The National Catholic Register reports that on April 14, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” traveled to Annaba, Algeria, where he met with members of the Augustinian order for what was described as a “beautiful and pleasant” fraternal encounter. The visit included a shared meal with Augustinian friars who care for the Basilica of St. Augustine, as well as a stop at the ruins of Hippo and a home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. The statement from the Order of St. Augustine emphasized “unity amid the diversity of nations,” highlighting friars from South Sudan, Nigeria, and Kenya as exemplars of an international community “united in heart and soul.” What is conspicuously absent from this entire report — and what reveals the true spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect — is any mention of the Catholic faith, the conversion of souls, the preaching of the Gospel, or the exclusive salvific mission of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. This omission is not accidental; it is the very essence of the post-conciliar revolution.
The Language of Fraternity Without Faith
The vocabulary deployed in this report is revelatory. Words and phrases such as “fraternal encounter,” “brothers dwelling together in unity,” “shared meal, smiles, and fraternity,” and “united in heart and soul” constitute the liturgical language of the conciliar sect — a language deliberately emptied of supernatural content and refilled with the sentimental humanism of the Masonic lodge. When Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King in Quas Primas (1925), he declared with apostolic authority that “the Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men” and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The reign of Christ is not a matter of fraternal sentiment; it is a matter of divine right, supernatural truth, and the absolute obligation of every human being to submit to the authority of the Incarnate Word.
The statement from the Order of St. Augustine speaks of “one common heart rooted in the spirit of St. Augustine of Hippo.” But what is the spirit of St. Augustine? It is the spirit of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation. It is the spirit that waged relentless war against the Donatists, the Pelagians, and every heresy that threatened the integrity of Catholic doctrine. It is the spirit that recognized the Church as the Civitas Dei, the City of God, distinct from and opposed to the Civitas Terrena, the city of man. The conciliar sect has hijacked the name of Augustine while gutting his teaching of its Catholic substance, reducing the Doctor of Grace to a mascot for interreligious dialogue and multicultural fraternity.
Annaba, Algeria: The Land of Augustine Abandoned to Islam
The geographical context of this visit is itself a scandal that demands exposure. Annaba, Algeria — the site of ancient Hippo — is a nation where Islam is the state religion and where Catholics are a tiny, marginalized minority. The conciliar sect sends its “pope” to this land not to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not to demand the conversion of Algeria to the Catholic faith, not to assert the social reign of Christ the King over this Muslim nation, but to share a meal with a handful of friars and to admire ancient ruins. This is the antithesis of everything the Church stood for during two millennia of missionary endeavor.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, was unequivocal: “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 conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching entirely. Its “popes” travel the world not as vicars of Christ demanding the submission of nations to the Gospel, but as diplomatic figureheads of a universal religion of human fraternity that is indistinguishable from the program of Freemasonry.
Consider the condemned propositions of the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (1864): Proposition 17 stated that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” — condemned. Proposition 18 declared 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” — condemned. The conciliar sect has gone far beyond these condemned errors. It now treats Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and every false religion as legitimate paths to God, and its “popes” visit Muslim nations not to convert but to fraternize. This is not Catholicism; it is the pestis of indifferentism that Pius IX anathematized.
The International Community as Substitute for Catholic Unity
The statement from the Order of St. Augustine proudly highlights the “international character” of the Annaba community: a friar from South Sudan, one from Nigeria, one from Kenya. This is presented as a reflection of the Church’s universality. But Catholic universality — catholicity — is not a matter of ethnic diversity or international personnel. It is a matter of unity of faith, unity of worship, unity of governance, and unity of sacramental life under the authority of the Roman Pontiff. The Church has always been international because the Gospel is addressed to “all nations” (Matthew 28:19), but this universality is ordered toward the baptism and conversion of all peoples to the one true faith, not toward the celebration of diversity as an end in itself.
The conciliar sect has replaced the supernatural unity of the Church with the naturalistic unity of the United Nations. Its “international communities” are microcosms of the globalist project: men of different nations living together in “fraternity,” sharing meals, smiling at one another — and never once preaching that Jesus Christ is the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life (John 14:6). This is the religion of man adoring himself, the cultus hominis that the pre-conciliar Magisterium consistently condemned.
The Silence About the Ruins of Hippo
The report mentions that Leo XIV visited “the ruins of Hippo.” This detail is pregnant with meaning that the conciliar sect either cannot or will not articulate. Hippo was the episcopal see of St. Augustine, one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, the man who defined the theology of grace, the nature of the Church, the reality of original sin, and the absolute necessity of Catholic unity. Today, Hippo is a ruin — and the faith that Augustine preached has been replaced by Islam across all of North Africa. This is the fruit of centuries of Islamic conquest, but it is also the fruit of the Church’s failure to maintain its missionary zeal and its supernatural identity.
A true Pope — a Pope faithful to the deposit of faith — standing among the ruins of Hippo would weep, would preach repentance, would call the Muslim world to conversion, would invoke the authority of St. Augustine against every heresy and every false religion. Leo XIV, the usurper, visits the ruins as a tourist, shares a meal with his “brothers,” and departs. This is the difference between the Catholic Church and the conciliar sect: the Church conquers for Christ; the conciliar sect fraternizes with the enemies of Christ.
The Little Sisters of the Poor: Charity Without the Faith
The report notes that Leo XIV visited “a home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.” The conciliar sect loves to showcase charitable works as the essence of the Church’s mission. But Catholic charity is not mere philanthropy; it is ordered toward the salvation of souls. The Church has always cared for the poor, the sick, and the dying, but always within the context of the supernatural life: the administration of the sacraments, the preaching of the Gospel, the call to repentance and conversion. Charity without the faith is naturalism — it is the reduction of the Church to a humanitarian NGO.
Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The Church’s mission is not to make men comfortable in their earthly existence but to lead them to eternal happiness in the Kingdom of Heaven. The conciliar sect, by reducing the Church’s mission to charitable works and interreligious dialogue, has committed the gravest of all errors: it has silenced the supernatural. It has replaced the preaching of the Gospel with the distribution of bread, the administration of the sacraments with the administration of social services, and the call to holiness with the call to “fraternity.”
The Usurper and the Order: Complicity in Apostasy
The presence of Father Joseph Farrell, prior general of the Order of St. Augustine, and Father Martin Davakan, vicar general, at this “fraternal encounter” demonstrates the complete capitulation of the Augustinian order to the conciliar revolution. These men are not the successors of St. Augustine; they are the successors of the modernists who were condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907). They have accepted the conciliar sect’s program of aggiornamento, its false ecumenism, its religious indifferentism, and its reduction of the Church to a community of human fraternity.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned the following propositions, among many others: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free — nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (cf. Syllabus, Proposition 19); “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (cf. Syllabus, Proposition 21); “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (cf. Syllabus, Proposition 17). The entire program of the conciliar sect — and the entire program of this “fraternal visit” to Annaba — is built upon these condemned propositions.
The Indictment: What Is Missing Is Everything
Let us enumerate what is absent from this report and from the entire conciliar enterprise it represents:
There is no mention of the Catholic faith as the only true religion. The conciliar sect has abandoned the dogma that the Catholic Church is the one true Church of Christ, outside of which there is no salvation.
There is no call to conversion. Leo XIV did not call the people of Algeria to repentance, to baptism, to the acceptance of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. He came as a “brother among brothers,” not as the Vicar of Christ demanding submission to the Gospel.
There is no preaching of the social reign of Christ the King. Pius XI taught that Christ’s authority extends over all nations and all states, and that rulers have the duty to publicly honor Him and obey Him. The conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching entirely.
There is no mention of the sacraments as necessary for salvation. The conciliar sect treats the sacraments as symbols of community rather than as the indispensable means of grace instituted by Christ.
There is no mention of the Last Judgment, of heaven, of hell, of the state of grace, of mortal sin, of the necessity of confession and penance. In short, there is nothing supernatural. The entire report could have been written about a meeting of the Rotary Club or the United Nations General Assembly.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The “fraternal visit” of Leo XIV to Annaba is a perfect microcosm of the conciliar apostasy. It is an event devoid of Catholic content, filled with the language of human fraternity, ordered toward the celebration of diversity rather than the proclamation of truth, and utterly silent about the supernatural mission of the Church. It is, in the words of Our Lord Himself, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15) — the replacement of the worship of the true God with the worship of man, the replacement of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the “shared meal” of fraternal encounter, and the replacement of the Vicar of Christ with a globalist figurehead who fraternizes with the enemies of the Cross.
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must reject this entire conciliar enterprise with the same firmness with which the Fathers of the Council of Nicaea rejected Arianism, with which St. Augustine rejected Pelagianism, and with which St. Pius X rejected Modernism. The Church endures — not in the structures occupying the Vatican, not in the “communities” of the conciliar sect, not in the “fraternal encounters” of usurpers and apostates — but in the faithful who hold fast to the deposit of faith, who profess the integral Catholic doctrine, and who await the restoration of the Church in the Kingdom of Christ the King.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the Church, there is no salvation. And the conciliar sect is not the Church.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Meets Augustinians in Annaba in Fraternal Visit (ncregister.com)
Date: 15.04.2026