Apostolic Betrayal: Vatican’s Istanbul Summit Mocks Nicaean Orthodoxy
VaticanNews portal reports (November 29, 2025) on an ecumenical gathering at Istanbul’s Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church, where antipope Leo XIV joined Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Protestant leaders to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. The event featured closed-door discussions about advancing Christian unity ahead of the 2033 “Jubilee of Redemption,” culminating in a heterodox recitation of the Our Father. This spectacle constitutes a flagrant repudiation of Catholic ecclesiology by treating heresy as equal to divine truth.
Subversion of Nicaea’s Dogmatic Foundations
The article’s reference to “the Gospel of the Incarnation” as Nicaea’s central achievement deliberately obscures the Council’s anathemas against Arianism. While the original Council Fathers declared “Those who say: ‘There was a time when He was not’… let them be anathema” (Canon I), the Istanbul participants include Baptists and Evangelicals who deny sacramental realism and Lutherans rejecting apostolic succession. To suggest these groups uphold Nicaean Christology constitutes doctrinal fraud.
“Pope Leo highlighted once again the value of the Council of Nicaea… centered on the Gospel of the Incarnation.”
This equivocation ignores how St. Athanasius—present at Nicaea—condemned precisely such false unity: “Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them” (Epistle to Serapion). The 2033 Jubilee framework invoked by the antipope continues Paul VI’s blasphemous “Ecumenical Pentecost” concept condemned by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as “syncretistic paganism.”
Ecumenism as Apostate Sacrilege
The participation of heretical bodies like the World Evangelical Alliance (deniers of baptismal regeneration) and Anglican Communion (promoters of sodomite “marriages”) violates the infallible teaching of Pius XI: “The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics… to favor such undertakings” (Mortalium Animos, 1928). By leading the Our Father with a Syriac schismatic, Leo XIV commits the sin of communicatio in sacris explicitly forbidden by Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code.
The article’s boast about Mor Ephrem being “the first new Church built in Türkiye since 1924” confirms the conciliar sect’s alliance with Islamist regimes persecuting remaining Catholics. Meanwhile, the Vatican II sect ignores the martyrdom of Armenian and Greek Orthodox Christians by Turkish forces—a silence purchased through geopolitical subservience.
Heretical Eschatology of the 2033 Jubilee
Antipope Leo’s call for a “spiritual path leading to the Jubilee of Redemption… with a view to returning to Jerusalem” inverts Catholic eschatology. True popes from Urban II to Pius XII called for Jerusalem’s liberation from Mohammedan occupation; the counterfeit Vatican now prepares a pan-religious desecration of Christ’s city. His motto “In Illo uno unum” (In the One, we are one) parodies Christ’s High Priestly Prayer (John 17:21) to suggest unity exists without submission to Peter’s successor—a heresy condemned by Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302).
The article’s omission of any call for non-Catholics to convert exposes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Contrast this with Pius IX’s condemnation: “It is an error to believe that Protestants… are in any way members of the Church of Christ” (Syllabus of Errors, 1864, Propositio 17). When the Mor Ephrem gathering speaks of “the faith we share together,” it reduces Catholicism to the lowest common denominator—precisely the “counterfeit Christianity” Pius XI warned against.
Conclusion: From Nicaea to Neo-Paganism
As the Council of Nicaea’s 1,700th anniversary becomes a platform for ecumenical apostasy, faithful Catholics recall St. Jerome’s admonition: “The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian” (Dialogue Against the Luciferians). Today’s conciliar sect grovels before globalist powers while selling the Birthright of Catholic truth for a mess of interfaith pottage. Those who participate in such sacrileges place themselves outside the Church’s salvific bounds, confirming the prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
Source:
Looking to Jerusalem and Jubilee of 2033, Pope Leo highlights Christian path of unity (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.11.2025