Leo XIV’s France Trip: Apostasy Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The EWTN News portal reports on the publication by the Vatican Press Office of the official schedule for the “apostolic journey” of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to France from September 25 to 28, 2026. The itinerary reads like a diplomatic tour of a secular NGO: a courtesy visit to President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace, a stop at UNESCO headquarters, a “Mass” at the revolutionary Place de la Concorde, a youth vigil at the Stade de France, a pilgrimage to Lourdes instrumentalized for media optics, and an interreligious meeting in Metz under the banner of “Peace and Unity.” The motto, “Pour que le monde ait la vie” (“That the World May Have Life”), ripped from John 6:51, is explicitly linked by the conciliar propaganda outlet Vatican News to the debate on assisted-dying legislation. This spectacle is not the exercise of the munus petrinum; it is the theater of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) occupying the Holy See, a calculated performance of naturalistic humanism masquerading as Catholic pastoral care.