Syrian Christians’ Plea for Peace: A Mask for Apostasy
The EWTN News article (January 31, 2026) reports on the Syrian military’s advance into Al-Jazeera, highlighting fears among local Christians of an ISIS resurgence and calls for “peaceful political channels” by figures like Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo and Assyrian Democratic Organization deputy Basher Ishaq Saadi. The piece frames the crisis through naturalistic humanitarianism, omitting the supernatural mandate of Christ’s Kingship over nations.
Naturalism Overlooks the Kingship of Christ
The article reduces the Church’s mission to a plea for earthly stability, quoting Saadi’s demand for “modern civil states grounded in the rule of law” that are “neutral toward religions.” This directly contradicts Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which declares: “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”. By endorsing state neutrality toward religion, the article promotes the heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejects the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Bishop Audo’s call for “reconciliation and dialogue” — absent any call for conversion to the One True Faith — aligns with the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism. The Second Council of Lyons (1274) dogmatized: “The Holy Roman Church… firmly believes, professes, and preaches that ‘no one remaining outside the Catholic Church, not just pagans, but also Jews, heretics, or schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life; but they will go to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels’” (Denzinger 464). Silence on this truth renders the bishop’s words a betrayal.
False Ecumenism and the Betrayal of Catholic Mission
The article’s focus on ISIS’s threat — while legitimate — obscures the greater danger: the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s “dialogue” with error. Saadi laments “political repression” and “discrimination” but omits that Syria’s Christians suffer primarily because their shepherds refuse to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) rebukes such cowardice: “The Church cannot submit to such insults to her liberty, nor can she compromise with error”.
Notably, the piece ignores the sacramental lifeline. Nowhere does it urge Christians to seek grace through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or the Sacrament of Penance. Instead, it peddles faith in U.S. military transfers of ISIS prisoners — a naturalistic solution blind to spiritual warfare. The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima (which Freemasonry exploited, as noted in the [FILE: False Fatima Apparitions]) warned of such crises if Russia wasn’t consecrated to the Immaculate Heart. Today’s turmoil confirms the prophecy’s neglect.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
The article’s language — “hope for a future of peace,” “historical diversity” — drips with modernist platitudes. Its portrayal of Christians as mere victims, rather than soldiers of Christ, reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church Militant. Pope St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemns the error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Error 58), yet here, “dialogue” replaces dogma.
Most damning is the omission of the only solution: public reverence for Christ the King. As Pius XI taught, nations that reject His reign “will vainly seek peace” (Quas Primas). Until Syria’s Christians demand their rulers submit to the Catholic Faith, their cries for peace are but echoes in a Godless void.
Source:
Amid new military moves in northeast Syria, Christians fear ISIS return and call for peace (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.01.2026