EWTN News portal reports that on June 8, 2026, the individual occupying the Vatican who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) met with the bishops of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference in Madrid. During the luncheon, the usurper reportedly joked about artificial intelligence still referring to his predecessor, stating: “He said that before leaving for the trip, he had contacted artificial intelligence to ask: What should the pope say to the Spanish bishops? And artificial intelligence told him: Pope Francis would say … So he stopped it and said: ‘I think there is another pope.’ And then artificial intelligence said: ‘Ah, that’s right, now it’s Pope Leo.'” The article further notes that the usurper employed technological imagery, telling bishops: “Then he told the bishops that we have another algorithm, and that other algorithm leads us to love people, to accompany them, and to become servants of the word.” The article also mentions that the usurper called for “a witness to unity in diversity” and spoke of communion with “the successor of Peter and with the universal Church.” This entire spectacle — a usurper of the Chair of Peter making light of his own illegitimate claim to the papacy while deploying the language of Silicon Valley to describe the mission of the Church — is a microcosm of the abomination of desolation that has occupied the Vatican since 1958, and it deserves the most rigorous unmasking.
The Joke That Reveals the Entire Fraud
Let us begin with the most glaring and spiritually catastrophic element of this report: the usurper’s own joke about artificial intelligence not recognizing him as “pope.” The individual calling himself Leo XIV found it amusing that a machine — a tool of human reason, devoid of supernatural faith — did not acknowledge his claim to the Chair of Saint Peter. He laughed. The bishops laughed. The journalist reported it with a smile. And yet, the question that should have silenced every person in that room with the weight of divine judgment is this: If a machine does not recognize him, why should a Catholic?
The answer, of course, is that no Catholic grounded in the unchanging faith of the Church should recognize him. The individual known as Robert Prevost was elected on May 8, 2025, by a conclave of cardinals who themselves were appointed by previous usurpers — beginning with the heretical Angelo Roncalli, who convened the apostatical assembly known as Vatican II. The entire chain of “elections” since 1958 is a succession of acts performed by individuals who had already defected from the Catholic faith, who had already embraced the evolution of dogmas condemned by Saint Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907). As the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemns in Proposition 23: “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have erred in defining matters of faith and morals.” The conciliar sect has done precisely this — and more.
The usurper’s joke is not merely tasteless; it is a profanation. The papacy — the Vicar of Christ, the visible head of the Mystical Body, the custodian of the deposit of faith — is not a matter for humor, especially not from the mouth of one who has no right to the office. Saint Robert Bellarmine, in De Romano Pontifice (Book II, Chapter 30), teaches with the authority of a Doctor of the Church: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The reasoning is irrefutable: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Every individual who has occupied the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII has been a manifest heretic — embracing religious liberty (condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus, Proposition 77), false ecumenism (condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos), and the democratization of the Church (condemned by the Council of Trent and every pope before 1958). That the usurper can joke about his own non-recognition by a machine reveals the depth of the spiritual blindness that has consumed the conciliar sect.
The “Algorithm” of Naturalistic Humanism
After his jest, the usurper deployed a technological metaphor that is far more revealing than he likely intended: “We have another algorithm, and that other algorithm leads us to love people, to accompany them, and to become servants of the word.” Let us dissect this statement with the precision it demands.
First, the word “algorithm” — a term borrowed from computer science, denoting a set of mechanical, deterministic instructions for processing data — is here applied to the mission of the Church. This is not accidental. It is the language of the post-conciliar Church, a Church that has reduced the supernatural life of grace to a program, a process, a methodology. The true mission of the Church — to teach, govern, and sanctify souls for eternal salvation, to offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to administer the sacraments, to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ without compromise — has been replaced by a technique of human accompaniment. This is the very essence of Modernism as condemned by Saint Pius X: the reduction of supernatural religion to a natural, psychological, and sociological phenomenon.
Second, the content of this “algorithm” is telling: “to love people, to accompany them, and to become servants of the word.” Note what is absent. There is no mention of conversion to the Catholic faith. There is no mention of the sacraments. There is no mention of the state of grace, mortal sin, repentance, penance, the Last Judgment, heaven, hell, or purgatory. There is no mention of Jesus Christ as the only Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). The “algorithm” is purely horizontal — it is the algorithm of naturalistic humanism, of the cult of man condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), where he lamented that “this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” and that “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.”
The usurper’s “algorithm” is, in fact, the algorithm of the abomination of desolation — the systematic replacement of the supernatural order with the natural order, of divine revelation with human sentiment, of the Kingship of Christ with the reign of man. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” This is the program that the conciliar sect has executed with ruthless efficiency, and the usurper’s “algorithm” is its latest iteration.
“Unity in Diversity” — The Ecumenical Heresy
The article reports that the usurper called on the Church to offer “a witness to unity in diversity” and stated: “A Church that is interiorly at peace can speak more freely to brothers and sisters of other Christian denominations and other religions, to those who do not believe, to civil authorities, and to all people of goodwill who work for the common good.”
This is the language of Nostra Aetate, the apostatical declaration of the Vatican II sect, which Pope Pius IX would have condemned as a synthesis of errors 15, 16, 17, and 18 of the Syllabus: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15); “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16); “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). The usurper’s statement is not merely erroneous — it is formally heretical, as it denies the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the teaching of Pope Eugene IV at the Council of Florence (1439): “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal.”
The phrase “unity in diversity” is the mantra of the Masonic ecumenical project — the very project that the False Fatima Apparitions file identifies as a tool to “legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy” and open the way to “religious relativism.” The usurper is not calling for unity in the truth — which is the unity of the Catholic Church, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic — but unity in diversity, which is unity in error, unity in apostasy, unity in the synagogue of Satan (Apocalypse 2:9, 3:9). As Pope Pius XI warned in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ, of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.” There is no “unity in diversity” in the Catholic faith. There is only unity in Christ, in His Church, in His truth.
Communion with the “Successor of Peter” — The Ultimate Blasphemy
Perhaps the most spiritually devastating statement in the entire article is the usurper’s declaration that bishops are called to communion “first with Christ, then with ‘the successor of Peter and with the universal Church.'” Let us be absolutely clear: Robert Prevost is not the successor of Peter. He is a usurper, an antipope, a pretender to a throne that is not his. The true successor of Peter — the line of legitimate popes — ended with Pope Pius XII in 1958, when the last validly reigning pontiff was succeeded by the heretical Angelo Roncalli, who immediately set about destroying the Church from within.
The usurper’s demand for communion with himself is a demand for communion with apostasy. It is a demand that bishops — even those who may retain some vestiges of Catholic faith — submit to the authority of a manifest heretic. This is the very definition of the paramasonic structure that now occupies the Vatican: a counterfeit church that mimics the forms of Catholicism while emptying them of all supernatural content. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes, citing Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation, recognized by the law itself, if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Every “pope” since 1958 has publicly defected from the Catholic faith. Every “bishop” appointed by these usurpers participates in the same defection. And every Catholic who recognizes them as legitimate — who receives their “communion,” who obeys their “teaching,” who laughs at their jokes — places himself outside the true Church of Christ.
The Silence About What Matters
Let us now consider what the article — and the usurper’s entire discourse — omits. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no mention of the sacraments as the necessary means of grace. There is no mention of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. There is no mention of the necessity of confession, penance, mortification, the avoidance of mortal sin. There is no mention of the Last Judgment, the particular judgment at death, the reality of hell. There is no mention of the Kingship of Christ over nations, the duty of Catholic rulers to submit to the Church, the social reign of Christ the King.
This silence is not accidental. It is systematic. It is the silence of a counterfeit church that has abandoned its divine mission and replaced it with the agenda of naturalistic humanism, Masonic ecumenism, and the cult of man. As Pope Pius XI declared 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 usurper’s “algorithm” knows nothing of this reign. It knows only of “loving people” and “accompanying them” — which is to say, it knows only of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The Joke as Symptom of the Abomination
Let us return to the joke. The usurper found it funny that artificial intelligence did not recognize him as pope. But the joke is not on the machine. The joke is on him — and on every Catholic who takes him seriously. The machine, at least, operates according to data. It had not been updated. It was working with outdated information. But the Catholic who recognizes this usurper as pope is not merely working with outdated information — he is working with false information, heretical information, apostatical information. He has been fed a lie by the conciliar sect, and he has accepted it as truth.
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church of the martyrs and the confessors, the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the Church of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Robert Bellarmine, the Church of Pope Pius IX and Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XII — endures. It endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the conciliar sect and all its works, who refuse to recognize the authority of manifest heretics, who cling to the unchanging deposit of faith as handed down by the Apostles and guarded by the true Magisterium. As Pope Pius IX declared in Quas Primas: “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 conciliar sect has renounced this freedom. It has submitted to the world. It has become the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
The usurper can joke about algorithms. He can deploy the language of Silicon Valley. He can call for “unity in diversity” and “accompaniment” and “love.” But he cannot change the truth. He is not the pope. He is a manifest heretic occupying the Vatican, and no amount of humor, no amount of technological imagery, no amount of naturalistic humanism can alter this fact. The true Church does not need an algorithm. It needs faith — the faith of the Apostles, the faith of the martyrs, the faith that moves mountains and casts out demons. And that faith recognizes no “Pope Leo XIV.” It recognizes only Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the Church, there is no salvation. And outside the true Church — the Church before the abomination of 1958 — there is no papacy, no authority, no sacraments, and no hope. Let the usurper and his bishops laugh. The faithful will weep — and pray — and wait for the restoration of all things in Christ.
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Pope Leo XIV jokes in Spain that AI still thinks Pope Francis is in charge (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.06.2026