portal reports that “Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, urged the international community to take concrete steps towards peace in Ukraine” in a speech to the OSCE Permanent Council on February 24, 2026. Gallagher stated, “Every war represents a moral and human failure,” and called for “sincere and inclusive diplomatic channels” and “the faithful fulfilment of obligations,” emphasizing that international humanitarian law “must always prevail over the ambitions of belligerents.” He quoted the “Pope” Leo XIV and expressed the Holy See’s readiness to support diplomatic initiatives placing “the human person and the alleviation of suffering at the heart of their efforts.” This speech, devoid of any supernatural framework, reveals the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Catholic social doctrine in favor of a naturalistic, humanist agenda.
The Eclipse of the Social Kingship of Christ
The entire discourse of “Archbishop” Gallagher rests upon a foundational error: the reduction of the Church’s mission to the realm of natural ethics and international diplomacy, utterly divorced from the supernatural reign of Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, definitively established that true peace is impossible without the public and social recognition of Christ’s kingship. “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed,” the Pope warned. The “plague” of secularism, which Gallagher’s speech implicitly accepts as the permanent framework, is precisely the evil Quas Primas was written to combat. The encyclical institutes the feast of Christ the King as a remedy against the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” Where is the call for nations to publicly recognize the “sweet yoke of Christ” and order their laws according to His commandments? It is absent. Instead, we hear the language of “diplomatic channels,” “humanitarian law,” and “the human person”—the precise vocabulary of the naturalistic, Masonic-inspired world order condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (e.g., propositions 39, 56, 57).
A “Moral Failure” Without a Moral Standard
Gallagher’s assertion that “Every war represents a moral and human failure” is a vapid, content-less slogan. It is a statement of naturalistic sentimentalism, not Catholic theology. Catholic doctrine, as articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas and the Roman Catechism, distinguishes between just and unjust wars based on the ius ad bellum and ius in bello, grounded in the eternal law and the defense of the common good. To label all war a “moral failure” is to implicitly condemn all legitimate defense, including the Crusades and the defense of Christendom, as morally equivalent to aggressive conquest. This relativizes the concept of justice and aligns with the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu, proposition 64: “It is lawful to refuse obedience to legitimate princes, and even to rebel against them,” and proposition 58: “All the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches… and the gratification of pleasure.” Gallagher’s framework removes the objective moral law (the Law of God) and replaces it with a subjective, humanitarian “failure” metric, which can be and is manipulated by the powerful.
The Idolatry of “International Humanitarian Law”
The speech elevates “international humanitarian law” to a supreme, almost sacred status, stating it “must always prevail over the ambitions of belligerents.” This is a direct inversion of Catholic hierarchy. The Syllabus of Errors (prop. 56) condemns the notion that “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.” Gallagher treats man-made international conventions as an absolute, autonomous standard. In contrast, Pius XI in Quas Primas declares that the state’s authority is derived from Christ: “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” whose happiness must be ordered to eternal salvation. International law, if it is to be just, must be subordinate to the lex divina and the social reign of Christ. To place it above “the ambitions of belligerents” (a phrase that could describe a Catholic prince defending the faith) is to erect the law of the “synagogue of Satan” (as termed by Pius IX in the Syllabus preamble) as a supreme tribunal over the divine law.
The Silence on the True Cause of War: Apostasy
The analysis is symptomatically bankrupt because it is utterly silent on the true cause of modern wars, as identified by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, identified the “present misfortune” of global conflict as “mainly… imputed to the frauds and machinations” of Masonic sects and the apostasy of nations that have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life” (Quas Primas). The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) taught that wars are often a chastisement for collective sin. Where is the call for nations to do public penance, to restore the Sacraments, to re-consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart? Where is the condemnation of the “errors of Modernism” which “synthesizes all heresies” (Lamentabili, preamble) and has infiltrated every level of society? The silence is deafening and damning. It confirms that the conciliar sect, including its “diplomatic service,” operates on the natural plane alone, viewing conflict as a political problem to be managed, not a supernatural consequence of collective apostasy to be atoned for.
The Heresy of “Dialogue” and “Sincerity”
Gallagher’s mantra of “dialogue must be based on sincerity in negotiations” is the quintessential Modernist slogan. It assumes that truth is a matter of sincere subjective opinion and that conflicting parties can find common ground through good-faith negotiation, regardless of objective truth. This is the heresy of “indifferentism” condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, props. 15-17). Catholic diplomacy, when authentic, was never about “dialogue” with error but about the defense of the Faith and the rights of the Church, using the tools of statecraft to protect the Kingdom of Christ. The “dialogue” promoted by the conciliar sect is the ecumenical and diplomatic tool for the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel (Mt 24:15), where the “holy place” (the Church) is occupied by a power that speaks “a word against the Most High” (Dan 7:25) by placing human consensus above divine law. The “sincerity” demanded is the sincerity of the Modernist, who “lays aside the intention of defending the Faith” and seeks only “to satisfy the requirements of the age” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pius X).
The Usurper’s Voice: Leo XIV’s Naturalism
Gallagher quotes “Pope” Leo XIV on international humanitarian law. This “Pope,” like his predecessors since John XXIII, is a public heretic and, according to the irrefutable doctrine of St. Robert Bellarmine (as cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file), has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. Bellarmine states: “a manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope… because he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” Leo XIV, who promotes religious liberty (condemned by Pius IX, Syllabus prop. 77), ecumenism, and the naturalistic humanism of Vatican II, is a manifest heretic. His words have no magisterial weight; they are the opinions of a private individual, and a heretical one at that. To quote him as an authority is to lend credibility to apostasy. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law is clear: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric… Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The entire conciliar hierarchy is in a state of public defection.
The OSCE: A Temple of Naturalistic Order
The choice of the OSCE as a platform is profoundly significant. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is a product of the Helsinki Accords and the post-war secular order, founded on the principles of national sovereignty, human rights, and security defined without reference to Christ. It is a modern iteration of the “two powers” (church and state) in a relationship of parity, condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, props. 19-24, 39-42). The Church’s true mission, as defined by Pius XI, is to “remind states that… rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Instead, the conciliar sect submits its “diplomatic” voice to a body whose foundational documents are imbued with the very errors of secularism, indifferentism, and the separation of Church and State that the Syllabus anathematized. This is not diplomacy; it is surrender. It is the “paramasonic structure” of the post-conciliar Church performing its assigned role in the globalist, naturalistic order.
The Missing Sacramental and Penitential Framework
The most grave omission is the complete absence of any reference to the Sacraments, grace, or the necessity of the state of sanctifying grace for peace. Catholic social teaching, from St. Augustine to Pius XII, is built upon the premise that the supernatural life of the Church is the soul of the temporal order. Quas Primas speaks of the Kingdom of Christ being entered “through faith and baptism,” and of the peace that flows from souls conformed to the “laws of the Divine Kingdom.” Where is the call for the faithful to frequent the Sacraments? Where is the plea for public prayer, penance, and the reparation of sin? Where is the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Peace? The speech is pure Pelagianism: peace is achieved through human “courage,” “diplomatic engagement,” and “humanitarian law,” not through the application of the Precious Blood and the merits of the Saints. This is the “dogmaless Christianity” condemned by St. Pius X (Lamentabili, prop. 65), reduced to a mere moral and social project.
Conclusion: The Apostate Nature of Conciliar Diplomacy
The speech by “Archbishop” Gallagher is not a failure of wording; it is the logical, inevitable fruit of the apostasy of Vatican II. It represents the final stage of the “disinformation strategy” outlined in the False Fatima Apparitions file: the complete diversion of the Church’s mission from the supernatural (conversion, penance, the reign of Christ) to the naturalistic (dialogue, humanitarianism, international law). The “conciliar sect” has no goods to propose but the natural goods of peace and human dignity, which the pagan world also seeks. It has abandoned its divine mandate to be “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world” (Mt 5:13-14) and has become a mere NGO for human rights, a “chamber of echoes” for the United Nations. The only authentic peace is the peace of Christ’s reign: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you” (Jn 14:27). This peace is found only in the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation (Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam). The conciliar sect, having exchanged this truth for the “peace” of the world, preaches a Gospel of man, not of God. Its diplomacy is the diplomacy of the Antichrist, for it builds a world order expressly designed to exclude the public kingship of Jesus Christ.
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Archbishop Gallagher: Every war is a moral and human failure (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.02.2026