A “Pope” Visits the Dumpsite: Leo XIV’s Acerra Trip as Environmentalist Spectacle
EWTN News reports that “Pope” Leo XIV will visit Acerra, Italy, on May 23, 2026 — a town at the heart of the “Land of Fires” (“Terra dei Fuochi”), where the Camorra Mafia’s decades-long illegal toxic waste dumping has produced a public health catastrophe of cancer, congenital malformations, and premature death. The visit is framed as marking the anniversary of Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’. While the suffering of the people of Acerra is real and deserves genuine Christian charity, the event as presented reveals the complete subordination of the conciliar sect to the secular religion of environmentalism and social activism — a substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church with naturalistic humanitarianism, all performed under the guise of pastoral care.



