The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) visited the Republic of San Marino on August 22, 2026, addressing young people in the Basilica di San Marino with a message centered on “authentic freedom in Jesus Christ,” “embracing their mission in the world,” and “opening the door of their heart.” The antipope cited his predecessor, the antipope Benedict XVI, urging youth not to settle for “partial, immediate answers” but to follow “longings for beauty, goodness and life.” He spoke of an “educational pact” involving parents, priests, and catechists, and called for “communion” and “unity” among “charisms and ministries.” **This address is a masterpiece of modernist anthropocentrism, reducing the supernatural Kingship of Christ to a therapeutic self-actualization program, entirely devoid of the doctrinal rigor, the call to conversion from sin, and the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King mandated by the immutable Magisterium.**
The Usurpation of the Petrine Office and the Nullity of the Conciliar Hierarchy
The very premise of the report — that a “Pope Leo XIV” exercises legitimate authority — is a monstrous fiction contradicting the dogmatic constitution of the Church. Since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant. The line of claimants beginning with Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) constitutes a paramasonic occupation of the Vatican, a “Church of the New Advent” erected in opposition to the Catholic Church. As Pope Pius IX teaches in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning proposition 35: “There is nothing to prevent the decree of a general council, or the act of all peoples, from transferring the supreme pontificate from the bishop and city of Rome to another bishop and another city.” The conciliar “popes” are not successors of Peter but architects of a new religion. St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism, declares with absolute clarity: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian.” Robert Prevost, by his public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), is a manifest heretic and therefore ipso facto deprived of all jurisdiction. His “visit” to San Marino is not a pastoral act of the Vicar of Christ but a political maneuver of a usurper legitimizing a Masonic republic.
Reduction of the Gospel to Naturalistic Self-Help: The Linguistics of Apostasy
The language employed by the antipope is not the language of the Catholic Church but the jargon of modernist immanentism. He speaks of “authentic freedom,” “dreams,” “longings for beauty, goodness and life,” “leaving a mark on history,” and “investing the richness of your gifts.” This is Pelagian anthropology masquerading as Christianity. The Syllabus of Errors condemns proposition 58: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.” While the antipope does not explicitly advocate pleasure, he locates the source of moral action in the natural “gifts” and “longings” of the youth, not in sanctifying grace, the theological virtues, or the Sacraments.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) defines the Kingdom of Christ as “primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” and warns that “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 antipope’s speech removes Christ from the public order entirely. There is no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, no call for the State to recognize the Catholic Church as the one true religion, no condemnation of the laicism that San Marino, like all modern republics, embodies. Instead, we hear of an “educational pact” — a conciliar neologism from Gravissimum Educationis — which presupposes a pluralistic, secular framework where the Church “dialogues” as an equal partner. This is the heresy of religious liberty condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos), Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus), Leo XIII (Immortale Dei), and St. Pius X (Pascendi, Lamentabili Sane).
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on Sin, Grace, Judgment, and the One True Church
The address is a catalogue of omissions that constitute a de facto denial of the Catholic Faith.
“Open the door of your heart, always listen to Jesus Christ and never be afraid to listen to what Jesus wants to say to each of you.”
This is the Protestant subjectivism condemned by the Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 9: “If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone… let him be anathema”) and by Pius XII in Humani Generis (1950) against the “nouvelle théologie.” The Catholic Church teaches that Christ speaks through His visible, hierarchical Church, through the Magisterium, through the Sacraments — not through private interior motions divorced from objective revelation. The antipope’s “Jesus” is a construct of the individual conscience, the Jesus of Modernism described in Lamentabili Sane (prop. 27-35): a mere man whose divinity is a “dogma which Christian consciousness has derived from the concept of the Messiah.”
“Recognize in yourselves the value of life. The value of your life, of you, who were created by God and are loved by God: your life has a great value for us, for the Church, for your family and for the whole world.”
This is anthropocentric personalism (Wojtyla’s “theology of the body” repackaged), not Catholic theology. The value of human life lies in its supernatural end: the Beatific Vision. A life lived in mortal sin, outside the state of grace, outside the una sancta catholica et apostolica Ecclesia, has no “value for the Church” in the salvific sense; it is a tragedy crying out for conversion. The antipope says nothing of original sin, actual sin, the necessity of Baptism, the reality of Hell, the Final Judgment, or the exclusive necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, defined by Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam; Fourth Lateran Council; Council of Florence). This silence is not pastoral sensitivity; it is apostasy. As St. Pius X teaches in Lamentabili Sane (prop. 63): “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” The conciliar sect has reconciled itself to the world; therefore it cannot defend the Gospel.
The “Educational Pact”: Subversion of Parental Rights and the Kingship of Christ
The call for an “educational pact” where parents “rediscover the faith themselves in a new way” is a direct assault on the divine right of parents to educate their children in the true Faith, not in vague “Christian values.” Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri (1929) teaches: “The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate the offspring, a right inalienable because inseparably joined to a strict obligation, a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society and of the State.” The conciliar “educational pact” subordinates this divine right to a negotiated partnership with the State and with “educators” formed in modernist universities. It is the implementation of the Syllabus error 47: “The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference, and should be fully subjected to the civil and political power.” The antipope’s “pact” is the capitulation of the Church to the Masonic State.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Revolution’s Final Stage
This event in San Marino — the “oldest republic” — is rich in symbolism. San Marino claims independence from both the Holy Roman Empire and the Papal States; it is a Masonic construct celebrating the sovereignty of the people over the sovereignty of God. The antipope’s visit legitimizes this rebellion. He venerated the “relics of Saint Marinus” — a layman who founded a political entity based on autonomy from ecclesiastical authority — rather than proclaiming the Social Kingship of Christ over the republic.
The reference to the antipope Benedict XVI (“Do not stay in the partial, immediate answers…”) reveals the continuity of the modernist project. Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) was the chief architect of the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the theological fraud that presents the rupture of Vatican II as a development. His words to youth in 2011 — “Your heart is an open window to infinity!” — are pure Rahnerian transcendental anthropology (Karl Rahner, S.J., condemned by implication in Humani Generis), reducing the supernatural vocation to a natural “openness to being.”
The antipope’s call to “enthusiastically embrace your mission in the world” — listing “marriage, consecration, orderly ministry, professional life or social and political commitment” as equivalent options — is the vocational indifferentism of Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes. It obliterates the hierarchy of states of perfection taught by the Council of Trent (Session 24, Canon 10: “If anyone says that the marriage state is to be preferred to the state of virginity or of celibacy… let him be anathema”) and by Pius XII (Sacra Virginitas).
The mention of “charisms and ministries” and “communion… among the parishes” is the ecclesiology of the “People of God” (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium Ch. 2), which replaces the hierarchical, juridical, visible Church founded by Christ with a pneumatic, charismatic, democratic assembly. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
Conclusion: The Only Authentic Freedom is Submission to Christ the King
The antipope Leo XIV tells youth: “We only find authentic freedom in Jesus Christ.” This is a diabolical half-truth. Authentic freedom (libertas) is, as St. Augustine teaches (De Libero Arbitrio, II, 10), “the faculty of living as we will, when we will to live rightly” — and “living rightly” means living according to the Eternal Law, which is the Divine Wisdom governing all creation. This freedom is found only within the Catholic Church, through the Sacraments, under the Magisterium, in submission to the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
Pius XI in Quas Primas commands: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘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 antipope’s visit to San Marino did the opposite: it sanctified the godless republic, offering its youth a “Jesus” who demands no public confession, no doctrinal adherence, no sacramental life, no rejection of the world’s errors. It is the wide gate and broad way that leads to destruction (Matt. 7:13). True Catholic youth must reject this counterfeit “freedom,” cling to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Tridentine Mass, the Syllabus of Errors, the Oath Against Modernism, and the certainty that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8) — and that His Vicar on earth is not the usurper in the Vatican, but the hidden Pope of the Sede Vacante, or the interregnum itself, which preserves the Church’s indefectibility by the promise of Christ: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). Non praevalebunt.
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In San Marino, Pope Leo XIV tells young people: 'We only find authentic freedom in Jesus Christ' (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.08.2026