VaticanNews portal reports on November 13, 2025, the election of Claudiu-Lucian Pop as Major Archbishop of Romanian Greek-Catholics, the Aramaic village renaming in Turkey, and Christian returns to al-Ghassaniyah, Syria. These events are framed as positive developments, yet reveal the conciliar sect’s abandonment of integral Catholic mission in favor of naturalistic ethnic preservation and false ecumenism.
Illegitimate Election Exposes Neo-Church’s Structural Apostasy
The “election” of Pop by the “Synod of Bishops” lacks validity, as the Romanian Greek-Catholic structure operates under the usurped authority of the Vatican II sect. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly voids all offices held by those publicly defect from the faith, which applies to all post-conciliar hierarchs who embrace religious liberty and collegiality. St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle that “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30) extends to their appointed subordinates, rendering Pop’s consecration by “Pope” Benedict XVI – himself an antipope – canonically null.
Pius XII’s Ad Apostolorum Principis (1958) condemned communist China’s “election” of bishops without papal mandate as “atrocious injury to the Church.” Yet this Romanian synod operates under the same revolutionary principle of local autonomy, violating Pastor Aeternus‘ definition of papal supremacy. The article’s silence about Pop’s theological positions is deafening – does he uphold the Syllabus of Errors‘ condemnation of religious liberty (Proposition 77) or the Lamentabili prohibition against modernism?
Ethnic Syncretism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The celebration of Arbo village reclaiming its Aramaic name exemplifies the neo-church’s reduction of Catholicism to cultural anthropology. While the 1915 genocide deserves condemnation, the article replaces salus animarum with ethnic identity politics. Pius XI’s Quas Primas declared “The Kingdom of Christ is spiritual and concerns spiritual things” (1925), yet here we find five-language signage (including Kurdish and English) omitting Latin – the Church’s sacred tongue – while ignoring the village’s need for sacramental restoration.
Worse still, the article praises returnees from Europe without asking: Do they attend valid Masses or Novus Ordo counterfeits? Have they abandoned the true faith under decades of conciliar indoctrination? The Orthodox bishop’s statement – “we will always remain steadfast on this land” – exposes the naturalism Pius XI condemned: Steadfastness in dirt, not in fides et ratio. Where is the call to abandon Eastern schismatics and return to Rome’s unity?
False Mercy Over Doctrine in Syria’s Ruins
The Syrian Christians’ return to al-Ghassaniyah is presented sentimentally, ignoring the theological disaster. Bishop Athanase Fahd belongs to a schismatic body condemned by Leo XIII’s Praeclara Gratulationis (1894) as “in no way removed from the ancient heresy of Photius.” The conciliar sect’s false ecumenism prevents VaticanNews from demanding their conversion – a direct violation of Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam: “Outside the Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.”
Where are the missionaries bringing valid sacraments? Where is the denunciation of Islamic persecution? Instead, we get a photograph of “destroyed church” without noting whether it was ever consecrated for Catholic worship. The article’s focus on physical reconstruction mirrors the conciliar sect’s obsession with temporal charity over spiritual salvation – precisely the error Pius X condemned in Pascendi as “placing charity before faith.”
Linguistic Subversion of Catholic Reality
The article’s vocabulary reveals its modernist foundations. “Greek-Catholic” implies parity with Orthodox error, rejecting Pius XII’s mandate in Orientales Omnes (1945) that Eastern Catholics must “remove all that might separate them from the Latin Rite.” The term “Assyrian-Syriac” promotes ethnic division condemned by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos as “contrary to nature who inspires peace and unity.”
Most damningly, “Pope Benedict XVI” appears without quotes – an implicit endorsement of the antipope’s false authority. The Code of Canon Law (1917) requires Catholics to “avoid any communication in sacred things with non-Catholics” (Canon 1258), yet VaticanNews celebrates Orthodox bishops and multi-religious signage as progress. This is not journalism but apostasy encyclical.
Omissions That Condemn
Nowhere does the article mention:
– The need for these communities to reject Vatican II’s heresies
– The invalid sacraments administered by conciliar “priests”
– The duty of Catholic monarchs to restore Christ’s social reign
– The impending judgment upon nations rejecting Catholic truth
This silence proves the neo-church has abandoned extra Ecclesiam nulla salus for the modernist heresy of anonymous Christianity. As the Syllabus of Errors proclaimed against such naturalism: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true is condemned” (Proposition 15).
The “news from the Orient” constitutes not hope but tragedy – the spectacle of apostates building Babel on the ruins of Christendom while true Catholics endure persecution. Until the usurpers are expelled from Rome and the Social Kingship restored, such articles will continue deceiving souls into the broad path of perdition.
Source:
News from the Orient – Nov. 13, 2025 (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.11.2025