Antipope’s Syncretic Pilgrimage to Lebanon Undermines Catholic Exclusivity
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 1, 2025) reports that Robert Prevost – styled “Pope Leo XIV” – visited the tomb of Charbel Makhlouf in Annaya, Lebanon. The article emphasizes “miracles” attributed to Makhlouf’s intercession among Muslims and presents Prevost’s call for peace “without conversion of hearts.” This event exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic erosion of Catholic exclusivity through naturalized sainthood and interreligious syncretism.
Canonization Process Subverted by Post-Conciliar Apostasy
The article uncritically repeats claims that Makhlouf was “canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI.” This is theologically impossible, as Giovanni Montini forfeited any claim to papal authority by promulgating the heretical Nostra Aetate (1965), which declared non-Christian religions to be “rays of the truth.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1999 §1) required constans fama sanctitatis (uninterrupted reputation of holiness) for canonization. Yet Montini’s act occurred after he presided over the liturgical revolution that abolished the sacramental form of Holy Orders (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis), rendering subsequent “canonizations” canonically invalid.
Makhlouf’s alleged incorruptibility holds no doctrinal weight when judged by the standards of Pope Benedict XIV’s De Servorum Dei Beatificatione, which demands rigorous examination of the candidate’s fama sanctitatis and fama signorum (reputation for miracles) within the exclusively Catholic faithful. The article’s boast that “many Muslims” attribute miracles to Makhlouf confirms his cult violates the Church’s perennial teaching: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam).
Interfaith Syncretism Masquerading as Devotion
Prevost’s description of Makhlouf as a teacher for “those who live without God” constitutes blasphemous inversion of Catholic hagiography. Saints are exemplars of heroic virtue attainable only through sanctifying grace, which flows solely from Christ’s Sacrifice perpetuated in the Mass (Council of Trent, Session XXII). The article’s claim that Makhlouf’s tomb draws “Muslim pilgrims” reveals the conciliar sect’s core error: reducing sainthood to a universal humanistic archetype rather than a supernatural triumph of grace.
“The Holy Spirit formed him so that he could teach those who live without God how to pray”
This statement by Prevost embodies modernism’s immanentism, condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§6): “Religious sense… is a mere form of feeling.” Authentic prayer requires adherence to revealed truth (John 4:24), not the natural “spirituality” peddled by the Annaya monastery. The article’s reference to “nearly 30,000 miracles” for Muslims compounds this apostasy, implying that God bestows supernatural favors on adherents of false religions – a direct contradiction of Pope Gregory XVI’s condemnation of indifferentism in Mirari Vos (§13).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the article mention Lebanon’s duty to recognize the Regnum Christi as demanded by Pius XI’s Quas Primas (§18): “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Prevost’s vacuous call for “peace” absent submission to Divine Law constitutes the very “peace of the world” condemned by Christ (John 14:27). His offering of a lamp to the monastery parodies true entrustment ceremonies, which must invoke Christ’s dominion over nations (Psalm 2:10-12).
The article’s silence on Lebanon’s apostasy – including its Muslim-majority population and blasphemy laws forbidding Christian evangelization – exposes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of missionary duty. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s Rerum Ecclesiae (1926), which commanded bishops to “send as many priests as possible” to convert non-Christians. Prevost’s French-language prayer for “healing of body and soul” deliberately avoids specifying that such healing flows solely from the Sacraments administered by the Catholic Church.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This event epitomizes the neo-church’s threefold heresy:
1. Naturalization of grace: Miracles become psychological phenomena detached from conversion (Pius X, Lamentabili Sane §34)
2. Denial of missionary mandate: Muslims are placated rather than evangelized (Pius XI, Quas Primas §18)
3. Falsification of sainthood: Holiness is divorced from doctrinal purity (Pius X, Pascendi §39)
The monastery’s “balance of labor and prayer” replaces the Mass as the source and summit of Christian life (Vatican I, De Filius). Prevost’s pilgrimage continues Paul VI’s blasphemous 1975 visit, which inaugurated the sect’s policy of using Maronite saints as fig leaves for ecumenical apostasy. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns (Proposition 17), the conciliar sect treats Catholicism as merely “another form of the same true Christian religion” – a heresy now extended to non-Christian cults.
Source:
Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to Saint Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 01.12.2025