Vatican’s Sri Lanka Diplomacy: Sacrificing Doctrine for Earthly Alliances
The EWTN News portal reports (November 10, 2025) on Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher’s visit to Sri Lanka commemorating 50 years of diplomatic relations between the conciliar sect and the Buddhist-majority nation. The article emphasizes potential plans for antipope Leo XIV’s visit, praises Sri Lanka’s “progress toward peace and stability,” and celebrates interfaith collaboration while omitting any reference to the Church’s divine mandate to convert nations to the One True Faith.
Naturalism Masquerading as Diplomacy
The report describes diplomatic relations as centered on “education, health care, interfaith dialogue, and humanitarian cooperation” – a blatant reduction of the Church’s mission to social work. Pius XI condemned this inversion in Quas Primas, declaring: “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” (1925). The article’s exclusive focus on temporal “peace and development” ignores the supernatural purpose of the Church: the salvation of souls through submission to Christ the King.
Gallagher responded that [antipope] Leo XIV is impressed with Sri Lanka’s progress in promoting peace and unity among religious and ethnic groups.
This statement constitutes apostasy. The Church teaches extra Ecclesiam nulla salus – outside the Church there is no salvation (Council of Florence, 1442). True peace comes not from interfaith coexistence but from converting nations to Catholicism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the heresy that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet here the Vatican diplomat celebrates a constitutionally Buddhist state that rejects Christ’s social reign.
The Scandal of False Canonizations
The article references Francis’ 2015 canonization of Joseph Vaz during his Sri Lanka visit – an act devoid of validity. Canonizations require miraculous intercession verified through rigorous processes abolished after 1958. St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane that Modernists reduce sainthood to “a certain interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Proposition 22). The Vaz canonization epitomizes this, honoring a priest who adapted Hindu customs rather than converting pagans.
Ecumenism as Apostasy
Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath’s praise for the Catholic Church’s role in “interfaith dialogue” reveals the conciliar sect’s betrayal. The Church forbade participation in false worship by divine law: “Abomination is he that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord” (Exodus 22:20). Pius XI condemned religious indifferentism in Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ” (1928).
The Mockery of Martyrdom
Gallagher’s visit to St. Anthony’s Shrine – site of the 2019 terrorist attacks – highlights the conciliar sect’s distortion of martyrdom. The article mentions plans to recognize victims as “Witnesses of Faith,” but true martyrdom requires death specifically for professing Catholic truth (St. Augustine, City of God). When Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims died alongside Catholics in the attacks, the conciliar sect invents a false ecumenical martyrdom contrary to Canon 2027 (1917 Code).
Antipapal Visits: Legitimizing the Abomination
The proposed visit by antipope Leo XIV would constitute sacrilege. True popes don’t make pastoral visits to nations where Catholicism constitutes 7% while Buddhism dominates. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemned the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself to progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). By treating Sri Lanka’s Buddhist government as an equal partner, the conciliar sect denies Christ’s Kingship and embraces the very errors that destroyed Christendom.
The article’s celebration of diplomatic milestones exposes the conciliar sect’s essence: a human institution seeking worldly approval while abandoning its divine mission. As Our Lord warned: “What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26).
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Pope Leo XIV may visit Sri Lanka, Vatican diplomat says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.11.2025