VaticanNews portal reports (April 20, 2026) on the address delivered by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to bishops, clergy, men and women religious, and pastoral workers at the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Luanda, Angola, during his apostolic journey. The usurper of Peter’s throne urged the local “Church” to build “a free, reconciled, beautiful and great Angolan society,” praised the “courage” of denouncing war, promoted “reconciled memory,” “education in harmony,” ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, and the importance of catechists, while invoking the spirit of “Pope” Francis’ Evangelii gaudium and the contemplative tradition of Saint Augustine. The entire address is a seamless tapestry of naturalistic humanism, stripped of any supernatural content, and constitutes yet another proof that the conciliar sect has nothing to offer the world but the same bankrupt program condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: the reconciliation of the Church with modern civilization, liberalism, and progress.
The Parish of “Our Lady of Fatima”: A Symbolic Abomination
The very choice of venue for this meeting is laden with significance that the conciar structures either cannot or will not acknowledge. The gathering took place at the parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Luanda — a parish, we are told, “built by Capuchin friars in the 1960s” with “a stone from a Portuguese city of Fatima” embedded in its foundations. The 1960s: the precise decade when the conciliar revolution was being implemented with full force, destroying the liturgy, the catechism, and the Catholic identity of parishes worldwide. That this parish was constructed during the very years of the Church’s self-immolation, and dedicated to a title of Our Lady whose approved message has been systematically hijacked and reinterpreted by the modernist apparatus, is not a coincidence — it is a signum temporis.
The Fatima devotion, as promoted by the conciliar sect, has been stripped of its Catholic substance: the demand for the consecration of Russia by the Pope in union with all the bishops, the call to prayer and penance for the conversion of sinners, and the explicit warnings about the errors of Russia leading to wars and persecutions. What remains is a sanitized, ecumenically palatable “Our Lady of Fatima” — a brand, not a message. The “two towers” of the parish, rising above with “an image of the Virgin” atop the lower one, evoke not Catholic triumphalism but the aesthetic of a movement that has replaced the Ecclesia militans with a non-governmental organization.
“A Free, Reconciled, Beautiful and Great Angolan Society”: The Gospel According to the United Nations
The central thesis of Leo XIV’s address is the construction of “a free, reconciled, beautiful and great Angolan society.” Let us examine this phrase with the rigor it demands. Where in this formulation is Jesus Christ? Where is His Kingdom? Where is the necessity of baptism, the state of grace, the final judgment, eternal salvation? The answer is: nowhere. This is not Catholic teaching. This is the language of secular humanism, of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, of the World Economic Forum.
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He wrote with unmistakable clarity:
> “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.”
And further:
> “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them 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 contrast could not be more absolute. Pius XI demands that Christ the King reign over societies, that rulers publicly venerate Him, that the foundations of the state be God’s commandments and Christian principles. Leo XIV, by contrast, speaks of “freedom” and “fairness” — terms that, in the modernist lexicon, mean the autonomy of man from God’s law, the democratization of morality, and the reduction of the Church’s mission to social work. This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), Proposition 80:
> “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
This proposition was condemned. It remains condemned. Yet it is the raison d’être of every single address delivered by the usurpers occupying the Vatican since John XXIII opened the floodgates of the conciliar revolution.
The Omission of Supernatural Reality: Silence as Apostasy
The most damning feature of Leo XIV’s address is not what it says, but what it fails to say. In an address delivered to bishops, priests, religious, and catechists — the very people responsible for the salvation of souls — there is:
- No mention of the necessity of sanctifying grace for salvation.
- No mention of the sacraments as the ordinary means of grace — not one reference to Confession, to the Holy Eucharist as the propitiatory sacrifice, to Baptism as necessary for salvation.
- No mention of the reality of sin, of the distinction between mortal and venial sin, of the obligation to be in the state of grace to receive Communion worthily.
- No mention of the Four Last Things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
- No mention of the conversion of non-Catholics to the one true Church of Christ.
- No mention of the Social Kingship of Christ as the only foundation of a just society.
This silence is not accidental. It is systematic. It is the hallmark of the conciliar sect, which has replaced the supernatural order with the natural order, the salvation of souls with “human development,” and the preaching of the Gospel with the promotion of “fraternity” and “dialogue.” The Council of Trent, in its Sixth Session, Chapter 7, taught that without sanctifying grace, no one can be justified before God — that is, no one can be saved. The First Vatican Council, in Dei Filius, affirmed that divine revelation is necessary for man to know the truths of faith with certainty. Leo XIV’s address violates these dogmas not by explicit denial — which would be too easily detected — but by total omission, which is far more insidious.
“Reconciled Memory” and “Education in Harmony”: The Erasure of Catholic Identity
Leo XIV urges the Angolan “Church” to “promote a reconciled memory by educating everyone in harmony” and to value “the harmonious witness of those brothers and sisters in your midst who, after enduring painful trials, have been able to forgive.”
What does “reconciled memory” mean in Catholic terms? It means that the Church remembers the Passion of Our Lord, the martyrdom of the saints, the triumph of the Cross, and the obligation to forgive one’s enemies while still demanding justice and truth. It means that the Church remembers the errors of heresies and the blood of martyrs shed by persecutors, and she does not “reconcile” these memories into a bland, undifferentiated narrative of “harmony.”
But in the modernist lexicon, “reconciled memory” means something entirely different: it means forgetting that there are truths worth dying for, that there are heresies that lead to damnation, that the Church has enemies who must be named and condemned. It means replacing the memoria passionis with the memoria dialogii — the memory of dialogue, of “encounter,” of “fraternity.” This is the theology of “Pope” Francis’ Fratelli Tutti, in which the Parable of the Good Samaritan is stripped of its supernatural meaning and reduced to a call for universal brotherhood without conversion to Christ.
Pope Saint Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution” (Proposition 53). Yet this is precisely the assumption underlying Leo XIV’s call for “harmony” — the assumption that the Church is a human community that must adapt its memory and its message to the prevailing spirit of the age.
Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: The Betrayal of the Mandatum
The VaticanNews article notes with approval that the Angolan “Church” is “engaged in fruitful ecumenical efforts and has begun interreligious dialogue with the Islamic community in Angola.” This is presented as a positive development, a sign of the “strong missionary identity” of the local “Church.”
Let us recall what the Catholic Church taught before the conciliar revolution. Pope Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), condemned the ecumenical movement in the strongest terms:
> “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.”
And further:
> “The Apostolic See can by no means take part in [ecumenical] congresses, and it is forbidden for anyone to participate in them without permission from the Holy See — a permission which will not be given.”
The reason is theological, not disciplinary: the Catholic Church is the one true Church of Christ, outside of which there is no salvation. To engage in “ecumenical efforts” that treat other religions as equally valid paths to God is to deny the divinity of Christ, the necessity of the Church, and the obligation of all men to enter her. It is, in a word, apostasy.
As for “interreligious dialogue with the Islamic community” — Islam is a heresy that denies the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, and the Redemption. The Church has always taught that Muslims must be converted to Catholicism for their salvation. To “dialogue” with Islam as though it were a legitimate religious tradition is to betray the mandate of Our Lord: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
The Invocation of “Pope” Francis and Evangelii Gaudium: A Heresy Compounded
In a particularly revealing passage, Leo XIV “recalled the importance of contemplation, citing Pope Francis’ observation in Evangelii gaudium and emphasizing its supreme importance as a reflection of the power of the Resurrection.”
This is not a minor detail. Evangelii Gaudium is the programmatic document of the Bergoglian revolution — a document that, as the Dubia cardinals noted, contains statements that are ambiguous to the point of heresy, particularly regarding the relationship between the Gospel and moral law, the role of conscience, and the universality of salvation. To cite this document approvingly, in an address to bishops and clergy, is to ratify its errors and to signal that the conciar sect remains firmly on the path of apostasy inaugurated by John XXIII and accelerated by every subsequent usurper.
Moreover, the invocation of “contemplation” in this context is a caricature of the Catholic understanding of the term. True contemplation, as taught by the Church Fathers and the great mystics — Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Thomas Aquinas — is the infused contemplation of the divine mysteries, ordered toward union with God and the salvation of souls. It is inseparable from the sacramental life, from obedience to the Magisterium, and from the preaching of the full Gospel. What Leo XIV means by “contemplation” is something far closer to the Buddhist or Hindu concept of “mindfulness” — an interiority detached from dogma, from truth, from the supernatural order. This is the “contemplation” of the New Age, not of the Catholic Church.
The “Importance of Catechists” Without Catholic Doctrine
Leo XIV insists “on the importance of the lay vocation of those who carry out Christian initiation with dedication across the territory” and declares that “the ministry of catechists is… a fundamental expression of the life of the Church, which can serve as an inspiration for Catholic communities throughout the world.”
But what are these catechists catechizing? If the content of their teaching is the same naturalistic humanism that pervades Leo XIV’s address — “reconciled memory,” “harmony,” “fraternity,” “social apostolate” — then they are not catechizing at all. They are indoctrinating the faithful in the religion of man, which is the religion of the Antichrist.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that the first duty of a catechist is to instruct the faithful in the articles of the Creed, the sacraments, the commandments, and the Lord’s Prayer — and to do so with precision, with clarity, and with an uncompromising insistence on the necessity of each for salvation. A catechist who omits the necessity of baptism, the reality of hell, the obligation to keep the commandments, and the exclusive salvific role of the Catholic Church is not a catechist — he is a deceiver, leading souls to perdition under the guise of “Christian initiation.”
“Do Not Be Fear of Tomorrow”: A False Security
Leo XIV urges the young: “Do not be afraid of tomorrow… you belong entirely to the Lord… It is worth following him in obedience, poverty and celibacy. He takes nothing away!”
This language is seductive, but it is empty. Of what value is the promise that “He takes nothing away” if the “He” in question is not the Jesus Christ of Catholic dogma — the Christ who said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24)? Of what value is the exhortation to “obedience, poverty, and celibacy” if these virtues are detached from the sacramental life, from the vows properly taken in religious orders canonically erected, from the grace that comes through the true Church alone?
The “Christ” of the conciliar sect is not the Christ of the Gospels. He is a Christ of accommodation — a Christ who “takes nothing away,” who demands no conversion, who threatens no punishment, who excludes no one. This is the Christ condemned by Saint Paul: “If any man preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema” (Galatians 1:9).
The “Barque of Peter” Grounded in Unity — But Whose Unity?
Leo XIV proposes “the image of a Church at the service of all — a Barque of Peter grounded in unity and trust in the family as the cornerstone of transmitting the faith.”
The Barque of Peter! What blasphemy to invoke this image — the image of the Church founded by Christ upon the Rock of Peter, guided by the Holy Ghost through the Magisterium, and destined to weather every storm until the end of time — and to apply it to the conciliar sect, which has capsized under the weight of its own apostasy. The true Barque of Peter is the Catholic Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. The “Barque” of Leo XIV is a ship of fools, sailing under the flag of the United Nations, crewed by “bishops” and “priests” who have abandoned the Faith, and heading straight for the rocks of damnation.
And what of “trust in the family as the cornerstone of transmitting the faith”? The family is indeed the domestic sanctuary, as Pope Leo XIII taught in Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae (1880). But the family can only transmit what it possesses. If the “faith” being transmitted is the modernist counterfeit — without dogma, without sacraments, without the supernatural order — then the family becomes not a cornerstone of the Church but a factory of apostates.
Conclusion: The Abomination Continues
Every word of Leo XIV’s address in Luanda confirms what the faithful have known since 1958: the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church. It is a counter-church, erected on the ruins of the true Church, dedicated to the worship of man, and led by usurpers who have no authority from Christ to teach, govern, or sanctify.
The remedy is not reform. The remedy is not “dialogue” with the conciliar structures. The remedy is rejection — total, uncompromising, and final. The faithful must return to the unchanging Tradition of the Catholic Church: to the true Mass of all time, to the sacraments as administered by validly ordained priests in communion with the true Church, to the catechism of the Council of Trent, to the social teaching of the pre-conciliar popes, and to the unshakable conviction that Jesus Christ is King — not only of individuals, but of families, nations, and the entire human race.
As Pope 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.”
And this harmony is only possible under the reign of Christ the King — not under the reign of Leo XIV, not under the reign of the United Nations, and not under the reign of the Antichrist whose spirit pervades every word of this address.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the Church, there is no salvation. And the conciliar sect is not the Church.
Source:
Pope: Promote a reconciled memory by educating everyone in harmony (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.04.2026