Vatican News portal (January 11, 2026) reports on the latest Angelus address by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who “called for patience and dialogue” regarding conflicts in Iran, Syria, and Ukraine. The article states he prayed “that dialogue and peace will be cultivated with patience” in Iran and Syria, while condemning Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. This performance exemplifies the neo-church’s substitution of naturalistic politics for the supernatural mission of the una sancta (one holy Church).
Naturalism Replaces the Kingship of Christ
The Angelus message reduces the Church’s mission to secular conflict mediation, proclaiming: “hope and prayer that dialogue and peace will be cultivated with patience, in pursuit of the common good of the whole society“. This phrasing deliberately avoids the Social Kingship of Christ – the foundational truth that “there is no salvation in any other name under heaven given among men” (Acts 4:12). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) dogmatically established that peace comes only through submission to Christ’s reign: “Nations will be happy only when the commandments of God and the Church are made the basis of public life“.
By omitting the necessary conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith as the sole path to peace, Leo XIV acts as a functional apostate. The Second Council of Lyon (1274) declared: “The holy Roman Church possesses supreme and full primacy over the whole Catholic Church… to which all are bound to submit as to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself“. Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) enables this betrayal, treating false religions as legitimate participants in “dialogue”.
Silence on the Blood of Martyrs
The article’s reference to Iran ignores the systemic persecution of Christians under Islamic rule. The 1907 decree Lamentabili condemned the modernist error that “Revelation could not be something finished and completed” (Prop. 21). Yet Leo XIV’s call for “dialogue” with Iran’s regime – which executes converts from Islam – implicitly denies the perfection of Catholic doctrine. The Council of Florence (Cantate Domino, 1442) anathematized all who “die outside the Catholic Church“, making “dialogue” with persecutors a cooperation with evil.
Similarly, the Syrian conflict is reduced to a territorial dispute rather than a persecution crisis. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemned the notion that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55). Yet the neo-church’s silence on Syria’s destruction of Christian communities reveals its embrace of this condemned error.
Selective Outrage as Political Theater
Leo XIV’s condemnation of Russian strikes follows the neo-church’s pattern of geopolitical posturing. The article notes he “renewed my call for an end to violence” while ignoring NATO’s role in prolonging the conflict. This selective moralizing violates the Catholic principle of aequitas (impartial justice). The true Church condemns all unjust aggression, as Pius XII did in his 1939 radio address decrying “the premeditated aggression against a small, hardworking people” during the invasion of Poland.
The reference to “energy infrastructure” attacks reveals a materialist worldview. Traditional moral theology distinguishes between legitimate military targets and civilian objects (Summa Theologica II-II Q40), but the neo-church ignores these distinctions to advance political narratives. St. Augustine’s bellum iustum (just war) principles are discarded for emotional manipulation.
The Angelus as Modernist Sacrilege
By using the Angelus – a devotion centered on the Incarnate Word – to promote naturalistic peace plans, Leo XIV commits sacrilege. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2326) penalizes those who “use sacred things for profane purposes“. True popes like Pius XII used the Angelus to teach doctrine, not geopolitical commentary. The modernist reduction of worship to social activism fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that modernists “make religion depend on sentiment” (Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
The article concludes with a fundraising plea to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” – revealing the neo-church’s mercantile approach to religion. Contrast this with the true Church’s mission: “Going therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
The Silence That Condemns
Nowhere does the article mention:
- The necessity of prayer and penance to avert God’s justice on sinful nations
- Call for conversion of Muslims, Orthodox schismatics, or atheist regimes
- Defense of persecuted Christians in Islamic countries
- Condemnation of false religions that reject Christ the King
This omission confirms the neo-church’s apostasy. As St. Pius X warned: “The modernists replace divine faith with religious sentiment” (Lamentabili, Prop. 25). Until nations submit to Christus Rex, all “peace” efforts are diabolical illusions.
Source:
Pope calls for patience and dialogue in Iran and Syria (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.01.2026