The EWTN News portal reports that Peru is preparing to exploit the upcoming November 2026 visit of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) by establishing permanent “Paths of Pope Leo XIV” pilgrimage routes across Chiclayo, Piura, Trujillo, and Callao, explicitly framing the apostolic journey as a launchpad for religious tourism that yields a “600% return” on state investment. Organized by the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR) and the World Religious Tourism Network, the conference celebrated the “syncretism” of Catholicism and Andean cultures as a unique selling point, while speakers like Adrián Lomello reduced the Church’s mission to an economic stimulus package where “the pilgrim arrives, spends money locally, buys handicrafts, stays overnight.” This mercantile reduction of the supernatural to the naturalistic exposes the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of regnum Christi for the kingdom of Mammon.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to a Tourist Commodity
The conference’s explicit calculus — “the state invests 1 sol and gets 6 back, a 600% return” — reveals the antichurch’s total capitulation to secularism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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 “Paths of Pope Leo XIV” initiative does not propose the social reign of Christ the King but the commercial reign of tourism revenue. Lomello’s admission that “religious tourism does not benefit only shrines or churches but also stimulates the economies of the cities” inverts the divine order: the Church exists not to stimulate local GDP but to lead men to eternal happiness (Quas Primas). The very phrase “religious tourism” is an oxymoron born of laicism; true pilgrimage is a penitential exercise of faith, not a leisure activity with “excellent cuisine, engaging activities, museums, and events.”
Syncretism Elevated as a Marketing Asset
Lomello’s praise of the “blend of Catholicism and Andean cultures” — “that syncretism is unique in Latin America, and here it occurs quite naturally” — constitutes a formal endorsement of the indifferentism anathematized by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”) and by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 54: “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness”). The conciliar sect no longer seeks to convert Andean paganism but to package it as a cultural attraction. This is the ecumenism of the return inverted: not the return of schismatics to the one true Church, but the return of the Church to the world’s syncretistic marketplace. The “spiritual conversion” Lomello promises is a fraud; conversio demands rejection of idols, not their incorporation into a tourist itinerary.
The Usurper as Brand Ambassador for a Masonic Economy
That the “pope” himself is marketed — “He is of U.S. origin, but his mindset is Peruvian. His spiritual formation is Peruvian. His tastes are Peruvian” — demonstrates the cult of personality replacing the Vicar of Christ. Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who accepts the novus ordo, religious liberty, and false ecumenism, ipso facto lacks the papacy per the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope.” His visit is not a pastoral act but a state-sponsored branding exercise for a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The conference’s timing — amid a “political transition” with Keiko Fujimori’s election — reveals the collusion of church and state condemned by the Syllabus (Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — condemned error, meaning the Church must not be separated but must direct the State). Here, the State directs the “Church” into a revenue stream.
Eucharistic Processions Reduced to Street Theater for Tourists
The article’s lead image — “Then-Bishop Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, leads the 2019 Corpus Christi procession in the streets of Chiclayo” — exposes the profanation of the Most Holy Sacrifice. In the conciliar sect, Corpus Christi is no longer a public act of latria to Christ the King but a photo opportunity for tourism brochures. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely so that “the people, free from daily occupations, may beautifully testify with joyful hearts that they are obedient and subject to Christ” (Quas Primas). The “Paths of Pope Leo XIV” pervert this into a heritage trail for paying customers. The “pilgrim” who “extends their visit by a day, and visits a museum” is not a viator seeking patria but a consumer seeking experience. The sixfold financial return is the price of Judas for betraying the regnum Dei for the regnum huius mundi.
Systemic Apostasy: From Supernatural Mission to NGO Service Provider
This initiative is the logical fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes anthropology, which turned the Church from societas perfecta (Syllabus, Prop. 19 condemned) into a “partner in dialogue” for “integral human development” — code for naturalistic welfare. The World Religious Tourism Network, CANATUR, and the “Commission for the Promotion of Peru for Exports and Tourism” form a trinity of Mammon where the “Church” is a subcontractor for state economic policy. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “the Church cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” (Lamentabili, Prop. 5); here, the “Church” does not judge but serves the tourism industry’s opinions. The “spiritual conversion” Lomello touts is the conversio ad phantasmatem — conversion to a phantom Church that offers cultura viva instead of gratia sanctificans.
The True Path: Via Crucis, Not Via Turistica
Peru does not need “Paths of Pope Leo XIV” but the Via Regia of the true Mass, the true priesthood, and the true regnum Christi over laws, education, and public life. The Syllabus (Prop. 77 condemned) declares it false that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The conciliar sect’s “religious tourism” is the whoredom of the great harlot (Apoc. 17) selling her wares — “handicrafts,” “cuisine,” “museums” — while the Hostia immaculata is paraded as a cultural artifact. Non est hic Deus (Judges 6:13). The only “600% return” that matters is the centuplum promised to those who leave all for Christ (Matt. 19:29), not the soles counted by CANATUR. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat — not in tourist brochures, but from the altar of the true Mass upon the ruins of this apostasy.
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Peru seeks to turn Pope Leo’s legacy into an international pilgrimage destination (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.08.2026