The EWTN News Vatican Bureau reports on August 6, 2026, that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” has had his effigy struck upon a new series of Vatican euro collector coins, the first papal portrait to appear on the currency of the occupying power since 2014. The Governatorato SCV announced the set on July 30, boasting a “unique design in the history of Vatican coin-making” with the antipope’s coat of arms on the copper denominations and his physiognomy on the higher values. The article recounts the numismatic lineage from the Papal States’ lira through the euro adoption in 2002, noting the visages of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the solitary 2014 issue of Francis before his alleged “personal request” to be removed. The coins are retailed at 59 euros through the Philatelic and Numismatic Office. This grotesque pageantry of a false pontiff on the coinage of a Masonic European superstate is not a sign of legitimacy but the *nummus* of the *abominatio desolationis*, the price of Judas for the betrayal of the Kingship of Christ.
The Usurper’s Image: *Non Est Papa, Sed Antichristus*
The article treats the appearance of Prevost’s face on legal tender as a routine institutional milestone. From the perspective of the integral Faith, it is an act of **idolatry and usurpation**. The line of antipopes began with Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) in 1958; every subsequent claimant has been a manifest heretic, automatically deprived of office *ipso facto* by the very fact of their public defection from the Catholic Faith, as taught by St. Robert Bellarmine: *”A Pope who is 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”* (*De Romano Pontifice*). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: *”Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”* Pope Paul IV’s Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* declares the elevation of a heretic *”null, void, and of no effect”* regardless of unanimous cardinal assent. Prevost, a willing participant in the conciliar apostasy, the false ecumenism, the religious liberty heresy, and the New Mass, is a manifest heretic. His image on a coin no more makes him Pope than the image of Caesar on the denarius made him God. The *Syllabus of Errors* (Prop. 39, 55) condemns the notion that the State is the source of all rights and that the Church ought to be separated from the State; the conciliar sect has inverted this, making the Church a department of the Masonic world order.
The Euro: Coin of the *Civitas Diaboli*, Not the *Civitas Dei*
The article notes the coins are “legal tender in the 21 European Union member states that have adopted the euro.” This is the critical context suppressed by the neo-church’s propaganda. The euro is the currency of the **European Masonic superstate**, the economic engine of the *Novus Ordo Saeculorum* foretold on the Great Seal of the United States and realized in the Treaty of Rome (1957) under the auspices of the same occult forces that engineered the Second Vatican Council. Pius XI in *Quas Primas* (1925) 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.”* The Vatican City State’s adoption of the euro in 2001 was the **financial capitulation of the occupying power to the Beast**. The Lateran Treaty (1929) restored the *temporal sovereignty* of the Papacy to guarantee the *spiritual independence* of the Church; the conciliar sect has surrendered that sovereignty to the European Central Bank, a private banking cartel. Stamping the antipope’s face on the euro is the **brand of the beast** (Apoc. 13:16-17), marking the conciliar sect as a wholly owned subsidiary of the globalist system. The *Syllabus* (Prop. 40, 55) condemns the errors that the Church’s teaching is hostile to society and that the Church ought to be separated from the State; the conciliar sect *embodies* this separation, serving the State as its chaplaincy.
Francis’ “Humility”: The Pride of the *Pseudo-Pauper*
The article recounts Francis’ 2017 request to remove his face from coins, quoting Mauro Olivieri: *”[Francis] asked that he no longer appear on coins, medals in general — and especially on those issued by his state.”* This is **Pharisaical theater**. Francis, the architect of *Amoris Laetitia*, the Abu Dhabi Declaration, *Fratelli Tutti*, and the *Synod on Synodality*, the man who placed the *Pachamama* idol in the Vatican gardens, feigns humility in numismatics while exalting himself above the Magisterium of two millennia. His refusal was not humility but a **calculated gesture of the New Man**, the *homo novus* of the Masonic revolution, rejecting the *traditio* of papal iconography which signifies the *vicarius Christi* (however falsely claimed) in favor of the *faceless functionary* of the synodal bureaucracy. The *Syllabus* (Prop. 80) condemns: *”The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”* Francis did precisely that; his “faceless” coinage was the logo of the *Church of the New Advent*, the *ecclesia horizontalis*. Prevost’s restoration of the portrait signals not a return to tradition but a **rebranding of the same product** for a new market cycle.
Numismatic History Weaponized: The Lie of Continuity
The article presents a sanitized history: *”The pope’s image has appeared on minted coins since the Middle Ages, when pontiffs held temporal power over the Papal States… Shortly after the establishment of Vatican City in 1929, the sovereign state issued lira coins… The Vatican stopped making lira coins after it adopted the euro in 2001.”* This narrative **conflates the legitimate temporal sovereignty of the Papal States and the Vatican City State (1929-1958) with the Masonic occupation regime post-1958**. The coins of Pius XI and Pius XII bore the image of true Popes ruling a Catholic state *sub auspiciis Christi*. The euro coins of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Prevost bear the images of **manifest heretics ruling a Masonic city-state *sub auspiciis Baphometis***. The *False Fatima Apparitions* document exposes the **Masonic operation “Fatima”** with its *”ritualistic 200-year cycles: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization).”* The year 2017 — the year Francis removed his face from coins — marks the **centenary of the Fatima psy-op and the quincentenary of Luther’s revolt**. The numismatic shift in 2017 was a **ritual signal** of the completion of the Masonic takeover. The “unique design” of Prevost’s coins is the next phase: *normalization of the antichurch*.
Simony and the *Mercatores in Templo*: Selling the Sacred at 59 Euros
The article concludes: *”The newest Vatican coins can be purchased for 59 euros through the Vatican’s Philatelic and Numismatic Office.”* **Simony pure and simple.** The *conciliar sect* merchandises the image of its false pontiff as a collector’s item, a *souvenir* of the *abominatio desolationis*. Our Lord drove the money-changers from the Temple (John 2:15-16); the conciliar sect *is* the money-changers, operating a gift shop in the ruins of the Faith. The *Syllabus* (Prop. 26) condemns: *”The Church has no innate and legitimate right of acquiring and possessing property”* — an error the sect *practices* by treating the Patrimony of Peter as a commercial portfolio. The 59-euro price tag is the **thirty pieces of silver** for the betrayal of the Kingship of Christ. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King *”to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”* (*Quas Primas*). The conciliar sect’s coins, minted by the secularist EU, bearing the face of a heretic, sold for profit, are the **coinage of that plague**.
EWTN: The *Vox Domini* of the Neo-Church
The source, **EWTN News Vatican Bureau**, is the **propaganda arm of the conciliar sect**. Founded by the modernist “Mother” Angelica (Rita Rizzo), a disciple of the charismatic/Jansenist deviation, EWTN has served for decades as the *controlled opposition* for “conservative” Novus Ordo Catholics, channeling dissent into safe, recognitionist lanes. The byline “Ishmael Adibuah… interning as a staff writer… with a background in scientific research, teaching, and congressional service” signals the **technocratic, secular formation** of the neo-church’s scribes. The article’s tone — bureaucratic, celebratory, devoid of any supernatural reference — is the **linguistic signature of the *Church of the New Advent***: *saecularizatio totalis*. No mention of *Christus Rex*, no mention of the *Social Reign*, no mention of the *salus animarum*. Only *nummus*, *imago*, *collector set*, *legal tender*. **Silence about the supernatural is the loudest heresy.**
The Theological Verdict: *Nummus Antichristi*
The appearance of the antipope Prevost’s face on the euro coins of the Vatican City State is not a “first since 2014.” It is the **latest minting of the coin of the realm of the Antichrist**. The true Pope possesses the *potestas ordinis* and *potestas jurisdictionis* from Christ; the antipope possesses only the *potestas ordinis* (if validly ordained *sub conditione* in the old rite) but *nulla potestas jurisdictionis*, having forfeited it by manifest heresy (Bellarmine, *De Romano Pontifice* 2.30; Wernz-Vidal, *Ius Canonicum*). The *Defense of Sedevacantism* file establishes: *”A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.”* Prevost, by adhering to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, New Mass), is a manifest heretic, *non Christianus*, *non Papa*. His image on a coin is the **icon of the *abominatio desolationis stans in loco sancto*** (Matt. 24:15). The faithful remnant *non habent nummum Caesaris sed sanguinem Christi*. They recognize no sovereign but **Christ the King**, whose reign *”extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”* (*Quas Primas*, citing Leo XIII). The euro, the EU, the conciliar sect, its antipopes, its coins, its media (EWTN), its *Philatelic and Numismatic Office* — all are **dust and ashes** before the *King of Kings and Lord of Lords* (Apoc. 19:16). *Non est papa, sed antichristus. Non est moneta, sed nummus diaboli. Non est ecclesia, sed synagoga Satanae.*
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Pope Leo XIV’s face featured on new set of Vatican coins (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.08.2026