The Vatican News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” exploited the Angelus address of 5 July 2026 to offer vague humanitarian sentiments for the victims of the devastating earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, which have claimed nearly 3,000 lives, while simultaneously legitimizing a fabricated beatification ceremony in Vietnam for a priest killed in 1946. The antipope’s address was devoid of any supernatural framework—no mention of divine chastisement, the necessity of penance, the reality of Hell, or the Social Kingship of Christ—reducing the Church’s mission to a secular NGO offering “closeness” and “prayer” as therapeutic placebos. This performance confirms the total apostasy of the conciliar sect: it mimics Catholic piety while denying the very Faith that gives suffering its meaning.
The Usurper’s Performance: A Theater of Naturalistic Sentimentality
The cited article relates that the claimant to the See of Peter “addressed the crowds in Spanish to express his care and closeness to Venezuelans” and prayed that “the Lord sustain them in this time of great hardship.” Not a single word was uttered regarding the justice of God, the call to conversion, or the reality that “unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Lk 13:3). This is the hermeneutic of rupture in its purest form: the substitution of the regnum Christi for the regnum hominis. The antipope functions not as the Vicar of Christ the King, but as a global chaplain for a godless humanitarian order.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… 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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Venezuelan earthquakes are not merely “natural disasters”; they are flagella Dei, permitted by Divine Providence to awaken a slumbering world. The conciliar sect’s silence on this truth is not pastoral sensitivity—it is treason against the Kingship of Christ.
The Linguistic Mask: “Closeness,” “Accompaniment,” “Rights of the People”
The article’s vocabulary reveals the Modernist infection. The antipope presents the beatified priest as an example of “closeness to the people” who “defended the rights of the people.” This is the language of the French Revolution, not the Gospel. The Church does not defend “the rights of the people” as an abstract liberal category; she defends the rights of God (iura Dei) and the salvation of souls. The phrase “hatred for the faith” (odium fidei) is retained as a technical category, but stripped of its doctrinal content: the “faith” for which this priest allegedly died is never defined. Was it the integral Catholic Faith of Trent and the Syllabus? Or the vague “faith” of the conciliar sect, which embraces religious liberty, ecumenism, and the dignity of man as its new dogmas?
Cardinal Tagle, the Pro-Prefect of the “Dicastery for Evangelization” (a bureaucratic novelty unknown to the Church before 1965), is quoted calling the priest “a missionary par excellence.” In the neo-church, “mission” no longer means docere, sanctificare, regere in the name of Christ the King, but “accompanying” man in his autonomy. This is the heresy of actionism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, of grace to human effort.
The Invalid Beatification: A Sacrilegious Simulation
The article notes the beatification was “celebrated on July 2nd at the Tac Say Shrine in Vietnam.” This act is null and void ab initio. A manifest heretic—Robert Prevost, who publicly professes the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology)—cannot exercise the Keys of Peter. 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.” The 1917 Code, Canon 188 §4, confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that the promotion of a heretic “even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The “beatification” by a usurper, performed by a modernist cardinal in a neo-pentecostal shrine, is not a step toward the altars of God; it is a liturgical act of the counter-church, indistinguishable from the canonizations of the “Ulma family” (unbaptized infant included) or the freemason Kolbe. It serves only to manufacture “saints” for a false religion.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Abomination of Desolation
The article’s final paragraphs—greeting “pilgrims from Brazil,” a “Choir of the University of Mérida,” “Polish groups,” “Italian faithful”—read like a travelogue. This is the “Church of the New Advent”: a religious UNESCO, a paramasonic structure managing global sentiment. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The antipope Leo XIV does precisely this: he “reconciles” the papacy with the secular order, offering prayers for “victims” while ignoring the victima of the Cross.
The Venezuelan tragedy, like the chastisements foretold at La Salette (a true apparition, unlike the Masonic fabrication of Fatima), is a call to penitentiam agite. The conciliar sect answers with dialogue, accompaniment, and invalid beatifications. It has no authority, no mission, no sacraments, and no God but the idol of Man.
Conclusion: No Salvation Outside the True Church
The faithful Catholic, seeing the ruins of La Guaira and the ruins of the Vatican occupied by the abominatio desolationis, must recall the dogma: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The true Church endures in the catacombs, in the hands of bishops and priests who retain valid Orders and the integral Faith, rejecting the conciliar revolution in toto. The antipope’s “prayers” are the prayers of a hereticus manifestus, which “become sin” (Prov 28:9). The beatification is a simulacrum. The only remedy for Venezuela—and for the world—is the public recognition of the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, and the rejection of the false church that has usurped the visible structures.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The gates of Hell shall not prevail—but they have, for a time, occupied the Vatican. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Pope Leo prays for victims of Venezuela earthquake (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.07.2026