Vatican News portal reports that on June 22, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” visited the Vatican’s Estate Ragazzi summer camp, where he addressed children and young people on the theme of technology and human relationships. He encouraged them to use technology responsibly, to prioritize face-to-face interaction, to limit screen time, to think critically rather than relying on GPS, and to pray, stating that “God wants to look at our hearts and at our lives.” He was named “Chief Explorer” of the camp and concluded with a prayer. The entire encounter, while superficially benign, is a masterclass in naturalistic reductionism, reducing the supernatural life of grace to a series of self-help maxims and psychological platitudes, while the one who presumes to speak from the Chair of Peter remains utterly silent on the state of the Church, the crisis of faith, the obligation of Catholic parents to guard their children from the abomination of desolation that now occupies the Vatican, and the absolute necessity of the True Faith for salvation.
The Usurper Addresses Children: A Staged Performance of Benign Irrelevance
The scene is carefully choreographed: the occupant of the Vatican, surrounded by children in a summer camp setting, offers gentle counsel about mobile phones and GPS devices. The tone is avuncular, the advice practical, the setting idyllic. One might almost forget that the man addressing these children is a usurper who has no authority whatsoever to teach, govern, or sanctify, and that the institution he presides over is not the Catholic Church but the conciliar sect — the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The article from Vatican News presents the encounter as newsworthy, as though the words of Robert Prevost carry some spiritual weight or magisterial authority. They do not. As the sedevacantist position, grounded in the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, holds: “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” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II:30). The conciliar sect, from John XXIII onward, has proclaimed heresies — religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas — that place its manifest leaders outside the Church. Robert Prevost, as a cardinal and now as the figurehead of this sect, has been a willing participant in its apostasy. His words, therefore, carry no more spiritual authority than those of any other layman — indeed, less, because he speaks under the false pretense of a papal authority he does not possess.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Spiritual Life
The most striking feature of this address is what it omits. The children gathered before the usurper are, presumably, baptized Catholics — or at least presented as such. Yet not once does the occupant of the Vatican mention the most fundamental truths of the Catholic faith: the necessity of sanctifying grace, the reality of mortal sin, the obligation to receive the sacraments worthily, the existence of hell, the necessity of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations, or the duty of Catholic parents to raise their children in the integral Catholic faith and shield them from the modernist apostasy that has consumed the institutional Church.
Instead, the children receive advice that any secular psychologist, school counselor, or self-help guru could offer: put down your phones, talk to each other, think for yourselves, pray. The usurper says: “Technology can be very good and very useful for many things… However, when we are together, it is not necessary to have a mobile phone, smartphone, or tablet in our hands at every moment.” This is not Catholic teaching. This is common sense dressed in white. Where is the call to mortification? Where is the reminder that the human soul is at war — that “our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Eph. 6:12)? Where is the exhortation to flee occasions of sin, to guard the senses, to cultivate the interior life through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary, and spiritual reading?
The usurper’s treatment of prayer is equally revealing. He tells the children: “Even if we can have the Bible and prayers on our phones, God does not want to look at our phones… God wants to look at our hearts and at our lives.” On the surface, this sounds pious. But in context, it is a subtle naturalization of the supernatural. Prayer is reduced to an interior disposition, a looking at one’s own heart — not the elevation of the mind and heart to God through the liturgical prayer of the Church, not the vocal and mental prayer structured by centuries of Catholic tradition, not the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass which is the re-presentation of Calvary. The implication is that prayer is a human activity of self-reflection rather than a supernatural act of the virtue of religion, directed to the Triune God, through the mediation of Christ, in the power of the Holy Ghost.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that Christ’s kingdom “is primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” and that “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently.” The usurper’s address contains no trace of this doctrine. Christ is not presented as King, as Lawgiver, as the One to whom all obedience is due. Instead, He is invoked sentimentally at the end: “We want Jesus to be here with us” — a vague, emotional aspiration devoid of doctrinal content, indistinguishable from the language of any liberal Protestant community gathering.
The Omission of the Crisis: Silence as Complicity
Perhaps the most damning aspect of this encounter is the complete silence about the state of the Church. These children are growing up in a world where the Catholic faith has been systematically dismantled by the very institution that claims to preserve it. The conciar sect has replaced the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with a Protestantized memorial meal, has emptied the seminaries of orthodox teaching, has promoted ecumenism with heretics and schismatics, has embraced religious liberty in direct contradiction to the perennial Magisterium, and has canonized heretics and apostates as “saints.”
A true Pope — a true successor of St. Peter — would address this crisis head-on. He would warn parents that the “Catechism” of the conciar sect is riddled with ambiguities and errors. He would instruct them that the “Mass” of Paul VI is a sacrilegious parody that does not offer the true Body and Blood of Christ. He would command them to seek out true priests who offer the Traditional Latin Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, and to have their children baptized and confirmed according to the old rites. He would speak of the necessity of the Catholic state, of the Social Kingship of Christ, of the duty of Catholic rulers to suppress public blasphemy and heresy.
Instead, the usurper talks about GPS.
“It is much better to learn to think for ourselves and to develop the critical ability to know where we are going in life,” he says. This is the language of Enlightenment rationalism, not of Catholic theology. The Church has never taught that we should “think for ourselves” in matters of faith — she has taught that we must submit our intellect and will to the revealed truth deposited in the Church and guarded by the Magisterium. “Faith comes by hearing,” says St. Paul (Rom. 10:17), not by autonomous critical thinking. The usurper’s exhortation to self-reliance in navigation — both literal and metaphorical — is a perfect encapsulation of the modernist spirit: man as the measure of all things, with technology as his tool and his own reason as his guide.
The Cult of the Person: “Chief Explorer” and the Democratization of the Papacy
The article notes that the usurper was named “Chief Explorer” of the summer camp and was presented with an explorer’s kit and a commemorative plaque. This detail, seemingly trivial, is emblematic of the conciliar revolution’s systematic debasement of the papal office. The successor of St. Peter, the Vicar of Christ, the Supreme Pastor of the universal Church — is given a toy explorer’s kit and a plaque, as though he were a guest of honor at a school fair.
This is not accidental. The conciar sect has consistently reduced the papacy from a divinely instituted office of supreme authority to a kind of celebrity figurehead — a “chief explorer,” a “man of the people,” a warm and approachable personality who offers gentle advice about technology and family life. The true dignity of the papacy — the “full, supreme, and universal power over the Church” as defined by the First Vatican Council — has been replaced by a cult of personality, a media-friendly image of approachability and relevance.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, 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 usurper’s entire persona — his casual demeanor, his practical advice, his avoidance of doctrinal confrontation — is a living embodiment of this condemned proposition. He has reconciled himself with modern civilization. He has come to terms with progress. And in doing so, he has abandoned the prophetic office of the papacy, which is to preach the truth without compromise, to condemn error without hesitation, and to shepherd the flock of Christ through the darkness of persecution and apostasy.
The Duty of Catholic Parents: What the Usurper Should Have Said
Let us imagine, for a moment, what a true Pope — a true successor of St. Peter — would have said to these children and their parents. He would have spoken of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned” (Mark 16:16). He would have warned of the dangers of the conciar sect, of the sacrilegious nature of the New Mass, of the obligation to seek out true sacraments. He would have exhorted parents to educate their children in the true faith, to shield them from the modernist poison that pervades the institutional Church, to teach them the catechism of St. Pius X, to bring them to the Traditional Latin Mass, to consecrate them to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
He would have spoken of the Social Kingship of Christ, of the duty of nations to recognize the authority of the Catholic Church, of the obligation of Catholic rulers to govern according to the law of God. He would have quoted Pius XI: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas). He would have reminded the children that they are citizens of the Kingdom of Christ, and that their ultimate allegiance is not to any earthly power but to the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Instead, the usurper offered them a prayer — a vague, sentimental invocation of Jesus — and a piece of advice about mobile phones.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
This encounter, trivial in itself, is a perfect microcosm of the conciliar sect’s spiritual bankruptcy. The usurper on Peter’s throne addresses children and offers them the wisdom of the world. He speaks of technology and friendship and critical thinking, but not of sanctifying grace, not of the Real Presence, not of the necessity of the true Mass, not of the Social Kingship of Christ, not of the crisis that has consumed the Church. He is a man without authority, offering counsel without substance, presiding over an institution that has abandoned the faith it was founded to preserve.
The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the Church Fathers, of the ecumenical councils, of the perennial Magisterium — must recognize this encounter for what it is: a performance, a media event, a carefully staged display of benign irrelevance designed to project an image of pastoral concern while the conciar sect continues its relentless campaign of apostasy and destruction. The children gathered before the usurper deserve better. They deserve the truth. And the truth is that the Catholic faith is not found in the structures occupying the Vatican, but in the remnant who profess the unchanging faith of all ages, who offer the true Mass, who administer the true sacraments, and who await the restoration of the Church — not through the reconciliation of the usurper with modernity, but through the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the establishment of the Social Kingship of Christ the King over all nations.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). Not the kingdom of the usurper, not the kingdom of the conciar sect, but the Kingdom of Christ — the only kingdom that endures forever.
Source:
Pope: Technology should serve friendships, not replace them (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.06.2026