Gallagher’s Sri Lanka Visit Exposes Vatican’s Apostate Diplomacy

Portal VaticanNews reports that “Archbishop” Paul Richard Gallagher visited Sri Lanka from November 3-8, 2025, to commemorate 50 years of diplomatic relations between the conciliar sect and the Buddhist-majority nation. The article highlights meetings with Sri Lankan officials, a conference on “dialogue and peace,” visits to sites of the 2019 Easter terrorist attacks, a “Mass” at St. Lucia’s Cathedral, and interreligious encounters with Buddhist leaders. This spectacle of apostasy perfectly encapsulates the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Christ the King.

Diplomatic Relations as Betrayal of Christ’s Social Reign

The celebration of 50 years of formal relations (established September 6, 1975) constitutes a direct attack on Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague of secularism” whereby “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” Diplomatic recognition of a nation that rejects Catholicism as the state religion violates the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemned the idea that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77).

“The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry reported the archbishop was received by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Arun Hemachandra.”

This diplomatic pageantry occurs while Sri Lanka’s constitution grants Buddhism the “foremost place,” reducing Catholicism to a tolerated minority. The conciliar sect’s representatives engage in what St. Pius X called “the heresy of Americanism” – treating false religions as equals before the state. True Catholic diplomacy, as demonstrated by Blessed Charles I of Austria, demands nations submit to Christ’s reign, not empty “cooperation” with error.

Interreligious Syncretism Masquerading as Peacebuilding

The article reports Gallagher’s scheduled “visit to the Buddhist temple in Kandy” and meetings with “Malwatta and Asgiriya religious authorities.” This constitutes formal participation in false worship, explicitly condemned by Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code: “Communicatio in sacris cum acatholicis [Participation in sacred rites with non-Catholics] is forbidden.” Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) denounced such ecumenism:

“The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises.”

These acts violate the First Commandment and embody the “false irenicism” Pius XII warned against in Humani Generis (1950). The conciliar sect’s “peace” conference promotes indifferentism, ignoring Christ’s warning: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34).

Sacrilegious “Mass” and Invalid Sacraments

The so-called “Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Lucia’s Cathedral” uses the invalid Novus Ordo rite promulgated by antipope Paul VI. As the Ottaviani Intervention (1969) demonstrated, this rite:

“represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.”

By celebrating this Protestantized service, Gallagher mocks the true Sacrifice of Calvary. The article’s silence about the liturgical abomination – no mention of ad orientem posture, Latin, or the Roman Canon – reveals the neo-church’s contempt for tradition. St. Pius V’s Quo Primum (1570) forbade altering the Mass, yet the conciliar sect treats it as disposable.

Naturalistic Grief Over Easter Attacks Obscures Supernatural Duty

While mourning the 2019 terrorist attacks that killed 269 people is natural, the article’s exclusive focus on worldly solidarity ignores Catholicism’s essential missionary mandate. Nowhere does Gallagher call for the conversion of Sri Lanka’s Muslims (9.7% of population) or Buddhists (70.2%), despite Christ’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).

The conciliar sect reduces religion to social work, abandoning the Church’s raison d’être: the salvation of souls. As the 1917 Code’s Canon 1350 states: “The primary end of the Church is the sanctification of souls; the secondary end is the public good.” By prioritizing “dialogue” over evangelization, Gallagher embodies the apostasy foretold in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):

“It is pride which fills Modernists with that confidence in themselves and leads them to hold themselves up as the rule for all… In all this they are boasting that they alone understand the needs of the times.”

Illegitimate Diplomacy of a False Church

These diplomatic celebrations rest on the fraudulent claim that the conciliar sect represents the Catholic Church. Paul VI’s regime (which established Sri Lankan relations in 1975) lost all authority through heresy, as St. Robert Bellarmine explains in De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic automatically ceases to be Pope.” The 1917 Code’s Canon 188.4 confirms that public defection from faith voids ecclesiastical offices.

Gallagher serves an apostate institution that has rejected its divine mission. True Catholics recognize no “pope” after Pius XII, and thus reject all conciliar diplomacy as theater of Antichrist. As Our Lady of La Salette warned (1846): “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.“

This visit proves the conciliar sect has completed its transformation into a globalist NGO – a far cry from the Militant Church that converted empires. Until true hierarchy condemns Vatican II and restores the Social Reign of Christ the King, such blasphemous spectacles will continue.

Source::
Abp Gallagher in Sri Lanka to mark 50 years of relations with Holy See (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 03.11.2025