Jordanian Bishop’s Call for Indifferentism Betrays Catholic Mission
Jordanian Bishop’s Call for Indifferentism Betrays Catholic Mission
VaticanNews portal (January 10, 2026) reports statements by Bishop Iyad Twal, Latin Patriarchal Vicar of Jordan, during a pilgrimage to the “Baptism of the Lord” Church in Bethany Beyond the Jordan. The bishop asserts that “focusing on differences won’t bring peace,” urging acceptance of religious pluralism and praising Jordan’s Muslim-majority society as a model of coexistence. This celebration of indifferentism constitutes a direct assault on the Church’s divine mandate to proclaim Christ as the sole path to salvation.
Naturalism Masquerading as Peacebuilding
The bishop’s declaration that peace requires “exclud[ing] religious identities” and respecting differences in “religions, culture, [and] heritage” reduces the Church’s mission to secular conflict resolution. This contradicts Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s universal kingship precisely because “nations will not enjoy peace until they recognize the reign of our Savior.” The article’s claim that Jordan exemplifies coexistence ignores centuries of Islamic dhimmi policies reducing Christians to second-class citizens – a reality condemned by Leo XIII in Praeclara Gratulationis (1894) as incompatible with human dignity.
“We need to come to an idea […] that we are different maybe in religions […] but we have to respect each other […] believing that God is love for everyone.”
This statement exemplifies the heresy of indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “Error 15: Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which […] he shall consider true.” By erasing the unicity of Christ’s mediation (Acts 4:12), the bishop reduces God’s love to a generic benevolence detached from the Cross – a modernist distortion denounced by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (1907) as “reducing revelation to man’s self-awareness of his relationship with God” (Proposition 20).
Ecclesial Suicide Through False Universality
The article boasts of Jordan’s Catholic “universality” through Eastern rite communities while omitting that their sacramental validity depends on orthodox faith. When the bishop celebrates building “bridges with everyone,” he inverts the Church’s missionary imperative: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). The post-conciliar sect’s schools and universities, praised here for serving “rich and poor,” become vehicles of apostasy when divorced from converting souls to the una vera fides.
Notably absent is any reference to the social reign of Christ the King. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly mandated Catholic rulers to “publicly honor and obey Christ,” warning that societies rejecting His law “will lack stable foundations.” The bishop’s silence on this dogma – while praising a Muslim monarch as “a sign of unity” – confirms the conciliar sect’s surrender to secular power structures.
Theological Atrophy in Neo-Church Institutions
The interview’s language exposes the neo-church’s doctrinal bankruptcy. The term “Baptism of the Lord Church” (in quotes, denoting illegitimacy) replaces sacramental theology with archeological sentimentality. True baptismal grace confers membership in Christ’s Mystical Body – not a vague “belonging to this land” or national identity. When the bishop claims baptism “opens the heavens” without mentioning the necessity of Catholic faith and sanctifying grace, he echoes Protestant sola fide errors condemned at Trent.
Equally telling is the appeal to “human dignity” detached from imago Dei theology. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) taught that human dignity flows from either incorporation into the Church or the call to join it – not relativistic “respect.” The bishop’s claim that “God is love for everyone” while omitting divine judgment and hell (denied implicitly by indifferentism) completes this diabolical disorientation.
Conclusion: Apostasy Institutionalized
This interview epitomizes how the conciliar sect replaces the Church’s munus regale with UN-style multiculturalism. By praising a Muslim kingdom’s “coexistence” while ignoring Christians persecuted under Islamic rule worldwide, the bishop commits the sin of scandal. His “building bridges” rhetoric directly opposes the mandatum Christi: “He who is not with Me is against Me” (Mt 12:30). As St. Augustine warned, “Unity without truth is no better than conspiracy” (Contra epistulam Parmeniani, 3:4). Until the Vatican occupiers repent and restore integral Catholic doctrine, such statements will remain what Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi, 39).
Source:
Latin Patriarchal Vicar of Jordan: Focusing on differences won't bring peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.01.2026