VaticanNews portal reports on May 8, 2026, that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” celebrated Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii to mark the first anniversary of his illegitimate pontificate. He invoked Marian devotion and prayed for peace amid global conflicts, calling on God to “calm fratricidal hatred” and “enlighten world leaders.” This spectacle of false piety, performed by an antipope occupying the See of Peter, reveals the conciliar sect’s strategy of using Marian sentiment to mask its systematic destruction of Catholic doctrine and its complicity in the modernist apostasy condemned by St. Pius X.
The Illegitimacy of the Usurper on Peter’s Throne
The very premise of this event is built upon a foundational lie: that Robert Prevost is the legitimate successor of St. Peter. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958, as the subsequent occupants — beginning with the manifest heretic John XXIII — have embraced and propagated doctrines incompatible with the immutable Catholic faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, “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 revolution, with its errors of ecumenism, religious liberty, and the evolution of dogmas, constitutes a public defection from the Catholic faith, automatically depriving its proponents of all jurisdiction and authority.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, in Canon 188.4, confirms that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation, recognized by the law itself, if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The post-conciliar “popes” have publicly defected from the Catholic faith through their endorsement of the heretical documents of Vatican II, such as Dignitatis Humanae (religious freedom) and Nostra Aetate (false ecumenism). Therefore, Leo XIV is not a pope but an antipope, a usurper whose acts of governance are null and void, and whose “Mass” is a sacrilegious parody of the Most Holy Sacrifice.
Marian Devotion as a Tool of Modernist Subversion
The choice of Pompeii and the Rosary as the setting and theme of this event is not coincidental. The conciliar sect has long exploited Marian devotion to advance its modernist agenda. By emphasizing the Rosary as a “Christological and Eucharistic heart,” Leo XIV reduces the Blessed Virgin to a mere instrument for achieving a vague, naturalistic “peace” — a peace defined not by the triumph of Christ the King but by the cessation of temporal conflicts through human effort and dialogue.
This stands in stark contrast to the teaching of Pius XI in Quas Primas, who established the Feast of Christ the King to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” Pius XI declared that “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, where His law governs both individuals and states. Leo XIV’s prayer for “enlightened world leaders” ignores the fundamental truth that no amount of enlightenment can substitute for the submission of nations to the social reign of Christ the King.
Furthermore, the conciliar sect’s promotion of Marian apparitions — such as Fatima, which is not mentioned here but is part of the same strategy — serves to divert attention from the internal enemies of the Church. As the file on False Fatima Apparitions demonstrates, the Fatima message is “theologically contradictory to Catholic doctrine,” “a tool to divert attention from modernism,” and “a potential Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church.” The focus on external threats (communism, war) omits the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church itself, as warned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu.
The Eucharistic Lie: “Source and Summit” of a False Worship
Leo XIV’s statement that the Rosary leads us “back to Jesus and brings us to the Eucharist, which is the source and summit of all Christian life” is a blasphemous distortion of Catholic truth. The phrase “source and summit” is borrowed from Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium, a document riddled with modernist errors. In the true Catholic understanding, the Holy Eucharist is the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the unbloody renewal of Calvary, in which the priest acts in persona Christi to offer propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.
The post-conciliar “Mass” is not a sacrifice but a memorial meal, a “table of assembly” that denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice of the Calvary. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, was designed to be acceptable to Protestants, as admitted by its architect, Annibale Bugnini, who was later exposed as a Freemason. To speak of the “Eucharist” in the context of the conciliar sect is to speak of an idol, not the true Body and Blood of Christ. As the Council of Trent anathematized those who deny that the Mass is a true and propitiatory sacrifice (Session XXII, Canon 1), so too must we reject the conciliar counterfeit.
The Omission of Reparation and the Social Reign of Christ
The most glaring omission in Leo XIV’s homily is any mention of reparation, penance, or the social reign of Christ the King. His call for “peace” is purely naturalistic, devoid of supernatural content. There is no exhortation to conversion, no condemnation of sin, no demand for the submission of nations to the laws of Christ. This is the hallmark of modernism: the reduction of religion to a horizontal, humanitarian concern, stripped of its supernatural and dogmatic essence.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, 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). Leo XIV’s entire pontificate is built upon this very error: the adaptation of Catholic doctrine to the spirit of the age, the “aggiornamento” that has led to the current abomination of desolation in the Temple of God.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, 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). Leo XIV’s prayer for “enlightened world leaders” is precisely this reconciliation with the world, a betrayal of the Church’s mission to teach, govern, and sanctify all nations under the kingship of Christ.
The Cult of Personality and the Anniversary of Illegitimacy
The celebration of the “first anniversary” of Leo XIV’s pontificate is a cult of personality unworthy of the papacy. The true successor of St. Peter does not celebrate his own election but humbles himself before the magnitude of his office and the weight of the Church’s tradition. This self-referential spectacle reveals the conciliar sect’s obsession with novelty and self-promotion, in direct violation of the condemnation in Lamentabili of “the pursuit of novelty in the investigation of the foundations of things” (Introduction).
The reference to Leo XIII and the Rosary is equally manipulative. Leo XIII’s extensive Magisterium on the Rosary was rooted in the integral Catholic faith, including the recognition of the Church’s rights and the dangers of secret societies. In his encyclical Humanum Genus, Leo XIII condemned Freemasonry as a “synagogue of Satan” and warned of its plots against the Church. The conciliar sect, by contrast, has embraced dialogue with Freemasonry and other enemies of the Church, rendering any appeal to Leo XIII’s legacy a hollow mockery.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The event in Pompeii is yet another manifestation of the conciliar apostasy, a spectacle of false piety designed to deceive the faithful and the world. The usurper Leo XIV, occupying the See of Peter through a series of illegitimate elections, presides over a counterfeit Church that has abandoned the immutable Catholic faith in favor of modernist errors. His prayer for “peace” is a naturalistic platitude that ignores the only true peace: the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.
The faithful must reject this abomination and cling to the true Church, which endures in those who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, “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.”
Let us pray for the restoration of the true Church, the condemnation of modernism, and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — not the false “triumph” promised by the Fatima deception, but the true triumph that will come only when Russia is converted to the Catholic faith and the social reign of Christ the King is established over all nations. Until then, the faithful must resist the conciliar sect and its antipopes, holding fast to the deposit of faith once delivered to the saints.
Source:
Pope in Pompeii: May God calm fratricidal hatred and enlighten world leaders (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.05.2026