The Vatican News portal, official mouthpiece of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports on 28 July 2026 that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) will preside over a “Canticle of Peace” prayer and fraternity gathering at the Borgo Laudato si’ in Castel Gandolfo on 29 July, featuring celebrity tenor Andrea Bocelli and an interreligious youth choir from Israel, the West Bank, Uganda, Haiti, and Italy, streamed globally on YouTube under the banner of the eighth centenary of Saint Francis of Assisi’s death. This spectacle of religious indifferentism, Masonic “fraternity,” and naturalistic “peace” — devoid of the Cross, the Social Kingship of Christ the King, and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation — manifests the *abomination of desolation* (Matt. 24:15) enthroned in the Vatican.
The Antipope Presides Over a Masonic Spectacle, Not Catholic Worship
The article announces a “prayer and fraternity gathering” led by the antipope Leo XIV at the “Borgo Laudato si'” — a Masonic eco-project spawned from Bergoglio’s pantheistic encyclical Laudato si’. This is not the Sacrum Concilium of the Church, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, nor the Divine Office of the Bride of Christ. It is a Masonic “fraternity” ritual masquerading as Catholic piety. The very term “fraternity” (fraternité) is the Masonic watchword par excellence, substituting the supernatural bond of supernatural charity in the Mystical Body of Christ for a naturalistic brotherhood of man — the very error condemned by Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio (1922): “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope presides not as Vicar of Christ but as high priest of the cult of man, the religion of the Cité de l’Homme condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood”).
“Canticle of Peace”: The Peace of the World, Not the Peace of Christ
The event’s title, “Canticle of Peace”, is a deliberate perversion of the Pax Christi in Regno Christi — the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ — proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The “peace” on offer at Castel Gandolfo is the pax Romana of the Masonic city of man, the “peace which the world gives” (John 14:27), not the “peace which the world cannot give” (John 14:27). The article speaks of “dialogue, hope and reconciliation” through “art as a universal language” — a purely naturalistic, aestheticized substitute for the reconciliation of sinners with God through the Precious Blood (Col. 1:20). As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” This “Canticle” builds on sand.
Interreligious Youth Choir: The Embodiment of Condemned Indifferentism
The “ABF Voices choir, composed of 164 children and young people from Israel, the West Bank, Uganda, Haiti and Italy” bearing “different life stories, many of which are marked by war, poverty or suffering” who “aim to bear witness to the power of art to become a universal language of dialogue, hope and reconciliation” — this is the living tableau of religious indifferentism solemnly condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”) and by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in [non-Catholic] assemblies… The Church of Christ… is one… This unity can only arise from unity of faith… unity of government… unity of communion.” To gather Jewish, Muslim, and Christian children in a common choir under the presidency of a false pope is to proclaim de facto that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Error 18) and that “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Syllabus, Error 17). It is the pan-religion of the Masonic lodges enacted on the stage of the Vatican.
Andrea Bocelli and the Profanation of Sacred Music
The presence of Maestro tenor Andrea Bocelli — a celebrity of the worldly entertainment industry — as the musical centerpiece of this pseudo-liturgical event manifests the total submersion of musica sacra into musica mundana. St. Pius X in Tra le sollecitudini (1903) decreed: “Sacred music must… possess in the highest degree the qualities proper to the liturgy, and in particular sanctity and goodness of form… The Church has always recognized and favored the progress of the arts… but she has never allowed the profane to enter the sanctuary.” Pius XII in Musicae Sacrae Disciplina (1955) reiterated: “Music… must be holy… must be true art… must be universal.” Bocelli’s operatic pop stylings, performed for a global YouTube audience, are the antithesis of sacred music — they are theatrical entertainment profaning the very concept of cantus firmus. The streaming on “Vatican News website… and on its YouTube channel” confirms the spectacle nature of the event: it is bread and circuses for the Church of the New Advent, not the Sacrifice of Praise (Heb. 13:15).
The Eighth Centenary of St. Francis: Instrumentalizing the Seraphic Father for False Ecumenism
The event “forms part of the celebrations marking the eighth centenary of Saint Francis of Assisi’s death.” The Seraphic Father, who received the Stigmata of the Crucified, who kissed the leper, who preached to the Sultan for his conversion — not for “dialogue” — is here pressed into service as the patron saint of interreligious dialogue and integral ecology. This is the Franciscanism of the Modernists, stripped of the Cross, the Poverello‘s radical conformity to the Crucified Christ, and his burning zeal for the salvation of souls through the Catholic Church alone. As Pius XI wrote in Rite Expiatis (1926): “Francis… sought to lead all men to Christ… He knew well that there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” The Borgo Laudato si’ — named after an encyclical steeped in Teilhardian evolutionism and pantheistic immanence — is the anti-Franciscan monument par excellence.
Total Silence on the Supernatural Order: The Gravest Accusation
The article — and the event it advertises — maintains a studied, deliberate silence on the supernatural order. Not a word of: sin, grace, redemption, the Cross, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the conversion of nations, the rights of God, the final judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory. This silence is the locus theologicus of the apostasy. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “The more the sweetest Name of our Redeemer is omitted with unworthy silence in international gatherings and parliaments, the more loudly it must be confessed and the more urgently the rights of Christ the Lord’s royal dignity and authority must be recognized.” The “Canticle of Peace” is the silence of the Lamb replaced by the noise of the world.
Laudato Si’ Centre: The Masonic Temple of the New Religion
The venue, “Borgo Laudato si'”, is the physical instantiation of the new religion — the religion of humanity prophesied by the prophet of Modernism, Teilhard de Chardin, and enacted by the conciliar antipopes. It is the Temple of the Supreme Being of the French Revolution rebuilt in the Vatican gardens. The Laudato si’ Higher Education Centre co-organizing the event is the seminary of the new priesthood — the priesthood of integral ecology, fraternity, dialogue, sustainability. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus (Error 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Leo XIV, by presiding at this shrine, performs the ritual of reconciliation with the spirit of the world — the non serviam of the Modernist pontificate.
The Antipope as High Priest of the Cult of Man
Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” acts not as Vicar of Christ — for a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church”; Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect”; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith… office becomes vacant by the mere fact”) — but as the high priest of the counter-church. His “prayer meeting” is the liturgia perennis of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15; 2 Thess. 2:3-4). The Syllabus (Error 55) condemned: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The conciliar sect has gone further: it has separated the Church from Christ, substituting the Kingdom of God with the City of Man.
Symptomatic Level: The Necessary Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This event is not an anomaly; it is the logical, necessary fruit of the hermeneutic of rupture inaugurated at Vatican II. Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty) → Nostra Aetate (false ecumenism) → Gaudium et Spes (secular humanism) → Laudato si’ (pantheistic ecology) → Fratelli Tutti (Masonic fraternity) → “Canticle of Peace” at the Borgo Laudato si’. Each step dissolves the supernatural into the natural, the Church into the world, Christ the King into Man the King. The interreligious youth choir, the celebrity tenor, the YouTube livestream, the eco-venue, the antipope presiding — this is the liturgia nova of the New Advent, the counter-liturgy of the Antichrist foreshadowed by the prophets and the Fathers. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist… does not deny the Church… but he transforms it… He does not deny the Sacraments… but he empties them of their efficacy.” Here, the very act of worship is emptied of latria and filled with dulia for humanity.
Conclusion: No Peace Without the Kingship of Christ
The Canticle of Peace at Castel Gandolfo is a blasphemous parody of the Feast of Christ the King instituted by Pius XI precisely as the “special remedy against the plague that poisons human society… the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The antipope Leo XIV, the celebrity Bocelli, the interreligious choir, the Masonic venue, the YouTube broadcast — all unite in a single Te Deum to the idol of humanity. “Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis” (Isa. 48:22). There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked. True peace — Pax Christi in Regno Christi — comes only from the Social Kingship of Christ the King over individuals, families, and nations, confessed publicly, legally, liturgically. The conciliar sect offers the peace of the world; the Catholic Church offers the Peace of Christ. “Regnavit a ligno Deus” (God has reigned from the wood of the Cross) — not from the stage at Castel Gandolfo.
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Pope to lead ‘Canticle of Peace‘ at Castel Gandolfo on 29 July (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.07.2026