Conciliar Sect Exploits Nicaean Anniversary to Advance Syncretism
The “Vatican News” portal (November 24, 2025) reports on an interview with “Cardinal” Kurt Koch concerning antipope Leo XIV’s upcoming journey to Turkey and Lebanon. The article promotes a joint commemoration of the First Council of Nicaea with the schismatic Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, framing it as an opportunity for “ecumenical friendship” and “solidarity” with minority Christian communities. Koch claims this event will “bear witness to Christian unity” based on Nicaea’s definition of Christ’s divinity, while omitting the Council’s condemnation of Arianism and its reinforcement of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). The report concludes with platitudes about interreligious dialogue in Lebanon, where the conciliar sect elevates political cooperation with Muslims above the conversion of souls.
Subversion of Nicaea’s Dogmatic Authority
Koch’s assertion that Nicaea “concerns all Christians” constitutes a deliberate obfuscation. The Council promulgated the Nicene Creed precisely to condemn heretics who denied Christ’s consubstantiality with the Father. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, Christ’s Kingship demands that “states must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations” to proclaim Catholic truth uncompromised (¶32). By contrast, Koch reduces the Council to a mere “foundation” for ecumenical diplomacy, ignoring Canon 7 of Nicaea which excommunicated those who readmit apostates without penance—a direct rebuke to modern ecumenism’s embrace of schismatics.
The article’s claim that “faith in the divinity of Jesus is still questioned today” reveals the bankruptcy of conciliar theology. True ecumenism requires heretics to renounce errors and submit to Rome (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 16). Instead, Koch promotes “deepening faith together” with Orthodoxy—a sect condemned by Leo XIII in Praeclara gratulationis for maintaining “the gravest of errors, the rejection of the Primacy established by Christ.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
Antipope Leo XIV’s journey is framed as a visit of “sympathy and solidarity” rather than a call to repentance. This echoes the modernist heresy condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The article omits any mention of:
- The necessity of submitting all nations to Christ the King (Quas Primas, ¶18)
- The Church’s duty to convert Muslims (Canon 1351, 1917 Code)
- The mortal peril of Orthodox sacraments (Council of Florence, Cantate Domino)
Koch’s praise for Lebanon’s political arrangement—where a Maronite president coexists with a Muslim prime minister—embraces the heresy of secularism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77). Pius IX anathematized those who claim “the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship“—precisely the model Lebanon abandoned.
“In Illo Uno Unum” as Masonic Slogan
The antipope’s motto “In Illo uno unum” (In Him, one) is presented as a rallying cry for ecumenism. This phrase, however, inverts the Catholic understanding of unity. As St. Cyprian taught: “The spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous; she is uncorrupted and pure. She knows one home only, and with chaste modesty she guards the sanctity of one couch.” (On the Unity of the Church, 6). True unity exists solely within the Mystical Body under Peter’s successor—a doctrine denied by both the conciliar sect and Constantinople’s schismatics.
The article’s silence on the Filioque clause—dogmatically defined at Nicaea II (787) and rejected by Orthodoxy—exposes Koch’s dishonesty. Ecumenism’s endgame is not unity but the creation of a global pseudo-church that denies all dogma, as foreseen in St. Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi: “They will put into operation their conception for the undoing of the Church.”
Omissions as Grave as Errors
Nowhere does Koch or the article mention:
The Council of Nicaea’s anathemas against Arius, which remain binding on all Christians.
The necessity of the Papal Primacy for valid ecumenical councils (Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus).
The eternal flames awaiting those who die outside the Church (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 3).
These omissions confirm the conciliar sect’s apostasy. When Koch speaks of “encouraging” Middle Eastern Christians, he means persuading them to abandon Catholic exclusivity for the pluralism condemned in Mortalium Animos (Pius XI): “This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies.”
Source:
Cardinal Koch: Papal journey opportunity to deepen faith in Christ's divinity (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.11.2025