Catholic News Agency portal reports on December 1, 2025 about antipope Leo XIV’s visit to the tomb of the post-conciliar “saint” Charbel Makhlouf in Lebanon. The article describes this as a “deeply symbolic pilgrimage” where the antipope entrusted Lebanon to this figure while emphasizing alleged miracles and interfaith appeal. The text highlights the monastery’s claim of “nearly 30,000 miracles” including those reported by Muslims, presenting this as evidence of the figure’s “unique place in Lebanon’s spiritual landscape.” The antipope is quoted saying the “hermit of Annaya continues to speak with surprising power” by teaching “those who live without God how to pray” and promoting poverty amid “noise” and “ostentation.” The report concludes by framing this visit as reinforcing the antipope’s call for “conversion, hope, and unity.”
Canonization Fraud and Counterfeit Sanctity
The article’s uncritical promotion of “St.” Charbel Makhlouf – canonized in 1977 by the apostate Paul VI – constitutes grave deception. The Church teaches that santitas in causa fidei consistit (holiness consists in the cause of faith), yet this figure’s “canonization” occurred under the antipapal regime that had already severed itself from Catholic tradition. The Conciliar sect’s elevation of ascetics serves the same purpose as Masonic lodges displaying Christian symbols: to create syncretic bridges between truth and error.
As Pius XI warned 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” (n. 19). By contrast, antipope Leo’s ritual at Annaya offers paganized “mercy” divorced from the Social Kingship of Christ, reducing religion to therapeutic interpersonal relations. The article’s emphasis on miracles for Muslims confirms this apostate agenda – whereas the true Church knows that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church).
Naturalism Masquerading as Mysticism
The Conciliar sect’s promotion of “St.” Charbel follows the Modernist playbook condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They endeavor to link the Catholic faith with the myths of ancient paganism” (n. 12). By boasting that “many Muslims” seek miracles at the tomb, the neo-church perpetuates the heresy of religious indifferentism explicitly condemned in Pius IX’s 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).
Antipope Leo’s statement that Charbel teaches “those who live without God how to pray” constitutes blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. True prayer requires recta intentio (right intention) ordered to the True God, not the generic “spirituality” promoted here. The article’s focus on therapeutic “healing of body and soul” replaces the unum necessarium (one thing necessary) of salvation with pagan thaumaturgy. This naturalization of grace echoes the Jansenist errors condemned in Unigenitus Dei Filius (1713), where miracles become ends in themselves rather than signs confirming divine truth.
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Dogmatic Treason
Nowhere does the antipope mention the Social Reign of Christ the King – the sole foundation for true peace. His vacuous call for “conversion of hearts” deliberately avoids specifying conversion to what. This echoes the condemned proposition in Lamentabili Sane: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Proposition 25). The article’s repeated references to “unity” and “hope” constitute what Pius X called “the cult of man” replacing the worship of God.
The true Catholic response to Lebanon’s crises would follow Pius XI’s prescription: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas 32). Instead, the antipope offers a Masonic lamp ritual – pagan symbolism substituting for the Lumen Christi that alone enlightens nations.
Monasticism Degraded into Therapeutic Center
The article’s description of the monastery accommodating “thousands of pilgrims” illustrates the Conciliar sect’s corruption of religious life. True monasticism follows the Regula Sancti Benedicti prioritizing ora et labora (pray and work) over crowd management. By contrast, St. Maron Monastery has become what St. Alphonsus Liguori condemned as “a marketplace of miracles” distracting from the sacrificium propitiatorium (propitiatory sacrifice) of the Mass.
The claim that monks “sustain themselves through agricultural work” while hosting interfaith pilgrimages constitutes the very “naturalism in action” denounced in Pascendi (n. 39). Authentic Catholic asceticism – exemplified by St. Anthony the Great or St. Bruno – sought detachment from worldly affairs, not facilitation of ecumenical tourism.
Conclusion: Masonic Ritual in Christian Disguise
This entire spectacle embodies the “abomination of desolation” prophesied in Daniel 9:27. The antipope’s pilgrimage follows the Masonic strategy documented in the Alta Vendita papers: “Let the clergy march under your banner in the belief that they march under the banner of the Apostolic Keys.” By venerating a post-conciliar “saint” while omitting the Regnum Christi, antipope Leo confirms his role as “mysterium iniquitatis” (mystery of iniquity) preparing the way for Antichrist.
True Catholics must heed Pope Leo XIII’s warning in Humanum Genus: “All who would escape shipwreck in the midst of this storm of error must cling closely to the teachings of the Roman Pontiffs before 1958, and hold fast to the Sovereign Pontiff who is the only one who can save us.” The lamp offered at Annaya symbolizes not Christ the Light, but the “ignis fatuus” (fool’s fire) of apostasy leading nations into darkness.
Source:
Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to St. Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 01.12.2025