The Vatican News portal reports on the August 22, 2026 pastoral visit of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the Republic of San Marino, where he addressed the local conciliar community, invoking the legacy of Saints Marinus and Leo as models for a “communal and political model strongly characterized by the Christian principles of freedom, mutual respect, and communion.” The antipope urged youth to “open their hearts to the infinite,” called for “demanding choices” in vocation and social engagement, and insisted that in a world marked by conflict, the only response is to “walk with even greater conviction on the path of the Gospel.”
This discourse, entirely devoid of the Social Reign of Christ the King, the necessity of the unam sanctam Church for salvation, and the propitiatory nature of the Most Holy Sacrifice, exposes the thoroughgoing naturalism of the conciliar sect’s false magisterium.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to Generic Humanitarianism
The cited address manifests the quintessential conciliar error: the substitution of the Regnum Christi — established in truth, justice, love, and peace (Pius XI, Quas Primas) — with a vague, immanentist “Gospel path” reduced to conflict resolution and social cohesion. The antipope speaks of “freedom, mutual respect, and communion” as “Christian principles” translated into a “political model” by Saints Marinus and Leo, yet nowhere does he affirm that all authority comes from God (Rom 13:1), that civil society must explicitly confess Christ as King, or that the State has the duty to profess the Catholic religion and protect the Church’s rights (Immortale Dei, Leo XIII).
Pius XI teaches unequivocally: “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” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The antipope’s silence on this divine origin of authority — replacing it with “mutual respect” and “communion” — is not an omission but a positive profession of the condemned error of laicism (Syllabus, props. 39, 55, 77). The “Gospel” he proposes is a Gospel decapitated of its King, rendered harmless to the powers of this world.
The “Infinite” Without the Uncreated: Modernist Vague Spirituality
The exhortation to youth to “open their hearts to the infinite, rather than being satisfied with ‘partial, immediate answers'” is a classic modernist trope: the substitution of the Deus Revelatus — the Triune God made known in Christ and His Church — with an indeterminate religious sentiment. St. Pius X condemned the proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili sane exitu, prop. 20). The antipope’s “infinite” is the infinitum of liberal Protestantism, not the Ens a se who thundered from Sinai and Calvary.
No mention is made of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, of the necessity of baptism of water for salvation, of the state of grace, of the Four Last Things. The “encounter with God” is stripped of its mediatorial structure — Christ, the Church, the Sacraments — and presented as an autonomous spiritual experience. This is the religio naturalis condemned by Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus prop. 16) and the very essence of the “natural religion” the Syllabus anathematizes (prop. 78-79).
Education Severed from the Supernatural End
The address on education — “wise pastoral approach,” “baptismal and sacramental life,” “liturgy as an experience of unity” — betrays a purely sociological understanding of the Church’s mission. Parents are “primary teachers” not because they are bound by divine law to form their children for heaven (Divini Illius Magistri, Pius XI), but to “pass on Christian values” — that most insidious of modernist categories, which reduces dogma to “values” negotiable in the public square.
The call to “carefully cultivate liturgy as an experience of unity” reveals the conciliar inversion: the liturgy is not the actio Christi, the unbloody renewal of Calvary (Mediator Dei, Pius XII), but a horizontal “experience of unity” — the communio of the baptized as an end in itself. The Mass is not a “communal experience”; it is the Sacrifice of the Cross made present. To speak of “sacramental life” without the propitiatory, sacrificial, expiatory nature of the Mass — without the Real Presence, the priesthood, the altar — is to speak the language of the Novus Ordo assembly, not the Catholic Church.
Conflict Resolution Without the Cross: The Pelagianism of “Peace”
“In a world marked by conflict, our response can only be to walk with even greater conviction on the path of the Gospel.” This is the heresy of pacifism without the Cross. The true Gospel path to peace is per Crucem ad Lucem — through the Cross to the Light. Pius XI declared: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). The antipope offers a “peace that speaks to the world” — a peace of the world, not the pax Christi in regno Christi which the world cannot give (Jn 14:27).
The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (prop. 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (prop. 55). The antipope’s entire discourse operates within this condemned framework: a “Gospel” that asks nothing of the State but “mutual respect,” a “mission” that builds “fraternity and peace” without demanding the public profession of the true Faith. This is the laicism Pius XI called “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas).
The Saints as Founders of a Masonic Republic
The invocation of Saints Marinus and Leo as “laymen and stonemasons” who “translated the Gospel message into a new communal and political model” is a historical falsification serving the conciliar narrative of democratic Christianity. The Republic of San Marino, founded in the 4th century, was a confessional State explicitly Catholic in its laws and constitution — not a “model of freedom and mutual respect” in the liberal sense. To present these saints as precursors of religious liberty is to falsify history in service of the Masonic dogma that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Syllabus, prop. 55).
The antipope’s “mission to continue with perseverance and dedication to build upon what they began” is a mission to build the Civitas Hominis — the City of Man — under the guise of the Gospel. St. Augustine warns: “Two loves have made two cities: love of self unto contempt of God made the earthly city; love of God unto contempt of self made the heavenly city” (De Civitate Dei, XIV, 28). The conciliar sect builds the former while speaking the language of the latter.
Structural Apostasy: The “Church” as NGO
The entire address — addressed to the “ecclesial community,” thanking “priests, catechists, and other teachers,” speaking of “pastoral approach,” “baptismal life,” “liturgy,” “charity” — simulates the vocabulary of the Church while evacuating its substance. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15): a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, speaking of “Gospel” and “peace” while denying the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the damnation of those who die outside the true Faith.
The antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is not a successor of Peter but a usurper in the line of John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis — each a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of public heresy, ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). His “pastoral visit” is the visit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing to a flock already scattered by sixty years of conciliar poison.
Conclusion: The Gospel Without the King is Antichrist
The article from the Vatican News portal — the official organ of the conciliar sect — documents not a papal act but a revolutionary act: the continued imposition of the new religion of man upon the ruins of the City of God. Every phrase — “freedom, mutual respect, communion,” “open hearts to the infinite,” “Christian values,” “experience of unity,” “peace that speaks to the world” — is a brick in the construction of the Civitas Diaboli masquerading as the Church.
“He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who gathers not with Me scatters” (Mt 12:30). The antipope gathers not with Christ the King but with the world, the flesh, and the devil. The true Church — una, sancta, catholica, apostolica — endures in the catacombs of the faithful who keep the integral Faith, the Traditional Mass, and the Social Kingship of Christ. Let the conciliar sect have its “Gospel of peace”; we keep the Gospel of the Cross, the Crown, and the Kingdom.
Source:
Pope in San Marino: Respond to conflict by following Gospel (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.08.2026