Vatican News portal reports on the upcoming visit of the usurper Leo XIV to Pompeii on May 8, 2026, marking the first anniversary of his illegitimate pontificate. Archbishop Tommaso Caputo, Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii, expressed “joy and gratitude” for the visit, describing it as “a most special gift” and an “epoch-making event.” The article details the spiritual and logistical preparations, the expected participation of tens of thousands of faithful, the celebration of the “Eucharist,” the recitation of the Supplica prayer, and the focus on Saint Bartolo Longo, canonized by the conciliar sect on October 19, 2025. The Archbishop emphasized the Shrine’s charitable works, vocational training for youth, and the social challenges of southern Italy, framing the visit as an opportunity to “confirm us in faith” and give “renewed impetus to our works of charity.” Yet beneath the veneer of pious anticipation lies a profound spiritual emptiness: the entire event is orchestrated by and for the conciliar sect, devoid of any mention of the supernatural realities of the Faith—the state of grace, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass, the necessity of Catholic baptism, or the eternal destiny of souls—revealing it as a mere exercise in naturalistic humanism and institutional self-congratulation.
The Usurper’s Pilgrimage: Legitimizing the Conciliar Abomination
The very premise of this article is built upon a foundational falsehood: that Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” holds any authority whatsoever within the Catholic Church. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, there has been no legitimate Supreme Pontiff since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The so-called “popes” who followed—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV—are manifest heretics and apostates who, by their public and obstinate adherence to the errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium, automatically forfeited any claim to the Chair of Peter. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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*, II, 30). The conciliar revolution, with its errors of religious liberty, ecumenism, and the evolution of dogmas, constitutes a public defection from the Catholic faith, as condemned by the *Syllabus of Errors* of Pius IX (propositions 15, 17, 18, 77, 80) and *Lamentabili sane exitu* of St. Pius X (propositions 20-26, 54, 64-65). Therefore, Leo XIV’s visit to Pompeii is not a papal pilgrimage but a parade of the Antichrist’s vicar through a shrine co-opted by the neo-church, designed to lend false legitimacy to the conciliar sect and its apostate agenda.
The Language of Apostasy: “Joy,” “Gratitude,” and the Absence of God
The tone of the article is revealing in its theological bankruptcy. Archbishop Caputo speaks of “joy and gratitude,” “enthusiastic and joyful anticipation,” and the desire for the community to become “a sanctuary of light, a school of prayer, and a fortress of peace.” Yet not a single word is spoken of the most fundamental supernatural realities: the state of grace, the necessity of Catholic baptism for salvation, the propitiatory nature of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the reality of sin, the need for contrition, or the eternal consequences of apostasy. The “prayer” invoked is reduced to the Rosary recited as a ritualistic formula, stripped of its true purpose: the conversion of sinners and the salvation of souls. The “charity” emphasized is purely naturalistic—vocational training, job placement, social assistance—as if the greatest need of the faithful were not the restoration of the true Mass, the sacraments, and the integral Catholic Faith. This is the hallmark of Modernism: the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, of the divine to the human, of the Church to a humanitarian NGO. As Pius IX warned, “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (*Syllabus*, proposition 19)—an error embodied in the conciliar sect’s subservience to secular authorities and its embrace of religious liberty.
The “Eucharist” of the Conciliar Sect: Sacrilege and Idolatry
The article states that “at the heart of the day will be the celebration of the Eucharist, which Pope Leo XIV will preside over at 10:30 a.m. local time in the square before the Shrine.” Let there be no ambiguity: what the conciliar sect calls “the Eucharist” is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, is a Protestantized assembly that denies the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice, reduces the Real Presence to a mere “memorial,” and opens the door to sacrilege and idolatry. The traditional Mass, as codified by St. Pius V in *Quo Primum* (1570), is the unbloody re-presentation of Calvary, offered by a validly ordained priest acting *in persona Christi* for the living and the dead. The conciliar “Mass” is a table of assembly, a communal meal, a celebration of the community itself—precisely the errors condemned by the Council of Trent and the encyclicals of St. Pius X. To receive “Communion” in such a rite, knowing that the words of consecration have been altered, that the rubrics violate the theology of sacrifice, and that the minister is likely an apostate, is if not “just” sacrilege, then idolatry. The faithful are warned: participation in these rites is a mortal sin and a betrayal of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Bartolo Longo: A “Saint” of the Conciliar Sect
The article highlights the canonization of Bartolo Longo on October 19, 2025, by the usurper Francis, and the growing devotion to him among the faithful. Yet the conciliar sect has no power to canonize. Canonization is an infallible act of the Church’s Magisterium, requiring that the person lived a life of heroic virtue, died in the state of grace, and was a member of the true Church. The conciliar sect, being a heretical and schismatic body, cannot perform valid canonizations. Moreover, the life and works of Bartolo Longo must be scrutinized in light of the perennial Magisterium, not the novelties of Vatican II. His association with the Shrine of Pompeii, which has been a center of conciliar activity and naturalistic devotion, raises serious questions about the orthodoxy of his spirituality. The article’s portrayal of him as “the example of a convert who in his youth strayed from an authentic life of faith” is a modernist trope that relativizes the gravity of sin and the necessity of true conversion to the Catholic Faith. As St. Pius X warned, “the pursuit of novelty in the investigation of the foundations of things leads in our times to deplorable consequences” (*Lamentabili*, proposition 1). The faithful are cautioned against devotion to “saints” canonized by the concilar sect, as it risks participation in their apostasy.
The Supplica and the Rosary: Devotion Without Doctrine
The article mentions the “traditional Supplica to Our Lady of Pompeii, the solemn act of entrustment to the Blessed Virgin composed in 1883 by the Shrine’s founder, Saint Bartolo Longo.” Yet the Supplica, while containing some orthodox phrases, is stripped of its true doctrinal context when recited within the framework of the conciliar sect. Without the integral Catholic Faith—without the recognition of the Church’s exclusive claim to truth, without the necessity of Catholic baptism, without the reality of hell and the devil—Marian devotion becomes a sentimental exercise, a “comfort blanket” for the spiritually lukewarm. The Rosary, too, is reduced to a ritualistic formula, recited without meditation on the mysteries of salvation, without the intention of converting sinners, without the resolve to do penance. As Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas*, “the annual celebration of sacred mysteries is far more effective than even the most serious proofs of the teaching Church; for these are usually accessible only to a small number of learned men, but those engage and instruct all the faithful.” The conciliar sect, by suppressing the traditional Rosary processions and replacing them with “prayer services” focused on social justice, has emptied Marian devotion of its supernatural content.
The Social Gospel: Charity Without Christ
The article devotes considerable attention to the Shrine’s charitable works: vocational training, job placement, assistance to the sick and disabled. While corporal works of mercy are indeed part of the Catholic Faith, they are not the primary mission of the Church. The Church’s mission is the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the sanctification of the faithful. The conciliar sect, by reducing the Church’s mission to social activism, has embraced the very errors condemned by Pius IX: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (*Syllabus*, proposition 40). The article’s focus on “precarious and often poorly paid work,” “young people struggling to find stable employment,” and “social challenges” is a thinly veiled promotion of the social gospel, the heresy that the Church’s primary task is to improve temporal conditions rather than lead souls to heaven. As Leo XIII warned in *Immortale Dei*, “the Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The conciliar sect, by subordinating the spiritual to the temporal, has inverted this divine order.
The Absence of the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning aspect of this article is what it omits. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of Catholic baptism, the reality of sin, the need for contrition, the existence of hell, the devil, the Last Judgment, or the eternal destiny of souls. The “faith” spoken of is a vague, naturalistic sentiment; the “hope” is reduced to temporal betterment; the “charity” is purely humanitarian. This is the quintessence of Modernism: the denial of the supernatural order and the reduction of religion to human experience. As St. Pius X wrote in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*, “the Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism… they hold that the origin of all religious facts, including those of the Christian religion, is to be found in the natural needs of the human soul.” The conciliar sect, by suppressing the traditional catechism, the traditional Mass, and the traditional sacraments, has created a religion without God, a Church without Christ, a faith without doctrine. The faithful must reject this abomination and return to the integral Catholic Faith, as taught by the Fathers, the Councils, and the perennial Magisterium.
Conclusion: The Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect
The visit of the usurper Leo XIV to Pompeii is not a cause for joy but for mourning. It is a manifestation of the conciliar sect’s ongoing campaign to deceive the faithful, to legitimize its apostasy, and to lead souls to perdition. The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii, once a beacon of Marian devotion, has been co-opted by the neo-church and transformed into a center of naturalistic humanism and social activism. The “Eucharist” celebrated there is a sacrilege; the “saints” canonized there are false; the “prayer” offered there is empty. The faithful are called to reject the conciliar sect in its entirety, to seek out the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true Faith, as preserved by the remnant of the Catholic Church. As Pius XI declared 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.” Let us pray for the restoration of Christ’s reign, the destruction of the conciliar abomination, and the salvation of souls. Adveniat regnum tuum.
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Pompeii prepares to welcome Pope Leo on 1st anniversary of pontificate (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.05.2026