The EWTN portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” issued a telegram of condolences for the victims of a ferry disaster on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, which claimed at least forty-four lives. The message, dated 18 August 2026 and signed by the Secretary of State of the neo-church, “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, entrusts the deceased to the “loving mercy of Almighty God” and offers prayers for civil authorities and rescuers. The report notes this is the third such telegram in August, following earthquakes in Colombia and Indonesia. This spectacle of humanitarian sentimentality masquerading as papal charity exposes the total substitution of the Church’s divine mission for the salvation of souls with a naturalistic NGO agenda devoid of the Cross, the Kingship of Christ, and the necessity of the Catholic Faith for eternal life.
The Factual Facade: A Telegram from a Vacant See
The reported facts are straightforward: a ferry capsizes due to gross negligence—120 souls crammed onto a vessel rated for 90—and the Vatican press office issues a standard-issue communiqué. But the source of this communication is the critical fact suppressed by the EWTN report. The Chair of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958. The line of claimants—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)—are not popes but usurpers who have publicly adhered to the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the New Mass. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). Therefore, the telegram originates not from the Vicar of Christ, but from the head of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. “Cardinal” Parolin, a creature of the conciliar revolution, possesses no jurisdiction. His signature authenticates nothing but the continuity of the anti-church’s public relations strategy.
Linguistic Naturalism: The Vocabulary of the World, Not the Church
Examine the language: “deeply saddened,” “loving mercy of Almighty God,” “heartfelt condolences,” “prayers for civil authorities and first responders.” There is not a single word of supernatural density. No mention of the state of grace, the necessity of baptism of water or desire, the reality of particular judgment, the horror of hell for those dying in mortal sin, or the Social Kingship of Christ over nations. The vocabulary is indistinguishable from that of the UN Secretary-General or the Red Cross. This is laicism in its purest form: the reduction of the papal office to a global chaplaincy for humanitarian sentiment. Pius XI condemned this precisely 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.” The telegram is a document of that shaking foundation—sine fundamento (without foundation).
Theological Bankruptcy: Charity Without Truth is Not Charity
The theological error is radical. True charity, caritas, is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor for the sake of God. It demands the proclamation of the whole truth necessary for salvation: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (Outside the Church there is no salvation). The telegram offers prayers for the dead—a pious practice—but strips it of its doctrinal context. For whom are these prayers efficacious? Only for those who die in the state of grace, incorporated into the Mystical Body of Christ. By ignoring the necessity of the Catholic Faith and the Sacraments, the antipope implicitly teaches universalism—the heresy that all men are saved regardless of faith. This is the synthesis of all errors condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The telegram is an act of spiritual negligence masquerading as pastoral care. It confirms the verdict of the Syllabus of Errors: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) has been internalized; the neo-church speaks only the language permitted by the secular order.
Symptomatic Exposure: The “Church of the New Advent” as Humanitarian NGO
This incident is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect. Three telegrams in one week for natural disasters—zero encyclicals condemning the reigning heresies of our time (abortion, sodomy, gender ideology, Masonic control of governments, the New Mass). The priority is clear: manage the brand, maintain relevance in the globalist narrative, simulate compassion without the Cross. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The “prayers” offered are addressed to a generic “Almighty God,” not explicitly through Christ the King, the one Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5). The reference to “civil authorities and first responders” elevates the temporal power—the very power that, per the Syllabus (Error 39), claims “a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”—above the spiritual. The neo-church has become the ancilla (handmaid) of the Masonic world order, providing religious veneer for a godless humanitarianism.
The Kingship of Christ: The Only Remedy for Zimbabwe and the World
The ferry disaster in Zimbabwe—caused by corruption, overloading, and neglect of duty—is a fruit of a society that has rejected the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” True papal charity would demand: Convert Zimbabwe to the Catholic Faith; establish the Kingship of Christ in its laws; root out the Masonic lodges controlling its government; restore the Traditional Latin Mass as the center of public life. Instead, the antipope sends a telegram. Non est hic Deus (God is not here). The true Church, the Ecclesia militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition under valid bishops and priests, prays for the conversion of the nations, not for the comfort of their passing. She knows that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The telegram of Leo XIV is not a sign of the Church’s vitality; it is the death rattle of a counterfeit institution that has forsaken the Crown of Thorns for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Pope Leo XIV offers condolences to victims of ferry accident in Zimbabwe (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.08.2026