The National Catholic Register reports that on April 21, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” inaugurated a university campus bearing his name in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, declaring it “an act of trust in human beings” and urging the formation of youth in “truth, responsibility, and service to the common good.” He employed the ceiba tree as a parable for the university, spoke of the cross as the “redemption of human intelligence,” and insisted that “Christ does not appear as a religious escape in the face of intellectual endeavors.” The entire discourse, while cloaked in superficially religious language, is a masterclass in naturalistic humanism stripped of the supernatural order, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the Church’s divinely mandated authority — the hallmarks of the conciliar sect’s systematic apostasy.
The Omission That Condemns: No Mention of Christ the King’s Public Reign
The most devastating critique of this address is not what it says, but what it refuses to say. The usurper speaks of “truth,” “the common good,” “responsibility,” and “service” — yet at no point does he proclaim the fundamental truth that Jesus Christ is King of all nations, and that every university, every state, every institution of learning is bound by divine law to acknowledge His sovereign authority. This is not a minor omission; it is the very essence of the modernist revolution condemned by Pius XI 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.”
The usurper’s address is a textbook example of the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society” — a plague that “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” By reducing the university’s mission to “the common good” and “service” without any reference to the supernatural end of man, the necessity of the true Faith, or the obligation of the state and its institutions to submit to Christ the King, Prevost reveals himself as a servant of the very secularism his predecessor Pius XI condemned in the strongest terms: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
“An Act of Trust in Human Beings” — The Cult of Man Exposed
The usurper declared the inauguration “an act of trust in human beings.” This phrase, seemingly innocuous, is in fact a direct echo of the modernist “cult of man” condemned repeatedly by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (proposition 3), and that “all the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason; hence reason is the ultimate standard” (proposition 4). The entire conciliar revolution, from John XXIII’s Humanae Salutis onward, has been characterized by this anthropocentric inversion — placing man, not God, at the center.
When the usurper says it is “worth the effort to continue wagering on the formation of new generations,” he speaks the language of secular humanism, not of Catholic theology. The Church has never “wagered” on human formation apart from sanctifying grace, the sacraments, and the supernatural virtues. The true Catholic understanding is expressed by Pius XI: “It is therefore necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man, whose duty it is to accept revealed truths with complete submission to the divine will and to believe firmly and constantly in the teaching of Christ; let Christ reign in the will, which should obey God’s laws and commandments; let Him reign in the heart, which, having despised desires, must love God above all and belong only to Him; let Him reign in the body and its members, which, as instruments — or, to use the words of St. Paul the Apostle — as weapons of justice for God, should contribute to the inner sanctification of souls.”
The Ceiba Tree: Pagan Symbolism in Place of Catholic Doctrine
Perhaps nothing so perfectly illustrates the syncretistic character of the conciliar sect as the usurper’s invocation of the ceiba tree — the national tree of Equatorial Guinea, a symbol with deep roots in indigenous animist and Afro-Caribbean religious traditions — as “a parable of that which a university is called to be.” Rather than turning to the Cross of Christ, the Tree of Life of Revelation 22:2, or the cedars of Lebanon that Scripture uses as symbols of the righteous (Psalm 92:12), the usurper reaches for a pagan national symbol and baptizes it with a thin veneer of Christian language.
This is precisely the method condemned by St. Paul: “What concord hath Christ with Belial?” (2 Corinthians 6:15). The pre-conciliar Church understood that the evangelization of nations required the supplanting of pagan symbols with Catholic ones, not their incorporation. The Council of Trent and the missionary practice of the Church for centuries demanded the extirpation of idolatry, not its accommodation. That the usurper finds it appropriate to elevate a pagan national symbol as the central metaphor for a Catholic university — and that the “archbishop” of Malabo accepts this without objection — reveals the depth of the apostasy.
“Truth Is Not Fabricated” — But What Truth?
The usurper stated: “At the cross, human beings are invited to allow their desire for knowledge to be healed: to rediscover that truth is not fabricated, not manipulated nor possessed like a trophy but welcomed, sought with humility, and served with responsibility.” This language is deliberately vague — and that vagueness is the point. Which truth? The truth of the Catholic Faith, defined by the Magisterium, guarded by the Church, and proposed to all nations as the only path to salvation? Or the “truth” of religious liberty, the “truth” that all religions contain elements of the divine, the “truth” of the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate that “the Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions”?
The pre-conciliar Magisterium was unambiguous. Pius IX condemned the proposition that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Syllabus, proposition 16), and that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (proposition 18). Pius XI declared: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), and insisted that the Church “established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.”
The usurper’s language of “truth” without definition is the language of indifferentism — the very error the Church has consistently condemned. As Pius IX stated: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (proposition 15) — condemned. The usurper’s “truth” is the truth of the United Nations, of UNESCO, of the globalist project — not the truth of the Catholic Church.
“Christ Does Not Appear as a Religious Escape” — The False Harmony of Faith and Reason
The usurper declared: “From a Christian perspective, Christ does not appear as a religious escape in the face of intellectual endeavors, as if faith began where reason ended. On the contrary, in him the profound harmony between truth, reason, and freedom are manifested.” This is a half-truth used to smuggle in a dangerous error. The Church has indeed always taught the harmony of faith and reason — but a harmony subordinated to faith, not a harmony of equals. The First Vatican Council defined: “Not only can faith and reason never be at variance with one another, but they mutually support each other, for right reason establishes the foundations of the faith, and, illuminated by its light, cultivates the science of divine things; while faith frees and protects reason from errors, and enriches it with manifold knowledge” (Dei Filius, Chapter 4).
But the usurper’s formulation — “faith began where reason ended” as the error to reject — subtly inverts this relationship. The modernist error, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, was precisely to make faith subordinate to reason, to treat dogma as a product of “religious consciousness” rather than divine revelation. The usurper’s language of “harmony between truth, reason, and freedom” echoes the conciliar document Gaudium et Spes, which proclaimed a false autonomy of earthly affairs — condemned by the greatest Catholic theologians as a rupture with tradition.
Moreover, the usurper’s formulation omits the essential Catholic teaching that grace is necessary for the right use of reason, that original sin has wounded human intellect, and that without the supernatural light of faith, reason inevitably falls into error. As the Council of Trent taught, the justice of God is not merely imputed but infused — man cannot achieve truth or goodness by natural powers alone. The usurper’s optimistic vision of “harmony” is the Pelagianism that the Church has always condemned.
“Integral Formation” Without the Supernatural Order
The usurper spoke of “the integral formation of students” and the need for “a knowledge that ennobles and develops the human being in an integral way.” But what does “integral” mean in the mouth of a conciliar usurper? It means, in practice, the formation of “the whole man” without reference to his supernatural end — the beatific vision, sanctifying grace, the avoidance of mortal sin, the necessity of the sacraments, the reality of hell.
The students appealed to the usurper for encouragement in becoming “a generation characterized by discipline, respect, responsibility, and commitment to the common good.” These are natural virtues, accessible to pagans and atheists alike. Where is the call to supernatural virtue? Where is the call to holiness, to martyrdom, to the renunciation of the world? Where is the call to the conversion of Equatorial Guinea to the Catholic Faith — not merely its “development”?
Pius XI was explicit: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And the happiness of the state consists in its submission to Christ the King: “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 usurper’s address contains not a single word about the obligation of the Equatorial Guinean state to recognize the Catholic Church as the one true Church, to submit to her authority, to place her teaching at the center of education. This is not Catholic education — it is secular education with a Christian veneer.
The “Archbishop” and the Bust: Idolatry in the Conciliar Sect
The report notes that “a bust of the pope was unveiled” — a revealing detail. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the supernatural order, compensates with the cult of personality. A bust of the “pope” unveiled at a university campus is not Catholic practice; it is the practice of secular dictatorships and personality cults. The true Church has always directed veneration toward God, the Blessed Virgin, and the saints — not toward living popes, and certainly not toward usurpers whose claim to the Chair of Peter is null and void.
The “archbishop of Malabo,” Juan Nsue Edjang May, participated in this event without protest — further evidence that the entire hierarchy of the conciliar sect is complicit in the apostasy. As the pre-conciliar theologians teach, a bishop who publicly adheres to heresy — and the conciar documents are replete with heresy — ipso facto loses his jurisdiction. The “archbishop” has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. His presence at this event is not a validation of Catholic education but a demonstration of the complete capture of the conciliar structures by the spirit of the world.
The National Catholic Register: Complicit in the Apostasy
The National Catholic Register, which published this report, presents it without criticism — indeed, with evident approval. This is consistent with the Register’s long history as a mouthpiece for the conciar establishment. The article quotes the usurper’s words without challenging a single premise, without noting the omissions, without applying the standard of pre-conciliar Catholic doctrine. This is journalism in the service of the Antichrist — not of Christ the King.
The Register’s failure to note that the usurper never mentioned the Social Kingship of Christ, never called for the conversion of Equatorial Guinea to the Catholic Faith, never invoked the necessity of the sacraments or the supernatural order, is not an oversight — it is complicity. The conciar media exists to normalize the apostasy, to present the usurper’s words as if they were the words of the Vicar of Christ, to lull the faithful into accepting the abomination of desolation as the new normal.
Conclusion: The University Without Christ Is the University of the Antichrist
The usurper’s address at the Leo XIV Campus in Equatorial Guinea is a perfect distillation of the conciliar revolution: naturalistic humanism dressed in Christian language, “truth” without definition, “formation” without sanctification, “service” without the Cross, “the common good” without Christ the King. It is the education of the Antichrist — the formation of men and women who will serve the world rather than God, who will seek “development” rather than salvation, who will build the tower of Babel rather than the City of God.
The true Catholic response is not reform of the university but rejection of the entire conciliar edifice. As Pius XI declared: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.” The usurper’s university, like the usurper himself, is built on the sand of human sand — and when the storm comes, it will fall, and great will be the fall of it (Matthew 7:27).
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the true Church — not the conciliar sect, but the Catholic Church that has endured in the faithful who profess the integral Faith — there is no truth, no formation, no common good, and no salvation. Let the faithful reject the usurper, reject his institutions, reject his “universities,” and return to the immutable Tradition of the Church that Christ founded upon Peter — the Peter who is not Robert Prevost.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Universities Must Seek Truth and Form the Whole Person (ncregister.com)
Date: 21.04.2026