EWTN News portal reports that on May 27, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during a general audience, urging “priests” to respect the “norms of the liturgy” and refrain from making changes to the Mass “on his own initiative.” His catechesis focused on the Second Vatican Council’s constitution *Sacrosanctum Concilium*, a document that fundamentally transformed — that is, mutilated — the way the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered. The so-called “pope” claimed that the Council “affirmed that legitimate progress in the liturgy must also preserve sound tradition and that certain elements of the liturgy can never change because they are divinely instituted.” He further quoted the conciliar formula: “That sound tradition may be retained, and yet the way remain open to legitimate progress,” and cited the apostate Benedict XVI’s assertion that “tradition is a living reality, which therefore includes in itself the principle of development, of progress.” The usurper declared that this “progress” seeks to “confirm and foster” ecclesial communion and enable the faithful to “participate fruitfully” in the paschal mystery. He concluded by discouraging “anyone from adding, removing, or altering anything in liturgical matters on their own initiative,” and expressed solidarity with victims of the war in Ukraine, entrusting them to Mary, Queen of Peace. This address, draped in the language of “humility” and “fidelity,” is nothing less than a demand for total submission to the conciliar revolution that has annihilated the true Catholic liturgy and replaced it with a protestantized, naturalistic assembly — the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
