VaticanNews portal reports that on 16 April 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, known as “Pope” Leo XIV, celebrated a “Mass” in Bamenda, Cameroon, before approximately 20,000 people. In his homily, he addressed the Anglophone crisis, poverty, corruption, and migration, urging the faithful to “obey God, not human beings” and to build peace and reconciliation based on the “dignity of every person” and “fundamental rights.” He warned against mixing faith with “esoteric or Gnostic beliefs” and called for transformation through God’s Word. The entire discourse, however, is a masterclass in modernist equivocation, naturalistic humanism, and the systematic evasion of the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church, all hallmarks of the conciliar sect’s apostate ideology.
The “Gospel” of Naturalism: A Homily Devoid of Supernatural Truth
The most immediate and damning feature of Leo XIV’s homily in Bamenda is its complete silence on the supernatural order. Not once does he mention the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, the reality of sin, the need for sacramental grace, the divinity of Christ, the authority of the true Church, or the eternal destiny of souls. Instead, he offers a purely naturalistic program of social improvement, indistinguishable from the platitudes of any secular humanitarian organization. This is not the “Gospel” of Our Lord Jesus Christ; it is the “gospel” of the world, condemned repeatedly by the true Popes.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), unequivocally stated that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” He further lamented that “this kind of outpouring of evil has afflicted the whole world because very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” Leo XIV’s homily, by focusing solely on “dignity,” “fundamental rights,” and “reconciliation” without any reference to Christ’s Kingship or His Church, is a direct manifestation of the very “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI identified as a “plague that poisons human society.” The “peace” he offers is not the “peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ,” but a worldly peace built on human effort, a peace that, as Pius XI warned, is impossible without the recognition of Christ’s royal authority.
“Fundamental Rights” vs. God’s Law: A Modernist Heresy
Leo XIV’s appeal to “the dignity of every person” and “their fundamental rights” is a direct echo of the modernist and Masonic principles condemned by the true Church. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) of Pius IX explicitly condemns the idea that “the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79). Furthermore, it condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
By prioritizing “fundamental rights” – a concept rooted in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and antithetical to the divine law – over the commandments of God, Leo XIV implicitly elevates human autonomy above divine authority. This is the very essence of the “cult of man” and “religious freedom” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The true Church has always taught that “God’s law is supreme and immutable,” and that human laws must conform to it, not the other way around. Pius IX, in Qui pluribus (1846), condemned those who “assert that human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself.” Leo XIV’s homily, by its silence on God’s law and its embrace of secular “rights,” aligns itself with these condemned errors.
The “Mosaic of Unity”: Ecumenical and Syncretist Undertones
Leo XIV’s call to “restore the mosaic of unity by bringing together the diversity and riches of the country and the continent” is a classic example of the conciliar sect’s ecumenical and syncretist agenda. This language, reminiscent of John Paul II’s Assisi gatherings, promotes a false unity that ignores the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. The true Church has always taught that “there is no salvation outside the Church” (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). This “mosaic” is not a call to conversion to the Catholic faith, but a celebration of religious and cultural diversity, a direct contradiction of the Church’s missionary mandate.
While Leo XIV warns against mixing faith with “beliefs… of an esoteric or Gnostic nature,” this warning is superficial and self-serving. It serves to deflect attention from the far greater danger: the modernist synthesis itself, which, as St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), is “the synthesis of all errors.” The conciliar sect, by its very nature, mixes the faith with naturalism, rationalism, and false ecumenism. The “newness” Leo XIV attributes to God is not the unchanging truth of the Catholic faith, but the “newness” of the conciliar revolution, the “evolution of dogmas” that St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), particularly Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.”
“Obey God, Not Human Beings”: A Usurper’s Hypocrisy
The phrase “obey God, not human beings” is particularly rich in irony coming from a usurper on the Chair of Peter. Leo XIV, as a product and head of the conciliar sect, is himself a “human authority” that has usurped the prerogatives of the true Pope. His entire “pontificate” is built upon the “human authority” of John XXIII, Paul VI, and their successors, who imposed the modernist Vatican II council upon the Church. The “God” he obeys is not the God of Catholic Tradition, but the “god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4), the god of “newness,” “dialogue,” and “progress.”
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned the proposition that “the Church, in condemning errors, has no right to require any internal assent from the faithful to the pronouncements issued by the Church” (Proposition 7). Leo XIV’s call to “obey God” is a call to obey his own modernist interpretation of God’s will, which is, in reality, a call to obey the conciliar sect’s evolving doctrines. The true obedience to God is obedience to His unchanging truth, as taught by the true Church, not to the “newness” of a false prophet.
The “Mass” in Bamenda: A Liturgical Abomination
The “Mass” celebrated by Leo XIV in Bamenda is, in all likelihood, the Novus Ordo Missae, the fabricated rite of Paul VI, which the Catholic Church has always considered suspect and, in many respects, invalid or at least gravely deficient. This “Mass” is a “table of assembly,” a “memorial meal,” designed to de-emphasize the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary and promote a false sense of community and ecumenism. It is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Unbloody Renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary, which the true Church has offered for two millennia.
The “joyful and vibrant liturgies” praised by Leo XIV are not signs of “trusting surrender to God,” but rather symptoms of the conciar sect’s descent into liturgical abuse, emotionalism, and worldly entertainment. The true liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, is characterized by its reverence, its orientation towards God, and its clear articulation of Catholic doctrine. The Novus Ordo, by contrast, is a vehicle for modernist indoctrination, a “liturgy” that serves the “new man” of the conciliar revolution, not the “new man” reborn in Christ through the sacraments.
Conclusion: A Call to Discernment and Rejection
Leo XIV’s homily in Bamenda is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s apostate ideology. It is a homily devoid of supernatural truth, saturated with naturalistic humanism, and designed to promote a false peace and unity that ignores the Kingship of Christ and the necessity of the Catholic Church. It is a homily that, while using religious language, serves the agenda of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The faithful must not be deceived by the smooth words and apparent good intentions of this usurper. As St. Paul warned, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” (2 Cor 11:13-15). The “peace” offered by Leo XIV is not the peace of Christ, but the peace of the world, a peace that can only be found in the true Church, under the authority of the true Pope, and through the grace of the true Mass. Let us pray for the deliverance of the Church from this modernist scourge, and for the restoration of the integral Catholic faith.
Source:
Pope at Mass in Bamenda: ‘Obey God, not human beings’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.04.2026