The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope” Leo XIV, staged a youth gathering at the Portiuncula in Assisi on August 6, 2026, addressing 2,500 young adults attached to post-conciliar Franciscan structures. The event, framed as part of the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’s death, featured the antipope exhorting attendees to become “artisans of peace,” embrace a redefined “Gospel radicalism” explicitly contrasted with “fundamentalism,” and commit to “rebuilding a wounded Church” through “reparative love.” The antipope subsequently simulated the Most Holy Sacrifice in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels. This spectacle manifests the neo-church’s quintessential agenda: substituting Christ’s Social Kingship with Masonic humanitarianism, eviscerating Catholic doctrine under the guise of “fraternity,” and legitimizing the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The Usurper’s Theater: A False Francis for a False Church
The cited article relates that the antipope arrived by helicopter, welcomed by the “bishop” Felice Accrocca and “ministers general of the principal Franciscan orders” — all members of the conciliar sect, devoid of jurisdiction and valid orders since the Novus Ordo Missae and the Pauline rite of episcopal consecration rendered their sacraments doubtful at best and invalid at worst. The very setting is a calculated profanation: the Portiuncula, where the Seraphic Father received the Pardon of Assisi — a plenary indulgence granted by the true Pope Honorius III — is now the stage for a manifest heretic who denies the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, and the integrity of the Faith.
The article notes that “Father Alfio Vespoli” claimed the antipope “personally chose the youth gathering.” This detail exposes the cult of personality central to the neo-church: not the will of Christ, not the Tradition of the Apostles, but the whim of the usurper dictates the “mission.” The “provincial minister” Marco Vianelli’s address — “Your Holiness, here at the Portiuncula St. Francis understood his vocation…” — is a blasphemous parody of Catholic obedience. St. Francis submitted to Pope Innocent III and Honorius III, true Vicars of Christ. This false Francis submits to a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the Second Vatican Council’s heresies — Dignitatis Humanae, Nostra Aetate, Unitatis Redintegratio — has ipso facto severed himself from the Mystical Body, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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” (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. II, Cap. 30). The “Franciscan orders” present are not the Order of Friars Minor founded by the Poverello, but conciliar caricatures that have embraced religious liberty, ecumenism, and the “spirit of Assisi” — the very antithesis of the Saint’s Regula Bullata: “The brothers should not receive churches, poor dwellings, or anything else built for them unless they are in keeping with the holy poverty we have promised” (Rule, Ch. VI). They have built a neo-church of concrete and compromise.
“Artisans of Peace”: The Masonic Substitution of Christ’s Kingship
The antipope’s central exhortation — “Increasingly, Christians will be called to become artisans of peace within societies that are tempted to place religion at the service of competing identities” — is a distilled essence of the Masonic “civilization of love” condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. The true Pope taught: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ… 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” (Quas Primas, 1925). The antipope inverts this: peace is no longer the tranquillitas ordinis (tranquility of order) founded on Christ’s royal rights over nations, but a horizontal, naturalistic “fraternity” among “Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims” — a direct application of the heresy of religious indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 15, 16, 17, 18) and by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
The phrase “artisans of peace” is not evangelical; it is Masonic. The 1917 founding of Freemasonry’s “Great Architect” cult, the 1917 Fatima operation (exposed in the provided documentation as a “psychological operation against the Church”), and the 2017 “canonization” of the false seers form a ritualistic cycle. The antipope’s “dialogue and peaceful coexistence among Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims” at the Portiuncula replicates the 1986 Assisi abomination of John Paul II — a scandal that St. Pius X prophesied when he condemned the Modernist error: “The Catholic Church… ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself” (Lamentabili sane exitu, Prop. 11). There is no “peace” with Islam, which denies the Blessed Trinity and the Divinity of Christ; there is no “coexistence” with Orthodoxy in schism, which rejects the Primacy of Peter. The only true peace is the Pax Christi in Regno Christi (Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ). The antipope’s “civilization of love” is the civitas diaboli (city of the devil) masquerading as charity.
Radicalism Without Truth: The Neo-Modernist Evisceration of Gospel Integrity
The antipope declares: “Saint Francis, however, teaches that radicalism of the Gospel is the very opposite of fundamentalism… It does not make us blind or violent; instead, it makes us aware, attentive and always eager to follow Jesus, and therefore humble and welcoming towards everyone.” This is a diabolical redefinition. “Fundamentalism” in the neo-church lexicon means adherence to immutable dogma, the depositum fidei (deposit of faith), the condemnation of error, and the refusal of compromise with the world. The antipope labels this “blind” and “violent” — the very calumny hurled at the Church by the enemies of Christ since the Enlightenment. St. Francis was a “fundamentalist” in the only true sense: he held the Faith whole and entire, he kissed the hands of priests because they handled the Body of Christ, he demanded the Corpus Domini be reserved in precious vessels, he sent friars to preach penance and conversion to the Saracens, not “dialogue.” The Fioretti passage the antipope cites — friars “speaking of God, in prayers, in tears and in exercises of charity” — describes men converted to the one true Faith, not “welcoming towards everyone” in error.
The antipope’s “radicalism” is the Modernist “vital immanence” condemned by St. Pius X: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili, Prop. 20). It is a “radicalism” of sentiment, of “joy,” of “encounter” — devoid of veritas (truth), iustitia (justice), sanctitas (holiness). The silence of the Chapter of Mats was the silence of contemplata aliis tradere (handing on to others the fruits of contemplation) — the contemplation of Deus Unus et Trinus, not the “silence” of indifferentism. The antipope contrasts this silence with “war, with its violence, clamor and cruelty” — a pacifist platitude that ignores the bellum iustum (just war) doctrine and the spiritual warfare of Ephesians 6:12: “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.” The true Franciscan radicalism is the militia Christi (army of Christ); the neo-church’s is the pax Masonica (Masonic peace).
The “Wounded Church” Heresy: Ecclesiology of the Abomination of Desolation
The question from “Luigi” — “Today many young people say that they ‘believe, but not in the Church’… Even within our own communities we sometimes see a Church marked by contradictions and internal crises” — and the antipope’s response expose the ecclesiology of the conciliar sect. The antipope acknowledges: “This causes deep suffering; it leaves wounds and disappointments, and for some it even becomes an obstacle to faith.” He then speaks of the Church “continuing to bring together men and women” through “the word of God, the Sacraments and the practice of fraternal love.”
This is the ecclesia haereticorum (church of heretics), not the Ecclesia Catholica. The true Church is una, sancta, catholica, et apostolica — spotless, sine macula et ruga (without spot or wrinkle, Eph 5:27). She cannot be “wounded” by “internal crises” in her essence; her members sin, but the Church in se is indefectibilis (indefectible). The antipope’s “Church” is a sociological construct, a “people of God” defined by “fraternal love” and “overcoming discrimination and inequality” — the Masonic Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité baptized in holy water. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55) and “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Prop. 41). The neo-church has not only accepted this separation but internalized it: its “Church” is a NGOs for “social justice,” its “sacraments” are community celebrations, its “hierarchy” is a bureaucracy of “synodality.”
The antipope’s citation of St. Francis’s obedience — “Francis walked this path: not to dominate, but to serve; not to grasp, but to receive; not to withhold, but to give back” — is a weaponized half-truth. Francis obeyed the true Pope, the true Hierarchy, the true Doctrine. He did not “serve” a false church; he rebuilt the physical church of San Damiano as a sign of restoring the Ecclesia spiritualis through poverty and preaching. The antipope’s “rebuilding” is the demolition of the Faith. As Pope Pius IX taught in Quanta Cura (1864), the Church “is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (Syllabus, Prop. 19) — a truth the neo-church denies by submitting to the “spirit of the world.”
Vocationalism Without Grace: Naturalistic Exodus Replacing Supernatural Call
The exchange with “Giovanni” on “discerning and remaining faithful to a vocation in a culture dominated by temporary commitments” reveals the Pelagian core of neo-church “vocational theology.” The antipope states: “In such a context, the courage to make a definitive choice may well be the most revolutionary act of all… A permanent choice… does not imprison us within a cage; rather, it opens us to a greater dynamism. To love is an exodus.” This is pure existentialism — Heidegger baptized, not St. Augustine. The Catholic vocation is not a “definitive choice” of the autonomous subject, but a vocatio divina (divine call) requiring gratia vocationis (grace of vocation) and gratia perseverantiae (grace of perseverance). The Council of Trent anathematizes: “If anyone says that the grace of justification is only attained by those who are predestined to life… let him be anathema” (Sess. VI, Can. 17) — but the antipope’s “exodus” is a human project, a “path to be discovered, a journey that God himself walks with us,” reducing God to a companion on man’s self-actualization.
The antipope’s personal testimony — “Looking back on my own life, I can say that the Lord has never left me alone… He has always accompanied me, often by placing people beside me” — is the autobiographia spiritualis of a Modernist, not a successor of Peter. Where is the timor Domini (fear of the Lord)? Where is the conversio morum (conversion of manners)? Where is the sancta simplicitas (holy simplicity) of the true papacy? The “light that guided him as a priest, an Augustinian and a missionary” is the light of the conciliar revolution — the “new pentecost” that has produced the apostasy of nations, the destruction of the liturgy, the silence on abortion and sodomy, the worship of Pachamama. This is not the lux veritatis (light of truth); it is the lumen tenebrarum (light of darkness) warned against by St. Paul: “For Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:14).
The Simulated Sacrifice: Idolatry at the Portiuncula
The article concludes: “He later celebrated Mass in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.” This is the climax of the abomination. The antipope, a manifest heretic, invalidly ordained in the Pauline rite (if ordained at all in the traditional rite, which is doubtful), simulates the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary in a basilica built over the Portiuncula — the very place where St. Francis received the Indulgentia Plenaria from a true Pope. The “Mass” of the Novus Ordo, fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini (as the provided documentation on Fr. Blachnicki confirms the Masonic infiltration of the liturgical reform), is not the Sacrificium Propitiatorium (propitiatory sacrifice) defined by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXII, Can. 1), but a “memorial” of the “Lord’s Supper” — a Protestantized meal. The “priests” concelebrating are those pretending to be traditional Catholics or open modernists; none possess the potestas ordinis (power of order) to confect the Eucharist in persona Christi (in the person of Christ) because the new rite of ordination lacks the forma substantialis (substantial form) — “Receive the Holy Spirit for the office of the priesthood to offer sacrifice to God” — replaced by “Preside over the people of God.”
This simulated “Mass” is idololatria (idolatry). The faithful who attend, believing they assist at the Holy Sacrifice, are deceived. The “Eucharist” reserved in the neo-church’s tabernacles is, at best, doubtful; at worst, invalid — and in either case, the Real Presence is profaned by the very context of a heretical sect. St. Francis wept at the Portiuncula for love of the Corpus Domini; the antipope stages a photo-op. The “missionary charter” prepared by “Father Luca De Pasquale” to “place the Gospel and fraternity at the center of their daily lives” is the charter of the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan, Apoc 2:9) — a program of naturalistic activism devoid of gratia sanctificans (sanctifying grace).
Conclusion: The Portiuncula Profaned, the Kingship Denied, the Seat Vacant
The Assisi spectacle of August 6, 2026, is a microcosm of the conciliar apostasy: a false “pope” preaching a false “peace” to a false “church” in the name of a false “Francis.” The true St. Francis, the true Portiuncula, the true Indulgence, the true Papacy, the true Mass, the true Kingship of Christ — all are obscured, mocked, and replaced by the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The sede vacante (vacant see) begun in 1958 with the death of Pope Pius XII persists. The line of usurpers — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV — are ipso facto non-popes by force of Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) and the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV: “…if at any time it shall appear that any… Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
The only “rebuilding” needed is the restoration of the Tridentine Mass, the Integral Faith, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the True Papacy. The young Catholics at Assisi — if any true ones were present — were not called to “artisans of peace” but to milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). “Non possumus” (We cannot) — we cannot recognize, obey, or collaborate with the abomination of desolation. “Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia” (Where Peter is, there is the Church) — and Peter is not in the Vatican. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat (Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV calls young Franciscans to Gospel radicalism and peace (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.08.2026