VaticanNews portal reports on June 12, 2026, that during the final leg of his so-called “Apostolic Journey” to Spain, the usurper antipope Robert Prevost — styling himself “Pope Leo XIV” — visited the Las Raíces migrant reception centre on the island of Tenerife, where he was “visibly moved” by encounters with migrants arriving via the Atlantic route. Francesco Navarro, regional manager of the Spanish NGO ACCEM, which operates the centre on behalf of the Spanish state, described the organization’s work providing shelter, medical care, trauma counseling, legal assistance, language instruction, and “educational sessions” to adult male migrants predominantly from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, and other African nations. Navarro emphasized ACCEM’s mission to combat the “stigmatization” and “criminalization” of migration and to promote societal “understanding,” noting the general hospitality of Canary Islanders and cooperation with local authorities. The event is presented by VaticanNews as a pastoral encounter embodying the promotion of “human dignity.” What the article meticulously conceals — and what demands ruthless exposure — is that this entire spectacle is a masterclass in naturalistic humanitarianism masquerading as Catholic pastoral care, performed by a man who occupies the See of Peter without legitimate authority, promoting a vision of “dignity” stripped of its supernatural foundation, while the true Church languishes in exile, deprived of her sacraments, her liturgy, and her divinely ordained mission of salvation.
The Usurper on Tour: An Antipope’s “Apostolic Journey” as a Pageant of Naturalism
Let us begin with the foundational fact that VaticanNews and its accomplices are determined to obscure: the man who visited Las Raíces is not the Pope. He is Robert Prevost, an antipope — a usurper who occupies the structures of the Holy See without possessing legitimate authority, just as the line of usurpers began with John XXIII and the catastrophic conciliar revolution that followed. The very phrase “Apostolic Journey” is a grotesque parody. Apostolicus — belonging to the Apostles, to the mission docere, sanctificare, regere (to teach, to sanctify, to govern) — presupposes a valid successor of Peter, which Prevost is not. His “journey” to Tenerife is not a pastoral visitation of the Church’s faithful; it is a media event staged by the conciliar sect, designed to project an image of compassionate global citizenship while the true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that teaches, sanctifies, and governs with the authority of Christ — suffers in the catacombs.
The article describes the Las Raíces centre as “the first point of call for the state’s asylum system,” run not by the Church but by ACCEM, a secular non-profit organization operating under state mandate. This is not incidental. It is the entire point. The conciliar sect has long since abandoned any pretense of supernatural mission. Its “pastoral care” is indistinguishable from the humanitarian programming of the United Nations or any secular NGO. The centre provides shelter, clothing, hygiene products, medical screening, trauma counseling, legal aid, workshops, and Spanish language instruction. Every single one of these activities is, in itself, a temporal good — but not one of them has anything to do with the salvation of souls, the administration of the sacraments, the preaching of the Gospel, or the conversion of infidels to the Catholic Faith. This is naturalistic humanitarianism in its purest form: the reduction of the Church’s mission to social work, performed under the banner of “human dignity” by men who have abandoned the supernatural order entirely.
“Human Dignity” Without God: The Modernist Abstraction
The article’s central ideological pillar is the phrase “promoting human dignity,” lifted directly from the title and presented as self-evidently good. But what does “human dignity” mean in the mouth of the conciliar sect? It means nothing supernatural. It means nothing rooted in the imago Dei as understood by the Church for two millennia — man created by God, elevated to the supernatural order by sanctifying grace, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ, and destined for eternal beatitude. In Catholic teaching, human dignity is inseparable from man’s ordo ad Deum — his ordering toward God as his final end.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught with crystalline clarity: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its kind, and each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” Human dignity, in the Catholic understanding, is not an autonomous secular value; it is a dignity conferred by God, protected by His law, and perfected by grace. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), proclaimed the Social Kingship of Christ precisely because “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 dignity of man is the dignity of a creature who belongs to Christ the King — and who is bound to obey His law, receive His sacraments, and submit to His Church.
What Prevost promotes at Las Raíces is the precise opposite: a “dignity” divorced from Christ, divorced from the Church, divorced from the sacraments, divorced from the supernatural order. It is the “dignity” of the Declaration of the Rights of Man — the dignity of the French Revolution, condemned by Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794). It is the “dignity” of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a Masonic document that Pius XI would have recognized as the fruit of the very secularism he condemned in Quas Primas. When the antipope speaks of “human dignity” without mentioning God, without mentioning sin, without mentioning the necessity of baptism, without mentioning the obligation of nations to submit to the Social Reign of Christ the King, he speaks the language of the abomination of desolation — the neo-church that has replaced the worship of God with the worship of man.
The Omission That Condemns: No Baptism, No Catechism, No Conversion
Let us examine what is not in this article — for in the conciliar sect, silence about supernatural matters is the most damning indictment of all.
The article describes migrants from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, and Nigeria. These are nations where Islam is the dominant religion. A significant proportion of these men are Muslims. Others practice animism or various syncretist blends. The article mentions medical screening, trauma counseling, legal aid, language classes, and “workshops.” Not a single word is mentioned about baptism. Not a single word about catechesis. Not a single word about the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith for salvation. Not a single word about the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Not a single word about confession, communion, confirmation, or any sacrament whatsoever.
This is not an oversight. It is the systematic program of the conciliar revolution. The Church’s mission, as defined by Christ Himself, is euntes, docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos — “Going, teach all nations, baptizing them” (Matthew 28:19). The Church exists to make disciples of all nations — not to provide them with hygiene products and Spanish lessons while leaving them in their infidelity. The Council of Florence (1442), in Cantate Domino, defined infallibly: “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; but that they will go to the ‘eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Matthew 25:41), unless before the end of their lives they are joined with Her.”
What does Prevost do at Las Raíces? He provides temporal comfort to men who, in the overwhelming majority, are outside the Church and in danger of eternal damnation — and he does not even mention the one thing that could save their souls. This is not charity. This is the abdication of charity. True charity — caritas — is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor for the sake of God. It is ordered toward the salvation of souls. To feed a man’s body while ignoring the eternal peril of his soul is not charity; it is cruelty dressed in the garments of sentimentality. St. James teaches: “If a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food, and one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled, yet give them not those things that are needful to the body, what doth it profit?” (James 2:15-16). How much more does it profit to give a man a bed and a Spanish lesson while telling him nothing about the God Who died for him?
Francesco Navarro and the Gospel of “Anti-Stigmatization”
Francesco Navarro, the ACCEM regional manager, is quoted at length explaining that his organization is “keen to promote understanding in society and that migration should never be stigmatized or criminalized.” He describes the Canary Islanders as “generally hospitable” and notes cooperation with local authorities. This language — “stigmatization,” “criminalization,” “understanding” — is the vocabulary of contemporary globalist ideology, not of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has never taught that migration is an absolute right, nor that nations are obliged to receive unlimited numbers of foreigners. The Church has always taught that political authority — potestas — is ordained by God for the common good of the community, and that rulers have the right and duty to regulate immigration in accordance with the welfare of their own people. Pius XII, in his famous Christmas radio message of 1948, spoke of migration as a natural right under certain conditions — but always within the framework of the common good, the rights of nations, and the supernatural order. The Church has never taught that opposition to mass migration is “stigmatization” or “criminalization” — these are the categories of modern liberalism, not of Catholic social teaching.
Navarro’s language reveals the ideological capture of ACCEM — and, by extension, of the conciliar sect that collaborates with it. The organization’s mission is not to evangelize, not to catechize, not to baptize, but to promote “understanding” and combat “stigmatization” — in other words, to advance the globalist agenda of open borders and religious indifferentism. This is the same agenda condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which anathematized the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). It is the same agenda condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which identified the Modernist error of reducing religion to social action and humanitarian sentiment.
The “Visible Emotion” of the Antipope: Sentimentality as Substitute for Sanctity
The article notes that the antipope was “visibly moved by the encounter.” This detail is not incidental to the conciliar sect’s communications strategy — it is central to it. The post-conciliar antipopes have consistently replaced the language of sanctity, doctrine, and supernatural authority with the language of emotion, empathy, and personal feeling. John Paul II wept on camera. Bergoglio embraced and kissed. And now Prevost is “visibly moved.”
The Catholic Church has always recognized that emotions are part of the human experience and that holy men may be moved to compassion — but the Church has never made emotion the centerpiece of the papal office. The Pope is the Vicar of Christ, the supreme teacher, the universal pastor, the guardian of doctrine and morals. His authority rests not on his feelings but on the promise of Christ: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam — “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church” (Matthew 16:18). The antipopes of the conciliar sect, having abandoned doctrine, having corrupted the liturgy, having embraced religious indifferentism, have nothing left but emotion. Their “visibly moved” faces are the last refuge of men who have emptied the papacy of its supernatural content and filled it with the currency of secular humanitarianism.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the Modernist proposition that “dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Proposition 54). What we see at Las Raíces is the full realization of this Modernist error: the papacy reduced to a humanitarian NGO director, the Church’s mission reduced to social services, the supernatural order reduced to “visible emotion.”
The Accommodation of Islam: Silent Apostasy
Perhaps the most damning silence in the entire article is its failure to address the religious identity of the migrants. The article mentions Mali, Senegal, Guinea, and Nigeria — nations where Islam is the religion of the majority. It is a matter of public knowledge that a very large proportion of migrants arriving via the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands are Muslims. And yet not a single word is said about the Church’s mission to convert them. Not a single word about the obligation of the Catholic Faith. Not a single word about the danger of Islam — a heresy that denies the Divinity of Christ, rejects the Blessed Trinity, and opposes everything the Church stands for.
This silence is not neutral. It is the deliberate policy of the conciliar sect since Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate (1965), which declared — in flat contradiction to two millennia of Catholic teaching — that the Church “regards with reverence” the “things which are true and holy” in Islam and calls for “mutual understanding” and “collaboration” between Catholics and Muslims. This document, promulgated by the conciliar usurpers, is a direct repudiation of the Church’s constant teaching. The Lex Orandi of the Church — her prayer — includes the Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Muslims, which the conciliar sect has effectively suppressed. The Lex Credendi — the rule of faith — demands that Muslims be called to conversion, for Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation.
By remaining silent about the religious identity of these migrants, by providing them with material comfort while offering them nothing of the Faith, the antipope and his collaborators are guilty of the most profound spiritual negligence. They are, in effect, facilitating the Islamicization of Europe while pretending to practice “charity.” They are cooperating with the destruction of Christendom while claiming to promote “human dignity.” This is not merely a failure of pastoral care — it is apostasy, the abandonment of the Church’s divine mission under the guise of humanitarian concern.
The Structures of the Abomination: ACCEM, the State, and the Conciliar Sect
The article notes that Las Raíces is “established by the state” and “run by ACCEM, a leading Spanish non-profit organization.” This arrangement — state-funded, NGO-operated, with the conciliar sect providing spiritual cover — is the model of the post-conciliar Church’s engagement with the world. It is a model in which the Church has surrendered her independence, her authority, and her supernatural mission to the secular state and its allied organizations.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free — nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder; but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights” (Proposition 19). He condemned equally the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). The arrangement at Las Raíces is the practical realization of these condemned errors: the Church reduced to a chaplaincy of the state’s migration apparatus, providing emotional comfort and moral legitimacy to a system of mass migration that serves the interests of global capital and the erosion of Christian civilization.
The true Church — the Church of Christ, the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments — has no part in this arrangement. She cannot cooperate with a system that treats migration as a purely administrative problem while ignoring the supernatural destiny of every human soul. She cannot collaborate with organizations whose mission is to promote “anti-stigmatization” rather than the conversion of souls. She cannot recognize the authority of an antipope who visits migrant centres but does not preach the Gospel.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures While the Abomination Performs
The scene at Las Raíces is a perfect microcosm of the conciliar apostasy. An antipope — a man without legitimate authority — visits a state-run facility operated by a secular NGO. He is “visually moved” by the suffering of migrants whom he does not attempt to convert. He promotes “human dignity” without mentioning God, sin, grace, or the sacraments. He collaborates with a system that facilitates the Islamicization of Europe while claiming to combat “stigmatization.” And the entire spectacle is presented by VaticanNews as a model of Catholic pastoral care.
Against this abomination, the true Church stands as she has always stood: proclaiming Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, offering the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the salvation of souls, administering the sacraments that confer sanctifying grace, and calling all men — migrants and natives alike — to conversion, repentance, and submission to the Social Kingship of Christ the King. The true Church does not provide Spanish lessons to men dying in infidelity. She baptizes them, catechizes them, and makes them children of God. She does not promote “anti-stigmatization” — she preaches the truth, whether it is popular or not. She does not collaborate with the secular state’s migration apparatus — she demands that the state itself submit to the law of Christ.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The scene at Las Raíces is the fulfillment of this prophecy: a world in which the Church’s mission has been reduced to social work, in which the antipope performs compassion while souls perish, in which “human dignity” has replaced the Kingship of Christ. Let the faithful reject this abomination and cling to the true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that teaches, sanctifies, and governs with the authority of Christ, the Church that alone can save souls from eternal damnation.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Source:
Promoting human dignity, discouraging stigmatisation of migrants (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.06.2026