The CNA portal reports on the activities of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) in Rimini, Italy, on August 22, 2026. The usurper visited the cathedral—occupied by the conciliar sect—to address the sick and disabled with the slogan “You are home,” urging them to participate in the “life of the Church” within the paramasonic structures, and later celebrated the invalid Novus Ordo service at the port. This spectacle epitomizes the post-conciliar apostasy: the replacement of the divine mandate for the conversion of souls and the social reign of Christ the King with a naturalistic, horizontal philanthropy devoid of supernatural grace, dogmatic truth, and the propitiatory Sacrifice.
The Usurpation of the Papacy and the Nullity of the Pseudo-Sacrifice
The very premise of the report—that Robert Prevost acts as “Pope” and “Holy Father”—is a manifest usurpation of the Petrine Office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, 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”. Prevost, by his public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II—religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology—has ipso facto severed himself from the Church. The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal assent. Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code confirms that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith”. Therefore, the man in Rimini holds no jurisdiction; he is a private individual simulating the Supreme Pontificate.
Consequently, the “Mass” celebrated at the Port of Rimini was not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal, fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini and promulgated by the antipope Paul VI. It lacks the forma and intentio required for the Consecration, reducing the Most Holy Eucharist to a symbol of community self-celebration. To speak of “receiving Communion” in this context is not merely sacrilege; it is idolatry, worshipping a bread-god of the neo-church’s own making.
Anthropocentric Horizontalism: The Subversion of the Supernatural Order
The antipope’s address—“You are home”—reveals the coup de grâce of the conciliar revolution: the inversion of the Church’s finality. The Church, as Quas Primas solemnly teaches, is the “Kingdom of Christ on earth”, instituted for the salus animarum through the regnum gratiae leading to the regnum gloriae. Its mission is not to provide a sentimental “home” for the afflicted in their suffering, but to convert sinners, confer sanctifying grace via the Sacraments, and subject all men to the sweet yoke of Christ the King.
Pius XI warns: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The antipope’s rhetoric—“places of welcome and service,” “embracing, gathering, welcoming, liberating, forgiving, emancipating”—is pure humanitarian naturalism. It mirrors the Masonic triad of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité baptized in Christian vocabulary. There is zero mention of the Cross, of penance, of the necessity of Baptism for salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus), of the reality of Hell, or of the Social Kingship of Christ over civil society. The sick are not directed to the Extreme Unction of the true rite or to the merit of suffering united to the Crucified; they are pacified with a horizontal “welcome.”
The Language of the Neo-Church: Equivocation and the Destruction of Catholic Concepts
The linguistic engineering on display is diabolical. Terms like “Church,” “parish,” “associations,” “baptized,” “Holy Father” are employed with their significata entirely evacuated. The “Church” referenced is the conciliar sect, the ecclesia novae adventus, which the Syllabus of Pius IX condemns when it errors that “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The “parishes” are administrative units of a false religion. The “baptized” referenced are often subjects of the invalid new rite of Baptism (matter/form defects, intention to do what the Church of the New Advent does).
The antipope urges participation in “Church life… in associations”. This is the activism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59, 63, 64): the reduction of Christianity to a “religious movement… applicable to different times and places”, denying the immutability of dogma and the necessity of the hierarchical constitution. The true Catholic participates in the life of the Church by assisting at the True Mass, keeping the Commandments, professing the integral Faith, and rejecting communion with heretics (2 Cor 6:14-17).
“God is Simple”: Modernist Immanence and the Denial of Divine Transcendence
The citation of St. Paul—“God is simple, because he is pure charity, and calls us also to love with a heart similar to his”—is wrested from its dogmatic context to serve Modernist immanence. Lamentabili condemns the proposition that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and that “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The antipope reduces the Simplicitas Dei (God’s metaphysical simplicity—Essence = Existence) to a moralistic sentimentality: “God is nice, so be nice.”
This is the heresy of action (Prop. 26, 59, 63). It severs charity from veritas and justitia. True charity “rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6). One cannot “conform our ways to His ways” while rejecting the Magisterium that defines those ways (Trent, Vatican I, Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII). The antipope’s “God” is an idol of the cult of man, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples: A Synodal Farce of Religious Indifferentism
The context—the 47th Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples (Communion & Liberation)—exposes the ecumenical and interreligious core of the event. This is the practical application of the condemned errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Syllabus, Error 15); “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16); “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18).
The “Friendship” promoted is fraternity without paternity—brotherhood without the Fatherhood of God and the Kingship of Christ. It is the synodal church of the Antichrist: a parliament of religions where the Una, Sancta, Catholica, et Apostolica is reduced to one “voice” among many. The antipope’s visit to San Marino (a Masonic microstate) prior to Rimini completes the picture: the paramasonic structure legitimizing the civil power over the spiritual, exactly as Pius IX condemned (Syllabus, Errors 39, 41, 42, 55).
Conclusion: Non Praevalebunt — The Remnant Keeps the Faith
The Rimini spectacle is a theatrical distraction from the apostasy of the hierarchy. The true Church—Ecclesia Militans—does not reside in the cathedrals occupied by the usurpers, nor in the “welcoming associations” of the neo-church. She resides in the faithful bishops and priests retaining valid Orders and the True Mass, in the families preserving the Catechism of Trent, in the souls adhering to Quas Primas and the Syllabus, crying out: Non possumus to the novelties.
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.'” — Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas
The remedy is not “participation in the life of the [conciliar] Church,” but separation from the abomination (Apoc 18:4), adherence to the Sede Vacante reality, and the imploration of the true Christ the King: Adveniat Regnum Tuum.
Source:
‘You Are Home’: Pope Leo XIV Meets With Sick, Disabled Residents at Rimini (ncregister.com)
Date: 23.08.2026