Apostolic Betrayal: Neo-Church Usurper Endorses Schismatic Unity
VaticanNews portal (February 5, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV hosted Eastern Orthodox clergy during a “study visit” orchestrated by the conciliar sect’s “Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.” The usurper invoked St. Paul and deceased Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I to advance religious indifferentism, declaring: “The historic and cultural differences in our Churches represent a wonderful mosaic of our shared Christian heritage” and urging participants to “grow in our shared faith in Christ.” The article concludes with the antipope leading an Our Father with schismatics. This spectacle constitutes open apostasy from Catholic ecclesiology.
False Ecumenism as Heretical Gleichschaltung
The antipope’s assertion of a “shared Christian heritage” with Orthodox bodies directly contradicts the dogmatic constitution Mortalium Animos (Pius XI, 1928), which condemns the false premise that divided Christian communities retain equal validity: “The union of Christians can only be fostered by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” By contrast, the conciliar sect perpetuates the heresy of “ecclesial communities” possessing salvific efficacy – a doctrinal corruption formalized in Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio.
When the usurper quotes Ephesians 4:4-5 (“one body, one Spirit”) while addressing representatives of churches that reject papal primacy and the Filioque, he commits sacrilegious distortion of Scripture. The Council of Florence (Session 6, 1439) definitively declared: “The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world…all the faithful of Christ must be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” To suggest that schismatic bodies participate in the “one Mystical Body of Christ” constitutes formal heresy against the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma (Council of Trent, Session VII).
Theological Surrender Disguised as “Disarmament”
The article’s promotion of Patriarch Athenagoras I’s statement – “I am disarmed of the need to be right, to justify myself by judging others” – reveals the gnostic core of conciliar ecumenism. This call to doctrinal capitulation directly violates St. Paul’s command: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema” (Galatians 1:8). The Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Pius X, 1907) identified such rejection of objective truth as the defining mark of Modernism: “They put aside all reason and trample underfoot all the laws of credible evidence…mere individual experiences are the foundation of religious faith.”
By framing doctrinal fidelity as divisive “prejudices” requiring disarmament, the conciliar sect inverts Catholic soteriology. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemned precisely this error: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16). The antipope’s prayer with schismatics constitutes forbidden communicatio in sacris, explicitly prohibited by Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code.
Omission as Dogmatic Apostasy
The article’s most damning feature is its total silence on the Catholic Church’s exclusive claim as the unicam sanctam. No mention is made of:
1. The Orthodox rejection of the Immaculate Conception (defined 1854)
2. Their denial of Papal Infallibility (Vatican I, 1870)
3. The gravest heresy of Palamism condemned by Benedict XII’s Gloriosam Ecclesiam (1341)
This calculated omission exposes the conciliar sect’s adherence to the modernist tenet that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 58). Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) anathematized this evolutionary heresy: “Others destroy the gratuitous character of the supernatural order by suggesting that God could not create beings ordered to Him in the Beatific Vision.”
Schismatic Hands Consecrated by Conciliar Betrayal
The presence of Coptic and Syriac Orthodox representatives – whose holy orders the Catholic Church has always considered invalid due to defective form and intention – compounds the sacrilege. Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896) definitively declared Anglican orders null; the same principles apply doubly to Monophysite bodies. When the antipope states, “We should continue to support one another,” he violates the Council of Chalcedon’s condemnation of their Christological heresies.
This spectacle fulfills Pius X’s prophecy in Pascendi: “The Modernists substitute for faith a species of religious sentiment to be fostered by ‘ecumenical’ gatherings where all religions equally contribute to developing the ‘Christ-consciousness.'” The true Church awaits legitimate shepherds who will apply Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925): “When men…allow themselves to be governed by Christ…swords and weapons will fall from hands.” Until then, let the faithful heed St. Paul: “Bear not the yoke with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14).
Source:
Pope invites Eastern Orthodox priests and monks to 'grow in shared faith' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.02.2026