Apostate Journey: Leo XIV’s Betrayal of Catholic Sovereignty in Turkey and Lebanon
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 26, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon, emphasizing “Christian unity,” dialogue with Islam, and commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. The itinerary includes ecumenical prayers with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, visits to mosques, and gestures toward Lebanon’s crisis-stricken communities. The article omits any defense of Catholic exclusivity while promoting interfaith syncretism under the blasphemous motto “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5) – a creed now weaponized to equate heresy with truth.
Ecumenical Apostasy at the Council of Nicaea’s Grave
The sacrilegous commemoration of Nicaea I – which dogmatically defined Christ’s consubstantiality with the Father – is exploited to stage an ecumenical farce. The antipope’s joint prayer service with Patriarch Bartholomew I constitutes formal participation in schism, condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” The planned “joint declaration” violates Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which anathematizes the proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). By treating Orthodox dissenters as equals, Leo XIV denies the Church’s divine constitution – a betrayal Saint Pius X condemned as the heresy that “the Church is not an unequalled and divine society” (Lamentabili Sane, 1907, Proposition 53).
Mosque Visits and Hagia Sophia’s Conspicuous Absence
Leo XIV’s visit to Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues Vatican II’s idolatrous trend of “interreligious dialogue,” condemned by Pius XI’s affirmation that “the Catholic Church alone is keeping the true worship” (Mortalium Animos). The omission of Hagia Sophia – desecrated as a mosque in 2020 – reveals cowardice. Contrast this with St. Pius V’s excommunication of Ottoman allies during Lepanto (1571) or Pius XII’s demand that Muslim nations grant full freedom to Catholic missions (Evangelii Praecones, 1951). Instead, the antipope’s silence legitimizes Turkey’s persecution of Christians, including the murders of Fr. Santoro (2006) and Bishop Padovese (2010).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith in Lebanon
In Lebanon, the antipope reduces Catholicism to social activism, visiting economic disaster sites while ignoring the spiritual crisis: collapsing sacramental life, Freemasonic infiltration of Maronite orders, and heresies like the 1996 Bkerke Agreement that surrendered Catholic schools to Islamic control. The focus on St. Charbel’s tomb serves as a theatrical distraction from Leo XIV’s refusal to condemn Hezbollah’s terrorist hegemony or demand conversion of Muslims. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) thunders against such naturalism: “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.”
The Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the article mention Christ’s right to reign over Turkey or Lebanon’s civil laws – a silence echoing the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas. The antipope’s speeches will likely parrot Bergoglian platitudes about “fraternity” while ignoring Pius IX’s condemnation of religious indifferentism: “It is not lawful for men to choose whatever religion they prefer” (Quanta Cura, 1864). The Jubilee “Year of Hope” becomes a modernist carnival, devoid of calls for repentance or the reign of the Sacred Heart – the very devotion Leo XIII consecrated the world to in 1899.
A Journey of Submission, Not Sovereignty
From bowing at Atatürk’s secularist mausoleum to groveling before Erdogan’s Islamist regime, Leo XIV’s voyage epitomizes the conciliar sect’s surrender to earthly powers. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemns this as Error 56: “The Roman Church became the head of all Churches due to purely political causes, and not by the ordinance of Divine Providence.” True popes never begged tyrants for tolerance; they demanded submission to Christ the King. As Benedict XV declared during Turkey’s Armenian genocide: “The Church does not occupy foreign territory; she reclaims her own.”
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to focus on Christian unity, relations with Islam in Turkey and Lebanon (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.11.2025