The National Catholic Register reports that on April 15, 2026, New Lenox, Illinois police responded to a hoax bomb threat at the home of John Prevost, brother of the usurper in Vatican City, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The threat was deemed “unstantiated” after explosive-detection K9 units swept the property. This incident occurred amid a public feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and Leo XIV over the latter’s criticism of the U.S.-led war in Iran, during which Trump praised Leo’s other brother, Louis Prevost, while deriding Leo as “weak on crime.” The entire spectacle — a bomb threat against the family of a claimant to the Chair of Peter, a sitting U.S. president publicly mocking that claimant, and the claimant himself responding with diplomatic platitudes — is a grotesque revelation of the total absence of the Catholic Church’s supernatural authority in the modern world.
The Usurper’s Response: Gospel Without Teeth
When questioned about Trump’s insults on April 13, Leo XIV told media: “People who read it will be able to draw their own conclusions. I am not a politician, and I have no intention of entering into a debate with him.” He added that he had “no fear neither of the Trump administration nor of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.”
This statement is a masterclass in the conciliar sect’s characteristic cowardice masquerading as prudence. Let us be precise about what is happening here. A man who claims to be the Vicar of Christ — the representative on earth of the King before whom every knee shall bow, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth (Phil. 2:10) — is publicly mocked, insulted, and belittled by a secular head of state, and his response is to refuse to engage in debate and to express his “fearlessness” in the most anemic language imaginable.
Where is the thunder of St. Ambrose, who barred Emperor Theodosius from entering the cathedral until he did public penance for the massacre at Thessalonica? Where is the firmness of St. Pius V, who excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I and released her subjects from their allegiance to her? Where is the clarity of Pope Pius IX, who in the Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80)?
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught with unmistakable clarity: “Rulers of states therefore should not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but should fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The reign of Christ the King is not a private devotion or a pious sentiment — it is a public, binding reality that demands the obedience of nations and their leaders. When a secular ruler publicly insults the one who claims to represent Christ’s authority on earth, the response should not be diplomatic evasion. It should be a clear, public reaffirmation of Christ’s kingship and a warning of the consequences of defying divine law.
Instead, Leo XIV offers: “I am not a politician.” This is the conciliar playbook in a single phrase. By reducing himself to a non-political figure, the usurper abdicates any claim to the Church’s inherent authority over the temporal order — an authority that the Church has exercised from the time of the Apostles and that was codified in countless magisterial documents. Pius XI explicitly rejected this false dichotomy: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… 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 Church does not “enter into debates” with secular rulers — she teaches, governs, and judges. Leo XIV’s refusal to do so is not humility; it is the abdication of authority that should never have been claimed by a man whose election is itself the fruit of a heretical council.
The Bomb Threat: A Symptom of Civilizational Collapse
The hoax bomb threat against John Prevost’s home is, in itself, a criminal act that deserves prosecution. But viewed in the broader context, it reveals something far more significant: the complete absence of any supernatural reverence for the office that Leo XIV claims to hold.
In a Catholic civilization — in the Christendom that the Church spent centuries building — an attack on the family of the Pope would be understood as an attack on the Church itself, and it would provoke not merely a police investigation but a spiritual response: public prayer, fasting, and acts of reparation. The faithful would understand that the Pope, as the visible head of Christ’s Church, holds a dignity that transcends all earthly authority, and that any assault on his person or family is an assault on the Mystical Body of Christ.
But we do not live in a Catholic civilization. We live in the ruins of one, and the conciliar sect bears primary responsibility for those ruins. By surrendering the Church’s claim to temporal authority, by embracing religious liberty and the separation of Church and State — condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) — the post-conciliar structures have reduced the papacy to a mere ceremonial office, a figurehead with no more inherent authority than the secretary-general of the United Nations.
The bomb threat, then, is not an attack on the Pope. It is an attack on the brother of a man who holds a ceremonial position in a paramasonic structure that occupies the Vatican. The conciliar sect has so thoroughly emptied the papacy of its supernatural content that even those who wish to threaten it treat it as they would any other public figure — with a hoax bomb threat rather than with the theological gravity that an attack on the Vicar of Christ would once have demanded.
Trump’s Mockery and the Conciliar Sect’s Loss of Credibility
Donald Trump’s public mockery of Leo XIV — calling him “weak on crime,” “terrible for foreign policy,” and claiming that Leo was only elected to “deal with” Trump — is unprecedented in modern times, but it is entirely predictable given the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of the papacy’s moral authority.
When a pope is understood to be the Vicar of Christ — the custodian of divine truth, the supreme judge of faith and morals, the father and teacher of all Christians — no secular ruler would dare to speak of him in such terms. Even the most hardened persecutors of the Church — Nero, Diocletian, the French revolutionaries — understood that they were attacking a supernatural authority, and they acted accordingly. Trump’s mockery is of a different character entirely: it is the mockery of a man who does not take his opponent seriously, who views Leo XIV as a weak and irrelevant figure rather than as a genuine spiritual authority.
And the conciliar sect has only itself to blame. By embracing the errors condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu — the evolution of dogmas (Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”), the democratization of the Church (Proposition 6: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening”), and the reduction of the faith to a purely naturalistic movement (Proposition 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement”) — the post-conciliar structures have produced a “papacy” that commands no obedience, inspires no reverence, and exercises no authority.
Trump’s praise of Louis Prevost — “Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!” — is particularly revealing. In Trump’s calculus, the measure of a man is not his fidelity to divine law but his alignment with a political movement. That Trump can evaluate the “pope” by this standard, and that Leo XIV can respond without correcting him, demonstrates that both men operate entirely within the naturalistic framework that the conciliar sect has embraced. There is no supernatural order, no divine law, no final judgment — only political alignment and diplomatic maneuvering.
The War in Iran and the Usurper’s Pacifism
The immediate context of this affair is Leo XIV’s criticism of the U.S.-led war in Iran. At a Vatican peace vigil on April 11, the usurper criticized the “madness of war” and urged world leaders: “Stop! It’s time for peace!” On March 29, he said that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.”
These statements, while superficially appealing, are a gross oversimplification that ignores the Church’s established teaching on the morality of war. The Catholic tradition, articulated by St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Church’s recognized theologians, clearly distinguishes between just and unjust wars. A war fought in legitimate defense, with proper authority, right intention, and proportionality, is not merely permissible but can be morally obligatory. To declare flatly that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war” is to condemn every soldier who has ever fought in defense of the innocent — including the Catholic soldiers who defended Europe against Islamic invasion at Lepanto and Vienna.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that Christ’s kingdom is “opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness” and that the Church has always recognized the legitimacy of temporal authority, including the use of force in defense of the common good. The Catechism of the Council of Trent explicitly teaches that it is lawful for magistrates to use the sword to defend the innocent and punish evildoers. Leo XIV’s blanket condemnation of war is not Catholic teaching — it is the pacifism of a man who has absorbed the spirit of the age rather than the spirit of the Church.
Moreover, the usurper’s call for peace without any reference to justice, repentance, or the supernatural order is characteristic of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic approach to moral questions. True peace — the “peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” that Pius XI proclaimed — is not the mere absence of armed conflict. It is the tranquility of order that comes from the submission of all things to divine law. Without justice, without repentance, without the recognition of Christ’s kingship, there can be no true peace — only the temporary cessation of hostilities that precedes the next conflict.
The Prevost Family and the Americanization of the Conciliar Sect
The fact that Leo XIV is the first American-born claimant to the papacy is itself significant. The United States was founded on the principles of religious indifferentism, separation of Church and State, and the subordination of religion to civil authority — all of which were condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterist. Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77). Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, taught that the State has a duty to profess and protect the Catholic religion.
The election of an American “pope” is the logical culmination of the conciliar sect’s embrace of American-style liberalism and religious indifferentism. It is no coincidence that Leo XIV’s response to Trump’s insults is to retreat into the language of personal conscience and diplomatic neutrality rather than to assert the Church’s divine authority. This is the American model of religion: private, personal, and subordinate to the secular order. It is the antithesis of the Catholic model, in which the Church is a perfect society, endowed with all the means necessary to achieve her supernatural end, and independent of all secular authority.
The bomb threat against John Prevost’s home, the public mockery by a sitting president, and the usurper’s feeble response are not isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a Church that has lost its supernatural identity and been reduced to a humanitarian NGO with a fancy hat. The conciliar sect has reaped what it sowed: a “papacy” that no one — not secular rulers, not the faithful, and not even those who threaten its members — takes seriously.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The entire affair — the bomb threat, Trump’s mockery, Leo XIV’s diplomatic evasions, the pacifism without justice — is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s total failure. The structures occupying the Vatican have produced a “Church” that is incapable of exercising the authority that Christ entrusted to St. Peter and his legitimate successors. They have embraced the errors of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu, and the result is a paramasonic structure that commands no obedience, inspires no reverence, and exercises no authority.
The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the unchanging Magisterium, the faith that produced Christendom, the faith that the conciliar sect has betrayed — must recognize these events for what they are: further evidence that the See of Peter is vacant, that the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Catholic Church, and that the only path to salvation lies in fidelity to the immutable Tradition that the conciliar revolution has sought to destroy.
As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ 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 bomb threat against the Prevost family is a fitting symbol of the conciliar sect’s condition: an empty threat against an empty authority in an empty Church. The true Church endures — not in the structures of the New Advent, but in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who offer the true Most Holy Sacrifice, and who await the restoration of all things in Christ the King.
Source:
Police Reveal Bomb Threat at Chicago-Area Home of Pope Leo XIV’s Brother (ncregister.com)
Date: 16.04.2026