Apostolic Journey or Apostasy? Leo XIV’s Pilgrimage to Syncretic Shrines
The VaticanNews portal (November 26, 2025) chronicles antipope Leo XIV’s planned visits to nine religious sites in Turkey and Lebanon, framing this as a “spiritual and historical” endeavor to strengthen ties with Orthodox and Islamic communities. The itinerary includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Islamic locations, with emphasis on ecumenical dialogue and interreligious “shared heritage.” This syncretic pilgrimage confirms the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation) and constitutes public apostasy.
Desecration of Sacred Spaces Through False Ecumenism
The portal celebrates visits to schismatic Orthodox sites like the Patriarchal Church of St. George, where antipope Leo XIV will venerate relics of saints canonized by Eastern heretics. This violates the 1755 Bull Allatae Sunt by Benedict XIV, which forbade Catholics from participating in Orthodox rites as they “are involved in the guilt of schism and are separated from the Church.” The article’s reference to Patriarch Bartholomew I as “spiritual leader” of Orthodox Christians constitutes blasphemous recognition of schismatics.
The planned visit to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues the conciliar betrayal initiated by Benedict XVI’s 2006 gesture. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) condemned such acts: “False religions are certainly not all equally good… nor can those who take part in non-Catholic worship be said to worship the True God in any way.” To present Islamic prayer spaces as spiritually significant locations for a purported “Vicar of Christ” embodies religious indifferentism condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 16-17).
Canonical Invalidity of “Saints” and Relics
The article promotes devotion to St. Charbel Makhlouf, “canonized” by Paul VI in 1977. As the conciliar sect lacks authority to canonize, this pseudo-saint’s monastery in Annaya becomes a monument to heresy. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1999) reserves canonization exclusively to the Roman Pontiff—a title Leo XIV usurps. Similarly, the shrine’s 1904 construction honoring Pius IX’s Ineffabilis Deus is desecrated by its current administrators, the Congregation of Lebanese Missionaries, who implement Vatican II’s heresies.
At Istanbul’s Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the portal highlights relics of “St. Peter and St. Linus” alongside a statue of Benedict XV. This juxtaposition sacrilegiously equates pre-conciliar popes with conciliar antipopes. The reference to John XXIII as “saint” compounds the offense—his heretical teachings (e.g., religious liberty in Pacem in Terris) render his “canonization” canonically impossible under Canon 1404.
Subordination of Catholic Identity to Archaeology and Politics
The article reduces the Council of Nicaea (325) to a historical footnote at the “excavations of St. Neophytus Basilica,” ignoring its dogmatic definition of Christ’s divinity against Arianism. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemned the error that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth” (Prop. 3)—precisely what occurs when archaeological sites replace doctrinal clarity as the Church’s foundation.
The journey’s culmination at the Maronite Patriarchate underscores the conciliar sect’s destruction of Eastern Catholic identity. While claiming “full communion with the Apostolic See,” Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï actively promotes communion with schismatics—a violation of Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos prohibition against “pan-Christian” gatherings. The Maronites’ survival despite Islamic persecution is now squandered through ecumenical surrender.
Omission of Doctrinal Guardrails and Supernatural Reality
Nowhere does the article warn faithful that attending these syncretic events incurs excommunication under Canon 2314 for communicatio in sacris with heretics. There is no mention of Christ’s Social Kingship (Pius XI, Quas Primas), which demands Catholic confessional states rather than interfaith dialogue. The silence on the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) reveals the journey’s naturalistic framework—a hallmark of modernism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Prop. 22, 58).
The portal’s description of antipope Leo XIV’s visit as an “apostolic journey” constitutes semantic fraud. True apostolicity requires maintaining “the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3), not dismantling it through joint prayers with infidels. As Leo XIII declared in Satis Cognitum (1896), the Church’s unity rests on “unity of faith, not of factional consensus”—a principle the conciliar sect systematically violates.
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9 historic religious sites Pope Leo XIV will visit in Turkey, Lebanon (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.11.2025