Idolatrous Monument to Vatican Usurper Erected in Peruvian City
EWTN News reports the unveiling of a 16-foot fiberglass statue depicting antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) in Chiclayo, Peru, where the Augustinian religious served as conciliar “bishop” from 2014 to 2023. The monument, weighing half a ton and standing on a 6-foot pedestal, was ceremonially “blessed” by the local ordinary Edinson Farfán amidst performances of marinera dances and secular cumbia music. Regional officials praised the structure as “an act of thanksgiving” to “the pope of communion,” with Chiclayo’s mayor Janet Cubas declaring the usurper had “put Chiclayo on the world map.” The article emphasizes Prevost’s Peruvian citizenship and his alleged spiritual connection to the region.
Public Idolatry of Conciliar Figurehead
The erection of this monument constitutes blasphemous substitution of divine worship with personality cult. While Catholic tradition reserves statues for canonized saints or approved devotional images, this fiberglass abomination elevates a representative of the conciliar antipapacy to quasi-divine status. The ceremony’s syncretic elements—folk dances and popular music—confirm its essentially pagan character, recalling the golden calf revelry condemned in Exodus 32.
Non habebis deos alienos coram me (You shall have no other gods before me – Ex 20:3) remains the eternal law contravened by this modernist idolatry. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes Christ alone as “King of kings and Lord of lords,” whose reign “extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians.” To attribute papal authority to a false claimant constitutes formal cooperation in the conciliar sect’s rejection of Christ’s sovereignty.
Theological Contradictions in Official Statements
The reported declarations reveal doctrinal bankruptcy masquerading as piety:
“by blessing this sculpture, we renew our commitment to walk together: Church, state, institutions, and citizens under God’s gaze…” – Edinson Farfán
This statement epitomizes the conciliar heresy of collegiality condemned by Pope Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794). The authentic Magisterium teaches that the Church is hierarchically constituted, not democratically governed through “walking together” with civil powers. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) anathematizes such egalitarian fantasies: “The Church is essentially an unequal society… comprising two categories of persons: the pastors and the flock.”
“Our bishop emeritus is the pope of communion; may his example inspire our public and community actions…” – Edinson Farfán
The term “pope of communion” constitutes modernist doublespeak denying the extra ecclesiam nulla salus dogma. True popes governed as monarchical successors of Peter, not facilitators of false unity. Benedict XV’s Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (1914) condemns those who “twist the meaning” of communion into “a certain fellowship in fraternal charity.”
Violation of Multiple Doctrinal Principles
Several immutable Catholic teachings are trampled in this spectacle:
1. Canon Law Nullification of Heretical Clerics: Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code automatically deprives office from any cleric publicly defecting from Catholic faith. Prevost’s adherence to Vatican II heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality) renders his “episcopal” tenure canonically nonexistent.
2. Prohibition of Honor to Heretics: The 1864 Syllabus of Errors condemns proposition #78 permitting public exercise of non-Catholic worship. By logical extension, public veneration of heretical figures constitutes graver scandal.
3. Condemnation of False Obedience: St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice establishes that “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Officials urging submission to Prevost violate the First Commandment by demanding allegiance to one who “has already shown that he must be removed” (Pope Celestine I on Nestorius).
Naturalistic Subversion of Supernatural Order
The monument’s tourist promotion (“Pope Leo tourist route”) and political rhetoric about “governing and serving is also an act of love” expose the conciliar sect’s materialist reductionism. Mayor Cubas’ celebration of Chiclayo’s worldly fame through this statue exemplifies the conciliar inversion denounced in Pius XI’s Quas Primas:
“When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
Nowhere does the ceremony acknowledge the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the necessity of grace, or final judgment—omissions symptomatic of apostasy. The 1907 Lamentabili condemns such naturalism: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (proposition 25).
Sacrilegious Syncretism in Ceremonial Acts
The blessing ceremony’s incorporation of marinera dances and Donnie Yaipén’s “Cumbia del Papa” constitutes religious syncretism anathematized by Scripture: “What fellowship has justice with injustice? Or what partnership has light with darkness?” (2 Cor 6:14). Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) forbids Catholics from participating in “pan-Christian” gatherings that adulterate divine worship with secular elements.
The Provincial Municipality’s involvement in this sacrilege violates the Syllabus of Errors proposition #55 mandating Church-State separation as “erroneous.” True Catholic governance would instead erect monuments to Christ the King, as Pius XI prescribed: “When men recognize… the royal prerogatives of Christ… sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands.”
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Statue of Pope Leo XIV unveiled and blessed in Chiclayo, Peru (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.11.2025