EWTN News reports that the Vatican usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” concluded a weeklong trip to Spain on June 12, 2026, marked by meetings with national leaders and bishops, a Mass at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia, visits to a prison and migrant organizations, and a papal Mass in Tenerife. The trip concluded with the papal airplane malfunctioning, forcing the antipope to accept the king of Spain’s personal aircraft for his return to Rome. What EWTN presents as a triumphant pastoral visit is, when measured against the immutable standard of Catholic teaching, nothing more than a weeklong exercise in naturalistic humanitarianism, diplomatic theater, and the complete abdication of the Church’s supernatural mission — a spectacle that would have been unrecognizable to any Pope who reigned before the conciliar revolution.
The Complete Absence of the Supernatural Mission
Let us begin with what is most glaringly absent from this entire report, and indeed from the entire enterprise: any mention whatsoever of the supernatural end of the Church, the salvation of souls, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, the reality of sin, the danger of eternal damnation, or the exclusive kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ over all nations and individuals. The article catalogs meetings with “civic groups,” “humanitarian groups working with migrants,” a prison visit, and Masses — but not once does it record the usurper preaching the necessity of baptism, the obligation of rulers to submit to Christ the King, the heresy of religious liberty, or the duty of the state to profess the Catholic Faith as the sole true religion.
This silence is not accidental. It is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to exclusion of all other forms of worship.” And proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The entire trip is a living embodiment of these condemned propositions. The usurper meets with civic leaders, humanitarian organizations, and migrants — not to demand their conversion to the Catholic Faith, not to insist that Spain return to its duty of public profession of Catholicism, but to participate in the globalist project of “integration” and “dialogue” that the Church before 1958 would have recognized as rank apostasy.
The Migrant Question: Naturalism Replaces Catholic Social Teaching
The article notes that the usurper “met with members of humanitarian groups working with migrants” and later “meets with migrants in the Plaza del Cristo de La Laguna, Tenerife.” The language is revealing: “humanitarian groups,” “migrant integration.” This is the vocabulary of the United Nations, of secular NGOs, of the globalist project — not of the Catholic Church.
What does the Church actually teach about the duties of a ruler and a society toward foreigners? Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught that the state must recognize the Catholic Faith as the religion of the state, and that while strangers may be admitted for humanitarian reasons, the primary duty of the state is the eternal salvation of its own citizens and the protection of the Catholic religion. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The Church’s concern for migrants was always ordered toward their conversion to the Catholic Faith and their incorporation into a Catholic society — never toward “integration” into a secular, religiously indifferentist order.
The usurper’s meetings with migrant organizations are not acts of Catholic charity. They are acts of naturalistic humanitarianism — the very “cult of man” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), proposition 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” This is precisely what the conciliar sect has become: a broad, dogmaless humanitarianism that uses the external trappings of Catholicism to advance a purely naturalistic agenda.
The Sagrada Familia: A Temple of Modernist Architecture
The article mentions “a historic Mass at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia” in Barcelona. Let us be clear about what this structure is: it is a monument to Modernist architecture, designed by Antoni Gaudí, whose work embodies the very spirit of novelty and rejection of classical Catholic sacred art that the pre-conciliar Church condemned. The Church has always taught that sacred architecture must reflect the transcendence, order, and beauty of God — not the organic, chaotic, and naturalistic forms of Modernism.
But more importantly, the celebration of a “Mass” at the Sagrada Familia by the usurper is not a true Mass. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, is a Protestantized rite that obscures the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice. As the theological analysis of the Ottaviani Intervention (1969) demonstrated, the new rite “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Holy Mass.” To celebrate this rite in a Modernist architectural monstrosity is a double sacrilege — a false sacrifice in a false temple.
The Papal Airplane Malfunction: A Sign Ignored
The article reports that “the papal plane suffering a malfunction forcing the pope to deboard before takeoff” and that he “ultimately left for Rome on the king of Spain’s personal airplane after the king personally offered him the use of the aircraft.” The EWTN report treats this as a minor logistical inconvenience. But let us consider: the usurper was forced to accept the charity of a secular monarch — the king of Spain, a ruler whose constitutional monarchy is founded on the very religious indifferentism and liberalism that the Catholic Church condemns.
Pope Pius IX, in Etsi Multa (1873), condemned the “Old Catholics” who claimed the Pope “fell into heresy” — but he also condemned the secular governments that usurped the Church’s rights. The king of Spain, like all modern secular rulers, governs under constitutions that enshrine religious liberty and the separation of Church and State — doctrines condemned by the Syllabus of Errors. That the usurper must depend on such a ruler for his transportation is a fitting symbol of the conciliar sect’s complete dependence on and subservience to the secular order.
The “Mass” in Tenerife: Idolatry, Not Sacrifice
The article describes “Thousands of Catholics gather for a papal Mass with Pope Leo XIV at the Port of Santa Cruz in Tenerife” and “Pope Leo XIV elevates the Eucharist during Mass.” Let us be precise: what was celebrated was not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It was the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite that, as demonstrated by the Ottaviani Intervention and by the theological analysis of countless Catholic theologians, is defective in its expression of the Catholic theology of the sacrifice and, in the judgment of many serious theologians, may be invalid due to defects in the essential form.
To “elevate the Eucharist” in such a rite is not to offer the true sacrifice of Calvary. It is to participate in a counterfeit liturgy that, at best, is a Protestantized memorial service and, at worst, is an act of idolatry — the worship of a false Christ in a false rite. The thousands who gathered were not attending the Holy Sacrifice. They were attending a simulation of the Holy Sacrifice, presided over by a man who has no authority to offer any sacrifice whatsoever, since he is not the true Pope but a usurper occupying the Vatican.
The Boy in the Wheelchair, the Baby: Sentimentality Replaces Sanctity
The article includes images of “Pope Leo XIV greets a boy in a wheelchair” and “Pope Leo XIV holds a baby.” This is the language of sentimentality, not of sanctity. The true Popes — St. Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII — were known for their doctrinal firmness, their defense of the faith, their insistence on the supernatural. They did not stage photo opportunities with babies and disabled children for the purpose of generating positive media coverage.
This is the cult of man — the reduction of the papacy to a role of sentimental humanitarianism, of “being close to the people,” of generating warm feelings. It is the very antithesis of the papal office as defined by the First Vatican Council: the Supreme Pontiff has “full and supreme jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church throughout the entire world” (Pastor Aeternus, 1870). The usurper’s week in Spain was a week of governance by photo opportunity, not by doctrinal authority.
The Meeting with “Bishops”: Apostates Conferring with an Apostate
The article mentions meetings with “bishops” — but these are not Catholic bishops. They are members of the conciliar sect who have accepted the heretical teachings of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), the novel concept of “collegiality,” and the entire Modernist program. As the sedevacantist position demonstrates through the authority of St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz and Vidal, and the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4), a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and office. These “bishops” are manifest heretics who have publicly defected from the Catholic faith by accepting the conciliar documents. They have no more authority to govern the Church than the usurper himself.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The weeklong trip of the usurper Robert Prevost to Spain is a microcosm of everything the conciliar sect has become: a naturalist, humanitarian, sentimentalist organization that uses the external trappings of Catholicism to advance a globalist, Modernist agenda. There is no preaching of the necessity of conversion, no insistence on the social kingship of Christ, no condemnation of heresy, no defense of the Church’s rights, no call to repentance. There are only meetings with civic leaders, photo opportunities with the afflicted, and the celebration of a counterfeit liturgy.
As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The more the sweetest Name of our Redeemer is omitted with unworthy silence in international gatherings and parliaments, the more loudly it must be confessed and the more urgently the rights of Christ the Lord’s royal dignity and authority must be recognized.” The usurper’s trip to Spain is a weeklong unworthy silence about the rights of Christ the King — and a weeklong loud proclamation of the rights of humanitarianism, secularism, and the globalist order.
The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who attend the true Mass of all time, and who reject the conciliar abomination. Let them take courage: the gates of hell shall not prevail. But let them also be clear-eyed: the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church. They are the synagogue of Satan, and every spectacle they stage — whether in Spain or anywhere else — is a further revelation of their true nature.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV finishes trip to Spain with Mass, meetings in Canary Islands (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.06.2026