The EWTN News portal reports that the United States Ambassador to the “Holy See,” Brian Burch, hosted the usurper Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) for a July 4th dinner at the Villa Richardson in Rome, replete with Chicago-style hot dogs, apple pie, and a rendition of “God Bless America.” The article paints a portrait of a relaxed, sports-obsessed functionary who checks soccer scores at night, retains a Peruvian credit card, and frets over appearing “too American” while simultaneously courting American political favor. This sordid spectacle of diplomatic triviality and naturalistic camaraderie exposes the complete abandonment of the regnum Christi by the conciliar sect, reducing the Vicar of Christ—so they claim—to a celebrity diplomat servicing the geopolitical interests of Washington.
The Antipope as American Citizen: The Triumph of Heretical Americanism
The article’s fixation on Prevost’s Chicago roots, his White Sox fandom, his cellphone usage, and his sleepless nights watching Argentina-Cape Verde matches is not mere human interest fluff; it is the deliberate construction of a persona antithetical to the papal office. Pope Leo XIII condemned the heresy of Americanism in Testem Benevolentiae (1899), denouncing the confusion of license with liberty and the adaptation of Church discipline to the “spirit of the age.” Here, the antipope embodies that very error: a “pope” who defines himself by national origin, sports allegiance, and social media consumption (“X, formerly Twitter”).
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingship is by essence and nature (hypostatic union), not by popular mandate or national affinity: “He possesses, in a word, dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature” (St. Cyril of Alexandria, cited in Quas Primas). The article reveals a claimant to the papacy who “loves the United States, where he was born, and has great affection for the country, but he also wants to be careful not to appear too favorable or too close to the United States.” This calculation—this political triangulation—is the antithesis of the munus of Peter, which is to confirm the brethren in the Faith (Luke 22:32), not to manage geopolitical optics. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Prevost’s entire performance is a reconciliation with the spirit of the world.
The “God Bless America” Idolatry: Substituting the Nation for the King
The climax of the evening—the antipope singing the patriotic hymn “God Bless America” and signing baseballs—constitutes a liturgical act of the civil religion. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… of secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). He warned: “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.”
By singing a national anthem in his official capacity, the usurper sanctions the religion of the State. He participates in the sacra of the secular order. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet the conciliar sect inverts this: it submerges the Church into the State, making the “pope” a chaplain to the American empire. The “blessing” given to the Ambassador’s family is not the Benedictio Pontificalis imploring the Kingship of Christ, but a benediction of the American project. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15): a false priesthood validating the powers of this world.
Migration as the New Gospel: The Naturalistic Reduction of the Supernatural Mission
Burch reveals the true “theology” of the neo-church: “Through the Lampedusa visit, Burch said, Leo appealed to humanity and asked leaders to focus on migrants during a difficult moment.” The article frames the Lampedusa stunt—a visit to a migrant processing center on the same day as the July 4th dinner—not as a call to conversion, but as a political signal. The antipope “speaks as universal pastor of the Church and not as someone proposing a specific political implementation,” yet his entire intervention is political implementation: pressuring sovereign nations to erase borders.
Pius XI teaches that the Kingdom of Christ “is primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” (Quas Primas). The mission of the Church is salus animarum, the salvation of souls through the Sacraments and the preaching of the Gospel. The conciliar sect has replaced the Great Commission (Matt 28:19-20) with the Global Compact for Migration. The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40), yet the neo-church acts as if the Church’s only relevance to society is NGO-style humanitarianism. There is zero mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic State, the condemnation of religious liberty, or the duty of nations to profess the true Faith. Silence on the supernatural is the loudest heresy.
The Diplomatic Farce: “Prudential Differences” with the Enemies of Christ
Burch characterizes the disagreements between the “Holy See” and the Trump administration as “prudential differences… how to build peace in the Middle East, how to fight narco-trafficking in Central America, and how to protect people facing the challenges of mass migration.” This language—prudential differences—is the hallmark of the hermeneutic of continuity lie. It reduces the conflict between the City of God and the City of Man to a debate over policy implementation.
The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). Yet the “ambassador” and the “pope” operate entirely within the framework of the Masonic international order. They discuss “nuclear nonproliferation,” “Cuba,” “Russia and Ukraine,” “Venezuela”—pure geopolitics. The article boasts of “peace between Israel and Hamas, the removal of narco-terrorists, talks between Israel and Lebanon, cooperation among Arab states, conditions for real cooperation, the removal of the nuclear threat in Iran, and the removal of financing for terrorists.” This is the language of the State Department, not the language of the Encyclical Quas Primas which demands that “rulers of states… not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.”
The antipope “does not simply pick up the phone to discuss politics with world leaders,” yet his entire existence, as depicted, is political. He is a functionary of the New World Order, the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican, managing the “opiate of the masses” for the globalist elite.
The EWTN/ACI Stampa Apparatus: Manufacturing Consent for the Abomination
The article originates from ACI Stampa, the Italian arm of EWTN News, translated and adapted by the same. This is the propaganda ministry of the neo-church. The tone—“the pope is highly informed… very bright, and very well informed… a gentleman who is a human person like everyone else”—is designed to humanize the usurper, to make the faithful comfortable with a “pope” who is essentially a bureaucrat with a Twitter account.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition that “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” (Prop. 6). EWTN and the conciliar media do precisely this: they manufacture the “common opinion” that the antipope is legitimate, holy, and relevant, demanding the faithful’s assent. The article notes the story was “first published by ACI Stampa… translated and adapted by EWTN News English.” This closed loop of disinformation is Stage 3 of the Masonic operation described in the False Fatima Apparitions document: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “narrative” here is the normalization of a false pope.
Theological Bankruptcy: A “Pope” Without the Faith, Without the Office, Without the Church
The document Defense of Sedevacantism establishes the theological principle: “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically.” St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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.” Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states an office becomes vacant ipso facto if a cleric “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
Robert Prevost, by embracing the Vatican II religion—religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass, the new rites of ordination (invalid), the new canon law—has publicly defected from the Catholic Faith. Catholic Faith. He is a manifest heretic. He cannot be Pope. The “dinner,” the “blessing,” the “baseballs,” the “God Bless America” are the theatrical props of a usurper. The faithful Catholic sees not a Successor of Peter, but a “non-Christian” (Bellarmine) sitting in the seat of the scornful (Ps 1:1).
Pius XI declared: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, cited in Quas Primas). The conciliar sect offers the name of “Dialogue,” “Migration,” “Nuclear Nonproliferation,” and “Americanism.” It offers the kingship of man. We reject it. We adhere to the immutable Tradition, the Social Kingship of Christ the King, and the Sede Vacante reality. The Chair is empty. The “pope” is at a barbecue. Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat.
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U.S. ambassador describes July 4 dinner with Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.07.2026