VaticanNews portal reports that on 13 April 2026, aboard the papal plane at the start of Leo XIV’s apostolic journey to four African nations, journalists from the Dicastery for Communication presented the usurper with a drawing made by children at the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome. The drawing depicted Leo XIV wearing glasses and carrying a rucksack labeled “Vangelo,” about to embark on a journey with children shown as “builders of peace.” The article describes the hospital’s playroom as a place where “Christians of different denominations, Muslims, and people of other religions also come together,” and where children are engaged in activities “centred on the theme of peace.” The children wrote: “We, builders of peace, are with you, Pope Leo!” and attached messages urging people “not to argue.” The entire spectacle — the drawing, the staged presentation, the journalistic orchestration, the saccharine language of “peace” and “encounter” — is a textbook exhibition of the post-conciliar religion of naturalistic humanism, stripped of all supernatural content and reduced to a sentimental humanitarian performance.
The Complete Absence of the Supernatural Order
Let us begin where the article itself is silent — and its silence is deafening. Not once in this entire report does the word “God” appear in any meaningful theological sense. There is no mention of Our Lord Jesus Christ, no mention of the Most Holy Trinity, no mention of the sacraments, no mention of grace, no mention of the salvation of souls, no mention of sin, no mention of repentance, no mention of heaven or hell, no mention of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, no mention of the Church as the one true ark of salvation. The word “Gospel” appears only as a label on a rucksack in a child’s drawing — reduced to a decorative motif on a piece of luggage.
This is not accidental. It is the raison d’être of the entire conciliar enterprise. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80), the entire program of modernism consists precisely in the systematic removal of God and His Christ from public life and their replacement with naturalistic humanitarianism. What we see in this article is the finished product of that program: a “pope” who travels the world not to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not to administer the sacraments, not to convert souls, not to establish the Social Reign of Christ the King, but to receive drawings from sick children about “peace.”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), taught with absolute clarity: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Kingdom of Christ is not a children’s art project. It is a supernatural reality demanding the submission of every intellect, every will, every nation, every institution to the divine law. The reduction of the papal mission to receiving crayon drawings about “not arguing” is not merely banal — it is a blasphemous parody of the Petrine office.
The Bambino Gesù Playroom: A Microcosm of Conciliar Ecumenism
The article describes the hospital playroom in terms that should make every Catholic faithful to Tradition recoil: “Christians of different denominations, Muslims, and people of other religions also come together there.” This is presented as though it were a virtue — a beautiful, heartwarming reality. In truth, it is the practical implementation of the very errors condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15), and that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16). He further condemned the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18). The playroom described in this article is a living embodiment of these condemned propositions — a space where religious indifferentism is not merely tolerated but actively cultivated as a positive value.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within limits which are defined and determined by its own nature and special object.” The mixing of religions in a “playroom” under the patronage of the Vatican structures is not charity — it is the abnegation of the Church’s divine mandate to teach all nations (Matt. 28:19) and the practical denial that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus).
The children are taught to be “builders of peace” — but peace in the Catholic sense is not the absence of argument. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” True peace is the “tranquility of order” (St. Augustine), and that order requires the submission of all things to God. The false peace promoted in this article is the peace of the world — the peace that Our Lord Himself warned against: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34). The conciliar sect has chosen the peace of the world over the sword of Truth.
The Religion of “Peace” as a Substitute for the Gospel
The children’s message — “We, builders of peace, are with you, Pope Leo!” — and the exhortation “not to argue” reveal the theological poverty of the entire post-conciliar religion. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a message about “not arguing.” It is a message about the most fundamental argument in the history of the universe: the war between the City of God and the city of Satan, between grace and sin, between truth and error, between salvation and damnation.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57) and that “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Proposition 65). What we see in this article is precisely that “dogmaless Christianity” — a religion without dogma, without doctrine, without truth claims, without the Cross, without the supernatural. It is a religion of feelings, of drawings, of smiles, of “encounter” — a religion perfectly adapted to the synagogue of Satan described by Pius IX in his allocutions against Masonic sects.
The article states that “in an era marked by hatred and violence, as Pope Leo has repeatedly pointed out, it is important to foster in new generations the desire to be ‘builders of peace.'” But the conciliar structures have no authority to point to anything, because they have abandoned the very truths that alone give meaning to the concept of peace. As Pius XI declared: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — 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 “peace” of Leo XIV is the peace of a world that has removed God — and it is therefore no peace at all, but the deceptive calm before the storm of divine justice.
The Staged Spectacle: Journalism as Liturgy
The article describes a carefully orchestrated event: journalists from the Dicastery for Communication “presented” the drawing, “explained the drawing’s symbolism and message of peace,” and the usurper “smiled and said, ‘Thank you so much.'” This is not news — it is liturgy. The Dicastery for Communication, the journalists, the children, the drawing, the smile, the staged “spontaneity” — all of it constitutes a rite of the new conciliar religion, performed for the faithful of the neo-church as a substitute for the authentic worship of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The language is revealing: “a splash of color,” “poignant message,” “express their support for the Holy Father.” This is the vocabulary of public relations, not of the Catholic faith. The true Holy Father — the successor of St. Peter — would be concerned with the state of souls, with the preaching of the Gospel, with the administration of the sacraments, with the defense of the faith against heresy. The usurper Leo XIV is concerned with receiving drawings and smiling for cameras. This is not the servus servorum Dei — it is the servus servorum mundi, the servant of the servants of the world.
The article’s closing invitation — “Your contribution for a great mission: support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” — reveals the propagandistic nature of the entire enterprise. VaticanNews is not a news outlet; it is a publicity apparatus for the conciar sect, and its “great mission” is the dissemination of naturalistic humanism dressed in Catholic vestments.
The Bambino Gesù Hospital: Catholic Works in the Service of Apostasy
The article notes that the Bambino Gesù hospital has “welcomed more than 2,000 Ukrainian patients” since the Russian bombing and “another 30 patients from the Gaza Strip.” Catholic charity is a duty — Our Lord commanded it: “I was sick, and you visited Me” (Matt. 25:36). But charity divorced from the supernatural order is not Catholic charity; it is mere humanitarianism, indistinguishable from the works of any secular organization or false religion.
The hospital’s playroom, where “Christians of different denominations, Muslims, and people of other religions” gather, is not a place of Catholic formation — it is a place of religious indifferentism. The children are not taught that Jesus Christ is God, that the Catholic Church is the one true Church, that the sacraments are necessary for salvation. They are taught to be “builders of peace” and “not to argue” — which is to say, they are taught that religious truth does not matter, that all religions are equally valid paths to God, and that the only thing that counts is getting along.
This is the practical implementation of the very errors condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. Pope Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), condemned the ecumenical movement in advance, declaring that “the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.” The Bambino Gesù playroom does the exact opposite — it promotes the illusion of unity while the divisions remain, and it does so by suppressing the very truths that alone could achieve true unity.
The Usurper and the Usurpation of Language
Throughout the article, the usurper is referred to as “Pope Leo” and “the Holy Father” — titles that belong exclusively to the true successor of St. Peter. The use of these titles for Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who occupies the Vatican structures as part of the conciliar apostasy, is itself a form of participation in the deception. As the theological sources demonstrate, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses his office — he cannot be Pope, he cannot be the Holy Father, he cannot be the Vicar of Christ. He is a usurper, and every act of recognition — including the use of papal titles — strengthens the illusion that the conciar sect is the Catholic Church.
The children’s drawing — with its rucksack labeled “Vangelo” — is a perfect symbol of the entire conciliar enterprise: the Gospel reduced to a label, a brand, a decorative accessory carried by a smiling man in glasses who travels the world preaching “peace” while the faith is destroyed. The true Gospel is not a word on a rucksack — it is “the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth” (Rom. 1:16), and it demands the submission of every intellect and every will to its divine truths.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This article, in its very banality, reveals the full depth of the conciliar apostasy. There is no heresy explicitly stated — because heresy is no longer necessary. The conciliar sect has moved beyond heresy into a religion of pure naturalism, where God is absent, Christ is absent, the sacraments are absent, the supernatural is absent, and all that remains is a humanitarian performance staged for cameras and consumed by the faithful of the neo-church as a substitute for the true faith.
The children of the Bambino Gesù hospital deserve better than to be used as props in this spectacle. They deserve to be taught the true faith — that Jesus Christ is God, that He founded one Church, that the sacraments are necessary for salvation, that the Most Blessed Virgin Mary is their Mother, that sin is real, that hell is real, that heaven is real, and that the only true peace is the peace of Christ the King reigning over all nations and all hearts. Instead, they are taught to draw pictures about “peace” and “not arguing” — and to present them to a smiling usurper who has no power to save their souls.
As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus: “The injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right” (Proposition 61). The success of the conciliar enterprise — its global reach, its media apparatus, its humanitarian works — does not make it right. It makes it more dangerous. The abomination of desolation stands in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), and it smiles, and it receives drawings, and it says “Thank you so much” — and the faithful of the true Church, holding fast to the unchanging faith of all ages, pray for the day when the usurper will be cast out and the Kingdom of Christ the King will be restored.
Adveniat regnum Tuum. Thy Kingdom come.
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Patients from Vatican children’s hospital make drawing for Pope Leo (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.04.2026