EWTN News reports that Robert Prevost, the usurper styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” departed Africa on April 23, 2026, concluding an 11-day visit to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea — his first apostolic journey to the continent. The so-called “Holy Father” presided over a stadium “Mass” in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, greeted crowds from a popemobile, and spoke to journalists aboard the papal plane returning to Rome. The article presents this spectacle as a routine exercise of papal ministry, complete with photo captions depicting smiling Catholics, waving crowds, and the figure of Prevost holding aloft the chalice beneath a towering crucifix. What the article does not say — what it cannot say, given its captivity to the conciliar narrative — is that this entire performance is a grotesque parody of the Church’s true mission, a diplomatic and ecumenical pageant devoid of supernatural substance, staged by an occupant of the Vatican apparatus whose authority derives not from Christ but from the revolutionary seizure of 1958 and its aftermath.
The Papal Office and Its Usurpation
The very premise of the article — that Robert Prevost is “Pope Leo XIV” — is the foundational falsehood upon which the entire post-conciliar edifice rests. The Catholic Church teaches, and has always taught, that the papacy is a divine institution: Christ appointed Peter and his successors as the visible head of the Church, the Vicar of Christ on earth, endowed with supreme, full, immediate, and universal jurisdiction for the salvation of souls. This office is not a human convention; it is of divine right (*de iure divino*). As Pope Pius XI declared in *Quas Primas* (1925), “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 true Pope is the guardian of immutable doctrine, the supreme teacher of faith and morals, the custodian of the Most Holy Sacrifice.
What occupies the Vatican since 1958 is not this. The conciliar sect, inaugurated by the election of the manifest heretic Angelo Roncalli (who styled himself “John XXIII”), represents a rupture so total with the preceding Magisterium that it constitutes, in the judgment of Catholic theology, an automatic loss of office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in *De Romano Pontifice* (II, 30): “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.” This is not a disciplinary opinion; it is the common teaching of the Fathers and Doctors. Pope Celestine I affirmed the same regarding Nestorius: “He who has departed from the faith with such preaching cannot depose or remove anyone” — meaning that a manifest heretic loses jurisdiction *ipso facto*, before any declaration. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law codified this principle: every ecclesiastical office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
The men who have occupied the Vatican since 1958 — Roncalli, Montini, Luciani, Wojtyła, Ratzinger, Bergoglio, and now Prevost — have each, in varying degrees and with accelerating boldness, professed, propagated, and imposed errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium. They have endorsed religious liberty (condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors*, prop. 77–79, and by Gregory XVI in *Mirari Vos*), false ecumenism (condemned by Pius XI in *Mortalium Animos*), the evolution of dogmas (condemned by the First Vatican Council and by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*, prop. 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”), and the democratization of the Church (condemned in *Lamentabili*, prop. 6: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening”). Robert Prevost, elected by a conclave of cardinals appointed by these same usurpers, is the heir and continuator of this revolution. He is not the Pope. He is an antipope — a figurehead of the paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican and transformed it, in the words of Our Lord’s prophecy, into an “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
The Stadium “Mass” and the Destruction of the Liturgy
The article describes Prevost “presiding over Mass at Malabo Stadium,” holding “the chalice aloft,” and standing “beneath a towering crucifix.” The language is reverent, the imagery is designed to evoke the continuity of Catholic worship. But what took place in that stadium was not the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It was the Novus Ordo Missae — the fabricated liturgy of Paul VI (the antipope Montini), promulgated in 1969, which the Catholic Church has never recognized as a valid expression of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary.
The Traditional Latin Mass, codified by Pope St. Pius V in *Quo Primum* (1570) and confirmed by every subsequent pontiff until 1958, is the liturgical expression of Catholic doctrine: it proclaims the Real Presence, the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice, the mediatorial role of the priesthood, and the reality of sin, hell, and judgment. The Novus Ordo, by contrast, was designed — as its chief architect, the Masonic-connected Annibale Bugnini, admitted — to be a liturgy that Protestants could recognize as their own. It is a “table of assembly,” a communal meal, a horizontal celebration of the human community. It suppresses or obscures the prayers that express Catholic doctrine (the *Confiteor* before Communion, the Last Gospel, the prayers for the conversion of heretics and infidels, the repeated references to the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice). It is, in its theological substance, a Protestant service.
To receive “Communion” at such a service — as the smiling Catholics in Malabo Stadium presumably did — is not to receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is to participate in a sacrilegious simulation. As the Church has always taught, the Eucharist is the True Presence of Christ, and to receive it unworthily — or to receive a counterfeit — is to “eat and drink judgment upon himself” (1 Cor. 11:29). The article’s casual description of this event as “Mass” is itself a symptom of the depth of the apostasy: the conciliar sect has so thoroughly destroyed the faithful’s understanding of what the Mass is that a stadium spectacle presided over by an antipope is presented as the real thing.
The Ecumenical and Diplomatic Character of the Journey
The article notes that Prevost visited four countries — Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea — and that this was his “first visit as pope to the continent.” The language of “apostolic visit” is the conciliar sect’s replacement for the Church’s true missionary mandate. The Catholic Church, before 1958, understood her mission to the nations as the proclamation of the Gospel for the conversion of souls and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King. As Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas*, “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ,” and the duty of the Church is to lead all men and all nations to acknowledge this reign. The missionary exhibition during the Holy Year of 1925, which Pius XI described in the same encyclical, presented the Church’s expansion as the conquest of souls for Christ — “the great number of regions which brave and invincible Missionaries, with their sweat and blood, gained for the Catholic faith.”
What Prevost’s journey represents is the precise opposite. The conciliar sect does not seek the conversion of nations to Catholicism. It seeks “dialogue” with false religions, “encounter” with other cultures, and diplomatic respectability in the eyes of the world. The visit to Algeria — a Muslim-majority nation — is particularly revealing. The conciliar sect, following the declaration *Nostra Aetate* (1965) of the antipope Montini, teaches that Muslims “together with us adore the one, merciful God” — a proposition that is not merely false but blasphemous, since the God of Islam is not the Blessed Trinity, and Islamic “worship” denies the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, and the Redemption. Pius IX condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (prop. 15) the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true,” and (prop. 16) that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” The conciliar sect has made these condemned propositions the cornerstone of its foreign policy.
Prevost’s African journey, then, is not an apostolic mission. It is a diplomatic tour by the head of a globalist religious NGO, designed to project the image of a “Church” that is relevant, compassionate, and engaged with the world — the very world that the true Church has always called the enemy of souls, along with the flesh and the devil. The crowds, the smiles, the waving from the popemobile — these are the trappings of a celebrity culture, not the marks of the true Church. As St. Pius X warned in *Lamentabili* (prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” Prevost’s Africa is the living embodiment of this prophecy.
The Silence About What Matters
The most damning feature of the EWTN News article is not what it says, but what it omits. There is no mention of the state of grace, no mention of the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation, no mention of the reality of sin, no mention of the Last Judgment, no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ over the nations Prevost visited. The article is written in the bureaucratic, public-relations language of a secular institution reporting on the activities of its CEO. “Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile.” “Catholics smile during Mass.” “Crowds pray the Mass with Pope Leo XIV.” This is the language of the conciliar sect — a language from which the supernatural has been entirely evacuated.
The true Church, before 1958, spoke a different language. When Pius XI addressed the bishops of the world, he spoke of “the reign of our Savior,” “the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ,” “the duty of rulers and governments to publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” and “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.” When St. Pius X condemned Modernism, he spoke of “the most grievous errors,” “the corruption of dogmas,” “the pest of indifferentism,” and the duty of the faithful to “fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King.” The contrast between this language and the anodyne captions of the EWTN article is the contrast between the Church of Christ and the synagogue of Satan.
The Complicity of EWTN
It must be noted that EWTN — the Eternal Word Television Network — is itself an institution of the conciliar sect. While it retains certain outward forms of Catholic identity (the use of the word “Catholic” in its name, the broadcasting of the Traditional Latin Mass in some of its programming), it recognizes the authority of the antipopes, promotes the Novus Ordo as the true Mass, and presents the conciliar revolution as a legitimate development of the Church. Its coverage of Prevost’s African journey is not journalism; it is propaganda — the dissemination of the conciliar narrative to an audience that may still believe it is receiving Catholic truth.
The article’s invitation to “subscribe” and “receive communications from EWTN” is a fitting symbol of the conciliar sect’s method: it seeks to enroll the faithful in its network of communication, to make them participants in its apostasy, and to bind them to the structures of the neo-church. The true Catholic, who recognizes the usurpation of the papal office and the destruction of the Faith, must reject these structures entirely — not as a matter of personal preference, but as a matter of divine law. *Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus* — outside the Church there is no salvation. And the Church is not a stadium in Malabo presided over by an antipope. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, enduring in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who worship at the true Mass, and who refuse to bow before the idols of the conciliar revolution.
Conclusion: The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart Will Not Come Through the Conciliar Sect
The EWTN News article on Prevost’s African journey is a document of the times — a snapshot of the abomination of desolation in its mature phase. The antipope travels the world, greeted by crowds, celebrated by the media, and presented to the faithful as the Vicar of Christ. The true Church is invisible, persecuted, reduced to scattered remnants who cling to the Faith of their fathers in defiance of the overwhelming pressure of the conciliar apostasy. But the Faith endures. The Mass endures — in the chapels and oratories where validly ordained priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary according to the immemorial Roman Rite. The doctrine endures — in the catechisms, the encyclicals, the councils, and the Fathers that the conciliar sect has not been able to destroy, only to bury under an avalanche of novelties.
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, expressed the hope that “the feast of Christ the King, which we shall henceforth celebrate annually, will bring society back to our most beloved Savior.” That hope is not realized through the conciliar sect. It is realized through the fidelity of the remnant — through the refusal to accept the antipope, the refusal to participate in the false liturgy, the refusal to be complicit in the apostasy. Prevost’s African journey is a spectacle. The true mission of the Church — the conversion of souls to Christ, the establishment of His reign over all nations, the salvation of the world through the Cross — continues, quietly and invisibly, wherever the true Faith is professed and the true Sacrifice is offered. *Ad maiorem Dei gloriam* — but not the God of the conciliabular “Church.” The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God Who became man and died on the Cross for our salvation. The God Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever — and Whose Church cannot be destroyed by the machinations of men or the frauds of secret societies.
Source:
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV departs Africa, returns to Rome after 11-day papal trip (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.04.2026