EWTN News portal reports on the activities of the usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV,” during his visit to Equatorial Guinea on April 21, 2026, as part of a broader African tour encompassing Algeria, Cameroon, and Angola. The article describes meetings with civil leaders, cultural figures, and visits to a psychiatric hospital, all framed within the conciliar sect’s characteristic emphasis on dialogue, cultural engagement, and humanitarian gestures. What is conspicuously absent from this report — and from the entire enterprise — is any mention of the supernatural mission of the Church, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, or the condemnation of error. This omission is not accidental; it is the very essence of the post-conciliar apostasy, which reduces the Church’s divine mandate to a mere humanitarian NGO engaged in interreligious chatter and photo opportunities with dictators.
The Theater of the Usurper: A Journey Without Doctrine
The article presents a series of images and captions depicting the individual known as “Leo XIV” waving to crowds, meeting with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, speaking to “civil leaders” and the “World of Culture,” and visiting a psychiatric hospital. The tone is that of a celebrity tour — a head of state on a diplomatic charm offensive — rather than that of the Vicar of Christ exercising his supreme pastoral authority for the salvation of souls.
Let us be clear: Robert Prevost has no authority whatsoever to act as pope, to teach, to govern, or to sanctify. As the sedevacantist position demonstrates through the authoritative teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz and Vidal, John of St. Thomas, and the constant tradition of the Church, a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be pope and head. The conciliar sect, beginning with John XXIII, has promulgated heresies — religious liberty, ecumenism, the democratization of the Church, the evolution of dogmas — that place its manifest leaders outside the Catholic Church. Bellarmine is unequivocal: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II:30). The entire edifice of post-conciliar “papal” activity is built upon a vacancy — the See of Peter is vacant, and the structures occupying the Vatican are a paramasonic counterfeit.
Meeting with a Dictator: The Church’s Prophetic Voice Silenced
The article notes that “Leo XIV” met with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979 and is widely regarded as one of Africa’s most authoritarian leaders. The meeting is presented in the bland, diplomatic language typical of the conciliar sect: gifts were exchanged, words were spoken, photographs were taken. There is no indication — and indeed, given the nature of the conciliar sect, there could be no indication — that the usurper uttered a single word of prophetic condemnation regarding the regime’s abuses, or that he demanded the recognition of Christ the King over the nation.
This stands in stark contrast to the teaching of Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), who declared: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The true Church has always demanded that civil rulers publicly recognize the kingship of Christ. The conciliar sect, by contrast, engages in diplomatic niceties with tyrants, reducing the papal office to that of a secular diplomat indistinguishable from the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The “World of Culture”: Dialogue as Substitute for Evangelization
One of the most revealing episodes described in the article is the meeting with the “World of Culture” at the “León XIV Campus of the National University” in Malabo. The very naming of a university campus after the usurper is an act of blasphemous vanity — a cult of personality that belongs more to a totalitarian state than to the Church of Christ. The article notes that the usurper “urged the education of young people in truth, responsibility, and service to the common good,” language that is indistinguishable from the platitudes of secular humanism.
Where is the demand for the education of youth in sound doctrine and purity of morals? Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Proposition 45) and that “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church” (Proposition 48). The true Church has always insisted that Catholic education must be under the authority of the Church, ordered toward the salvation of souls, and grounded in the immutable truths of the Faith. The conciliar sect’s embrace of “dialogue” with the “World of Culture” is precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), which rejected the notion that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57) and that “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Proposition 65).
The Psychiatric Hospital Visit: Corporal Works Without the Spiritual
The visit to the Jean Pierre Olie Psychiatric Hospital is presented as an act of compassion — and indeed, the Church has always taught the importance of corporal works of mercy. However, in the context of the conciliar sect, such visits serve a specific ideological function: they reduce the Church’s mission to humanitarianism, obscuring the far more important spiritual works of mercy — instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, admonishing sinners, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving offenses, praying for the living and the dead.
The article makes no mention of whether the usurper administered any sacraments, offered prayers for the patients’ souls, or spoke of the redemptive value of suffering united to the Cross of Christ. This silence is deafening. It reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental naturalism — its reduction of Christianity to a horizontal, worldly concern for material well-being, stripped of the supernatural dimension that is the very raison d’être of the Church.
The Cult of Man: A Statue in His Honor
Perhaps the most grotesque detail in the entire article is the mention of the usurper “viewing a plaque underneath a statue in his honor” at the university campus named after him. This is the cult of man in its most naked form — the worship of a human figure erected in the very heart of what claims to be a Catholic institution. Pius IX condemned this spirit in the Syllabus, rejecting the proposition that “authority is nothing else but numbers and the sum total of material forces” (Proposition 60) and that “the injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right” (Proposition 61). The true Church has always directed all honor and worship to God alone, and any veneration of saints has always been understood as ordered toward the glory of God, not the glorification of men.
The Vacancy of the See of Peter: The Only Catholic Response
The entire spectacle described in the article — the diplomatic meetings, the cultural dialogues, the humanitarian visits, the statues and named campuses — is a grotesque parody of the papacy. It is the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution, which began with John XXIII’s rejection of the Church’s perennial teaching and culminated in the present abomination of desolation.
The Catholic response to all of this is not reform, not dialogue, not a “hermeneutic of continuity” — it is the clear-eyed recognition that the See of Peter is vacant, that the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church of Christ but a counterfeit, and that the faithful must hold fast to the integral Catholic Faith as taught by the Fathers, the Councils, and the pre-conciliar Magisterium. As Pius IX declared in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), any promotion of a heretic to ecclesiastical office is “null, void, and of no effect.” The usurpers in the Vatican have no jurisdiction, no authority, and no claim to the obedience of the faithful.
The only true path is the path of immutable Tradition — the Faith once delivered to the saints, undefiled by the corruptions of Modernism, uncorrupted by the novelties of the conciliar sect. Let the faithful reject the spectacle of the usurper’s African pilgrimage for what it is: a parade of vanities, a theater of the absurd, and a confirmation — if any were needed — that the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits Equatorial Guinea as Africa visit draws to a close (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.04.2026