The National Catholic Register reports that on April 16, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” celebrated Mass at Bamenda Airport, Cameroon, before approximately 20,000 people. In his homily, he urged Cameroonians to “obey God rather than human beings and earthly ways of thinking,” to reject resignation, and to become “builders of peace and fraternity.” He warned against mixing Catholic faith with “esoteric or Gnostic” practices, praised the joy of local liturgies, and called for societal transformation rooted in trust in God. Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya thanked him for visiting during a time of insecurity and pledged filial loyalty. The entire performance is a masterclass in modernist rhetoric: it speaks of God, peace, and obedience while remaining utterly silent on the one thing that actually matters — the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ and the obligation of all nations, including Cameroon, to submit to His public reign.
The Omission That Condemns the Entire Homily
The most devastating critique of this homily is not what it says, but what it refuses to say. Leo XIV speaks of “peace,” “reconciliation,” “dignity of every person,” “fundamental rights,” and “freedom” — but never once does he mention the Kingship of Jesus Christ over the nation of Cameroon, or over any nation. He calls for obedience to God, but carefully avoids specifying what God requires of a state. This is not accidental. It is the hallmark of the post-conciliar apostasy, which Pius XI explicitly condemned in Quas Primas (1925):
“The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.”
Pius XI was not speaking metaphorically. He taught infallibly that Christ’s reign extends over all men, all families, and all states — and that rulers who refuse public veneration and obedience to Christ act against the very foundation of their authority. Leo XIV, by contrast, offers Cameroon a program of “peace and reconciliation” stripped entirely of this supernatural framework. His “peace” is the peace of the United Nations Charter, not the peace of Christ the King. His “reconciliation” is horizontal — between ethnic groups, between social classes — never vertical, between a sinful nation and its Creator.
“Obedy God, Not Human Beings” — But Which God?
Leo XIV’s central exhortation — “obey God rather than human beings and earthly ways of thinking” — sounds superficially Catholic. But in the mouth of a usurper who occupies the See of Peter without legitimate authority, who was elected by a conclave of manifest heretics, and who has never once condemned the apostasy of Vatican II, this phrase is hollow. The God of Leo XIV is the god of the conciliar sect: a god who “dialogues,” who “encounters,” who respects “religious freedom” (the condemned error of Mirari Vos and the Syllabus of Errors, prop. 79), and who demands no public submission of nations to His law.
The true Catholic position was articulated by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), which condemned the modernist proposition that:
“The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.”
Leo XIV’s entire pontificate is built on the premise that the Church must reconcile herself with “modern progress” — with democracy, with human rights ideology, with religious pluralism. His call to “obey God” is therefore obedience to a domesticated deity, not to the God Who commanded all nations to be baptized (Mt 28:19) and Who will hold every ruler accountable at the Last Judgment.
The Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Pius XI taught in Quas Primas:
“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.”
Cameroon is a nation with a significant Catholic population. Its civil constitution makes no submission to Christ the King. Its laws permit practices condemned by the Church. And yet Leo XIV, standing on Cameroonian soil, says nothing about the duty of the Cameroonian state to recognize the Catholic religion as the religion of the state (as taught by Leo XIII in Immortale Dei), to submit its laws to the judgment of the Church, and to publicly confess the Kingship of Christ. Instead, he offers vague exhortations about “building peace” and “transforming society” — language indistinguishable from that of any secular NGO or UN development agency.
This is precisely the “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI identified as the “plague that poisons human society” — the removal of Christ from laws and states, the reduction of religion to a private affair, and the derivation of authority “not from God but from men.”
“Inculturation” as a Trojan Horse
Perhaps the most revealing passage in the homily is Leo XIV’s warning against “mixing the Catholic faith with other beliefs and traditions of an esoteric or Gnostic nature, which in reality often serve political and economic ends.” On the surface, this sounds like a defense of orthodoxy. But in the context of post-conciliar “inculturation” theology, it is a carefully calibrated statement designed to preserve the modernist project while appearing vigilant.
The conciliar sect has spent decades promoting the “inculturation” of the Gospel — a euphemism for the adulteration of Catholic worship and doctrine with pagan elements. The infamous “Zaire Use” of the Mass, the incorporation of animist rituals into African liturgies, the syncretistic practices at the Amazon Synod — all of these were justified in the name of “inculturation.” Leo XIV’s warning against “esoteric or Gnostic” mixing is not a repudiation of this project; it is a refinement of it. He is not calling for the purification of African Catholicism through the exclusive preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments. He is calling for a managed inculturation — one that avoids the most obviously pagan elements while preserving the modernist framework of dialogue, adaptation, and “respect for cultures.”
The true Catholic position was stated by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the Church does not adapt herself to cultures; cultures must be elevated and purified by the Church. The missionary task is not to find “seeds of the Word” in pagan religions (a modernist trope condemned by Lamentabili), but to preach Christ crucified and call all men to conversion through baptism and submission to the one true Church.
The “Builders of Peace” Who Reject the King of Peace
Leo XIV tells his hearers that “God makes us courageous people who, by confronting evil, build up the good” and that those who obey God “become builders of peace and fraternity.” But the “peace” he offers is not the peace of Christ — Pax Christi in Regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ, as Pius XI taught). It is the peace of the world: a peace built on negotiation, on “dialogue,” on the avoidance of supernatural claims that might offend non-Catholics.
Pius XI was explicit:
“What we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.'”
Leo XIV’s Cameroon homily does exactly this: it removes Christ from the public square, reduces religion to personal inspiration, and offers “transformation” without conversion, “peace” without the Kingdom, and “obedience to God” without submission to the Church’s social teaching. It is, in every respect, a homily that could have been delivered by a Protestant minister or a UN secretary-general — and that is precisely the point. The conciliar sect has spent seventy years making the Catholic faith indistinguishable from liberal humanitarianism.
The Archbishop’s Pledge of “Filial Loyalty”
Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya’s closing remarks — pledging “filial loyalty” to Leo XIV and expressing confidence that “the peace you have come to pray for shall return” — are a scandal. This “archbishop” recognizes a manifest usurper as the Vicar of Christ, participates in the liturgical and administrative structures of the concilar sect, and uses the language of Catholic fidelity to prop up an institution that has abandoned the Catholic faith.
True filial loyalty belongs to the true Pope — the one who would defend the Social Kingship of Christ, condemn religious liberty as an error, and demand that Cameroon submit its laws to the Gospel. No such man occupies the Vatican today. The structures there are occupied by apostates, and every “bishop” who pledges loyalty to them shares in their guilt.
Conclusion: A Homily That Could Have Been Written by the World
The most damning feature of Leo XIV’s Cameroon homily is its complete interchangeability with secular humanitarian discourse. Remove the name “God” and replace it with “human dignity,” and the entire address could be delivered at a UN General Assembly. There is no mention of the necessity of baptism for salvation. There is no mention of the duty of the state to recognize the Catholic Church. There is no mention of the sacraments as the ordinary means of grace. There is no mention of the Last Judgment, of hell, of the obligation of rulers to submit to Christ’s law.
This is not Catholicism. It is naturalistic humanism dressed in liturgical vestments. It is the “dogmaless Christianity” that the Holy Office under St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili (prop. 65):
“Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.”
Leo XIV’s Cameroon visit is a perfect illustration of this prophecy fulfilled. The “peace” he offers is the peace of the world — and the world will have its peace. But Christ said: “My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you” (Jn 14:27). That peace is found only in the Kingdom of Christ, under the authority of His true Church, and through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — none of which were so much as hinted at in Bamenda.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon Says ‘the Time Has Come’ to Rebuild Peace (ncregister.com)
Date: 16.04.2026