Ecumenical Spectacle in Istanbul Masks Apostasy
The Vatican News portal (November 28, 2025) reports on “Pope” Leo XIV’s visit to the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, where he blessed a cornerstone for a “Catholic” parish in Dallas and greeted followers of the Neocatechumenal Way. The article describes emotional crowds chanting “Long live the Pope!” and presents the event as a celebration of “Christian roots” on the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Catholic mission – replacing Regnum Christi with humanist theater.
Illegitimacy of the “Papal” Office and False Ecumenism
The report’s central fraud lies in styling Robert Prevost as “Pope Leo XIV.” As St. Robert Bellarmine establishes in De Romano Pontifice, “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (II:30). The so-called “apostolic journey” constitutes blasphemous impersonation, given Prevost’s public adherence to Vatican II heresies condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 15-18) and St. Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 22).
The article notes attendees included “people of all nationalities” beneath a mosaic of Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”), the freemason who initiated the conciliar revolution. This juxtaposition exposes the event’s true purpose: celebrating 60 years of apostasy since Roncalli’s illicit occupation of the Holy See. The reference to Nicaea’s anniversary compounds the sacrilege – whereas the true Council defended homoousios against Arianism, the conciliar sect promotes the very religious indifferentism Nicaea condemned.
Desacralization of Sacred Objects and Spaces
The “blessing” of a Dallas church cornerstone reveals the sect’s sacramental bankruptcy. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1166) reserves such blessings to ordinaries with territorial jurisdiction, requiring specific rites affirming the ex opere operato efficacy of sacraments. Instead, the article describes Prevost “signing a t-shirt” like a celebrity – reducing sacred acts to profane spectacle.
This follows the Vatican II playbook of desacralization documented in Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The planned Dallas “church” – designed for “900 faithful” – will inevitably feature the table-altars and versus populum stance that deny the propitiatory sacrifice, as the Holy Office condemned in 1927 (De altarium constructione).
Neocatechumenal Way: Masonic Infiltration Confirmed
The report inadvertently exposes the conciliar sect’s alliance with heretical movements. The Dallas group belongs to the Neocatechumenal Way, whose gnostic-liturgical abuses were documented in Cardinal Stickler’s 1995 report to “John Paul II” – ignored due to the sect’s reliance on this Masonic operation. St. Pius X’s Pascendi (1907) foresaw such movements as tools to “destroy the vital energy of the Church” (§3).
Father Luca Simbula’s statement that “he felt Pope Leo XIV’s closeness as he is from the United States” betrays the nationalist heresy condemned by Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943). True Catholic unity transcends earthly nationalities – a truth obliterated by the conciliar sect’s tribalist ecumenism.
Omission of Supernatural Reality
Nowhere does the article mention grace, salvation, or the Social Kingship of Christ – the very omissions proving its apostate nature. Compare this to Pius XI’s mandate in Quas Primas: “Rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.” Instead, the “Cathedral of the Holy Spirit” hosts a personality cult around a false pontiff, while Istanbul’s 15 million Muslims remain unevangelized.
The Polish student’s question – “what do you believe in?” – receives no Catholic answer in the report. Authentic catechesis would cite the Athanasian Creed promulgated at Nicaea: “Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.” Instead, the conciliar sect peddles the blasphemous “seeking” condemned by Pius IX’s Quanto conficiamur (1863).
Conclusion: Robber Council Reenacted
This Istanbul spectacle constitutes a parody of the true Council of Nicaea. Where 318 bishops confessed Christ’s divinity against imperial pressure, Prevost’s handlers stage interreligious theater to please Erdogan’s regime. As the Vatican II sect prepares its “Great Jubilee 2025,” faithful Catholics recall Pius IX’s warning in Etsi multa (1873): “The enemies of divine revelation… have chosen the popes as the target against which to direct all their strength and arms.”
Only by rejecting this conciliar counterfeit and returning to the immutable Faith can the plagues of modernism be vanquished. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!
Source:
The Pope meets and greets the faithful in Istanbul (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.11.2025