Apostate Spectacle in Lebanon: Modernist “Pope” Peddles False Hope to the Dispossessed
The article from Catholic News Agency (December 5, 2025) breathlessly reports on Antipope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon, framing it as a transformative event for youth, migrant workers, and UN peacekeepers. Joseph Karam, a Lebanese-American, gushes about feeling “connected to my roots” while Adeline Khouri claims the antipope’s presence was “like a kiss from the bridegroom Jesus.” The piece highlights emotional displays – including a man kissing the antipope’s feet – and quotes UN officials praising the “message of peace.” This propagandistic narrative omits all supernatural realities while promoting the conciliar sect’s sacramental invalidities and religious indifferentism.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article reduces the counterfeit event to purely naturalistic terms: “renewed sense of dignity,” “consolation,” and “hope” detached from sanctifying grace. When Khouri describes the antipope’s words as giving “strength and hope to persevere,” she echoes Lamentabili Sane‘s condemnation of those who reduce faith to “a sum of probabilities” (Proposition 25). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas demolishes this anthropocentric fraud: “When very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs… the entire human society had to be shaken” (¶18). The spectacle’s focus on emotional experiences (“tears on their faces,” “unforgettable moment”) constitutes what St. Pius X condemned as “the cult of man” replacing adoration of God.
Sacrilegious Invalidities Masked as Sacraments
Nowhere does the article warn that the “Mass” celebrated by the antipope lacks valid consecration. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 219) establishes that only those in communion with the true Church can licitly celebrate sacraments. When Ethiopian Orthodox and Filipino migrants participate in this sacrilege, the conciliar sect promotes the heresy that “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” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 17). Pius IX anathematized this exact error, declaring: “It is certain that those who labor in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion… cannot be saved” (Quanto conficiamur moerore, 1863).
False Ecumenism and Masonic “Peace”
The blasphemous scene of UN “peacekeepers” – including Indonesian Deputy Commander Deddy Siahaan – attending this sacrilege fulfills Pius IX’s warning about “the Masonic idea of human brotherhood” (Syllabus, Condemnation of Secret Societies). The article glowingly quotes Siahaan claiming the antipope brought “unity to the people of Lebanon,” ignoring Christ’s warning: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34). True Catholic peace comes only through submission to Christ the King, not through UN soldiers who serve the New World Order.
Omission of Lebanon’s True Martyrdom
While exploiting Lebanese suffering, the article ignores how the conciliar sect enabled their persecution. No mention is made of how Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) betrayed Lebanon’s Maronite Catholics by denying Christ’s exclusive rights over nations. Cardinal Billot’s warning rings true: “When the State ceases to profess the true religion, it undermines the very basis of its authority” (De Ecclesia Christi). The antipope’s theatrical visit continues Paul VI’s betrayal at the 1975 Eucharistic Congress in Beirut, where he praised Muslim “piety” while Maronites faced genocide.
Youth Poisoned by False Shepherds
Joseph Karam’s statement that “the pope wanted them to know they are heard” reveals the diabolical inversion at work. True popes teach with authority; antipopes “listen” like politicians. St. Pius X condemned this democratization in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The Church is not a democracy… but a monarchy instituted by Christ” (¶24). When Khouri calls the antipope’s words “a reboot for my faith,” she demonstrates the spiritual ruin wrought by conciliarism – reducing faith to therapeutic self-help rather than submission to divine truth.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
This spectacle constitutes precisely what Pius XI called “the great apostasy in the city” (Divini Redemptoris, ¶18). As the antipope poses with UN troops and non-Catholics, he fulfills St. Pius X’s warning about Modernists who “place pantheism in place of theism” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 1). Lebanon’s true Catholics must flee this counterfeit church, remembering Christ’s words: “When you shall see the abomination of desolation… then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains” (Matthew 24:15-16). Only by rejecting the conciliar sect can they honor the martyrs who died for true Catholic Lebanon.
Source:
Youth, migrant workers, and peacekeepers reflect on Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.12.2025