The National Catholic Register reports that on April 14, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” visited a care home for the elderly in Annaba, Algeria, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. During this visit, the conciliar figurehead declared that “God’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant or the proud” and that “wherever there is love and service, God is there.” He thanked an elderly Muslim man, Salah Bouchemel, for his “beautiful and comforting” testimony, and proclaimed that “God’s heart is with the little ones, with the humble, and with them he builds up his Kingdom of love and peace day by day.” The visit concluded with the scheduled celebration of a “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine. This spectacle in Algeria is not a pastoral act but a carefully staged performance of the very naturalism and religious indifferentism that the pre-conciliar Magisterium condemned as mortal sins against the Faith.
The Universalist Heresy: God’s Heart and the Exclusion of Truth
The statement attributed to Leo XIV that “God’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant or the proud” is a masterwork of conciliar ambiguity, designed to be all things to all men while committing to nothing of Catholic substance. On its surface, it sounds pious. But what does it omit? It omits the most fundamental truth of the Catholic Faith: that God’s heart is with those who possess the one true Faith, who are members of His one true Church, and who are in the state of sanctifying grace. The “wicked” are not merely those who are socially unpleasant; the wicked are those who reject the Gospel, who die outside the Catholic Church, who refuse the sacraments. To speak of God’s heart being with “the little ones” and “the humble” without specifying that the greatest humility is submission to the one true Faith of Peter is to preach a god of natural virtue, not the God Who revealed Himself.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), 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). The entire tone of Leo XIV’s remarks presupposes precisely this condemned indifferentism: that fraternity and service are sufficient, that the specific content of belief is irrelevant, that a Muslim testimony is “beautiful and comforting” on equal footing with Catholic witness. This is not the language of the Church that has always taught: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” — Outside the Church there is no salvation.
The Muslim Testimony: Affirmation of Religious Relativism
Perhaps the most revealing element of this Algerian visit is the explicit thanks given to Salah Bouchemel, an elderly Algerian Muslim, for his “beautiful and comforting” testimony. Let us be unambiguous: a Muslim denies the Holy Trinity, denies the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, denies the Redemption through His Precious Blood, denies the Sacraments, denies the Papal Primacy, and denies the entirety of the Deposit of Faith. Islam is not a “beautiful” path to God; it is a heresy — a compilation of distorted fragments of Judeo-Christian revelation mixed with the fabrications of a false prophet, explicitly condemned by the Church throughout her history.
For the occupant of the Vatican to thank a Muslim for his testimony, to hold it up as an example of “fraternity,” and to suggest that God looks upon such a house of mixed belief with hope, is to commit the very error that the Syllabus of Errors catalogued as Proposition 17: entertaining “good hope at least… of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.” It is the error of Dignitatis Humanae in action — the conciliar declaration that the Church “has always taught” (a blatant falsehood) that “no one is to be forced to act against his conscience” in matters of religion, thereby elevating the subjective conscience above objective divine revelation.
Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), was devastatingly clear: “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.” There is no “fraternity” with those who deny Christ’s divinity. There is no “hope” in a house where the true Faith is treated as one option among many. The “Kingdom of love and peace” that Leo XIV describes is not the Kingdom of Christ the King; it is the kingdom of naturalism, the kingdom of the devil disguised as an angel of light.
The Care Home as a Stage: The Reduction of Charity to Social Work
The setting of this spectacle is itself significant. A care home for the elderly — a place of natural, temporal charity — is chosen as the venue for a “papal” visit. The Little Sisters of the Poor, whatever their personal devotion, operate within the structures of the conciliar sect, which has systematically gutted the supernatural dimension of the religious life. The focus is on “service,” on “friendship,” on “life together” — all natural virtues that any secular humanitarian organization could claim. Where is the call to conversion? Where is the preaching of the Gospel? Where is the administration of the Sacraments as the necessary means of salvation?
The pre-conciliar Church taught that the primary purpose of religious life is the glory of God and the sanctification of the soul through the evangelical counsels. Pius XII, in Sponsa Christi (1950), emphasized that the contemplative life is the highest form of Christian existence because it is ordered directly to the worship of God. The reduction of religious life to social service — to running care homes and hospitals — is a degradation of the supernatural vocation to the level of mere humanitarianism. It is the fruit of the “option for the poor” theology that has infected the conciar Church since the 1960s, replacing the supernatural charity of the Gospel with the natural charity of Marx.
The Basilica of St. Augustine: Profanation of Sacred Space
The report notes that Leo XIV was scheduled to celebrate “Mass” at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Hippo. Let us recall who St. Augustine was: one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, a tireless defender of Catholic orthodoxy against the Donatists, the Pelagians, and the Manicheans. Augustine, who wrote De Civitate Dei — The City of God — in which he delineated with razor precision the irreconcilable opposition between the City of God and the City of Man. Augustine, who taught that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church and that those who die in heresy are condemned for all eternity.
That the conciliar sect uses the basilica of this great Doctor to celebrate its counterfeit liturgy — the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI, a rite condemned by the 1969 Ottaviani Intervention as “straying dangerously from the Catholic faith” — is a blasphemy of the highest order. The New Mass, with its orientation toward the people, its suppression of prayers expressing the reality of the propitiatory sacrifice, its ecumenical overtones, and its replacement of the doctrine of the Real Presence with ambiguous language, is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. To celebrate it in the basilica of St. Augustine is to spit upon his tomb.
The Silence on the Most Important Matters
What is entirely absent from this report, and from the entire performance, is any mention of the truths that actually matter: the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, the reality of sin and the need for repentance, the existence of Hell, the necessity of the Sacraments, the primacy of the spiritual over the temporal, the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations including Algeria, and the duty of every human being to submit to the authority of the true Church.
There is no call to the conversion of Algeria’s Muslim population. There is no preaching of the Gospel. There is no administration of Baptism or the other Sacraments as the necessary means of salvation. There is only “fraternity,” “service,” “hope,” and “love” — emptied of all supernatural content and reduced to the level of a United Nations press release. This is the religion of the Antichrist: a religion of man, by man, for man, with the name of God invoked as a decorative afterthought.
The Conciliar Sect’s Algerian Strategy
The choice of Algeria is not accidental. Algeria is a predominantly Muslim nation with a tiny Catholic remnant, a former French colony where the Church’s presence is largely a relic of colonialism. For the conciliar sect, Algeria serves as a perfect stage for its ecumenical theater: a place where it can demonstrate its “respect” for Islam, its commitment to “dialogue,” and its abandonment of any pretense of missionary zeal. The Church of Christ was founded to convert the world — all nations, all peoples, all races — to the one true Faith. The conciliar sect, by contrast, exists to dialogue with the world, to learn from the world, and ultimately to be absorbed by the world.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” He called upon rulers and states to recognize Christ’s royal authority publicly. Leo XIV does the opposite: he goes to a Muslim nation, thanks a Muslim for his testimony, preaches a gospel of natural fraternity, and celebrates a counterfeit liturgy in the basilica of the Doctor of Grace. This is not the Church of Pius XI. This is the Church of the New Advent — the paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958 and that leads souls to perdition with a smile and a blessing.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The Algerian visit of Leo XIV is a microcosm of everything the conciliar revolution represents: the abandonment of the supernatural, the embrace of religious indifferentism, the reduction of charity to social work, the profanation of sacred spaces, and the systematic silencing of the truths that offend the world. It is a performance designed not to save souls but to impress the media, to demonstrate the “relevance” of the neo-church, and to advance the ecumenical project of uniting all religions under the banner of natural virtue.
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must see this spectacle for what it is: not a papal visit but a pastoral disaster, not an act of charity but an act of apostasy, not a sign of hope but a sign of the times. The true Church endures — in the faithful who reject the conciar sect, in the priests who offer the Most Holy Sacrifice according to the immemorial Roman Rite, and in the unchanging doctrine of the Popes who came before the devastation. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Let us pray for the conversion of Algeria, of the Muslim world, and of all those who have wandered from the one true fold — and let us pray, above all, for the destruction of the conciar abomination and the restoration of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV in Algeria: God’s Heart Is Not With the Wicked Or the Arrogant (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.04.2026