Vatican News portal reports that the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) will undertake an “Apocryphal Journey” to France from September 25–28, 2026, marking the first such visit by a Vatican usurper since Benedict XVI in 2008. The visit, framed as a response to invitations from French President Emmanuel Macron, French “ecclesiastical authorities,” and the Director-General of UNESCO, includes a scheduled stop at UNESCO headquarters—an institution long condemned by pre-conciliar popes as a vehicle for religious indifferentism and naturalistic humanism. This journey is not merely diplomatic theater; it is a public declaration of allegiance by the conciliar sect to the very secularist and Masonic forces that true Catholic teaching identifies as enemies of Christ the King.
The Papal Title Usurped: Leo XIV and the Legacy of Apostolic Pretension
The use of the title “Pope” for Robert Prevost is itself an act of institutional blasphemy. As established in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, a manifest heretic ceases ipso facto to be Pope and head of the Church, since “a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian.” The conciliar revolution initiated by John XXIII—whose opening speech at Vatican II explicitly repudiated the “prophets of doom” who upheld traditional doctrine—was a formal defection from the Catholic faith. Every subsequent occupant of the Vatican, including Leo XIV, has perpetuated this apostasy through endorsement of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the liturgical revolution that dismantled the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Thus, Leo XIV is not a Pope but an antipope, and his “apostolic journey” is not an act of pastoral governance but a propaganda tour for the neo-church of the Antichrist.
France: A Nation Under the Ban of Divine Judgment
France, once the “Eldest Daughter of the Church,” has been under divine chastisement since the Revolution of 1789, when it enthroned the Goddess of Reason in Notre-Dame. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, lamented that “the entire human society had to be shaken” because “authority was derived not from God but from men.” The France of Emmanuel Macron is the direct heir of this apostasy—a republic built on laïcité, the very secularism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.” Macron, who has hosted multiple meetings with antipopes since 2018, embodies the modernist state that “thinks it can do without God and that its religion is impiety and contempt for God” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 41). That Leo XIV accepts Macron’s invitation is not diplomacy; it is servility to a regime that has legalized the killing of unborn children, promoted sodomy as a civil right, and systematically dismantled Christian influence in public life.
UNESCO: The Sanctuary of Indifferentism
The decision to visit UNESCO headquarters is particularly revealing. UNESCO—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—was founded in 1945 as a cornerstone of the post-war liberal international order, an order Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus for promoting “the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79). Its foundational documents enshrine religious pluralism, the autonomy of human reason from divine revelation, and the reduction of religion to a cultural artifact—all propositions anathematized by the Magisterium. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the proposition that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20)—precisely the anthropocentric theology UNESCO promotes. By visiting UNESCO, Leo XIV does not evangelize; he legitimizes. He offers the conciliar sect’s blessing to an institution that treats all religions as equally valid paths to “peace” and “understanding,” thereby denying the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the exclusive kingship of Jesus Christ.
The Silence That Condemns: What the Journey Omits
Nowhere in the Vatican News report is there mention of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith, the reality of sin and hell, or the social reign of Christ the King. The journey is framed entirely in naturalistic terms: diplomacy, cultural exchange, interfaith dialogue. This silence is not accidental; it is the hallmark of the conciliar sect. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, “when the sweetest Name of our Redeemer is omitted with unworthy silence in international gatherings and parliaments,” it is because “the enemies of the Church act with greater audacity and hardness.” The omission of supernatural truth is not neutrality; it is apostasy.
The Liturgical Apostasy as Foundation
Any “Mass” celebrated by Leo XIV during this journey will be the Novus Ordo Missae—a rite condemned by traditional theologians as Protestantized, ambiguous in its sacrificial theology, and potentially invalid due to the alteration of the essential form of consecration. The 1962 Missale Romanum, codified by St. Pius V, defined the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice offered to God for the living and the dead. The Novus Ordo, by contrast, is structured as a communal meal, a “memorial” in the Protestant sense. That Leo XIV will preside over this rite in France—the land of St. Joan of Arc, St. Louis IX, and the Sacred Heart revelations to St. Margaret Mary—is a sacrilege that compounds the already grievous sin of usurping the papacy.
Conclusion: A Journey of Apostasy, Not Evangelization
The “apostolic journey” of Leo XIV to France is not a mission of salvation but a diplomatic endorsement of the secularist order. It confirms what the Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes: that the conciliar sect has severed itself from the true Church. The faithful are reminded of the words of Pius IX in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: any promotion to the cardinalate or papacy by one who has “defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy” is “null, void, and of no effect.” Leo XIV, like his predecessors, is a manifest heretic; his journey is not apostolic but anticatholic. The true Church endures—not in the palaces of the Vatican, but in the hearts of the faithful who cling to the unchanging deposit of faith, the Traditional Latin Mass, and the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords. Adveniat regnum tuum—but not through the diplomacy of antipopes, but through the triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart, in God’s own time and manner.
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Pope Leo XIV to visit France in September this year (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.05.2026