VaticanNews portal reports on the announced pastoral itinerary of “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) across Italy from May through August 2026, including visits to Pompeii, Naples, Rome’s La Sapienza University, Acerra’s “Land of Fires,” Pavia, Lampedusa, Assisi, and Rimini. The programme reveals a pontificate entirely consumed by the very errors condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium: the worship of the earth, the embrace of secular academia, the promotion of open borders, and the reduction of the Church’s salvific mission to naturalistic humanitarianism.
The Shrine of Pompeii: A “Canonized” Mason and the Corruption of Marian Devotion
The tour opens at the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii, where Leo XIV will pray the Supplication composed by St. Bartolo Longo — whom this same antipope “canonized” in October 2025. Let the faithful understand what this means. Bartolo Longo was a former Satanist who converted and devoted himself to the Rosary, and his personal story, however dramatic, does not automatically validate the shrine he founded or the novel devotions he composed. The pre-conciliar Church was extraordinarily cautious in approving private revelations and new prayers for universal use. The fact that this shrine became “a pilgrimage destination for four Popes” proves nothing — for four post-conciliar usurpers have occupied the Vatican, each more modernist than the last. Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Benedict XV did not treat this shrine as a locus of universal Catholic devotion. The elevation of Longo to the altars by a manifest heretic and antipope is, by that very fact, null and void. The faithful are reminded that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation — and that no private revelation, however pious it may appear, enjoys the guarantee of infallibility. The Church’s perennial liturgy, the traditional Roman Rite of Mass, contains all the Marian devotion necessary for sanctification. Novel supplications composed by private individuals, however well-intentioned, are not the deposit of faith.
La Sapienza University: The Church Genuflecting Before Secular Academia
On May 14, Leo XIV will visit La Sapienza University in Rome. This is not a pastoral visit in any Catholic sense. It is the abomination of a counterfeit pontiff entering the temple of secular rationalism and seeking its approval. The pre-conciliar Magisterium spoke with absolute clarity on this matter. Pope St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), condemned the modernist principle that “ecclesiastical law, which prescribes the previous censorship of religious books concerning Holy Scripture, does not apply to authors engaged in scientific criticism” (Proposition 1 of Lamentabili), and further that “the decrees of the Apostolic See and of the Roman congregations impede the true progress of science” (Lamentabili, Proposition 12). Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the best theory of civil society requires that popular schools open to children of every class of the people… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference, and should be fully subjected to the civil and political power” (Proposition 47). La Sapienza has been, for over a century, a bastion of secularism, rationalism, and anti-clericalism in the very heart of Rome. For a claimant to the Chair of Peter to visit it not in condemnation but in dialogue and fraternal exchange is to betray the mandate of Christ: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19) — not to learn from them.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations… 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 duty of the Church is to teach, govern, and sanctify — not to sit as a supplicant before the professors of secular humanism. Leo XIV’s visit to La Sapienza is a public declaration that the conciliar sect no longer claims supernatural authority over the domain of human knowledge, but rather seeks reconciliation with the world — precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus, Proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” — an error the Syllabus condemns without ambiguity.
Acerra and the “Land of Fires”: The Worship of Creation Over the Creator
Perhaps the most revealing stop is the visit to Acerra in the “Land of Fires” on May 23, deliberately scheduled on the eve of the anniversary of the “encyclical” Laudato si’ — the signature environmentalist document of the Bergoglian era. Leo XIV’s visit to this area of toxic waste and illegal dumping is framed not as a call to repentance, not as a demand for justice under God’s law, but as an act of solidarity with an environmental cause. The language of the VaticanNews report is telling: the Pope travels to the “notorious ‘Land of Fires'” — not to denounce the mortal sins of those who poison the earth and the poor for profit, not to call for the social reign of Christ the King over industrial and political life, but to align himself with the secular environmentalist movement.
Pope St. Pius X warned that modernism is “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi), and its characteristic mark is the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, the divine to the human. The pre-conciliar Church taught that creation is to be stewarded as God’s gift, yes — but that the primary crisis of humanity is sin, not carbon emissions. The Church’s mission is the salvation of souls, not the salvation of the biosphere. To schedule a papal visit to coincide with the anniversary of Laudato si’ is to declare that the conciar sect’s priority is the worship of the created order — a form of pantheism that Pius IX condemned in the very first proposition of the Syllabus of Errors: “There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe, and God is identical with the nature of things” (Proposition 1). Environmentalism as practiced by the conciliar sect is not Catholic stewardship; it is nature religion dressed in liturgical vestments.
Lampedusa: The Open-Borders Gospel and the Betrayal of Catholic Social Teaching
The visit to Lampedusa on July 4 is perhaps the most scandalous item on the itinerary. The VaticanNews report explicitly states the purpose: “showing his closeness to migrants, as his predecessor Pope Francis had done.” Let there be no equivocation. The pre-conciliar Church taught that a sovereign nation has the right and the duty to control its borders for the common good of its citizens. Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), affirmed that civil authority is ordained by God and that the state has legitimate jurisdiction over its own affairs. Pope Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the principle of non-intervention… ought to be proclaimed and observed” (Syllabus, Proposition 62) — not because the Church advocates reckless interference, but because the Church insists that natural law and divine law, not liberal internationalism, must govern the relations between peoples.
The conciliar sect’s obsession with mass migration is not Catholic charity. Catholic charity begins with the spiritual welfare of souls and the temporal welfare of one’s own community, ordered under God’s law. The indiscriminate promotion of mass migration — without regard for the spiritual dangers of importing vast populations hostile to the Faith, without regard for the temporal devastation wrought upon local communities, without regard for the duty of Catholic nations to preserve their Catholic identity — is not charity. It is a betrayal of the common good. It is the implementation of the Masonic programme of dissolving national identities and religious boundaries in service of a borderless, relativistic, humanist world order. Pope Gregory XVI, in Mirari Vos (1832), condemned the “delirium” of those who claim that “the liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone” — a principle that, extended to the political domain, produces the chaos of mass migration celebrated by Leo XIV on Lampedusa.
Pavia and the Cult of Man: Healthcare as Liturgy
The visit to the National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy in Pavia, where Leo XIV will “meet executives, medical staff, and children undergoing treatment with their parents,” is a perfect illustration of the conciar sect’s substitution of naturalistic humanitarianism for supernatural religion. The Church has always encouraged the corporal works of mercy — visiting the sick is indeed a work of mercy. But when this becomes the centerpiece of a papal visit, when it displaces the administration of the sacraments, the preaching of the Gospel, and the call to repentance, it ceases to be Catholic and becomes merely humanitarian.
Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” Leo XIV’s visit to a cancer treatment center is not an act of Catholic pastoral care — it is an act of secular humanitarianism performed in papal vestments. Where is the call to the sacraments? Where is the exhortation to the parents to ensure their children are baptized, to receive the Last Rites, to place their trust not in hadrontherapy but in the infinite merits of Christ’s Passion? The silence on these matters is deafening and damning.
The Omission of Christ the King: The Defining Silence
What is absent from this entire itinerary is as damning as what is present. There is no visit to a seminary to ensure the orthodox formation of priests. There is no act of public reparation for the sins of the nation. There is no call for the social reign of Christ the King over Italy — the very Italy where Pius XI, in Quas Primas, demanded that “rulers of states… refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” There is no denunciation of the mortal sins that afflict Italian society: abortion, contraception, divorce, blasphemy, the desecration of the Sabbath. There is no insistence on the necessity of the sacraments for salvation.
Instead, we have: a visit to a shrine elevated by antipapal authority, a genuflection before secular academia, an environmentalist pilgrimage, a borderless humanitarian spectacle, and a medical goodwill tour. This is not the programme of the Vicar of Christ. It is the programme of the United Nations General Assembly, dressed in white. It is the implementation of the Masonic vision that Pope Pius IX identified when he wrote, in the Syllabus, of those “shady congregations” that “boldly turn the help of powers and authorities which they have secured to trying to submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
Leo XIV’s Italian tour is a comprehensive exhibition of every error the pre-conciliar Magisterium identified and condemned. It is modernism in action — the synthesis of all heresies, reduced to a travel itinerary. The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must recognize in these events not the pastoral care of Christ’s Church but the relentless advance of the conciliar sect toward the complete annihilation of the supernatural life and its replacement with a naturalistic, humanitarian, environmentalist, and syncretistic parody of Christianity. The true Church endures — in the unchanging doctrine of the ecumenical councils, in the perennial Magisterium, in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered under the traditional Roman Rite, and in the faithful who refuse to bow before the idols of the New Advent. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — and whatever structure occupies the Vatican today, it is not the Church of Christ.
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Vatican releases programmes of Pope Leo's pastoral visits in Italy (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.04.2026