EWTN News reports that on April 16, 2026, the usurper Leo XIV celebrated a “Mass” at Bamenda International Airport in Cameroon before 20,000 people, delivering a homily focused on “peace,” “reconciliation,” and “change” while urging obedience to God over “earthly ways of thinking.” The event, framed as a spiritual uplift for a region plagued by poverty, corruption, and violence, concluded with Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya pledging filial loyalty to the antipope and expressing confidence that “the peace you have come to pray for shall return.” This spectacle, however, is not a remedy for Cameroon’s ills but a masterclass in modernist evasion, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to naturalistic humanism and offering a “peace” devoid of the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, and the uncompromising demands of the Gospel.
The Illusion of Supernatural Hope: A Homily Stripped of the Supernatural
The homily delivered by Leo XIV at Bamenda International Airport is a textbook example of the modernist reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanism. While he speaks of “hope,” “peace,” and “reconciliation,” these terms are systematically emptied of their supernatural content and reframed in purely temporal, sociological, and psychological categories. The “hope” he offers is not the theological virtue of hope, which orders man toward eternal beatitude and the attainment of Heaven, but a vague, horizontal aspiration for improved social conditions. The “peace” he invokes is not the Pax Christi—the peace that comes from submission to the Social Kingship of Christ the King and the observance of God’s commandments—but a worldly tranquility achievable through human effort, dialogue, and institutional reform.
Consider the language: “The time has come, today and not tomorrow, now and not in the future, to restore the mosaic of unity by bringing together the diversity and riches of the country and the continent. In this way, it will be possible to create a society in which peace and reconciliation reign.” This is the language of the United Nations, not of the Church of Christ. There is no mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, no mention of the sacraments as the ordinary means of grace, no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations, no mention of the obligation of rulers to submit to the authority of the Church. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, was unequivocal: “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.” The usurper’s homily is a direct contradiction of this perennial teaching, offering a “peace” that is, in reality, a capitulation to the spirit of the world.
“Obey God, Not Men” — But Which God? And Which Obedience?
Perhaps the most audacious moment in the homily is the antipope’s invocation of Acts 5:29: “We must obey God rather than men.” He applies this to encourage Cameroonians to reject “earthly ways of thinking” and to become “builders of peace and fraternity.” But the context of this verse in the Acts of the Apostles is the apostles’ refusal to cease preaching the Gospel and the divinity of Jesus Christ. It is a declaration of the primacy of divine law over human law when the two conflict—specifically, when human authority commands what God forbids or forbids what God commands. Leo XIV, however, strips this verse of its supernatural and doctrinal content and reduces it to a generic exhortation to moral improvement and social activism.
The usurper warns against “mixing the Catholic faith with other beliefs and traditions of an esoteric or Gnostic nature,” which sounds superficially orthodox. But this warning is rendered hollow by the entire trajectory of the conciliar sect, which has systematically promoted religious indifferentism, false ecumenism, and the legitimization of non-Catholic religions. The same structures that occupy the Vatican have, for decades, engaged in precisely the kind of syncretism and religious relativism that Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15), and “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16). The warning against “esoteric or Gnostic” mixtures is a smokescreen, diverting attention from the far greater scandal of the conciliar sect’s own embrace of naturalistic and pagan elements in its liturgy, theology, and interreligious activities.
The Omission That Condemns: Silence on the Kingship of Christ
The most damning aspect of the Bamenda homily is not what it says, but what it omits. There is no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, no mention of the obligation of nations to publicly recognize and submit to the authority of Christ the King, no mention of the necessity of Catholic evangelization as the sole means of true peace and reconciliation. Pius XI taught: “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 usurper’s homily, by contrast, treats peace as a purely human project, achievable through the “diversity and riches” of the continent, without any reference to the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church.
This silence is not accidental. It is the hallmark of the modernist apostasy, which has systematically removed the supernatural and doctrinal content of the Faith and replaced it with a naturalistic, humanitarian agenda. The conciliar sect’s “peace” is the peace of the world, not the peace of Christ. It is a peace that requires no conversion, no repentance, no submission to the authority of the Church, no recognition of the Kingship of Christ. It is, in the words of St. Pius X, the peace of “the false prophets” who “have ruined the flock and destroyed the vineyard of the Lord” (Lamentabili sane exitu, Propositions 1–65).
The Archbishop’s Pledge of Loyalty: A Scandal of Complicity
Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya’s response to the usurper’s visit is a further indictment of the complicity of the conciliar hierarchy in the ongoing destruction of the Church. By pledging “filial loyalty” to Leo XIV and expressing confidence that “the peace you have come to pray for shall return,” the archbishop demonstrates his allegiance not to the true Church of Christ, but to the paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since the death of Pius XII. This is not loyalty to the successor of Peter; it is loyalty to the successor of John XXIII, the architect of the conciliar revolution.
The archbishop’s language—”spiritual uplift, moral encouragement, psychological boost, and physical consolation”—reveals the extent to which the conciliar sect has reduced the Church’s mission to a form of spiritual therapy. There is no mention of the necessity of the sacraments, the state of grace, the danger of mortal sin, the reality of Hell, or the obligation of Catholic evangelization. The “peace” the archbishop prays for is not the peace that comes from the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the consecration of Russia, but the peace of the world—a peace that, as Our Lord Himself warned, “I do not give to you as the world gives” (John 14:27).
The Runway “Mass”: A Profanation of the Holy Sacrifice
The setting of this “Mass”—on the runways of Bamenda International Airport—is itself a symbol of the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Most Holy Sacrifice to a public spectacle, a media event, a tool of “spiritual uplift” for the masses. The true Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, is the re-presentation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, the supreme act of worship, propitiation, and thanksgiving offered to God by the ordained priest acting in persona Christi. It is not a rally, not a concert, not a political rally, not a photo opportunity for an antipope.
The Novus Ordo Missae, which is what was “celebrated” on that runway, is a Protestantized rite that obscures the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, reduces the priest to a “presider,” and transforms the Mass into a “meal” or “assembly.” To celebrate this rite on an airport runway, before 20,000 people, with the explicit purpose of promoting “peace” and “reconciliation” in purely naturalistic terms, is to profane what is most sacred in the Church. It is to treat the Holy Sacrifice as a means to a worldly end, rather than as the end itself—the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
Conclusion: The Time Has Come to Reject the Usurper and His False Peace
The Bamenda spectacle is a microcosm of the conciliar apostasy: a usurper on a runway, celebrating a counterfeit “Mass,” delivering a homily devoid of supernatural content, surrounded by complicit “bishops” who pledge their loyalty to the destroyer of the Faith. The “peace” offered by Leo XIV is not the peace of Christ; it is the peace of the world, the peace of the Antichrist, the peace that comes from the abandonment of the Gospel and the embrace of naturalistic humanism.
The time has come—not to “rebuild peace” in the conciliar sense, but to reject the usurper, his false “Mass,” his naturalistic “gospel,” and his complicit hierarchy. The time has come to return to the immutable Tradition of the Church, to the true Mass, to the Social Kingship of Christ, to the uncompromising demands of the Gospel. As St. Pius X warned: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” only when those sciences are divorced from divine revelation and ecclesiastical authority (Lamentabili, Proposition 57). The usurper and his conciliar sect are the true enemies of the Church, and their “peace” is the peace of apostasy. Veni, Domine Iesu!
Source:
Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon says ‘the time has come’ to rebuild peace (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.04.2026