The Vatican News portal reports on the release of a new book by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), titled Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, curated by Italian journalist Alessandro Banfi. The volume collects the usurper’s addresses on peace since his installation on May 8, 2025, framing them as a “moral mobilization” rooted in the Gospel and St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Banfi explicitly acknowledges the “Vicar of Christ” possesses no military divisions, citing Stalin’s infamous quip, and reduces the Church’s power to a “disarmed and disarming force” of individual conscience. The article culminates in a naturalistic vision of peace beginning “in my home, among my colleagues and with my neighbours,” utterly divorced from the social reign of Christ the King. This publication is not a Catholic witness but a modernist manifesto that empties the Kingship of Christ of its divine authority, substituting the City of God for a humanitarian NGO.
The Usurper’s “Peace”: A Counterfeit of Christ’s Kingship
The cited article reveals the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s supreme pastor. Leo XIV’s first words upon his usurpation of the Chair of Peter were “centered on peace,” yet this peace is not the pax Christi in regno Christi (peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ) proclaimed by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. Pius XI taught with unshakeable authority: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 1925). The antipope’s “peace” is a secular pacifism, a pax humana built on “dialogue,” “bridges,” and breaking the “friend-enemy framework” — categories proper to Masonic universalism, not Catholic theology. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the error that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Leo XIV’s entire program is precisely this reconciliation with the spirit of the world.
Reduction of the Gospel to a “Disarmed Force”: Denial of Christ’s Royal Authority
Banfi’s admission that the “Vicar of Christ” has “no military divisions” and that the Church’s power “lies in the Gospel” as a “disarmed and disarming force, seemingly destined to lose in the face of violence” is a blasphemous denial of the potestas ordinis et jurisdictionis (power of orders and jurisdiction) and the potestas regia (royal power) of Christ the King. Pius XI, quoting Daniel, affirms: “He gave him power, and honor, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power, which shall not be taken away” (Quas Primas, citing Dan 7:13-14). Christ’s Kingdom is “not of this world” (Jn 18:36) in its origin and end, but it encompasses all men and all nations in its authority (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII, Annum Sacrum). To present the Gospel as a weak moral suasion is the heresy of kenosis applied to the Church’s mission — a Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 52: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change… Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness”). The antipope’s “Gospel” is not the lex credendi of the Incarnate Word but a malleable humanitarian ethic.
St. Augustine Weaponized for False Ecumenism and Naturalism
The article boasts of Leo XIV’s “influence of St. Augustine’s view of history and also of political power,” citing the address to the diplomatic corps where the antipope claimed “the City of God does not propose a political problem” but offers “reflection on fundamental issues concerning social and political life.” This is a deliberate falsification of St. Augustine and Catholic doctrine. The Civitas Dei is the Kingdom of Christ realized in history through the Church, which demands the public recognition of Christ’s Kingship by states. Pius XI explicitly teaches: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas). The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By stripping the Civitas Dei of its political claim, Leo XIV serves the Masonic project of laïcité — the “plague” of secularism Pius XI identified as the target of the Feast of Christ the King.
The “Conscience of a Single Person” vs. The Social Kingship of Christ
The centerpiece of the antipope’s introduction — the anecdote of Stanislav Petrov — elevates individual natural conscience to the savior of humanity: “the conscience of a single person can be worth the entire world.” This is Pelagian naturalism masquerading as Christian hope. St. Augustine, whom they cite, teaches the opposite: “The people of the Earthly city seek happiness in the possession of things. The people of the City of God find happiness in ‘spei dei,’ the hope of God” (De Civitate Dei, XIV, 28). True hope is theological, infused by grace, not a naturalistic optimism about human conscience. The Syllabus condemns the error that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Error 3). The antipope’s “hope” is anchored in the civitas terrena, not the Civitas Dei. Banfi’s distinction — Christians ground themselves in God, others in “possession of things” — is a subjectivist caricature that ignores the objective duty of all men and nations to submit to Christ the King (Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”).
The Structural Apostasy: A “Pope” Without Office, A “Church” Without Authority
The article’s language — “Pope Leo XIV,” “Vicar of Christ,” “universal Church,” “diplomatic corps” — exposes the great delusion (2 Thess 2:11) sustaining the conciliar sect. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Defense of Sedevacantism file). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass — each condemned by the perennial Magisterium (Syllabus, Quas Primas, Lamentabili, Pascendi). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith” (Defense of Sedevacantism file). Leo XIV, by publishing a book that reduces the Kingship of Christ to humanitarian moralism, publicly defects from the Catholic faith. He holds no office; his “diplomatic corps” is a secular bureaucracy; his “moral mobilization” is the propaganda of the synagoga Satanae (Pius IX, Syllabus context).
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This book is the logical fruit of the Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae. The “peace” of the conciliar sect is the peace of the world (Jn 14:27), negotiated by dialogue, stripped of the social reign of Christ, and offered as a common good for all religions — the Masonic “universal brotherhood” condemned by Pius XI (Quas Primas: “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category”). The “disarmed and disarming” Church is the kenotic Church of Modernism, foreseen by St. Pius X: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Lamentabili, Prop. 26). The antipope’s “Gospel” is no longer the depositum fidei but a tool for “moral mobilization” — the cult of man that Pius XI identified as the ultimate apostasy.
Conclusion: No Peace Without the King
The faithful remnant knows that Pax Christi in regno Christi is the only peace. It is not built by “bridges” or “dialogue” with error, but by the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by valid priests in the true Mass, by the public confession of Christ’s Kingship by states, and by the rejection of every usurper on the Chair of Peter. Leo XIV’s book is waste paper (carta straccia), a testament to the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the faithful in 1925 (Quas Primas). Today, the true Church cries: “Non praevalebunt” (Mt 16:18) — the gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, which endures in the catacombs of Tradition, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
Source:
Curator of Pope’s book on peace: The Pope can inspire moral mobilization (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.07.2026