The National Catholic Register portal reports a human-interest piece by Jonathan Liedl celebrating the personal connection between Mildred Camacho and Robert Prevost, the current usurper occupying the Vatican under the name “Leo XIV”. The article frames the “pope” as a benevolent missionary “godfather” whose election elicited tearful joy, presenting a sanitized, emotional narrative devoid of any supernatural density. This sentimental theater serves to legitimize a manifest heretic as the Vicar of Christ, obscuring the theological reality that a public adherent of the Vatican II sect cannot hold the Petrine office.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Sacramental Order
The cited article relates the circumstances of Mildred Camacho’s baptism in 1996, administered by the then-Father Prevost acting as godfather. The narrative focuses entirely on the human dimension: the scheduling convenience (“Let’s set a date, because I don’t travel to Chulucanas often”), the celebratory dinner lasting until 1 a.m., the emails and photos substituting for spiritual paternity. Nowhere does the text mention the character indelebilis impressed on the soul, the obligation to renounce Satan and all his works, the duty to profess the integral Catholic Faith, or the necessity of the status gratiae for the validity of the sponsorship.
Canon 765 of the 1917 Code stipulates that a sponsor must be a Catholic who has received Confirmation and the Most Holy Eucharist, leads a life in harmony with the Faith, and is not bound by any canonical penalty. A priest who has embraced the Modernist errors of the Second Vatican Council — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass — has ipso facto defected from the Catholic Faith. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, citing Canon 188.4: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt clarifies: “joining, or enrolling in, a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” Formal adherence to the conciliar religion constitutes public defection. Therefore, Prevost lacked the capacity to be a valid sponsor in 1996, just as he lacks the capacity to be Pope today. The “baptism” described may be doubtful in validity if the Novus Ordo rite was used with defective form or matter, but even assuming validity, the sponsorship was null. The article’s silence on these canonical and theological realities is not an oversight; it is the hallmark of the neo-church: the substitution of sentimental anecdote for sacramental theology.
The “Godfather” as Metaphor for the Anti-Papacy
The article’s central motif — “My Godfather Is the Pope!” — reveals the anthropocentric inversion at the heart of post-conciliar religion. The spiritual paternity of the priest, which flows from his configuration to Christ the High Priest (Sacerdos alter Christus), is reduced to a biological metaphor of familial affection. Mildred Camacho states: “As a spiritual guide, I feel that he has done his job very well, and not only for me.” This subjective emotivism (“I feel”) replaces the objective criterion: quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus. What “job” has he done? The article answers: “profound witness of missionary zeal and service to those most in need.” This is the social gospel of the Masonic “Fatima” operation condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts” and “The idea of ‘national conversion without evangelization’ contradicts Catholic ecclesiology.” The “missionary zeal” praised here is the missio ad gentes stripped of its soteriological necessity — the proclamation that Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — and replaced by humanitarian NGO activity.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingship is threefold: legislative, judicial, executive. “The Gospels do not so much relate that He established laws, as rather present Him establishing laws… concerning all those who will keep His commandments… the Divine Master says that they will give proof of their love for Him.” The “Leo XIV” of this article exercises no legislative authority over error, no judicial condemnation of heresy, no executive defense of the Faith. He is presented as a “change agent” — “the person who has the highest authority in our Catholic Church and can, from that position, begin to bring about change” — a revolutionary, not a Vicar. This is the paradigm shift of the conciliar sect: authority as power to innovate, not to conserve the depositum fidei.
The Linguistics of Legitimation: Sanitizing the Usurpation
The rhetoric of the Register piece is carefully calibrated to normalize the anomalous. Terms like “elected Pope,” “Holy Father,” “papal conclave,” “Cardinal Prevost” are deployed without qualification, creating a semantic fog that obscures the canonical crime. The “white smoke” moment is narrated as a secular media event: “She pulled it up on her phone… nervousness gave way to elation.” The supernatural sign of the fumata bianca, historically signifying the acceptatio of a valid election by a true Cardinal College, is here stripped of its sacramental gravity and presented as a reality-TV climax.
Mildred’s exclamation — “My godfather is the Pope!” — functions as a credo of the new religion: personal connection trumps doctrinal fidelity. The article notes she previously showed photos of her godfather with “St. John Paul II or Benedict XVI” — both antipopes in the unbroken line of usurpers since 1958. The “quick move on” by listeners then, versus the “considerably more interest” now, measures the success of the Masonic “psychological operation” described in the False Fatima file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The narrative has been fully internalized by the neo-church faithful; the “godfather” story is merely the latest chapter in the legitimization of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Theological Impossibility of a Modernist “Pope”
The Defense of Sedevacantism file provides the irrefutable doctrinal weapons against this usurpation. 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.” Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal assent.
Robert Prevost, as an Augustinian “prior general” and “bishop” of the conciliar sect, has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: the subsistit in ecclesiology (LG 8), religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae. He has participated in the “synodal” farce. He is a manifest heretic. Therefore, he is not, never was, and cannot be Pope. The “election” of May 8, 2025, was a conventiculum haereticorum, a Masonic ritual producing an antipope. The Register‘s article is propaganda for a paramasonic structure.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Cult of Personality Replaces the Cult of Christ
The article’s conclusion is revealing: Mildred Camacho says, “He is my godfather, but at the same time, he is also the Pope… can, from that position, begin to bring about change, not only for Peru, but for the rest of the world.” This is the cult of man condemned by 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 “change” desired is not the conversion of nations to the Kingship of Christ (Regnum Christi), but the further implementation of the Masonic program: religious indifferentism, globalist humanitarianism, the dissolution of the Church’s divine constitution.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). This is precisely the program of “Leo XIV” and his “goddaughter” the media personality. The article mentions “catechesis classes” and “media interviews” — the tools of the neo-church to manufacture consent. Silence about supernatural matters (sacraments, state of grace, final judgment) is the gravest accusation. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Immaculate Victim, the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass, the reality of Hell, the Immaculate Conception, or the Social Kingship of Christ. Only “mission trips,” “ally here on earth,” and “sharing her story.”
The “Fatima” Connection: Ritualistic Dates and False Credentials
The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the “Symbolism of dates: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization) – ritualistic 200-year cycles.” The “election” of Prevost in 2025 fits the pattern of Masonic stage-management. The “godfather” narrative provides the “negative credentialing” through skepticism from authorities (Stage 1) inverted: here, the “skepticism” is replaced by the Register‘s fawning coverage, but the function is identical — implantation of the message that this man is the legitimate Father. The “missionary priest in Chulucanas” legend mirrors the “Fatima seers” legend: a constructed hagiography to anchor the false prophet in the popular imagination. The “Miracle of the Sun” — “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion” — finds its parallel in the “white smoke” media event: a manufactured sign for a manufactured “pope.”
Conclusion: Return to the Immutable Tradition
This article from the National Catholic Register is not journalism; it is liturgy for the Church of the New Advent. It canonizes a usurper through sentimentality, replacing the Credo with a biography, the Sacrifice with a dinner party, the Kingship of Christ with the “authority” of a Modernist functionary. The faithful Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, sees through this charade. There is no Pope in the Vatican. There is only the abomination of desolation. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Modernism is the “synthesis of all errors.” Its current “pope” is its supreme exponent. The duty of the hour is not to share stories of “godfathers,” but to reject the conciliar sect entirely, cleave to the Traditional Latin Mass and the pre-1958 Magisterium, and pray for the restoration of the true Papacy and the Social Reign of Christ the King. Non praevalebunt.
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‘My Godfather Is the Pope!’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.11.2026