Vatican News portal reports on the Republic of San Marino’s preparations to welcome the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) on 22 August 2026, depicting a scene of humanitarian sentimentality entirely stripped of the supernatural order. Disabled residents and elderly pensioners craft rosaries in national colors, request prayers for temporal “peace,” and reminisce about previous visits by the apostate John Paul II. The Salesian rector of the Basilica, Fr. Marco Mazzanti, speaks of “rediscovering roots” in “freedom, truth and Christian love” — a Masonic triad substituting for the Catholic Faith — while citing the antipope’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, a title betraying the cult of man. This visit is not a pastoral act but a staged propaganda event for the conciliar sect’s religion of humanity.
The Theatrics of a Usurper in a Masonic Microstate
The article from the official mouthpiece of the structures occupying the Vatican presents a carefully choreographed tableau: paper sea creatures hanging from ceilings, residents clutching printed thoughts in transparent sleeves, a “rosary with white and light-blue beads — the colours of the Republic.” This is the liturgy of the neo-church: purely horizontal, anthropocentric, and devoid of the Cross. The antipope Leo XIV, a manifest heretic who by that very fact ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), travels not as Vicar of Christ but as a head of state of the paramasonic structure, legitimizing a republic founded on the very principles condemned by the Syllabus of Errors. Pius IX anathematized the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). San Marino, a relic of the Risorgimento’s Masonic dismantling of the Papal States, embodies these errors; the antipope’s visit consecrates them.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to “Values” and “Peace”
The Salesian rector declares that Saint Marinus founded the community upon “the values of freedom, truth and Christian love.” This is the language of the Enlightenment, not the Gospel. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s 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.” The encyclical condemns the “plague” of “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The article’s silence on Christ the King — whose feast Pius XI instituted precisely to combat this apostasy — is deafening. The residents ask for “peace” (Marinella Casali: “pray for peace because… so many children dying under bombs”; Margherita Scagliola: “the Pope who speaks to her every Sunday about peace and urges her to reject war”). This is the pax humana of the Masonic lodges, not the pax Christi in regno Christi. As Pius XI warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The neo-church offers the world a “peace” without the Prince of Peace, a “fraternity” without the Fatherhood of God.
The Salesian Complicity: “Three Loves” Without the First Commandment
Fr. Mazzanti invokes Don Bosco’s “three great spiritual loves: Jesus in the Eucharist, Mary the Mother of God, and the Supreme Pontiff.” In the mouth of a conciliar “priest,” this is blasphemous equivocation. The “Jesus in the Eucharist” of the new rite is a community meal; the “Mary” is the ecumenical “woman of faith” of Lumen Gentium; the “Supreme Pontiff” is the usurper on the throne of Peter. The Salesians, once guardians of youth, now educate through a “Preventive System” severed from extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. They prepare the ground for the antipope with “a presentation of Pope Leo’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas” — a title that could serve as the manifesto of the cultus hominis condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili sane exitu. The document Lamentabili condemns the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). Magnifica Humanitas is the doctrinal fruit of this error: a “magisterium” of man, by man, for man.
Automatic Loss of Office: The Canonical Reality Ignored by the Neo-Church
The entire spectacle presupposes the legitimacy of Robert Prevost as “Pope.” This is the foundational lie. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” ab initio. Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by which things he may be judged and punished by the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) has publicly defected from the Faith through the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass. Leo XIV, as a willing participant and promoter of this apostasy, is not a Pope but a layman, canonically incapable of any act of jurisdiction. His visit to San Marino is a private journey of a heretic, invested with zero supernatural authority. The faithful of San Marino, misled by the conciliar hierarchy, render him the honors due to the Vicar of Christ — this is idolatria, the worship of a creature in place of God.
The “Gifts” of the Faithful: Simony of Sentiment
The residents’ gifts — a rosary in national colors, a letter of “values, ideas and reflections” — symbolize the neo-church’s inversion: the nation replaces the Church; human “values” replace the Commandments; sentiment replaces grace. The director, Francesca Civerchia, speaks of helping residents “fully understand, from their own perspective, the importance of the moment.” This is the pedagogical fruit of Modernism: the subject becomes the measure of truth. Lamentabili condemns: “The Church listening cooperates… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). The elderly residents recall John Paul II (1982) — the same apostate who kissed the Quran, assembled false religions at Assisi, and promulgated the 1983 Code abolishing the Church’s coercive power. Their memory is a chain of apostasy. Nazareno Carattoni recalls a visit to the Vatican Museums — the very repositories of the Faith now curated by the enemies of the Faith. Margherita Scagliola rejoices to greet the man who “speaks to her every Sunday about peace.” This is the “Church of the New Advent”: a weekly humanitarian broadcast, not the Ecclesia docens teaching the deposit of Faith.
Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The Basilica of San Marino, built on the remains of a fourth-century church housing the relics of Saint Marinus, becomes the stage for the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15). The Rector says preparations mean “rediscovering the roots of this people, which lie in an ideal of freedom deeply grounded in Christian values.” An “ideal of freedom” is not the Catholic Faith. The Syllabus condemns: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3). The neo-church’s “Christian values” are the secularized husk of Christianity, drained of dogma, sacrifice, and the necessitas medii of the Church. The visit concludes at the Basilica — not to offer the Most Holy Sacrifice (the true Mass having been suppressed in the conciliar sect), but to receive a “blessing” from a layman in white. This is the opus operatum of the Antichrist: a parody of the papal visit, a media event to reinforce the illusion of legitimacy for the paramasonic structure occupying Rome.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Neo-Church’s Humanitarianism
The article ends with a plea for donations: “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home.” The words of the antipope are the words of a heretic; they bring not life but death. St. Pius X teaches in Pascendi that Modernism is “the synthesis of all heresies.” The San Marino visit synthesizes the neo-church’s entire program: naturalism (focus on temporal peace and disability), indifferentism (no call to conversion, no mention of the one true Church), democratization (the “people’s pope” meeting the marginalized), ecumenism (Salesians collaborating with the usurper). The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where bishops with valid orders offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, where the Kingship of Christ is proclaimed over all nations, where the Syllabus and Quas Primas remain the charter of Catholic action. San Marino awaits a man; the faithful await the Parousia of the King. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Prayer, anticipation and hard work: How San Marino awaits Pope Leo (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.08.2026