Leo XIV’s Ecumenical Mission: Subversion of Catholic Evangelization
The EWTN News portal (January 25, 2026) reports on the message of “Pope” Leo XIV for World Mission Day 2026, which promotes ecumenical unity under the theme “One in Christ, United in Mission.” The article highlights his call for “spiritual communion and reconciliation among Christians” and emphasizes cooperation with other denominations while invoking the Council of Nicaea’s anniversary. This agenda fundamentally contradicts the regnum sociale Christi (social reign of Christ) as defined by Catholic tradition.
Naturalistic Reduction of Missionary Activity
The message reduces the Church’s mission to horizontal human collaboration, stating: “Unity of disciples is not an end in itself; it is directed towards mission”. This ignores Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which declares: “Nations will be happy only when they accept the universal kingship of Our Redeemer and obey His commands” (1925). The complete silence about converting non-Catholics and heretics violates Canon 1351 of the 1917 Code, which obliges Catholics to “lead back those in error to the Catholic faith.”
“Being a Christian is not primarily about practices or ideas; it is a life in union with Christ”
This vague formulation echoes Modernist immanentism condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejected the proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). The article’s celebration of “reconciled communities” as the Gospel’s “full communicative power” substitutes the munus regale Christi (kingly office of Christ) with sociological group dynamics.
Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerading as Tradition
The blasphemous invocation of Nicaea’s anniversary to promote ecumenism constitutes historical revisionism. The Council Fathers anathematized Arians with Canon 8: “Those who say the Son is of another substance than the Father shall be anathema” – not invited to dialogue. Leo XIV’s agenda directly opposes Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18).
The praise for “Blessed Paolo Manna” and “Pauline Marie Jaricot” serves to legitimize post-conciliar missionary distortions. Jaricot’s “Living Rosary” method – mentioned approvingly – bears disturbing parallels to condemned syncretic practices, particularly when combined with the article’s reference to “Our Lady of Fatima”, a Masonic psychological operation according to theological analysis (False Fatima Apparitions file).
Erasure of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
Nowhere does the message mention the necessity of submission to the Roman Pontiff for salvation, violating the dogma proclaimed in Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302): “It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” The article’s claim that “no baptized person is exempt from mission” deliberately obscures the distinction between valid and invalid baptism – a fatal omission when dealing with Protestant communities.
The concluding prayer to “Mary, Queen of Missions” constitutes sacrilege when uttered by one occupying Peter’s seat illegitimately. True Marian devotion requires rejection of false apparitions and fidelity to the Depositum Fidei, not emotional appeals to a distorted “unity.”
Structural Apostasy of Missionary Societies
Leo XIV’s gratitude toward Pontifical Mission Societies exposes their corruption. These organizations now operate as globalist networks promoting religious indifferentism, directly opposing Pius XI’s establishment of World Mission Day to support conversion of infidels, not interfaith dialogue. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith has become what St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi as “an organized apostasy from the Catholic Faith.”
The article’s focus on “missionary vocations” rings hollow when the conciliar sect systematically destroys seminaries and promotes homosexual networks in clergy formation. True missionary zeal requires the lex orandi of the Traditional Latin Mass – abolished by these very structures.
In this ecumenical manifesto, Leo XIV completes the conciliar revolution’s goal: replacing the One True Church with a humanist NGO. As Our Lord warned: “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: ‘One in Christ’ is key to the Church’s mission (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.01.2026