EWTN News Staff, reporting for the National Catholic Register, has published a photo-reportage on the activities of the usurper Robert Prevost — who occupies Peter’s throne under the name “Pope” Leo XIV — during his visit to Barcelona, Spain, on June 9–10, 2026. The article documents a “prayer vigil” at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, a visit to Brians 1 Prison, a stop at the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, and the celebration of what is called “Mass” at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia. The tone is uniformly hagiographic, presenting the activities of this antipope as though they were the acts of the Vicar of Christ. What follows is a thorough deconstruction of this spectacle from the perspective of integral Catholic faith.
The Olympic Stadium “Vigil”: Spectacle in Lieu of Supplication
The article reports that Leo XIV held a “prayer vigil” at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona. Let us be precise about what this means. The Olympic Stadium is a monument to the cult of the human body, to pagan athletic competition revived in the modern era as a substitute for the worship of the true God. That the occupant of the Vatican would choose such a venue for a “prayer vigil” is not incidental — it is emblematic of the entire conciliar project, which has consistently replaced the supernatural life of grace with the naturalistic celebration of human gathering.
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 taught that “the Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men” and that “men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” The reign of Christ is not exercised through stadium rallies. It is exercised through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the administration of the sacraments, the preaching of the integral faith, and the submission of nations to the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. A “vigil” in an Olympic stadium is the antithesis of this: it is the religion of man celebrating itself under the open sky, with the “pope” as master of ceremonies.
The article further notes that Leo XIV “blesses ambulances” near the stadium. This is the superstitious sacramentalism of the neo-church — the reduction of Catholic blessing to a public relations gesture, a photo opportunity with emergency vehicles. Where is the blessing of the Church upon the civil authorities, calling them to submit to Christ the King? Where is the condemnation of the abortion mills, the gender ideology, the apostate government of Spain? Silence. The ambulances are blessed; the sins of the nation are ignored. Non possumus — we cannot — is a phrase the true Popes spoke to the powerful. Leo XIV blesses machines.
The Prison Visit: Mercy Without Justice, Compassion Without Truth
The report states that Leo XIV visited Brians 1 Prison in Barcelona. The conciar church has made the prison visit a staple of its “papal” theater — John Paul II visited the man who shot him, and every subsequent usurper has made a show of visiting the incarcerated. But what is the content of these visits? The article provides none, and this is itself revelatory.
The Catholic Church teaches that justice and mercy are not opposed, but that mercy presupposes truth. A prisoner who has committed a grave crime is owed both the justice of God — which demands satisfaction for sin — and the mercy of God, which offers redemption through repentance and the sacraments. But the neo-church’s prison visits are exercises in sentimentality, not in the salvation of souls. There is no call to repentance, no exhortation to make a good Confession, no warning of the eternal consequences of unrepented mortal sin. There is only the warm glow of a “holy father” touching the hands of prisoners — a gesture indistinguishable from what any secular humanitarian might do.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (proposition 63). The prison visit of Leo XIV is precisely this: the abandonment of evangelical ethics — which would call the prisoner to contrition, confession, and amendment of life — in favor of a “modern” compassion that costs nothing and demands nothing.
Montserrat: A Benedictine Abbey in the Hands of the Conciliar Sect
The article reports that Leo XIV visited the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, “met with students,” and “prayed” there. Montserrat is one of the most ancient and venerable monastic sites in Spain, home to a Benedictine community and a beloved image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That it has been absorbed into the conciliar apparatus is a tragedy — but not a surprise.
The question that must be asked, and that the article never asks, is: what is the spiritual state of this community? Do the monks of Montserrat celebrate the true Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, as offered according to the immemorial Roman Rite? Or do they offer the Novus Ordo Missae, the Protestantized “memorial supper” fabricated by Annibale Bugnini with the assistance of six Protestant “observers,” a rite that the Catholic theologian Fr. Anthony Cekadin has described as “a fabrication designed to de-Catholicize the Mass”? Do they profess the integral Catholic faith, including the defined dogmas on the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)? Or have they accepted the conciliar novelties of Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae, and Unitatis Redintegratio — documents that Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, would have condemned as heresy?
The article is silent on all of this. It presents the visit as though Montserrat were still a house of Catholic prayer, not a likely outpost of the very modernism that has destroyed monastic life throughout the world. The “students” with whom Leo XIV met are not identified — are they seminarians being trained in the conciar counterfeit theology? Are they young people being prepared for apostasy? The article does not say, because the article does not care. The photo is what matters.
The Sagrada Familia: Gaudí’s Masterpiece Profaned by the Novus Ordo
Perhaps the most symbolically charged element of the entire visit is the celebration of “Mass” at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia. The article notes that this “towering church has been under construction since the 1880s” — a fact that itself invites reflection. The Sagrada Familia was conceived by Antoni Gaudí as an act of Catholic expiation, a temple dedicated to the Holy Family, built not by the state or by secular patronage but by the donations of the faithful and the labor of a man who fasted unto death in imitation of the saints. Gaudí said: “My client [God] is not in a hurry.” He understood that the house of God is built on the foundation of sacrifice, penance, and unwavering faith.
What has become of his masterpiece? It has been consecrated — not by a true Pope, but by the conciliar usurper Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) in 2010 — as a “minor basilica” of the neo-church. And now Leo XIV celebrates within its walls the Novus Ordo service, a rite that Gaudí — who died in 1926, the very year Pius XI issued Quas Primas — would not have recognized as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Novus Ordo Missae is not the Mass. This is not a matter of opinion; it is a matter of theological fact. The theology of the Novus Ordo, as even the liberal Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (before his apostasy) acknowledged in his The Spirit of the Liturgy, represents a “rupture” with the theology of the traditional Mass. The traditional Roman Rite, codified by St. Pius V in the Bull Quo Primum (1570), is oriented ad orientem — toward God, toward the tabernacle, toward the Cross — and expresses the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine, and the mediatorial role of the priest acting in persona Christi. The Novus Ordo is oriented versus populum — toward the assembly — and expresses, in its structure, its options, and its rubrics, a theology of “meal” and “assembly” that is closer to a Protestant communion service than to the Catholic Mass.
That Leo XIV celebrates this rite within the Sagrada Familia is not a consecration of the building — it is a desecration. Abominatio desolatio in loco sancto — the abomination of desolation in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Canary Islands and the Itinerary of Apostasy
The article notes that Leo XIV will next visit the Canary Islands before concluding his trip on June 12. The Canary Islands, like the rest of Spain, were once fervently Catholic — the land of St. Peter of Betancur, of the Blessed Virgin of Candelaria, of missionaries who carried the faith to the Americas. Today, like all of Spain, they are mission territory — not because the faith was never preached there, but because it was betrayed from within.
The “weeklong trip to Spain” is presented by the article as a “historic visit” — but historic for what? For the advancement of the Catholic faith? For the conversion of sinners? For the restoration of Christ the King’s social reign? None of these. It is historic only as another milestone in the consolidation of the conciliar sect’s global apparatus — another photo opportunity, another stadium filled with applause, another “Mass” celebrated in a building that deserves better.
The Silence That Condemns
What is most striking about this article is not what it says, but what it omits. There is no mention of the true state of the Church — the fact that the See of Peter is occupied by a manifest heretic and therefore, according to the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, ipso facto deprived of all jurisdiction. There is no mention of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, which states that every ecclesiastical office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the officeholder “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” There is no mention of Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), which declares null and void the elevation of any cardinal or pope who has “defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy.”
There is no mention of the fact that the conciliar “popes” have taught heresy — that John XXIII convoked a council that denied defined dogmas; that Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo in defiance of Quo Primum; that John Paul II kissed the Koran and prayed with animists at Assisi; that Benedict XVI declared that Protestant “communities” are not “churches” in the proper sense while simultaneously treating them as though they were; that Francis declared that “God willed the diversity of religions” — and that Leo XIV continues this apostasy.
There is no mention of the fact that the sacraments conferred by the conciliar “clergy” — even if valid in form — are administered by men who do not profess the Catholic faith, and that the faithful who participate in the Novus Ordo worship are participating in a counterfeit liturgy that, at best, is devoid of the fullness of Catholic worship and, at worst, is a sacrilege and an act of idolatry.
The article is, in short, a piece of propaganda for the abomination of desolation. It presents the usurper as the “Holy Father,” the counterfeit liturgy as “Mass,” the apostate conciliar church as the Catholic Church, and the destruction of the faith as a “historic visit.” It is the journalism of the synagogue of Satan — and it is exposed as such by the light of the unchanging Catholic faith.
Conclusion: The Faith Endures
The Catholic Church endures — not in the Olympic stadiums, not in the prisons, not in the conciliarized abbeys, not in the Sagrada Familia profaned by the Novus Ordo. The Church endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the conciliar apostasy, who hold fast to the traditional Roman Rite, and who await the restoration of the true papacy — not through human machination, but through the intervention of Almighty God, to whom alone belongs the governance of His Church.
Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “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.” Let the faithful pray for the restoration of this reign — and let them have nothing to do with the circus of the conciliar antipopes, which is not the Kingdom of Christ but the kingdom of the Antichrist.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam — sed non per concilium.
Source:
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Holds Prayer Vigil, Visits Prison, Says Mass at Historic Basilica in Barcelona (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.06.2026