National Catholic Register portal reports that on May 26, 2026, the individual currently occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), received a delegation from the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo. The delegation, led by chairman John Elkann and CEO Benedetto Vigna, presented the usurper with the steering wheel of the “Ferrari Luce,” described as the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. The article states that Leo XIV “had the opportunity to sit in the driver’s seat of the new vehicle,” which Ferrari promotes as “not only the ‘electric Ferrari,’ but an entirely new Ferrari.” Elkann declared it “a great emotion and an immense honor to meet with His Holiness,” calling the moment “of extraordinary human and symbolic value, which inspired everyone in our company to continue on its path with passion, responsibility, and confidence in the future.” Ferrari’s corporate statement emphasizes “mechanical performance,” “energy efficiency,” and “science-based solutions to reduce emissions” and “foster the circular economy.”
The Abomination of Desolation Receives a Trophy: Materialism Enthroned in the Occupied Vatican
This episode, trivial in appearance yet profoundly revealing in substance, exposes with surgical clarity the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect and its complete capitulation to the spirit of the world. That the individual usurping the Chair of Peter should receive with visible enthusiasm the steering wheel of a luxury electric automobile — a symbol of worldly wealth, technological vanity, and the cult of material progress — and that this should be reported by Catholic media as a noteworthy event, constitutes a scandal of the first order. It is not merely an act of poor judgment; it is a symptomatic revelation of the total inversion of values that defines the post-conciliar apostasy.
The Cult of Worldly Progress and the Betrayal of Christ the Kingdom
The Ferrari delegation did not come bearing gifts for the Vicar of Christ. They came to promote a product — a luxury commodity marketed under the banners of “energy efficiency,” “science-based solutions,” and “circular economy.” These are the idolatrous slogans of secular environmentalism, a pseudoreligion that has replaced the worship of the true God with the worship of the created order. 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” — a plague that “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and led to states that “thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God.” That the occupant of the Vatican should embrace, with “extraordinary human and symbolic value,” the emissaries of a corporation whose entire raison d’être is the production of luxury machines for the wealthy, while Christ the King is publicly ignored and privately denied, is the living fulfillment of Pius XI’s lamentation: “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.”
Ferrari’s own corporate language betrays its spiritual alignment: “science-based solutions,” “circular economy,” “inspire suppliers to join our initiative.” This is the technocratic utopianism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejected the proposition that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Proposition 3). The entire framework of “science-based solutions” presupposes the exclusion of divine revelation and supernatural faith from the governance of human affairs — a framework that the conciliar sect has not merely tolerated but actively embraced since the promulgation of Gaudium et Spes at Vatican II, which opened the floodgates to the world.
The Usurper’s Complicity: Sitting in the Seat of Worldly Power
The image of Leo XIV sitting in the driver’s seat of the Ferrari Luce is, whether intended or not, a perfect allegory of the post-conciliar pontificate: the usurper of Peter’s Chair occupying himself not with the governance of Christ’s Church, the salvation of souls, or the defense of immutable doctrine, but with the trappings of worldly prestige and technological novelty. The true Vicar of Christ, as described by Leo XIII, exercises a reign that “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.” What has Leo XIV done to assert this reign? He has sat in a luxury automobile.
The language employed by Elkann — “passion, responsibility, and confidence in the future” — is the language of corporate modernism, indistinguishable from the slogans of any secular enterprise. There is no mention of God, no acknowledgment of divine sovereignty, no reference to the moral law, no recognition that the goods of the earth are to be used for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. The “future” in which Ferrari places its confidence is the future of this world — the world that St. John warns us is “lying in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). That the usurper should receive this language with gratitude and enthusiasm, and that Catholic media should report it without a word of criticism, demonstrates the total assimilation of the conciliar structures into the spirit of the world.
The Silence That Condemns: What Is Not Said
Let us consider what is conspicuously absent from this entire episode. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the true Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, not the Protestantized conciar “Eucharistic celebration.” There is no mention of the sacraments, of the state of grace, of the final judgment, of the necessity of faith and baptism for salvation. There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King over nations, corporations, and individuals. There is no mention of the moral law as it applies to the production and consumption of luxury goods in a world where millions lack the necessities of life. There is no mention of the Church’s teaching on the dangers of riches: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matt. 19:24).
This silence is not accidental. It is theological silence — the silence of an institution that has abandoned its divine mission. The conciar sect no longer speaks the language of the Church because it is no longer the Church. It is, as the documents provided confirm, a “paramasonic structure” and an “abomination of desolation” that occupies the physical buildings of the Vatican while professing a counterfeit religion syncretized with the world. The meeting between Leo XIV and the Ferrari delegation is not a Catholic event; it is a corporate publicity stunt sanctified by the moral authority usurped from the true papacy.
The Automobile as Idol: Materialism and the Destruction of the Spiritual Life
The Ferrari Luce is not merely a car. It is a symbol of the idolatry of material progress that has consumed the Western world and, through the conciliar revolution, has infected the very structures of the Church. Pius XI warned that “the flames of mutual hatred and internal discord consume and contribute to the destruction of people and nations distant from God.” The luxury automobile industry, with its cult of speed, status, and technological perfection, is one of the most potent instruments of this destruction, diverting the hearts of men from the love of God to the love of created things.
That the individual occupying the Vatican should not merely tolerate but celebrate this industry — receiving its emissaries, sitting in its products, accepting its gifts — is a betrayal of the most elementary duties of the papal office. The true pope, as the successor of Peter, is bound to “feed the sheep and lambs” of Christ (John 21:15-17), to “confirm the brethren” (Luke 22:32), and to “bind and loose” (Matt. 16:19) according to the law of God, not according to the marketing strategies of Italian luxury corporations. The usurper has instead chosen to feed the vanity of the world and to lend the prestige of the papal office to the promotion of material goods.
The Conciliar Sect’s Embrace of the World: A Systemic Apostasy
This episode must not be understood in isolation. It is one manifestation of a systemic apostasy that has characterized the conciliar sect since its inception with the convocation of Vatican II by the manifest heretic John XXIII. The entire trajectory of post-conciliarism has been one of progressive accommodation to the world: the replacement of the true Mass with a Protestantized memorial meal, the replacement of Catholic doctrine with religious indifferentism and false ecumenism, the replacement of the Church’s missionary mandate with interreligious dialogue, and the replacement of the supernatural virtues with naturalistic humanism.
The meeting with Ferrari is consistent with this trajectory. It represents the final stage of the conciliar revolution: the complete identification of the usurping structures with the values of the secular world. There is no longer even a pretense of supernatural mission. The usurper receives corporate delegations, sits in luxury automobiles, and speaks the language of “confidence in the future” — while the true Church, the Church of all ages, the Church that produced the martyrs and the Doctors and the Councils, endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and reject the modernist abomination.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures
The steering wheel of the Ferrari Luce is a fitting symbol for the conciar sect: an instrument of worldly power, devoid of spiritual significance, received with enthusiasm by an occupant who has no right to the throne he occupies. The true Vicar of Christ — if one exists in the eyes of God, for the Chair of Peter is, by all appearances, vacant due to the manifest heresy of the usurpers — would never lend the authority of his office to the promotion of luxury automobiles and corporate environmentalism.
Let the faithful take note: the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church. They are the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The true Church endures — in the immutable doctrine of the Fathers and the Councils, in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the true Mass, in the integral Catholic faith that recognizes no compromise with the world. Let us reject the usurpers, reject their worldliness, reject their syncretism, and cling to the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3). Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church, there is no salvation. And the Ferrari-delegation-receiving structures of the Vatican are not the Church.
Source:
Pope Receives Ferrari Luce Steering Wheel — Italian Brand’s First Fully Electric Car (ncregister.com)
Date: 29.05.2026