Antipope Leo XIV’s Paris Spectacle: Corporate-Funded Idolatry Masquerading as Catholic Revival
The National Catholic Register portal reports that nearly 600,000 individuals have registered for the open-air Mass of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) on the Champs-Élysées on September 26, 2026, with 80,000 more for a youth vigil at the Stade de France. The French bishops’ conference (CEF) faces a 21.5 million euro shortfall of the 27 million euro total cost, relying on corporate sponsorships, merchandise sales, and donations to fund the four-day visit including stops at Lourdes and Metz. “Cardinal” Jean-Marc Aveline declares this enthusiasm proof that France “resists secularization,” citing a “new momentum of neophytes and catechumens.” The visit culminates in Metz at the Robert Schuman Centre—Schuman having been declared “venerable” by the antipope Francis in 2021—where “Archbishop” Philippe Ballot proclaims borders as places of “encounter” rather than separation. This grotesque spectacle of mass mobilization, corporate financing, and political symbolism exposes the conciliar sect’s complete substitution of the supernatural Kingdom of Christ for a naturalistic, masonic parody of religion.