EWTN News Vatican Bureau reports that on June 19, 2026, the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed participants of the so-called “Borgo Dialogues” at the Vatican, praising “synodality” as a means to promote the “common good” and avoid “new divisions.” The article describes how Leo XIV drew upon his encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* — itself a product of the conciliar sect’s obsession with artificial intelligence and secular progressivism — to urge leaders to resist the “idolatry of profit” and instead build a “civilization of love” termed the “New Jerusalem.” The Borgo Dialogues, held at the Borgo Laudato Si’ in Castel Gandolfo from June 17–19, brought together leaders from academia, culture, and business to discuss global ecological challenges inspired by the apostate Francis’ encyclical *Laudato Si’*. This event is yet another manifestation of the post-conciliar neo-church’s systematic replacement of the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church with a naturalistic, globalist, and Masonic program of “ecological, social, and economic transformation.” The thesis of this critique is that Leo XIV’s address represents not a call to authentic Catholic unity, but a further entrenchment of the conciliar sect’s apostate project: the substitution of the Kingdom of Christ the King with a humanitarian Tower of Babel dressed in the language of “synodality” and “civilization of love.”
The Tower of Babel Rebuilt: Synodality as the Architecture of Apostasy
The antipope Leo XIV declared: “In the face of the temptation to build the ‘Tower of Babel,’ which represents the idolatry of profit at the expense of the most vulnerable and enhances the risk of dehumanization, we are called to contribute to the construction of the New Jerusalem, the civilization of love, in which love is the only guiding principle of economic, political, and cultural life.” This statement is a masterclass in the conciliar sect’s characteristic inversion of Catholic theology. The true Tower of Babel — the prideful attempt of humanity to reach heaven without God, without grace, without the true Faith — is precisely what the neo-church has been constructing since the Second Vatican Council. The authentic Tower of Babel was not built by capitalists seeking profit; it was built by men who said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, with its top in the sky” (Genesis 11:4), rejecting the sovereignty of the one true God. The neo-church’s “New Jerusalem” is not the Heavenly Jerusalem, the Church Militant ordered toward eternal salvation, but a purely temporal, immanentist utopia — a secular humanitarian project that has nothing to do with the supernatural mission entrusted by Christ to His Church.
Pius XI, in the encyclical *Quas Primas* (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that sought to remove Christ and His law from public life. He wrote: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… 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 reign of Christ is not a “civilization of love” defined by economic and political principles; it is the absolute, unlimited dominion of the God-Man over every soul, every family, every nation, and every aspect of human life — spiritual and temporal alike. Pius XI further declared: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Leo XIV’s “New Jerusalem” is built on precisely this foundationless authority — the authority of men, of globalist institutions, of “dialogue” divorced from the binding law of God.
“Synodality”: The Democratization of the Mystical Body
The article states that “Your dialogues have been structured on the Catholic Church’s vision of synodality, listening from the ground up while fostering global unity,” according to Leo XIV. The term “synodality” is one of the most insidious innovations of the post-conciliar apostasy. It has no basis in the authentic ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. The Church is not a democracy; it is a hierarchical society instituted by Christ, governed by the authority of the Roman Pontiff and the bishops in communion with him, teaching with the guarantee of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. The concept of “listening from the ground up” is a direct contradiction of the Church’s divine constitution. The faithful do not teach the Magisterium; the Magisterium teaches the faithful. As the *Syllabus of Errors* of Pius IX (1864) condemned in Proposition 6: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening.” This is precisely the error embedded in the synodal process — the reduction of divine truth to the opinions of the laity, gathered through bureaucratic “listening sessions” and synthesized into documents of moral and doctrinal relativism.
The *Lamentabili sane exitu* of St. Pius X (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution” (Proposition 53). Synodality is the practical implementation of this condemned error — the treatment of the Church as a human institution subject to evolution, rather than a divine institution whose constitution was fixed by Christ for all time. Furthermore, St. Pius X condemned the proposition that “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Proposition 54). The synodal process treats the Church’s doctrine, sacramental life, and hierarchical structure as malleable instruments to be reshaped according to the “signs of the times” — a phrase that has become the mantra of every Modernist innovation since the Council.
The “Civilization of Love”: A Masonic Slogan in Catholic Vestments
The phrase “civilization of love” has its origins not in Catholic theology but in the post-conciliar apostate John Paul II, who adopted it as a replacement for the authentic Catholic concept of the “social reign of Christ the King.” This substitution is not accidental; it is deliberate and programmatic. The “civilization of love” is a naturalistic, horizontal concept — it concerns only temporal relations between men, stripped of all reference to the supernatural order, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, the reality of sin, the obligation of states to profess the true religion, and the eternal destiny of souls. It is, in substance, the Masonic ideal of universal fraternity without Christ, condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors*: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
Leo XIV’s invocation of the “New Jerusalem” as a “civilization of love” is particularly blasphemous. The New Jerusalem of Revelation 21 is the glorified Church, the communion of saints in the beatific vision — not a program of “ecological, social, and economic transformation.” To appropriate this sacred image for a globalist agenda is to commit the sin of false prophecy, substituting the eschatological hope of the faithful with a purely earthly utopia. This is the very essence of the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici gregis*: the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, the divine to the human, the eternal to the temporal.
The Borgo Dialogues: A Syncretic Gathering of Globalism
The article notes that the Borgo Dialogues brought together “leaders from academia, culture, and business to focus on global ecological challenges” and were “inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.” The *Laudato Si’* of Francis is a document steeped in the errors of religious indifferentism, naturalism, and the deification of nature — errors condemned by the *Syllabus of Errors* (Propositions 1–7 on Pantheism and Naturalism). The encyclical treats the earth as a quasi-divine entity (“our common home”) while systematically downplaying the primacy of the supernatural end of man. It promotes a syncretic “ecological spirituality” that is indistinguishable from the pantheistic environmentalism of secular globalism.
The choice of venue — the Borgo Laudato Si’ at Castel Gandolfo — is itself symbolic. The transformation of a papal residence into a center for “ecological transformation” is a visible sign of the neo-church’s abandonment of its spiritual mission. The Catholic Church was not instituted to manage the earth’s ecosystems; it was instituted to save souls. As Christ declared: “For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26). The entire ecological obsession of the conciliar sect is a diversion from the true crisis of our time: the apostasy of the Church’s own leaders, the loss of faith, the destruction of the sacramental life, and the spiritual ruin of millions of souls.
The Omission of Christ the King: The Gravest Silence
Perhaps the most revealing feature of Leo XIV’s address, as reported in the article, is what it does not mention. There is no mention of Jesus Christ as God, as King, as the sole Redeemer of mankind. There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, of the sacraments, of the reality of sin and the need for repentance, of the Last Judgment, of heaven or hell. The entire address is constructed on a purely naturalistic plane — “ecological, social, and economic transformation,” “global unity,” “civilization of love.” This silence is not an oversight; it is the defining characteristic of the post-conciliar apostasy. As Pius XI warned in *Quas Primas*: “The more the sweetest Name of our Redeemer is omitted with unworthy silence in international gatherings and parliaments, the more loudly it must be confessed and the more urgently the rights of Christ the Lord’s royal dignity and authority must be recognized.”
The antipope Leo XIV stands as the embodiment of this “unworthy silence.” His address to the Borgo Dialogues is not a Catholic act; it is a secular humanitarian speech dressed in the borrowed language of a Church he has helped to dismantle. The “synodality” he promotes is not the unity of the Catholic Church — which is unity in the one true Faith, under the authority of the Roman Pontiff, through the grace of the sacraments — but the false unity of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the globalist project of a one-world religion without Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Speaks
The address of Leo XIV to the Borgo Dialogues is a microcosm of everything the conciliar sect has become: a paramasonic structure dedicated to the replacement of the Kingdom of Christ with a humanitarian Tower of Babel. The language of “synodality,” “civilization of love,” “ecological transformation,” and “global unity” is the language of apostasy — the language of men who have rejected the divine constitution of the Church and substituted it with the evolving structures of human invention. The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic Faith — the Faith of the Fathers, of the Councils, of the pre-conciliar Magisterium — must recognize these utterances for what they are: not the voice of Peter, but the voice of the abomination of desolation speaking in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). The response is not dialogue, not accommodation, not “listening from the ground up,” but the uncompromising confession of the Faith once delivered to the saints: “Thou art Christ the King of glory!”
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Synodality can help us avoid being another Tower of Babel (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.06.2026