For a little over a year, many conservative and even some “traditional” Catholics have been debating whether Leo XIV will chart a distinct course from that of his immediate predecessor or whether he will continue to promote his priorities.
Of course, this is a “debate” that only the (spiritually) blind and (spiritually) deaf can still have after thirteen months. All of Leo’s words and actions point to one conclusion and one conclusion only: that he is worse than Francis Bergoglio and far more dangerous, precisely because of the deceptive ways he carries out his destruction.
Leo ended the debate in an address delivered at Sant’Angelo Lodigiano on June 20. Speaking at the birthplace of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the patroness of migrants, he explicitly linked his own reign to that of Francis, whom he praised for making “service to migrants one of the key points of his pontificate.”
Leo’s next comment left no room for ambiguity: “For my part, I inherited and carried forward the magisterium of Pope Francis with the Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te on love for the poor, where we also speak about charity in the form of ‘accompanying migrants.'”
The significance of this remark cannot be understated. Leo does not merely praise Francis but openly states that he has “inherited and carried on” his “magisterium.” He specifically points to his own exhortation, Dilexi te, as a continuation of Francis’ vision.
One would have thought that such remarks would, by now, have awakened Catholics who are holding out hope that Leo will place greater emphasis on doctrinal clarity, liturgical restoration, or resistance to the secularizing trends of the modern world. Sadly, many seem to be in a state of voluntary cognitive dissonance and still choose not to see the writing on the wall, despite the fact that Leo himself identifies continuity with Francis.
The context in which these remarks were delivered is also important. Leo effectively hijacks the legacy of St. Frances Cabrini — a great missionary whose heroic life was dedicated above all to the salvation of souls — and turns her into a mascot for his communist agenda. Migration, of course, is part of the globalist Hegelian strategy of creating a problem in order to also supply an inevitable tyrannical solution.
Migrants first
Leo’s Sant’Angelo address was not an isolated incident. It comes amid a broader fixation he has had on the topic of migration.
Earlier this month, during a visit to the Canary Islands, Leo stressed themes of accompaniment and hospitality while degrading the Chair of St. Peter. “I want to bow before your dignity,” he incredibly stated while speaking to “migrants” during a visit to the Port of Arguineguín on June 11, 2026.
Beyond that, the Vatican has announced that Leo is scheduled to visit Lampedusa on July 4. Lampedusa is a small island southwest of Malta that has become one of the most visible symbols of migration as it is a location where many Africans stop during their journey into Italy.
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The visit follows in the footsteps of Pope Francis, whose took his own trip to Lampedusa in 2013, providing moral cover for international leftists and their criminal efforts to subvert Christianity in Europe. Leo’s planned visit is yet another growing mountain of evidence of continuity with Francis’ priorities.
Disdain for the United States?
Keen observers will also note that Leo’s visit to Lampedusa falls on Independence Day in the United States. Nothing says “I hate my own country” quite like foregoing the 250th anniversary of your homeland’s birthday to push open borders in the Mediterranean.
Leo confirmed his apparent embarrassment of being an America during an interview with Crux earlier this year. When asked whom he would support if the USA played Peru during a World Cup soccer match, he indicated, “probably Peru.”
Leo’s allegiance to Francis’ synodal religion was also on display during his visit to Pavia this month. There he delivered a message centered on his other obsessions, namely peace and reconciliation.
“If we want to change the times, if we want the world to live in peace, we must begin with ourselves. This means: enough with words of hatred, enough with insults, with bullying, enough with all those things that make war between people, between communities, between countries. We must all learn to be peacemakers and promoters of reconciliation,” he said.
The peace Prevost is trying to bring about is that of the antichrist. Our Lord Himself declared: “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). Christ was not endorsing violence but warning that fidelity to the truth would inevitably bring division. The Gospel separates truth from error, belief from unbelief, and faithfulness from compromise. Christ taught that the world would hate Catholics for His sake, and Scripture warns that friendship with the world means enmity with God. It is revealing, then, that a recent article in Rolling Stone magazine, which is dedicated to rock and roll music and the subversion of youth, praised him as “the planet’s pope.”
Vatican II’s utopian vision
Playing the role of diplomat and trying to create a temporal paradise has long been the dominant themes of the post-conciliar popes. Almost without exception, their talk of peace, dialogue, accompaniment, and inclusion has been detached from the Church’s primary mission: the salvation of souls.
This was most apparent in a clip that went viral this past weekend on social media. “We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue,” Leo said during his flight back from Africa in April.
Leo’s remarks at Sant’Angelo prove that he is not going to defend Catholicism, but that he is going to try to hammer the nails into its coffin even deeper. He has now publicly acknowledged that he sees himself as carrying forward the “magisterium” of Francis and the Gospel of migration rather than the magisterium of Tradition and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is time for Catholics who still deny Leo is Francis 2.0 to come to grips with that reality.
