The National Catholic Register (NCR), via its CNA wire service and EWTN News, reports on the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) hosting a second “Lunch with the Poor” on July 11, 2026, at the Borgo Laudato Si’ within the papal gardens of Castel Gandolfo. The event gathered approximately 200 socially vulnerable individuals from the Diocese of Rome. The usurper delivered a speech emphasizing a “hunger for justice [and] authentic charity,” a “Church that truly knows how to open its doors,” and the pontifical duty as “builder of bridges” to “eliminate the causes of poverty” and “injustices.” Cardinal Fabio Baggio, incoming pro-prefect of the modernist Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, decried the “throwaway culture” and affirmed that “no one is superfluous in the eyes of God.” This theatrical banquet, devoid of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the call to conversion, or the Social Kingship of Christ, exposes the conciliar sect’s definitive apostasy: it has replaced the supernatural mission of the Church with Masonic naturalistic philanthropy.
The Fact of the Matter: A Staged Photo-Op in a Masonic Garden
The cited article relates a carefully choreographed media event. The location itself, the Borgo Laudato Si’, is a monument to the eco-pantheism of the predecessor antipope Francis, named after an encyclical that enshrines the Masonic myth of “integral ecology” and the worship of creation over the Creator. The “lunch” is the second such stunt since the usurper’s installation; a third is promised. The guest list—200 “socially vulnerable” persons—serves as human scenery for the cameras of EWTN and Daniel Ibáñez. The “pope” dines with them, not at the altar offering the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for their souls, but at a table of naturalistic conviviality.
The article notes the presence of “Cardinal” Fabio Baggio, a functionary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, a bureaucratic entity unknown to the Catholic Church before the conciliar revolution. This dicastery is the institutional embodiment of the heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and the Syllabus of Errors: the substitution of the City of God for the City of Man. The very phrase “integral human development” is a Masonic cipher for the construction of a universal fraternity without Christ the King, a project explicitly condemned by Pope Pius XI 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.”
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Vocabulary of the Synagogue of Satan
The rhetoric deployed by the usurper and his cardinal is a masterclass in Modernist equivocation. The term “hunger for justice” is stripped of its Thomistic definition—iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi (justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due)—and refilled with the socialist demand for material redistribution. The “justice” of the Gospel is the justification of the sinner by grace through the Sacraments; the “justice” of Leo XIV is the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
The phrase “authentic charity” is a blasphemous inversion. Caritas is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor for the love of God. It is not a shared meal in a garden. St. Paul teaches: “If I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor… and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing” (1 Cor 13:3). The conciliar sect’s “charity” is philanthropia—love of man—which the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 58) condemns when it places “all the rectitude and excellence of morality… in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure,” or rather, in the purely horizontal dimension.
The usurper’s definition of his title—“pontiff means ‘a builder of bridges'”—is a deliberate etymological fraud. Pontifex derives from pons (bridge) and facere (to make), but traditionally signifies the High Priest who bridges God and man through the Sacrifice. The true Pontiff builds the bridge of the Cross. This usurper builds bridges between men, excluding the vertical dimension. It is the bridge of the Tower of Babel, the Masonic project of a universal republic without God.
Cardinal Baggio’s invocation of the “throwaway culture” is a slogan borrowed from the predecessor antipope, a sociological category replacing the theological reality of sin. The poor are not “discarded”; they are victims of a world that has rejected the Kingship of Christ. The remedy is not a lunch, but the restoration of Christus Regnat.
Theological Anathema: The Denial of the Social Kingship of Christ
The gravest theological bankruptcy of this spectacle is its total silence on the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the plague of laicism—the very spirit animating this “lunch.” Pius XI declared: “It would, of course, be the task of Catholics to prepare and hasten this return through their work and activity; however, many of them do not hold the position in so-called social life… This unfavorable situation may perhaps be attributed to the laziness and timidity of the good… But if all the faithful understood that they must fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King…”
The usurper Leo XIV does not fight under the banner of Christ the King. He surrenders the banner. He speaks of “reconciliation, forgiveness, and peace” without mentioning the Sacrament of Penance, the Precious Blood, or the Consecration of Nations to the Sacred Heart. He speaks of “eliminating the causes of poverty” without condemning the usury, the Masonic banking systems, the socialist theft of private property, and the contraceptive imperialism that are the true causes—causes condemned by the Syllabus (Props. 40, 55, 77) and Rerum Novarum/Quadragesimo Anno.
The article reveals a “Church” that has no supernatural end. There is no call to baptism, no warning of the Last Judgment, no proclamation that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). This is the heresy of humanitarianism, the “synthesis of all errors” (Modernism) condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Props. 22, 58, 59, 65). The “Church” of Leo XIV is an NGO with liturgical vestments.
The Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This event is not an anomaly; it is the essence of the conciliar sect. The “Lunch with the Poor” is the liturgy of the new religion: the cult of man. It fulfills the Masonic program outlined in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “Borgo Laudato Si'” is the physical plant of this Masonic operation. The “Dicastery for Integral Human Development” is its curia.
The usurper’s automatic loss of office—indeed, his inability to ever hold it—is proven by the principles in the Defense of Sedevacantism. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” By professing the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and the new ecclesiology (Vatican II), and by performing acts of false worship (interreligious meetings, this naturalistic banquet as a substitute for the Mass), Robert Prevost manifests the heresy of Modernism. He is ipso facto severed from the Body of Christ. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code applies: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio confirms: his “promotion… shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
The “Cardinal” Baggio, the “bishops” of Rome and Albano, the “priests” concelebrating the invalid Novus Ordo—these are the ministers of Satan transforming themselves into ministers of justice (2 Cor 11:15). Their “lunch” is a Black Mass of the new religion: the communion of the “throwaway culture” narrative replacing the Communion of Saints.
The True Catholic Charity vs. The Conciliar Counterfeit
True Catholic charity is hierarchical and sacramental. It flows from the Altar. St. Vincent de Paul, St. John of God, St. Camillus de Lellis served the poor at the foot of the Cross, seeing Christ in them because they were members of Christ or potential members to be won for the Kingdom. They fed bodies to save souls. The conciliar sect feeds bodies to accredit the Masonic narrative of “fraternity.”
The Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The “Lunch with the Poor” is the praxis of this separation. The State (or the NGO complex) manages poverty; the “Church” provides the spiritual anesthesia. The usurper’s call to “eliminate the causes of poverty” is a call for the totalitarian management of society by the very Masonic powers that create the poverty. It is the Great Reset in a cassock.
Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows, or by striving for perfection…” Where are the religious orders of the true Church in this photo-op? They are absent, driven into the catacombs by the conciliar persecution. The “poor” at this lunch are served by the servants of the Antichrist.
Conclusion: Non est hic, surrexit — He Is Not Here, He Is Risen
The “Lunch with the Poor” at the Borgo Laudato Si’ is a sacrilegious parody of the Multiplication of the Loaves. There, the Lord fed the multitude after teaching them the Word of Life, prefiguring the Eucharist. Here, the antipope feeds a curated crowd after feeding them the poison of naturalism, prefiguring the Supper of the Great Harlot.
The faithful Catholic, looking upon this spectacle, must not feel “hunger for justice” as the usurper defines it, but holy horror. He must recall the words of the Apocalypse: Syllabus (Prop. 80) condemning the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Leo XIV is that reconciliation. He is the termite in the foundation.
The true Church endures, in catacumbis, offering the Holy Sacrifice, praying the Rosary, keeping the Commandments, awaiting the Restoration. She knows that “the kingdom of Christ… encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians” (Quas Primas), and that this Kingdom is built not by lunches in Masonic gardens, but by the Precious Blood and the inflexible confession of the Truth. Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. The usurper and his banquet are vanitas vanitatum.
Source:
At Lunch with the Poor, Pope Leo XIV Calls on Society to Eliminate the Causes of Poverty, Injustice (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.07.2026