National Catholic Register/ACI Stampa reports (April 15, 2026) that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” arrived in Yaoundé, Cameroon, continuing his apostolic voyage after a stop in Algeria. Addressing journalists aboard the papal plane, he thanked Algerian authorities for their “goodness, generosity, and respect,” praised the “very small but very significant presence of the Catholic Church in Algeria,” and reflected on his visit to the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba. He described St. Augustine as a figure who “speaks to us of tradition” and whose “search for God and truth is very much needed today.” He declared the visit “a wonderful opportunity to continue building bridges and promoting dialogue,” noting that the mosque visit “showed that although we have different beliefs, we have different ways of worshipping, we have different ways of living, we can live together in peace.” He further stated that “together we can continue to offer in our witness through as we continue on this apostolic voyage.”
The Usurper’s Bridge-Building: Apostasy Disguised as Diplomacy
The Primacy of the One True Religion: A Doctrine Erased
The most immediate and damning feature of this address is the systematic, almost surgical, omission of the most fundamental truth of the Catholic faith: that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true religion, outside of which there is no salvation. This is not a peripheral theological opinion; it is a dogma defined repeatedly and unambiguously by the authentic Magisterium. Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florentinum (1441), declared: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life everlasting; but that they will go to the ‘everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Matt. 25:41), unless before the end of their lives they are joined with Her.” Pope Pius IX, in his Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemns as error proposition 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation,” and proposition 17: “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.” The usurper’s language — “although we have different beliefs, we have different ways of worshipping, we can live together in peace” — is not merely a diplomatic platitude; it is a direct repudiation of this defined dogma. It places Islam, a false and heretical religion that explicitly denies the Divinity of Christ and the Most Holy Trinity, on a plane of equality with the true faith. This is not “dialogue”; it is the abdication of the Church’s divine mission.
St. Augustine Weaponized Against His Own Faith
The invocation of St. Augustine is particularly cynical and revealing. Augustine, Doctor of Grace, Bishop of Hippo, was one of the most relentless heresy-hunters in the history of the Church. He wrote extensively and forcefully against the Donatists, the Pelagians, and the Manicheans. His entire theological corpus is built upon the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation and the absolute falsity of all rival religions. In his De Civitate Dei (The City of God), Augustine draws an absolute dichotomy between the City of God and the City of Man, between the worship of the true God and the worship of demons. To invoke Augustine as a patron of “building bridges” and “promoting dialogue” with those who deny Christ’s divinity is to stand Augustine on his head. It is a classic modernist technique: to appropriate the name and authority of a Father of the Church while gutting his teaching of its supernatural content. The usurper says Augustine “speaks to us of tradition” — but the tradition Augustine speaks of is the tradition of the Church Militant, which does not seek “peace” with error but the conversion of the errant. As Pope Pius XI stated in Mortalium Animos (1928): “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 “bridge-building” in Augustine; there is only the narrow gate.
The Cult of Man and the Religion of “Living Together”
The entire framework of the usurper’s reflection is naturalistic and anthropocentric. The purpose of religion, as presented, is not the worship of the true God, the salvation of souls, or the propagation of the faith, but rather “to build community, to seek for unity among all peoples and respect for all peoples in spite of the differences.” This is the religion of the Revolution, the religion of the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, the religion of the United Nations — not the religion of Jesus Christ. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical 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, each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The usurper’s vision collapses this divinely ordained order into a single, horizontal plane where all “beliefs” are equal and the only goal is peaceful coexistence. This is precisely the “indifferentism” condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832): “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” The usurper does not merely tolerate indifferentism; he actively promotes it as a positive good.
The Omission of Martyrdom and the Reality of Persecution
The usurper speaks of Algeria’s “goodness” and “generosity” and the “respect” shown to the Holy See. He does not mention — because it is incompatible with the narrative of “bridge-building” — that Algeria is a country where the Catholic faith is under severe restriction, where evangelization of Muslims is effectively prohibited, where the Church’s presence is tolerated only insofar as it remains invisible and silent. He does not mention the martyrs of Algeria, the monks of Tibhirine, murdered by Islamists in 1996 because they refused to abandon their faith and their flock. The usurper’s gratitude to a regime that restricts the Church’s mission is not diplomacy; it is complicity. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” But the state that the usurper praises is not ordered to Christ the King; it is ordered to the principles of a false religion that denies Christ. To express gratitude for such a state’s “generosity” is to betray the martyrs who shed their blood under its jurisdiction.
The “Witness” of a Counterfeit Church
The usurper concludes by affirming that “together we can continue to offer in our witness through as we continue on this apostolic voyage.” But what is the “witness” being offered? It is not the witness of the Catholic Church, which has always proclaimed that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6) and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). It is the witness of the conciliar sect, the neo-church of the Antichrist, which has replaced the supernatural faith with naturalistic humanism, the Most Holy Sacrifice with a table of assembly, and the salvation of souls with “building bridges.” This is not an “apostolic voyage”; it is a propaganda tour for the religion of man. Pope Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), warned that the Modernists “proceed to the extent of asserting that God is not only the object of the Christian consciousness, but is also its product” and that “the religious sense, which through the agency of vital immanence springs from the lurking places of the subconsciousness, is the germ of all religion.” The usurper’s entire address is suffused with this vital immanence — the “search for God” is reduced to an interior, subjective experience, divorced from objective truth, from dogma, from the necessity of the sacraments.
The “Small but Significant Presence” — A Telling Phrase
The usurper describes the Catholic Church in Algeria as “very small but very significant.” This phrase is a masterpiece of modernist doublespeak. The Church is “small” because it is persecuted, restricted, and prevented from fulfilling its divine mission of evangelization. It is “significant” only insofar as it serves as a token of “dialogue” and “coexistence” — that is, insofar as it does not actually proclaim the fullness of Catholic truth. A Church that does not convert is not significant; it is useless. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not say, “Go therefore and build bridges”; He said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). The usurper’s vision of a “small but significant” Church is the vision of a Church that has abandoned its divine mandate and settled for irrelevance.
The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
Let us be absolutely clear: Robert Prevost is not the Pope of the Catholic Church. He is a usurper, an antipope, a figure in a line of apostates beginning with John XXIII, who convened the robber council known as Vatican II. His “apostolic voyage” is not an act of the true Church; it is an act of the conciliar sect, the paramasonic structure that occupies the Vatican. His words are not the words of Peter; they are the words of the Revolution, dressed in ecclesiastical vestments. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned as error proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This is precisely what the usurper is doing — reconciling himself with the religion of progress, liberalism, and modern civilization, while the true Church, the Church of all ages, endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests.
The usurper’s visit to Cameroon, his meeting with the 92-year-old dictator Paul Biya, his visit to an orphanage — all of this is theater. It is the theater of the abomination of desolation, standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The faithful are called not to be deceived by this spectacle but to hold fast to the unchanging faith of the Church, to reject the conciliar revolution in its entirety, and to pray for the restoration of the true Church and the true Mass. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” There is no public honor of Christ in the usurper’s words — only the public promotion of religious indifferentism and the religion of man. Let the faithful reject this abomination and cling to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church.
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Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Cameroon for Second Leg of Africa Trip (ncregister.com)
Date: 15.04.2026