The EWTN News portal, mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” has cancelled a scheduled appearance at the forty-year anniversary of the Assisi interreligious prayer meeting — that quintessential monument to apostasy inaugurated by the heretic John Paul II. The pretext is a recent thoracic surgery and medical advice against helicopter travel. The Vatican press office issued a communiqué emphasizing the “pope’s” conviction that the “spirit of Assisi,” dialogue, and gestures of peace remain “valuable resources” in a time of conflict. A medical bulletin signed by Dr. Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora confirmed “exceptionally well” recovery but urged precaution ahead of a planned November trip to Latin America. This physical withdrawal from the stage of false unity merely underscons the spiritual void of a claimant to Peter’s Chair who validates the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
The Usurper’s Physical Frailty Mirrors the Neo-Church’s Spiritual Death
The cancellation of the Assisi pilgrimage by the antipope Leo XIV is not a mere medical footnote; it is a providential sign exposing the hollowness of the conciliar project. The man who sits in the Vatican, having undergone “thoracic surgery” — a procedure on the very chest that should house a heart burning for the Salus Animarum — is physically incapable of ascending the mountain where the false “spirit of Assisi” reigns. He cannot fly to the altar of religious indifferentism because his mortal body fails him, just as his false magisterium fails the souls entrusted to the true Church.
The medical bulletin’s language — “progressing exceptionally well,” “precautionary measure,” “short time elapsed” — reads like a desperate attempt to manage the optics of a crumbling pontificate. The sect’s propagandists at EWTN, ever faithful to the novus ordo narrative, frame this as a prudent pause before a “planned trip to Latin America in November.” They omit the essential truth: no amount of medical intervention can restore legitimacy to a claimant who publicly professes the heresies of Vatican II, religious liberty, and false ecumenism. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis Christi, the Church is a perfect society whose head must be visibly united to Christ; a severed member, rotting in heresy, cannot govern the Body.
The Assisi Abomination: Forty Years of Institutionalized Apostasy
The event from which the antipope withdraws commemorates the 1986 “World Day of Prayer for Peace” convened by the apostate John Paul II. That gathering in Assisi was not a prayer for peace; it was a solemn act of apostasy, a public violation of the First Commandment and the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. By placing the Catholic religion on equal footing with false cults — Buddhism, Islam, Animism, Judaism — John Paul II proclaimed by deed that all religions are paths to God, a proposition explicitly condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church… cannot take part in [non-Catholic] assemblies… because they are based on the false opinion that all religions are more or less good and praiseworthy.”
The EWTN article sanitizes this history, referring to “St. John Paul II” and the “spirit of Assisi” as “valuable resources.” This is the language of the Synagogue of Satan, not the Bride of Christ. The “spirit of Assisi” is the spirit of Antichrist: religious indifferentism elevated to a pastoral program. The antipope Leo XIV, by sending a “message expressing his closeness” to the organizers and “representatives of Christian denominations and other religions,” formally ratifies this apostasy. He confirms the conciliar sect in its rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ the King, so magnificently defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ.” There is no peace in Assisi, only the pax Romana of the Masonic lodge.
“Dialogue” and “Gestures of Peace”: The Vocabulary of Betrayal
The Vatican statement emphasizes the “pope’s conviction that the ‘spirit of Assisi,’ dialogue, and the search for words and gestures of peace are valuable resources.” Note the carefully curated lexicon of the neo-church: “dialogue,” “gestures,” “resources,” “search.” Absent are the words “conversion,” “truth,” “salvation,” “supernatural faith,” “sanctifying grace,” “the Cross.” This is naturalism par excellence — the reduction of the Church’s divine mission to a humanitarian NGO negotiating ceasefires.
Pope St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), condemned the Modernist error that “the Church listening cooperates… with the Church teaching” and that dogma evolves. The “spirit of Assisi” is the ripe fruit of that condemned Modernism: the replacement of the Depositum Fidei with a “culture of encounter.” The antipope’s message to the gathering will undoubtedly echo the Masonic triad: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — the very errors condemned in the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (Propositions 15, 55, 77, 80). “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Prop. 80) — this is the operational credo of the usurpers.
Medical Theater as Distraction from Theological Ruin
The detailed medical bulletin — chest X-rays, “postoperative recovery,” “helicopter trip” precautions — serves a propagandistic function. It humanizes the usurper, eliciting sympathy from the faithful remnant still trapped in the conciliar structures, distracting them from the gravissima reality: the man recovering from lung surgery is the same man who, as “Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops,” oversaw the appointment of modernist wolves to dioceses worldwide. His physical convalescence is presented as a narrative of resilience; his spiritual state is one of obstinate heresy.
The mention of the upcoming Latin America trip reveals the true priority: the expansion of the counter-church in the Global South. While the true Mass is suppressed and the faithful are scattered, the sect’s leadership plans “apostolic journeys” to legitimize the Novus Ordo and the false sacramental economy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (cited in the provided sources), “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” Robert Prevost, by public adherence to the Second Vatican Council and its anti-syllabus, is a manifest heretic. His surgery, his travel schedule, his messages to Assisi — all are the acts of a private individual, a pseudo-episcopus, devoid of jurisdiction.
EWTN and the Propaganda Apparatus of the Neo-Church
The source of this report, EWTN News / ACI Stampa, functions as the Pravda of the conciliar sect. The article includes a newsletter signup prompt (“Which newsletter would you like? Daily Weekly”) embedded in the news feed — a commercial transaction disguised as evangelization. This is the cult of man in its purest form: building a subscriber base for a false religion. The portal describes the antipope celebrating “Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi on Aug. 6, 2026.” That “Mass” was the Novus Ordo Missae, a fabricated rite crafted by the Freemason Bugnini to Protestantize the liturgy, stripping it of the propitiatory sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood. To call it “Mass” is blasphemy; to report it as news is complicity.
The article notes the event is the “40th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace convened by St. John Paul II.” The use of the honorific “St.” for the architect of Assisi is the final seal of the sect’s canonical corruption. An antipope “canonizes” an apostate to bind the faithful to the new religion. As the provided context on False Fatima Apparitions notes regarding the “ecumenism project”: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” Assisi is the operationalization of that relativism.
Conclusion: The Vacant See and the Duty of the Faithful
The cancellation of the Assisi trip changes nothing. The Sede Vacante persists. The structures occupying the Vatican remain the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel and Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). The antipope’s lung surgery is a temporal mercy from God, granting him time for conversion — a conversion that requires the public abjuration of the Vatican II errors, the Novus Ordo, and the false ecumenism of Assisi. Until then, no Catholic may recognize him as Vicar of Christ, nor participate in his liturgies, nor obey his governance.
“You shall not follow the multitude to do evil” (Ex 23:2). The faithful must cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of Trent, the doctrine of the Popes before 1958. Non possumus. The “spirit of Assisi” is a demon; the “pope” who serves it is its herald. Let the Catholics of the catacombs — the true Church — pray for the conversion of the usurper, but never collaborate in his apostasy.
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Pope Leo XIV cancels Assisi visit on doctors’ advice (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.10.2026