Vatican News portal reports on June 10, 2026, that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” visited the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat during his so-called “Apostolic Journey” to Spain. He thanked the monks for “the gift of silence, in a world full of noise, activity, and distraction,” and wrote in the visitor’s book: “I place my Petrine ministry at the feet of Our Lady of Montserrat.” This performance, draped in the language of piety, is a masterclass in modernist emptiness — a usurper occupying the Chair of Peter invokes silence while saying nothing about the truths that alone give silence its supernatural meaning, and places a “Petrine ministry” that does not exist at the feet of a Marian title, revealing the conciliar sect’s characteristic substitution of sentiment for doctrine.
The Usurper’s “Petrine Ministry”: An Empty Phrase
The statement that Leo XIV “placed his Petrine ministry at the feet of Our Lady of Montserrat” is, on its face, a claim to authentic papal authority. But no such authority exists. The line of legitimate pontiffs ended with Pius XII. What followed — beginning with the Masonic operative Angelo Roncalli, who took the name John XXIII — is a succession of usurpers who convoked the robber council Vatican II, which systematically dismantled the Catholic Church’s doctrine, liturgy, and discipline. Robert Prevost, elected by a conclave of manifest heretics and apostates, is merely the latest occupant of an empty throne.
As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (II, 30): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The reasoning is irrefutable: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Every conciliar “pope” from John XXIII onward has publicly professed the errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium — religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas, the democratization of the Church. These are not private opinions but public, notorious, and manifest heresies. By the very fact of professing them, they ceased to be members of the Church and therefore cannot hold any office within it.
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) confirms this with the force of law: “If at any time it shall appear that any… Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his assumption to the cardinalate or the papacy, has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The Bull does not require a declaration — it merely states the objective fact of defection. The conciliar usurpers are, by this standard, not popes at all. Their “ministry” is a legal and theological nullity.
When Leo XIV therefore speaks of “my Petrine ministry,” he speaks of something he does not possess. It is as empty as the “Mass” he celebrates — a Protestantized memorial supper stripped of its propitiatory character, condemned implicitly by the Council of Trent (Session XXI, c. 2), which anathematizes anyone who says the Mass is “barely a commemoration of the sacrifice on the cross.”
“The Gift of Silence” — But Silence About What?
The central message Leo XIV delivered to the Benedictine monks was gratitude for “the gift of silence, in a world full of noise, activity, and distraction.” He concluded: “The world needs models that invite us to experience moments of silence, to pray.”
On the surface, this sounds pious. But examined in light of Catholic doctrine, it is a devastating omission that reveals the modernist mentality in its purest form. The silence praised by the saints and the Fathers of the Church was never an end in itself. It was ordered toward contemplation of divine truth, mortification of the passions, and union with God. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian doctor, taught that silence is the school of prayer — but prayer directed toward the true God, through the true Church, according to the true faith.
What does Leo XIV’s silence contain? Let us examine what he did not say:
He said nothing about the state of the Church. The conciliar sect is in a condition of total apostasy. The “Mass” of Paul VI is a sacrilegious parody. The “sacraments” are doubtful at best, invalid at worst. The “catechism” of 1992 teaches religious liberty — condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864, prop. 77-80). The “Second Vatican Council” proclaimed Dignitatis Humanae, which directly contradicts Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI taught that “not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Silence about this catastrophe is not monastic recollection — it is complicity.
He said nothing about the salvation of souls. The entire purpose of the Church is the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the teaching of all nations (Mt. 28:19-20). Leo XIV’s exhortation to “experience moments of silence, to pray” is indistinguishable from the advice of a Buddhist monk or a secular mindfulness guru. Where is the call to conversion? Where is the warning about mortal sin? Where is the insistence on the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation — extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — defined by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and reaffirmed by Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam (1302)? Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the proposition that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (prop. 16-17). Leo XIV’s silence on this point is not neutrality — it is the practical endorsement of indifferentism.
He said nothing about the social reign of Christ the King. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The Pope taught that “the royal dignity of our Lord surrounds the earthly authority of princes and rulers with a certain religious reverence” and that rulers who refuse public veneration to Christ act against the divine order. Leo XIV, standing in a monastery founded a thousand years ago in defense of the Catholic faith, said nothing about Christ’s kingship over Spain — a nation that has legalized abortion, promoted gender ideology, and systematically dismantled Catholic education. His silence is the silence of a diplomat, not a shepherd.
The Linguistic Register: Bureaucratic Piety as Apostasy
The language of the Vatican News report is itself symptomatic of the conciliar sect’s theological bankruptcy. The monks are thanked for their “witness” — a word that in modernist usage has been emptied of its Catholic content. In Catholic theology, martyrdom is the supreme witness — the shedding of blood for the faith. The conciliar sect has redefined “witness” to mean little more than “being present” or “setting an example.” The monks’ “witness” consists in “living their devotion to the Virgin Mary within a community.” This is not the language of the saints — it is the language of a corporate retreat.
The phrase “particularly precious in this particular historical period” is a masterpiece of bureaucratic vacuity. Which historical period? The period of the greatest apostasy since the Arian crisis? The period in which the conciliar sect has emptied churches across Europe? The period in which Spain, once the champion of the Counter-Reformation, has become a post-Christian wasteland? The refusal to name the crisis is itself a confession that the speaker does not recognize it — or worse, that he is part of it.
The Pope’s message in the visitor’s book — “I place my Petrine ministry at the feet of Our Lady of Montserrat, so that her maternal intercession may protect the entire Church”</i — is a prayer addressed to a legitimate end (the protection of the Church) by a person who has no authority to make it. It is as if a usurper of a throne were to pray for the welfare of the kingdom he has stolen. The irony is compounded by the fact that the "entire Church" he invokes is the conciliar sect — the very structure that has destroyed the Church's doctrine, liturgy, and discipline. Mary, the Mother of God, does not protect apostasy.
Montserrat: A Monastery in the Hands of the Enemy
The Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, founded in the 11th century, was once a bastion of Catholic orthodoxy in Spain. Its monks defended the faith against heresy, educated the faithful, and maintained the liturgical tradition of the Church. Today, it is part of the conciliar sect — subject to the authority of the usurper in Rome, using the “Mass” of Paul VI, and integrated into the structures of the post-conciliar apostasy.
The 1000th anniversary celebrated in 2025 was, in all likelihood, marked by the new “Mass” and the new “liturgy” — the very innovations that Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) as the “synthesis of all errors.” The monks who welcomed Leo XIV are, at best, ignorant of the magnitude of the crisis; at worst, complicit in it. Their “silence” is not the silence of contemplatives — it is the silence of men who have surrendered to the enemy without firing a shot.
Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (prop. 57) and that “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (prop. 65). The monks of Montserrat, by their silence in the face of the conciliar revolution, have allowed their monastery to become precisely what Pius X warned against — a house of “dogmaless Christianity,” where the ancient faith has been replaced by a vague spirituality compatible with any religion or none.
The Symptom and the Disease
Leo XIV’s visit to Montserrat is not an isolated event. It is a symptom of the conciliar sect’s strategy: to maintain the appearance of Catholicism while emptying it of all content. The usurper visits monasteries, speaks of silence and prayer, invokes the Blessed Virgin — and says nothing about the truths that define the Catholic faith. This is the modernist method described by Pius X in Pascendi: to retain the language of the faith while denying its substance.
The disease is apostasy. The symptom is silence. And the remedy — the only remedy — is the return to the integral Catholic faith: the faith of the Fathers, the Councils, and the Popes up to Pius XII. The faith that teaches that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not silence, not “witness,” not “moments of prayer,” but the Name of Jesus Christ, preached, believed, and obeyed by all nations, under the authority of the true Church and the true Pope.
Until that remedy is applied, the silence of Montserrat will remain what it is: the silence of the tomb.
Source:
Pope to Benedictines in Montserrat: Thank you for the gift of silence (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.06.2026