EWTN News portal reports on the scheduled arrival of the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope” Leo XIV, in the Republic of San Marino on August 22, 2026. The article functions as a tourist brochure for the conciliar sect, listing ten historical curiosities about the microstate to frame the antipope’s diplomatic junket as a “pastoral visit.” It celebrates the presence of “St. John Paul II” and “Pope Benedict XVI” as legitimizing precedents, culminating in the antipope’s attendance at the “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples”—the annual spectacle of the modernist Communion and Liberation movement. This puff piece exposes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s divine mission to mere geopolitical photo-ops and interreligious dialogue, utterly silent on the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
The Lexicon of Usurpation: Language as Legitimization of the Vacant See
The article’s vocabulary is a deliberate construction of a false reality. It employs the honorifics “pontiff,” “Holy Father,” and “Pope Leo XIV” without qualification, thereby attempting to canonize the usurpation of Robert Prevost. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, grounded in the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, a manifest heretic “his promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The conciliar sect’s “canonical” election is irrelevant; the defection from the Faith—evidenced by the adherence to Vatican II’s heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality—vacates the office ipso facto. The article’s refusal to acknowledge the Sede Vacante since 1958 is not an oversight; it is the foundational lie upon which the entire paramasonic structure rests.
Furthermore, the text bestows the title “St. John Paul II” upon Karol Wojtyła and “Pope Benedict XVI” upon Joseph Ratzinger. These men were the architects and executors of the conciliar apostasy. Wojtyła kissed the Quran, prayed with pagans at Assisi, and promulgated the anti-Catholic 1983 Code; Ratzinger, as “prefect” and “pope,” never recanted the heresy of the “hermeneutic of continuity.” To call them “Saint” and “Pope” is to blaspheme the Church’s infallibility in canonization and the indefectibility of the Papacy. The article notes Wojtyła met “the only communist head of state in Western Europe, Captain Regent Giuseppe Maiani”—a detail inadvertently revealing the conciliar sect’s ostpolitik with the enemies of Christ the King, condemned by Pius XI in Divini Redemptoris and by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church“).
Theological Bankruptcy: San Marino’s History Weaponized Against the Kingship of Christ
The article recounts San Marino’s founding by St. Marinus fleeing the Diocletian persecution (A.D. 301) and its protection by Pope Urban VIII in 1631. This history is invoked not to glorify the Regnum Christi, but to provide a scenic backdrop for the antipope’s arrival. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches with absolute clarity: “His reign encompasses not only 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.” The encyclical commands that “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.”
The cited article reveals the exact opposite: a secular republic hosting a false pope for a photo-op, followed by a dash to Rimini for a “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples.” This is the laicism Pius XI condemned as “the plague that poisons human society.” San Marino’s “deep Catholic roots” are presented as museum pieces—towers, cakes, honorary citizenship for Abraham Lincoln—while the one thing necessary (Luke 10:42), the public confession of Christ’s Kingship over the civil order, is entirely absent. The “Eucharistic adoration” led by a lay-invalidly-ordained usurper in a state that does not confess Christ the King in its constitution is not worship; it is idolatry, a simulation of piety masking the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15).
The “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples”: Indifferentism as Institutional Policy
The climax of the visit is the antipope’s travel to Rimini for the annual festival organized by Communion and Liberation (CL). This movement, founded by the modernist Luigi Giussani, epitomizes the “ecumenism project” condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” CL’s “Meeting” is a marketplace of religions, a practical denial of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the Syllabus Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.”
The article describes it as an “international Catholic cultural festival.” The adjective “Catholic” is a fraud. A festival premised on “friendship among peoples” prescinding from the unity of the Faith is Masonic in essence—the realization of the “universal brotherhood” of the lodges, which Pius IX condemned in Qui Pluribus (Syllabus Error 15) and Leo XIII in Humanum Genus. The antipope’s participation signals the conciliar sect’s definitive apostasy: the replacement of the Missio ad Gentes (baptizing nations) with dialogue (legitimizing false religions). As St. Pius X thundered in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…“—this is the Modernist heresy incarnate in CL’s “charism.”
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect as a Geopolitical NGO
The article reads like a press release for a secular NGO. It details land area (23.63 sq miles), population (34,000), the “Torta Tre Monti,” and Abraham Lincoln’s honorary citizenship. It mentions the “Captains Regent” (Alice Mina and Vladimiro Selva) and their six-month terms. This obsession with bureaucratic trivia—the “shortest constitutional terms,” the “60-member parliament”—betrays a purely naturalistic worldview. The supernatural end of the Church—the salvation of souls through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the administration of the Sacraments—is nowhere in sight.
The “pastoral visit” consists of meeting “authorities,” leading “Eucharistic adoration” (simulated by a layman), greeting “the faithful,” and rushing to a Rimini stadium Mass. This is the modus operandi of the “Church of the New Advent”: perpetual motion, media events, and the cultivation of a “pope” as a global celebrity. It fulfills the prophecy of the False Fatima Apparitions analysis regarding the Masonic operation: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The visit to San Marino—a state surrounded by Italy, historically protected by the Papal States—is a theatrical assertion of the conciliar sect’s temporal relevance, now that it has lost all spiritual authority.
The article notes the antipope will “meet the sick and elderly at Rimini Cathedral.” This is the “cult of man” Pius XI warned against in Quas Primas, where the King is dethroned and the “poor” are enthroned in His place, not as members of Christ, but as autonomous subjects of humanitarian philanthropy. The true Church cares for the sick through the Extreme Unction and the Viaticum, administered by valid priests acting in persona Christi. The conciliar sect offers photo-ops with a false bishop.
Conclusion: The Vacant Throne and the Duty of Resistance
San Marino’s history—founded by a deacon fleeing persecution, protected by true Popes like Urban VIII—stands in stark, condemnatory contrast to the event described. A true Pope would go to San Marino to demand the explicit recognition of Christ the King in its constitution, to denounce the Masonic infiltration of modern states, and to offer the Holy Mass for the conversion of its rulers. The usurper Prevost goes to eat cake, admire towers, and bless a Masonic “Meeting for Friendship.”
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the Sede Vacante position defended by St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 (“Publicly defects from the Catholic faith… the office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration”), sees this article not as news, but as a damning indictment. The structures occupying the Vatican are a “paramasonic structure,” a “neo-church” building a one-world religion. The visit to San Marino is just another brick in the edifice of the Antichrist. Non praevalebunt (Matt 16:18)—but not through the diplomacy of antipopes, only through the fidelity of the Remnant clinging to Tradition, the true Mass, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
Source:
10 things to know about San Marino ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.08.2026