National Catholic Register reports that Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich has confirmed the itinerary for the apostolic journey of the usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV,” to France, scheduled for September 25–28, 2026. The journey will encompass Paris, Lourdes, and Metz — three destinations laden with symbolism, each revealing a different facet of the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of the Catholic faith. The announcement, made via social media by the French Bishops’ Conference and Archbishop Ulrich himself, promises five major gatherings, including vespers at Notre-Dame Cathedral, an encounter with young people, an open-air Mass in Paris, and Eucharistic celebrations at the Lourdes sanctuary and Metz Cathedral. The archbishop described the visit as “a source of comfort and encouragement for many” and called upon the faithful to prepare for “a true encounter that transcends our own boundaries.” Behind the veneer of pastoral language lies a meticulously orchestrated campaign of religious syncretism, false ecumenism, and the perpetuation of an illegitimate claim to the Chair of Peter — all of which demands ruthless exposure.
The Illegitimacy of the Usurper and the Nullity of His “Apostolic” Acts
Before examining the specific destinations and events of this journey, it is necessary to establish the foundational truth that renders every act of Robert Prevost null and void in the supernatural order: he is not the Pope of the Catholic Church. The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII — the Freemason Angelo Roncalli who convened the robber council of Vatican II — has produced nothing but manifest heretics and apostates who, by the very fact of their public defection from the Catholic faith, lost all jurisdiction over the Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches 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.” This is not a disciplinary opinion but a theological certainty confirmed by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers: St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, and St. Cyril of Alexandria all affirm that manifest heretics are deprived of all jurisdiction ipso facto, before any declaration by the Church, because “they have been condemned by their own judgment” (Titus 3:10-11).
The conciliar sect, from John XXIII through Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) to Francis (Bergoglio) and now Prevost, has consistently professed the heresies condemned by the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), the democratization of the Church (Lumen Gentium), and the naturalistic reduction of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to a mere “memorial meal” (the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI, the liturgical masterpiece of the apostate Annibale Bugnini, whose Masonic ties are well-documented). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law confirms that every ecclesiastical office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Prevost, who has publicly endorsed the conciliar revolution, participated in the Amazon Synod with its pagan rituals, and continues to occupy the structures of the abomination of desolation in the Vatican, is a manifest heretic and therefore possesses no authority whatsoever. His “apostolic journey” is not a papal visit but a tour of propaganda by the head of a paramasonic structure.
Notre-Dame: The Profaned Cathedral as Stage Set
The choice of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris as the venue for vespers on September 25 is rich with irony and significance. This cathedral, once a jewel of Catholic Christendom where the faithful gathered for the true Most Holy Sacrifice, was gutted by fire in April 2019 — an event that many faithful interpreted as a divine judgment upon the apostate French Church. The subsequent “restoration” has been marked by proposals to transform the interior into a “welcoming space” stripped of its Catholic identity, with suggestions to remove traditional pews and replace them with chairs, to install contemporary art installations, and to create an “immersive experience” more befitting a museum or entertainment venue than a house of God. The vespers presided over by Prevost in this profaned space will be a liturgical act within the conciliar rite — itself a departure from the immutable Roman Rite codified by St. Pius V after the Council of Trent, a rite that the Church has always taught is of divine origin in its substance and cannot be altered by human authority.
Archbishop Ulrich’s call for vespers to include “priests, deacons, consecrated religious, and seminarians from across France” reveals the comprehensive nature of the conciliar capture of the French clergy. These are not Catholic priests offering the true Sacrifice of the Mass but ministers of the Novus Ordo, many of whom have never even learned the Traditional Latin Mass. The “consecrated religious” are products of the post-conciliar dissolution of religious life, where the religious habit was abandoned, the Divine Office was gutted, and the pursuit of evangelical perfection was replaced by social activism and psychological self-help. The seminarians are formed in institutions that have systematically excluded the teaching of pre-conciliar theology, ensuring that each generation of “clergy” is more thoroughly modernist than the last. That this gathering is described as vespers — an office already stripped of its Catholic content in the post-conciliar breviary — rather than as the Most Holy Sacrifice, speaks volumes about the conciliar sect’s systematic de-emphasis of the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary.
The Encounter with Youth: Manufacturing the Next Generation of Apostates
The evening event with young people on September 25 follows the well-established pattern of the conciliar sect’s youth manipulation campaigns, perfected by Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II) at World Youth Day gatherings — events that functioned as massive exercises in emotional manipulation, rock-concert atmosphere, and the inculcation of a vague “spirituality” devoid of doctrinal content. These encounters never present the youth with the hard truths of the Catholic faith: the necessity of baptism for salvation, the reality of hell, the obligation to keep the commandments, the sinfulness of contraception and sodomy, the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church. Instead, they offer feel-good messages about “encounter,” “mercy,” and “accompaniment” — the hallmark vocabulary of the modernist heresy that reduces the Gospel to a program of humanitarian sentimentality.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned that “the seeds of discord sown everywhere, flames of envy and hostility have engulfed nations” precisely because “Jesus Christ and His most holy law” were removed from “customs, from private, family, and public life.” The conciliar sect’s youth policy is the direct fruit of this removal: by refusing to teach the youth the integral Catholic faith, they have produced generations ignorant of even the most basic truths of revelation. The “encounter” planned for Paris will perpetuate this spiritual genocide, offering young people the empty husk of a counterfeit religion while the true faith — the faith of their ancestors, the faith of the martyrs — is preserved only by the remnant who have rejected the conciliar apostasy.
The Open-Air Mass: Idolatry on Display
The open-air Mass in Paris on September 26 will be the centerpiece of the visit — a public celebration of the Novus Ordo Missae, the Protestantized liturgy composed by the heretical Consilium under Paul VI, which the Protestant observer Max Thurians himself admitted was crafted so that “nothing is there that cannot also be accepted by the Protestant understanding of the Eucharist.” This is not the Catholic Mass. The Traditional Latin Mass, as defined by the Council of Trent, is the true and propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary, offered by a validly ordained priest acting in persona Christi, using the matter and form prescribed by Christ Himself and codified by the Church. The Novus Ordo, with its vernacular canon, its facing the people, its elimination of prayers expressing the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice, its communion in the hand, and its general atmosphere of a communal meal, is at best of doubtful validity and at worst a sacrilegious parody that constitutes idolatry.
Archbishop Ulrich’s invitation to the faithful to attend “either by attending in person, if you are able, or through prayer” is a masterclass in conciliar doublespeak. He dares not call it the Most Holy Sacrifice. He dares not speak of the Real Presence in terms that would distinguish Catholic Eucharistic theology from Protestant memorialism. He dares not warn the faithful that receiving “Communion” in the conciar rite — from hands that may not even be validly consecrated, using a rite that may not even confect the Sacrament — constitutes, if not “just” sacrilege, then idolatry. The silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation that can be leveled against these men: they shepherd souls toward perdition while speaking only of “encounter” and “community.”
Lourdes: The False Sanctuary and the Manufacture of Consolation
The visit to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes on September 27 is perhaps the most revealing element of the entire itinerary. Lourdes, like Fatima, is one of the false apparitions that the conciliar sect has exploited to advance its modernist agenda. While the apparitions at Lourdes in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous have been approved by the local bishop, it must be remembered that private revelations, even approved ones, do not have the guarantee of the Church’s infallibility. The approval of Lourdes was a disciplinary act of the local ordinary, not a dogmatic definition, and the faithful are free to reject it without sin.
More importantly, the Lourdes of today bears no resemblance to the Lourdes of 1858. The sanctuary has been transformed into a vast commercial enterprise — a “spiritual theme park” complete with souvenir shops, hotels, and a medical bureau whose standards of “miracle” verification have been progressively relaxed to the point of meaninglessness. The “healings” at Lourdes are subjected to a medical examination that excludes any condition that could potentially resolve through natural means, yet the bureau continues to declare “unexplained” cures that serve the propaganda purposes of the conciliar sect. The water of Lourdes, which the visionary described as coming from a spring that appeared after the Blessed Virgin’s instruction, is now sold commercially and distributed through a global network of “Lourdes water” vendors — a grotesque commercialization of what is presented as a supernatural gift.
The conciliar sect’s promotion of Lourdes serves a specific theological purpose: it diverts attention from the true sources of supernatural grace — the sacraments validly administered, the true Most Holy Sacrifice, the prayers of the Church in her immutable liturgy — and redirects devotion toward spectacular phenomena and emotional experiences. This is the hallmark of false mysticism, condemned repeatedly by the authentic Magisterium. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, warned against the modernist tendency to seek religious experience in subjective feelings rather than in objective truth. The Lourdes pilgrimage of Prevost will be a spectacle of false consolation, offering the faithful the warmth of emotional religion while withholding the cold, hard truths of Catholic doctrine.
Furthermore, the choice of Lourdes over — for example — a visit to the tomb of St. Martin of Tours, or the cathedral of Chartres, or any of the countless authentic Catholic sites in France, reveals the conciliar sect’s preference for the spectacular over the substantial, the emotional over the doctrinal, the modern over the traditional. The “Eucharist” celebrated at Lourdes will be the Novus Ordo, offered in a sanctuary that has become a monument to the conciar religion of sentimentality.
Metz: The Final Act of a Counterfeit Pontificate
The Mass at Metz Cathedral on September 28 will conclude the journey in a city with deep Catholic roots — Metz was the seat of one of the oldest bishoprics in France, and its cathedral, dedicated to St. Stephen, contains magnificent stained glass windows that once taught the faith to illiterate congregations. But the Metz of today is a city where the conciliar sect has effectively destroyed Catholic practice: Mass attendance has collapsed, churches stand empty, and the “clergy” who remain are largely elderly men formed in the immediate post-conciliar period, ministering to a dwindling flock that has been systematically deprived of sound doctrine.
The Mass at Metz will be yet another celebration of the Novus Ordo, yet another opportunity for the usurper to present himself as the “successor of Peter” before cameras that will broadcast the images worldwide. The French Bishops’ Conference, which announced the itinerary via social media, is a body composed entirely of bishops who have accepted the conciliar revolution — men who have implemented Vatican II’s destructive reforms in their dioceses, who have closed parishes and demolished churches, who have promoted interreligious dialogue with Islam and Judaism at the expense of the Church’s exclusive claim to truth. Their “joy” at the announcement of this visit is the joy of apostates who see their revolution validated by the presence of its supreme representative.
The Language of Apostasy: A Linguistic Analysis
The language employed by Archbishop Ulrich and the French Bishops’ Conference in announcing this visit is itself a textbook example of modernist rhetoric. Consider the following phrases and their true meaning:
“A source of comfort and encouragement for many” — This is the language of therapy, not of theology. The Catholic faith is not primarily a source of “comfort” but a demand for conversion, penance, and the acceptance of hard truths. The conciliar sect has replaced the Gospel of the Cross with the gospel of self-esteem.
“Pastoral and fatherly care” — The usurper is not a father but a destroyer. True pastoral care involves warning the faithful about sin, heresy, and the danger of damnation. The “fatherly care” of the conciar sect consists in telling people what they want to hear — that God loves them as they are, that all paths lead to salvation, that the Church must “adapt” to the modern world.
“A true encounter that transcends our own boundaries” — This is the language of false ecumenism, condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos and by the Syllabus of Errors (proposition 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). The “boundaries” to be transcended are the boundaries of Catholic truth — the dogmas that distinguish the true Church from false religions. The conciar sect seeks not to convert but to “encounter,” not to teach but to “dialogue,” not to save but to “accompany.”
“United behind the bishops in full communion with the successor of Peter” — This is perhaps the most brazen falsehood in the entire announcement. There is no “successor of Peter” in the Vatican. The Chair of Peter is vacant — sedevacantist — and has been since at least the death of Pius XII in 1958. The “bishops” of the French Bishops’ Conference are not Catholic bishops in the true sense but officials of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the physical buildings and institutional apparatus of the Church while emptying them of Catholic content. To be “united” with them is to be united with apostasy.
“Faithful joy in the Lord’s Gospel” — The “Gospel” of the conciliar sect is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ but the “gospel” of the United Nations: human rights, religious liberty, environmentalism, and global governance. Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, proposition 80). The “joy” of the French bishops is the joy of those who have made their peace with the world at the expense of their fidelity to God.
The Primacy of Christ the King: The Doctrine They Dare Not Mention
Nowhere in the announcement of this apostolic journey is there any mention of the most fundamental truth about the social order: Jesus Christ is King of all nations, and all nations are obligated to publicly acknowledge His reign. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught with absolute clarity that “the Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men” and that “it matters not whether individuals, families, or states, for men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” He further declared that “rulers of states” have the duty to “publicly honor Christ and obey Him” and that the state must order “all relations” on the basis of “God’s commandments and Christian principles, both in the issuing of laws and in the administration of justice, as well as in the education and formation of youth.”
France, once the eldest daughter of the Church, has long since repudiated this truth. The French Revolution of 1789 — a Masonic operation if ever there was one — severed the bond between the French state and Christ the King, establishing the laicism that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.” The subsequent history of France — the separation of Church and State in 1905, the legalization of abortion, the promotion of homosexual “marriage,” the Islamification of entire suburbs — is the predictable fruit of this apostasy. The visit of the usurper to France will do nothing to reverse this apostasy because the conciliar sect itself is the primary agent of apostasy within the structures of the Church. The “open-air Mass” in Paris will be celebrated in a country where the public reign of Christ the King has been replaced by the reign of secular humanism — and the conciar sect has not merely tolerated this situation but actively promoted it through its doctrine of religious liberty and its abandonment of the Church’s missionary mandate to convert all nations to Catholicism.
The Financial Dimension: Funding the Apostasy
Archbishop Ulrich’s request for “financial support to help welcome the many pilgrims” deserves scrutiny. The conciliar sect has demonstrated a remarkable ability to raise funds for its propaganda events while allowing authentic Catholic institutions — monasteries, seminaries, schools — to languish in poverty. The money collected for this visit will fund the logistics of a modernist spectacle: stage construction, sound systems, security, transportation, and the global media coverage that will present the usurper as the legitimate head of the Catholic Church. Every euro donated to this cause is a euro diverted from the true work of the Church — the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass, the formation of priests in authentic Catholic theology, and the support of the faithful who have been abandoned by the conciliar structures.
The faithful are urged instead to direct their resources toward the true Church — the remnant that preserves the integral Catholic faith, the true sacraments, and the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This means supporting traditional chapels, independent seminaries, and the families who are raising their children in the faith without the “comfort and encouragement” of the conciliar sect.
Conclusion: The Abyss Stares Back
The apostolic journey of Robert Prevost to France in September 2026 is not a pastoral visit but a propaganda exercise by the head of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958. Every element of the itinerary — the profaned Notre-Dame, the manipulated youth, the open-air Novus Ordo, the commercialized Lourdes, the empty Metz Cathedral — reveals a different facet of the conciar apostasy. The language of “encounter,” “comfort,” and “unity” is the language of a counterfeit religion that has replaced the hard truths of Catholicism with the soft lies of modernism.
The faithful must reject this visit in its entirety. They must refuse to attend, refuse to pray for the usurper, and refuse to contribute financially to his propaganda. They must instead redouble their commitment to the true faith — the faith of the Fathers, the faith of the Council of Trent, the faith of St. Pius X, the faith of Quas Primas and the Syllabus of Errors. They must pray for the restoration of the true papacy, the condemnation of the conciliar heresies, and the return of France — and all nations — to the public reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King. As Pius XI declared: “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.” Until this truth is acknowledged — in Rome, in Paris, and in every nation on earth — there can be no true peace, no true order, and no true salvation. The usurper’s journey to France is a journey into the abyss, and the faithful must have no part in it.
Source:
Itinerary Confirmed for Pope Leo XIV’s Trip to France: Paris, Lourdes, and Metz (ncregister.com)
Date: 10.06.2026