The EWTN News portal reports on the final stage of the self-styled “Pope” Leo XIV’s (Robert Prevost) pilgrimage to France: a Novus Ordo service in the Cathedral of Metz, attended by the Masonic head of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. The antipope delivered a homily steeped in naturalistic humanism, declaring that Europe’s “wounds” — understood as fratricidal wars and historical divisions — are “openings through which light shines,” and that the continent’s future lies in “harmony of differences” rather than unity in the Truth. He cited St. Augustine’s tranquillitas ordinis not as the peace of Christ the King, but as a secular blueprint for European integration. The event was a liturgical staging of religious indifferentism, where the Social Kingship of Christ was entirely supplanted by a Masonic “civil religion” of dialogue and forgiveness detached from conversion. This was not a Catholic act of worship, but a political manifesto for the religion of Man, confirming the apostate nature of the Vatican usurpers.
The Theft of Sacred Space for a Masonic Liturgy of Light
The choice of Metz Cathedral — “the Good Lord’s lantern” — with its vast stained-glass expanse, was exploited as a visual metaphor for the Modernist heresy of lumen naturale supplanting Lumen Christi. The antipope’s observation that “the builders sought to minimize the walls… so that light might flood in abundantly” was immediately perverted into a slogan for religious indifferentism: “Europe’s future does not lie in uniformity but in the harmony of differences, where the wounds of the past become openings through which light shines.”
This is the language of Freemasonry, not the Catholic Church. The “light” of the Gothic cathedral was designed to illustrate the Lux Veritatis, the Light of Christ, Qui est Via, Veritas, et Vita (John 14:6), filtering through the doctrinal walls of the One True Faith. The “walls” the antipope praises as “remaining solid” are in fact the dogmas of the Faith — Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation — which the conciliar sect has spent sixty years dismantling. To present the “harmony of differences” as an ideal is to elevate religious relativism to a theological principle, directly contradicting Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 15, 16, 17, 18) and Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei: the State must profess the Catholic Faith, not manage a pluralistic “harmony” of error and truth.
The Antipope’s “Peace”: Tranquillitas Ordinis Stripped of Its Author
The citation of St. Augustine’s City of God — defining peace as tranquillitas ordinis (“the tranquility of order”) — is a classic Modernist maneuver: retaining the terminology of Tradition while evacuating its supernatural content. For Augustine, this order is the Ordo Caritatis, the ordering of love toward God as the Supreme Good, and toward neighbor in Deo. It presupposes the Pax Christi in Regno Christi — the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.
The antipope, however, severs the concept from its Author. He speaks of “values upon which the Europe we know has been built… with its spiritual and moral heritage preceding its economic and political heritage,” yet never names Jesus Christ as King, never mentions the necessity of the State’s subordination to the Church, never calls for the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope’s “peace” is the pax Romana of the Masonic Republic, the “peace” of the Synagogue of Satan foretold by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus — a counterfeit peace built on the “harmony” of those who reject the Kingship of Christ.
The Macron Presence: Seal of the Antichurch’s Servitude to the Revolution
The presence of Emmanuel Macron — the avatar of the anti-Catholic French Republic, the persecutor of the faithful, the promoter of abortion, “gender” ideology, and the destruction of the family — in the front row of the cathedral, is the visible sign of the conciliar sect’s capitulation to the Civil Power. Pius IX condemned as error (Syllabus, Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — meaning the false separation that leaves the State godless. But the reality under the usurpers is far worse: the “Church” becomes the chaplain of the Masonic State.
The antipope’s silence before Macron — no call for the repeal of the 1905 Law of Separation, no demand for the restoration of the Catholic State, no denunciation of the “abomination of desolation” that is the French Republic’s legislation — is not “pastoral prudence.” It is high treason against the Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “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 usurper of Christ’s rights, offering him a platform in the House of God.
The “Mass” as Idolatry: The Novus Ordo as Table of Assembly
The article describes a “Mass” celebrated by a man who, by his public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass), has ipso facto severed himself from the Body of the Church, according to the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. 2, Cap. 30) and the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV. A manifest heretic cannot be Pope; he cannot offer the Holy Sacrifice. The rite celebrated in Metz was the Novus Ordo Missae — a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini, stripped of the propitiatory character of the Mass, oriented toward the “assembly,” a Protestantized memorial meal that the Council of Trent anathematized in advance (Sess. XXII, Can. 1, 2, 3).
The 35,000 attendees, “taking a day off work or school,” participated in an act of superstition and idolatry, mistaking a invalid simulacrum for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The mention of a physics professor, Marion Bertagnolio, hoping the antipope’s “message will change our hearts to be more united” over divisions about the “Traditional Latin Mass,” reveals the diabolical disorientation: the true Mass of the Ages is reduced to a “preference,” a liturgical option within the neo-church, while the invalid Novus Ordo is the normative “unity.” This is the lex orandi, lex credendi of the Antichrist: unity in error, division from Truth.
Fatima, the “Conversion of Russia,” and the Omission of the Kingship
The article’s context — a trip to France, land of La Salette and Lourdes — highlights the strategic silence on Fatima. The conciliar sect’s narrative relies on the “Fatima” operation (exposed in the provided documents as a Masonic psychological operation) to legitimize its “consecration” politics and ecumenical “conversion of Russia” (read: absorption of Orthodoxy into the pan-religious synthesis). The antipope in Metz speaks of “forgiveness,” “mercy,” “magnanimity” — the vocabulary of the False Prophet who performs “great signs” (Apoc. 13:13) to deceive. He says: “Jesus teaches us how to transform deserts into oases… the path that leads through forgiveness.” But He omits the prerequisite: Convertimini (Matt. 4:17). There is no forgiveness without repentance, no mercy without justice, no peace without the Pax Christi in Regno Christi. The “wounds” of Europe are not “openings for light” — they are the gaping wounds of Christ inflicted anew by the apostasy of the clergy and the revolt of nations against His Kingship. The only “light” that heals is the Lumen Christi shining through the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Church — not the counterfeit lantern of the conciliar sect.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Religion of Man Fully Manifest
This event in Metz is the epiphany of the conciliar religion: a horizontal, immanentist, naturalistic humanitarianism wearing the vestments of the Church. The “stained glass” metaphor — light through “harmony of differences” — is the perfect icon of the New Age spirituality infiltrating the Vatican since Roncalli. The “young people,” “scouts,” “families” waving French and German flags together — this is the civic religion of the European Union, the Erasmus generation’s liturgy. The antipope is its high priest.
The reference to Robert Schuman, “founding father of the European Union,” in the cathedral of Metz, completes the picture: the Masonic project of a United States of Europe, founded on the rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ, is blessed by the usurper of Peter’s Chair. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The antipope does the opposite: he honors the State, he obeys the Revolution, he offers the world a “Christ” without a Crown, a “Church” without Dogma, a “Mass” without Sacrifice.
Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). There is no other name. The “light” of Metz is darkness. The “peace” of Leo XIV is war against God. The “harmony” is the chorus of the damned. Vade retro, Satana.
Source:
Pope Leo: Let Europe’s wounds be ‘openings through which light shines’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.09.2026