The EWTN News portal reports that the Dicastery for Communication of the conciliar sect has released a third documentary, *Leone a Roma*, chronicling the Roman sojourn of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) prior to his usurpation of the Chair of Peter. The piece details his years as an Augustinian student at the *Angelicum* (1981–1987), his tenure as Prior General (2001–2013), and his recent role as Prefect of the modernist *Dicastery for Bishops* (2023–2025). Anecdotes of Italian excursions and a puerile laxative prank played on a confrere are presented as credentials for the supreme pontificate. This trivialization of the papacy into a curriculum vitae of travel logs and practical jokes manifests the complete evacuation of the sacred from the conciliar consciousness.
The Antipope as Corporate Manager: Reduction of the Papacy to Bureaucratic Function
The article portrays the usurper Prevost not as a successor of the Prince of the Apostles, *vicarius Christi*, but as a mid-level executive climbing the ladder of a multinational NGO. His “qualifications” are enumerated in the language of human resources: “tremendous physical and also mental endurance,” “thoughtfulness and listening,” “gathering what others had to say,” “reasoning about it,” “discernment,” and “no problem making a decision.” This is the vocabulary of the *novus ordo* boardroom, not the *sancta sedes*.
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, teaches that Christ the King possesses a threefold authority: legislative, judicial, and executive (*potestas legislativa, iudicialis, executiva*), rooted in the hypostatic union and the work of Redemption. The Roman Pontiff, as Christ’s Vicar, participates in this authority *ex officio*, not by dint of “listening skills” or “discernment” — a term corrupted by the Modernists to signify a perpetual provisional search for truth rather than the guardianship of the Deposit of Faith. The article’s focus on Prevost’s administrative throughput — flying overnight from Australia to Rome and working “in the afternoon” — reduces the Petrine ministry to *opus operatum* of a functionary. *Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia*; but where the Vicar is a mere administrator, the Church is nowhere to be found.
The “Dicastery for Bishops”: An Engine of Apostasy
The article highlights Prevost’s role as Prefect of the *Dicastery for Bishops* (2023–2025) as his “most recent post before he was elected.” This dicastery is the primary instrument by which the conciliar sect ensures the perpetuation of its own apostasy. Since the *motu proprio* *Ecclesiae sanctae* (1966) and the 1983 Code, the selection of bishops has been centralized to impose the *novus ordo* ideology: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the *hermeneutic of rupture* disguised as continuity.
Pius IX’s *Syllabus of Errors* condemns the proposition that “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20) and that “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). The modern “bishops” appointed by this dicastery are precisely those who implement these condemned errors — men who treat the Church as a dialogue partner with the world rather than its *mater et magistra*. Prevost’s “thoughtfulness” in this role signifies his fidelity to the conciliar revolution. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic *ipso facto* loses all jurisdiction (*De Romano Pontifice*, lib. 2, cap. 30). By serving the apparatus that installs heretics into episcopal sees, Prevost demonstrated his own separation from the Catholic Church long before his “election.”
Augustinian “Reform” and the Destruction of Religious Life
The article romanticizes Prevost’s twelve years as Prior General of the Augustinians (2001–2013), citing his global travel and “endurance.” It omits the essential fact: the post-conciliar Augustinian Order, like all “renewed” religious institutes, abandoned its *forma vivendi* — the solemn vows, the traditional habit, the choral office, the strict enclosure — for a secularized “apostolic” activism. The *Perfectae Caritatis* decree (1965) and the 1983 Code’s *canon 573* redefined religious life as a “stable form of living” directed to “apostolic works,” eviscerating the contemplative essence defined by St. Thomas Aquinas (*Summa Theol.*, II-II, q. 186, a. 8) as *status perfectionis* ordered to the *contemplata aliis tradere*.
The “trips to Sicily and Trentino” and the laxative prank in the chapel during “spiritual exercises with the Jesuit fathers” — themselves architects of the Modernist contagion — symbolize the *laxitas* (laxity) that has replaced *disciplina*. St. Pius X, in *Lamentabili sane exitu*, condemned the Modernist error that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and that “Truth changes with man” (Prop. 58). The Augustinian “reform” under Prevost was the institutionalization of this evolutionism: the *ratio* of the Order was rewritten to accommodate the world, the flesh, and the devil. A “Prior General” of a destroyed Order possesses no authority in the Church of Christ; he is merely the liquidator of a once-great patrimony.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning aspect of this propaganda piece is its *eloquentia tacita* — its thunderous silence on the supernatural order. Not a word is spoken of the *Missa Tridentina*, the *Sacrificium propitiatorium*, the *status gratiae*, the *quattuor novissima* (death, judgment, heaven, hell), the *regnum Christi* over nations, or the *salus animarum* as the *suprema lex*. The article is a purely naturalistic narrative: travel, pranks, administrative efficiency, “listening,” “discernment,” “decision-making.”
Pius XI declares in *Quas Primas*: *”When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”* The documentary *Leone a Roma* is a document of this destruction. It presents a “pope” without Christ, a “Church” without the Cross, a “ministry” without the *character indelebilis* of Orders (conferred, if at all, in the invalid *novus ordo* rite of Paul VI). The *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* of Paul IV teaches that a heretic’s elevation to the papacy is *”null, void, and of no effect”* even with unanimous cardinalitial consent. The “cardinalate” bestowed by the antipope Francis (Bergoglio) in 2023 is a nullity; the “election” of 2025 is a *simulacrum*.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source of this article, EWTN News, functions as the *Pravda* of the conciliar sect. Founded by the late Mother Angelica, it was long ago co-opted by the structures occupying the Vatican to legitimize the *novus ordo* establishment. Its “Vatican Bureau” produces not journalism but *laudationes* for usurpers. The byline — “Ishmael Adibuah… interning as a staff writer… with a background in scientific research, teaching, and congressional service” — underscores the secular, technocratic profile of the neo-church’s communicators. They possess no theological formation, only “scientific research” credentials, fitting for a religion reduced to anthropology.
The “Two Decades in Rome”: A Timeline of Apostasy
The article’s timeline — 1981–1987 (studies), 2001–2013 (Prior General), 2023–2025 (Dicastery) — maps perfectly onto the consolidation of the Modernist occupation. 1981–1987: the *Angelicum* under the *novus ordo* regime, where Thomism was replaced by “transcendental Thomism” (Rahner, Lonergan) and the *nouvelle théologie*. 2001–2013: the implementation of the *Ex Corde Ecclesiae* farce and the purge of traditional elements from religious orders. 2023–2025: the final preparation of the “synodal church,” the *Fiducia supplicans* abomination, the *Dignitas infinita* naturalism. Prevost was not a passive observer; he was an active agent. His “pranks” and “trips” were the leisure of a collaborator in the *abominatio desolationis*.
Conclusion: No Legitimacy, No Obedience, No Communion
The documentary *Leone a Roma* is not a biography; it is an *apologia* for a usurper, crafted for a laity anesthetized by sixty years of liturgical and doctrinal poison. It invites the faithful to admire the *human* qualities of a man who occupies the See of Peter *sine titulo*, *sine fide*, *sine missione*. The integral Catholic faith, guarded by the *sensus fidei* of the remnant, recognizes in this “biopic” the *signum contradictionis*: the world loves its own (John 15:19). The true Church, *una, sancta, catholica, et apostolica*, endures not in the Vatican gardens nor in the *Dicastery for Bishops*, but in the catacombs where the *Missa Tridentina* is offered, where the *Syllabus* is believed, where *Quas Primas* is lived, and where the faithful await the *restauratio* promised by the Immaculate Heart — not the Masonic caricature of Fatima, but the true Mother of God, *terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata*. *Non praevalebunt.*
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Vatican releases biopic on Pope Leo XIV’s early years in Rome (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.07.2026