EWTN News reports on Pope Leo XIV’s planned visit to the Beirut port explosion site, quoting William Noun – brother of victim Joe Noun – who frames the visit as crucial for reviving the stalled investigation into the 2020 blast. The article emphasizes Noun’s meeting with antipope Francis in 2024, where the latter allegedly offered “human-focused” solidarity. Noun now demands Vatican pressure on Lebanese authorities and foreign governments to disclose satellite imagery, while Maronite priest Dany Dergham openly requests the Vatican leverage diplomatic channels for this purpose. The piece concludes by presenting Noun’s view that this papal visit counters Hezbollah’s obstructionism and allegedly protects Lebanon’s Christian minority.
Subordination of Eternal Truths to Earthly Politics
The article exemplifies the conciliar sect’s fundamental inversion of Catholic priorities. Nowhere does Noun or the EWTN reporter mention prayers for the dead, the Four Last Things, or the need for penance and reparation for sins that draw God’s punishments (Deuteronomy 28:15-68). Instead, the narrative fixates on political activism as the solution to temporal injustice. This contradicts Pius XI’s condemnation in Quas Primas: “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced dreadful consequences… public prosperity is waning, souls are embittered, and the road to salvation is made more difficult” (§18). By reducing the Church’s mission to forensic investigations and geopolitical lobbying, the conciliar apparatus abandons its divine mandate to “preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
William Noun’s statement that “justice is a right… no one can accept losing it” epitomizes the Enlightenment-derived heresy condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos: the notion that temporal rights supersede divine law. True Catholic justice begins with redressio injuriarum Deo illatarum (reparation for offenses against God), not forensic audits. The article’s exclusive focus on satellite imagery searches and political accountability reveals a materialist worldview incompatible with St. Paul’s admonition: “For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness” (Ephesians 6:12). The 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate didn’t explode due to mere negligence, but as a consequence of Lebanon’s collective apostasy – a reality entirely ignored in this human-centered narrative.
Ecumenical Complicity with Error
Noun’s assertion that Lebanon is “the only country in the region where Christians enjoy this degree of freedom” constitutes theological blindness. The so-called “freedom” exists only through compromise with Islamic heretics and the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah – an arrangement Pius IX anathematized in the Syllabus of Errors: “It is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Condemned Proposition #77). The conciliar sect’s willingness to let “Mr.” Noun lecture on Christian-Muslim coexistence while ignoring the ecclesia supplet principle (that the Church alone supplies true spiritual authority) demonstrates its apostate nature. When Noun claims “the state protects everyone, not weapons and militias,” he espouses the very secularist error denounced in Immortale Dei by Leo XIII: that civil authority originates from men rather than God (§6).
Man-Centered Sacrilege Replaces True Worship
The planned “moment of prayer” at the blast site constitutes sacrilegious syncretism. No Catholic pope before 1958 would have sanctioned liturgical acts on unconsecrated ground desecrated by mass death without prior exorcism and reparation. The article’s description of “apocalyptic” devastation inadvertently acknowledges divine judgment, yet the proposed response – political activism – rejects the only remedy: public consecration of Lebanon to Christ the King. Instead of demanding exomologesis (public penance) for the nation’s sins, the conciliar sect organizes photo opportunities. This fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§39) that Modernists would reduce religion to “vague experiences” divorced from dogma. The “$295,488 Vatican donation” mentioned serves as blood money laundering the Church’s betrayal – a fulfillment of the abomination of desolation (Daniel 9:27) where charity replaces sanctity.
Heretical Foundations of ‘Justice’ Crusade
The demand for “international pressure” to reveal blast evidence constitutes implicit endorsement of the UN’s Godless world order. This rejects the Catholic teaching that “all jurisdiction comes from Christ the King” (Pius XI, Quas Primas §11). Father Dergham’s tweet begging the antipope for satellite imagery reduces the papacy to a forensic detective agency – a blasphemous inversion of its divine mission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). When Noun praises Francis for seeing victims “not as statistics but as lives,” he unknowingly describes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 22): that dogmas are merely “interpretations of religious facts” rather than immutable truths. This entire spectacle fulfills St. Pius X’s warning that Modernists would “substitute worldly for heavenly hopes” (Pascendi §26).
The Beirut port tragedy demands ex opere operato sacramental graces, not geopolitical theater. Until Lebanon’s Catholics return to the uncompromised Faith – rejecting conciliar heresies, consecrating their nation to the Sacred Heart, and demanding the Social Reign of Christ the King – no satellite imagery or papal visit will prevent greater chastisements. As the Fourth Council of Constantinople decreed: “If anyone shall not confess that the world is to be consecrated by the Blood of Christ: let him be anathema” (Canon 6). The conciliar sect’s Beirut maneuvers constitute not hope, but another step towards the mysterium iniquitatis (2 Thessalonians 2:7).
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Brother of Beirut explosion victim speaks ahead of Pope Leo IV’s visit to blast site (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.12.2025