Technology, Screens, and the Usurper’s Counsel: A Hollow Substitute for the Supernatural Life
Vatican News portal reports that on June 22, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” visited the Vatican’s Estate Ragazzi summer camp, where he addressed children and young people on the theme of technology and human relationships. He encouraged them to use technology responsibly, to prioritize face-to-face interaction, to limit screen time, to think critically rather than relying on GPS, and to pray, stating that “God wants to look at our hearts and at our lives.” He was named “Chief Explorer” of the camp and concluded with a prayer. The entire encounter, while superficially benign, is a masterclass in naturalistic reductionism, reducing the supernatural life of grace to a series of self-help maxims and psychological platitudes, while the one who presumes to speak from the Chair of Peter remains utterly silent on the state of the Church, the crisis of faith, the obligation of Catholic parents to guard their children from the abomination of desolation that now occupies the Vatican, and the absolute necessity of the True Faith for salvation.

