The National Catholic Register, citing Vatican News, EWTN, and ACI Prensa, reports that on May 13, 2026 — the anniversary of the so-called “apparitions” of Fatima and the assassination attempt against John Paul II — Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) stopped at the site in St. Peter’s Square where Karol Wojtyła was shot in 1981, knelt, touched the commemorative plaque, and prayed in silence. The article presents this gesture as an act of authentic Catholic piety, linking it to the Fatima cult and to the “Marian catechesis” delivered by the usurper during his general audience, in which he described Mary as “model of the Church” and “icon of the Mystery,” drawing on the conciliar document *Lumen Gentium*. The article frames the entire event within the Fatima narrative, including the claim that the Virgin Mary “guided the bullet” and saved Wojtyła’s life. This report is not merely a news item; it is a concentrated exhibition of the theological bankruptcy, historical fraud, and spiritual deception that define the post-conciliar sect occupying the Vatican.
The Fatima Apparitions: A Masonic Psychological Operation Against the Church
The entire narrative constructed around May 13 rests upon the foundational fraud of the Fatima “apparitions” — a phenomenon that, when examined with the light of unchanging Catholic theology and sound reason, reveals itself as a calculated operation against the Faith. As the documented analysis of the 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.
Consider the symbolism of the dates: 1717 — the founding of Freemasonry; 1917 — the Fatima apparitions; 2017 — the canonization of two of the seers by the apostate Francis. These ritualistic 200-year cycles are not coincidental; they bear the unmistakable mark of Masonic planning. The so-called “Miracle of the Sun” is explicable as a natural optical phenomenon combined with mass autosuggestion and panic — not a supernatural intervention by the Mother of God.
The disinformation strategy is methodical: Stage 1 (1917–1940) implanted the message through initial skepticism by Church authorities — a classic technique of “negative credentialing.” Stage 2 (1940–1958) globalized the cult while controlling the narrative through the isolation of Lúcia in a convent. Stage 3 (1958–2000) saw the modernists seize the narrative, conceal the Third Secret (or reveal a fabricated version), and reinterpret Fatima in an ecumenical key. The very name “Fatima” — taken from the daughter of Mohammed — is a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism, entirely incompatible with Catholic exclusivism.
The message itself is riddled with logical contradictions: conditional promises (“if you consecrate Russia…”) coexist with unconditional guarantees (“in the end, Mary’s Heart will triumph”). This ambiguity is the hallmark of false prophecy. Moreover, the message focuses obsessively on external threats — communism — while utterly ignoring the principal danger identified by Saint Pius X: modernist apostasy within the Church itself. The “conversion of Russia” is formulated with deliberate imprecision, without specifying conversion to Catholicism, thereby opening the door to religious relativism and false ecumenism with schismatic Orthodoxy.
The mortifications practiced by the children — fasting to the point of self-harm — bear the marks of Jansenist rigorism, not of Catholic asceticism. And the suspicion that Lúcia was replaced after 1958 (the “Two Lúcia Sisters” theory), given the changes in her appearance, handwriting, and her acceptance of post-Vatican II reforms, further undermines the credibility of the entire narrative.
The Assassination Attempt and the Cult of Wojtyła: Sanctifying Apostasy
The article presents John Paul II as a saint whose life was miraculously saved by the Virgin Mary, and Leo IV’s gesture of kneeling before the commemorative plaque is offered as an act of authentic Catholic devotion. This requires radical deconstruction.
Karol Wojtyła was not a saint. He was a heretic and an apostate whose pontificate was the single greatest catalyst for the destruction of Catholic doctrine, discipline, and worship in the history of the Church. He promoted the Assisi interreligious gatherings — where prayers were offered to false gods and the uniqueness of Christ was denied. He kissed the Koran. He instituted the Novus Ordo Missae’s ecumenical deformations. He canonized individuals of dubious sanctity while ignoring true servants of God. The “canonization” of Wojtyła by the antipope Francis is null and void, as an antipope possesses no authority to canonize.
The claim that “one hand fired; another guided the bullet” is not Catholic theology — it is superstition dressed in pious language. It reduces Divine Providence to a magical intervention narrative designed to manufacture a cult of personality around Wojtyła. The true Catholic understanding of Providence does not require fabricated Marian apparitions and miraculous bullet-guiding to explain why a man survived an assassination attempt.
Leo IV’s gesture of kneeling before this plaque is not piety; it is the veneration of a heretic and the perpetuation of a Masonic deception. It is an act performed within the structures of the conciliar sect — the “paramasonic structure” that has occupied the Vatican since 1958 — and therefore possesses no spiritual value whatsoever.
The Catechesis on Mary: Conciliar Mariology as a Weapon Against the Faith
The article reports that Leo IV dedicated his May 13 catechesis to “the Virgin Mary, model of the Church,” drawing on the final chapter of *Lumen Gentium*, the dogmatic constitution of the Second Vatican Council. This is profoundly significant.
*Lumen Gentium*’s Marian chapter was deliberately crafted to diminish Catholic Mariology by subordinating it to ecclesiology and stripping it of the triumphalist language that characterized pre-conciliar Marian doctrine. The Council Fathers, under modernist influence, refused to dedicate a separate document to Mary and instead embedded her treatment within the document on the Church — a move that reduced her to “a preeminent and singular member of the Church” rather than honoring her as Mediatrix of all graces and Queen of Heaven in her own right.
Leo IV’s language — Mary as “icon of the Mystery,” as the “perfect model of what the whole Church is called to be,” as the one in whom “the people of God find the representation of their origin, their model, and their homeland” — is the language of conciliar reductionism. It replaces the robust, supernatural Mariology of the pre-conciliar Church with a vague, immanentist, and democratized vision. Mary is no longer the powerful intercessor and Co-Redemptrix; she is a “model” and an “example” — language designed to make her palatable to Protestants and to strip Catholic devotion of its supernatural character.
The questions Leo IV poses to the faithful — “Do I live my participation of the Church with humble and active faith?” “Do I recognize in her the community of the covenant?” “Do I feel that I am a living part of the Church, in obedience to the pastors given by God?” — are loaded with conciliar presuppositions. The “Church” he refers to is not the true Church of Christ, which has been driven underground by the conciliar revolution; it is the neo-church of the New Advent, the abomination of desolation sitting in the temple of God (cf. 2 Thess. 2:4). To be “obedient to the pastors given by God” within this structure is to be obedient to apostates and heretics — which is not obedience to God but cooperation with the destruction of His Church.
The Omission of Supernatural Reality: The Gravest Accusation
What is most striking about this article — and about the entire conciliar apparatus it represents — is what it omits. There is no mention of the state of grace. No mention of the necessity of the true sacraments for salvation. No mention of the reality of sin, of hell, of the Last Judgment. No mention of the social reign of Christ the King over all nations — the doctrine so powerfully proclaimed by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
There is no mention that the Novus Ordo “Mass” celebrated by Leo IV is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary — but a Protestantized assembly that violates the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice. There is no warning that receiving “Communion” in these structures, where the true Presence of Christ is denied by the very form of the rite, constitutes not merely sacrilege but idolatry.
There is no mention that the Second Vatican Council — whose “catechetical” cycle Leo IV continues to promote — was the vehicle for introducing religious liberty (contrary to Pius IX’s *Syllabus of Errors*, prop. 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” — condemned), false ecumenism (contrary to *Mortalium Animos*), and the democratization of the Church (contrary to the entire Catholic ecclesiology of the pre-conciliar Magisterium).
The article’s silence about these matters is not accidental. It is the silence of apostasy — the systematic suppression of supernatural truth in favor of a naturalistic, humanitarian, and ecumenical counterfeit that poses as Catholicism while denying everything that makes Catholicism the one true Faith.
The Structural Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
Every element of this report — the Fatima cult, the veneration of Wojtyła, the conciliar Mariology, the “catechesis” on Vatican II — flows organically from the systemic apostasy inaugurated by John III (Angelo Roncalli) and consummated by the Second Vatican Council. The post-conciliar structures are not the Church of Christ; they are the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9, 3:9), as the pre-conciliar popes warned about the very forces — Masonic, modernist, communist — that have taken possession of the Vatican.
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” (prop. 80). Leo IV’s entire pontificate — including this May 13 performance — is the living embodiment of this condemned proposition.
Saint Pius X, in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* and *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*, condemned Modernism as “the synthesis of all errors.” The conciliar sect is the institutionalization of that synthesis. Every “catechesis,” every “canonization,” every “Marian devotion” produced by these structures is tainted at its source.
Conclusion: Rejection and Return to Tradition
The faithful who desire salvation must reject the entire conciliar edifice — its “popes,” its “saints,” its “Marian apparitions,” its “catechesis,” and its “liturgy.” The gesture of Leo IV kneeling before the plaque of Wojtyła on the feast of Fatima is not a call to piety; it is a concentrated symbol of everything that has destroyed the Church: the veneration of a heretic, the perpetuation of a Masonic deception, and the promotion of a counterfeit Catholicism that has no power to save souls.
The true Church of Christ endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who offer or attend the true Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and who reject the abomination of desolation that has taken possession of the visible structures. As Pius XI declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” True peace, true happiness, and true salvation are found only in the Kingdom of Christ the King — not in the neo-church of the Antichrist.
Source:
Pope Leo Prays Where St. John Paul II Was Shot on Feast of Our Lady of Fátima (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.05.2026