The National Catholic Register (NCRegister) portal, citing Catholic News Agency (CNA) and EWTN News, reports that on May 17, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square for the Regina Caeli. His remarks centered on World Communications Day, whose theme he identified as “Preserving Human Voices and Faces.” He urged Catholics and communicators to promote forms of communication respecting “the truth of the human person” in the age of artificial intelligence, while also calling for “renewed care for creation” and “peace” as Laudato Si’ Week began. He further reflected on the Solemnity of the Ascension, emphasizing Christ drawing humanity toward “full communion with the Father,” and quoted St. Augustine on the “head’s advance” being the “hope of the members.” He also recalled the late antipope Francis’ teaching on “saints next door” – ordinary people living according to the Gospel. This address, while cloaked in pious language, exemplifies the conciliar sect’s characteristic evasion of supernatural truth, its embrace of naturalistic humanism, and its subordination of divine revelation to modern technological anxieties, all while ignoring the true crisis of faith and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King.
The Usurper’s Platform: A Stage for Modernist Ambiguity
The very fact that Robert Prevost, an antipope illegitimately occupying the See of Peter, presumes to speak from the Apostolic Palace to “pilgrims” is a foundational scandal. His authority, derived from the conciliar revolution initiated by the heretic John XXIII, is null and void. As St. Robert Bellarmine unequivocally states 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 entire line of usurpers, from John XXIII through Benedict XVI and Francis, culminating in this Leo XIV, are manifest heretics who have publicly defected from the Catholic faith, thereby losing their office *ipso facto* by divine law (Canon 188.4, 1917 CIC; *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*). Their pronouncements carry no weight of divine authority; they are merely the pronouncements of men, often steeped in the very errors they claim to address. To address “pilgrims” in St. Peter’s Square, a place now occupied by the “abomination of desolation,” is to lend legitimacy to a structure built upon the ruins of true Catholic governance.
“Human Voices and Faces”: The Modernist Obsession with Man
The theme chosen by the usurper, “Preserving Human Voices and Faces,” is a quintessential example of the conciar sect’s anthropocentric shift, a direct fruit of the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X. Instead of proclaiming the absolute primacy of God’s truth, the infallibility of the Church’s Magisterium, and the supernatural destiny of man, the focus is shifted to “the truth of the human person.” This is not the Catholic understanding of man, created in God’s image and likeness, fallen in Adam, and redeemed by Christ, whose ultimate end is the Beatific Vision. This is the “cult of man,” the “anthropocentrism” that Pius XII warned against, where man himself becomes the measure of all things.
The usurper’s call for communication to “always respect the truth of the human person, on which every technological innovation should be focused” is a dangerous inversion. It implies that technology, a human creation, must serve an ambiguous “human truth,” rather than God’s immutable law and the salvation of souls. This is the very “evolution of dogmas” and “democratization of the Church” condemned by the *Syllabus of Errors* (Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”; Proposition 64: “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 Church’s mission is not to adapt to technological innovation or to define an elusive “human truth,” but to proclaim the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ, who is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6).
The Laudato Si’ Abomination: False Ecology and False Peace
The usurper’s invocation of Laudato Si’ Week and “integral ecology” is a direct continuation of the modernist agenda of the late antipope Francis. This “care for creation” is not the Catholic stewardship of God’s creation, which acknowledges man’s dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:28) and the ultimate purpose of all creation to glorify God. Instead, it is a naturalistic, often pantheistic, environmentalism that places man on par with, or even subordinate to, “Mother Earth.” It is a “false ecology” that ignores the primary duty of man: to know, love, and serve God in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
The call for “peace with God, with our brothers and sisters, and with all creatures” is a blasphemous syncretism. True peace, as Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas*, is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ: “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.” This “peace with all creatures” echoes the very errors condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Proposition 1: “There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe, and God is identical with the nature of things… and God is one and the same thing with the world”). It is a peace divorced from the Cross, from repentance, from the necessity of conversion to the one true Catholic Faith. It is the “false peace” of the world, which Christ Himself said He came not to bring, but a sword (Matthew 10:34).
The Ascension: A Supernatural Reality Reduced to Human Aspiration
The usurper’s catechesis on the Ascension, while superficially orthodox in its scriptural references, subtly distorts the supernatural reality. By emphasizing that “we are united to Jesus as the members of one body united to the head” and that “by ascending into heaven, then, he draws us with him toward full communion with the Father,” he reduces the Ascension to a metaphor for human aspiration and communion, rather than a historical, salvific event with profound theological implications for the Church’s authority and mission.
The quote from St. Augustine, “the head’s advance is the hope of the members,” is used to foster a vague sense of hope and unity, rather than to underscore the absolute necessity of visible, hierarchical communion with the true Head of the Church, the Roman Pontiff. The usurper’s statement that “The Ascension, therefore, does not speak to us of a distant promise, but of a living bond, which draws us also toward heavenly glory, already elevating and expanding our horizon in this life and directing our way of thinking, feeling and acting more closely to the measure of God’s heart” is a classic modernist interpretation. It focuses on subjective human experience and moral improvement, rather than the objective reality of Christ’s kingship and the Church’s divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify. It is the “hermeneutics of continuity” applied to dogma, where the supernatural is immanentized, and the transcendental is brought down to the level of human feeling.
“Saints Next Door”: The Democratization of Holiness
The usurper’s recall of Francis’ teaching on “saints next door” – “ordinary fathers, mothers, grandparents, and people of every age and condition who ‘with joy and commitment, make the effort to live sincerely according to the Gospel'” – is a further symptom of the conciliar sect’s democratization of holiness. While all Christians are called to holiness, the Church has always recognized the heroic virtue of the Saints, those who have gone beyond the ordinary, performing miracles and living lives of extraordinary sanctity, often in the face of persecution. This modernist emphasis on “ordinary” holiness diminishes the heroic, the miraculous, and the supernatural, reducing sanctity to a mere human effort, a “sincere” living according to a vaguely defined “Gospel.” It ignores the necessity of the sacraments, the state of grace, and the Church’s authoritative judgment in canonization. It is a naturalistic view of holiness, where man’s effort, rather than God’s grace, is paramount.
The Omission of Christ’s Kingship and the Church’s Divine Mandate
The most glaring omission in the usurper’s address is any mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the absolute duty of nations and individuals to submit to His law, and the Church’s infallible Magisterium as the sole arbiter of truth. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, explicitly stated 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.” He further declared that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The usurper’s call for “peace” and “care for creation” is a hollow echo, devoid of the only foundation upon which true peace and order can be built: the public acknowledgment of Christ’s reign and the Church’s divine authority.
His address is a testament to the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciar sect. It offers no supernatural solutions, no call to conversion, no condemnation of heresy, no defense of the Faith. Instead, it offers a vague, humanistic “hope” centered on “human voices and faces,” a “peace” divorced from Christ’s Cross, and an “ecology” that often borders on pantheism. It is a communication that, far from preserving truth, actively obscures it, replacing the divine with the human, the supernatural with the natural, and the unchanging dogmas of the Catholic Faith with the shifting sands of modernist philosophy. The faithful are called not to listen to these usurpers, but to cling to the immutable Tradition of the Church, to the true Mass, to the true sacraments, and to the unwavering belief in the Social Kingship of Christ the King, who alone can bring true peace and order to a world spiraling into chaos.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: AI Communication Must Preserve ‘Human Voices and Faces’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 17.05.2026