EWTN News reports that the Augustinian community in Spain eagerly awaits the visit of Robert Prevost, the individual occupying the Vatican under the name Leo XIV, scheduled for June. The article celebrates this “pontificate” and details the organizational efforts of various Augustinian subgroups to welcome him, framing the event as a moment of joy and spiritual significance for the “Augustinian family.”
The Cult of the Occupant: A Ceremony of Apostasy
The very premise of this article is an affront to the Catholic faith. It presents the visit of Robert Prevost — a man who illegitimately occupies the Chair of Peter and propagates the modernist errors of Vatican II — as a cause for celebration and spiritual anticipation. The Augustinian community in Spain, like the entire conciliar sect, has succumbed to the great apostasy. Their eagerness to welcome Leo XIV demonstrates their complete separation from the true Church, which has been usurped by these enemies of Christ.
As Pope Pius XI unequivocally taught in Quas Primas, “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar structures, by rejecting the social reign of Christ the King and embracing religious liberty, have placed themselves outside the bounds of Catholic society.
The Heresy of Automatic Loss of Office
According to immutable Catholic doctrine, a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught in De Romano Pontifice, “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.” This is not merely a disciplinary position but a theological certainty grounded in the very nature of the Church.
Robert Prevost, like his predecessors from John XXIII onward, has publicly professed and promoted heresies condemned by the perennial Magisterium: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the novelties of the Novus Ordo Missae. These doctrines are directly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (propositions 77-80), which anathematizes the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
Furthermore, Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law explicitly states that every office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The post-conciliar occupants of the Vatican have done precisely this, thereby vacating any claim to authority over the faithful.
The Augustinian Province: A Missionary Enterprise Corrupted
The article proudly details the international reach of the Augustinian province of San Juan de Sahagún, noting its presence in 14 countries across multiple continents. While missionary work is indeed a glorious aspect of the Church’s mission, the conciliar understanding of “evangelization” has been fundamentally corrupted.
Instead of the Church’s traditional mandate to convert nations to the Catholic faith — as Christ commanded: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19) — the post-conciliar missionary enterprise has been reduced to social work and interreligious dialogue. The article mentions the Missionaries of Charity providing meals in Barcelona, a naturalistic activity that, while perhaps materially beneficial, lacks the supernatural purpose of saving souls through conversion to the true faith.
As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, the Church’s mission is to lead all to eternal happiness, not merely to temporal comfort. The reduction of the Church’s mission to charitable works divorced from the explicit preaching of Catholic dogma is a betrayal of the divine commission.
The Educational Apostate: Schools Without the Faith
The article notes that the Spanish Augustinians operate 17 schools and three university residential colleges, serving nearly 18,000 students. However, in the post-conciliar context, these institutions no longer function as Catholic schools in the true sense. They have succumbed to the errors condemned by Pope Pius IX, who in the Syllabus of Errors (proposition 47) condemned the idea that “popular schools open to children of every class of the people… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference.”
The “pastoral teams” mentioned in the article, comprising both religious and lay members, are characteristic of the democratization of the Church that followed Vatican II. This horizontalization of authority contradicts the hierarchical constitution of the Church established by Christ Himself, who appointed Peter and the Apostles as the governing body, not a committee of laypeople.
The Ecumenical Pilgrimage: Gathering of the Apostates
The article describes how the events surrounding Leo XIV’s visit are being organized in collaboration with various Augustinian subgroups: Augustinian Recollects, Discalced Augustinians, Assumptionist Augustinians, and others, bringing together approximately 8,000 pilgrims. This ecumenical gathering of different “Augustinian families” mirrors the broader ecumenical project of the conciliar sect, which seeks unity not in the truth of Catholic doctrine but in organizational cooperation.
As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (proposition 18), “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” — a proposition condemned as heretical. The false ecumenism practiced by the concilar structures is built upon this very error, treating all religious communities as equally valid expressions of Christian life.
The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The private meeting between Leo XIV and the Augustinian delegation at the apostolic nunciature in Madrid represents the continuation of the systematic occupation of Catholic institutions by modernist usurpers. The nunciature, which should represent the authority of the true Pope, instead serves as a stage for the antipope’s activities.
As Our Lord warned: “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)” (Matthew 24:15). The conciliar sect, with its false doctrines and invalid sacraments, constitutes precisely this abomination — a desolation of the true Catholic faith that has taken hold of the structures that once belonged to the Church.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures
The celebration of Leo XIV’s visit by the Augustinian community in Spain is yet another manifestation of the great apostasy that has engulfed the conciliar structures. These events, presented as moments of spiritual joy and renewal, are in reality ceremonies of apostasy that demonstrate the complete separation of the neo-church from the true Catholic faith.
The faithful who remain steadfast in the integral Catholic faith — rejecting the modernist errors of Vatican II and the authority of the antipopes who have usurped the Chair of Peter — constitute the true Church of Christ. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (proposition 24), “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” — yet she possesses the spiritual authority to teach, govern, and sanctify, which the conciliar structures have abandoned.
Let the faithful reject the false celebrations of the antipope and remain firm in the unchanging doctrine of the Catholic Church, which endures despite the machinations of the enemies within. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation, and the conciliar sect, having separated itself from the true faith, can offer only the false promises of a counterfeit Christianity.
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Augustinian community in Spain eagerly awaits Pope Leo XIV’s visit (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.05.2026