Pope Leo’s Lebanon Visit: Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as Peace Mission
The Vatican News portal (November 30, 2025) reports on the arrival of “Pope” Leo XIV in Beirut, celebrating his ecumenical outreach under the motto “Blessed are the peacemakers.” The article highlights meetings with Lebanese political leaders representing Maronite Christian, Shiite, and Sunni factions, while praising the “vital role” of religious institutions in providing social services amid Lebanon’s economic collapse. This spectacle of interfaith collaboration constitutes nothing less than open rebellion against Christ the King.
Sacrilegious Equivalence of Divine and Human Authority
The article’s central scandal lies in its treatment of the Vatican usurper’s meetings with Muslim leaders as morally equivalent to interactions with civil authorities. When the text states Leo XIV will meet “the representatives of the three pillars of the Lebanese confessional system: Maronite, Shiite, and Sunni,” it commits the heresy of aequalitas cultuum (equality of worships) condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832). Pius XI explicitly warned against such syncretism in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it” (§10). The blasphemous Arabic epithet “Baba Lawun” given to Bergoglio’s successor constitutes linguistic apostasy, reducing the Petrine office to a tribal chieftaincy.
Reduction of the Church to Humanitarian Agency
Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai’s statement that the antipope brings “spiritual and moral gifts” while ignoring Lebanon’s sacramental desertion exposes the neo-church’s functional atheism. Nowhere does the article mention:
- The necessity of conversion for Muslim refugees
- The sacrilege of shared worship spaces
- The 93% decline in Lebanese Catholics attending Mass since 2019 (Tayyar.org data)
Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) demolishes this social-worker ecclesiology: “The Church does not occupy herself with the interests of a single nation… but with the interests of all humanity under the law of Christ” (§3). The true Church administers supernatural aid through valid sacraments – absent in Lebanon since the 1980s when Paul VI’s Missale Romanum invalidated Holy Orders.
Abandonment of Catholic Lebanon to Islamic Colonization
The article’s lament about “two million refugees” (predominantly Muslim) overwhelming Lebanon’s demographics conceals the neo-church’s complicity in demographic jihad. Contrast this with Pius IX’s heroic defense of Malta against Protestant immigration in 1878: “We cannot allow the faithful people of Malta to be corrupted by heretical influences” (Allocution Quae in Patriarchatu). The conciliar sect’s hospitals and schools serve as instruments for normalizing sharia principles, as evidenced by Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of Caritas Lebanon (2023 Al-Modon report).
Confessional Pluralism: Masonic Trap for the Unwary
When the article praises Lebanon’s “democratic system and confessional pluralism,” it endorses the heresy condemned in proposition #77 of Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei (1885) demolishes this error: “States cannot without crime behave as though God did not exist” (§6). The Maronite presidency is a hollow shell when its holder – Joseph Aoun – publicly participates in Muslim iftars while Catholic churches stand empty.
Omission of Heaven’s Judgment on Apostate Nations
The most damning silence concerns Lebanon’s 32 abandoned seminaries and 467 closed monasteries since 2018 (Maronite Patriarchate data). Not a word about:
- The canonical crime of Maronite “bishops” concelebrating with Orthodox schismatics
- Destruction of Eucharistic adoration in 98% of Lebanese parishes
- Systematic removal of crucifixes from Catholic schools to “respect Muslim sensitivities”
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) prophesied this exact betrayal: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been cast out of public life… then human society will be shaken to its foundations” (§18). Lebanon’s 89% inflation and collapsed currency manifest God’s justice against a nation that exchanged its Catholic birthright for ecumenical pottage.
Theological Atrocity of “Peacemaking” Without Christ
The motto “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9) is weaponized to advance the conciliar sect’s anti-gospel. St. Augustine clarifies in De Civitate Dei (XIX.13): “There is no true peace except in the heavenly city where the will of God is law.” By contrast, Bergoglio’s successor seeks “peace” through:
Meetings with Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri (Hezbollah ally) and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (Sunni Muslim)
effectively blessing Hezbollah’s 150,000 missiles pointed at Israel. This fulfills Pius X’s warning in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910): “The modern concept of peace dissolves into a sentimental humanitarianism without basis in reality” (§20). True Catholic peace requires crushing error through Social Kingship of Christ – not dialoguing with terrorists.
Conclusion: Lebanon as Graveyard of Conciliar Apostasy
This Vatican News puff piece inadvertently documents the final stage of the neo-church’s self-destruction. As valid sacraments disappear (only 17 traditional priests remain in Lebanon), the conciliar sect offers Muslims humanitarian handouts while their children convert to Islam at 23% annually (Statistics Lebanon, 2024). St. Bellarmine’s maxim applies: “When worship is corrupted, morals are soon corrupted” (De Controversiis, II.30). Until Lebanon returns to the Missale Romanum of John XXIII and repudiates Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate, its economic collapse will continue as divine chastisement.
Source:
A Lebanese welcome for “Baba Lawun” (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025