IN HIS recent reverential visit to the third-largest mosque in the world, Bob Prevost, aka “Pope” Leo XIV, followed in the footsteps of his five Vatican II predecessors in open apostasy, all of whom have scandalously honored Islam as part of their One World, All-Religions-Are-True-and-All-Believers-Are-Super-Nice Religion. Prevost’s visit to a mosque in Algeria on April 13, 2026 came at a time when Muslims continue to engage in violence against professed Christians in Africa, including some 50,000 killed in the last 14 years in Nigeria alone.
Pope Leo XIV [who removed his shoes in accordance with Muslim custom] marked the beginning of his apostolic journey to Africa with a visit to the Grand Mosque of Algiers, where he highlighted the site’s spiritual significance and paused in silent meditation.
Welcomed by the Rector of the Mosque, Mohamed Mamoun al Qasim who offered words of fraternity, the Pope said “I thank you for these reflections and for these important words during this visit, from a place that represents the space that belongs to God, a divine and sacred space, where many people come to pray and to seek the presence of the Most High in their lives.” (Source; emphasis added.)
It was not necessary to visit an actual mosque or bow in prayer in a mosque in order to engage in friendly dialogue with Muslims. There is nothing wrong with friendly discussions with Muslims and in fact charity is owed them. But worshipful prayer in a mosque? No. The Grand Mosque of Algiers is not a space that belongs to God. It is a space that denies God and puts in His place an idol, which is why the Crusades were launched and why true popes had to work to liberate Christians captured, killed, surgically castrated or enslaved by Muslims. According to author Robert Davies, 1.25 million European Christians were captured and enslaved by Muslims from 1500-1800. But all that is of the past. The important thing is what Muslims still believe:
O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion. Say nothing about Allah except the truth: that the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is but a messenger from Allah and His Word which He communicated to Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say “Three.” Enough, it will be better for you. Allah is but One God. Glory to Him. To have a son…To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth…And Allah is sufficient as a protector. (Koran: Surah An-Nisa, 171) [emphasis added]
A quick reminder:
— John, Chapt. 1:2
And this:
Apostasy
Objection 2. Furthermore, infidelity lies in the intellect. Apostasy, on the other hand, seems to reside more in outward actions or words, and even in the inner will, as we read in Scripture: “A apostate man is worthless; he goes about with a lying mouth; he winks, rubs his feet, and chatters with his fingers; his heart is full of evil, and he always stirs up conflict” (Prov 6:12). Likewise, if someone were to circumcise himself or worship at the tomb of Muhammad, he would be considered an apostate. Therefore, apostasy does not belong directly to infidelity.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas, Theological Summa – Part II-IIae – Question 12
Vatican II’s Declaration Nostra Aetate, nn. 3 set in stone for the future of the Conciliar Church the notion of Islam as worshipping the Christian God:
The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
Outrageous blasphemy.
Giovanni Battista Montini, aka “Paul VI,” stated on September 9, 1972: “We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith, a faith that unites us to the one God,”
“Pope” Francis, at Sacred Heart Basilica, Rome, Jan. 19, 2014 stated: “Sharing our experience in carrying that cross, to expel the illness within our hearts, which embitters our life: it is important that you do this in your meetings. Those that are Christian, with the Bible, and those that are Muslim, with the Quran. The faith that your parents instilled in you will always help you move on,”
“Pope” Benedict XVI prayed reverentially at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. “John Paul II” kissed the Koran twice, once in Rome and another time in Casablanca.
These scandalous and blasphemous statements and acts in relation to Islam by the Conciliar Church have never been mere gestures of diplomacy or the sort of courtesies Catholics have commonly extended to those of other religions in secular settings. They stand out for their bold recognition of Islam as true in itself and involve acts of prayer in Muslim houses of worship.
Prevost prayed in the Algerian mosque, the second of his visits to a major mosque:
“May the mercy of the Most High keep the noble Algerian people and the entire human family in peace and freedom.”
The “Most High” is conveniently ambiguous. Prevost did not even utter the name of Christ.
These statements and prayers of “interfaith dialogue” are all one way. Muslim clerics do not in reciprocity speak on the beauty of Catholicism and pray in “Catholic” churches. This dialogue has never led to Muslim conversions. Nor has it led to more peace in the world.
It never can lead to more peace. That’s because true peace comes from individual conversions to holiness and personal repentance. Islam does not lead to holiness (God’s grace can give those who practice Islam virtue and wisdom nevertheless) because it denies the divinity of Jesus Christ and the truths of the true Catholic Church, which are the only real source of peace in the world.
Peace is not based in the end on human fraternity alone, but ultimately on union with God.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you.
Dom Prosper Guéranger, the Benedictine monk of the nineteenth century, warned that in the latter days notions of false peace would arise from theological falsehoods:
It is then [in the Latter Days] more than at all previous times that the Faithful will have to remember the injunction given to us by the Apostle in today’s Epistle; that is, they will have to comport themselves with that circumspection which he enjoins, taking every possible care to keep their understanding, no less than their heart, pure in those evil days.
Supernatural light will, in those days, not only have to stand the attacks of the children of darkness, who will put forward their false doctrines; it will, moreover, be minimized and falsified by the very children of the light yielding on the question of principles; it will be endangered by the hesitations and trimmings and human prudence of those who are called far-seeing men.
Many will practically ignore the master truth, that the Church never can be overwhelmed by any created power. If they do remember that Our Lord has promised Himself to uphold His Church even to the end of the world, they will still have the impertinence to believe that they do a great service to the good cause by making certain politically clever concessions, which, if they were tried in the balance of the sanctuary, would be found under weight!
Those future worldly-wise people will quite forget that Our Lord will have no need for helping Him to keep His promise of crooked schemes, however shrewd those may be; they will entirely overlook this most elementary consideration – that the cooperation, which Jesus deigns to accept, at the hands of His servants in the defense of the rights of His Church never could consist in the garbling, or in the disguisement of those grand truths which constitute the power and beauty of the Bride. (The Liturgical Year, Vol. XI, pp. 426-429)
Islam has proved again and again that it never was, and never can be, a religion of peace. What an immense act of charity it would have been if Bob Prevost had told his hosts this fact: Islam is not a religion of peace because it is not based on these “grand truths.” The denial of these truths is not charity toward Muslims. It is false peace and false mercy.
And finally, let us recall Pope Clement V’s words of warning on Islam and religious indifferentism:
It is an insult to the holy name and a disgrace to the Christian faith that in certain parts of the world subject to Christian princes, where Saracens live, sometimes separate, sometimes mingled with Christians, the Saracen priest commonly called Zabazala, in his temples or mosques (in which the Saracens gather to worship the infidel Muhammad), loudly invokes and praises his name every day at certain hours from a high place, in the presence of Christians and Saracens, and makes public pronouncements in his honor. There is a place, moreover, where a Saracen was once buried whom some Saracens venerate as a saint. A great number of Saracens from near and far congregate there. This brings discredit upon our faith and causes great scandal to the faithful. These practices can no longer be tolerated without displeasing the divine majesty. Therefore, with the sacred approval of the Council, these practices are strictly prohibited henceforth in Christian lands. […] [We order the Catholic princes] to eliminate this crime entirely from their territories and ensure that their subjects refrain from it, so that they may attain the reward of eternal happiness. This expressly prohibits the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Muhammad. [emphasis mine]
Council of Vienna. Decree, January 13, 1313
