The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), a body of the post-conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, has launched its annual “Eucharistic Chain” initiative, organizing Masses across Europe to pray for war victims and an “unarmed and disarming peace.” This effort, promoted under the auspices of the antipope “Pope Leo XIV,” reduces the sublime, propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass to a sentimental, naturalistic plea for temporal peace, utterly divorced from the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King.
A Prayer That Omits the Necessary: The Supernatural Foundation of True Peace
The initiative’s core error is its fundamental naturalism. It speaks of “peace” as a political or social commodity to be achieved through collective prayer, while remaining silent on the *only* foundation for peace: the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in individuals, families, and nations. The pre-conciliar Magisterium is unequivocal. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas* on the Kingship of Christ, declared that the source of all societal blessing is the public recognition of Christ’s royal authority: “Therefore, if men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.” The CCEE prayer chain makes no mention of this essential dogma. It does not call for the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith, the repeal of laws against the Church, or the submission of all human authority to the divine law. Instead, it promotes a generic, “unarmed” peace that could equally be desired by atheists, Masons, or adherents of any religion. This is the precise error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors*: the notion that “it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77) and that “the civil authority… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The bishops’ prayer implicitly accepts the secularist premise that the State is neutral, when in truth, as Pius XI taught, “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” Their prayer is not for the *reign* of Christ, but for a vague tranquility within a godless order.
The Desecration of the Most Holy Sacrifice
The initiative centers on the celebration of the “Eucharist.” However, within the conciliar sect, the liturgical action is not the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The “Mass” of Paul VI, as implemented after Vatican II, is a “meal” and a “gathering,” a “synodal” assembly that has deliberately suppressed the propitiatory, sacrificial nature of the Liturgy. To speak of a “Eucharistic Chain” is to chain the true, eternal Sacrifice to the service of a naturalistic, humanistic project. The pre-1958 Church taught that the Mass is the same sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, offered to the Eternal Father for the remission of sins, the salvation of souls, and the triumph of the Church. The Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “In the Sacrifice of the Mass, it is one and the same Victim, the same Christ our Lord and God, who offered Himself upon the Cross.” The CCEE reduces this supreme act of worship to a mere “invocation” for peace, stripping it of its essential purpose: adoration, satisfaction for sin, and impetration for the needs of the Church Militant. This is a sacrilegious manipulation, using the sacred language of Catholicism to promote a religion of man. The bishops’ statement that they wish to “gather around the Eucharistic table to invoke peace” echoes the Lutheran “table fellowship,” not the Catholic doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Heresy of “Unarmed and Disarming Peace”
The specific phrase “unarmed and disarming peace” is a direct manifestation of the Modernist synthesis of all errors condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici gregis* and *Lamentabili sane exitu*. It embodies the Naturalist and Rationalist errors of the *Syllabus*. Error 58 of the *Syllabus* states: “All the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.” The “peace” promoted here is not the peace that comes from the triumph of justice and the defeat of error, but a peace that “disarms” the defenders of the Faith and the natural right of nations to self-defense. It is a peace that demands surrender—the surrender of Catholic nations to the forces of secularism, Islam, and globalism. It is the peace of the Antichrist, foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2, where men are seduced by “all power, and signs, and lying wonders” into a false universal brotherhood that rejects Christ. Pope Leo XIII, in *Immortale Dei*, taught that true peace is the “tranquility of order,” which is the order established by Christ the King. The bishops’ peace is the tranquility of disorder, the peace of the cemetery where all doctrinal and moral conflict is silenced by the dictatorship of relativism.
The Illegitimacy of the Actors and the False “Eucharistic Chain”
The entire initiative is orchestrated by the CCEE, a body of bishops who, with exceedingly rare exceptions, are in formal schism. They are not Catholic bishops in the sense of the pre-1958 Church. They are members of the conciliar sect, which has embraced the errors of Vatican II’s *Dignitatis Humanae* (religious liberty), *Nostra Aetate* (indifferentism), and *Gaudium et Spes* (the “signs of the times” hermeneutic). As such, they have no jurisdiction, and their liturgical actions are invalid or at best illicit. The “Eucharistic Chain” is therefore a chain of sacrileges, linking pseudo-Masses across Europe in a coordinated act of apostasy. The true Catholic Church, which “cannot be bound by the chains of human compromise” (Pius IX, *Syllabus*, Error 54), would instead organize a chain of public reparation, processions of the Blessed Sacrament to reclaim public squares for Christ the King, and solemn exorcisms against the demons of war and schism. The initiative’s focus on Ukraine, the Holy Land, and “all regions suffering from violence” is a masterclass in omission. It mentions the victims but never names the ideologies responsible: the schismatic Orthodox nationalism, the Islamic jihad, the secularist globalism. It never calls for the conversion of the aggressors to the one true Faith. This is the “ecumenism of blood” promoted by “Pope Francis” and continued by “Leo XIV”—a heresy that puts all religions on the same level before suffering, thereby denying the exclusive salvific role of the Catholic Church.
The “Pope’s” Words: A Modernist Mantra
The article quotes “Pope Leo XIV’s” Message for the World Day of Peace: “Let us open ourselves to peace!… Peace is more than just a goal; it is a presence and a journey.” This is pure Modernist immanentism. Peace is presented as an immanent “presence” to be welcomed, rather than a transcendent gift from God to be earned through penance, faith, and obedience. It echoes the condemned proposition from *Lamentabili sane exitu*: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Here, peace is not the result of Christ’s victory on the Cross and His triumphant reign, but a subjective experience on a “journey.” This is the language of the New Age, not of the Catholic Church. The pre-conciliar Magisterium taught that peace is a *reward* for justice and a *consequence* of Christ’s dominion. Pius XI, quoting Leo XIII, wrote: “Then at last… so many wounds can be healed, then there will be hope that the law will regain its former authority, sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands, when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him.” The antipope’s message inverts this: peace is a precondition for, or a parallel path to, Christ’s reign. This is the essence of the “hermeneutic of continuity” fraud—presenting Modernism in traditional language.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution’s Total Apostasy
This entire episode is a symptom of the systemic apostasy of the post-1958 hierarchy. The bishops unite not on the doctrine of the Trinity or the Immaculate Conception, but on a vague, naturalistic “peace.” They use the language of the “Eucharist” but have already stripped it of its sacrificial and dogmatic content. They invoke “Lent” as a time of prayer but have long since abandoned the traditional Lenten practices of strict fasting, abstinence, and the mortification of the senses that make satisfaction for sin. The initiative perfectly embodies the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15): the sacred rites and terminology of Catholicism are used to promote the exact opposite of Catholic goals. The true Lenten mission, as defined by the Church, is to “reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord” (*Quas Primas*) through penance, almsgiving, and prayer—all oriented toward the salvation of souls and the extension of Christ’s reign. The CCEE’s mission is to foster a vague, humanitarian “communion” that includes all, regardless of faith, thereby promoting the indifferentism condemned in *Syllabus* Errors 15-18.
Conclusion: A Call to Repudiate and Separate
The “Eucharistic Chain” is not a Catholic initiative. It is a coordinated act of apostasy by the conciliar sect, using the symbols of Catholicism to propagate a religion of human brotherhood devoid of dogma, sacrifice, and the kingship of Christ. It is a spiritual operation designed to make Catholics comfortable with a world without Christ, to substitute a sentimental “peace” for the demanding program of the Social Reign of Christ the King. The unchanging Catholic faith, as taught before the revolution of Vatican II, demands the opposite: a total war against error, a public confession of Christ’s sovereignty, and a willingness to suffer for the Faith, not a “chain” of prayers that implicitly legitimizes the secularist, schismatic status quo. The faithful must have no part in this. They must flee the neo-church and its empty rituals, and adhere solely to the true, immovable Faith of all time, professed by the Roman Pontiffs and Doctors of the Church before the mid-20th century.
Source:
European Bishops unite in Lenten prayer for war victims and peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.02.2026