Leo XIV’s Pilgrimage to Hippo: A Modernist Pontiff Invokes Augustine While Betraying His Legacy
EWTN News reports that on April 14, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” traveled to Annaba, Algeria—ancient Hippo—ostensibly to honor St. Augustine, the city’s most illustrious bishop. The article describes the visit as a “return to the roots of his faith and vocation,” noting that Prevost, as a member of the Augustinian order, sought to connect himself with the Doctor of Grace. He walked through the ruins of the Basilica Pacis, laid a wreath, and listened to songs in Latin, Berber, and Arabic based on Augustinian texts about “peace and fraternity.” The entire spectacle, however, is a grotesque parody of authentic Catholic pilgrimage—a modernist antipope, heir to the apostasy inaugurated by John XXIII, drapes himself in the mantle of one of the Church’s greatest Fathers while systematically dismantling everything Augustine defended. This is not a homecoming; it is a desecration.



