Universities Must Serve Truth, but the Usurper Forgets Who Truth Is
EWTN News portal reports that on April 21, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” inaugurated the “Leo XIV Campus” of the National University of Equatorial Guinea in Basupú, delivering an address in which he praised education as “an act of trust in human beings,” urged the formation of youth in “truth, responsibility, and service to the common good,” and employed biblical imagery—the tree of knowledge and the cross—to argue that faith and reason are harmonious, that Christ is not “a religious escape” from intellectual effort, and that knowledge must be “welcomed, sought with humility, and served with responsibility.” He further stated that the university should be judged not by size but by the “quality of the people it forms for society,” and that Christian tradition offers “essential guidance” for the use of science and technology. The event was attended by the “archbishop” of Malabo, the rector of the university, students, and faculty, all of whom echoed the language of “integral formation,” “innovation,” and “service to the common good.” Not once in this entire discourse was the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ invoked as the sole Redeemer, nor was there any mention of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, the authority of the true Church over education, the reality of original sin, the necessity of grace, or the eternal destiny of the human soul. This is not merely an omission—it is the programmatic silence of Modernism, the very heresy condemned in excruciating detail by St. Pius X, and it reveals that the conciliar sect’s conception of “truth” is a naturalistic, humanistic abstraction stripped of all supernatural content.

