The EWTN News portal reports that the personal surgeon of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), Dr. Stefano Margaritora, has issued a medical bulletin clearing the claimant for a November 6–17 junket to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru following lung adenocarcinoma surgery on October 13. The article breathlessly details clinical metrics—blood tests, heart function, lung re-expansion—and stages an anecdote of the claimant arranging chapel chairs as proof of his “determination.” This spectacle reduces the papal office to a geriatric health bulletin, confirming the conciliar sect’s total abandonment of the supernatural for the naturalistic.
The Usurper’s Health as Secular Propaganda
The conciliar sect’s media apparatus, here amplified by the neo-conservative outlet EWTN, treats the physical vitality of a manifest heretic as a matter of ecclesial import. Dr. Margaritora’s declaration—“No clinical reasons why it should not take place”—elevates a secular medical opinion to the status of a canonical decree. The article notes the tumor was discovered during “routine abdominal examinations” and that the patient “had no respiratory symptoms and felt perfectly well.” This narrative serves a purely propagandistic function: to project an image of vigorous governance onto a vacant See. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ”; there is no peace, no mission, no authority in the health updates of a usurper who has ipso facto severed himself from the Mystical Body by adherence to the Vatican II religion.
EWTN: Mouthpiece of the Neo-Church
EWTN News functions as a loyal organ of the “Church of the New Advent,” disseminating the antichurch’s self-justifying mythology. The portal’s staff, stationed in Washington and Rome, frames the surgeon’s press conference as “news concerning the Catholic Church around the world.” In reality, it is the public relations output of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The article’s closing newsletter solicitation—“Which newsletter would you like? Daily Weekly”—exposes the commercial, bureaucratic nature of this enterprise. It peddles not the Depositum Fidei but the cult of personality surrounding the current claimant to the Chair of Peter.
The “Apostolic Trip”: A Political Pilgrimage of the Antichurch
The planned itinerary—Uruguay, Argentina, Peru—is not an apostolic mission but a political tour by the head of a false religion. The term “apostolic journey” is a brazen misnomer. An apostle teaches omnes gentes to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded (Matt. 28:20). This claimant travels to confirm the nations in the errors of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality—the very errors condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The Syllabus anathematizes the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Leo XIV’s trip is the embodiment of that condemned error.
Staged Humility: The Chair Anecdote as Theater
The surgeon’s staged vignette—“On the second day after the operation, the medical staff found him arranging the chairs in the chapel himself… ‘Holy Father, we can do that.’ But Leo replied: ‘It doesn’t matter. I can do it, so I will.'”—is calculated theater. It mimics the external gestures of humility while the substance of the papacy—the munus of confirming the brethren in the true Faith—has been jettisoned. This is the theatrum mundi of the conciliar religion: optics replace ontology. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic “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). No chair-arranging can restore the jurisdiction lost by public defection from the Faith.
The Theological Nullity of a Manifest Heretic’s Itinerary
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Robert Prevost, as a public adherent of the Vatican II sect—professing false ecumenism, religious liberty, and the new ecclesiology—has defected from the Catholic Faith. His medical fitness for travel is theologically irrelevant. The faithful are not bound to follow a wolf in shepherd’s clothing. The Syllabus condemns the idea 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). Today, the “civil power” of the medical establishment and the media defines the “pope’s” capacity to rule.
Conclusion: No Pope, No Mission, Only Apostasy
The entire episode—surgery, recovery, medical clearance, media rollout—is a liturgy of the conciliar religion: the worship of man, the exaltation of the natural, the erasure of the supernatural. The true Church, sede vacante, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid bishops and priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and preserve the Depositum Fidei intact. The structures occupying the Vatican parade their usurper’s lung function as a sign of life; in truth, it is the death rattle of a corpse that ceased to be the Church in 1958. Non est papa. The Chair is empty. The mission is a mirage. The faithful must cleave to Tradition, extra quam non est salus.
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Pope’s surgeon green lights Nov. 6–17 apostolic trip to Latin America (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.10.2026