EWTN News reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed a message to the Italian newspaper L’Adige on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, urging journalists to resist “the drug of fake news” and “artificial polarizations” and to serve as “instruments of truth.” The message, dripping with the characteristic sentimentalism of the conciliar sect, calls for “quality” information, the “protection of history and memory,” and the “strengthening of communities in the truth that unites us all.” What is conspicuously absent — as is every utterance emanating from the structures occupying the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII — is any mention of the One Who is Truth itself: Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His sovereign Kingship over all nations, all peoples, and every sphere of human activity, including the press.
The “Truth” of the World Versus the Truth of Christ the King
The message of the usurper Leo XIV is a masterclass in naturalistic humanism — the very plague that Pope Pius XI identified in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925) as the root cause of society’s disintegration. When the reigning Christ is removed from public life, what remains is not truth but the shifting sands of human opinion, managed by those who serve the prince of this world.
Pius XI wrote with prophetic clarity: “This kind of outpouring of evil has afflicted the whole world because very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life; but we also indicated that 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.” The usurper’s call for journalists to be “instruments of truth” is a hollow, meaningless platitude precisely because it is severed from the only source of truth: the Divine Magisterium of the Catholic Church, which speaks with the authority of Christ Himself.
The “truth” that Leo XIV invokes is not the truth of the Gospel, not the truth of the Depositum Fidei, not the truth that “the gates of hell shall not prevail” (Matt. 16:18). It is the “truth” of the United Nations, of the globalist agenda, of the dictatorship of relativism — the very spirit condemned by every true Pope before the conciliar revolution. It is a “truth” that “unites us all” only in the sense that the Novus Ordo Seclorum on the Great Seal of the United States unites all under the banner of the New World Order.
The Omission That Condemns: Silence About Christ’s Social Kingship
Let us examine what the usurper’s message contains and, more importantly, what it omits. He speaks of “artificial polarizations,” “fake news,” “quality information,” “history and memory,” “Christian thought as a leaven of journalism,” and “freedom of expression.” Every single one of these phrases belongs to the lexicon of the world — the world that Christ Himself warned us against: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you” (John 15:18).
Nowhere in this message does the usurper mention:
- The Kingship of Christ over the press and all media. Pius XI explicitly stated in Quas Primas that Christ’s reign “encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The press is not exempt from this sovereignty. Journalism, like every human activity, must be ordered toward the glory of God and the salvation of souls — not toward vague notions of “quality” and “community.”
- The duty of the state and all institutions to publicly confess the Catholic Faith. The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemned the proposition that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77). The usurper’s call for “respecting differing opinions” is a direct echo of the religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX, Gregory XVI, and every Pope before the conciliar apostasy.
- The obligation of journalists to submit to the Church’s teaching authority. The Church has always taught that the press is subject to the moral law and the Church’s Magisterium. The Syllabus condemned the idea that “the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, [does not] conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Proposition 79). The usurper’s appeal to “freedom of expression” as a value to be defended is a capitulation to the liberal error that freedom is an end in itself rather than a means ordered toward the good.
- The supernatural end of man. There is not a single reference to the salvation of souls, the state of grace, the reality of sin, the necessity of the sacraments, or the final judgment. This silence is not accidental — it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect, which has systematically replaced the supernatural order with a naturalistic humanitarianism that is indistinguishable from secular liberalism.
“Christian Thought as a Leaven” — The Modernist Corruption of Language
The usurper writes: “Its roots testify to the richness of Christian thought as a leaven of journalism, not only Catholic journalism, a bulwark of the freedom to express one’s thoughts.” This sentence is a textbook example of the modernist corruption of language, identified and condemned by Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and in the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitus (1907).
First, the phrase “Christian thought” — not “Catholic doctrine,” not “the teaching of the Magisterium,” but “Christian thought” — is deliberately vague. It could mean anything from the Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas to the latest pronouncement of a Protestant ecumenical gathering. This is the language of indifferentism, which Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16) — an error that the conciliar sect has enshrined in its documents.
Second, the claim that Christian thought is a “leaven of journalism, not only Catholic journalism” is a subtle but devastating admission. It implies that there is a generic “Christian” spirit that transcends denominational boundaries — the very essence of the ecumenical project that has been the hallmark of the conciliar revolution. The true Church has always taught that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus) and that Protestantism is “nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” is a proposition condemned by Pius IX (Proposition 18 of the Syllabus).
Third, the invocation of “freedom to express one’s thoughts” as a “bulwark” is a direct embrace of the liberal error condemned by the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). This proposition was condemned — and yet it is the very program that the conciliar sect has implemented since John XXIII opened the windows of the Church to the world in 1962.
The “Pure Spring” Metaphor — A Parody of Living Water
The usurper employs a metaphor: “Flowing water is indeed a symbol of continuous regeneration, possible only if one drinks from a pure spring. What more beautiful metaphor for good journalism?” This is a blasphemous parody of the words of Our Lord: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37-38).
The “pure spring” of journalism is not Christ, not the Gospel, not the teaching of the Church — it is, in the usurper’s conception, the vague “truth” of human discourse, purified by “quality” and “seriousness.” This is the religion of man, the cult of human reason, the very naturalism that Pius IX condemned in the first proposition of the Syllabus: “There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe, and God is identical with the nature of things.”
The Invocation of De Gasperi — A Saint of the Republic
The usurper recalls Alcide De Gasperi, “who, before becoming a leading political figure in Italy’s democratic reconstruction after fascism, was an editor and then director of La Voce Cattolica of Trento, and later founder of the daily Il Trentino.” This invocation is revealing. De Gasperi was a product of the post-conciliar political order — a “Catholic” who served the Italian Republic, a regime that was established in explicit violation of the Non Expedit and the teaching of the Church regarding the legitimacy of the Papal States.
The true Church has always taught that the temporal power of the Sovereign Pontiff is necessary for the free exercise of his spiritual mission. The Syllabus condemned the proposition that “the abolition of the temporal power of which the Apostolic See is possessed would contribute in the greatest degree to the liberty and prosperity of the Church” (Proposition 76). De Gasperi’s political career was built on the ruins of the Papal States — and the usurper holds him up as a model for journalists. This is not Catholic teaching; it is the teaching of the abomination of desolation that has occupied the Vatican since 1958.
The “Drug of Fake News” — A Diabolical Distraction
The phrase “the drug of fake news” is itself a symptom of the disease it purports to diagnose. In an age when the conciliar sect has systematically destroyed the faith of hundreds of millions of Catholics — by replacing the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with a Protestantized memorial meal, by denying the dogma of the Real Presence, by promoting religious liberty, by embracing ecumenism, by silencing the call to convert non-Catholics — the usurper’s concern about “fake news” in the secular press is a diabolical distraction.
The greatest “fake news” in the history of the world is the claim that the conciliar sect is the Catholic Church. The greatest “fake news” is the claim that the Novus Ordo Missae is a valid expression of the Catholic Faith. The greatest “fake news” is the claim that the usurpers in the Vatican are the successors of Saint Peter. “This is the antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22).
The true Church has always taught that the press, like every human institution, is subject to the moral law and the authority of the Church. The solution to the problem of “fake news” is not better journalism — it is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ, the submission of all nations and all institutions to the law of the Gospel, and the free exercise of the Church’s teaching authority without interference from secular powers. As Pius XI declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And the happiness of the state consists in the recognition of Christ the King.
Conclusion: The Voice of the Stranger
The message of the usurper Leo XIV to the newspaper L’Adige is not the voice of the Good Shepherd. It is the voice of a hireling — or worse, the voice of the stranger of whom Our Lord warned: “The sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers” (John 10:4-5).
Every word of this message — its naturalism, its indifferentism, its silence about Christ the King, its embrace of liberal “freedom,” its reduction of Christianity to a “leaven” of human discourse — betrays its origin. It does not come from the Chair of Saint Peter. It comes from the synagogue of Satan that Pius IX denounced in the Syllabus: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength.”
The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic Faith — the Faith of the Fathers, the Faith of the Councils, the Faith of the pre-conciliar Popes — must reject this message and all messages emanating from the structures occupying the Vatican. They must pray for the restoration of the true Papacy, the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations. “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10).
Adveniat Regnum Tuum.
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Pope Leo XIV defends journalism against the drug of ‘fake news’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.06.2026