VaticanNews portal reports on the in-flight press conference held by the antipope Leo XIV during his journey from Angola to Equatorial Guinea on April 21, 2026. The report details exchanges with Angolan journalists, covering topics such as Church-State collaboration, the potential creation of an Angolan cardinal, and the growth of the Church in Angola. The entire exchange reveals a naturalistic, modernist vision of the Church’s mission, devoid of supernatural content and aimed at social development.
A Mission Reduced to Social Services
The core of Leo XIV’s message in Angola was a clear reduction of the Church’s mission to social and humanitarian work. When asked how the Church can help the Angolan government in healthcare and education, the antipope responded that they are “working together for the good of all the people, but from different points of view.” He spoke of discussing with the president “how we can work together and where we can improve services that the state, in the case of Angola, offers to the people, especially in building new hospitals and new facilities, and making a strong commitment to the good of the people.”
This vision is a direct echo of the modernist error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, which rejects the idea that the Church’s mission is primarily social or humanitarian. The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself “full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Her mission is not to collaborate with the state in building hospitals, but to teach, govern, and lead souls to eternal salvation. The antipope’s words reveal a capitulation to the secular world, where the Church becomes a mere NGO, a provider of services, rather than the Ark of Salvation.
The Omission of the Supernatural
Most revealing is what Leo XIV did not say. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of Baptism, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, or the final judgment. The “good of the people” is understood purely in temporal terms: hospitals, education, services. This silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation against the conciliar sect. It reflects the naturalistic and modernist mentality that has infected the Church since the revolution of 1958, a mentality that empties the faith of its supernatural content and reduces it to social activism.
The antipope’s statement that “the Church has the responsibility, through testimony, through the Word, and also through courageous preaching and proclamation of the Word of God, to recognize the rights of all and to help promote universal rights” is a perfect example of this inversion. The Church’s primary duty is not to promote “universal rights” – a secular, Enlightenment concept – but to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). The “rights” of man, detached from the rights of God, lead to the destruction of the moral order and the enthronement of human pride.
Growth Without Conversion
Leo XIV expressed his “joy” to see “the places in the world where the Church is growing,” and encouraged “evangelization, without proselytism, as Pope Francis has said many times.” He spoke of drawing people to the faith through “beauty, the attraction of faith, and the joy of the believers, which is one of the best announcements of the faith, of the Gospel.”
This is the language of the new religion, a religion without dogma, without conversion, without the cross. The word “proselytism” has been weaponized by the conciliar sect to silence the true missionary spirit of the Church. The Church has always sought to convert souls to Jesus Christ, to bring them into the one true Church outside of which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). To reject proselytism is to reject the Great Commission: “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).
Furthermore, the appeal to “beauty” and “attraction” is a hallmark of Modernism, which seeks to draw people not by the truth of the Gospel, but by aesthetic and emotional experiences. This is the religion of the Antichrist, a religion of feelings, not of faith.
The Creation of Cardinals and Dioceses: A Modernist Bureaucracy
The question about a potential Consistory and the creation of an Angolan cardinal was met with a smile and a non-answer: “This is the question that many people want to ask… it has not yet been decided when new cardinals will be created. We need to look at this matter on a global level… We hope that, for Africa and perhaps for Angola, in the not-so-distant future, we may be able to consider the nomination of new cardinals, including one for Angola.”
This reveals the bureaucratic, managerial mindset of the conciliar sect. The creation of cardinals is treated as a matter of global planning, a kind of ecclesiastical human resources management, rather than a spiritual act of choosing shepherds for the flock. The antipope also spoke of creating new dioceses “for the good of the people, to have the opportunity for more bishops who can be closer as pastors to the people.” Again, the focus is on proximity, on management, on efficiency – not on the salvation of souls.
The Cult of Man and the Rejection of God’s Laws
Throughout the press conference, there is not a single mention of God’s laws, of the moral law, of sin, of repentance, of the necessity of grace. The entire discourse is centered on man, on his needs, his rights, his development. This is the cult of man, the religion of humanity, which Pius IX condemned as the error of naturalism: “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, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Syllabus of Errors, proposition 3).
The antipope’s vision is a direct contradiction of the teaching of Pius XI in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows, or by striving for perfection and endeavoring that the holiness, which according to the will of the Divine Founder is to adorn the Church and make it known, may shine eternally and with ever greater splendor before the eyes of all men.”
Conclusion: The Church of the New Advent
The press conference of Leo XIV aboard the papal plane is a microcosm of the entire conciliar revolution. It presents a Church that has abandoned its supernatural mission, that collaborates with the world in building a temporal utopia, that rejects proselytism and conversion, that manages its affairs like a multinational corporation, and that worships man instead of God. This is not the Church of Jesus Christ. This is the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure, the abomination of desolation sitting in the temple of God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
The faithful who desire to serve the true Christ must reject this counterfeit Church and return to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church, to the Mass of all time, to the Sacraments as they were administered before the modernist revolution, to the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations and all aspects of life. Only thus can they be saved from the great apostasy that has overtaken the structures occupying the Vatican.
Source:
Pope: Church in Angola is growing and can help promote universal rights (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.04.2026