The Vatican News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed a letter dated November 1, 2026, to the French episcopate gathered in Lourdes for their autumn plenary assembly. The letter expresses gratitude for the “unforgettable experience” of his September apostolic journey, urges a “Christ-centered educational mission” while simultaneously extolling “freedom of conscience,” invokes the saints as mere “witnesses” for spiritual strength, and calls for accompaniment of abuse victims under the banner of “holiness entails charity in truth.” The assembly was presided over by the modernist Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille. This communication is not a pastoral act but a manifesto of the conciliar sect’s enduring apostasy: it subordinates the Social Kingship of Christ to the Masonic dogma of religious liberty, reduces the supernatural order to humanitarian sentiment, and exploits the suffering of abuse victims to legitimize a pseudo-hierarchy that has abandoned the very faith necessary for true justice.
The Usurper’s Voice: A False Shepherd Leading the Flock to Slaughter
The very premise of the article — that a “Pope Leo XIV” exists and exercises legitimate authority over the Church in France — is the primary fraud. Since the death of Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant; the line of claimants beginning with John XXIII are not popes but usurpers, instruments of the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel and confirmed by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). Robert Prevost, a creature of the conciliar revolution, possesses no jurisdiction, no mission, and no charism of infallibility. His “apostolic journey” was a political tour by a layman dressed in white, validated only by the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican. 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, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). The “bishops” who received him — Aveline and his confrères — are equally devoid of canonical mission, having received their orders and appointments from the same invalid lineage. Their “plenary assembly” is a meeting of a schismatic sect, not a gathering of the Catholic episcopate.
“Freedom of Conscience”: The Masonic Error Condemned by Pius IX and Pius XI
The most grievous theological poison in the usurper’s letter is the declaration: “Respect for everyone’s freedom of conscience holds the promise of great fruitfulness for society and for the Church herself.” This is the heresy of religious liberty, formally condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), which anathematizes the proposition: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). It is the very essence of laicism — the “plague that poisons human society” identified by Pius XI in Quas Primas — which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The usurper’s coupling of this error with a vague appeal to a “Christ-centered educational mission” is the classic Modernist tactic condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Error 59). There is no “Christ-centered mission” that does not begin and end with the confession that Jesus Christ is King — King of individuals, families, and states. As Pius XI thundered: “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” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The usurper’s “freedom of conscience” is the freedom of the rebel to reject the Crown Rights of Christ the King; it is the non serviam of Lucifer enshrined as civil right.
Education Without the Kingship of Christ: Naturalism in Ecclesiastical Garb
The letter’s treatment of education reveals the naturalistic core of the conciliar sect. The usurper speaks of forming “men and women in the values of the Gospel, mindful of respect for the common good,” whom society needs “to confront the crises tearing it apart.” Not a word of the Supernatural End of man — the Beatific Vision. Not a word of the necessity of the state of grace, the sacraments, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. The “common good” invoked is purely temporal, sociological, Masonic. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII, teaches that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” and that “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 unless ordered to God. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, and only, or at least primarily, the ends of earthly social life” (Error 48). The usurper’s “education” is precisely this: a godless humanism sprinkled with Gospel vocabulary. It is the education of the City of Man, not the City of God.
The Saints as Mere “Witnesses”: Reduction of Holiness to Humanitarian Example
The usurper urges the French bishops to “follow in the footsteps of the saints, those witnesses who have marked the history of France,” claiming that “through the diversity of their backgrounds and their witness, these figures make holiness accessible to everyone.” This is the language of Protestantism and Modernism, not Catholicism. The saints are not mere “witnesses” or “friends in heaven” offering psychological “strength for the spiritual life.” They are citizens of the Kingdom of Christ, whose holiness consists in the heroic practice of the theological and cardinal virtues through sanctifying grace, merited by the Blood of the Lamb. The Council of Trent teaches that the saints reign with Christ and intercede for us by His merit. The usurper’s reduction of the Communion of Saints to a gallery of diverse role models — accessible to “catechumens and neophytes” formed in the novus ordo’s vacuous catechesis — is the democratization of holiness, stripping it of its supernatural, hierarchical, and sacrificial character. It is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI: the “secularism of our times… its errors and wicked endeavors” which “equated the Christian religion with other false religions and shamelessly placed it in the same category” (Quas Primas).
The Abuse Crisis: Instrumentalized for Synodal Control, Not Supernatural Justice
The letter’s final section — “Supporting victims of abuse” — is the most cynical. The usurper writes: “Because holiness entails charity in truth, I encourage you… to continue your work of accompanying victims of sexual violence and coercive control.” The tragedy of clerical abuse is real, a direct fruit of the conciliar revolution’s destruction of priestly formation, the abolition of the traditional rite of ordination, the infiltration of seminaries by homosexual networks, and the loss of the fear of God. But the neo-church’s response has never been Catholic justice — canonical prosecution, deposition of guilty clerics, restitution of the sacred discipline, and penance for the scandal. Instead, it has created a bureaucratic “safeguarding” apparatus that serves to manage public relations, silence traditionalist critics, and consolidate episcopal control under the guise of “synodality.” The usurper’s “charity in truth” is a slogan; true charity demands justice, and justice demands the restoration of the Canons of 1917 (Canon 188.4: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith”), the punishment of heresy and sodomy, and the recognition that the valid hierarchy alone possesses the keys to bind and loose. The “victims” are used as human shields to protect the illegitimate regime. As the Syllabus condemns: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) — and the neo-church has surrendered to that power, adopting the state’s language of “coercive control” and “accompaniment” in place of the language of sin, penance, and eternal salvation.
Lourdes Profaned: Marian Devotion Enlisted for the Neo-Church’s Agenda
The setting — Lourdes, the auditorium where the usurper was welcomed on September 27 — is a calculated profanation. The apparitions at Lourdes (1858) were approved by the legitimate Church; the Message of Lourdes is one of penance, prayer, and conversion — “Penance! Penance! Penance!” The usurper entrusts the bishops’ work to “Our Lady of Lourdes” that “holiness may continue to blossom and flourish in France.” But the “holiness” of the conciliar sect is a counterfeit: it is the heresy of action (Pius X, Pascendi), the substitution of social activism for the interior life of grace. The true Our Lady of Lourdes weeps over a France that has legalized abortion, euthanasia, same-sex “marriage,” and the persecution of the traditional Mass — all with the tacit or explicit approval of the very “bishops” assembled in her sanctuary. The usurper’s invocation is the kiss of Judas: using the Mother of God to legitimize the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) that occupies her shrines.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing in the Holy Place
This letter, this journey, this assembly — they are not the Church. They are the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure foretold by the prophets and the popes. St. Pius X warned that Modernism is the “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis); the Syllabus condemned its political form — “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80) — as the very definition of the anti-Christian spirit. The usurper Leo XIV, the “bishops” of France, the “cardinal” Aveline: they are the fulfillment of these condemnations. They speak of “freedom of conscience,” “common good,” “accompaniment,” and “witnesses” — but they are “silent about supernatural matters (sacraments, state of grace, final judgment)”, which is the gravest accusation. They have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Quas Primas). The only true response for the Catholic faithful is to reject the conciliar sect entirely, adhere to the integral Faith of the Fathers, seek out validly ordained priests who reject the new rites and the new “popes,” and pray for the Social Kingship of Christ the King to be restored — “so that the sweet yoke of Christ” may replace the tyranny of the antichurch. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Pope Leo thanks French Bishops for ‘unforgettable’ visit (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.11.2026