EWTN News portal reports that on May 26, 2026, the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo became the backdrop for a corporate product launch: “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) received a delegation from Ferrari, led by chairman John Elkann and CEO Benedetto Vigna, who presented the “pope” with the steering wheel of the Ferrari Luce — the brand’s first fully electric vehicle — and invited the usurper to sit in the driver’s seat. Elkann described the event as “a moment of extraordinary human and symbolic value” and “a great emotion and an immense honor,” while Ferrari’s promotional materials emphasize “energy efficiency,” “science-based solutions to reduce emissions,” and “the circular economy.” This spectacle — a corporate luxury brand using the occupied papal residence as a stage for marketing — is not an isolated curiosity but a symptom of the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the spirit of the world, the cult of Mammon, and the complete inversion of the Church’s mission as defined by the perennial Magisterium.
The Occupied Throne as Corporate Backdrop: A Scandal Without Precedent
The image is striking in its degradation: the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo — once a place of prayer, retreat, and apostolic governance — transformed into a showroom for a luxury automobile manufacturer. The Ferrari Luce, touted as “not only the ‘electric Ferrari,’ but an entirely new Ferrari,” was presented to the occupant of Peter’s throne with all the ceremony of a diplomatic summit. Elkann declared that the meeting “inspired everyone in our company to continue on its path with passion, responsibility, and confidence in the future,” and that it would remain “forever etched in our memory and in the history of Ferrari.”
Let us be precise about what occurred. This was not a pastoral visit. It was not an act of governance. It was not an exercise of the munus docendi, regendi, or sanctificandi. It was a **corporate marketing event** staged at the papal residence, with the full cooperation and apparent enthusiasm of the conciliar authorities. The “Holy Father” — to use the conciliar sect’s own terminology — sat in the driver’s seat of a luxury electric car and accepted its steering wheel as a gift. The chairman of one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands described the encounter in terms of “extraordinary human and symbolic value.”
The word “human” is the key. In the modernist lexicon, “human” has replaced “divine,” “spiritual,” and “supernatural.” The event’s value is “human and symbolic” — not supernatural, not apostolic, not oriented toward the salvation of souls. This is the conciliar sect in its purest expression: **the Church reduced to a human institution, lending its prestige to secular enterprises.**
Ferrari’s “Environmental Vision”: The Cult of Mammon Dressed in Green
Ferrari’s promotional materials, cited in the article, reveal the ideological framework underlying this partnership. The company states it is “using science-based solutions to reduce emissions, increase energy efficiency, foster the circular economy, and inspire suppliers to join our initiative.” These phrases — “science-based solutions,” “circular economy,” “energy efficiency” — are the vocabulary of the globalist environmental agenda, the same agenda condemned implicitly and explicitly by the perennial Magsterium whenever it elevates earthly concerns above the supernatural end of man.
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, taught with luminous clarity: “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 Kingdom of Christ is not served by “circular economies” or “science-based solutions” to material problems. It is served by the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the recognition of Christ’s royal dignity over all nations, all economies, and all aspects of human life.
The Ferrari delegation did not come to Castel Gandolfo to discuss the social reign of Christ the King. They came to promote a product and to bask in the reflected prestige of the occupied papal throne. And the conciliar authorities obliged — not with a word of correction, not with a reminder of the Church’s supernatural mission, but with smiles, photo opportunities, and the enthusiastic acceptance of a steering wheel.
The Silence of Supernatural Reality: The Gravest Accusation
What is most damning about this episode is not what was said or done, but what was **entirely absent**. There is no mention in the article — and, one presumes, no occurrence at the event — of:
– The salvation of souls
– The preaching of the Gospel
– The sacraments
– The state of grace
– The final judgment
– The social Kingship of Christ
– The Church’s independence from secular powers
– The duty of the Church to condemn error and worldliness
The entire encounter is conducted on the plane of **pure naturalism**. Ferrari talks about emissions and efficiency. Elkann talks about “passion, responsibility, and confidence in the future.” The “pope” sits in a car. This is the conciliar sect’s vision of the papacy: **not the Vicar of Christ, but a global celebrity, a figurehead for human causes, a rubber stamp for corporate virtue-signaling.**
Pius IX, in the *Syllabus of Errors*, 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 Ferrari event is precisely such a reconciliation — the “pope” reconciled with luxury capitalism, with the cult of technology, with the worship of the “circular economy.” The conciliar sect has not merely reconciled itself with modern civilization; it has **become one of its most visible platforms**.
The “Two Hundred Years” Pattern: Fatima, Ferrari, and the Spirit of the World
It is worth noting the symbolic resonance of this event with the broader pattern of the conciliar apostasy. The false apparitions of Fatima — analyzed extensively in other contexts as a likely Masonic psychological operation against the Church — introduced a message that diverted attention from modernist apostasy within the Church and focused it on external threats (communism), while simultaneously opening the door to ecumenical relativism through the imprecise formulation “conversion of Russia.”
Now, in 2026, the occupant of the papal throne sits in a Ferrari. The message is consistent: **the conciliar sect is not the Church of Christ.** It is a human institution, oriented toward the world, responsive to corporate interests, and utterly indifferent to the supernatural mission entrusted to Peter and his legitimate successors. The Ferrari Luce — the name itself, “Luce” (light), echoing the illuminist vocabulary of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry — is presented at the papal residence as a symbol of “progress” and “the future.” But the true *Lumen* is Christ: “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). The conciliar sect has exchanged the Light of the World for the “Luce” of Ferrari.
The Duty of the Faithful: Rejection and Resistance
The faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith must see this episode for what it is: **not a trivial curiosity, but a revelation of the abyss into which the conciliar sect has fallen.** The papal residence is not a showroom. The Chair of Peter is not a marketing platform. The mission of the Church is not to lend its prestige to luxury automobile manufacturers promoting “energy efficiency” and the “circular economy.”
Pius XI declared in *Quas Primas*: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The concilar sect has not merely failed to expand Christ’s Kingdom — it has **contracted** the Church’s mission to the dimensions of a corporate social responsibility brochure.
The faithful must reject this spectacle with contempt. They must recognize that the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church of Christ but a **paramasonic structure** devoted to the worship of the world, the flesh, and the devil. The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, in the priests validly ordained who offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the immemorial rite, and in the bishops who guard the deposit of faith without compromise.
Let the conciliar sect have its Ferrari. Let Elkann and Vigna have their photo opportunity. Let the “pope” sit in his luxury electric car and dream of “confidence in the future.” The faithful know that “the fashion of this world passeth away” (1 Cor 7:31), and that the only true progress is the progress of souls toward God — through the sacraments, through grace, through the social and individual recognition of the Kingship of Jesus Christ.
The Ferrari Luce is not the Light. The occupied throne is not the Chair of Peter. And the conciliar sect, with its corporate partnerships and its naturalist vocabulary, is not the Church of Christ.
Source:
Pope receives Ferrari Luce steering wheel — Italian brand’s first fully electric car (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.05.2026