The Portiuncula Stone: A Symbol of Apostate “Dialogue” in the Gulf
The cited article from EWTN News reports that a stone from the altar of the Portiuncula, central to Franciscan spirituality, has been brought to the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia as a relic for the jubilee year dedicated to St. Francis, proclaimed by the antipope known as “Pope Leo XIV.” The relic is presented as a “sign of communion” and a tool for interreligious dialogue, particularly in Muslim-majority countries, under the pastoral guidance of “Bishop” Paolo Martinelli, a Franciscan Capuchin. The article emphasizes themes of fraternity, peace, and encounter, linking the event to the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’s death and to the 2019 Abu Dhabi visit of “Pope Francis.” This entire narrative constitutes a brazen manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy, systematically dismantling Catholic doctrine on the Social Kingship of Christ, the exclusive salvific role of the Church, and the absolute prohibition against religious indifferentism.
The Relic as Instrument of Apostate “Dialogue”
The article frames the relic’s arrival as a “sign of communion between the Church of Assisi and his apostolic vicariate” and a “reminder of [St. Francis’s] historical meeting [with the Sultan] and a sign that encourages interreligious dialogue.” This language is a deliberate corruption of Catholic theology. The “Church of Assisi” referenced is not the Catholic Church but the conciliar sect’s local structure in that city. The relic itself, a mere stone from a restored altar, has no inherent supernatural power; its significance is entirely constructed by the Modernist hierarchy to serve the ecumenical project. The focus on a historical meeting with a Muslim ruler, while ignoring St. Francis’s primary mission of converting souls and his profound penitential life, reveals the naturalistic, human-centered piety of the post-Vatican II era. True communion exists only within the Corpus Mysticum Christi, the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation (cf. Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). To present a material relic as a bridge to non-Catholic religions is to engage in a sacrilegious parody of the sacraments, which are the true signs of grace and communion.
The Usurper’s Jubilee: Profaning Sacred Time
The jubilee year is proclaimed by “Pope Leo XIV,” a manifest heretic who, according to the unchanging doctrine of St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, ipso facto lost all claim to the papacy upon his public adhesion to heresy. The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares that any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect.” Therefore, any liturgical act, including the proclamation of a jubilee, performed by this antipope or in his name is utterly null and illicit. The use of a Franciscan jubilee to promote interreligious events is a direct continuation of the “ecumenical reinterpretation” stage of the Masonic operation against the Church, as identified in the analysis of the false Fatima apparitions. The very concept of a “jubilee year” for a saint, separate from the liturgical cycle and used as a tool for globalist “dialogue,” is a post-conciliar innovation that undermines the centrality of the liturgical year oriented to the mysteries of Christ.
Franciscan “Peace” vs. Catholic Kingship
The article quotes “Bishop” Martinelli stating St. Francis is “a man of peace and reconciliation,” and that his meeting with the Sultan left “a good memory” for dialogue. This is a gross distortion. St. Francis’s peace was the peace of Christ, a peace that requires the submission of all things to His reign. Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas—a document of the pre-1958 Magisterium—dogmatically defines the Social Kingship of Christ: “His reign… extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The article’s emphasis on dialogue and mutual respect with Islam, a false religion that denies the Incarnation and the Kingship of Christ, directly contradicts this doctrine. Pius XI explicitly condemns the secularism that removes Christ from public life: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect’s promotion of “dialogue” with Islam is the precise manifestation of this secularism, placing the false religion of Mohammed on a par with the true religion, thereby committing the error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (#18: “It is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people”).
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
The article is utterly silent on the absolute duty of rulers and states to publicly recognize and obey Christ the King. This omission is not accidental but theological. The entire Modernist project, from the Syllabus of Errors through the documents of Vatican II, seeks to privatize religion and eliminate the reign of Christ from the temporal order. Pius XI in Quas Primas states unequivocally: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The article instead promotes a relic as a symbol of “fraternity” among different religions, a concept that finds its origin in the indifferentism condemned by Pius IX (#15, #16). The true sign of communion for a nation is not a stone from Assisi, but the public profession of the Catholic faith and the legislation of its divine law.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Communion” Heresy
The phrase “sign of communion” used in the article is a technical term of the post-conciliar sect, denoting a false, horizontal unity that rejects the hierarchical, dogmatic, and exclusive communion of the Catholic Church. This is the heresy of “communion” without truth. The Syllabus of Errors, in propositions #19-24, systematically dismantles the Modernist notion of the Church as a mere human society subject to state control. Proposition #21 is explicit: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.” This is precisely the implication of promoting a relic as a bridge to Islam. The article’s framework assumes a legitimacy for the “Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia” and its “bishop,” but these structures are occupied by heretics. As proven from Bellarmine and Canon 188.4, a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction. The true Catholic faithful in the Gulf are spiritually orphaned, with no legitimate pastors, and are being fed this spiritual poison in place of the true Faith.
St. Francis Distorted: From Penance to Pantheism
The article presents St. Francis primarily as a figure of “peace, fraternity, and love for creation,” echoing the eco-pantheistic themes of the post-conciliar ” Laudato Si'” agenda. This is a profound falsification. The pre-1958 tradition, as seen in the encyclical Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII and the spirituality of the Franciscans themselves, emphasized St. Francis’s radical poverty, penance, and total conversion to Christ. The true St. Francis would have preached the necessity of baptism for salvation and the duty to convert Muslims, not merely to engage in “dialogue.” The focus on “love for creation” without the primary love for the Creator and His law is a form of the pantheism condemned in the Syllabus (#1: “God is identical with the nature of things”). The relic’s journey, therefore, is not a pilgrimage of penance but a liturgical act of the “Church of the New Advent,” which worships the creature more than the Creator.
The Stone’s True Meaning: Idolatry of Creation
The veneration of a stone from an altar, detached from the context of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (which is itself corrupted in the conciliar rite), becomes a superstitious act. The article notes the relic was preserved after an earthquake, but its current use is divorced from the theology of the altar as the place of the unbloody sacrifice to the one true God. In the hands of the conciliar sect, it becomes an idol of “creation” and “fraternity,” a sign of the apostasy foretold by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu. The proposition condemned in #41 of Lamentabili applies: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator.” The relic’s function is precisely this: a sentimental reminder of a “benevolent” god who accepts all religions, not the terrible God of Sinai and Calvary who demands exclusive worship and the submission of all nations to His law.
Conclusion: A Ritual of the Apostate Church
The entire event described—the arrival of the Portiuncula stone, the jubilee proclaimed by an antipope, the emphasis on interreligious dialogue, the omission of Christ’s Kingship—is a coherent ritual of the post-conciliar apostasy. It is the logical outcome of the errors condemned by Pius IX and St. Pius X, now institutionalized in the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican. The faithful are invited to participate in a symbolic act that, in its essence, denies the unique mediation of Christ, the exclusivity of the Catholic Church, and the duty of every state to recognize the Reign of Christ the King. The true Catholic response is not to venerate this stone but to heed the perennial teaching of the Church: “He who is not with Me is against Me” (Matt. 12:30). There can be no “communion” with the religion of Islam, no “fraternity” without the unity of the Faith, and no “peace” without the public reign of Christ the King over all nations, as defined in Quas Primas and condemned by the Syllabus as the error of “indifferentism.”
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Portiuncula altar stone arrives in Southern Arabia as St. Francis jubilee begins (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.02.2026