Montserrat Pilgrimage Exposes the Neo-Church’s Substitution of Marian Devotion for the Social Gospel
EWTN News reports that on June 10, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost — styling himself “Pope Leo XIV” — traveled to the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, Spain, where he venerated a 12th-century wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary known as “La Moreneta,” entrusted his claimed pontificate to her intercession, and reflected on mercy, reconciliation, and the avoidance of “hidden violence.” The visit followed a stop at Brians 1 Penitentiary Center, where he told inmates that “the mistakes of a person’s life do not determine who they are” and that “God loves you just as you are.” At Montserrat, he prayed the rosary, invoked St. Ignatius of Loyola’s conversion there, and asked Mary to “guide us to Jesus.” While superficially resembling Catholic piety, the entire performance is a masterclass in the conciliar sect’s characteristic replacement of the supernatural order — the salvation of souls, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass, the reality of sin and hell — with a horizontal, naturalistic program of social comfort, psychological reassurance, and sentimental humanitarianism, all wrapped in the aesthetic trappings of a Catholicity long since emptied of its doctrinal substance.



