Apostate Ecumenism: Bergoglian Pretender and Armenian Schismatic Forge New Alliance
The VaticanNews portal (November 30, 2025) reports on the meeting between antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and Sahak II Marshalian, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Constantinople. The article frames their encounter as “practical ecumenism” celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Sahak II calls for “new ways to think about and model a new pattern of ecumenism” through student exchanges and mutual visits, claiming this “practical ecumenism” might achieve “full communion nearly realized.” The antipope’s visit to the Armenian schismatic cathedral is presented as a “turning point” for Christian unity.
Schismatic Betrayal of Nicaea’s Dogmatic Foundations
The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) defined the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father against the Arian heresy (Quas Primas, Pius XI). To invoke this council while promoting union with the Armenian Apostolic Church—which rejects the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 AD)—constitutes theological fraud. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). The Armenian Church’s denial of Chalcedon’s Christological definitions places it outside Catholic communion, rendering all talk of “practical ecumenism” apostate collaboration.
Sahak II’s admission that “the old systems cannot be broken and made anew” reveals the Modernist impulse to discard dogma. This echoes Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Proposition 60). The proposed “new pattern of ecumenism” constitutes precisely the evolutionary heresy denounced here—a deliberate abandonment of immutable truth for pragmatic union.
Theological Treason in “Practical Ecumenism”
When Sahak II claims reciprocal visits and student exchanges represent “more realistic [ecumenism] than theoretical or theological discussions,” he inverts the Catholic imperative. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos explicitly forbade such indifferentist practices: “So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics.” The article’s celebration of Armenians and modernists “pass[ing] through the barricade of full communion” constitutes public sacrilege, violating Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code: “Catholics are not permitted to actively assist at or participate in non-Catholic religious functions.”
The blasphemous greeting of the antipope as “our brother in Jesus Christ” compounds this heresy. As Leo XIII decreed in Satis Cognitum: “All who take away from the Church the nature and properties with which Christ endowed her must be considered to be aiming at the destruction of the Church itself.” Sahak II’s Armenian Church—like the conciliar sect—denies papal supremacy, the Immaculate Conception, and seven sacraments, rendering any fraternal recognition apostasy.
Nicaea’s Eternal Condemnation of Modernist Betrayal
To commemorate Nicaea while subverting its dogmatic authority epitomizes conciliar deceit. The Council’s Creed—Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est ut teneat catholicam fidem (“Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith”)—directly condemns the article’s ecumenical agenda. Pius IX’s Syllabus Proposition 21 rejects precisely this relativism: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.”
The Armenian Patriarch’s call to “forget the past” constitutes spiritual suicide. As Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (validly ordained despite later errors) warned before his own collapse into conciliarism: “To wrench the Church from her past is a diabolical undertaking.” True Catholics echo Pius VI’s condemnation in Auctorem Fidei against those who would “adapt Church discipline to the corruptions of the age.”
Antipope as Agent of Ecumenical Apostasy
Bergoglio’s successor continues the destruction foretold in Pius X’s Pascendi: “The Modernist systematically destroys all dogma.” By treating the Armenian schismatics as equals, antipope Leo XIV fulfills the Third Secret of Fatima’s warning of “apostasy in the highest levels of the Church“—a prophecy authenticated not by the discredited Fatima myth but by the Church’s consistent teaching against ecumenism.
The article’s omission of any reference to conversion reveals its diabolical disorientation. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Neither “practical ecumenism” nor Nicaea commemorations can substitute for the only solution: “Instaurare omnia in Christo” (“To restore all things in Christ”).
Source:
Armenian Patriarch: Pope Leo’s visit is ‘practical ecumenism’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025