Apostate’s Visit to Lebanon Exposes Modernist Apostasy
The VaticanNews portal (December 1, 2025) reports Jorge Bergoglio’s successor, antipope Leo XIV, prayed at the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf in Lebanon. The article emphasizes interfaith pilgrimage (“Christians and Muslims alike”), naturalistic peace appeals disconnected from Catholic dogma, and reduces monastic holiness to social activism.
Interfaith Syncretism Masquerading as Piety
The portal boasts that “thousands of pilgrims, Christians and Muslims alike, travel to Annaya” to venerate St. Charbel. This deliberate juxtaposition violates extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation), defined infallibly at the Council of Florence (1442). Pius XI condemned such indifferentism in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.” By celebrating Muslim veneration of a Catholic saint, the conciliar sect denies the necessity of conversion—a betrayal of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
Antipope Leo XIV’s speech reduces St. Charbel’s eremitic vocation to therapeutic moralism:
“[He] taught prayer to those who live without God, silence to those who live amid noise, modesty to those who live for appearances, and poverty to those who pursue riches.”
Absent is any mention of grace, the sacraments, or the Four Last Things—the pillars of Catholic asceticism. This transforms sanctity into self-help psychology, echoing Modernist George Tyrrell’s heresy that “religion is a matter of feeling, not dogma.”
Peace Without Christ the King: A Diabolical Disorientation
The article laments Lebanon’s crises but prescribes a false remedy: “We implore [peace] especially for Lebanon… but we know… there is no peace without the conversion of hearts.” This vague “conversion” deliberately omits submission to the Social Kingship of Christ, condemned by the conciliar sect since Vatican II. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares: “Nations will be happy only when they obey Christ’s laws.” By divorcing peace from doctrinal obedience, the antipope promotes the Masonic ideal of “fraternity without truth.”
Liturgical Abomination and False Sacramentality
The antipope’s gift of a “handcrafted silver-bronze votive lamp” to the monastery symbolizes the neo-church’s empty ritualism. Unlike the ex voto tradition—where votives signify gratitude for miraculous graces obtained through Church-approved intercession—this gesture occurs in a context of apostasy. When the true Mass is suppressed and sacraments invalidly administered (due to defective ordination rites post-1968), such acts become theatrical blasphemy.
Omission as Heresy: The Silence That Condemns
Nowhere does the article mention:
1. St. Charbel’s fierce devotion to the lex orandi of the Traditional Maronite Liturgy—now gutted by the conciliar sect’s liturgical vandalism.
2. His miraculous intercessions leading to conversions to Catholicism, not interfaith dialogue.
3. The necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, replaced by universalist innuendo.
This silence manifests the Modernist tenet condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation cannot be something completed, but evolves continually in the Church.”
Symptomatic Apostasy: From Vatican II to the Abyss
The event epitomizes the conciliar sect’s core errors:
– Religious Liberty: Muslims implicitly granted equal access to Catholic holy sites (contra Quanta Cura, 1864).
– Collegiality: Maronite clergy treated as autonomous agents rather than subordinates to Rome (contra Vatican I’s Pastor Aeternus).
– Social Gospel: Holiness reduced to poverty alleviation, neglecting the primacy of sanctifying grace.
As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist sustains and propagates a philosophy from which faith and all religion are to be banished.”
Source:
Pope Leo prays at tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf (vaticannews.va)
Date: 01.12.2025