. They venerate the relics of saints while canonizing heretics. They stand in the basilicas of the Fathers while teaching doctrines the Fathers would have anathematized. This is not pilgrimage. This is tourism — the tourism of apostates who inhabit the ruins of a civilization they have destroyed.
The Care Home for the Elderly: Naturalistic Charity as Substitute for the Supernatural
The report mentions that Prevost visited with residents of a care home for the elderly in Annaba. The conciliar sect consistently reduces the Church’s mission to naturalistic works of charity — feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick — while systematically neglecting the supernatural mission of the Church: the salvation of souls through preaching, the administration of the sacraments, and the proclamation of Christ the King.
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), taught that the Kingdom of Christ “encompasses all men” and that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The reign of Christ is not merely a reign of love and mercy — it is a reign of truth, justice, and supernatural order. To visit the elderly without preaching to them the necessity of the Catholic faith, without offering them the sacraments of the true Church, without warning them of the reality of judgment, heaven, and hell, is not charity. It is cruelty disguised as compassion.
The conciliar sect has replaced the supernatural charity of the saints — who converted, baptized, confessed, and anointed the dying — with the naturalistic charity of the secular humanitarian. This is the “cult of man” condemned by Paul VI himself in Humanae Vitae (though Paul VI, as a manifest heretic and antipope, had no authority to condemn anything). The care home visit is a perfect microcosm of the conciliar revolution: the body is comforted while the soul is abandoned to perdition.
The Augustinian Missionary Sisters: “Hospitality and Friendship” as Ecclesial Mission
The report describes Prevost’s visit to the Augustinian Missionary Sisters’ Center for “Hospitality and Friendship” near Algiers. The very name of this center reveals the conciliar inversion of the Church’s missionary purpose. The mission of the Church is not “hospitality and friendship” — it is the conversion of souls to Jesus Christ and their incorporation into the Catholic Church through baptism and the profession of the true faith.
Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei (1885), taught that the Church is a society “endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder,” and that the civil power has no authority to define the limits of those rights. The conciliar sect, by contrast, has reduced the Church to a non-governmental organization, a charitable institution, a “center for hospitality and friendship” that offers the world what the world already has — human warmth — while withholding the only thing the world desperately needs: the truth of Jesus Christ and the grace of the sacraments.
The Algerian Catholic Community: Sheep Without a Shepherd
The report notes that Prevost greeted members of the Algerian Catholic community at the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa. One must ask: what does the “Catholic community” of Algeria believe? Do they profess the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the Council of Trent, the First Vatican Council, the Syllabus of Errors, Quas Primas, and Pascendi Dominici Gregis? Or do they profess the conciliar counterfeit — the “faith” of religious freedom, ecumenism, collegiality, and the evolution of dogmas?
If they profess the conciliar counterfeit, they are not Catholics. They are members of a counterfeit church, a “paramasonic structure” that has occupied the Vatican and its institutions since 1958. The true Catholic Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral faith, in the priests who offer the true Mass, in the bishops who uphold the immutable Magisterium. But the “Catholic community” of Algeria, insofar as it is in communion with the conciliar sect, is not the Catholic Church. It is a synagogue of Satan disguised in Catholic vestments.
The Papal Trip to Africa: Continuation of the Conciliar Apostasy
The report indicates that Prevost’s African tour includes Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon. This is not a missionary journey in the Catholic sense. The great missionary pontificates of the past — those of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Pius XI — sent bishops and priests to Africa to convert pagans and Muslims, to establish the Catholic Church, to plant the standard of Christ the King in lands darkened by idolatry and error. What does Prevost bring to Africa? He brings the conciliar religion: interreligious dialogue, naturalistic humanitarianism, the cult of man, and the denial of the Church’s exclusive claim to truth and salvation.
Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Proposition 64). The entire conciliar project is precisely this: a “reform” of Christian doctrine to accommodate the spirit of the age. The African tour of Leo XIV is the export of this reformed, modernized, apostate “Catholicism” to a continent that desperately needs the unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
Every element of this Algerian visit — the mosque, the basilica, the “Mass,” the archaeological site, the care home, the missionary center — reveals the same fundamental reality: the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church. It is a counterfeit religion that uses the name, the vestments, and the buildings of the Catholic Church to advance an agenda diametrically opposed to the mission entrusted by Jesus Christ to His Apostles.
The true Church does not visit mosques. The true Church does not celebrate counterfeit liturgies. The true Church does not reduce its mission to “hospitality and friendship.” The true Church does not abandon the supernatural for the natural, the divine for the human, the eternal for the temporal. The true Church preaches Jesus Christ and Him crucified, administers the true sacraments, and calls all men — including Muslims, pagans, and heretics — to conversion, baptism, and incorporation into the one true fold.
Robert Prevost, who calls himself “Pope Leo XIV,” is not the successor of Peter. He is the current occupant of a usurped throne, the latest in a line of apostates beginning with John XXIII who have transformed the Vatican from the seat of the Vicar of Christ into the headquarters of the abomination of desolation. His visit to Algeria is not a papal journey. It is a propaganda tour for the religion of man, staged against the backdrop of a continent that still hungers — though it may not know it — for the true religion of Jesus Christ the King.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Non possumus.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits Algeria during his first papal trip to Africa (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 14.04.2026