EWTN News portal reports on the second day of the self-styled “Pope” Leo XIV’s (Robert Prevost) apostatic journey through France, a meticulously staged spectacle of naturalistic humanitarianism masquerading as pastoral care. The itinerary — Maison Bakhita migrant center, Catholic Institute of Paris, open-air Novus Ordo service at Place de la Concorde, and veneration at the Lourdes grotto — reads as a manifesto of the conciliar sect’s total apostasy: the substitution of the social reign of Christ the King (regnum Christi socialis) with the Masonic religion of humanity. This is not a shepherd feeding the flock; it is a hireling scattering the sheep to the wolves of secularism.
The Usurper’s Procession: A Parody of the Papacy
The article opens with the phrase “Pope Leo XIV continued his apostolic journey.” There is no apostolic journey; there is only the itinerary of a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass — has severed himself from the Mystical Body and therefore cannot hold the keys of Peter. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Robert Prevost, by accepting and promoting the Vatican II revolution, is a manifest heretic; his “visit” is the parade of a usurper occupying the See of Peter sede vacante.
The EWTN report notes an “estimated 800,000 people gathered.” Numbers are the idol of the conciliar sect. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “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.” The multitude at Place de la Concorde — the very square where the guillotine drank the blood of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the altar of the French Revolution — acclaiming an antipope is the fulfillment of the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The “Mass” celebrated there is not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal, invalid in form and intention, offered by a man without jurisdiction, before a crowd that believes it worships Christ while actually rendering homage to the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15).
Maison Bakhita: The Gospel of Migration Replaces the Gospel of Salvation
The first stop: Maison Bakhita Center for “Social Support and Integration.” The article states the antipope listened to “stories of migrants.” Not a word of conversion, baptism, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), or the danger of false religions. This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 58: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter… and the gratification of pleasure” — here transmuted into social work). The “integration” offered is integration into the secular city, not into the Kingdom of Christ. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). The Bakhita Center embodies this: a vague “spirituality of welcome” replacing the mandatum of “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. 28:19).
The name “Bakhita” itself — St. Josephine Bakhita, canonized by the antipope John Paul II in 2000 — is weaponized. A true saint reduced to a mascot for the UN migration compact. The antipope’s presence blesses the agenda of the Masonic lodges that seek to dissolve Christendom through demographic replacement. The Syllabus, Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — here realized in the Church becoming an NGO servicing the State’s population replacement policies.
Catholic Institute of Paris: The Forge of Modernist Apostasy
Next, the “Catholic Institute of Paris” — a citadel of Modernism since the condemnation of Loisy and Le Roy. The antipope meets “new and prospective Catholics and their leaders.” Prospective Catholics? The terminology betrays the Protestantized ecclesiology of the conciliar sect: consumers shopping for a spiritual product, not converts seeking the una salus. The article mentions he “prays in the historic Church of Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes.” Prayer in a church stripped of the True Sacrifice, where the Tabernacle is often a mere ornament, is a farce. Lamentabili, Prop. 22: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts.” This is the air breathed at the Institut Catholique. The antipope’s address there (referenced in related articles as addressing “surprising Catholic growth”) doubtlessly celebrated the growth of the counter-church, not the harvest of souls for the true Faith.
Place de la Concorde: The Revolution’s Altar
The open-air “Mass” at Place de la Concorde is the theological centerpiece of the rebellion. Eight hundred thousand souls assembled for a liturgical fabrication that denies the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Real Presence (by its very rubrics of communion in the hand, standing, lay ministers), and the Priesthood. The photos show “Bishops and cardinals concelebrate” — the conciliar “presbyterate” concelebrating invalidly, a practice unknown to Tradition and condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXII, can. 4: “If any one saith, that… a sacrifice is not offered… let him be anathema”). The antipope “incenses the altar” — a table, not an altar of sacrifice. The crowd “prays” — but lex orandi, lex credendi; their prayer is the prayer of the new religion.
Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely against this: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Instead, the antipope establishes the reign of the Antichrist in the very heart of the “eldest daughter of the Church,” now the eldest daughter of the Revolution. The Golden Rose offered at Lourdes (see below) is the bribe of the usurper to the false shrine.
Lourdes: The Golden Rose for a False Apparition
The day concludes at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. The antipope “touches the rock at the grotto,” “prays at the grotto,” and “honors the statue of the Immaculate Conception… with a Golden Rose.” This is idolatry compounded. The “False Fatima Apparitions” file, while addressing Fatima, establishes the principle: approved private revelations after the apostolic age are not guaranteed by infallibility and often serve as tools of diversion from the true crisis — modernist apostasy within. Lourdes (1858) escapes the specific Masonic dating analysis of Fatima (1717/1917/2017), but its fruit is identical: a cult of sentimentality, miraculous healings as spectacle, and a “message” that says nothing about the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church, or the condemnation of the errors of the age (liberalism, socialism, freemasonry). The “Immaculate Conception” statue receives a Golden Rose from a heretic — “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Syllabus, Prop. 21) is the practical theology here. The antipope honors a statue while denying the Dogma by his communion with those who deny it (Protestants, Orthodox, Jews, Muslims, pagans) in the “spirit of Assisi.”
The “False Fatima” file’s analysis of the “Masonic Operation” applies mutatis mutandis: “Disinformation strategy… Stage 3: Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” Lourdes has been fully ecumenized; the grotto hosts interreligious prayer. The Golden Rose is the seal of the conciliar sect’s ownership of the apparition site, transforming a potential call to penance into a tourist pilgrimage for the new humanitarian religion.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Counter-Church
The source, EWTN News, is described as “a team of journalists dedicated to reporting news concerning the Catholic Church around the world.” It is the media ministry of the conciliar sect, founded by the Modernist “Mother Angelica,” canonized by the same false machinery. Its reporting — “photos,” “recap,” “waves to crowds,” “blesses a disabled man” — is pure hagiography for the antipope. It omits the only relevant facts: the invalidity of the “Mass,” the heresy of the “pope,” the apostasy of the “bishops,” the damnation of souls confirmed in false religion. The “Privacy Policy” and “Subscribe” footer reveal the commercial nature: the salvation of souls reduced to email marketing.
The Silence That Condemns
The gravest accusation is what the article does not say. Not one mention of: sin, hell, judgment, the necessity of baptism, the True Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ, the condemnation of the French Revolution’s principles, the duty of the State to profess Catholicism (Syllabus, Prop. 77-78), the rights of God (jura Dei). The antipope’s “prayer” at Lourdes is private, content unknown — likely the vague “spirituality of encounter” that passes for prayer in the neo-church. Quas Primas declares: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The antipope does the opposite: he validates the secular Republic, blesses its “integration” centers, and offers the Golden Rose to a shrine that has become a symbol of the Church’s surrender to the world.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing Where It Ought Not
This “journey” is a theatrum mundi of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3-4). The antipope Leo XIV, the conciliar “bishops,” the Novus Ordo “Mass,” the humanitarian centers, the ecumenized shrines, the media propaganda — all form one coherent system: the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, the Church of the New Advent, the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) pretending to be the Bride of Christ. The faithful remnant, adhering to the integral Catholic faith of the pre-1958 Magisterium, recognizes these images not as “the Holy Father in France” but as the mystery of iniquity (2 Thess. 2:7) advancing its final phase. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing the hymn Crudelis Herodes). The antipope gives away the Kingdom of Heaven for the earthly things of migrant centers, media acclaim, and Golden Roses. Vade retro me, Satana (Matt. 16:23).
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV visits Paris and Lourdes on second day of France trip (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.09.2026