The Catholic News Agency portal (November 26, 2025) presents Angelo Roncalli’s 1935-1945 tenure in Turkey as a model of interfaith diplomacy, praising his compliance with secular dress codes, ecumenical outreach to Orthodox leaders, and instrumental role in establishing Vatican-Turkey relations. The article extols his Turkish-language liturgical innovations and posthumous recognition as “the Turkish Pope,” culminating in President Celâl Bayar’s 1959 Vatican visit that formalized diplomatic ties.
Betrayal of Ecclesiastical Independence to Secular Powers
Roncalli’s alleged “diplomatic instinct” reveals capitulation to anti-Catholic persecution. His obedience to Atatürk’s ban on religious attire outside worship spaces constitutes direct violation of Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI declared: “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (¶31). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 122) mandated clerical dress precisely as contra mundum witness against secularism.
This surrender echoes the condemned proposition in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 42): “In case of conflicting laws, the civil law prevails.” Roncalli’s compliance institutionalized the conciliar heresy that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55), directly facilitating Turkey’s suppression of Catholic identity under guise of “secular progress.”
False Ecumenism as Trojan Horse for Religious Indifferentism
The article celebrates Roncalli’s “unprecedented” Orthodox patriarch meeting, ignoring St. Pius X’s condemnation in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called agnosticism” (¶6). By engaging heretical leaders as equals, Roncalli enacted the excommunicable offense of promoting indifferentism, defined in the Syllabus as the error that “man may find the way of eternal salvation in any religion whatever” (Error 16).
His Turkish-language Gospel reading during Mass constitutes liturgical abuse foreshadowing the vernacular Novus Ordo. The Council of Trent (Session 22, Canon 9) anathematized those claiming “the customary rite of the Roman Church ought to be changed.” Roncalli’s innovation fulfilled Benedict XV’s warning in Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (1914) against “false conciliation tending to the union into one body of different religions.”
Subversion of Catholic Identity Through Masonic Diplomacy
The article’s pride in Roncalli’s “bridges of trust” with Turkish officials exposes the Masonic strategy documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “Stage 1 (1917-1940): Implantation of the message and ‘negative credentialing’ through skepticism from authorities.” His friendship with Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioğlu – a secularist architect of Turkey’s anti-clerical policies – mirrors the condemned Syllabus Error 44: “Civil authority may interfere in matters of spiritual government.”
Roncalli’s masonic-inspired “humanitarianism” aiding Jewish refugees served not Christian charity but globalist interests. Pius XII’s Summi Pontificatus (1939) warned that “humanitarianism rejects the Church’s title to teacher of truth,” yet Roncalli’s actions birthed the conciliar heresy that “the Church is chiefly a humanitarian organization” (Lamentabili, Error 63).
Diabolical Disorientation in Post-Conciliar “Veneration”
The statue inscription hailing Roncalli as “Friend of the Turkish People” confirms his role as harbinger of Antichurch. This blasphemous title inverts Pius XI’s teaching that “the peace of Christ can only be achieved through the reign of Christ” (Quas Primas ¶1). Atatürk’s mausoleum visit by antipope Leo XIV continues Roncalli’s betrayal, for the Turkish founder systematically destroyed Christianity’s remnants – closing seminaries, banning religious orders, and persecuting faithful clergy.
Roncalli’s canonization by the conciliar sect fulfills the Masonic Operation “Fatima” timeline: “1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization) – ritualistic 100-year cycles.” His sainthood cult embodies the condemned Modernist tenet that “truth changes with man, developing through him” (Lamentabili, Error 58), directly opposing Boniface VIII’s infallible decree: “It is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Unam Sanctam).
Omission of Supernatural Finalities: Apostasy’s Silent Creed
The article’s silence on Roncalli’s theological errors proves its complicity in apostasy. No mention is made of his:
- Denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (implied by interfaith activities)
- Undermining of Papal Supremacy (through “collegial” Orthodox outreach)
- Rejection of Social Kingship of Christ (via secular state collaboration)
This censorship fulfills St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernists “omit the mention of eternal punishments” (¶39). By glorifying diplomatic pragmatism over lex credendi, the article embodies the Naturalism condemned in Syllabus Error 58: “Moral rectitude consists in accumulating wealth and pleasures.”
The Turkish mission – far from heroic – was Roncalli’s testing ground for implementing the condemned Modernist synthesis: replacing Catholic integralism with secular-humanist dialogue. As Pius IX warned in Quanta Cura (1864), such “false and perverse opinions” stem from “that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.”
Source:
How the man who became Pope John XXIII helped shape Vatican-Turkey relations (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.11.2025