The National Catholic Register reports on the activities of the usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV,” during his visit to Equatorial Guinea on April 22, 2026 — the final full day of his African tour, which also included stops in Algiers, Cameroon, and Angola. The article catalogs a series of photo opportunities: the figure addressing prisoners at Bata Prison, meeting with families at Bata Stadium, presiding over a “Mass” at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mengomeyén, unveiling a plaque at the “Pope Francis Technology School,” and praying at a monument to victims of the 2021 Bata explosions. The piece is a chronicle of gestures — hand-kissing inmates, dancers performing, crowds under umbrellas — without a single word about the obligation of the state to submit to the social reign of Christ the King, the only foundation of true justice and peace.
The Prison Visit: Mercy Without Justice, Forgiveness Without Truth
The article presents the Bata Prison visit as a highlight of the tour: “Pope Leo XIV addresses prisoners at Bata Prison, Equatorial Guinea.” One photograph even captures “a prison inmate in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, kissing the hand of Pope Leo XIV on April 22, 2026.” The scene is designed to project an image of pastoral tenderness — the shepherd among the outcasts. But what, precisely, did this usurper say to those prisoners? The article does not tell us, and this silence is itself the message.
The Catholic Church has always taught that caritas (charity) without veritas (truth) is not charity at all but a counterfeit that deceives both the giver and the recipient. The true Church, before the conciliar revolution, insisted that the spiritual care of prisoners must include the call to repentance, the explanation of sin, the necessity of confession and contrition, and the eternal consequences of unrepented mortal sin. Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas, declared that Christ’s reign “encompasses all men” and that “there is no power in us that is exempt from this reign.” The Church’s mission to prisoners is not merely to comfort them in their affliction but to remind them — and the state that imprisons them — that justice is founded on the law of God, and that civil authority itself is subject to the Kingship of Christ.
What do the structures occupying the Vatican offer instead? A visit. A handshake. A photograph. The eternal truths of faith — the reality of hell, the necessity of baptism, the obligation of the Church to teach and govern nations — are replaced by a humanitarian gesture that any secular NGO could perform. This is the reduction of the Catholic religion to naturalistic philanthropy, precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu, where he rejected the proposition that “the sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (proposition 41). The prisoner is not told that his soul is in peril, that the Church alone holds the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). He is offered a photo opportunity with a man who has no authority from Christ to bind or loose.
The “Mass” at Mengomeyén: A Counterfeit Sacrifice in a Counterfeit Church
The article devotes considerable space to the “Mass” celebrated at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, with photographs showing the usurper “incensing the altar,” “elevating the chalice,” and “processing” before crowds of Catholics. The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is itself a product of the conciliar confusion — a structure built in the post-conciliar era in a country where the Catholic faith was planted by missionaries who believed in the propitiatory sacrifice of the true Mass and the necessity of converting every soul to the Catholic Church.
The 1962 Missale Romanum, codified by Pope St. John XXIII but representing the immemorial liturgical tradition of the Latin Church, teaches that the Holy Mass is a true and proper sacrifice, in which Christ is offered to God the Father for the sins of the living and the dead. The Council of Trent anathematized anyone who says that the Mass is “only a commemoration of the sacrifice on the cross” or that it “is not a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, or that it profits only the one who receives Communion” (Session XXI, Chapter 2, Canon 1-3). The post-conciliar “Mass” of Paul VI, imposed beginning in 1969, was designed — as the Masonic architect Annibale Bugnini himself admitted under interrogation — to be indistinguishable from a Protestant service. It eliminated the prayers that define the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice, replaced the theology of the Real Presence with ambiguous language, and turned the priest toward the people as a presider of a communal meal.
What “Mass” did this usurper celebrate in Mengomeyén? The article does not specify, but the conciliar structures universally employ the Novus Ordo Missae or some variant thereof. The faithful who attended this ceremony — kneeling, receiving what they believed to be Holy Communion, adoring what they believed to be the true Body and Blood of Christ — were participating in a counterfeit liturgy presided over by a man who has no valid claim to the Petrine office. If the usurper is a manifest heretic — and the entire trajectory of the conciliar revolution, from John XXIII onward, constitutes manifest heresy against the social Kingship of Christ, the nature of the Church, and the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation — then by the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, he “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head” and “may be judged and punished by the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Book II, Chapter 30). A non-pope cannot validly offer the Holy Mass, even if the rite itself were valid, which in the case of the Novus Ordo it is not.
The Pope Francis Technology School: The Cult of Progress and the Abandonment of Supernatural Faith
Among the most revealing details of the article is the visit to the “Pope Francis Technology School” in Mengomeyén, where the usurper “unveils a plaque” and “blesses” the institution. This is a perfect symbol of the entire conciliar project: the substitution of technological progress and naturalistic education for the formation of souls in the Catholic faith.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, identified “secularism, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” as the “plague that poisons human society.” He traced this plague to its root: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar structures have not merely tolerated this secularism; they have embraced it as a positive good. The “Pope Francis Technology School” — named after Jorge Bergoglio, the apostate who occupied the Vatican from 2013 to 2025 — represents the triumph of the very errors condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: the proposition that “the best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference” (proposition 47), and that “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church” (proposition 48).
The true Church has always insisted that education must be ordered toward the supernatural end of man — the knowledge and love of God, the attainment of eternal salvation. The Council of Trent decreed that seminaries must provide not merely humanistic learning but formation in sacred theology, canon law, and the liturgy. The idea that the successor of Peter — or rather, the man who claims that title — should bless a technology school, rather than a seminary, a house of formation for true priests, or a school dedicated to the integral Catholic education of youth, reveals the complete inversion of priorities that defines the conciliar apostasy.
The Meeting with Families: Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Care
The article describes the meeting with families at Bata Stadium in purely naturalistic terms: “Dancers put on a show for Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with families at Bata Stadium,” and “Pope Leo XIV greets a crowd under umbrellas.” Families are presented as a demographic category, not as the domestic Church, the primary unit of Catholic society, the place where children are to be formed in the faith and prepared for eternity.
The Catholic teaching on the family, articulated by Leo XIII in Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae and reaffirmed by every pope until 1958, holds that the family is a natural society, instituted by God, with the husband as head and the wife as helper, ordered toward the procreation and education of children in the Catholic faith. The sacrament of marriage is indissoluble, and the family is the foundation of civil society. Pius XI, in Casti Connubii, condemned contraception, divorce, and the subordination of the family to the state as mortal errors.
What does the conciliar structure say to families? The article gives us no indication — because there is nothing to say. The usurper’s meeting with families is a spectacle, not a sermon. There is no mention of the indissolubility of marriage, the obligation of parents to raise their children in the Catholic faith, the sin of contraception, or the duty of the state to protect the family as a natural society. The families are props in a photo opportunity, not souls to be saved.
The Monument to the Bata Explosions: Prayer Without Doctrine
The article notes that “Pope Leo XIV prays at a monument to those who died in the 2021 explosions at Bata, Equatorial Guinea.” This gesture — prayer at a memorial — is presented as a pastoral act, but it is stripped of all Catholic content. The true Church teaches that the dead are either in heaven, purgatory, or hell, and that the faithful on earth can assist the souls in purgatory through the Holy Mass, prayers, and indulgences. The Church also teaches that sudden death is a terrifying prospect for those in the state of mortal sin, and that the greatest act of charity is to warn the living to prepare for death through repentance and the sacraments.
What did this usurper pray for at the monument? Did he offer a true Mass — the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary — for the repose of the souls of the dead? Did he call the living to repentance? Did he remind them of the four last things — death, judgment, heaven, and hell? The article is silent, because the conciliar structures have abandoned the doctrine of purgatory, the practice of offering Masses for the dead, and the urgency of preparing for judgment. The prayer at the monument is a civic gesture, indistinguishable from what a secular leader would offer. It is religion reduced to sentimentality, precisely the “natural religion” condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (proposition 18 of the Quanto conficiamur allocution, which condemned the idea that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”).
The Silence on Christ the King: The Defining Apostasy
The most damning aspect of the entire article is what it does not say. Not once — in the description of the prison visit, the “Mass,” the technology school, the meeting with families, or the prayer at the monument — is there any mention of the social Kingship of Christ, the obligation of the state to recognize Christ as King, or the duty of rulers to govern according to the law of God.
This silence is not accidental. It is the defining characteristic of the conciliar revolution. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King in 1925 precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” He declared that “the Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men” and that “rulers of states… 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.” The conciliar structures have systematically abandoned this teaching. The “Second Vatican Council” — itself an illegitimate assembly convened by a usurper (John XXIII) and presided over by manifest heretics (Paul VI and his successors) — produced Dignitatis Humanae, which proclaimed the right to religious freedom, directly contradicting the teaching of Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos, Pius IX in the Syllabus, and Leo XIII in Immortale Dei.
Equatorial Guinea is a nation that has known dictatorship, corruption, and violence. The true Church would send a true pope to proclaim to its rulers: Christ is King. Your authority comes from Him. You will answer to Him at the judgment. Submit your nation to His law, or face eternal damnation. Instead, the conciliar structures send a usurper to bless technology schools, pose with prisoners, and watch dancers perform. This is not the Catholic Church. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
The African Tour as a Whole: The Globalization of the Conciliar Sect
The article notes that the African tour included visits to Algiers, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. This itinerary is significant. Africa is the continent where the conciliar structures have experienced their greatest numerical growth — and their greatest theological dilution. The “Catholic” communities visited by this usurper are, for the most part, communities formed by the post-conciliar missionary apparatus, which has consistently prioritized social services, interreligious dialogue, and naturalistic development over the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the conversion of souls to the Catholic faith.
The true missionary tradition of the Church — exemplified by figures like St. Peter Claver, St. Damien of Molokai, and the martyrs of Uganda — was founded on the conviction that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, that the Catholic Church is the one true Church of Christ, and that the greatest act of charity is to bring souls into her fold through baptism and catechesis. The conciliar missionary enterprise has replaced this with a vague humanitarianism that treats all religions as paths to God — the very error condemned by Pius IX in proposition 17 of the Syllabus: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.”
The African tour of this usurper is not a missionary journey. It is a publicity campaign for the conciar sect, designed to project an image of global relevance and pastoral concern while systematically avoiding the truths that define the Catholic faith. The prisoners, the families, the schoolchildren, the mourners — all are used as stage props in a performance that has nothing to do with the salvation of souls and everything to do with the maintenance of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958.
Conclusion: The Enduring Witness of the True Church
The article from the National Catholic Register is a faithful chronicle of the activities of the conciliar structures — and in its very faithfulness, it reveals the emptiness of those activities. There is no doctrine, no truth, no call to conversion, no proclamation of Christ the King, no warning of judgment, no offer of the sacraments as the necessary means of salvation. There are only photographs, gestures, and silence.
The true Church endures — not in the basilicas of Mengomeyén or the stadiums of Bata, but in the chapels and oratories where the faithful gather to offer the true Holy Mass, to receive the true sacraments, and to profess the integral Catholic faith. The true Church does not bless technology schools; she forms saints. The true Church does not visit prisons to pose for photographs; she sends true priests to preach repentance and hear confessions. The true Church does not meet with families to watch dancers; she teaches them the indissolubility of marriage and the obligation to raise their children for heaven.
The usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV,” is a man without authority, presiding over a structure without truth, offering a liturgy without sacrifice, to a people without formation. The African tour is a journey through the ruins of what was once the Catholic missionary enterprise — ruins that the conciar revolution itself created. Let the faithful look upon these photographs and see, not the face of the Church, but the mask of the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9), and let them cling all the more firmly to the unchanging faith of the ages, the faith that will endure when the structures of the conciar sect have crumbled to dust.
Source:
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Visits Prisoners, Meets With Families, Says Mass in Equatorial Guinea (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.04.2026