EWTN News reports that on May 31, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost — who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV” — addressed pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, declaring that the mystery of the Trinity teaches that “every creature is made for communion, relationship and encounter,” and warning against “division, polarization and contempt for diversity.” He further described the Church as “a sacrament of communion, a place of encounter, love and life where heaven and earth already touch,” and concluded with a generic plea for “a just and lasting peace.” This discourse, stripped of every supernatural note — the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of conversion, the reality of sin, the obligation of nations to submit to the Social Reign of Our Lord — is not Catholic theology but the distilled religion of the conciliar sect: horizontal, naturalistic, and functionally indistinguishable from Masonic universalism.
A God Without a Kingdom: The Trinity Amputated of Royal Dignity
When Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in Quas Primas (1925), he did so precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The encyclical is unequivocal: “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 Pope-King “is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience” and possesses “executive power, for all must obey His commands, and this under the threat of announced punishments, which the obstinate cannot escape.”
Leo XIV’s discourse on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity — a dogma that, as Pius XI taught, rests on the consubstantiation of the Incarnate Word with the Father affirmed at Nicaea — contains not a single mention of the Kingship of Christ, not a single reference to the obedience nations owe Him, not a word about the final judgment. The Trinity, for this usurper, is reduced to a vague principle of “communion” and “encounter.” This is not Catholic theology. This is the amputation of the Faith: a God who loves but does not command, who communes but does not judge, who encounters but does not reign.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). Leo XIV’s entire pontifical career is the living embodiment of this condemned proposition — not because he seeks the Church’s independence from the state, but because he has reduced the Church to a humanitarian NGO indistinguishable from the United Nations, praying for “peace” without demanding that nations recognize Christ the King.
“Every Creature Is Made for Communion”: Religious Relativism Dressed as Theology
The statement that “every creature is made for communion, relationship and encounter” is, in itself, a truism so vague as to be meaningless — or, more precisely, so ambiguous as to be heretical. In what communion? Through what means? Under whose authority?
The Catholic answer is clear: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Communion is only possible through the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation — a dogma defined by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Council of Florence, and repeated by every Pope until the conciliar revolution. Pius IX condemned the error that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16 of the Syllabus), and that “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” (Proposition 18).
Leo XIV’s language of “communion” without the Church, “encounter” without conversion, and “love” without truth is the very language of the post-conciliar ecumenism condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. When the usurper speaks of “every creature” being made for communion, he implicitly places all religions, all ideologies, and all errors on the same plane — the plane of “encounter” — thereby denying the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church.
This is the religion of the Antichrist: a universal communion without the Cross, without the Sacraments, without the Magisterium — a “heaven and earth already touching” that is nothing other than the eschatological parody of the heavenly Jerusalem, the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
Nicodemus and the Spirit of “Communion”: A Modernist Patristic Reading
Leo XIV’s treatment of the encounter between Christ and Nicodemus (John 3) is a textbook example of the Modernist method condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907). The usurper says Jesus “welcomed him and took his search for answers seriously,” and that Nicodemus “had received the Spirit of communion from God through Christ himself, which opens the heart to new truths and to true renewal.”
St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition that “the Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Proposition 6), and that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Leo XIV’s reading of Nicodemus — a figure who comes “at night,” i.e., in spiritual darkness, and who Christ immediately tells “unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) — is inverted. For the usurper, Nicodemus represents the noble seeker, welcomed in his darkness, led gently to “new truths.” For the Church, Nicodemus represents the proud Pharisee who must be told the truth without compromise: “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” (John 3:12).
The Modernist method is precisely this: to transform the supernatural encounter between God and man into a horizontal dialogue of mutual enrichment, where Christ “takes seriously” man’s search rather than demanding submission to divine authority. St. Pius X identified this as the essence of Modernism: “the synthesis of all heresies.”
“Division, Polarization, Contempt for Diversity”: The Liberal Gospel of the Conciliar Sect
Leo XIV warns against “division, polarization and contempt for diversity” as forces that “bring destruction, sadness and barrenness to the world.” This language is not Catholic. It is the language of secular liberalism, transplanted into a liturgical setting.
The Catholic Church has never condemned “diversity” as such — she has condemned error. Pius IX’s Syllabus is a catalogue of condemned errors, not a celebration of “diversity of opinion.” The Church has always taught that “truth changes with man” is a heresy (Proposition 58 of Lamentabili), and that the duty of the Magisterium is to define, to condemn, and to exclude — not to “welcome” and “take seriously” every searching soul.
When the usurper warns against “contempt for diversity,” he is implicitly condemning the Church’s historic practice of identifying and excluding heresy. The Church does not “welcome diversity” — she welcomes sinners, whom she then commands to repent and believe the one truth revealed by God. The conflation of “diversity of belief” with “diversity of persons” is a rhetorical trick designed to make doctrinal clarity appear as personal uncharity.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, identified the root of the world’s ills not in “polarization” but in the fact that “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” The remedy is not “communion” but obedience. The usurper offers the disease as the cure.
The Suppression of the Supernatural: No Sin, No Judgment, No Sacraments
The most damning feature of Leo XIV’s discourse is what it omits. In an address on the Most Holy Trinity — the central mystery of the Christian faith — delivered from the window of the Apostolic Palace on a solemnity, there is:
- No mention of sin — the reality that separates man from the Trinity.
- No mention of repentance — the condition for entering the Kingdom.
- No mention of the sacraments — the means by which the life of the Trinity is communicated to souls.
- No mention of the Church as the one true ark of salvation.
- No mention of the final judgment — when Christ will render to each according to his works.
- No mention of the Social Kingship of Christ — the very reason the feast of Christ the King exists.
This is not an oversight. It is the systematic suppression of the supernatural that defines the conciliar sect. A “Trinity” that does not judge, that does not save through the Church alone, that does not demand the submission of nations, is not the Trinity of the Catholic Faith — it is the idol of the New Religion, a god made in the image of liberal humanitarianism.
Pius IX wrote in Qui pluribus (1846): “We must solemnly profess that there is one true God, one true faith, one true Church outside of which there is no salvation.” Leo XIV’s Trinity is a Trinity without a Church, without a judgment, without a Cross — and therefore without a Resurrection.
The Angelus of May: Prayers for Peace Without the Queen of Peace
The usurper recalls that “in this month of May, a united chorus of prayers for peace has resounded throughout the Church” and that “the peoples ravaged by war have been entrusted to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.” He asks that “Divine Wisdom enlighten the consciences of those in authority and guide their decisions toward a sincere search for a just and lasting peace.”
This is the language of the United Nations, not of the Church. The Catholic understanding of peace is defined by Pius XI: “the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.” There is no true peace without the recognition of Christ the King by individuals, families, and states. Pius XI explicitly stated: “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.”
The usurper prays for “peace” while the structures he occupies have systematically dismantled the very means of peace: the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, the recognition of Christ’s social kingship. A “peace” that does not flow from the Kingdom of Christ is not peace but the “false peace” warned of by Our Lord: “Think not that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34) — the sword of truth that divides error from truth, the Church from the world, the faithful from the apostate.
Conclusion: The Religion of the Antichurch
Leo XIV’s Angelus address of May 31, 2026, is a perfect specimen of the religion of the conciliar sect: a “Trinity” that communes but does not command, a “Church” that encounters but does not exclude, a “peace” that is sought without the King of Peace, and a “love” that is extended without the Cross. It is, in the words of St. Pius X, the “synthesis of all errors” — Modernism — now so advanced that it no longer even bothers to disguise itself as Catholicism.
The faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the unchanging Magisterium, of the Council of Trent, of Quas Primas, of the Syllabus, of Lamentabili — must recognize these discourses for what they are: not the voice of Peter, but the voice of the usurper; not the voice of the Church, but the voice of the “synagogue of Satan” that Pius IX warned occupies the highest places. The true Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — reigns from the Cross, saves through the Church, and will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. No discourse from the Apostolic Palace that omits these truths can be anything other than a blasphemous parody of the Faith.
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Pope Leo XIV: The Trinity teaches that every creature is made for communion (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.05.2026