The official propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, Vatican News, reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) will visit the Rimini Meeting on August 22, 2026, becoming the second false pope to grace this citadel of religious indifferentism after the arch-heretic John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) did so in 1982. The article, penned by a certain “Fr.” Łukasz Bankowski, celebrates the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples as a space for “dialogue and the search for what unites us,” bringing together “Christians from different denominations—Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and people who do not believe.” This event, founded by the modernist Fr. Luigi Giussani of the Communion and Liberation movement, is explicitly praised for its “openness to dialogue” where “differences between people are not meant to be an obstacle, but an opportunity to meet.” The usurper Leo XIV will conclude his visit by presiding over a simulated “Eucharist” at Piazzale del Porto. This pilgrimage of an antipope to the altar of syncretism confirms the Rimini Meeting as a flagship operation of the Masonic “civilization of love” designed to dethrone the Social Kingship of Christ and replace the Catholic Church with a pan-religious parody of unity.
The Rimini Meeting: A Laboratory of the “Synthesis of All Heresies”
The cited article describes the Rimini Meeting as a place where “people from different cultures and religions could meet, a space for building peace, coexistence, and friendship among peoples,” founded on the conviction that “people are united by a desire for truth, goodness, beauty, and justice.” This is the very definition of indifferentism and latitudinarianism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864). Proposition 15 condemns the error that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” Proposition 16 anathematizes the claim that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” Proposition 18 brands as heretical the assertion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” The Rimini Meeting, by gathering “Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and people who do not believe” on equal footing with Catholics, institutionalizes these condemned errors. It operationalizes the Modernist proposition condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The faith of Christ is in opposition to human reason and divine revelation not only is not useful, but is even hurtful to the perfection of man” (Prop. 6, referencing the rationalist spirit). The “elementary experience” of Fr. Giussani—this vague, sentimental “desire for truth, goodness, beauty”—is a subjective substitute for the objective truth of the Deus Revelatus, a Protestantized “experience” that makes the subject the measure of revelation, contrary to the dogmatic definition of Vatican I (Dei Filius, Ch. 3) that faith is a supernatural virtue by which we believe “because of the authority of God Himself who reveals.”
The “Civilization of Love”: A Masonic Counterfeit of the Kingdom of Christ
The article quotes the heretic Wojtyła’s 1982 appeal: “The civilization of love! (…) Brothers and sisters, build this civilization tirelessly!” This phrase, endlessly repeated by the conciliar antipopes, is a deliberate, calculated substitution for the Reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches with unshakeable authority: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.” He explicitly identifies the plague of the age: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The “civilization of love” is the secularist, Masonic parody of this Kingship. It is a civitas hominis built on naturalistic fraternity, prescinding from the supernatural order, the necessity of grace, the Sacraments, and the exclusive mediation of the Catholic Church. It fulfills the prophecy of the Syllabus, Prop. 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.” The Rimini Meeting is the locus classicus of this apostasy: a “parliament of religions” where the True Religion is reduced to one “voice” among many, effectively denying Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the Kingship of Christ over all nations (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”).
John Paul II and Leo XIV: Two Usurpers in the Chair of Pestilence
The article presents the visit of “Pope” Leo XIV as following “in the footsteps of St. John Paul II.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this is a succession in iniquity. The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the theological principle: “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically.” 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.” John Paul II was a manifest heretic: he taught religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Ut Unum Sint), kissed the Quran, prayed with pagans at Assisi, and denied the necessity of the Church for salvation. By the principle ipso facto (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV), he ceased to be Pope the moment he publicly defected from the faith. Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), elected by a college of cardinals largely created by heretics, manifestly continues the Modernist program. His visit to Rimini—to a gathering explicitly defined by interreligious indifferentism—is a public act of heresy, confirming his non-papacy. The article’s language—”Pope Leo XIV,” “St. John Paul II”—is the linguistic uniform of the great apostasy, the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
Communion and Liberation: A Modernist Trojan Horse
The founder, Fr. Luigi Giussani, is presented as the inspiration behind the “elementary experience.” This movement, Communion and Liberation, is a quintessential product of the “new pentecost” of Vatican II. It promotes a Christianity reduced to “encounter,” “experience,” and “cultural relevance,” effectively dissolving the depositum fidei into a sociological phenomenon. The Rimini Meeting is its annual trade fair. The article boasts of “representatives of the worlds of politics, economics, science, religion, culture, and sport” and “thousands of volunteers” whose “selflessness” is the “heart of the meeting.” This is Pelagian activism elevated to a spirituality: man saving himself by “building the civilization of love” through volunteer work, prescinding from the necessity of sanctifying grace, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the doctrinal purity of the Faith. It is the actuosa participatio of the laity in the temporal order divorced from the hierarchica participatio in the priesthood of Christ—a hallmark of the conciliar deformation of the laity’s role.
The Simulated “Eucharist”: Idolatry in Piazzale del Porto
The article concludes: “The visit will conclude with the celebration of the Eucharist, which Pope Leo will preside over at Piazzale del Porto.” This is the climax of the sacrilege. The “Eucharist” celebrated by a manifest heretic using the invalid Novus Ordo Missae (promulgated by the apostate Paul VI, which Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci declared “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass”) is not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. It is a Protestantized memorial meal, a cena stripped of the propitiatory nature, the Real Presence (undermined by communion in the hand, standing, lay “ministers”), and the priesthood ordered to the Sacrifice. St. Pius X in Lamentabili condemned the Modernist proposition: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Prop. 41). The Novus Ordo service at Rimini, presided over by an antipope in the open air for a congregation of indifferentists, is the liturgical realization of this condemned proposition. It is idolatry—the worship of a false god (the “god” of human fraternity) under the appearances of Catholic rites. As the Syllabus (Prop. 75) notes the division among “children of the Christian and Catholic Church… about the compatibility of the temporal with the spiritual power,” so here the spiritual power is prostituted to the temporal Masonic project of “universal brotherhood.”
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article is saturated with naturalistic vocabulary: “friendship,” “dialogue,” “peace,” “coexistence,” “culture,” “volunteers,” “selflessness,” “sick,” “disabilities,” “poverty,” “Caritas.” There is not a single mention of: the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, the Redemption, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, Sanctifying Grace, the State of Grace, Mortal Sin, Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints, the Conversion of Sinners, the Necessity of the Catholic Church for Salvation, or the Social Kingship of Christ. This silence is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns the Rimini Meeting more eloquently than any word spoken. It is the practical application of the Modernist program condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the expulsion of the supernatural from the life of the Church, reducing religion to a “religious sense” immanent in man. The “friendship among peoples” without the Friendship of God (John 15:15) is the friendship of the world, which St. James calls “enmity with God” (James 4:4).
Conclusion: The Rimini Meeting as a Stage of the Great Apostasy
The visit of the antipope Leo XIV to the Rimini Meeting is not a “pastoral gesture”; it is a manifesto. It signals the definitive consolidation of the conciliar sect as the one-world religion for the Masonic New World Order. The “Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples” is a counterfeit Church, a synagoga Satanae (Apoc. 2:9) where the “elders of the people” (the Modernist hierarchy) gather with the enemies of Christ to build the Tower of Babel anew. True Catholics, adhering to the immutable Tradition, the Mass of All Times, and the Social Kingship of Christ, must flee this spiritual Sodom. “Go out from her, my people, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues” (Apoc. 18:4). The only “civilization of love” is the Civitas Dei governed by the laws of Christ the King; all else is the civitas diaboli, however sweetly it speaks of “dialogue” and “friendship.”
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Meeting in Rimini: Pope Leo follows in the footsteps of John Paul II (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.08.2026