National Catholic Register portal (April 13, 2026) reports that President Donald Trump publicly attacked Robert Prevost — the man currently occupying Peter’s throne under the name “Pope Leo XIV” — calling him “weak on crime,” “terrible for foreign policy,” and “a very liberal person,” while refusing to apologize because, in Trump’s words, “Pope Leo said things that are wrong.” The article catalogs the predictable chorus of defense from the conciliar establishment: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the insult on behalf of the “great nation of Iran,” Rome’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri defended the “high spiritual magisterium,” and various “bishops” and “cardinals” rallied behind the occupant. The entire spectacle — a war-making American president lecturing a false pope on foreign policy, while a Shi’ite Islamic leader rushes to defend “Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood” — is not a scandal that demands apology; it is a revelation of the terminal rot of the post-conciliar abomination and the absolute necessity of sedevacantism.
The Occupant’s “Peace” Is Not the Peace of Christ
The article states that the man calling himself “Pope Leo XIV” has been “crying out ‘Enough of war!'” and urging nations to “Sit at tables of dialogue and mediation, not at tables where rearmament is planned and death actions are deliberated.” This language is not the language of the Catholic Church. It is the language of the United Nations, of Masonic universalism, of the very naturalism that Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors when he rejected the proposition that the Roman Pontiff should “reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
True peace — Pax Christi — is not the absence of armed conflict negotiated at secular tables. It is, as Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, the peace that flows only from the recognition of Christ the King’s sovereign authority over all nations, all rulers, and all aspects of public and private life. Pius XI 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 occupant’s calls for “dialogue and mediation” without any mention of the Kingship of Christ, without any call to conversion to the Catholic Faith, without any reference to the sacraments or the necessity of the state of grace, are not Catholic teaching. They are the naturalistic pacifism of the conciliar sect, indistinguishable from the sentimental humanitarianism that the pre-conciliar Magisterium consistently condemned.
Pius XI further warned that 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.” The occupant’s appeals are precisely this: a call to peace without God, a peace built on human negotiation rather than on the recognition of divine law. This is not the peace that the Catholic Church was established to proclaim. The Church has always taught, with St. Augustine, that true peace is “the tranquility of order” — an order in which God reigns supreme, and all human societies are subordinated to His commandments. The occupant’s peace is the peace of the world, which Christ Himself warned “is not as your peace” (cf. John 14:27, interpreted in light of His entire teaching on the enmity between the City of God and the City of Man).
Trump’s Blasphemy and the Occupant’s Illegitimacy
The article presents Trump’s attack as though it were an offense against a legitimate spiritual authority. It is not. Trump is a secular politician — a man whose personal life, public statements, and policy record are a catalogue of violations of divine and natural law. That he presumes to judge the occupant of Peter’s throne is grotesque, but it is no more grotesque than the entire post-conciliar arrangement in which a man like Robert Prevost — a creature of the modernist establishment, elevated through a process governed by the apostate structures of the conciar sect — claims a authority he does not possess.
The sedevacantist position, grounded in the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, holds 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” (De Romano Pontifice). The post-conciliar occupants have, through their endorsement of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), their promotion of false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), their destruction of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass through the Novus Ordo, and their systematic dismantling of Catholic doctrine on the social reign of Christ, “publicly defected from the Catholic faith” within the meaning of Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. As Bellarmine teaches, “manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction… NOT AFTER WARNINGS OR DECLARATION, BECAUSE heretics are already outside the Church before excommunication and deprived of all jurisdiction.”
Trump’s criticism of the occupant is therefore not an attack on the Catholic Church. It is one warlord criticizing another — or, more precisely, a secular Caesar criticizing a false prophet who has abandoned the mandate of Christ the King in exchange for the applause of the world. The entire debate between Trump and Prevost is conducted on naturalistic grounds: foreign policy, crime, political liberalism. Neither man acknowledges the one thing necessary: the Social Kingship of Christ and the duty of all nations to submit to His law. This silence is the silence of the abomination of desolation.
The Iranian Defense: Islam Rushes to Protect the Conciliar Sect
Perhaps the most revealing element of the article is the response of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who wrote: “His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person.” The late Imam Khamenei’s social media account invoked “Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him)” as one who “used to call people to the path of God, and forbade them from vice and injustice.”
This is the fruit of the conciliar sect’s ecumenism. For sixty years, the post-conciliar structures have taught that Islam is a religion that “worships one God” and that Muslims are our “brothers and sisters” in the Abrahamic faith. The result is that a Shi’ite theocratic regime now positions itself as the defender of the occupant of Peter’s throne — while simultaneously denying the Divinity of Christ, the Trinity, the Redemption, and every essential dogma of the Catholic Faith. Khamenei’s Jesus is not the Jesus of the Gospels: he is a prophet of Islam, a figure stripped of His divine nature, His sacrificial death, and His resurrection. This is the Jesus of the conciliar sect — a Jesus reduced to a “prophet of peace and brotherhood,” a moral teacher, a social reformer. The Jesus of the occupant and the Jesus of the Ayatollah are functionally identical: both are denatured, both are stripped of sovereign kingship, both serve the agenda of universalist humanism.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the modernist proposition that “the teaching about Christ transmitted by Paul, John, and by the Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus, and Chalcedon does not correspond to the teaching of Jesus, but is a teaching about Jesus formulated by Christian consciousness” (Proposition 31). The conciliar sect has done precisely this: it has replaced the Christ of Faith — true God and true Man, King of kings, Lord of lords, whose kingdom shall have no end — with a Christ of “peace and brotherhood,” a Christ who offends no one, demands nothing, and reigns over nothing. It is this emasculated Christ whom both the occupant and the Ayatollah now serve.
The Conciliar Chorus: “Bishops” and “Cardinals” Defend the Abomination
The article quotes “Archbishop” John Wilson of Southwark, who said: “As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, we know that each of us is called to be a beacon of his peace.” “Cardinal” Fernando Chomali of Santiago declared: “Pope Leo XIV is a good man, forged by years of prayer, study, and closeness to the poor… [Leo] prefers to obey God rather than men.”
These men are not bishops. They are not cardinals. They are functionaries of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the physical buildings and institutional apparatus of the Church since the death of the last true Pope. They possess no jurisdiction, no authority, no mandate from Christ. Their defense of the occupant is the defense of a system — the conciliar system — that has produced nothing but apostasy, sacrilege, and the spiritual ruin of millions.
The article notes that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “has yet to make a statement.” This is telling. Meloni, whatever her personal politics, operates within a framework of realpolitik. She understands, perhaps instinctively, that the occupant of Peter’s throne is not a spiritual authority but a political actor — and political actors are judged by political criteria. Trump understands this too. The only ones who pretend otherwise are the functionaries of the conciliar sect itself, who must maintain the fiction of papal legitimacy to preserve their own positions.
Father Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem, is quoted as denouncing Trump’s post and criticizing Catholics who defend the president. But Schnabel’s defense of the occupant is itself a symptom of the disease: he defends a man whose entire pontificate (such as it is) is defined by the conciliar agenda of dialogue, peace without Christ, and the subordination of the Faith to the dictates of modern civilization. Schnabel is, in the language of the article, defending the “high spiritual magisterium” — but there is no spiritual magisterium where there is no Catholic faith. “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope,” Bellarmine wrote. “The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”
The Silence That Condemns: What No One Mentions
The article, and all the reactions it catalogs, share a common silence. No one mentions the Social Kingship of Christ. No one mentions the duty of nations to profess the Catholic Faith. No one mentions the Novus Ordo Missae as a sacrilegious parody of the Holy Sacrifice. No one mentions the millions of souls led into error by the conciar sect’s false teachings on religious liberty, ecumenism, and the democratization of the Church. No one mentions the Third Secret of Fatima — that Masonic psychological operation — or the systematic destruction of Catholic identity that has been the hallmark of every post-conciliar “pontificate.”
The entire debate — Trump versus Prevost, secular power versus conciliar power — is a debate between two forms of the same apostasy. Trump represents the apostasy of the state: the derivation of authority from man rather than from God, which Pius XI identified as the root of all modern evils. Prevost represents the apostasy of the Church: the abandonment of the supernatural mission of the Church in favor of naturalistic humanism, dialogue with error, and the worship of man. Both are enemies of Christ the King. Both are servants of the world. And both, in their mutual recrimination, reveal to those with eyes to see that the Catholic Church — the true Church, the Church of all ages, the Church that cannot err and cannot fail — is not to be found in the Vatican, not in the United Nations, not in the White House, but in the faithful remnant who profess the integral Catholic Faith, who offer the true Mass of all ages, and who await the restoration of all things in Christ.
The lesson of this sordid spectacle is not that Trump is wrong to criticize Prevost, or that Prevost is wrong to seek peace. The lesson is that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation — and the post-conciliar structures are not the Church. They are, as the documents in our possession confirm, a paramasonic operation against the Faith. Let Caesar and the antipope destroy each other. The true Church endures, immaculate and unconquered, in the hearts of the faithful who refuse to bend the knee to the abomination.
Source:
President Trump’s Criticism of Pope Leo XIV Sparks Global Reaction (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.04.2026