The VaticanNews portal reports that the antipope occupying the See of Rome, “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost), received Noel Díaz, founder of the lay apostolate “El Sembrador Nueva Evangelización” (ESNE), on February 12, 2026. The article presents this meeting as a routine encouragement of a Catholic media ministry. A superficial reading might see only a benign encounter between a Church leader and a lay evangelist. This analysis, however, from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, exposes the meeting as a profound manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy—a ritualistic normalization of the very errors condemned by pre-1958 pontiffs. The article’s omissions, its naturalistic focus, and its implicit endorsement of a conciliar ecclesiology reveal a complete bankruptcy of supernatural vision.
1. Factual Deconstruction: What the Article Glosses Over
The article provides factual data: a meeting occurred, gifts were exchanged (a shoeshine box symbolizing Díaz’s humble origins), and topics like migration and “knowledge of the Word of God” were discussed. The critical facts are what it deliberately omits or treats as irrelevant:
- The Identity of the Recipient: The article refers to “Pope Leo XIV” without qualification. From the unchanging perspective of Catholic doctrine, the man known as Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic and, therefore, ipso facto deprived of the papacy. As St. Robert Bellarmine definitively taught, a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) states that an office becomes vacant by the “mere fact” of public defection from the faith. Prevost, by his public adherence to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism), is a public heretic. Thus, the meeting was not with a legitimate Vicar of Christ, but with a private individual unlawfully occupying the Vatican’s physical space.
- The Nature of the Apostolate: ESNE is described as a “Catholic ministry” with a TV and radio network. The article provides no doctrinal charter. In the conciliar paradigm, “lay ministry” and “evangelization” are euphemisms for the democratization of the Church, where the hierarchical, sacramental, and dogmatic authority of the clerical state is undermined. The true mission of the Church, as defined by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, is to teach all nations “to observe all things whatsoever” Christ commanded (Matt. 28:20), which includes the unconditional submission of all human societies—including their laws, education, and public worship—to the social reign of Christ the King. ESNE’s focus on “bringing the voice of the Holy Father” (i.e., the antipope’s speeches) to Spanish- and English-speaking people is an exercise in promoting a false magisterium, not the authentic Catholic faith.
- The Symbolism of the Gifts: The shoeshine box is presented as a sentimental token of Díaz’s poverty-stricken youth. In the naturalistic psychology of the conciliar church, personal narrative and “witness of life” replace doctrinal clarity and sacrificial reparation. The true Catholic apostolate is built on the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the propagation of immutable dogma, not on biographical anecdotes that foster a personality cult around the “Pope” or the founder.
2. Linguistic Analysis: The Language of Apostasy
The article’s tone is bureaucratic, celebratory, and utterly devoid of supernatural terminology. Key phrases reveal the modernist mentality:
- “Apostolado” and “Evangelización”: These post-conciliar terms replace the classical concepts of apostolate (which is intrinsically linked to the hierarchical mission of bishops and the Sacraments) and evangelization (which, in the conciliar sense, means vague “proclamation” devoid of the requirement for the explicit conversion of individuals and nations to the Catholic faith). The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemned the notion that “the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77) and that “it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals” (Error 79). The “evangelization” promoted by ESNE, operating within the “conciliar sect,” implicitly accepts the religious indifferentism of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae.
- “Layman” and “Ministry”: The elevation of a layperson to found a major “ministry” with a global broadcast network is a direct fruit of the conciliar revolution. The traditional Catholic doctrine, reaffirmed by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, holds that the Church, as a perfect society, has rights that “cannot renounce” and must be “independent from secular authority.” The “ministry” of a layman, no matter how zealous, cannot possess jurisdiction or teaching authority. It is a private work of piety at best, and at worst, a source of confusion that blurs the essential lines between the teaching Church (hierarchy) and the listening Church (faithful), a distinction condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 6).
- Silence on the Supernatural: The entire article is a masterpiece of naturalism. There is no mention of:
- The Sacrifice of the Mass and theReal Presence.
- The state of sanctifying grace and the necessity of the Sacraments for salvation.
- The specific dogmas of the Trinity, the Incarnation, or the Redemption.
- The eternal damnation of heretics and apostates.
- The Social Kingship of Christ as a juridical and political reality, which demands that all human laws conform to the Law of God.
This silence is not accidental; it is the very essence of the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X. As he wrote in Pascendi Dominici gregis, the Modernist “regards the dogmas as symbols of the truth.” The article treats Catholicism as a “value,” a “voice,” a “ministry”—all immanent, worldly concepts—and not as the one true religion, outside of which there is no salvation (cf. Syllabus, Error 16).
3. Theological Confrontation: Doctrines vs. Omissions
Every statement and omission in the article stands in stark, irreconcilable opposition to the integral Catholic faith as it existed before the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
A. The Non-Existent Social Kingship of Christ
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” He wrote: “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.” The antipope’s meeting with a lay broadcaster to discuss “migration” and “the Word of God” does not even mention, let alone demand, the public and legal submission of the United States, Mexico, or Spain to the Codex Iuris Canonici and the binding precepts of the Divine Law. It promotes a privatized, “spiritualized” religion that has no claim on public order. This is the precise error of the “secularism” Pius XI lamented. The article’s focus on “bringing the Pope’s words to homes” is a parody of true kingship; it seeks to disseminate the words of a usurper, not to install the laws of Christ in constitutions and courts.
B. The False Notion of “Evangelization”
The “evangelization” discussed is the post-conciliar model, which is a synthesis of all errors. It is:
- Indifferentist: It does not call for the conversion of non-Catholics to the one true Church. The Syllabus (Error 16) anathematizes the idea that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.”
- Naturalistic: It focuses on “migration” (a temporal issue) and “knowledge of the Word of God” (presented as an academic or devotional pursuit) rather than on the urgent necessity of baptism and Catholic faith for salvation. It ignores the primary danger Pius X identified: “Modernism… the synthesis of all heresies” (Lamentabili, introduction).
- Lay-Centric: It promotes a lay founder as a key agent, contradicting the Church’s divinely instituted hierarchy. The Syllabus (Error 19) declares the Church “is endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder.” The “Church” of the antipope has ceded these rights to lay associations.
C. The Heresy of Recognizing a Manifest Heretic
By referring to Prevost as “Pope Leo XIV” and reporting the meeting as a legitimate papal audience, the article implicitly accepts the validity of his election and authority. This is a formal cooperation in the sin of schism and heresy. The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV (1555) declares null and void the promotion of anyone who “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy,” even if elected “by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals.” Prevost, as a known adherent of Vatican II errors, falls under this condemnation. To recognize him is to repudiate the immutable Catholic doctrine that a heretic cannot be Pope. Bellarmine’s reasoning is clear: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The article’s basic premise is therefore heretical.
4. Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Revolution in Microcosm
This single news item is a perfect microcosm of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
- Hermeneutics of Continuity in Action: The article treats the event as if it were a normal occurrence in the life of the “Catholic Church.” This is the “hermeneutic of continuity” condemned by Benedict XVI (a heretic) as a tool to disguise rupture. There is no continuity between the Quas Primas of Pius XI, which demanded the “public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” from rulers, and this meeting about media outreach.
- The Cult of the Person over the Cult of the Dogma: The focus is on the “long-awaited meeting” for Díaz, his friendship with “Pope Francis,” and the symbolic gifts. This is the religion of humanism, where personal relationships and stories replace the worship of God and the defense of His immutable laws. It is the “cult of man” Pius XI condemned in Quadragesimo Anno.
- Syncretism and the “New Evangelization”: ESNE broadcasts to “Latin America and Spain,” regions historically Catholic but now steeped in error. The “New Evangelization” of John Paul II (a heretic) is not a call to re-convert these lands to the integral faith, but to create a new, diluted, ecumenical “Catholicism” that can coexist with Protestantism, secularism, and paganism. It is the “imprecise formulation” of “conversion” without Catholicism, as warned in the False Fatima file regarding the “conversion of Russia.”
- The “Two Powers” Error Revived: The discussion of “migration” treats it as a purely humanitarian issue, divorced from the Catholic doctrine that the primary duty of the State is to recognize and defend the Religion of Christ (Syllabus, Errors 39-44). The article assumes a separation between “Church” (spiritual) and “State” (temporal) that Pius IX anathematized (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”).
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Pope Leo meets founder of ESNE Television (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.02.2026