EWTN portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” held an informal press gaggle aboard the papal flight to Uruguay on November 6, 2026, mere weeks after lung cancer surgery. The piece reads like a celebrity health bulletin: the antipope credits “faith in God, good doctors, and a healthy lifestyle” for his recovery, declares healthcare “a right of all people,” boasts of voting in the U.S. election by absentee ballot, and introduces Montse Alvarado — former EWTN president — as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Communication. This spectacle of worldly preoccupation, democratic participation, and bureaucratic shuffling exposes the utter vacuity of the conciliar sect’s claim to the Petrine office.
The Cult of the Body Supplants the Care of Souls
The article’s opening fixation on the antipope’s medical status — “less than a month after undergoing surgery for lung cancer,” “removed part of his right lung,” “has not resumed his tennis game but intends to do so” — reveals the naturalistic reductionism that defines the post-conciliar pseudo-papacy. A true Vicar of Christ, facing mortality, would direct the faithful to the ars moriendi, to the Last Sacraments, to the Communion of Saints and the Four Last Things. Instead, Prevost offers banalities: “Not to be afraid. Early detection is obviously the best way to go, and so regular checkups are a blessing. And take care of yourselves.” This is not pastoral theology; it is healthcare consumerism dressed in a white cassock.
The antipope’s declaration that “healthcare should be a right of all people” — slated for a speech to Uruguay’s president — completes the inversion. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law) has been replaced by salus corporum suprema lex. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, 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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.”
The antipope addresses a secular head of state not to demand the Social Kingship of Christ, but to lobby for a Masonic “human right” — a concept condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”; Error 39: “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”). The conciliar sect’s “social doctrine” is nothing but baptized liberalism.
Voting as Apostasy: The Antipope as Model Citizen of the Masonic Order
The most damning passage concerns the antipope’s boast:
“I’m proud to be an American and to exercise the right… I would have voted earlier this year in that country’s elections if I had been able to do so from Rome: ‘I didn’t vote because it wasn’t possible, but I would’ve done it, it’s a good thing.'”
Here the usurper explicitly endorses the religious indifferentism and political naturalism anathematized by the Church. Quas Primas teaches:
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
Voting in a liberal democracy — where “authority is derived not from God but from men” (Pius XI, Ubi Arcano) — is participation in the rejection of Christ’s Kingship. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). By voting, the antipope legitimizes the Masonic framework of the United States and Peru — nations founded on the separation of Church and State, on libertas ecclesiae denied, on the equality of truth and error.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” (Prop. 5) and “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25). The antipope’s casual exercise of the franchise manifests the Modernist heresy that religious truth is a private opinion compatible with any political order. He votes not as a Catholic — for no Catholic can in conscience participate in a system that enshrines abortion, sodomy, religious liberty, and usury as “rights” — but as a citizen of the City of Man, an homo novus of the Masonic Republic.
The EWTN-Vatican Revolving Door: Consolidating the Neo-Church Apparatus
The appointment of Montse Alvarado — “until this month was president and chief operating officer of EWTN News” — as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication completes the picture. EWTN, the flagship media arm of the conservative wing of the conciliar sect, has long served to pacify traditionalist instincts by offering a “recognize-and-resist” safety valve. Now its former chief operates directly within the Roman Curia. This is not reform; it is integration. The “Light-Life” movement’s Fr. Blachnicki, the FSSPX’s Lefebvre, the indult communities — all are permitted, managed, and ultimately neutralized by the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The antipope praises Alvarado’s “wonderful experience, creativity, and liveliness” — corporate buzzwords befitting a marketing department, not the Magisterium. Lamentabili condemned: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). The Dicastery for Communication exists not to proclaim Dei Verbum but to manage the brand of the neo-church. Alvarado’s hiring signals the final merger of the “conservative” media narrative with the institutional apparatus of the abomination of desolation.
Sedevacantist Certainty: The Theological Impossibility of a “Pope” Who Votes
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith — grounded in the infallible Magisterium before 1958 — the case is closed. A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. Bellarmine teaches:
“A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, 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.”
(De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The antipope’s public endorsement of liberal democracy — a system intrinsically opposed to the Social Kingship of Christ — constitutes manifest heresy against the Social Reign of Christ the King defined by Pius XI. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV) declares that any prelate who “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy” — prior to any declaration — loses office ipso facto. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
The antipope’s vote is a public defection. It is an act of apostasy from the Kingship of Christ. No “pope” who votes in a Masonic election can be the Vicar of Christ. The See is vacant. Sede vacante since 1958.
Conclusion: The Theater of the Absurd
The EWTN article documents a geriatric bureaucrat managing his health, his brand, and his political citizenship — all while the Faith is extinguished in the structures he usurps. No mention of the Mass, the Sacraments, the Rosary, the conversion of nations, the condemnation of error. Only “faith in God, good doctors, and a healthy lifestyle” — the trinity of the therapeutic deist. Quas Primas warned:
“The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.”
True happiness comes from submission to Christ the King, not from absentee ballots in Illinois. The antipope’s South American tour is a victory lap for the Revolution. The faithful must flee the neo-church, cleave to the Traditional Latin Mass offered by validly ordained priests, and await the restoration of the Papacy — not by “creativity and liveliness,” but by Deus providebit.
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Pope Leo talks health and voting en route to South America (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.11.2026