The National Catholic Register portal (July 30, 2026) reports on an interview granted by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the secular media outlet NBC News, wherein the usurper of the See of Peter manifests a sentimental attachment to the United States that epitomizes the condemned heresy of Americanism. The piece frames the antipope’s “love for America” — its “freedom,” “opportunity,” and “migrant history” — as a pastoral asset, while the ceremony at the “Borgo Laudato Si'” underscores the neo-church’s total immersion in naturalistic pantheism. This reportage exposes the total substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ with the religion of humanity.
The Antichurch’s Americanist Propaganda: Naturalism Masquerading as Catholicity
The cited article relates that the antipope declared: “I have great love for America… I think of myself more as the Pope who happens to be American.” This statement is the quintessence of the error condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899): the heresy of Americanism, which seeks to accommodate the Church to the spirit of modern democracy, religious liberty, and the separation of the spiritual from the temporal order. The antipope’s emphasis on “a sense of freedom and opportunity for generations of migrants” and his genealogical boast — “We have people who were both slaves and slave owners” — reduces the supernatural mission of the Papacy to a naturalistic narrative of ethnic identity and political mythology.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches with unshakeable authority: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope’s “love for America” is a love for the Masonic novus ordo seclorum, for a nation founded on the Enlightenment rejection of Christ’s Kingship. His reference to “ancestors, some of whom were enslaved” is not a confession of the Church’s doctrine on original sin and redemption, but a capitulation to the critical race theory and identity politics that dominate the secular city. There is zero mention of the duty of the American state to publicly honor Christ and obey Him (Quas Primas), nor of the necessity of the consecration of the nation to the Sacred Heart — only the vacuous language of “inclusion” and “history.”
Linguistic Deconstruction: Bureaucratic Vapidity Replacing Supernatural Language
The rhetoric employed by the antipope and amplified by the Register is studiously devoid of theological density. Terms like “universal pastor,” “dimension,” “mission,” “significance,” “calendar,” “visit” belong to the lexicon of corporate management and diplomatic protocol, not to the munus petrinum. The antipope says: “I understand my mission as having a very important dimension, which is precisely being pastor of a universal church.” This “dimension” language fragments the simple, indivisible essence of the Petrine office — pasce oves meas — into a managerial portfolio.
The interview venue — NBC News, a propaganda arm of the secularist establishment — and the interviewer, Tom Llamas, a creature of the mainstream media, signify that the antipope seeks legitimation from the world (mundus), not from Christ. The setting, the “Canticle of Peace” music prayer service at the Borgo Laudato Si’, featuring the tenor Andrea Bocelli, is a liturgical farce. Laudato Si’ is the manifesto of the pantheistic inversion promoted by the antipope Bergoglio, where “Mother Earth” supplants the Creator. A “prayer service for peace” without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, without the invocation of Christ the King, without the Veni Creator Spiritus for the conversion of nations, is idolatry of the natural order. As St. Augustine teaches: “Qui non orat in nomine Christi, non orat” (He who does not pray in the name of Christ does not pray).
Theological Anathema: Americanism Condemned, Christ the King Ignored
The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX anathematizes the very principles the antipope celebrates. Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” Proposition 78: “Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.” Proposition 79 denies that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people.” The antipope’s praise of American “freedom and opportunity for generations of migrants” is a formal adhesion to these condemned errors. He blesses the status confessionis of the United States: a nation where abortion is a “right,” sodomy is “marriage,” and the public square is scrubbed clean of the Cross.
The Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Canon 188.4; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The antipope Leo XIV, by professing Americanism — a heresy condemned by the ordinary and universal Magisterium — demonstrates his automatic separation from the Body of Christ. He is not “the Pope who happens to be American”; he is a layman (Robert Prevost) who happens to occupy the Vatican palaces, having no jurisdiction, no mission, and no authority to bind or loose. His “calendar” for a “visit” to the U.S. is the itinerary of a head of state of the paramasonic structure, not the apostolic journey of a Vicar of Christ.
Symptomatic Exposure: The Cult of Man and the Erasure of the Divine Mission
The article’s silence is its loudest condemnation. Not one word on: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; the Sacraments; the state of grace; mortification; the Four Last Things; the conversion of the United States to the Catholic Faith; the rights of Christ the King over civil legislation; the condemnation of Freemasonry (which Pius IX calls “the synagogue of Satan” in the allocution attached to the Syllabus). The antipope’s “mission” is reduced to “being pastor of a universal church” — a horizontal, sociological function stripped of the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis which flow only from canonical mission and the state of grace.
The reference to “grandparents were immigrants on my mother’s side” and “history… of growing up in the kind of experience that helps me recognize myself” is pure Modernist immanentism. Revelation becomes self-awareness (condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu, prop. 20: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God”). The antipope does not recognize himself as a sinner in need of redemption, but as a product of the American narrative. This is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” — but only when that association is ordered to God.
The “Borgo Laudato Si'” and the Pantheistic Liturgy of the New Advent
The venue — Borgo Laudato Si’ in the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo — is the physical monument to the apostasy. It enshrines the encyclical Laudato Si’, which teaches a cosmic pantheism where the distinction between Creator and creature is blurred (“The universe unfolds in God, who fills it completely” — para. 233). The “Canticle of Peace” with Andrea Bocelli is the liturgical expression of the Masonic “universal religion”: music, nature, vague “spirituality,” but no Cross, no Altar, no Victim. Pius X condemned this in Pascendi: the Modernist reduces worship to “a certain pious custom” (Lamentabili, prop. 48). The antipope’s “vacation” at Castel Gandolfo (July 5–27) followed by this media event reveals the total worldliness of the usurper: “They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world hears them” (1 Jn 4:5).
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing in the Holy Place
The National Catholic Register, as an organ of the conciliar sect, performs its function: normalizing the antipope, sanitizing his heresies, and presenting the abomination of desolation as the legitimate shepherd. The faithful Catholic, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the Sedevacantist thesis — that the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII (1958) due to the manifest heresy of the conciliar “popes” — sees in this reportage not a “Pope who loves America,” but a false prophet confirming the nations in their rebellion against Christ the King. “Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari” (Acts 4:12). There is no salvation in Americanism, no salvation in the “universal church” of the New Advent, no salvation in Leo XIV. Return to the Catacombs. Keep the Faith. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: I Still Have a Great Love for America (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.07.2026