The VaticanNews portal (February 6, 2026) reports on a meeting between antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Sant’Egidio movement. The article celebrates their discussion of “promoting peace through ecumenical and interreligious dialogue,” particularly through the “spirit of Assisi” – a reference to John Paul II’s 1986 interfaith gathering. This exchange exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic betrayal of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) by substituting the social gospel for the One True Faith.
The Assisi Apostasy: From Syncretism to Blasphemy
The article’s praise for the “spirit of Assisi” confirms Sant’Egidio’s role as propagandists for the conciliar revolution. Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos (1928) condemned such interreligious gatherings as “false opinions which consider all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy.” The so-called “prayer for peace” with pagans constitutes idolatry, violating the First Commandment. Saint Cyprian’s dictum Dominus noster Christus veritas est, non consuetudo (Our Lord Christ is truth, not custom) exposes this “dialogue” as apostasy disguised as charity.
Sant’Egidio’s claim to care for the poor while spreading religious indifferentism fulfills Pius IX’s warning in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By reducing the Faith to humanitarianism, this movement embodies the modernist heresy condemned in Saint Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), which prohibits the evolutionary reinterpretation of dogma (Proposition 64).
Naturalism as the Conciliar Sect’s Operating System
Riccardi’s discussion with the Vatican usurper focuses exclusively on temporal peace, omitting the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) demanded by Quas Primas (1925). Pius XI taught that nations rejecting Christ’s authority become “a house built upon sand” (Matthew 7:26). The article’s silence about Christ the King proves Sant’Egidio operates on purely naturalistic principles, reducing the Church’s mission to social work – precisely the error condemned in the Syllabus as “hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40).
The Sant’Egidio movement’s 58-year history coincides with the conciliar sect’s destruction of Catholic identity. Their “ecumenical and interreligious dialogue” constitutes formal cooperation with false religions, violating Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code which forbids Catholics from participating in non-Catholic worship. As Pope Leo XIII declared in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The Church alone is the depository of the truth… to seek salvation outside the Church is to commit the folly of him who should ignore the fountain and dig himself broken cisterns.”
Theological Bankruptcy of the “New Paradigm”
Nowhere does the article mention conversion – the sine qua non of authentic charity. This omission flows from the conciliar sect’s denial of Christ’s universal kingship, explicitly condemned in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men. […] It would be a grave error […] to say that Christ has no authority over civil affairs.” Sant’Egidio’s “peacebuilding” operates within the modernist framework condemned by Saint Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907), substituting human consensus for divine revelation.
The “spirit of Assisi” constitutes spiritual adultery, as Ezekiel 23:49 warns: “They shall repay thee thy wickedness, and thou shalt bear the sins of thy idols.” John Paul II’s interfaith summit – praised here as inspiration – completed the conciliar betrayal foreseen by Our Lady of La Salette (1846): “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.” When antipopes and heretical movements extol “dialogue” while denying the Social Kingship of Christ, they confirm their status as workers of iniquity (Matthew 7:23).
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Leo XIV meets with founder of Sant’Egidio Community (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.02.2026