Vatican News portal reports on June 20, 2026, that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) during a pastoral visit to Pavia, Italy, urged citizens to take responsibility for the common good, describing the city as “both a gift and a task.” His address, stripped of every supernatural element, was a purely naturalistic sermon on civic duty, human dignity, and solidarity—a perfect distillation of the post-conciliar “Church’s” descent into humanitarianism.
“I Care About Our City”: The Antipope’s Manifesto of Naturalism
The address given by the occupant of the Apostolic See in Pavia is a textbook example of the modernist reduction of religion to social work. Not once did this “pope” mention Jesus Christ as the only Savior, the necessity of the sacraments, the reality of sin, the state of grace, or the final judgment. This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar revolution, which has replaced the supernatural mission of the Church with a naturalistic program of human solidarity.
The City Without God: A Civic Religion
The so-called “pope” described Pavia in purely material and sociological terms: monuments, schools, a university, a hospital, and parish centers—all reduced to instruments of “human dignity, education, culture, and solidarity.” The Catholic understanding of the city as a *corpus Christianum*, ordered toward the salvation of souls and the glory of God, is entirely absent. Instead, we are offered a vision indistinguishable from that of any secular humanitarian organization.
He invoked the Latin root *civitas* to speak of a “human community” where citizens work for the common good. But the true common good, as defined by the perennial Magisterium, is the good of souls united in Christ and His Church. Without this, the “common good” is a meaningless abstraction, a mask for the temporalist agenda that Pius XI condemned in *Quas Primas*: “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” when God is excluded from public life.
Education Devoid of Truth
The address to students and the university is particularly revealing. A true center of learning, he claimed, must “foster the integral development of the person and place humanity at the centre of scientific and intellectual progress.” This is the language of the cult of man, condemned repeatedly by the Magisterium. The integral development of the person is impossible without sanctifying grace and the theological virtues. To place “humanity at the center” is to commit the very error of rationalism condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors*: “Human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3).
He spoke of medicine, law, and philosophy as forms of “care,” but omitted entirely that these disciplines, when detached from revealed truth and the moral law, become instruments of corruption. The pursuit of knowledge, he said, leads to “deeper questions about truth and justice.” Yet he offered no answer to these questions, only a vague invocation of Saint Augustine and the platitude that “faith and reason” are inseparable. This is the modernist hermeneutic condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*: “The Church… has no right to require any internal assent from the faithful to the pronouncements issued by the Church” (Proposition 7). The conciliar “magisterium” no longer teaches with authority; it merely accompanies and approves the opinions of the age.
The “Church” as a Humanitarian Center
The local Church, he said, is called to be “a hearth of faith and a home of charity.” But what is this “faith” without defined dogmas? What is this “charity” without the supernatural love of God? The post-conciliar “Church” has become, in practice, a non-governmental organization focused on the poor, the elderly, and the lonely. While the true Church has always practiced corporal and spiritual works of mercy, she has done so *for the love of God* and for the salvation of souls. The reduction of the Church’s mission to social assistance is a betrayal of her divine constitution. As the *Syllabus of Errors* condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Proposition 19). The conciliar structures have effectively subjected themselves to the secular order, becoming its spiritual auxiliary.
The Cross as a Mere Symbol
In a final act of blasphemous trivialization, the “pope” reflected on the cross depicted in Pavia’s civic coat of arms, calling it a “reminder that the city’s history is rooted in the universal value of Christian love.” The Cross is not a “universal value.” It is the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary, the price of our redemption, a stumbling block and foolishness to those who perish. To reduce the Cross to a symbol of civic “love” and “cooperation” is to empty it of its supernatural meaning, precisely as the modernists do who, in the words of St. Pius X, “aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The address in Pavia is a perfect specimen of the spirit of the Council: naturalistic, horizontal, silent on sin and salvation, and ordered toward a purely earthly “common good.” It is the speech of an antipope who, occupying the Vatican, continues the work of the conciliar revolutionaries who, as the *False Fatima* analysis notes, divert attention from the true dangers of modernist apostasy within the Church. There is no mention of the true Mass, the true sacraments, or the true social kingship of Christ. This is the abomination of desolation, speaking in the name of a “Church” that has ceased to be a means of salvation and has become a promoter of a godless humanism. The faithful must reject this counterfeit religion and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Church, which teaches that the city, and all of human society, finds its only true peace in the Kingdom of Christ the King.
Source:
Pope in Pavia: "The city is both a gift and a task" (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.06.2026