Vatican News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” concluded his apostolic journey to Spain on June 12, 2026, with a final address at the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. After a six-day visit encompassing Madrid, Barcelona, Montserrat, and the Canary Islands, the antipope thanked the Spanish people for their welcome, praised what he called Spain’s “enduring Catholic identity,” and urged the world to “lift up its gaze” toward Christ Crucified, invoking the Heart of Christ as “the source of mercy, which alone can save humanity.” He called for “forgiveness and reconciliation” to achieve “true and lasting peace,” entrusted sufferers to the Virgin Mary, and invited his listeners to “remain united in prayer and in communion in Christ and in the Holy Church.” This entire performance, broadcast through the propaganda apparatus of the conciliar sect, is a masterclass in modernist emptiness — a string of sentimental platitudes that, when measured against the immutable Catholic faith, reveals the theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar abomination of desolation.
The “Gaze” of Naturalistic Humanism vs. the Supernatural Faith
The journey’s motto, “Lift up your gaze,” is presented as a profound spiritual exhortation. Yet what does it actually mean in the mouth of a usurper who occupies the See of Peter without legitimate authority? The Catholic faith does not call the faithful to a vague, horizontal “gaze” — it calls them to conversion, to penance, to the supernatural life of grace through the sacraments of the true Church. Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes Christ and His law from public life. Pius XI declared: “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 duty of the Church is not to invite the world to “lift its gaze” in some nebulous spiritual sense, but to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness — to demand the recognition of Christ’s royal dignity over every nation, every law, and every soul.
Leo XIV’s exhortation is stripped of all supernatural content. There is no mention of the necessity of baptism for salvation — “And there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), as Pius XI reminded the world. There is no mention of the obligation of states to publicly confess Christ as King. There is no mention of the reality of sin, the necessity of confession, or the propitiatory sacrifice of the Most Holy Mass. Instead, we are offered a sentimental appeal to “mercy” and “reconciliation” — the very language of the modernist revolution that has gutted the Catholic faith of its doctrinal content and replaced it with a naturalistic humanitarianism indistinguishable from secular humanism.
“Forgiveness and Reconciliation” Without the Sacraments
The antipope’s call for “forgiveness and reconciliation” to achieve “true and lasting peace” is particularly revealing. In Catholic doctrine, true forgiveness of sins is obtained through the Sacrament of Penance, administered by validly ordained priests acting with the authority of the true Church. True reconciliation between man and God requires contrition, confession, and satisfaction — not a vague appeal to human sentiment. The Council of Trent, in Session XIV, Chapter 2, taught that “the Lord… principally instituted the Sacrament of Penance” for the remission of sins committed after baptism. The peace that Christ came to bring is not the peace of diplomatic niceties and interfaith handshakes — it is the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ, as Pius XI declared: “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.”
What does Leo XIV offer instead? A horizontal “peace” between “entire populations” — language that belongs to the United Nations, not to the Catholic Church. This is the peace of Dignitatis Humanae, the conciliar declaration on religious freedom condemned by the immutable magisterium of the Church. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), 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). The entire trajectory of the conciliar sect — from John XXIII through Leo XIV — has been precisely this reconciliation with the world, this abandonment of the Church’s divine mission in exchange for relevance in the eyes of secular powers.
The “Enduring Catholic Identity” of Spain — A Myth Exploited
Leo XIV praised Spain’s “enduring Catholic identity” and the “testimonies of faith and love for the Church” he encountered. This is a calculated manipulation of historical memory. The Spain that defended the Catholic faith — the Spain of the Reconquista, of the Council of Trent’s implementation, of the Spanish Inquisition’s defense of orthodoxy against Protestant and Jewish subversion — was systematically dismantled by the liberal revolutions of the 19th century and the Masonic republic of the 20th. The Spain that Leo XIV visited is a post-conciliar Spain, a Spain where the structures occupying the Vatican have presided over the near-total destruction of Catholic practice, where the Novus Ordo “Mass” has replaced the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, where the faithful have been fed a diet of ecumenism, religious indifferentism, and the cult of man.
The “testimonies of faith” the antipope encountered are, in the vast majority of cases, testimonies of attachment to the conciliar sect — the very institution that has emptied Spain of its Catholic substance. To praise this as “enduring Catholic identity” is an act of historical fraud. The true Catholic identity of Spain — the identity that produced saints like Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Ávila, and John of the Cross — is the identity of the one true faith, of the social reign of Christ the King, of the independence of the Church from secular authority. Pius XI taught that the Church “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The Spain of Leo IV’s visit is a Spain that has been conquered not by Islam or Protestantism, but by the enemies within — the modernists who, as St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), are “the most dangerous enemies of the Church” because they work from within.
The Invocation of Mary — Without the Conditions of True Devotion
The antipope entrusted those who suffer to the care of the Virgin Mary, saying: “Let us lift up our eyes, as did Mary, the Mother of all who suffer.” True devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is inseparable from the fullness of Catholic faith. Our Lady’s own words at Fatima — whatever the true nature of those apparitions may be — at least echoed the perennial Catholic teaching that penance, prayer, and conversion are the means by which souls are saved. The authentic Marian devotion of the Catholic Church demands the Rosary, the First Saturdays, the consecration of nations to the Immaculate Heart — all within the framework of the true faith and the true sacraments.
But Leo XIV’s invocation of Mary is stripped of all these conditions. It is a sentimental gesture, a rhetorical flourish designed to evoke emotion without demanding conversion. This is the Marian devotion of the conciliar sect — a Mary who comforts but does not correct, who consoles but does not demand penance, who is a “Mother of all” in the sense of universalist indifferentism rather than the Mother of God who crushes the head of the serpent. St. Pius X, in Ad Diem Illum (1904), taught that Mary is “the destroyer of all heresies” — a far cry from the domesticated figure invoked by the antipope of the abomination of desolation.
“United in Prayer and in Communion” — With Whom?
The closing exhortation — “Let us remain united in prayer and in communion in Christ and in the Holy Church” — is perhaps the most revealing statement of all. The “Holy Church” to which Leo XIV refers is not the Catholic Church founded by Christ, the one true Church outside of which there is no salvation. It is the conciliar sect, the paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958, the neo-church that professes the heresies of religious freedom, ecumenism, collegiality, and the evolution of dogmas. To be “in communion” with this structure is to be in communion with apostasy.
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that cannot err, the Church that teaches with the authority of Christ — endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the innovations of the conciliar revolution, and who remain faithful to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered according to the unchanging Roman Rite. This Church has no “pope” in Rome. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught in De Romano Pontifice, “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo IV has professed, repeated, and imposed upon the faithful the very errors condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, by Lamentabili Sane Exitu, by Pascendi, and by every pope from St. Peter to Pius XII. They are, by the manifest heresy of their teachings and their governance, ipso facto deprived of all jurisdiction.
The Silence That Condemns
What is most striking about Leo XIV’s address is not what it says, but what it omits. There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King — the very doctrine that Pius XI declared essential for the peace of nations. There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation — the dogma that Pius IX reaffirmed against the indifferentists. There is no mention of the dangers of modernism — the synthesis of all errors that St. Pius X identified as the greatest threat to the Church. There is no mention of the sacraments as the necessary means of grace. There is no mention of sin, of hell, of judgment, of the last things. There is no mention of the duty of Catholic rulers to confess Christ publicly. There is no mention of the condemnation of liberalism, religious liberty, and secularism.
This silence is not accidental. It is the silence of a man who does not believe what the Catholic Church has always taught. It is the silence of the conciliar revolution — the systematic suppression of every doctrine that conflicts with the modernist agenda of reconciliation with the world. The antipope’s address is a perfect specimen of what St. Pius X described in Lamentabili: the reduction of Catholic doctrine to a “dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Proposition 65).
Conclusion: The Abomination Continues
The apostolic journey of Leo XIV to Spain is yet another episode in the ongoing drama of the conciliar sect’s campaign to present itself as the Catholic Church while systematically destroying everything that makes the Church Catholic. The “lift up your gaze” motto, the sentimental appeals to mercy and peace, the invocation of Mary without the conditions of true devotion, the praise of a “Catholic identity” that is in reality a post-conciliar wasteland — all of this is the language of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
The faithful who desire salvation must reject this counterfeit. They must cling to the unchanging faith of the Catholic Church — the faith of the martyrs, the faith of the Councils, the faith of the popes from Peter to Pius XII. They must seek the true sacraments, the true Mass, and the true teaching of the Church, even if it means worshipping in hidden chapels and trusting in the mercy of God rather than the empty gestures of usurpers. As Pius XI declared: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society.” Until that recognition comes — and it will come, for Christ’s Kingdom shall have no end — the faithful must resist the conciliar sect with every means at their disposal, trusting not in the “gaze” of modernist sentimentality, but in the precious Blood of Christ, which alone can redeem a fallen world.
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Pope concludes Spain journey with appeal to "lift up your gaze" (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.06.2026