Leo XIV’s Equatorial Guinea Address: A Masterclass in Modernist Vacuity Disguised as Pastoral Care
The National Catholic Register reports that on April 22, 2026, the individual occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), addressed young people and families at Bata Stadium in Equatorial Guinea. The event, characterized by singing, dancing, and flag-waving, featured testimonies from local Catholics and the usual modernist rhetoric about “dignity,” “love,” and “hope.” The former “cardinal” praised a young worker’s commitment to “dignity,” encouraged vocations with a promise of “a hundredfold and eternal life,” spoke of marriage as a “journey of true love” and “holiness,” and thanked a young man identified as “Victor Antonio” for his testimony on “protecting burgeoning life.” The entire discourse was capped with an appeal to “Christian love” that “transforms the world” — a thoroughly naturalistic and humanitarian framework devoid of any mention of the supernatural order, the necessity of sanctifying grace, the reality of sin, or the absolute Kingship of Christ over individuals and nations alike.



