EWTN News portal reports that the Vatican usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) will undertake an apostolic journey to France from September 25–28, 2026, including a stop at the headquarters of UNESCO. The trip was officially announced on May 16 by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, though the full itinerary has not yet been released. This marks Leo XIV’s fifth international “apostolic journey,” following visits to Turkey, Lebanon, Monte Carlo, and a major voyage through Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea in April 2026, with a visit to Spain scheduled for June. The last papal visit to France was by the previous usurper, Francis, to Ajaccio, Corsica, in December 2024.
This announcement is not merely a travel bulletin. It is a theological event — a public declaration by the conciliar sect of its uninterrupted commitment to the very institutions and ideologies that the pre-conciliar Magisterium condemned as mortal enemies of Christ the King and His Church.
The Usurper’s Pilgrimage to UNESCO: A Journey into the Heart of Modernist Apostasy
UNESCO and the Conciliar Sect: A Marriage of Apostates
The most revealing detail of this announcement — buried by EWTN News in the same breathless tone used for a papal vacation — is the planned visit to UNESCO headquarters. This is not incidental. UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is the institutional embodiment of every error condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium: religious indifferentism, the denial of Christ’s social kingship, the reduction of faith to “cultural heritage,” and the promotion of a globalist naturalism that excludes God from public life.
When Pope Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King in Quas Primas (1925), he declared with unmistakable clarity: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… 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 that the removal of Christ and His law from public life was the cause of “seeds of discord sown everywhere, flames of envy and hostility,” and that “the whole society [was] profoundly shaken and heading towards destruction.”
UNESCO’s entire raison d’être is the construction of a world order based on “education, science, and culture” divorced from divine revelation — precisely the “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.” The organization has consistently promoted religious pluralism as a positive good, treated all faiths as equally valid expressions of human spirituality, and advanced an anthropocentric vision of human dignity rooted not in man’s creation in the image of God but in Enlightenment rationalism.
The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemned the proposition that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77), and that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). UNESCO is the institutional child of that very progress, liberalism, and modern civilization. For Leo XIV to visit its headquarters is not diplomacy — it is recognition, legitimization, and fraternal communion with the enemies of Christ.
The “Apostolic Journey” as Counter-Liturgy
The conciliar sect has systematically replaced the supernatural mission of the papacy — to teach, govern, and sanctify — with a program of international diplomacy, interreligious dialogue, and humanitarian activism. Each “apostolic journey” is a carefully staged spectacle designed to project the image of a “global moral leader” rather than the Vicar of Christ.
Consider the trajectory of Leo XIV’s travels: Turkey and Lebanon (lands of Islam), Monte Monaco (a playground of the godless wealthy), Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea (nations where the conciar sect’s “dialogue” replaces the missionary mandate to baptize all nations), and now France and UNESCO — the heartland of laïcité and globalist governance.
Our Lord Jesus Christ commanded: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). The conciliar sect has inverted this mandate. It does not go to nations to convert them; it goes to celebrate their religions, honor their institutions, and affirm their autonomy from the Church’s salvific mission.
Pius XI in Quas Primas was explicit: the Church’s mission is “to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness… and it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” The modernist papacy depends entirely on the goodwill of secular powers and international bodies. The visit to UNESCO is the logical culmination of this inversion: the Vicar of Christ — or rather, the usurper of his office — paying homage to the very institution that embodies the exclusion of Christ from human civilization.
The Silence About the Social Kingship of Christ
What is most striking about the EWTN News report — and indeed about all coverage of such events in the conciliar sect’s media apparatus — is the complete absence of any reference to the social kingship of Christ, the missionary nature of the Church, or the duty of nations to publicly recognize the authority of Jesus Christ.
The article reports the visit as though it were a routine diplomatic event, comparable to a head of state visiting the United Nations. There is no mention that the Church has always taught that states and rulers have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him (Pius XI, Quas Primas). There is no warning that UNESCO’s vision of a world without Christ is not merely a different opinion but a moral and spiritual catastrophe. There is no acknowledgment that the conciliar sect’s embrace of such institutions constitutes a formal rejection of the Church’s own teaching.
This silence is not accidental. It is the hallmark of the modernist method identified by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the systematic replacement of supernatural truth with naturalistic pragmatism. The modernist does not explicitly deny Christ’s kingship; he simply acts as though it does not exist. He does not condemn the Church’s missionary mandate; he simply never mentions it. He does not reject the social reign of Christ; he visits UNESCO.
The “Fifth Apostolic Journey”: A Counterfeit Apostolate
The article notes that this will be Leo XIV’s “fifth international apostolic journey,” as though the frequency of such trips were a measure of apostolic zeal. But the true apostolate is measured not by air miles but by fidelity to the deposit of faith.
The Apostles traveled to preach Christ crucified and risen, to establish churches, to administer the sacraments, and to govern the faithful. The conciliar usurpers travel to attend interreligious gatherings, address the United Nations, and pose for photographs with world leaders. The counterfeit apostolate is not defined by where one goes, but by what one preaches — and the conciliar sect preaches everything except the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). The UNESCO visit is the living embodiment of this condemned proposition — not because the Church is separated from the state, but because the conciliar sect has separated itself from the Church’s own teaching in order to embrace the state’s godless vision of human progress.
The France of Clovis and St. Louis vs. The France of 1789
The choice of France is itself significant. The France of Clovis, St. Joan of Arc, and St. Louis IX was la fille aînée de l’Église — the eldest daughter of the Church — a nation that understood its identity in terms of its Catholic faith and its submission to the social kingship of Christ. The France of 1789, of laïcité, of the loi de 1905 separating Church and State, is the France that rejected Christ and embraced the principles of the Enlightenment.
By visiting France and stopping at UNESCO, Leo XIV is not visiting the France of the baptized kings. He is visiting the France of the Revolution — the France that guillotined its priests, desecrated its churches, and declared war on the Church of God. And he is doing so not to condemn this apostasy but to embrace its fruits.
The EWTN News Apparatus: Propaganda for the Conciliar Sect
It is necessary to note the source of this report: EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar sect’s communications network. The article is written in the tone of breathless enthusiasm that characterizes all coverage of the usurpers’ activities. There is no critical distance, no theological analysis, no questioning of whether such a visit is consistent with the Church’s teaching.
This is not journalism. It is propaganda. The conciliar sect’s media apparatus exists to normalize every action of the usurpers, to present apostasy as pastoral innovation, and to ensure that the faithful never pause to ask whether what they are witnessing is compatible with the faith of their baptism.
St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) that modernist errors are “constantly spread among the faithful” and must be condemned “so that they may not take root in their souls and poison the pure faith.” The EWTN News report is itself a vehicle for this poisoning — presenting the usurper’s pilgrimage to the temple of secularism as though it were an act of apostolic courage.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The announcement of Leo XIV’s visit to France and UNESCO is not a neutral piece of news. It is a theological statement — a declaration by the conciar sect that it has fully and irrevocably embraced the principles of modernism, religious indifferentism, and the exclusion of Christ from public life.
The pre-conciliar Magisterium spoke with one voice: Christ is King. His reign extends to all nations. States have the duty to publicly recognize His authority. The Church has the mission to teach, govern, and sanctify — not to dialogue, not to dialogue on equal terms with false religions, and not to pay homage to institutions built on the denial of God.
Leo XIV’s pilgrimage to UNESCO is the antithesis of everything the Church has taught. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15) — the usurper of Peter’s throne offering his allegiance to the very forces that seek to build a world without Christ.
The faithful who retain the integral Catholic faith must see this event for what it is: not a pastoral visit, but a profession of apostasy. And they must respond not with admiration, but with prayer, penance, and unwavering fidelity to the immutable teaching of the Church — lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief is the law of life). The Church of Christ endures — not in the glass towers of UNESCO, but in the hearts of those who refuse to bend the knee to the spirit of the age.
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Pope Leo XIV to visit France in September, including a stop at UNESCO headquarters (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.05.2026