Middle East Diplomacy Neglects Divine Law, Prioritizing Human Politics Over Christ’s Kingship
VaticanNews portal (February 11, 2026) reports on U.S.-Israel discussions concerning Iran’s nuclear program alongside ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks expanded restrictions on Iran’s military capabilities during his White House visit, while United Nations agencies document Palestinian casualties and displacement caused by Israeli settlers. The article frames these events through secular geopolitical lenses, reducing morality to humanitarian statistics and diplomatic bargaining.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Order in Conflict Analysis
The article’s exclusive focus on political violence, sanctions relief, and humanitarian response exemplifies the modernist heresy condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By omitting Christ’s universal kingship over nations (Pius XI, Quas Primas), the report reduces Middle Eastern conflicts to mere territorial disputes. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Israel’s security concerns are treated as purely temporal matters, ignoring St. Paul’s warning: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers…” (Eph. 6:12).
“Netanyahu has long argued that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel and has repeatedly pushed Washington to counter Tehran’s regional influence.”
This statement implicitly endorses national self-preservation as an absolute good, contrary to Leo XIII’s condemnation of “the doctrine that the Church is to be separated from the State” (Immortale Dei). Neither Iran nor Israel acknowledges the Sovereign Rights of Christ the King, rendering their conflict spiritually sterile. The article’s silence on the absence of Catholic monarchies—the only legitimate governance model per Quas Primas—exposes its naturalistic bias.
Humanitarian Relativism Masks Failure to Condemn Intrinsic Evils
While documenting “more than 50 incidents” of settler violence and “900 Palestinians displaced,” the report avoids moral judgments, reducing atrocities to “casualties, property damage or both.” This echoes the indifferentism Pius IX anathematized: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). Nowhere does the text:
1. Condemn the intrinsic evil of displacing civilians, a violation of the Seventh Commandment.
2. Demand conversion of Muslims and Jews to the Catholic Faith as the only remedy for strife.
3. Reference the “Social Reign of Christ the King” as the sole basis for lasting peace.
The UN’s humanitarian assessments are portrayed as morally neutral, though they operate under the Masonic principle of “liberty, equality, fraternity”—explicitly condemned in Pius IX’s Qui pluribus (1846). By prioritizing material aid over soul salvation, the conciliar sect perpetuates the very errors St. Pius X denounced in Lamentabili sane: reducing religion to “a certain pious custom” (Proposition 48).
Diplomatic Solutions Without Conversion Constitute Blasphemous Presumption
The article praises negotiations seeking “an agreement that would… curb [Iran’s] ballistic-missile program and its support for groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah,” as if arms control could substitute for repentance. This mirrors the condemned modernist belief that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became… universal” (Lamentabili, Proposition 60). True peace requires nations to:
– Publicly consecrate governments to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
– Outlaw all false religions (per Quas Primas).
– Submit all treaties to ecclesiastical approval by valid pre-1958 Catholic authorities.
Instead, the idolatry of dialogue prevails. Iran’s rejection of “broader restrictions” and Israel’s reliance on U.S. power both stem from denying Christ’s mandate: “All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth” (Matt. 28:18). The report’s closing appeal to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” compounds heresy—Bergoglio’s antipapal utterances lack all authority, being issued by a usurper of the Holy See.
Omission of Final Ends Reveals Apostate Worldview
Nowhere does the article mention:
– The eternal damnation risked by non-Catholics involved in violence.
– The duty of Catholic rulers to suppress heresy (Canon 2334, 1917 Code).
– The necessity of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for divine intervention.
This reflects the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty—a heresy anathematized by Pius IX: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Error 15). By reporting on Gaza without demanding conversion of Muslims, the VaticanNews portal tacitly endorses indifferentism, making it complicit in souls’ perdition.
Source:
Israeli leader in Washington to discuss possible Iran nuclear deal (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.02.2026