VaticanNews portal reports on April 22, 2026, that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” presided over a liturgical abomination at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea, during his so-called “apostolic journey.” In his homily, the antipope urged the faithful to “proclaim the Gospel” and build a future of “hope and reconciliation” in a land rich in natural resources, while carefully avoiding any mention of sin, repentance, the necessity of baptism, or the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church. This performance is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Faith to naturalistic humanitarianism, masquerading as the Most Holy Sacrifice.
The “Mass” as a Stage for Naturalistic Humanism
The very setting of this event reveals its true nature. Mongomo, a city of merely 7,000 residents, is the birthplace of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, a dictator who has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron fist since 1979. That the antipope chooses to celebrate his “Mass” in the dictator’s hometown, without a single word condemning the regime’s well-documented human rights abuses, is not an oversight—it is a deliberate act of complicity. The conciliar sect has long since abandoned the Church’s prophetic mission to speak truth to power, as commanded by Our Lord: “Preach the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who does not believe shall be condemned” (Mark 16:15-16). Instead, Leo XIV offers platitudes about “bridging the gap between the privileged and the disadvantaged,” a phrase indistinguishable from the rhetoric of any secular development agency.
The homily’s central theme—”hunger for a future imbued with hope”—is a masterwork of evasion. There is not a single mention of the hunger for God, the hunger for sanctifying grace, the hunger for the Eucharist (the true Bread of Life), or the hunger for eternal salvation. The “hope” offered is purely temporal: economic development, social justice, fraternity. This is the very essence of the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of religion to a feeling, a sentiment, a social program. As the Saintly Pope wrote, the Modernists “reduce the whole of religion to sentiment” and “would have us rest content with a vague and ill-defined religiosity” (Pascendi, §7). The “Mass” in Mongomo was not the Unbloody Renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary; it was a rally for sustainable development.
The Omission of the Supernatural: A Deliberate Apostasy
The most damning aspect of Leo XIV’s homily is what it omits. Let us consider the fullness of the Catholic Faith and measure it against the barren wasteland of his words:
No mention of sin. The entire economy of salvation rests upon the reality of sin—original sin and personal sin—and the necessity of repentance. “Unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). The antipope speaks of “reconciliation” but never specifies reconciliation with God through the Sacrament of Penance. This is not an accident; it is a systematic denial of the supernatural order.
No mention of baptism. Our Lord’s explicit command—”He who believes and is baptized shall be saved”—is conspicuously absent. The conciliar sect, following the errors of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae (which Pius IX condemned in advance in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 77), has effectively abandoned the missionary mandate to baptize all nations. Instead, Leo XIV quotes Paul VI’s infamous 1969 statement: “Africans, from now on, you are missionaries to yourselves.” This is a direct repudiation of the Great Commission and a surrender to the spirit of the age.
No mention of the One True Church. The antipope speaks of “the Church of Christ” without ever defining her, without ever stating that she is the Roman Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). This deliberate ambiguity serves the ecumenical agenda, treating all religions as equally valid paths to God—a proposition anathematized by the Council of Trent and condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Propositions 16-18).
No mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice. The “Mass” is treated as a gathering, a celebration, a motivational speech. The propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice—the reparation for sin, the adoration of the Most Blessed Trinity, the application of the infinite merits of Calvary—is entirely absent. This is the Novus Ordo Missae in its full glory: a Protestantized memorial service stripped of its Catholic soul.
The “Gospel” of Development: A Counterfeit Christianity</h2
Leo XIV's focus on Equatorial Guinea's natural resources—petroleum, natural gas, gold, diamonds, uranium—reveals the true priorities of the conciliar sect. The Church's mission is not to help nations exploit their mineral wealth more equitably; it is to save souls. "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26). The antipope's exhortation to "safeguard the life and dignity of every person" is a direct echo of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church has always taught that human dignity is rooted in the fact that man is created in the image and likeness of God and destined for eternal beatitude—not in material prosperity or social status.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, explicitly warned against the very errors Leo XIV promotes:
“The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign 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.”
The antipope’s vision of a “society in which everyone works ever more fully to serve the common good” is a pale imitation of Catholic social teaching, stripped of its supernatural foundation. True Catholic social teaching, as articulated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum and Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno, is ordered toward the salvation of souls and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King. It does not reduce the Church’s mission to a development agency.
The Liturgical Abomination: A “Mass” in Name Only
We must address the elephant in the room: the “Mass” celebrated by Leo XIV in Mongomo was not a Catholic Mass. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, is a Protestantized rite that, at best, is of doubtful validity and, at worst, is a sacrilegious parody of the true Sacrifice. The traditional Catholic Mass, codified by St. Pius V in Quo Primum (1570) and confirmed by the Council of Trent, is the Unbloody Renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary, offered to God for the four ends of sacrifice: adoration, thanksgiving, propitiation, and petition. The Novus Ordo, by contrast, is a communal meal, a celebration of the assembly, a “Eucharistic supper” in which the sacrificial nature is obscured or denied.
The faithful who attended this “Mass” in Mongomo were not participating in the Most Holy Sacrifice; they were attending a Protestant service with Catholic trappings. And if they received “Communion,” they did not receive the true Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ—for the new “consecratory” formula, with its Protestant-influenced wording and its omission of the essential words of institution in their proper sacrificial context, is at best of doubtful efficacy. To receive the “Eucharist” in these conditions, knowing the doubts surrounding its validity, is to risk sacrilege of the gravest kind.
The Antipope and the Dictator: A Meeting of Convenience
The fact that Leo XIV celebrated this “Mass” in the hometown of one of Africa’s longest-ruling dictators is not coincidental. The conciliar sect has a long history of cozying up to authoritarian regimes when it serves its institutional interests. The Church’s true mission is to proclaim the Kingship of Christ over all nations and to condemn injustice wherever it is found. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, was unequivocal:
“Rulers and governments must not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but must 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.”
Leo XIV said nothing of the sort. His silence on the Obiang regime’s abuses—political repression, corruption, the squandering of oil wealth while the population lives in poverty—is a betrayal of the Church’s prophetic mission. It is also a betrayal of the Equatoguinean people, who deserve to hear the full Gospel, not a watered-down message of “hope and reconciliation” that leaves the structures of sin intact.
The “Missionary” Myth: Evangelization Without Doctrine
The antipope’s invocation of the missionaries who evangelized Equatorial Guinea 170 years ago is particularly galling. Those missionaries—Capuchins, Claretians, and others—risked their lives to bring the true Faith to Africa. They baptized, they catechized, they established churches and schools, they fought against the slave trade and tribal warfare. They preached the full Gospel: the reality of sin, the necessity of repentance, the divinity of Christ, the One True Church, the life everlasting.
What does Leo XIV offer in their place? A “Gospel” without doctrine, a “mission” without conversion, a “Church” without definition. His quotation of Paul VI—”Africans, from now on, you are missionaries to yourselves”—is a direct repudiation of the missionary mandate. It says, in effect: “We have given up on converting you; you figure it out yourselves.” This is the logical endpoint of the conciar revolution: a Church that no longer believes in its own message, a “papacy” that no longer seeks to save souls, a “Gospel” that is no glad tidings at all.
Conclusion: The Abomination Continues
The “Mass” in Mongomo is not an isolated incident; it is a microcosm of the entire conciliar apostasy. The usurper on the throne of Peter—for no true pope would omit the essentials of the Faith, celebrate a doubtful “Mass,” or cozy up to dictators—continues the work of destruction begun by John XXIII and his successors. The faithful must not be deceived by the trappings of Catholicism: the vestments, the incense, the Latin phrases sprinkled throughout the Novus Ordo. Underneath the surface is a counterfeit religion, a “Church” that is not the Church of Christ but the “synagogue of Satan” (Apocalypse 2:9).
The true Church endures—in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic Faith, in the priests who offer the true Mass of Ages, in the bishops who hold fast to the Tradition of the Fathers. Let us pray for the conversion of the Equatoguinean people, and for the destruction of the conciar sect that leads them astray. “Come, Lord Jesus” (Apocalypse 22:20).
Source:
Pope at Mass in Mongomo: Humanity hungers for justice and peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.04.2026