The VaticanNews portal (November 8, 2025) reports on the “Mesopotamia Heritage Truck” initiative touring Iraq to promote “unity” through workshops on cuneiform script, painting, and archaeological lessons. Funded by the French organization Mesopotamia Heritage, the project claims to “re-weave Iraq’s social fabric” by celebrating the country’s ancient Mesopotamian past while encouraging collaboration between Christians, Yazidis, Shabak, and other religious groups in regions formerly occupied by ISIS. This effort exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of Catholic evangelization with naturalistic humanism.
Naturalism Over Supernatural Mission
The article’s boast that “culture is just as vital as economics or politics” for national reconciliation constitutes a direct rejection of Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship as the sole foundation for peace: “When all men, individuals, families, and nations, shall submit to the empire of Christ, then only will they enjoy peace” (§19). By reducing Iraq’s post-ISIS recovery to artistic workshops and “lessons on Iraqi history,” the initiative ignores the unum necessarium – the Catholic faith as the only means to heal societal divisions.
Pascal Maguesyan’s admission that their goal is merely to “get both children and adults interested in the country’s heritage” reveals the operation’s fundamentally pagan character. The Syllabus of Errors condemns this naturalism: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). Rather than urging conversion to Catholicism as the path to true unity, the project treats all religions as cultural artifacts – a heresy Pius IX anathematized when rejecting the notion that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17).
Omission of Evangelization
Nowhere does the article mention Christ, the Sacraments, or the Church’s divine mandate to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Catholic missionary duty. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly warned against such secularized “unity”: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19). The Heritage Truck’s workshops on “symbols of Iraqi culture: an oud, a glass of mint tea, a mosque, a church” place Christianity on equal footing with false religions – an outrage against the First Commandment and Pius IX’s condemnation of religious indifferentism (Errors 15-18).
Muthana al-Khoury’s statement that “we encourage everyone to join in… participate in the activities together” constitutes practical syncretism, forbidden by Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code: “It is not licit for the faithful to assist actively or take part in any way in non-Catholic religious services.” The article’s celebration of Yazidis – who worship the fallen angel Melek Taus – collaborating with Christians in art projects exposes the initiative’s diabolical inversion of truth.
Abandonment of Catholic Identity
The project’s focus on Mesopotamia’s “earliest writing system” while ignoring Iraq’s Christian heritage – including the Chaldean Catholic Church and Assyrian Church of the East – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s hatred of Catholic tradition. By teaching cuneiform instead of Aramaic (the language of Christ), and promoting “sculpture and painting” of pagan ziggurats rather than sacred art, the Heritage Truck perpetuates the modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Error 58).
VaticanNews’ glowing report on this initiative confirms the anti-church’s complete embrace of archaeological paganism over living Tradition. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32). The Mesopotamia Heritage Truck does precisely the opposite: It replaces the Cross with cuneiform tablets, and the Gospel with multicultural platitudes.
This project embodies the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27) – a pseudo-cultural movement designed to erase Catholic memory and prepare Iraq for total assimilation into the New World Order’s religious syncretism. True Catholics must reject such initiatives and pray for the conversion of all peoples to the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
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‘Mesopotamia Heritage Truck’ tours Iraq with message of unity (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 08.11.2025