Nicaea Revisited: Conciliar Sect’s Apostasy Reaches New Depths
The VaticanNews portal (November 30, 2025) reports on a gathering of religious leaders at the site of the First Council of Nicaea, where the antipope “Leo XIV” (Roberto Prevost) and the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew led “Christian leaders” in prayer to commemorate the council’s 1,700th anniversary. The article promotes Prevost’s proposal for a joint pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 2033 under the guise of celebrating “the Jubilee of Redemption,” urging Christians to “set aside what is not essential” and embrace unity based on “the heart of the Gospel message.” This blasphemous spectacle completes the conciliar sect’s transformation into an engine of pure naturalism.
Desecration of Nicaea’s Legacy
The report claims participants prayed “near the remains of the Basilica of Saint Neophytos” in Iznik, Turkey – the ancient Nicaea where Church Fathers defended the divinity of Christ against Arianism. Yet the article omits every single dogmatic definition from that council, particularly the condemnation of Arius and the homoousion formula safeguarding Christ’s consubstantiality with the Father. This silence proves the gathering’s true purpose: not to honor Catholic truth, but to bury it. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, the Council of Nicaea “decreed and presented to the faithful to believe as a truth of the Catholic faith that the Only-Begotten Son of God is consubstantial with the Father, and at the same time, by placing in the creed, or Symbol, the words: ‘whose kingdom shall have no end,’ confirmed the royal dignity of Christ the Lord.” The conciliar sect’s ritual at Nicaea constitutes a symbolic renunciation of the very dogmas proclaimed there.
Theological Treason in Jerusalem Proposal
Prevost’s invitation to Jerusalem for 2033 exposes the conciliar sect’s ultimate goal: replacing the Church’s divine constitution with a human federation of “brothers.” When he urges Christians to “make ourselves pilgrims, together, so as to gather again in the Upper Room,” he perverts the Upper Room’s significance. The true Upper Room witnessed:
The institution of the Holy Eucharist (Matthew 26:26-28), the conferral of sacerdotal power to forgive sins (John 20:23), and the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Catholic Church alone at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4).
By contrast, Prevost’s “Upper Room” is a Masonic lodge where all denominations pretend equality before God. This proposal violates Pius IX’s condemnation 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” (Error 17). The article’s claim that divisions hinder “witness” inverts reality: it is precisely the conciliar sect’s refusal to proclaim Catholic exclusivity that renders its witness void.
Erasure of Peter’s Primacy
The blasphemous equation of “the Bishop of Rome, Successor of Peter” with “the Patriarch of Constantinople, Successor of Andrew” constitutes formal heresy against Vatican I’s Pastor Aeternus. The article describes Prevost and Bartholomew as ecclesiastical equals, stating they represent “the Fisherman of Galilee” and “Andrew” respectively. This denies Christ’s establishment of Peter as the “rock” upon which the Church is built (Matthew 16:18). As the Council of Florence decreed: “The Roman Pontiff is the true vicar of Christ, the head of the whole Church, and the father and teacher of all Christians; and to him was committed, in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to feed, rule, and govern the universal Church.”
Modernist Subversion of Evangelization
The portal’s editorial director Andrea Tornielli praises how Prevost “recalled the primacy of evangelization and the proclamation of the kerygma,” yet the article defines neither term according to Catholic understanding. In conciliar-speak, “evangelization” means dialogue-based encounter devoid of conversion demands, while “kerygma” is reduced to a vague “heart of the Gospel message” stripped of dogmatic content. Compare this to Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Error 22). The article’s exhortation to “set aside… human traditions that have divided us” targets Catholic doctrine itself, as proven by Benedict XV’s warning: “The Church has no right to narrow or amputate that which her Divine Spouse has taught” (Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, 1914).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
Throughout the report, the conciliar sect’s naturalistic orientation manifests in its:
- Silence about the Mass as propitiatory sacrifice
- Omission of grace’s necessity for salvation
- Reduction of Pentecost to a sociological “transformation” of disciples
When Tornielli writes that Christians must “overcome divisions by rediscovering the heart of the Gospel message,” he implies doctrine evolves – precisely the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili Sane, Error 58). The article’s repeated calls for “peace, unity and reconciliation” invoke a worldly utopia divorced from the Cross. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ.”
Conclusion: Apostasy Crowned in Jerusalem
The 2033 Jerusalem event aims to formalize the conciliar sect’s complete apostasy by staging an anti-Pentecost where the “spirit of the world” supplants the Holy Ghost. This sacrilegious parody fulfills Pius IX’s prophecy: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus of Errors, Error 80). True Catholics must reject this blasphemous “journey” and cling to the immutable Faith guarded by Nicaea’s Fathers: outside which there is no salvation.
Source:
An invitation to Jerusalem to walk together humbly, as brothers (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025