National Catholic Register (EWTN) reports on September 23, 2026, that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes from September 25–28 under the naturalistic motto “That the World May Have Life.” The visit centers on a staged meeting with seven abuse victims and a closed-door address to the French episcopate, both orchestrated to manage the fallout of the 2021 CIASE report estimating 330,000 victims since 1950. Concurrently, the shrine’s rector, Bishop Jean-Marc Micas, has covered mosaics by the accused predator Marko Rupnik—a cosmetic gesture hailed as “welcoming everyone.” This grotesque pageantry exposes the conciliar sect’s irreducible bankruptcy: it substitutes public relations for supernatural justice, naturalistic “dialogue” for the Kingship of Christ, and Masonic damage control for the immutable doctrine of the Faith.
The Usurper on the Throne: Ipso Facto Deposed by Manifest Heresy
The entire edifice of this “pastoral visit” rests on the foundational lie that Robert Prevost holds the Primacy of Peter. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology—the sole criterion of truth—he is a manifest heretic who, by that very fact (ipso facto), has severed himself from the Mystical Body and lost all jurisdiction. St. Robert Bellarmine, the Church’s great doctor on the Roman Pontiff, teaches with unshakeable authority: “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, lib. 2, cap. 30). Bellarmine clarifies that this deposition requires no declaratory sentence by men; heretics “are already outside the Church before excommunication and deprived of all jurisdiction… condemned by their own judgment” (Titus 3:10-11).
Prevost’s entire “pontificate” is a manifestation of the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. He embodies the “evolution of dogma” (prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”), the denial of the Church’s divine constitution (prop. 52: “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries”), and the reduction of revelation to religious experience (prop. 20). As a manifest adherent of the Vatican II revolution—religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the “new Mass”—he falls under the anathema of Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: his “promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The “bishops” he addresses in Lourdes are, in the vast majority, invalidly ordained via the Paul VI rite (1968), devoid of sacramental character and canonical mission, constituting a pseudo-hierarchy occupying the visible structures of the Church—the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The CIASE Report: The Bitter Harvest of the Conciliar Revolution
The cited article treats the Commission Indépendante sur les Abus Sexuels dans l’Église (CIASE) report as an external catastrophe befalling an otherwise healthy institution. This is a diabolical inversion of reality. The explosion of clerical pederasty and sacrilege from 1950 onward is not an accident; it is the necessary fruit of the Modernist poison injected into the Church’s veins by the “Second Vatican Council.” When the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition 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), it identifies the root of the current chaos. The conciliar sect surrendered the Church’s immunity, her disciplinary canons, her ascetical theology, and her seminaries to the spirit of the world.
The 1917 Code (Canon 188 §4) declared that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The post-conciliar “clergy” publicly defected by embracing the “hermeneutic of rupture,” the New Mass (a Protestantized meal stripping the propitiatory sacrifice), and the novel “theology of the body” that relativizes the sixth and ninth commandments. The CIASE figure of 330,000 victims is the statistical monument to the destruction of the priestly character wrought by the “renewal.” As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The shaking we witness in Lourdes is the collapse of the neo-church, built on the sand of humanism, not the Rock of Peter.
The Rupnik Cover-Up: Whitewashing the Synagogue of Satan
The covering of Marko Rupnik’s mosaics with banners is the perfect metaphor for the conciliar sect’s operation: cosmetic concealment of putrefaction. Rupnik—a “priest” of the Society of Jesus (itself a spearhead of Modernism since the 1960s), accused of heinous spiritual and sexual abuse of religious women, excommunicated (ferendae sententiae) then summarily “reconciled” by the Bergoglio regime without public penance—is the icon of the neo-church. His art, a visual theology of the “anthropological turn” (man centered, Christ diminished), adorns the very shrines and nunciatures of the usurpers.
Bishop Micas’s statement—“My role is to ensure that the shrine welcomes everyone, especially those who are suffering”—reveals the anti-Catholic anthropology at work. The Church’s role is not to “welcome everyone” indiscriminately but to convert sinners and defend the holiness of God’s House. Our Lord whipped the money-changers from the Temple (John 2:15); the neo-church hangs banners over the idols to avoid offending the “wounded.” The “trial at the Vatican” mentioned in the article is a theatrical farce within a structure that has no canonical legitimacy. True justice would demand the razing of the profaned basilica and the public excommunication of the heresiarch Rupnik by a legitimate Pope—neither of which exists in the current occupation.
“Dialogue,” “Human Life,” and the Denial of Christ the King
The article’s language is saturated with the vocabulary of the Masonic Enlightenment: “respect for human life in all stages,” “dialogue,” “institutional contempt,” “peace and conflict.” The victims’ declaration—“To engage in dialogue [with Pope Leo] does not mean to endorse. To be received does not mean to renounce our demands”—encapsulates the spirit of the age: rights without duties, victims without sin, justice without God. This is the direct fruit of the condemned proposition (Syllabus, Error 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Having dethroned Christ the King socially (Pius XI, Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses… all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”), the conciliar sect has nothing left but secular human rights discourse.
The motto “That the World May Have Life” (John 10:10) is wrenched from its soteriological context—supernatural life through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the Sacraments—and reduced to a slogan for temporal well-being and trauma therapy. The “meeting with ailing pilgrims” is staged for cameras, a parody of the true pastoral charity which seeks the salus animarum above all. As Pius XI warns: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men”—but this harmony is impossible without the reign of Christ. The Lourdes visit is a pilgrimage to the altar of the “Goddess Reason,” not the Immaculate Conception.
Lourdes Profaned: The Sanctuary as Stage for the Abomination
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, approved by the true Magisterium (Pius IX, 1862; Leo XIII), has been seized by the paramasonic structure. The Immaculate Virgin appeared to St. Bernadette to call for penance, penance, penance and prayer for the conversion of sinners. Today, her shrine hosts the usurper Prevost, the invalid “bishops” of France, and the covered idols of Rupnik, to perform a liturgy of “inclusion” and “trauma-informed care.” The miraculous waters, channels of physical and spiritual healing through faith, are reduced to a backdrop for a media event managing the public relations crisis of a criminal syndicate masquerading as the Church.
The exclusion of the Bétharram victims’ collective—denounced as “institutional contempt”—exposes the sect’s totalitarian control of narrative. Only the “approved” victims, those who speak the language of “dialogue” and “restorative justice” (Modernist novelties), are granted audience. The true Catholic response to such scandal is not a “listening session” with an antipope, but the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, the revival of the strict seminary discipline of Trent, the public condemnation of the Vatican II errors, and the recognition of the Vacant See until God provides a true Pontiff.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Neo-Church
This Lourdes spectacle is a masterpiece of the “Father of Lies.” It presents the spectacle of a false pope, surrounded by false bishops, in a profaned shrine, covering the art of a predator, to apologize for crimes committed by the very revolution they embody. There is no remedy in the conciliar sect. Its “response to abuse” is structurally incapable of justice because it has abolished the Law of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the Priesthood of Christ. The faithful must flee to the mountains (Matt. 24:16)—to the Mass of All Time, to the bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral Faith, to the true Church enduring in the catacombs. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church of Christ; but they have prevailed against the counterfeit church now occupying Lourdes.
Source:
Pope’s Lourdes Visit to Highlight Church’s Response to Abuse (ncregister.com)
Date: 23.09.2026