National Catholic Register / CNA portal — April 18, 2026 — reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed journalists aboard the papal plane en route from Cameroon to Angola, rejecting the notion that his recent remarks about war and peace were directed at U.S. President Donald Trump. He insisted his African journey is “pastoral” in nature, highlighted his meeting with imams as part of the Church’s “continuing commitment to interreligious dialogue,” and invoked the figure of St. Augustine as a thematic centerpiece of the trip. The man occupying Peter’s throne concluded by expressing gratitude for the “wonderful welcome” and the “joy of the people.” This entire spectacle is yet another demonstration that the conciliar sect has utterly abandoned the supernatural mission of the Church — to teach, govern, and save souls — in favor of a naturalistic, feel-good humanitarianism that renders the True Faith indistinguishable from any other religion.
The “Pastor” Who Pastors Nothing Supernatural
The individual calling himself Leo XIV declared: “I primarily come to Africa as pastor, as the head of the Catholic Church, to be with, to celebrate with, to encourage and accompany all of the Catholics throughout Africa.” Let us examine this claim with the precision it demands. What does it mean to be a Pastor in the Catholic sense? Our Lord Jesus Christ said: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep” (John 10:11). The office of pastor, in Catholic theology, is inseparable from the duty to teach the fullness of revealed truth, to administer the sacraments validly, and to govern souls toward eternal salvation. It is not a vague “accompaniment” that makes no demands, requires no conversion, and draws no distinctions between truth and error.
What does this “pastor” actually do? He meets with imams — men who deny the Divinity of Christ, reject the Holy Trinity, and profess a religion that is a direct contradiction of every article of the Catholic Creed. He describes this encounter as part of the Church’s “continuing commitment to interreligious dialogue, understanding and peace-building.” This is not the language of a Catholic pastor. This is the language of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, codified at the Second Vatican Council in the document Nostra Aetate, which opened the floodgates to the equalization of all religions.
Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), taught with absolute clarity: “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 “dialogue” with error. There is no “understanding” with those who deny Christ. There is only the duty to preach the Gospel and convert all nations — “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). The conciliar sect has replaced this divine commission with the naturalistic humanism of the United Nations.
The Invocation of St. Augustine: An Insult to the Doctor of Grace
Leo XIV expressed personal pleasure at the prominence of St. Augustine during his trip, noting a monument at a Catholic university featuring Augustine at the center of a map of Africa. “And so in one sense, it expresses part of what this trip is about,” he said. One must ask: does this man have the faintest understanding of who St. Augustine was and what he taught?
St. Augustine, the Doctor of Grace, the hammer of the Pelagians, the bishop who wrote De Civitate Dei — The City of God — spent his entire episcopal career combating heresy, defending the necessity of grace, and insisting on the absolute uniqueness and salvific necessity of the Catholic Church. Augustine wrote: “Outside the Church there is no remission of sins, no salvation” (De Baptismo, IV.17). He did not hold “dialogue” with the Donatists or the Pelagians; he refuted them, condemned them, and called them to conversion.
To invoke Augustine as a symbol of a journey whose centerpiece is fraternizing with imams and promoting a generic “peace” is not merely tone-deaf — it is a deliberate inversion of everything Augustine stood for. The conciliar sect has a long history of hijacking the Fathers of the Church to lend false credibility to its modernist project. This is no exception.
The Rejection of Debate With Trump: Cowardice Disguised as Prudence
Leo XIV stated: “It was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the president, which is not in my interest at all.” He further claimed that his remarks about peace were prepared two weeks before Trump’s comments and should not be interpreted as a response.
Setting aside the question of whether this claim is even true — and one has every reason to be skeptical of any statement emerging from the Vatican apparatus — the deeper issue is this: why should the head of the Catholic Church have no interest in defending the truth against any man, including the President of the United States? The duty of the Supreme Pontiff, when heresy or error is spoken publicly — especially by a head of state — is to correct it. This is not “debate.” This is the exercise of the magisterial office.
St. Paul withstood St. Peter “to his face, because he was to be blamed” (Galatians 2:11). Pope St. Felix III excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople. Pope St. Leo the Great Attila the Hun. Pope Pius VII defied Napoleon Bonaparte. These men understood that the truth of Christ is not subject to political convenience. The conciliar antipope, by contrast, is concerned with “narratives,” “commentary on commentary,” and avoiding any confrontation that might upset the global political order. This is the behavior of a diplomat, not a pope — and indeed, Robert Prevost is a diplomat of the conciliar sect, not the Vicar of Christ.
Interreligious Dialogue: The Fruit of the Abomination of Desolation
The meeting with in Cameroon deserves special scrutiny. The conciliar sect has, since the Second Vatican Council, systematically pursued interreligious dialogue as one of its central missions. This is not a peripheral activity — it is the logical and necessary consequence of the modernist rejection of the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation).
The First Vatican Council, in its Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus, reaffirmed the constant teaching of the Church: “The Church has the right and the duty to proscribe false science” (Dei Filius, c. 4). The Council of Florence (1442) taught: “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.” This is de fide teaching — it admits of no exception, no “development,” and no “dialogue” that treats false religions as legitimate paths to God.
The conciliar sect’s interreligious dialogue is not merely a disciplinary innovation — it is a formal heresy against the defined dogma of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. When Leo XIV sits with imams and speaks of “peace-building,” he is not building peace. He is building the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be characterized by the unification of all false religions under a single humanitarian banner — precisely what Pius XI warned against in Quas Primas.
Pius XI wrote: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society.” The conciliar sect has done the exact opposite: it has removed Christ the King from public life, from international relations, and from the Church’s own self-understanding, replacing Him with a vague “spirit of fraternity” that embraces all religions equally. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
The Secular Framework: “Peace” Without Christ
Throughout his remarks, Leo XIV spoke of “peace,” “fraternity,” “justice,” and “the joy of the people.” Not once did he mention the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith. Not once did he speak of the sacraments as the means of salvation. Not once did he invoke the Kingship of Christ over nations. His language is indistinguishable from that of any secular humanitarian organization.
This is not accidental. The conciliar sect has, since 1958, progressively reduced the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanitarianism. The supernatural order — grace, the sacraments, the state of justification, the reality of sin and hell — has been systematically excluded from the public discourse of the Vatican apparatus. What remains is a cult of man, a religion of human dignity divorced from the duty of submission to God, which Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas as the root cause of all modern evils.
The “peace” that Leo XIV promotes is not the Pax Christi — the peace that comes only through submission to Christ the King and His Church. It is the Pax Mundi — the false peace of the world that Christ Himself warned against: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34). The True Church has always understood that the sword of truth must precede any authentic peace. The conciliar sect has sheathed that sword and replaced it with a handshake.
The Legal Recognition of the Conciliar Sect in Angola
The article notes that in 2019, the Holy See and Angola signed an agreement “recognizing the legal personality of the Catholic Church and defining its property rights.” This is a standard diplomatic instrument of the concilar sect, which has spent decades securing legal recognition and property rights for itself in nations around the world — all while abandoning the spiritual mission that alone justifies the Church’s existence.
The Catholic Church, in her true form, does not need the recognition of secular states. She derives her authority from Christ alone: “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). The conciliar sect, having lost this divine mandate in practice if not in theory, has become dependent on secular legal structures for its institutional survival. It negotiates property rights, signs concordats, and maintains diplomatic relations — all while the faithful are spiritually starved, denied the True Mass, and fed the empty calories of modernist liturgy and catechesis.
Conclusion: The Neo-Church’s Mission Is Not Catholic
Every element of Leo XIV’s remarks — the rejection of confrontation with error, the embrace of interreligious dialogue, the invocation of Augustine in the service of modernism, the reduction of the pastoral mission to “accompaniment,” the promotion of a Christ-less “peace” — reveals the same fundamental reality: the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church.
It is a paramasonic structure that occupies the Vatican, uses the name of the Church, and deploys the language of Catholicism to advance a program that is antithetical to everything the Catholic Church has taught, believed, and practiced for two thousand years. The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who attend the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered before the conciliar revolution, and who recognize that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) besides the Name of Jesus Christ and His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
Robert Prevost, “Leo XIV,” is the current usurper of that Church’s highest office. His words and deeds confirm what the sedevacantist position has always maintained: the See of Peter is vacant, and the structures occupying it are instruments of the enemy. Let the faithful pray for the restoration of the true papacy and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — not the false “triumph” promised by the Masonic operation of Fatima, but the true triumph that will come only when Russia is consecrated to the Immaculate Heart by a true Pope, in communion with all the bishops of the world, and when the errors of Russia — which are, at their root, the errors of modernism, communism, and religious indifferentism — are finally defeated by the power of God.
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Christus Rex.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Says Debate With Trump Is ‘Not in My Interest at All’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.04.2026