EWTN News reports that on May 14, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, known as “Pope” Leo XIV, visited Rome’s La Sapienza University, where he delivered an address denouncing a “great lie” causing anxiety among young people. He criticized a culture that “reduces people to numbers,” warned against military spending and artificial intelligence, cited the encyclical *Laudato Si’*, and urged students to say “yes to life” while emphasizing a “horizon of meaning” beyond materialism. The event was marked by enthusiastic student reception and a symbolic gift of a stone reproduction from the Holy Sepulcher. While superficially echoing concerns about modern societal ills, this address epitomizes the conciliar sect’s characteristic evasion of true Catholic doctrine, substituting naturalistic humanism and political activism for the supernatural mission of the Church, thereby offering a palliative that leaves the root causes of spiritual decay unaddressed.
The “Great Lie” That Isn’t: Redefining the Core Problem
Leo XIV’s denunciation of a “great lie” fueling youth anxiety is a calculated ambiguity typical of modernist discourse. He identifies this lie as a culture that “reduces people to numbers” and fosters “competitiveness,” leading to “spirals of anxiety.” While these are observable societal ills, his diagnosis remains stubbornly superficial, confined to a naturalistic and sociological framework. The true “great lie,” the one that has permeated the conciar structures he claims to lead for decades, is the denial of original sin, the rejection of the necessity of sanctifying grace for true peace, and the substitution of the Church’s supernatural mission with a secularized “social gospel.” He speaks of “spiritual malaise” yet offers no remedy rooted in the sacramental life, the necessity of confession, or the reality of eternal judgment. Instead, he offers platitudes about “desire” versus “algorithms,” a distinction that, while perhaps comforting to modern ears, is devoid of the theological depth required to address the human condition *post lapsum*. The true anxiety stems from the state of sin and the absence of God, not merely from societal pressures, a truth the conciar sect systematically obscures by focusing on horizontal, worldly solutions.
The Missing Supernatural: A Theology of Immanence
The address is replete with calls for “meaning,” “hope,” and “life,” yet these concepts are consistently divorced from their supernatural moorings. When Leo XIV states, “Especially those who believe know that history does not fall hopelessly into the hands of death, but is always guarded… by a God who creates life from nothing,” he presents a generic theism, not the specific Catholic faith in Divine Providence, the redemptive sacrifice of Christ, and the particular judgment. His ecology, citing Laudato Si’, remains fixated on the “possessive and consumerist paradigm” without connecting it to the disordered desires of fallen humanity or the need for mortification and detachment from worldly goods as taught by the saints. The “horizon of meaning” he encourages students to seek is presented as an intellectual or moral pursuit, not the ultimate end of man: the Beatific Union with God through grace. This reduction of faith to a source of subjective comfort or ethical guidance, rather than the objective deposit of faith necessary for salvation, is a hallmark of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as the “synthesis of all errors.” The silence on the necessity of the true Mass, the sacraments administered by validly ordained priests, and the authority of the pre-conciliar Magisterium is deafening and damning.
Political Activism Over Spiritual Warfare: The Rearmament Rhetoric
Leo XIV’s critique of military spending and “rearmament” in Europe, while perhaps resonating with pacifist sentiments, fundamentally misidentifies the primary battleground. He warns against “a contamination of reason that, from the geopolitical level, invades every social relationship,” and calls for a “spiritual alliance” based on a “sense of justice.” This language mirrors the conciar sect’s persistent effort to engage with the world on its own terms, prioritizing temporal peace and social justice over the spiritual warfare against sin and error. The true “contamination” is the modernist apostasy within the Church itself, the very apostasy that has led to the current crisis of faith and the rise of secularism he laments. His call to “correct simplification” and “care for complexity” is a call for dialogue and relativism, not for the clear, uncompromising proclamation of Catholic truth that divides light from darkness. The Church’s mission is not to broker worldly peace through diplomatic means, but to conquer souls for Christ the King, even if this brings temporal conflict, as Our Lord Himself stated: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34). His focus on geopolitical solutions distracts from the only true remedy: the return of individuals and nations to the Social Kingship of Christ, as defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas.
Artificial Intelligence and the Abdication of Moral Responsibility
The warning regarding artificial intelligence, urging vigilance so it does not “relieve human decisions of responsibility,” is a classic modernist deflection. It places the burden of moral evil solely on human agency, ignoring the conciliar sect’s own role in fostering a culture of moral relativism and doctrinal confusion that has eroded the very foundation of objective morality. The “tragedy of conflicts” he mentions is not primarily a result of technology, but of sin and the rejection of God’s law. By focusing on the ethical implications of AI, he avoids addressing the far greater moral catastrophe unfolding within the structures he represents: the propagation of heresy, the sacrilegious administration of sacraments, and the systematic destruction of faith and morals under the guise of “renewal.” The true “inhuman evolution” is the transformation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass into a Protestantized memorial, an evolution he implicitly endorses by his silence and his continued occupation of Peter’s throne.
The “Yes to Life” That Ignores the Source of Life
His appeal to “Be a radical ‘yes’ to life! Yes to innocent life, yes to young life, yes to the life of peoples crying out for peace and justice” is a slogan devoid of specific Catholic content. It aligns perfectly with secular human rights discourse, which the conciliar sect has enthusiastically embraced. A true “yes to life” must begin with the defense of the life of the soul, the necessity of baptism, and the condemnation of all that leads to spiritual death, including the modernist errors he perpetuates. His encouragement to “transform restlessness into prophecy” is a call to subjective feeling, not to the objective proclamation of God’s immutable truths. The student testimonies of “joy,” “happiness,” and “hope” are presented as the fruits of this address, yet these are the same emotional responses elicited by any uplifting secular speech. They are not evidence of supernatural grace, but of natural sentiment, a dangerous substitute for the true peace that only comes from submission to the true Church and her divine Founder. In sum, Leo XIV’s La Sapienza address is a carefully crafted piece of modernist rhetoric, designed to appear relevant and compassionate while utterly failing to address the root causes of the crisis: the absence of true faith, the rejection of Catholic doctrine, and the ongoing apostasy of the conciliar sect. It is a “great lie” in its own right, offering a counterfeit hope that leaves souls adrift in a sea of uncertainty, far from the bark of Peter.
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Pope Leo XIV warns students against the ‘great lie’ fueling youth anxiety (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 14.05.2026