The 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 22, 2026. The article describes a series of photo opportunities: the antipope said Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mengomeyén, visited the “Pope Francis Technology School,” prayed at a monument to explosion victims, visited prisoners at Bata Prison, and met with families at Bata Stadium. The entire itinerary is presented as a series of heartwarming encounters, with inmates kissing the antipope’s hand and crowds assembling for his speeches. The article, sourced from Vatican Media, contains no substantive content regarding the antipope’s actual words or doctrinal positions, reducing the papal office to a celebrity tour of humanitarian photo-ops. This spectacle perfectly encapsulates the degradation of the Chair of Peter into a platform for naturalistic humanitarianism, devoid of any supernatural mission.
The Complete Absence of Supernatural Mission
The most striking feature of this article is what it does not say. Not a single word is devoted to the purpose for which the Church exists: the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the proclamation of the Kingship of Jesus Christ over all nations. The article meticulously documents that the antipope “said Mass,” “visited prisoners,” “met with families,” and “prayed at a monument,” yet there is no indication whatsoever that he preached the necessity of conversion, the reality of sin, the existence of Hell, the obligation of baptism, or the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church.
This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors, condemning the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free — nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (Proposition 19), the Church’s mission is not humanitarian but supernatural. The antipope’s African tour, as presented, is indistinguishable from the itinerary of any secular humanitarian figurehead — the UN Secretary-General, a celebrity philanthropist, or a head of state on a diplomatic goodwill mission. The article’s exclusive focus on naturalistic encounters — prisoners, families, technology schools — reveals the complete capitulation of the conciliar sect to the modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of the faith to a merely social and humanitarian phenomenon.
The Degradation of the Papal Office to Celebrity Humanitarianism
The article’s structure and language betray the utter degradation of the papal office. Consider the following descriptions: “Pope Leo XIV greets Catholics during Mass,” “A prison inmate in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, kisses the hand of Pope Leo XIV,” “Dancers put on a show for Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with families at Bata Stadium.” The antipope is presented not as the Vicar of Christ, the successor of St. Peter, and the supreme teacher of the universal Church, but as a celebrity receiving adulation, a VIP touring facilities, a dignitary accepting gifts and watching cultural performances.
This is precisely the “cult of man” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King specifically to combat the secularism that removes Christ from public life and replaces His reign with merely human authority. The antipope’s African tour is a living enactment of this secularism: the crowds gather not to hear the doctrine of Christ proclaimed by His supposed vicar, but to see a man, to touch his hand, to receive his smile. The article’s description of “colorful smoke” and “a balloon formation of a rosary” at the Basilica reduces sacred liturgy to a carnival atmosphere — an abomination that would have been inconceivable before the conciliar revolution.
The “Pope Francis Technology School”: Idolatry of Progress
Among the most revealing details is the antipope’s visit to and blessing of the “Pope Francis Technology School” in Mengomeyén. The article states that “Pope Leo XIV unveils a plaque at the Pope Francis Technology School” and “blesses” it. This detail is not merely incidental; it is a perfect encapsulation of the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu:
The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.
Proposition 64 of Lamentabili, condemned by the Holy Office in 1907, explicitly rejects the notion that scientific progress demands a reformation of Christian doctrine. Yet here we see the antipope blessing a technology school named after his modernist predecessor — a man who made the pursuit of technological and environmental progress a central theme of his usurped pontificate. The blessing of a technology school, presented as a papal act of spiritual significance, reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental orientation: the worship of human progress, the idolatry of material development, and the reduction of the Church’s mission to participation in the world’s projects.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The antipope’s blessing of a technology school named after Francis is a direct fulfillment of this condemned proposition — the reconciliation of the papacy with the worship of technological progress.
The Prison Visit: Mercy Without Truth
The article describes the antipope’s visit to Bata Prison in purely naturalistic terms: “Pope Leo XIV addresses prisoners at Bata Prison,” “Pope Leo XIV speaks to prisoners at Bata Prison,” “A prison inmate in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, kisses the hand of Pope Leo XIV.” There is no indication that the antipope preached to these prisoners the necessity of contrition, confession, and conversion. There is no mention of the sacrament of penance, the reality of sin, or the eternal consequences of unrepented mortal sin.
This is the mercy without truth that characterizes the entire conciliar revolution. The antipope visits prisoners not as a priest sent to absolve them from their sins through the power of the keys, but as a humanitarian offering comfort and solidarity. This is the theology of the “preferential option for the marginalized” that has replaced the theology of the sacraments in the neo-church. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas:
The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… 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 antipope’s prison visit, devoid of any supernatural content, is a betrayal of the very men he claims to serve. To visit imprisoned men without offering them the means of salvation — the sacraments, the truth about sin and redemption — is not mercy but cruelty. It is the cruelty of a false shepherd who leads his flock to slaughter while pretending to care for them.
The Meeting with Families: Demographic Gatherings in Place of Evangelization
The article describes a “meeting with families at Bata Stadium” where “a crowd of families assembles” and “dancers put on a show.” Once again, there is no doctrinal content, no preaching of the Catholic faith on marriage, the education of children in the faith, the indissolubility of marriage, or the necessity of baptism for children. The meeting is presented as a cultural event — a gathering of families for entertainment and photo opportunities.
This is consistent with the conciliar sect’s approach to the family: the reduction of Catholic marriage and family life to a sociological phenomenon, stripped of its supernatural dimension. The antipope meets with families not to teach them the Catholic doctrine on marriage as a sacrament, not to warn them against contraception, divorce, and civil marriage, but to participate in a stadium event with dancers and crowds. The family, in the conciliar vision, is not a domestic church ordered toward the salvation of souls, but a social unit to be celebrated and supported through purely natural means.
The Monument to Explosion Victims: Civil Religion in Action
The article notes that “Pope Leo XIV prays at a monument to those who died in the 2021 explosions at Bata.” This act of prayer at a civil monument, devoid of any specifically Catholic liturgical or doctrinal content, is a perfect example of the civil religion that the conciliar sect has embraced. The antipope does not offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead, does not pray for their entry into Heaven through the merits of Christ, does not call for repentance and conversion. He simply “prays at a monument” — a gesture indistinguishable from that of any secular leader paying respects at a memorial.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the proposition that “the best theory of civil society requires that popular schools open to children of every class of the people… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference, and should be fully subjected to the civil and political power” (Proposition 47). The antipope’s prayer at a civil monument, presented as a papal act, represents the complete absorption of the papacy into civil religion — the subordination of the Church’s supernatural mission to the rituals of the secular state.
The Mass: A Mysterious Absence of Content
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the article is its treatment of the Holy Mass. The article states multiple times that the antipope “said Mass” and “presides over Mass,” and includes photographs of him processing, incensing the altar, and elevating the chalice. Yet there is no mention of what was preached, what prayers were offered, or what intentions the Mass was offered for.
This silence is deafening. The Holy Mass is the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the re-presentation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, the most sacred action performed on earth. Yet the article treats it as merely one event among many in the antipope’s itinerary — equivalent in significance to visiting a technology school or meeting with families at a stadium. This reduction of the Mass to a ceremonial backdrop for photo opportunities is the logical consequence of the Novus Ordo Missae, the protestantized “mass” introduced by the Masonic architect Bugnini, which transformed the Holy Sacrifice into a communal meal and stripped it of its propitiatory character.
For those who retain the Catholic faith, the true Mass — the Traditional Latin Mass codified by St. Pius V in Quo Primum — remains the sole valid expression of the Church’s worship. Whatever ceremonies the antipope performs in Mengomeyén, they lack the guarantee of orthodoxy and efficacy that belongs to the true Mass celebrated within the true Church.
The Sedevacantist Verdict: No Pope, No Mission, No Church
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the entire spectacle described in this article is null and void. Robert Prevost is not the Pope of the Catholic Church. He is a manifest heretic who, by his public adherence to the modernist errors of the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, has automatically lost any claim to the Chair of Peter. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice:
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.
The activities described in this article — the blessing of technology schools, the visiting of prisoners without preaching conversion, the meeting with families without teaching doctrine, the praying at civil monuments — are not the acts of the Vicar of Christ. They are the acts of a man who occupies the Vatican but possesses no authority from Christ. The structures he leads are not the Church of Christ but the conciliar sect — the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” foretold by Our Lord (Matthew 24:15).
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, proclaimed:
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 antipope’s African tour represents the exact opposite of this program. It is a tour of human recognition for a human figure, devoid of any acknowledgment of Christ’s kingship. The crowds that gather to see him are not gathered in the name of Christ but in the name of a man. The blessings he bestows are not the blessings of the Church — the sacraments, the true Mass, the doctrine of salvation — but the empty gestures of a humanitarian celebrity.
The faithful who retain the Catholic faith must reject this entire spectacle as the work of the conciliar sect — a sect that has abandoned the mission of Christ and replaced it with the worship of man, the idolatry of progress, and the empty rituals of a false church. True peace, true mercy, and true hope are found only in the immutable Catholic faith, in the true Mass, in the true sacraments, and in the true Church of Christ — which endures, though persecuted and hidden, in the hearts of the faithful who refuse to bend the knee before the idols of the modern world.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits prisoners, meets with families, says Mass in Equatorial Guinea (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.04.2026