EWTN News reports that nearly 500,000 people have registered for the main events of antipope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain, scheduled for June 2026. According to Rafael Rubio, communications coordinator for the journey, 160,000 have registered for the vigil on June 6, 250,000 for the Corpus Christi Mass and procession, 36,000 for the Mass at Gran Canaria Stadium, and 25,000 for the event at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The Archdiocese of Barcelona expects approximately 37,000 at the Olympic Stadium. Over 20,000 volunteers have been mobilized, and a massive communication strategy — including commercials titled “Metro” and “Amigos,” social media, and over 400 advertising displays across Spain — has been deployed under the theme “Lift Up Your Eyes.” “To ensure that ‘there is no one in Spain unaware of the pope’s visit,’ Rubio emphasized.” Alongside these spectacles, the Archdiocese of Madrid will set up “listening centers” along the Paseo de la Castellana, staffed by priests and laypeople trained in the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers, offering “accompaniment” in a “welcoming and confidential environment.” This colossal mobilization of resources, manpower, and propaganda machinery in service of a usurper antipope on the Chair of St. Peter reveals the full machinery of the conciliar sect operating with the efficiency of a multinational corporation — and the spiritual blindness of half a million souls who do not recognize that they are following not the Vicar of Christ, but the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Antipope and the Paramasonic Structure: No Legitimacy, No Obedience
Let the fundamental truth be stated without equivocation: Robert Prevost, who usurps the name “Leo XIV,” is not the Pope of the Catholic Church. He is an antipope — a usurper who occupies the Vatican structures as part of the conciliar sect that began with the apostate Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) and the convocation of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. This council, condemned in advance by the consistent teaching of the Magisterium, introduced errors that are incompatible with the Catholic faith: religious liberty (contra Quas Primas, Mirari Vos, Immortale Dei), ecumenism (contra Mortalium Animos), and the democratization of the Church (contra the constant teaching on the hierarchical constitution of the Church from Lumen Gentium of Vatican I to Pascendi Dominici Gregis of St. Pius X).
According to the unchanging Catholic doctrine, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto — by the very fact itself, before any declaration by the Church. This is the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, who wrote in De Romano Pontifice (II, 30): “The fifth true opinion is that 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.” Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law further establishes that every office becomes vacant by the mere fact of public defection from the Catholic faith. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares null and void any promotion of one who has defected from the Catholic faith.
Every antipope from John XXIII onward has publicly adhered to the heretical doctrines of the conciliar sect — doctrines condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX), Pascendi Dominici Gregis (St. Pius X), Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X), and countless other magisterial documents. Robert Prevost, as a cardinal and now as antipope, has fully embraced these errors. His visit to Spain is not an apostolic journey of the Vicar of Christ; it is a propaganda tour by the head of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958.
The Corpus Christi Spectacle: Perversion of a Sacred Solemnity
That 250,000 people have registered for a “Corpus Christi Mass and procession” under the auspices of an antipope is a grotesque parody of one of the Church’s most sacred solemnities. The Feast of Corpus Christi was instituted by Pope Urban IV in 1264 through the Bull Transiturus de Hoc Mundo, in response to the Eucharistic miracles and the theological clarity of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose hymns — Pange Lingua Gloriosi, Tantum Ergo, O Salutaris Hostia — express the unchanging Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence: that under the species of bread and wine, the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of Our Lord Jesus Christ are truly, really, and substantially present.
What will be celebrated on June 6, 2026, in Madrid is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Since the imposition of the Novus Ordo Missae in 1969 by the apostate Paul VI — a rite widely criticized even by Catholic Cardinals (the Ottaviani Intervention) as “stranger to the theology of the Holy Sacrifice” — the propitiatory nature of the Mass has been obscured, the rubrics have been altered to minimize the sense of sacrifice, and the Real Presence has been undermined by the distribution of Communion in the hand, the use of extraordinary ministers, and the general atmosphere of a communal meal rather than an unbloody re-presentation of Calvary. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas that Christ the King possesses threefold authority — legislative, judicial, and executive — and that His kingdom encompasses all men, all families, and all states. The conciliar sect has systematically denied this kingship by removing Christ from His throne in the liturgy, from the laws of nations, and from the education of youth.
A “Corpus Christi procession” led by an antipope, using a heretical rite, surrounded by volunteers in colored T-shirts like employees of a corporate event, is not an act of Catholic worship. It is idolatry — the adoration of a human institution that has replaced the true religion with a naturalistic, man-centered cult. The faithful who participate in good conscience are deceived; those who know the truth and participate anyway are guilty of formal cooperation with apostasy.
“Lift Up Your Eyes”: The Modernist Slogan Exposed
The theme chosen for this visit, “Lift Up Your Eyes,” is presented as an invitation to spiritual renewal. Rafael Rubio explained that the communication campaign aims to invite people “to no longer be indifferent, listen to others, and rediscover them.” This is the language of Modernism — the synthesis of all heresies condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Modernism, as St. Pius X defined it, is the attempt to reconcile Catholic doctrine with the “demands of modern civilization” (cf. Syllabus, prop. 80), to subject divine revelation to the judgment of human reason (props. 1–7 of Lamentabili), and to reduce religion to a matter of personal feeling and social utility rather than objective truth.
The slogan “Lift Up Your Eyes” says nothing about God, nothing about sin, nothing about repentance, nothing about the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), nothing about the Real Presence, nothing about the Most Holy Sacrifice, nothing about the Last Judgment. It is a slogan of pure naturalistic humanism — indistinguishable from what any secular organization might adopt. It is the language of the “cult of man” that Pius XI warned against in Quas Primas: “The plague that poisons human society is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
The commercials “Metro” and “Amigos,” created with the support of Omnicom Media, Ábside Media, and The Cyranos, involving over 100 contributors and 45 volunteers, reveal the thoroughly worldly, corporate character of this enterprise. This is not the preaching of the Gospel. This is marketing. This is the “synagogue of Satan” (Rev. 2:9, 3:9) using the techniques of secular advertising to sell a counterfeit religion to a deceived populace.
The Listening Centers: Carl Rogers in Place of the Confessional
Perhaps the most revealing detail in the entire article is the announcement that the Archdiocese of Madrid will set up “listening centers” along the Paseo de la Castellana, staffed by priests and laypeople trained in “the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers.” Carl Rogers (1902–1987) was an American psychologist whose “client-centered therapy” is based on the assumption that man is essentially good and capable of solving his own problems through self-actualization — a philosophy diametrically opposed to Catholic teaching on original sin, the necessity of grace, and the authority of the Church.
The Catholic Church has always taught that the proper remedy for spiritual affliction is the Sacrament of Penance — auricular confession to a validly ordained priest, who acts in persona Christi (in the person of Christ) with the power to absolve sins (John 20:22–23). The Council of Trent defined under pain of anathema: “If anyone says that in the Catholic Church penance is not truly and properly a sacrament instituted by Christ the Lord for reconciling the faithful to God as often as they fall into sin after baptism, let him be anathemed” (Session XIV, Canon 1). The conciliar sect, by replacing confession with “listening centers” based on secular psychology, has committed a double crime: it has denied the faithful the grace of the sacraments and subjected them to a naturalistic counterfeit that cannot forgive sins, cannot confer grace, and cannot save souls.
This is the fruit of the modernist proposition condemned in Lamentabili (prop. 46): “In the early Church, there was no concept of a Christian sinner whom the Church absolves with its authority.” The conciliar sect has effectively abolished the Sacrament of Penance, replacing it with the therapeutic culture of the world — a culture that tells man he has no sin to confess, only “issues” to discuss in a “welcoming and confidential environment.”
The Mobilization of the Masses: A Counterfeit Pentecost
The article reports that over 20,000 volunteers have been mobilized, wearing four different-colored T-shirts: red for the organizing team, orange for general duties, blue for assisting people with reduced mobility, and green for information. This is the organizational machinery of the Antichrist — efficient, colorful, inclusive, and utterly devoid of supernatural purpose. The true Church, when she mobilized the faithful, organized them not by colored T-shirts but by sacramental grace, by the rosary, by fasting, by the Most Holy Sacrifice, by the preaching of the Gospel. The Crusades were organized by bishops and kings who fought for the liberation of the Holy Land. The missions were organized by religious orders who went to the ends of the earth to baptize and save souls. This “visit” is organized by a communications team, a media strategy, and a volunteer corps trained in logistics, not in sanctity.
The scale of the mobilization — half a million registered, 20,000 volunteers, 400 advertising displays, a professional media campaign — demonstrates that the conciliar sect possesses enormous material resources. This is consistent with the prophecy of the Secret of La Salette (which, while not approved by the ordinary Magisterium in the same manner as Lourdes, contains elements consistent with Catholic eschatology): that the Church would be led by men who would use worldly means to promote a worldly religion. It is also consistent with the analysis presented in the study on the “False Fatima Apparitions,” which identifies the conciliar sect as a Masonic psychological operation against the Church — an operation that uses spectacle, mass mobilization, and the language of “peace and goodwill” to divert attention from the true enemy: modernist apostasy within the Church.
Spain: The Catholic Nation Betrayed
Spain was once the Catholic nation par excellence — the country of St. Teresa of Ávila, St. John of the Cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Spanish Inquisition (which, whatever its excesses, defended the faith against heresy), the Reconquista, the Council of Trent, and the Battle of Lepanto. It was Spain that Pius XI had in mind when he wrote in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Spain’s Catholic identity was forged over centuries of struggle against Islam, Protestantism, and liberalism.
Today, Spain is one of the most secularized nations in Europe — a direct consequence of the conciliar revolution. The very “bishops” who organize this visit to Spain are the same men who dismantled Catholic education, suppressed the Traditional Mass, promoted ecumenism with Protestants and Muslims, and surrendered the nation to the forces of secularism. The article notes that “Pope Leo” will visit “a much more secularized Spain” — but it does not identify the cause of this secularization. The cause is the conciliar sect itself, which for sixty years has systematically undermined the Catholic faith in Spain and throughout the world.
The “nearly 500,000” who have registered for this visit are not signs of Catholic vitality. They are signs of Catholic ignorance — the fruit of sixty years of modernist catechesis that has reduced the faith to a matter of “listening to others” and “rediscovering them” rather than the uncompromising preaching of the Gospel: “Repent, and believe in the Gospel” (Mark 1:15).
The Duty of the Faithful: Resistance, Not Participation
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith — who believe in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as offered in the Traditional Latin Rite, who believe in the Real Presence, who believe in the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, who believe in the social kingship of Christ — must have no part in this spectacle. To register for these events, to attend the “Masses,” to participate in the “processions,” to volunteer for the “listening centers” is to give material support to the conciliar sect and to participate in its acts of counterfeit worship.
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). The entire visit of Leo XIV to Spain is an act of reconciliation with the world — with secularism, with humanistic psychology, with corporate marketing, with the culture of indifference. It is the antithesis of the Catholic faith.
The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral faith, in the priests who offer the true Mass, in the bishops who have not bowed to Baal. The structures occupying the Vatican are the abomination of desolation. The half million who gather in Madrid and Barcelona will witness not the triumph of Christ the King, but the triumph of the conciliar revolution — the final stage of the apostasy foretold by St. Paul: “For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:3–4).
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
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Nearly 500,000 already signed up for main events of pope’s visit to Spain (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.05.2026