EWTN News portal reports that on May 3, 2026, the usurper occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), addressed pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during the Regina Coeli, commemorating journalists killed by war and violence on World Press Freedom Day. He warned that press freedom is “often violated” and called for prayers for peace and communion within the Church. He also reflected on the Gospel of the Last Supper, stating that Jesus’ promise reveals “God has a place for everyone” and that Christians anticipate “heaven on earth” by living the “new commandment of love,” which shows that “fraternity and peace are our calling.” This rhetoric, while superficially pious, is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church with naturalistic humanism and the religion of man.
The Usurper’s “Fraternity and Peace”: A Modernist Sermon Without Christ the King
The discourse delivered by Leo XIV on May 3, 2026, is a distilled essence of the post-conciliar apostasy: a sermon entirely constructed on the foundation of naturalistic humanism, stripped of any reference to the supernatural order, the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, or the reality of sin and judgment. It is a speech that could have been delivered at any United Nations assembly or UNESCO conference, and therein lies its profound betrayal.
The Omission of Christ’s Kingship: The Root of All Disorder
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He wrote with prophetic clarity:
“We lamented… that this kind of outpouring of evil has afflicted the whole world because very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life; but we also indicated that 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.”
Every word of Leo XIV about “fraternity and peace” is a direct contradiction of this immutable teaching. Peace is not found in “loving one another” as an abstract principle; peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ. Pius XI declared:
“For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.'”
Leo XIV speaks of “fraternity” without mentioning that true fraternity is only possible through Baptism and membership in the Catholic Church. He speaks of “peace” without mentioning that Christ is the Prince of Peace and that His reign extends over all nations — not as a vague spiritual metaphor, but as a juridical and social reality. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX 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). This is precisely what Leo XIV does: he reconciles the Church with the world by adopting the world’s language, the world’s priorities, and the world’s false concept of peace.
“God Has a Place for Everyone”: The Heresy of Universal Salvation
Perhaps the most doctrinally dangerous statement in Leo XIV’s address is the following:
“Even now, faced with death, Jesus speaks of a home, but this time a very large one… It is the house of his Father and our Father, where there is room for all.”
This formulation, while avoiding explicit universalism, strongly implies it. The Catholic Faith teaches that Heaven is not for “all” indiscriminately — it is for those who die in the state of sanctifying grace, who have kept the commandments, and who belong to the Catholic Church. The Fourth Lateran Council declared: “Una vero est fidelium universalis Ecclesia, extra quam nullus omnino salvatur” (“There is indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved”).
The proposition that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” was condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Proposition 17). Leo XIV’s language — “room for all” — is a subtle but unmistakable echo of this condemned indifferentism. It is the theology of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate and Lumen Gentium repackaged in homiletic form: the Church as a “home open to all,” not as the ark of salvation requiring repentance, faith, and Baptism.
Furthermore, Leo XIV’s statement that
“Each person already has infinite worth in the mystery of God, which is the true reality”
is a manifestation of what Pius XI called “the cult of man” — the exaltation of human dignity apart from the supernatural order. While the Catholic Church indeed teaches that man has inherent dignity as created in the image of God, this dignity is ordered toward the Beatific Vision and is only fully realized through grace. To speak of “infinite worth” without reference to the necessity of sanctifying grace, the sacraments, and the Catholic Faith is to preach a naturalistic religion worthy of the Masonic lodges that Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus as “pests” of society.
The “New Commandment of Love” Without the Supernatural Order
Leo XIV stated:
“By loving one another as Jesus has loved us, we impart this awareness to one another… This is the new commandment; in this way, we anticipate heaven on earth and reveal to all that fraternity and peace are our calling.”
This is the quintessential modernist reduction of Christianity to social ethics. The “new commandment” of Christ — “Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem” (John 13:34) — is inseparable from the supernatural order: it presupposes faith, grace, and the sacraments. To speak of “anticipating heaven on earth” through mutual love, without any mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Confession, or the necessity of conversion, is to preach a Christianity without the Cross, without sacrifice, without the supernatural.
Pius XI warned 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 usurper’s vision of a “home open to all” and “fraternity and peace” is the antithesis of this. It is the Church reduced to a humanitarian NGO, a “community” that “anticipates heaven on earth” through social cohesion rather than through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the submission of nations to the Kingship of Christ.
Press Freedom: A Secular Idol Elevated Above the Freedom of the Church
Leo XIV dedicated a significant portion of his address to journalists and press freedom, noting that World Press Freedom Day is promoted by UNESCO — a United Nations agency. He stated:
“Unfortunately, this right is often violated — sometimes blatantly, sometimes in more subtle ways… Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who have fallen victim to wars and violence.”
While the suffering of journalists is indeed a tragedy, the elevation of “press freedom” as a subject of papal concern reveals the conciliar sect’s adoption of secular, liberal values as if they were Gospel priorities. The true freedom that the Church proclaims is the freedom to preach the Gospel, to administer the sacraments, and to govern souls according to the law of God. Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79) — and then condemned this very proposition as false.
The usurper’s concern for press freedom is not accompanied by any mention of the far greater violations of the Church’s freedom: the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, the persecution of faithful Catholics who refuse to accept the conciliar reforms, the silencing of bishops who defend doctrine. This selective concern reveals the true priorities of the post-conciliar structure: alignment with the values of liberal democracy rather than the defense of the Church’s supernatural mission.
The Month of Mary Without the Rosary’s Supernatural Power
Leo XIV invited Catholics to pray the rosary during the month of May:
“The month of May has begun: Throughout the Church, the joy of gathering in the name of Mary, our mother, is renewed, especially by praying the rosary together.”
But what is the rosary in the context of the conciliar sect? It has been stripped of its penitential and prophetic character — the meditation on the mysteries of salvation, the prayer for the conversion of sinners, the consecration of Russia demanded at Fatima (itself a suspicious operation, as documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file). In the neo-church, the rosary has become a sentimental devotion, a “gathering in the name of Mary” for “communion” and “peace” — emptied of its supernatural power to combat heresy and convert nations.
Leo XIV entrusted his intentions to Mary “particularly for communion within the Church and for peace in the world.” But true communion within the Church is only possible through unity of faith — the faith of all time, the faith defined by the Council of Trent, the faith defended by St. Pius X against Modernism. The “communion” promoted by the conciliar sect is a false communion — a unity of bureaucracy and ritual simulation that masks the most profound apostasy in the history of the Church.
The Meter Association: The Church as Social Services
After the Regina Coeli, Leo XIV thanked the Meter Association, which “for 30 years has worked to defend minors from abuse, support victims, and promote prevention.” He said:
“Thank you for your service!”
This is emblematic of the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s mission to social services. While the protection of minors is indeed a moral duty, the Church’s primary mission is the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments. The elevation of a social service organization to the level of papal recognition — while the Traditional Latin Mass is suppressed, while doctrine is diluted, while the faithful are starved of the sacraments — reveals the inversion of priorities that characterizes the post-conciliar apostasy.
Conclusion: The Antichrist’s Counterfeit Church
The address of Leo XIV on May 3, 2026, is a perfect specimen of the religion that St. Pius X condemned as “the synthesis of all errors” — Modernism. It is a religion of “fraternity and peace” without Christ the King, of “love” without the Cross, of “communion” without the Faith, of “heaven on earth” without the Last Judgment. It is the religion of the Man of Sin, who sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
The faithful must reject this counterfeit Christianity and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Church: the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered for centuries, the sacraments as instituted by Christ, the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations, and the unchanging doctrine outside of which there is no salvation. As Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors:
“The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”
— and this proposition was condemned. Leo XIV does precisely what Pius IX condemned. He is not the successor of Peter; he is the heir of the conciliar revolution, the continuation of the apostasy that began with John XXIII and has culminated in the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Let us pray for the true Church — the Church of all time, the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. Let us pray for the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the reconsecration of nations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart — not through the false apparitions promoted by the conciliar sect, but through the return of the faithful to the unchanging Tradition of the Catholic Church.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV remembers journalists killed by war and violence (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.05.2026