Antipope’s Turkish Journey: Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as Apostolic Zeal
Vatican News portal (November 27, 2025) reports on the arrival of antipope Leo XIV in Turkey, framing his visit as an “apostolic journey” to a nation where Catholics constitute a minority of 0.1% among 99% Muslims. The article features “Fr.” Alexander Jernej, CM—a Vincentian priest serving in Istanbul—who celebrates “ecumenical relations” with Orthodox and Protestant sects and claims growth in Turkish Catholic numbers. This narrative exemplifies the neo-church’s surrender to religious indifferentism and its abandonment of the Church’s divine mission to convert all nations to the One True Faith.
Erasure of Christ’s Social Kingship
The article praises Turkey as a “secular state with no official religion,” ignoring the dictatum of Pope Pius XI: “Kings and princes… must not only themselves render obedience to Christ… but must also in their laws and government strive to secure His reign” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 1925). By celebrating secularism—a system that rejects Christ’s authority over civil institutions—the conciliar sect violates the First Commandment and betrays the Magna Carta of Catholic civilization. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemns the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55)—a heresy now paraded as virtuous by Vatican News.
Ecumenism as Apostasy
“Fr.” Jernej boasts of ecumenical gatherings during the “Week of Prayer for Unity,” claiming relations with Orthodox and Protestant groups are “very familiar.” This contradicts the anathema of Pope Pius XI: “The Apostolic See cannot in any way take part in [ecumenical] assemblies… For the union of Christians can only be fostered by promoting the return of dissenters to the One True Church” (Mortalium Animos, 1928). The article’s silence on conversion exposes its naturalistic assumption that all religions are equally valid—a dogma of Freemasonry condemned in Humanum Genus (Leo XIII, 1884).
“We are happy the Holy Father will visit the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I…”
Here, the conciliar sect elevates a schismatic—Bartholomew I, head of the Eastern Orthodox heresy—to equal standing with the Successor of Peter. This blasphemy directly assaults the Bull Unam Sanctam (Boniface VIII, 1302), which declares: “Outside the Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sins… it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church
The article reduces the Church’s mission to sociological growth metrics:
“The number of Turkish Catholics is growing, which ‘is a great joy’… to ‘see that the local church is also growing.'”
This ignores the supernatural purpose of the Church: the salvation of souls through the Blood of Christ. Nowhere does the piece mention grace, sacraments, or the Four Last Things. Instead, it peddles the Modernist heresy that the Church is merely a human “community” evolving through interfaith dialogue—precisely the error condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable… the Christian community… is subject to perpetual evolution” (Error #53).
Illegitimate Sacraments and False Shepherds
The “Catholic community” described likely receives sacraments from clergy ordained under Paul VI’s invalid rites—a fact omitted by Vatican News. As the Holy Office decreed in 1949: “No one is permitted to participate actively in sacred rites… of non-Catholics” (Ecclesia Catholica). By promoting intercommunion with heretics, antipope Leo XIV compounds the sacrilege of his predecessors.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Turkey
This apostolic journey—echoing Paul VI’s 1967 surrender to the Orthodox—confirms the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to Masonic secularism. As St. Pius X warned: “The enemies of the Church… have conceived the hope of achieving her ruin by attacking the Roman Pontiff“ (Editae Saepe, 1910). Until true Catholics denounce this counterfeit church and return to the immovable pillars of Tradition—the Tridentine Mass, Thomistic theology, and the Social Reign of Christ the King—such blasphemies will multiply.
Source:
Catholic community growing in Türkiye (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.11.2025