Vatican News portal reports that on May 3, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” used the Sunday Regina Caeli address in Saint Peter’s Square to commemorate World Press Freedom Day, a UNESCO-initiated observance. He called attention to journalists killed in wars and violence, lamenting that press freedom is “often violated,” and aligned himself with the United Nations’ secular framework of “human rights,” “dialogue,” and “sustainable development.” He also greeted representatives of Italy’s “Meter” association, which works to defend minors from abuse. This address is not a neutral act of piety but a calculated demonstration of the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to the spirit of the world, substituting the supernatural mission of the Church with the idolatry of secular human rights and the false religion of press freedom.
The Usurper’s Alignment with the Synagogue of Satan
The most immediate and damning observation is that Robert Prevost, an antipope occupying the structures of the Vatican, chose to commemorate a day instituted by UNESCO — a specialized agency of the United Nations, an organization condemned repeatedly by the true Church as a vehicle for naturalism, religious indifferentism, and the erosion of Catholic sovereignty. That this usurper invokes UNESCO’s framework without the slightest critical reservation reveals the abyss that separates the conciliar sect from the perennial Magisterium.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). This is precisely what Leo XIV does — not merely reconciling himself, but actively promoting the secular agenda of international organizations as though it were compatible with, or even an expression of, the Church’s mission. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 1399, explicitly forbade Catholics from publishing books or periodicals without ecclesiastical approval and placed publications of non-Catholic societies — particularly those of secret societies and their affiliates — under suspicion. The United Nations and its subsidiary UNESCO are the political embodiment of the very “sects” Pius IX denounced as the “synagogue of Satan” that “gathers its troops against the Church of Christ” (Syllabus, preliminary paragraphs).
The usurper’s words — “Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who have fallen victim to wars and violence” — are not wrong in the abstract. It is a natural good to mourn the dead. But the context, the framework, and the omission are what condemn this act. There is no mention of the supreme cause of all wars and violence: sin, the rejection of Christ the King, and the apostasy of nations. There is no call to repentance, no invocation of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, no reference to the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ over all human societies. Instead, the address is embedded entirely within the secular vocabulary of “human rights,” “peace,” and “sustainable development” — the very language condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) as the fruit of “secularism, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.”
The Omission of Christ the King: The Gravest Silence
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague that poisons human society” — the secularism that removes Jesus Christ and His law from public life. Pius XI declared with apostolic authority: “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.” He 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 from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
What does Leo XIV do? He commemorates a day dedicated to “press freedom” — a concept rooted in the liberal, Masonic tradition of the French Revolution, which holds that man has an inherent right to publish without restraint, a notion directly contrary to the Church’s teaching on the moral law and the duty of societies to suppress error for the common good. The Church has always taught that error has no rights — only truth has rights, and the Church has the divinely instituted authority to govern what is published and taught within her domain and to demand that civil societies conform their laws to the moral order. Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), stated: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its kind, and each fixed within certain limits which are defined by its proper nature and special object.”
By endorsing “press freedom” as a value to be celebrated, the usurper implicitly rejects the Church’s teaching that the state has not only the right but the duty to restrict the propagation of error, immorality, and blasphemy. This is not a minor omission — it is a fundamental inversion of the Catholic order. The Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79). Pius IX declared this proposition false. Yet Leo XIV celebrates precisely this “freedom” as though it were a gospel value.
The Linguistic Apostasy: “Human Rights” as Anti-Gospel
The language employed by the usurper and the Vatican News report is saturated with the vocabulary of the 1789 Revolution and its ideological descendants: “human rights,” “dialogue,” “trust,” “sustainable development,” “peace.” Each of these terms, in the mouth of a true Pope, would be qualified, contextualized, and subordinated to the primacy of the supernatural order. In the mouth of Leo XIV, they stand naked and unqualified — as ends in themselves.
The Catholic Church teaches that there is only one true right: the right to know the truth, to obey God, and to attain eternal salvation. All other “rights” are either derivative of this or are false constructs of liberal philosophy. Pope Pius VI, in Auctorem Fidei (1794), condemned the French Revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man as contrary to revelation and natural law. Pope Gregory XVI, in Mirari Vos (1832), condemned religious liberty as “insanity” (deliramentum). The entire pre-conciliar Magisterium is unanimous: the so-called “rights of man” apart from God are a rebellion against the divine order.
When Leo XIV speaks of “human rights” without qualification, he speaks the language of the Revolution — the language of the guillotine, the Terror, and the dechristianization of France. He speaks the language of the very forces that imprisoned Pius VI, that martyred the Holy Martyrs of Compiègne, that sought to destroy the Church root and branch. And he does so from the Chair of Peter — or rather, from the usurped chair, which he occupies as an antipope, a fact that only deepens the blasphemy.
The “Meter” Association and the Substitution of Natural Justice for Supernatural Order
The usurper’s greeting to Italy’s “Meter” association, which works to defend minors from abuse, presents another occasion for scrutiny. The protection of children from abuse is a natural good, and the Church has always condemned such crimes. However, the manner in which this issue is framed within the conciliar sect reveals a profound disorder.
The post-conciliar structures have instrumentalized the abuse crisis to advance a secular agenda of “accountability,” “transparency,” and “dialogue with civil society” — concepts that, while not inherently evil, are deployed in a manner that subordinates the Church’s supernatural mission to the standards of the world. The true Church has always dealt with internal crimes through her own canonical procedures, under the authority of the Holy See, and with the primary goal of the salvation of souls — both the victims and the perpetrators. The conciliar sect, by contrast, has increasingly deferred to civil authorities, adopted secular therapeutic models, and transformed what is fundamentally a moral and spiritual crisis into a managerial and public relations crisis.
Moreover, the abuse crisis itself is a direct fruit of the moral revolution that followed the conciliar “reforms.” The relaxation of discipline, the abandonment of traditional moral theology, the introduction of ambiguous catechetical materials, and the infiltration of homosexual networks into seminaries and religious orders — all of these are consequences of the Modernist revolution that the conciliar sect unleashed. For the usurper to greet an association working on this issue without acknowledging the root cause — the apostasy of the conciliar church itself — is an act of profound dishonesty.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Fruit of Modernism
Every element of this address — the invocation of UNESCO, the celebration of “press freedom,” the unqualified use of “human rights” language, the omission of Christ the King, the absence of any call to repentance or supernatural conversion — is a symptom of the systemic Modernism that has consumed the conciliar sect since the death of the last valid Pope.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), described Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies” and identified its core principle: the reduction of religion to human experience and the denial of the supernatural. The Modernist, St. Pius X wrote, “is a true man of the present day; he flatters himself that he is the first to understand the times, and he adapts his religion to the times.” This is precisely what Leo XIV does — he adapts the “religion” of the conciliar sect to the spirit of the age, celebrating the idols of secular liberalism as though they were compatible with the Faith.
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the proposition that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Proposition 64). Yet this is exactly what the conciliar sect has done — and what Leo XIV continues to do — by subordinating the Church’s teaching to the evolving standards of secular organizations like the United Nations.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Speaks
The address of May 3, 2026, is not an isolated incident. It is a revelation — a revelation of the true nature of the conciliar sect as a counterfeit church, a “paramasonic structure” that has replaced the worship of the true God with the worship of man, his “rights,” and his “freedoms.” The usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself Leo XIV, does not speak with the authority of Peter. He speaks with the spirit of the age — the spirit of 1789, the spirit of the Revolution, the spirit of the Antichrist.
The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the unchanging Magisterium, the faith of the Fathers, the faith of the Councils — must recognize this address for what it is: another manifestation of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. The response is not dialogue, not accommodation, not “engagement with the modern world.” The response is rejection — total, uncompromising, and rooted in the certitude that the true Church endures, that the true Mass is offered, and that Christ the King will triumph — not through the machinations of UNESCO or the “human rights” of the United Nations, but through the infinite merits of His Most Precious Blood and the intercession of His Immaculate Mother.
Adveniat regnum Tuum. Thy Kingdom come — not the kingdom of man, but the Kingdom of Christ the King, which shall have no end.
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Pope remembers journalists who lost their lives due to violence and wars (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.05.2026