Apostolic Journey to Turkey: Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerading as Unity
Vatican News portal reports on 30 November 2025 that antipope Leo XIV concluded his “apostolic journey” to Turkey by visiting the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of Istanbul and participating in a pseudo-liturgy with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The article highlights the journey’s focus on commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea alongside leaders of schismatic communities and interreligious activities with Islamic and Jewish representatives. This spectacle represents not Christian unity but the conciliar sect’s surrender to religious indifferentism.
Betrayal of Nicaea’s Dogmatic Legacy
The Vatican News portal describes this voyage as a commemoration of “the first Ecumenical Council in the history of the Church,” yet conspicuously avoids any mention of Nicaea’s condemnation of Arianism or its definition of Christ’s consubstantiality with the Father. Quas Primas (1925) explicitly taught that Christ’s kingship demands “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI). By contrast, antipope Leo XIV treats the Council as a mere historical artifact, stripping it of its dogmatic significance to promote ecumenical syncretism. The joint presence with Patriarch Bartholomew—whose schismatic community rejects papal primacy—constitutes formal cooperation with heresy, condemned by Pope Pius XI as “contrary to the divine constitution of the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, §38).
He was there with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as well as other patriarchs, heads of Churches and Christian Communities representing the vast majority of Christians in the world today.
This statement commits the heresy of indifferentism, equating the Catholic Church with communities severed from apostolic succession. The 1907 decree Lamentabili Sane condemned the notion that “the Roman Church became the head of all Churches due to purely political causes” (§56). True unity requires submission to Rome, not intercommunion with those who deny the Filioque or papal supremacy.
Interreligious Apostasy at the Blue Mosque
The article boasts of antipope Leo XIV’s visit to the Blue Mosque and meetings with Islamic authorities, framing it as “interreligious dialogue.” This violates the dogmatic teaching of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and Pius IX’s condemnation of the idea that “Muslim worship is worthy of praise” (Syllabus of Errors, §16). The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1258) forbade Catholics from participating in non-Catholic rites, yet the antipope’s actions implicitly endorse Islamic prayer as a valid path to God—a blasphemy against Christ’s unique mediation.
False Sign of Unity on St. Andrew’s Feast
The joint signing of a statement with Bartholomew on the Feast of St. Andrew compounds the sacrilege. St. Andrew’s martyrdom testified to Roman primacy, yet the conciliar sect reduces him to a symbol of Orthodox-Catholic parity. Pius IX’s Syllabus anathematized those who claim “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (§18)—a heresy now extended to Orthodoxy. The “joint statement” likely advances the pan-heresy of synodality, repudiating the Council of Florence’s decree Laetentur Caeli (1439), which demanded Orthodox submission to papal authority.
Omission of Supernatural Realities
Throughout the article, Vatican News employs naturalistic language devoid of references to grace, conversion, or the salvation of souls. The “small but vibrant Catholic community” in Turkey is praised without urging its members to avoid schismatic liturgies or the sacrilege of communicatio in sacris. Quas Primas warned that societies rejecting Christ’s reign “contribute to the destruction of people and nations distant from God”—a truth ignored as antipope Leo XIV treats Islam and Judaism as equals to the One True Faith.
Conclusion: A Spectacle of Apostasy
This journey epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic identity. By commemorating Nicaea while denying its dogmas, sharing pseudo-liturgical rites with schismatics, and venerating mosques, antipope Leo XIV fulfills Pius X’s prophecy in Pascendi (1907): Modernism reduces religion to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Lamentabili Sane, §59). True Catholics must reject this sacrilegious theater and cling to the immutable Faith—“outside of which no one can be saved” (Lateran IV).
Source:
Apostolic Journey to Türkiye: Day Four (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025