EWTN News reports that on May 13, 2026 — the anniversary of the alleged Fátima apparitions — the antipope Leo XIV halted his “popemobile” in St. Peter’s Square to kneel and venerate a plaque marking the spot where the apostate John Paul II was shot in 1981. The usurper dedicated his “catechesis” to “the Virgin Mary, model of the Church,” drawing upon the modernist Marian theology of the Second Vatican Council’s *Lumen Gentium*. He presented Mary as “a preeminent and singular member of the Church, and as its type and excellent example in faith and charity,” and invited the faithful to ask her “to help me be a faithful disciple of her son.” The article further propagates the myth that John Paul II credited “Our Lady of Fátima” with saving his life, and uncritically repeats the conciliar narrative of his “Totus Tuus” consecrations. This entire spectacle is a masterclass in the conciliar sect’s strategy of using counterfeit Marian piety to legitimize its apostate structures and to perpetuate the greatest psychological operation against the Church in modern history.
The Veneration of a Plaque: Idolatry in the Heart of St. Peter’s Square
The image is striking and deliberate: Leo XIV, the latest usurper on the Chair of Peter, steps out of his vehicle, kneels before a marble plaque, and touches it in veneration. This is not the behavior of a Catholic sovereign pontiff. The Church has always distinguished sharply between dulia (the veneration of saints) and latria (the worship due to God alone). A plaque — an inanimate object — receives from the antipope an act that borders on idolatry. No pre-conciliar pontiff would have engaged in such theatrical display before a piece of marble. This gesture reveals the superstitious, sentimental, and naturalistic spirituality that characterizes the conciliar sect: the replacement of true Catholic worship — the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — with emotional rituals centered on places, objects, and personalities.
The choice of location is itself a theological statement. By venerating the spot where John Paul II was shot, Leo XIV implicitly canonizes the entire trajectory of the post-conciliar apostasy. John Paul II was the pontiff who fully implemented the errors of the Second Vatican Council: religious liberty (*Dignitatis Humanae*), false ecumenism (Assisi 1986), the new ecclesiology of “People of God,” and the systematic dismantling of Catholic identity. To honor the place of his shooting is to honor the man and his legacy — a legacy of modernist heresy, syncretism, and the betrayal of Christ the King.
The “Fátima” Narrative: A Masonic Psychological Operation
The article uncritically repeats the conciliar sect’s official narrative: that the assassination attempt on John Paul II coincided with the anniversary of “Our Lady of Fátima,” and that the Polish apostate attributed his survival to Mary’s intercession. This narrative is the foundational myth of the Fátima operation, and it collapses under even minimal scrutiny.
As documented in the analysis of the “False Fátima Apparitions,” the entire Fátima phenomenon bears the hallmarks of a Masonic psychological operation against the Church. The symbolism of the dates is unmistakable: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (the alleged apparitions), 2017 (the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta by the apostate Francis) — ritualistic 200-year cycles. The “Miracle of the Sun” is explicable as a natural optical phenomenon combined with mass hysteria and autosuggestion, not a supernatural intervention. The name “Fátima” itself — taken from a daughter of Mohammed — is a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism, perfectly suited to the ecumenical agenda of the conciliar sect.
The message of Fátima is theologically contradictory. It presents conditional promises (“if you consecrate Russia…”) alongside unconditional guarantees (“in the end, Mary’s Heart will triumph”) — a logical inconsistency typical of false prophecies. More critically, the message focuses on external threats (communism) while ignoring the true danger identified by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* (1907): modernist apostasy within the Church itself. The Fátima narrative serves as a diversion, directing the faithful’s attention away from the “enemies within” — the very modernists who would convene the Second Vatican Council and destroy the Church from the inside.
John Paul II’s alleged reading of the “Third Secret” in 1981 — while recovering from the assassination attempt — is part of Stage 3 of the disinformation strategy (1958–2000): the takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the true Third Secret, and ecumenical reinterpretation. The vision of the “Holy Father afflicted with pain and sorrow” praying “for the souls of the corpses he met on his way” is conveniently vague enough to be applied to any pope, and was indeed applied to John Paul II himself — a man who, far from being a martyr, was the principal architect of the conciliar revolution.
The “Totus Tuus” Consecration: A Counterfeit Act
The article mentions that John Paul II “consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” in 1982. This act, far from being a Catholic consecration, was a counterfeit ritual performed by a man who had already lost the fullness of the Faith. According to the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine in *De Romano Pontifice*, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head by that very fact, before any declaration by the Church. John Paul II’s public and persistent embrace of modernist heresies — religious liberty, false ecumenism, the democratization of the Church — constituted manifest heresy that deprived him of all jurisdiction. His “consecration” was therefore null and void, an act without spiritual efficacy, performed by a man who had no authority to consecrate anything to anyone.
Moreover, the Fátima message’s demand for the “consecration of Russia” has always been intentionally imprecise. It does not specify consecration to the Catholic Faith, opening the door to religious relativism and dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy. This imprecision is not accidental; it is a designed feature of the Masonic operation, ensuring that the “consecration” can be reinterpreted to serve ecumenical purposes. John Paul II’s consecrations — performed without demanding the conversion of Russia to Catholicism — fulfilled precisely this function.
Leo XIV’s Marian Theology: The Modernist Mary of Lumen Gentium
The antipope’s “catechesis” on May 13 draws explicitly on the final chapter of *Lumen Gentium*, the dogmatic constitution on the Church produced by the Second Vatican Council. His description of Mary as “a preeminent and singular member of the Church, and as its type and excellent example in faith and charity” is a direct quotation of the conciliar text. This Marian theology is fundamentally different from the pre-conciliar understanding.
Before the Council, Mary was understood primarily as Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix — titles that emphasize her unique, supernatural role in the economy of salvation. The conciliar Marian theology, by contrast, presents Mary as a “model” and “type” of the Church — a reduction of her cosmic, supernatural role to an immanent, horizontal, ecclesiological function. She is no longer the powerful Queen of Heaven who crushes the head of Satan; she is a “believer par excellence,” an “excellent member of the ecclesial community,” an “icon of the Mystery.” This is the modernist Mary: domesticated, democratized, stripped of her supernatural power and reduced to a symbol of the “people of God.”
Leo XIV’s invitation to the faithful — “Do I look to Mary as a model, an outstanding member and mother of the Church, and ask her to help me be a faithful disciple of her son?” — is a perfect encapsulation of the conciliar ecclesiology. Mary is subordinated to the Church, not the Church to Mary. She is a “member” of the community, not its Queen. The faithful are invited to see her as a “model” of participation in the ecclesial community, not as the all-powerful intercessor before the Throne of God. This is the Protestantization of Marian devotion, consistent with the conciliar sect’s broader program of reducing Catholicism to a form of liberal Protestantism — precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* (proposition 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.”
The Omission of Christ the King
Perhaps the most telling feature of Leo XIV’s “catechesis” is what it completely omits. There is no mention of Christ the King, no mention of the social reign of Our Lord over all nations and peoples, no mention of the duty of rulers and states to publicly recognize His authority. This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect.
Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas* (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He taught that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations” and that “not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” He warned that “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.”
Leo XIV’s silence on Christ the King is deafening. In a “catechesis” dedicated to Mary on the feast of Fátima — a message that allegedly demands the consecration of nations — the complete absence of any reference to the Kingship of Christ reveals the true agenda of the conciliar sect: the replacement of the supernatural reign of Christ with the naturalistic “reign” of human rights, dialogue, and tolerance. This is the apostasy that Pius IX condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (proposition 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
The Beatification of Francisco and Jacinta: A Counterfeit Sanctity
The article mentions that John Paul II “beatified the shepherd children Francisco and Jacinta at the Portuguese shrine” on May 13, 2000. This act is canonically null and spiritually void. John Paul II, as a manifest heretic and usurper, possessed no authority to beatify anyone. The beatification of these children — who allegedly died of natural causes (the Spanish flu), not as martyrs for the Faith — serves the propaganda purposes of the Fátima operation. It reinforces the narrative of Fátima’s authenticity and provides the conciliar sect with “saints” who can be used to promote its ecumenical and modernist agenda.
The true criterion of sanctity is death for the Faith (in the case of martyrs) or heroic virtue lived in communion with the true Church (in the case of confessors). Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza. They did not die at the hands of persecutors for refusing to deny Christ. Their “beatification” by an antipope is a counterfeit act, devoid of any spiritual value, designed to perpetuate the Fátima myth.
The “Second Vatican Council” as Source of Doctrine
Leo XIV explicitly states that he is continuing his “cycle of catechesis on the Second Vatican Council,” drawing on *Lumen Gentium* for his Marian theology. This admission is devastating. The Second Vatican Council was not a legitimate ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It was a modernist assembly convened by the heretic John XXIII and dominated by modernist theologians who used ambiguous language to smuggle heresy into the heart of the Church’s self-understanding. Its documents — *Lumen Gentium*, *Gaudium et Spes*, *Nostra Aetate*, *Dignitatis Humanae* — are heretical texts that contradict the perennial Magisterium of the Church.
By using *Lumen Gentium* as the source of his “catechesis,” Leo XIV reveals that the conciliar sect’s entire theology is built on a heretical foundation. There is no “hermeneutic of continuity” that can reconcile *Lumen Gentium*’s ecclesiology with the teaching of Pius IX, St. Pius X, or Pius XI. The conciliar ecclesiology — the Church as “People of God,” Mary as “model of the Church,” the hierarchy as “service” rather than authority — is a fundamental rupture with Catholic Tradition. Leo XIV’s “catechesis” is not a development of doctrine; it is a perpetuation of heresy.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The spectacle of Leo XIV kneeling before a plaque in St. Peter’s Square, invoking a counterfeit Marian devotion, promoting the Fátima myth, and drawing on the heretical documents of the Second Vatican Council, is a perfect image of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). The conciliar sect continues its program of systematic apostasy, replacing the true worship of God with the veneration of places, objects, and personalities; replacing the supernatural reign of Christ with naturalistic humanism; replacing the true Mary of Catholic Tradition with the modernist “model of the Church”; and replacing the unchanging doctrine of the perennial Magisterium with the heretical novelties of the Second Vatican Council.
The faithful who desire to remain Catholic must reject this entire spectacle — the antipope, his “catechesis,” his veneration of plaques, his devotion to Fátima, his use of *Lumen Gentium*, and his entire conciliar framework. They must return to the immutable Tradition of the Church: the true Mass, the true doctrine, the true devotion to Mary as Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix, and the true social reign of Christ the King over all nations and peoples. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church, there is no salvation. And the conciliar sect, with its heretical councils, its antipopes, its counterfeit sacraments, and its modernist theology, is not the Church. It is the synagogue of Satan, and Leo XIV is its latest and most pathetic servant.
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Pope Leo prays where St. John Paul II was shot on feast of Our Lady of Fátima (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.05.2026