Apostolic Betrayal: Vatican Honors Palestinian Leader While Forsaking Catholic Mission
Apostolic Betrayal: Vatican Honors Palestinian Leader While Forsaking Catholic Mission
Vatican News portal (November 5, 2025) reports that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas visited the tomb of the late antipope Francis at St. Mary Major Basilica, laying flowers and praising Francis for “recognizing Palestine without anyone having to ask.” Abbas will meet antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to discuss the Gaza conflict, invoking the 2015 Holy See-Palestine agreement. The article frames this as a continuation of Francis’ 2014 interfaith “peace prayer” with Jewish and Orthodox leaders, where an olive tree replaced the Cross as a symbol. This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s surrender of Catholic identity to secular geopolitics and religious indifferentism.
Naturalism Over Supernatural Order
The article’s focus on political recognition (“he recognized Palestine”) ignores the Church’s divine mandate to seek the conversion of nations (Matthew 28:19). Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) unequivocally declares: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King… society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony”. The Vatican’s 2015 treaty with Palestine, however, elevates a false state hostile to Christianity while ignoring Christ’s Kingship. Abbas, whose regime persecutes Christians and bans evangelization, is treated as a dignitary—a betrayal of the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the idea that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
False Peace Versus the Kingship of Christ
The 2014 interfaith gathering—where Francis, Abbas, Shimon Peres, and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I planted an olive tree—replaced the Cross with a symbol of naturalistic syncretism. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). True peace derives not from political deals but from submission to Christ’s Social Reign, as Leo XIII taught: “There is no power which the Church… does not hold from God… The Almighty… has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil” (Immortale Dei, 1885). The article’s silence on Christ’s exclusive right to rule nations exposes its modernist foundation.
Theology of Apostasy in Diplomatic Gestures
Abbas’ tribute at Francis’ tomb—a site of modernist pilgrimage—symbolizes the conciliar sect’s cult of man. The tomb’s minimalist inscription “Franciscus” (omitting papal titles) reflects the anti-church’s rejection of hierarchical authority. Meanwhile, antipope Leo XIV’s planned meeting with Abbas continues the Vatican II heresy of “dialogue” with error, condemned by St. Pius X: “The first step… is to be found in the confusion of ideas. The Modernists… seek to diminish and weaken the truth” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907). The article’s praise for the 2015 Palestine treaty ignores its violation of Quas Primas: states must “publicly honor and obey Christ” to avoid collapse.
Omission of the One Path to Salvation
Nowhere does the article mention the duty to convert non-Catholics, a grave omission echoing the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the idea that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). Abbas, a Muslim, received sacramental honors while rejecting Christ’s divinity—a scandal enabled by Francis’ 2019 Abu Dhabi declaration that “diversity of religions” is God’s will. The article’s rhetoric of “humanitarian crisis” reduces the Church to a NGO, discarding her role as “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15).
Conclusion: A Church in Eclipse
From the olive tree of 2014 to Abbas’ 2025 tribute, the conciliar sect substitutes the Cross with political theater. Its recognition of Palestine—a regime denying Christ’s Kingship—fulfills Pius IX’s warning: “The best interests of society… are opposed to the Church’s prerogatives” (Error 40). As true Catholics mourn this apostasy, they cling to the unchangeable doctrine:
“There is only one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved” (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215).
The Vatican’s embrace of Abbas confirms its status as an occupier of Rome—not the Bride of Christ.
Source:
Palestinian President visits tomb of Pope Francis (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 05.11.2025