VaticanNews portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, under the name Leo XIV, used his April 29, 2026, general audience to address escalating violence in southwestern Colombia, where rebel groups have killed dozens of civilians and military personnel. The so-called “pope” expressed “closeness in prayer” to victims and families, exhorting everyone to “reject every form of violence and to decisively choose the path of peace.” This appeal was made without any mention of the social reign of Christ the King, the necessity of Catholic governance, or the root causes of violence in the rejection of God’s laws.
A “Pope” Without a Kingdom: The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Leo XIV’s Appeal
The appeal of the conciliar usurper regarding violence in Colombia is a textbook example of the post-conciliar Church’s reduction of the Catholic faith to mere humanitarian sentiment. While dozens lie dead from bombings and rebel attacks, the occupant of the Vatican offers nothing more than vague platitudes about “peace” and “rejecting violence” – language indistinguishable from any secular humanist organization. This is not the voice of the Vicar of Christ; it is the voice of the United Nations dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
The Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
The most glaring and damning omission in Leo XIV’s appeal is any reference to the social reign of Christ the King over Colombia and all nations. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to address the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He taught with absolute 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.”
Pius XI further warned: “When God and Jesus Christ – as we lamented – were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed. For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
Colombia’s violence is not merely a political or criminal problem – it is the direct fruit of the rejection of Christ the King in its laws, governance, and public life. The FARC-EMC and other rebel groups operate with impunity in a nation that has systematically removed Catholic principles from its constitution and public order. Yet Leo XIV says nothing about this root cause. He offers prayers without doctrine, sympathy without truth, and peace without the Prince of Peace.
The False “Peace” of Conciliarism
The exhortation to “decisively choose the path of peace” rings hollow when spoken by a figure who represents an institution that has betrayed the very foundations of true peace. Pius XI taught: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” True peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ – not in the false “peace” of religious indifferentism, ecumenism, and the separation of Church and State that the conciliar sect has championed since John XXIII.
The conciliar “Church” has spent decades promoting dialogue with communists, Marxists, and revolutionaries – the very ideological forces that fuel groups like the FARC-EMC. The FARC was founded on Marxist-Leninist principles, and its offshoots continue to wage war under the banner of socialist revolution. Yet the post-conciliar Vatican has never issued a clear, unequivocal condemnation of Marxist revolution as a mortal sin against the social order. Instead, it has embraced liberation theology, hosted Marxist leaders at the Vatican, and promoted “peace processes” that amount to capitulation to armed insurgents.
Leo XIV’s appeal is therefore not merely inadequate – it is complicit. By failing to name the ideological roots of the violence, by failing to call for the establishment of Christ’s reign in Colombia’s laws and institutions, and by reducing the Church’s mission to humanitarian concern, he perpetuates the very modernist errors that Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: particularly error 80, which condemned the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
The Silence on Sacramental and Moral Causes of Violence
A true pope, addressing a Catholic nation wracked by violence, would remind the faithful that the root of all social disorder is sin – original sin and actual sin. He would call for repentance, sacramental confession, the reception of the Most Holy Eucharist, and the amendment of life. He would warn of the reality of hell and the final judgment. He would urge the faithful to do penance, to pray the Rosary (as approved by the true popes, not the Fatima deception), and to seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary under her true titles.
Instead, Leo XIV offers the language of secular crisis management: “closeness in prayer,” “exhortation,” “rejection of violence.” There is no call to conversion, no mention of the sacraments, no warning about the state of grace, no reference to the final judgment. This is the religion of man – the “dogmaless Christianity” that St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu as the inevitable result of Modernism: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (proposition 65).
The Illegitimacy of the Speaker
It must be stated with theological precision that Robert Prevost – the man calling himself Leo XIV – has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify the faithful. He is a usurper who occupies the See of Peter without legitimate election, following in the line of apostates beginning with John XXIII. As demonstrated in the theological tradition of the Church, a manifest heretic loses his office automatically (ipso facto) by virtue of his heresy, without any declaration required. St. Robert Bellarmine taught: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.”
The conciliar “popes” have taught and approved errors condemned by the perpetual Magisterium – including religious freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism, and the novel liturgy that undermines the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass. These are not private opinions but public, authoritative acts that constitute manifest heresy. Therefore, Leo XIV speaks with no more authority than any other layman – indeed, less, because he actively promotes errors that lead souls to perdition.
Colombia’s True Need: The Social Reign of Christ
Colombia was once a Catholic nation whose laws and institutions recognized the sovereignty of Christ the King. The violence that plagues it today is the direct consequence of the liberal revolution that separated the State from the Church, expelled religious orders, confiscated Church property, and established the very religious indifferentism that Pius IX condemned. The FARC-EMC and its predecessors are the fruits of a society that rejected God’s law and embraced the errors condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: socialism, communism, religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State.
The remedy for Colombia’s suffering is not more “peace talks” with Marxist rebels, not more humanitarian aid, and certainly not the empty platitudes of a conciliar usurper. The remedy is the return to the social reign of Christ the King – the recognition by the State of the Catholic faith as the one true religion, the submission of all laws to the divine law, the restoration of Catholic education, and the expulsion of all forms of religious indifferentism and naturalism from public life.
As Pius XI declared: “If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority and how much they will consider, when issuing laws and commanding them to be fulfilled, the common good and the human dignity of their subordinates.”
Conclusion: Prayers Without Doctrine Are Worthless
The appeal of the conciliar usurper regarding Colombia is a microcosm of the entire post-conciliar apostasy: humanitarian concern without supernatural faith, sympathy without truth, peace without Christ. It is the voice of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place, offering the world the empty shell of Catholicism while hollowing out its divine content.
The faithful must reject these appeals as they reject the entire conciliar revolution. True peace will come to Colombia – and to all nations – only when Christ the King is recognized in law and in fact, when His Church is freed from the modernist usurpers who have occupied her institutions, and when the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered in its integrity for the salvation of souls and the restoration of the social order. Until then, the “prayers” of Leo XIV are nothing more than the whistling of a man walking past a graveyard – audible, but utterly without power over death.
“The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, quoted by Pius XI in Quas Primas). Let Colombia – and all nations – return to the harmony of Christ’s Kingdom, or perish in the chaos of man’s rebellion.
Source:
Pope prays for victims of violence in southwestern Colombia (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.04.2026