Vatican News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” granted a private audience to the American singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith at the Apostolic Palace on July 31, 2026. The article highlights their shared Chicago origins and notes Smith’s inauguration of the Holy See’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale on May 8, the first anniversary of Prevost’s election, where she performed a “sound prayer” with the Soundwalk Collective. The piece cites Smith’s previous adulation of the antipope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), quoting her declaration that “to imitate Francis is to be that much closer to God.” This sordid spectacle of the counterfeit hierarchy courting a secular artist epitomizes the total substitution of the Kingship of Christ with the religion of man.
The Usurper’s Court: A Synagogue of Satan Masquerading as the Holy See
The very venue of this meeting—the Apostolic Palace, once the seat of the Vicar of Christ—now serves as a stage for the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel and confirmed by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). The man occupying the throne, Robert Prevost, is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the collegiality that subverts the monarchical constitution of the Church, has ipso facto severed himself from the Mystical Body. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in 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”. The Defense of Sedevacantism file confirms that Bellarmine’s fifth opinion holds that a manifest heretic loses jurisdiction ipso facto, without need of any declaratory sentence. Prevost’s meeting with Smith is not a pastoral act; it is the public manifestation of a false religion, a paramasonic structure parading in the vestments of the Bride of Christ.
Patti Smith: High Priestess of the Religion of Humanity
Who is this Patti Smith that the antipope receives with such honor? She is a pagan priestess of the modern world, a devotee of the “cult of man” condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas. The encyclical declares: “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”. Smith’s “sound prayer” at the Venice Biennale—a collaboration with the Soundwalk Collective under the aegis of the Dicastery for Culture and Education—is not Christian prayer. It is a naturalistic, syncretistic performance devoid of the sacerdotium of Christ, the only Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5). The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Error 79). The neo-church’s pavilion at a secular art exhibition, inaugurated by a non-Catholic artist performing a vague “sound prayer,” is the embodiment of this condemned indifferentism. It signals that the conciliar sect has abandoned the regnum Christi for the regnum hominis.
Idolatry of the Antipope Francis: “Imitate Francis to Be Closer to God”
The most blasphemous element of the Vatican News report is the uncritical citation of Smith’s 2023 interview: “We have to take the words he cherished — love, humility, compassion — and believe them with our hearts. And, as some of our great Masters taught, we must try to imitate Christ. To imitate Francis is to be that much closer to God.” This is formal idolatry. It places a fallen, heretical man—Bergoglio, who denied the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, worshipped the Pachamama, and taught that all religions are willed by God—in the place of Christ the King. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the modernist error that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and that “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Smith’s reduction of the Christian life to imitating a “master” for pragmatic spiritual benefit is pure Modernism. The antipope Prevost, by hosting her and allowing his propaganda organ to broadcast this blasphemy, confirms his role as the chief architect of the new idol: the “pope” as celebrity, the Church as NGO, the Gospel as vague humanitarianism.
The Venice Biennale Pavilion: A Monument to the “Church of the New Advent”
The Holy See’s Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, inaugurated on the anniversary of Prevost’s usurpation, is a temple to the false god of Culture. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Here, the neo-church voluntarily subordinates itself to the secular art world, seeking validation from the princes of this world. The Dicastery for Culture and Education—itself a product of the conciliar revolution that merged the sacred with the profane—partners with the “Soundwalk Collective” to produce a “sound prayer.” This is the evolution of dogma condemned by St. Pius X: “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Lamentabili, Prop. 60). Now it becomes “artistic,” “performative,” “collective.” The Quas Primas encyclical instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this laicism: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied”. The Biennale pavilion is the white flag of surrender to that plague.
The Chicago Connection: Naturalist Sentimentality Replaces Supernatural Unity
The article emphasizes the shared Chicago origin of Prevost and Smith as a point of human connection. This is the heresy of naturalism elevated to a governing principle. The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Error 3). The unity of the Church is not based on geography, ethnicity, or cultural affinity, but on una fides, unum baptisma (Eph. 4:5). By highlighting this natural bond, Vatican News reveals the conciliar sect‘s true ecclesiology: a horizontal fellowship of “pilgrims” united by sentiment and social justice, not the vertical, hierarchical Body of Christ united by the true faith and valid sacraments. This is the democratization of the Church condemned 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 the Kingship of Christ.
The Silence of the Sacraments: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the Vatican News report is there mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the state of grace, sin, judgment, or eternal salvation. This silence is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns the neo-church more eloquently than any words. The Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingdom is “primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters… men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism.” The meeting between Prevost and Smith is a meeting of two unbaptized souls in the state of nature (at best), or two heretics (at worst), celebrating a false peace. The Defense of Sedevacantism cites Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Prevost’s public defection is manifest in this very audience: he receives a woman who denies the Divinity of Christ by her actions and words, offering her the platform of the “papacy” to spread her naturalistic gospel.
Conclusion: The Triumph of the Antichrist’s Preview
This meeting is not an anomaly; it is the essence of the post-conciliar religion. The False Fatima Apparitions file identifies the Fatima operation as a “Masonic psychological operation against the Church” designed to divert attention from the “modernist apostasy within the Church.” The Venice Biennale pavilion and the Smith audience serve the identical function: they distract the faithful with spectacle, celebrity, and “culture” while the abomination of desolation consolidates its hold on the Vatican. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, remains where it has always been: among the faithful who “profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests.” Let the world have its “sound prayers” and its Chicago reunions. Non est hic Christus, nec ibi (Matt. 24:23). Christ the King reigns from the Cross and the Altar, not from the Biennale or the Apostolic Palace of the usurpers.
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Pope Leo XIV meets Patti Smith (vaticannews.va)
Date: 31.07.2026