EWTN News reports that the individual occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV, during his visit to Tenerife on June 12, 2026, addressed human traffickers with the words “Stop. Repent,” while simultaneously urging migrants to embrace “integration” into secular societies. The event, attended by some 4,000 people, featured testimonies from various migrants and was framed within the conciliar Church’s approach to migration, summarized by his predecessor Bergoglio in the four verbs: welcome, protect, promote, and integrate. The entire spectacle, replete with citations of the heretical Laudato Si’ and appeals to “divine justice” stripped of supernatural content, constitutes yet another manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy that has reduced the Church of Christ to a humanitarian NGO serving the agenda of globalism and religious indifferentism.
The “Cry Against Trafficking” – A Theatrical Performance Devoid of Supernatural Faith
The centerpiece of this Tenerife spectacle was Leo XIV’s pronouncement against human traffickers: “For every life lost, every family deceived, every body subjugated, every woman threatened, every worker exploited, you will have to appear before divine justice.” The phrase is striking not for its content — which any pagan philosopher could utter — but for what it conspicuously omits. There is no mention of the state of grace, no call to confession, no reference to the sacraments, no warning about mortal sin, no exposition of the theological virtues, and no preaching of the necessity of faith in Jesus Christ and His one true Church for salvation.
Compare this anemic “divine justice” rhetoric with the thunderous words of Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, who condemned under penalty of anathema the proposition that “the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 80). Pius IX explicitly identified the root of modern evils not in the lack of “integration” or “human dignity” but in the rejection of Christ the King’s public reign over nations.
The so-called “divine justice” invoked by Leo XIV is a deist abstraction, stripped of all Catholic content. It is the “god” of the Freemasons — a vague supreme being before whom all religions stand equal. This is precisely the naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus: “There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe” (Proposition 1), and “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Proposition 3).
When Leo XIV cries “Stop. Repent,” echoing Bergoglio’s 2014 appeal to the Mafia, he employs the language of repentance while draining it of its theological substance. In Catholic doctrine, repentance — poenitentia — is not a mere change of behavior but a supernatural act of the virtue of contrition, requiring sorrow for sin out of love of God, a purpose of amendment, and sacramental absolution conferred by a validly ordained priest acting in the person of Christ. The Council of Trent anathematizes anyone who says that “the sacrament of penance is not necessary for salvation” (Session XIV, Canon 2). Yet the entire performance in Tenerife contained not a single reference to the sacrament of confession, the necessity of baptism, or the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church.
“Integration” – The Conciliar Mantra Against Catholic Supernatural Mission
The most revealing element of this event is the relentless emphasis on “integration” as the framework for addressing migration. Leo XIV told migrants: “open yourselves with trust to the community that welcomes you, to learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life, and to offer your gifts with gratitude.” He warned of a “silent shipwreck” that occurs when migrants are left alone without ties or work, and defined integration as “preventing that second shipwreck.”
This language is not Catholic. It is the language of secular humanism and International Masonry, which seeks the dissolution of all particular identities — especially Catholic identity — into a homogenized global society. The “integration” preached by Leo XIV is precisely what Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas as “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors,” which began with “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and progressed to the point where “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.”
The true Catholic approach to migrants is evangelization and conversion to the Catholic faith, not “integration” into secular or Protestant societies. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei, taught that the state has the duty to profess the Catholic religion and that “the Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the temporal, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, things.” The idea that the Church’s role vis-à-vis migrants is to facilitate their integration into any society — whether Catholic or not — is a direct repudiation of the Church’s divine mandate to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
Leo XIV’s statement that “integration means preventing that second shipwreck” is particularly blasphemous in its implicit claim. The only true “shipwreck” is the loss of the soul through mortal sin and unbelief. The only true “prevention” is the reception of sanctifying grace through the sacraments and perseverance in the Catholic faith. By reducing the drama of human existence to the level of social services and “integration,” the usurper reveals the thoroughly naturalistic and anti-supernatural character of the conciliar sect.
The Heretical Framework: From Bergoglio’s Four Verbs to the New Religion of Man
The article explicitly frames Leo XIV’s approach within the paradigm established by Bergoglio: the four verbs of “welcome, protect, promote, and integrate.” This framework, far from being a continuation of Catholic social teaching, represents a rupture with it. Catholic social teaching, as articulated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum and by Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno, is grounded in the primacy of the supernatural end of man, the rights of God, the authority of the Church, and the duty of states to recognize the true religion.
The four-verb framework of Bergoglio, embraced wholesale by Leo XIV, is exclusively horizontal. It concerns itself solely with the temporal welfare of migrants — shelter, work, language, social ties — while remaining deliberately silent about their eternal salvation. This is the liberal heresy condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: the separation of the Church from the State, of faith from public life, of the supernatural from the natural order.
When Leo XIV says that migrants must find “a community capable of offering paths to knowing Jesus Christ through the witness of life and word, while always respecting the conscience and freedom of each person,” he smuggles in the Vatican II heresy of religious liberty — the idea that the “conscience” and “freedom” of the individual take precedence over the objective truth of the Catholic faith and the duty of the Church to preach it to all nations without compromise. The phrase “while always respecting the conscience and freedom of each person” is the standard conciarist formula for evading the hard demands of the Gospel — the demands of conversion, repentance, and submission to the authority of the one true Church.
The Testimonies – Emotional Manipulation in Place of Catechesis
The testimonies presented at the Tenerife event — from Mbacke the Senegalese youth, from Khalid Allad the Moroccan survivor, from the Colombian volunteer Thalia Johana Saldarriaga Diago — were carefully selected to produce an emotional response rather than to convey Catholic doctrine. This is the method of Modernism as condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of religion to sentiment and experience, the replacement of dogma with social activism, and the substitution of the supernatural order with the natural order.
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), and that “the dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Proposition 22). The entire Tenerife spectacle operates on this modernist premise: the “revelation” is not the deposit of faith handed down by the Apostles, but the “experience” of migrants and the “social facts” of migration. The “dogma” is not the defined teaching of the Church, but the “four verbs” of Bergoglio.
The testimony of the Venezuelan migrant priest is particularly revealing. He speaks of asking “What would Our Lord do?” — a phrase borrowed from Protestant evangelicalism and entirely foreign to Catholic spirituality, which asks not “What would Jesus do?” but “What does the Church teach?” and “What does the Magisterium define?” The priest’s narrative is one of personal comfort and humanitarian service, with no mention of the sacraments, the Mass, confession, evangelization, or conversion. This is the “priest” of the conciliar sect: a social worker in vestments, a counselor in place of a confessor, a community organizer in place of an alter Christus.
The “Silent Shipwreck” – A Metaphor That Reveals the Conciliar Bankruptcy
Leo XIV’s metaphor of the “silent shipwreck” — the loneliness and vulnerability of migrants after arrival — is telling in what it reveals about the conciliar worldview. For the Catholic, the only true shipwreck is the shipwreck of faith, the loss of the state of grace, the rejection of God’s commandments. The only true “integration” is incorporation into the Mystical Body of Christ through baptism and perseverance in the Catholic faith until death.
The “silent shipwreck” of which Leo XIV speaks is a purely natural evil — loneliness, poverty, exploitation. His remedy is a purely natural remedy — social services, community ties, “integration.” There is no mention of the one thing necessary: the salvation of souls. There is no mention of the supreme law: the salvation of souls, salus animarum suprema lex. There is no mention of the only true shipwreck: damnation.
This is the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord: the replacement of the supernatural order with the natural order, the substitution of the worship of God with the service of man, the reduction of the Church of Christ to a charitable organization indistinguishable from the Red Cross or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Citation of Laudato Si’ – The Seal of the Conciliar Apostasy
In his homily at the concluding Mass in Tenerife, Leo XIV “cited Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’“ as he reflected on the island’s “tourist vocation.” This single reference is the seal of authenticity of the conciliar apostasy. Laudato Si’ is not a Catholic encyclical; it is a manifesto of globalist environmentalism dressed in religious language. It promotes the Gaia worship of the New Age, the population control agenda of the Malthusian elites, and the religious indifferentism that places the “care of our common house” above the care of souls.
By citing Laudato Si’, Leo XIV aligns himself with the most heretical and naturalistic document produced by the conciliar sect. He places the “tourist vocation” of Tenerife — a euphemism for the commercialization of human life and the transformation of creation into a commodity — within the framework of Bergoglio’s environmentalist ideology. The contrast with Pius XI’s teaching in Quas Primas could not be starker: where Pius XI proclaimed that “Christ reigns over the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently,” Leo XIV proclaims that Christ’s kingdom is about “tourism” and “not reducing everything to commerce and profit” — as if the problem were merely the degree of commercialization rather than the rejection of Christ the King by the nations.
The “Divine Justice” That Excludes the Church
Perhaps the most damning omission in the entire Tenerife spectacle is the complete absence of the Church’s role in divine justice. When Leo XIV warns traffickers that they “will have to appear before divine justice,” he makes no mention of the Church’s authority to judge, the power of the keys, the binding and loosing committed to Peter and his successors. He makes no mention of excommunication, canonical penalties, or the Church’s right to intervene in temporal matters when the salvation of souls is at stake.
This is the liberal separation of Church and State condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). It is the denial of the Church’s indirect power over temporal matters condemned in Proposition 42: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails.” The “divine justice” of Leo XIV is a private, individual affair between the sinner and God — precisely the Protestant heresy of private judgment that the Church has always condemned.
Conclusion: The Paramasonic Structure Continues Its Work of Destruction
The Tenerife event of June 12, 2026, is not an isolated incident but a systematic manifestation of the conciliar apostasy. Every element — the emotional testimonies, the humanitarian framework, the citation of Laudato Si’, the “divine justice” stripped of sacramental content, the “integration” that excludes evangelization, the “repentance” that excludes confession — points to the same conclusion: the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church of Christ but a paramasonic structure dedicated to the destruction of the Catholic religion and its replacement with the religion of man.
The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, in the priests who offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the immemorial rite, in the bishops who hold fast to the deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles. These faithful know that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not “integration,” not “welcome,” not “protect,” not “promote,” but Jesus Christ and His one true Catholic Church.
The usurper on Peter’s throne may cry “Stop. Repent” to traffickers, but the true cry of the Church to the conciarist antipopes and their accomplices is the cry of St. Pius X: “We renew and confirm… the penalty of excommunication for those who oppose these documents… because the propositions, opinions, or doctrines put forth by them are heretical.” The time for “integration” is past. The time for separation from the conciliar abomination is now.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV tells human traffickers in Tenerife: ‘Stop. Repent’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.06.2026