The Catholic News Agency portal reports on the planned visit of antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) to the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, focusing on William Noun’s activist narrative demanding political justice for victims. The article frames the Vatican’s role as a humanitarian NGO lobbying for “truth and accountability” while omitting all supernatural dimensions of suffering, divine justice, and the Church’s primary duty to save souls from eternal damnation.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The article’s depiction of Vatican involvement exposes the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of ecclesiastical priorities. Where Pius XI declared “The peace of Christ in the reign of Christ” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 1925), demanding societal submission to Divine Law, the post-conciliar structure reduces itself to a political pressure group. Noun’s statement that
“the pressure coming from the pope’s office can break through the political pressure blocking the case”
reveals this diabolical displacement – treating the counterfeit “Vatican” as a secular NGO rather than the custodian of eternal truths.
This betrayal manifests in three ways:
1. Sacramental Abandonment: While Noun mentions the antipope’s blessing of his unborn child, no reference exists to sacramental grace. The true Church administers ex opere operato sacraments for salvation; the counterfeit offers empty gestures.
2. Eschatological Amnesia: Not a single victim is mentioned as having received Last Rites or prayers for the dead – a staggering omission when 250 souls perished suddenly. The pre-Vatican II Rituale Romanum mandates extreme urgency in such cases: “Go forth, Christian soul…”
3. Justice Detached from Divine Law: Noun’s demand for “accountability” centers purely on geopolitical actors (Hezbollah, Israel), ignoring the explosion’s spiritual causes – Lebanon’s systemic apostasy, sacrilegious “interfaith” compromises, and rejection of Christ the King.
Symptomatic Omissions Expose Modernist Contagion
The article’s omissions scream louder than its content. Where are the calls for Lebanon’s consecration to the Sacred Heart? The demand for public reparations for blasphemy? The insistence on restoring Catholic social order? Instead, we find only naturalistic hand-wringing:
“The Vatican’s voice matters: The pope is close to global decision-makers, and his position gives him unique leverage.”
This echoes the condemned proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864, Error 80). True shepherds wield spiritual authority against worldly powers; hirelings seek “leverage” within their systems.
Father Dany Dergham’s plea for satellite images exemplifies this materialist rot: treating the explosion as a mere criminal investigation rather than divine chastisement. Compare this to Our Lady of Fatima’s (unapproved apparition) warning about unrepentant sins provoking God’s justice – a message suppressed by the same conciliar machine now exploiting Beirut’s tragedy for PR.
Linguistic Analysis Reveals Apostate Worldview
The article’s vocabulary betrays its theological bankruptcy:
– “Apocalyptic”: Used descriptively for destruction’s scale, stripped of Revelation’s warning against the Beast and Antichrist.
– “Christian presence”: Reduced to demographic preservation, ignoring St. Pius X’s condemnation of those who “preserve the appearance of religion while denying its power” (Encyclical Pascendi, 1907).
– “Justice”: Invoked 14 times as worldly retribution, never as rendering to God what is God’s (Matthew 22:21).
Most damningly, the antipope’s visit is framed as therapeutic theater:
“standing on that ground forces the world to look again at a case many hoped would fade.”
This reduces the Church to a publicity stunt agency, abandoning St. Paul’s mandate: “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).
Theological Deviation in Shepherding Flock to Slaughter
Noun’s plea for the Vatican to help Christians
“build a future in Lebanon”
ignores the foundational truth: Without public reign of Christ the King, no society can endure. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas anathematizes this false premise: “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.”
The article’s climax – suggesting the antipope might influence “global decision-makers” – completes the inversion. True popes commanded emperors; counterfeit ones beg favors from the UN. This is not the Barque of Peter but a life raft lashed to the Titanic of modernity.
Source:
Brother of Beirut explosion victim speaks ahead of Pope Leo IV’s visit to blast site (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 01.12.2025