Antipope Leo XIV’s Rimini Discourse: The Sentimental Subversion of Christ’s Royal Rights
The National Catholic Register portal (August 26, 2026) publishes a commentary by the conciliar presbyter Raymond J. de Souza juxtaposing Christopher Nolan’s cinematic adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey with the address of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) at the Rimini “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples,” organized by the modernist movement Communion and Liberation. De Souza presents the antipope’s citation of Dante’s Paradiso — “L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle” — as a superior, Christian answer to the capricious violence of the Homeric gods. The article concludes that the “realism of mercy” proclaimed by Leo XIV, which declares “there can be no enemies,” constitutes the definitive divine reality. This exercise in literary criticism serves as a smokescreen for the total repudiation of the Social Kingship of Christ and the enthronement of a sentimental humanitarianism that is the precise theological signature of the Antichrist.