EWTN News reports that the individual occupying the Vatican, Robert Prevost — the usurper who has taken the name “Leo XIV” — visited the Jean-Pierre Olié Psychiatric Hospital in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on April 21, 2026, where he delivered remarks in Spanish centered on the theme that “God loves us just as we are” while calling for the care and healing of the mentally ill. The event included songs, dancing, testimonies from the hospital director Bechir Ben Hadj Ali and a patient named Pedro Celestino Nzerem Koose, as well as a poem recited by a former patient. The hospital, founded in 2014, is described as Equatorial Guinea’s first modern psychiatric center and recently formalized a cooperation agreement with Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris. The usurper praised the facility as a potential “sign of the civilization of love” and emphasized that God loves each person “just as we are” while desiring their healing and restoration. He entrusted patients and staff to the protection of Mary, Health of the Sick. This pastoral visit, filled with therapeutic language and naturalistic sentimentality, is a textbook example of how the conciliar sect reduces the supernatural mission of the Church to mere humanitarianism, omitting entirely the only matters that truly concern the salvation of souls.
The Omission of Sin, Grace, and the Supernatural Order
The most glaring and damning feature of the usurper’s address is what it does not say. In an address delivered in a psychiatric hospital — a place where human suffering is palpable and the fragility of the human condition is on full display — the occupant of the Vatican uttered not a single word about sin, not a word about grace, not a word about the sacraments, not a word about prayer as the true remedy for affliction, and not a word about the final judgment or eternal salvation. The entire discourse is constructed on a purely naturalistic plane: society must surround the vulnerable with love, facilities must treat the sick, and God desires healing. This is not Catholic teaching; this is secular humanitarianism dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
The integral Catholic faith teaches that man’s deepest wound is not psychological but spiritual — the wound of original sin and actual sin. As the Council of Trent declared, man lost the holiness and justice in which he was constituted, and “the entire human race was changed into the worse” (Session V, Decree on Original Sin). The true remedy for this condition is not a rehabilitation pavilion but baptism, penance, and the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The usurper’s silence on these matters is not an oversight; it is the systematic program of the conciliar revolution, which has replaced the supernatural order with the cult of man. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors, proposition 58: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.” The usurper’s address, with its exclusive focus on material care and emotional comfort, embodies precisely this condemned error.
“God Loves Us Just As We Are”: A Heretical Half-Truth
The central refrain of the usurper’s remarks — “God loves us just as we are” — requires careful theological scrutiny. Taken at face value, this statement is a half-truth that, in the mouths of modernists, functions as a vehicle for the gravest error: the denial of the necessity of conversion and repentance.
It is true that God’s love is infinite and that He loves every soul He has created. But the integral Catholic faith teaches with absolute clarity that God loves the sinner with a view to his conversion, not with a view to his permanent remaining in sin. Our Lord Himself said: “Go, and sin no more” (John 8:11). He did not say, “Remain as you are; I love you in your adultery.” The usurper himself attempted a qualification — “God does not want us to remain sick forever; he wants to heal us!” — but this qualification is fatally inadequate because it reduces all sickness to the merely natural and psychological plane. The Church before 1958 would have proclaimed in that hospital courtyard that the greatest sickness of all is sin, that the greatest healing is the forgiveness of sins through the sacrament of penance, and that the greatest act of charity is to lead a soul to the confessional and to the True Mass.
Instead, the usurper offered the therapeutic platitude that a hospital “is a place where a person is welcomed just as they are and respected in their frailty, so that they can be helped to get better according to a holistic vision.” The word “holistic” — a favorite of New Age and modernist discourse — is telling. Where is the supernatural dimension? Where is the mention of the priest-confessor as the physician of souls? Where is the Viaticum for the dying? The usurper did mention “the spiritual dimension of care” in passing, praising the director for having emphasized it, but this vagueness is itself the problem. In the theology of the conciliar sect, “spiritual” means whatever one wishes it to mean — it has been emptied of all Catholic content.
The “Civilization of Love”: A Masonic Slogan in Ecclesiastical Garb
The usurper declared that the hospital “can become a sign of the civilization of love.” This phrase — “civilization of love” — is not Catholic terminology. It was popularized by Karol Wojtyła (the antipope “John Paul II”), who used it repeatedly as a substitute for the true Catholic concept of the Reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to proclaim that peace and order are only possible when individuals, families, and states recognize the public reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pius XI wrote: “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.”
The “civilization of love” replaces this supernatural, Christ-centered vision with a horizontal, humanitarian ideal. It requires no conversion, no submission to the Church, no recognition of Christ’s royal authority. It is, in essence, the fraternité of the Masonic French Revolution baptized with a Christian label. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (proposition 55) and that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). The “civilization of love” is precisely this reconciliation with modernity — a false peace purchased at the price of silence about Christ’s exclusive kingship.
The Theater of the Conciliar Sect: Songs, Dancing, and Testimonies
The event’s program — songs, dancing, testimonies from a hospital director and a patient, a poem by a former patient — reveals the theatrical, entertainment-oriented character of conciliar “pastoral” events. This is not the Church of the catacombs or the Church of the martyrs; this is the Church of the spectacle, modeled on secular humanitarian conferences and United Nations assemblies.
The patient Pedro Celestino expressed gratitude to “the first lady of the nation, Mrs. Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo, patron of our hospital and of the most vulnerable people in the country.” The usurper did not correct this or redirect gratitude toward God and His Church. In the integral Catholic understanding, the primary patron of the sick is Christ the Divine Physician, and the primary institution for their care is the Church through her religious orders and hospitals, not the state and its first ladies. The usurper’s silence on this point reveals the conciliar sect’s alignment with secular power structures rather than with the supernatural mission of the Church.
Furthermore, the hospital’s cooperation agreement with Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris — a secular French institution — and its naming after Jean-Pierre Olié, a secular French psychiatrist who died in 2023, underscore the naturalistic, secular orientation of the entire project. Where is the cooperation with Catholic medical institutions? Where is the invocation of the healing saints — St. Dymphna, patroness of those with mental illness, or St. John of God, founder of the Brothers Hospitallers? The omission of any specifically Catholic identity in a facility blessed by the occupant of the Vatican is symptomatic of the conciliar sect’s systematic de-Catholicization of all institutions associated with it.
The Usurper’s Claim to Authority and the Invalidity of His Acts
It must be stated with the clarity that Catholic duty demands: Robert Prevost, who has usurped the name “Leo XIV,” has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. The arguments of sedevacantism, grounded in the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, demonstrate that a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church. Bellarmine wrote in De Romano Pontifice: “The fifth true opinion is that a Pope who is 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.” Wernz and Vidal confirmed: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.”
The entire line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has perpetrated and perpetuated the modernist apostasy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism, collegialism, and the naturalistic substitution of the Novus Ordo Missae for the Immemorial Traditional Latin Mass constitutes manifest heresy against the unchanging Catholic faith. Every “pastoral visit,” every address, every gesture of this usurper is therefore void of any ecclesiastical authority and serves only to advance the agenda of the anti-Church occupying the Vatican.
The True Catholic Response to Human Suffering
The integral Catholic faith provides the true remedy for all human suffering, including mental illness. This remedy consists of: the sacraments, particularly baptism, penance, and the Holy Eucharist; prayer, especially the Holy Rosary and the intercession of the saints; the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the propitiatory sacrifice for sins; mortification and the carrying of one’s cross in union with Christ; and trust in Divine Providence, knowing that all suffering, when united to the Cross of Christ, has redemptive value.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned the modernist proposition that “the science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (proposition 57). The usurper’s address at the psychiatric hospital is a living embodiment of this condemned proposition — a discourse on human suffering that keeps entirely aloof from divine revelation, from the authority of the true Church, and from the supernatural means of salvation.
The faithful who desire to serve the mentally ill in a truly Catholic manner must reject the conciliar sect’s naturalistic humanitarianism and return to the unchanging Tradition of the Church: the establishment of truly Catholic hospitals staffed by religious orders, the administration of the sacraments, the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass for the intention of the sick, and the invocation of the true patron saints of the afflicted. Anything less is not charity but complicity in the apostasy that has emptied the Vatican of all Catholic content.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of Conciliar Pastoral Care
The usurper’s visit to the Jean-Pierre Olié Psychiatric Hospital is a microcosm of everything the conciliar revolution has wrought: the replacement of supernatural charity with secular humanitarianism, the silence about sin and grace, the embrace of secular institutions and power structures, the theatrical spectacle substituting for genuine pastoral care, and the systematic omission of the only truths that matter — that Jesus Christ is King, that His Church is the one ark of salvation, that the sacraments are the ordinary means of grace, and that the final judgment awaits every soul.
Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him: for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ, whom not only was cast out of the state, but was also forgotten and ignored through contempt, will very severely avenge these insults.” The usurper’s address, with its silence about Christ’s kingship, its omission of the final judgment, and its reduction of God’s love to a therapeutic affirmation, is an insult to the royal dignity of Our Lord — one more proof, if any were needed, that the structures occupying the Vatican constitute the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord in Matthew 24:15.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV at psychiatric hospital: ‘God loves us just as we are’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.04.2026