The Catholic News Agency portal reports on November 29, 2025, that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople signed a joint declaration in Istanbul expressing “deep alarm” over global tensions. The text promotes ecumenical dialogue between the Vatican occupiers and Orthodox schismatics, calls for shared celebration of Easter, and references the 1965 mutual lifting of excommunications between antipope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. The declaration advocates interfaith cooperation while omitting any call for conversion to the Catholic faith, instead emphasizing environmental concerns and social justice. This event occurred during Prevost’s first international trip, which included liturgical participation at the schismatic Saint George’s Church and a closed-door meeting with various non-Catholic leaders at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Ephrem.
Ecumenism as Formal Heresy Against Divine Revelation
The joint declaration’s assertion that “Christian unity is a gift from God” constitutes blasphemous distortion of Christ’s prayer “ut unum sint” (John 17:21). The true Church has always taught that unity exists only within the Mystical Body of Christ – the Catholic Church – with all dissenters being “outside the Church’s womb” (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, 1896). The declaration’s call to “work for the fulfillment of Christ’s prayer” through dialogue rather than conversion directly contradicts the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the anathemas of Vatican I against those claiming “the Church’s visible unity may be broken” (Session 3, Canon 3). Pius XI condemned such false ecumenism as “pan-Christians contrived against the unity of the Church” (Mortalium Animos, 1928), while the Holy Office under Pius XII decreed: “No Catholic may attend or participate in conferences aimed at union with non-Catholics” (Decree Ecclesia Catholica, 1949).
“They encouraged efforts to build a just and supportive society and to care for creation, insisting that only such shared responsibility can overcome indifference, domination, greed, and xenophobia.”
This naturalistic reduction of Christianity to social activism constitutes apostasy from the Church’s divine mission to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). The joint declaration’s silence about the Social Reign of Christ the King – whose feast Pius XI instituted precisely against secular humanism (Quas Primas, 1925) – reveals its modernist essence. When Prevost speaks of “shared responsibility” rather than Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat, he fulfills Pius X’s warning that Modernists would reduce religion to “a certain religious sense derived from the needs of sentiment” (Pascendi, 19).
Schismatic Liturgy and Sacrilegious Communion
Prevost’s participation in the Orthodox Doxology at Saint George’s Church constitutes explicit sacrilege against canon 1258 of the 1917 Code: “It is unlawful for the faithful to assist actively or take part in non-Catholic sacred rites.” The Church has always forbidden communicatio in sacris with schismatics, as the Council of Trent anathematized those who claim “heretics and schismatics offer true worship” (Session XXII, Canon 8). Yet Prevost compounds this crime by holding closed-door meetings in a Syriac Orthodox church – a sect condemned by countless pontiffs including Benedict XIV who forbade even entering non-Catholic temples (Ex Quo, 1756).
The declaration’s proposal for “a future common celebration of Easter” confirms the abandonment of Catholic faith. The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) itself – which they claim to commemorate – established the Paschal computation precisely to distinguish Catholic practice from heretical Quartodeciman observance. This attempt at liturgical syncretism fulfills Pius XI’s warning that false ecumenism leads to “the abolition of all religion” (Mortalium Animos).
Genealogy of Apostasy: From 1965 to the Neo-Pagan Abyss
The document’s celebration of the 1965 “lifting of mutual excommunications” between Rome and Constantinople exposes its diabolical roots. The Holy Office under Pius XII had already condemned any dialogue implying equality between Catholic and Orthodox: “The Orthodox are in schism… their sacraments are valid only through the Church’s tolerance” (Instruction De Motione Oecumenica, 1949). The 1965 event constitutes not reconciliation, but mutual apostasy – a betrayal immortalized when Paul VI and Athenagoras jointly threw St. Pius V’s excommunication bull into the fire. Prevost and Bartholomew now extend this apostasy by invoking the heretical concept of “sister churches” condemned by John Paul II’s own Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2000 (Note Communionis Notio).
The declaration’s environmentalism and globalist rhetoric (“care for creation,” “overcome xenophobia”) reveal its alignment with UN Agenda 2030 rather than Catholic eschatology. Nowhere do these false shepherds mention the Four Last Things, the necessity of the Sacraments for salvation, or the Immaculate Heart’s triumph over communism – only naturalistic platitudes. Their “In Illo Uno Unum” motto parodies Christ’s High Priestly Prayer while denying His exclusive mediation (1 Timothy 2:5). This is the “one-world religion” foretold in anti-Catholic prophecies, forged not through conversion but through the mutilation of dogma.
Omissions That Condemn: The Silent Dogmas
The joint declaration’s most damning feature is its systematic omission of Catholic essentials:
- No mention of the Virgin Mary as Mediatrix or the necessity of her Rosary for peace
- No reference to Christ’s imperative: “Unless you eat my flesh…” (John 6:53)
- No warning that Orthodox sacraments – while valid – are illicit and dangerous to faith
- No call for Bartholomew’s submission to the Roman Pontiff (a mortal sin against Vatican I)
- No distinction between Catholic justice (rooted in divine law) and secular “social justice”
This calculated silence proves the declaration’s authors are not merely careless shepherds but wolves “speaking perverse things” (Acts 20:30). As the Holy Office decreed under Pius IX: “Those who treat heretics or schismatics as if they were in good faith are themselves heretics” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 16).
The Antichurch’s pilgrimage to Istanbul – home of both the Hagia Sophia apostasy and the Ottoman Caliphate – symbolizes its final surrender to the spirit of Antichrist. While true Catholics pray for the conversion of schismatics and the liberation of the Holy See, this sacrilegious spectacle demands not dialogue but denunciation. As St. Robert Bellarmine declared: “A manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30) – a truth now confirmed daily by the Vatican occupiers’ apostasies.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV and Bartholomew I ‘deeply alarmed’ by global tensions (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 29.11.2025