Catholic News Agency portal (November 28, 2025) commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea with an article that reduces the Church’s dogmatic victory to a mere historical curiosity. While acknowledging Nicaea’s condemnation of Arianism, the piece promotes the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism through “Pope” Leo XIV’s statement that “this unity can only be unity in faith” – a hollow phrase stripped of its necessary Catholic context. The article engages in historical positivism by treating the council primarily as an imperial political event rather than a supernatural intervention of the Holy Ghost to defend Christ’s divinity. Dominican Father Dominic Legge correctly identifies Arian errors but operates within the compromised framework of an institution that tolerates modernists. Most grievously, the text omits Nicaea’s foundational affirmation of Roman primacy – embodied in Pope Sylvester I’s legates who presided – thereby facilitating the neo-church’s ongoing betrayal of papal supremacy.
Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as Orthodox Commemoration
The article’s central deception lies in quoting “Pope” Leo XIV’s assertion that unity must be “unity in faith” while concealing the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of that same faith. When the usurper of Peter’s throne states “we are on the path towards the reestablishment of full communion among all Christians,” he promotes the condemned error of religious indifferentism. The Council of Nicaea anathematized all who denied Christ’s divinity (anathema sit), yet today’s Vatican occupiers embrace Arius’ spiritual descendants through interfaith dialogues and heretical joint declarations.
Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos (1928) explicitly condemned such false unity: “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 article’s reference to Orthodox and Protestant acceptance of Nicaea is doubly misleading:
“The common beliefs still offer a strong element of unity in an otherwise fractured Christianity”
This implies these sects maintain valid adherence to Nicene orthodoxy when in reality:
- The Orthodox reject papal supremacy defined at Nicaea (Canon VI)
- Protestants deny the Sacrifice of the Mass instituted by Christ and celebrated at Nicaea
- Both groups perpetuate the Eastern Schism and Protestant heresies respectively
Naturalistic Reduction of Dogmatic Triumph
Professor Thomas Clemmons’ analysis exemplifies the conciliar sect’s modernist historiography by emphasizing Constantine’s political motivations over the Holy Ghost’s guidance. His claim that “the creed ‘convinces people over many decades but without the imperial enforcement you would expect'” constitutes dogmatic evolutionism – suggesting truth prevails through persuasive power rather than divine authority.
Contrast this with Pope St. Leo the Great’s Sermon 3 on the Council of Chalcedon: “The Lord showed that He was present through the Holy Spirit, so that all who had assembled in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, were governed by the Spirit’s direction.” The article’s focus on imperial politics (Constantine’s baptism timing, Theodosius’ enforcement) obscures the supernatural reality that dogmatic definitions are infallible from the moment of promulgation, not through later acceptance.
Omission of Papal Authority Undermines Nicaea’s Legacy
Nowhere does the article mention Pope Sylvester I’s crucial role in ratifying Nicaea’s decrees, a deliberate omission facilitating the neo-church’s ongoing suppression of papal primacy. Canon VI of Nicaea explicitly affirms the Bishop of Rome’s jurisdiction over “the suburban dioceses” of the West – a foundation stone of Petrine authority that the conciliar sect systematically dismantles through synodalism and collegiality.
Pope Pius IX’s Vatican Council, Session IV (1870) dogmatically reaffirmed: “The Roman Pontiff has full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church… This power is ordinary and immediate, both over all and each of the Churches, and over all and each of the pastors and faithful.” By contrast, “Pope” Leo XIV’s statement about Nicaea pointedly avoids mentioning papal authority while promoting his false “synodal church” agenda.
Selective Orthodoxy Conceals Modernist Agenda
The article correctly refutes Protestant misconceptions about Nicaea establishing the biblical canon or creating the papacy. However, it remains silent on how the conciliar sect itself perpetuates far graver errors that Nicaea would condemn:
- Modernist biblical criticism that undermines Christ’s divinity as Arius did
- Ecumenical gatherings with heretical sects anathematized at Nicaea
- Destruction of the Mass through Novus Ordo innovations
When Fr. Legge states Athanasius warned Arianism “threatened the central truth of Christianity that God became man for our salvation,” he accidentally condemns his own institution. The neo-church’s anthropocentric focus on “human fraternity” and environmentalism constitutes a new Arianism that reduces Christ from Divine Savior to mere ethical teacher – precisely what Nicaea fought to prevent.
Conclusion: Return to Uncompromised Nicene Faith
The 1,700th anniversary of Nicaea should compel faithful Catholics to reject the conciliar sect’s distortions and embrace the Council’s true legacy: uncompromising defense of Christ’s divinity and Roman primacy. As St. Athanasius – whom the neo-church would likely censure as “rigid” – declared: “They who maintain ‘There was a time when the Son was not’ separate Him from the Father… Therefore the Catholic Church anathematizes those who say that the Son of God is a creature” (Against the Arians, 1.6). Only by rejecting the Vatican II apostasy and its false shepherds can we honor Nicaea’s eternal witness to the consustantialem Patri – Christ’s co-eternal divinity with the Father.
Source:
Council of Nicaea: 1,700 years of Christian unity amid division (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 28.11.2025