Summary: Vatican News, the official news portal of the conciliar sect, publishes an interview with Mr. Aldo Berardi, an apostolic vicar of the “Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia,” a jurisdiction erected by the post-conciliar “papal” authorities. Berardi expresses “concern” over the escalation of war between Israel, the United States, and Iran, noting missile strikes near his cathedral in Bahrain and the closure of churches. He praises the appeal for peace made by the current occupier of the Vatican, “Pope Leo XIV,” and urges prayer to avoid being “swept up in this spiral” of violence. The interview reveals a profound naturalism, focusing solely on geopolitical stability and physical safety while omitting any reference to the supernatural goals of the state, the sinfulness of war without justice, the necessity of the public social reign of Christ the King, or the duty of rulers to obey the moral law. Berardi’s framework is one of fear and humanistic hope, utterly divorced from the integral Catholic doctrine on the social kingship of Christ and the Church’s right to freedom from secular power, as defined before the revolution of Vatican II. His acknowledgment of the antipope “Leo XIV” as a legitimate pastor constitutes formal adherence to the conciliar apostasy.

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The Apostasy of Naturalism: Conciliar Clergy Reject Christ’s Kingship in Time of War

Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Catholic Concern

The interview with Mr. Berardi is a masterclass in the naturalistic religion of the conciliar sect. His entire concern is framed within the categories of geopolitics, “complexity,” “hatred,” “vengeance,” and physical safety. He speaks of an “abyss” and a “spiral” of violence that could “sweep us away.” This is the language of secular sociologists and diplomats, not of a Catholic pastor whose first duty is to lead souls to eternal salvation. The analysis reveals a complete absence of the supernatural perspective that must animate a true Catholic voice in public affairs.

The most glaring omission is any mention of sin. The article discusses violence, retaliation, and “grievances,” but never identifies the root cause: the collective sin of nations that reject the law of God and the social kingship of Christ. There is no call for repentance, conversion, or penance. There is no reminder that true peace, the peace of Christ, is impossible without justice, and justice is impossible without adherence to the eternal law of God. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas on the Feast of Christ the King, directly addressed this error: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Berardi’s plea for peace, divorced from this foundational truth, is a futile appeal to a natural order that cannot exist without the supernatural order. It is a call for the absence of war, not the presence of the peace that comes from Christ’s reign.

The Apostasy of Recognizing the Usurper

A foundational error, instantly disqualifying any statement from Mr. Berardi from having Catholic weight, is his explicit acknowledgment of the antipope “Pope Leo XIV.” He states: “We were, of course, expecting an intervention from the Pope this Sunday…” and praises his appeal. This is a formal, public adherence to the conciliar sect’s claim that the post-1958 “papal” line is legitimate. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, which holds that a manifest heretic cannot be Pope and that the current occupiers of the Vatican are a line of apostates beginning with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”), this acknowledgment is an act of schism and apostasy.

Theological sources are unequivocal. St. Robert Bellarmine taught that a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which remains the last valid code, states that an office becomes vacant by the mere fact of “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “Popes” since Vatican II have publicly defected by embracing the errors of Modernism, religious liberty, and ecumenism—all condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu and by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. Therefore, the “papacy” of “Leo XIV” is a nullity. To recognize him is to reject the immutable doctrine of the Church and to place oneself outside the Catholic fold. Berardi’s position is not that of a Catholic bishop in hiding; it is the position of a functionary of a false church, praying to a false god of naturalistic peace.

Silence on the Social Reign of Christ the King

The interview is a study in the systematic omission of the non-negotiable Catholic doctrine on the social kingship of Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, defined this kingship as having a threefold authority: legislative, judicial, and executive. He declared that Christ’s reign extends to all individuals, families, and states, and that rulers have a duty to publicly honor and obey Christ. The encyclical directly links the removal of Christ from public life to the social chaos of the 20th century: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.”

Where is this doctrine in Berardi’s interview? It is nowhere. He does not call on the rulers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Qatar—nor on the rulers of Israel, Iran, or the United States—to recognize the public kingship of Christ and conform their laws to His commandments. He does not remind them that their authority is derived from God and is bound by divine law. He does not speak of the final judgment where Christ will avenge the insult of being cast out of the state. Instead, he operates within the framework of secular diplomacy, asking only for a cessation of hostilities. This is a direct betrayal of the Church’s mission to teach all nations and to bring every sphere of human life into subjection to Christ. It is the very “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI condemned as the plague poisoning society.

The Error of “Prayer” Without Sacrifice and Doctrine

Berardi’s proposed remedy is prayer: “We must pray that peace may be restored and that we are not swept up in this spiral.” He adds that priests will celebrate Mass together “for peace.” This, in itself, is a good thing, but in the context of his naturalism and apostasy, it becomes a superstition. Prayer for peace is efficacious only if it is joined to the sacrifice of the Mass offered in reparation for sin and in accordance with the mind of the Church. The Mass is the supreme propitiatory sacrifice for sin, the very act that makes peace with God possible. To separate the Mass from its doctrinal and sacrificial context is to reduce it to a mere devotional ceremony.

Moreover, prayer without the accompanying duty to preach the truth is useless. The true Catholic response to international conflict is not vague hope but the bold proclamation of Christ the King, the condemnation of errors like those listed in the Syllabus of Errors (e.g., Error #39: “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”; Error #55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”), and the call for the conversion of nations to the Catholic faith. Berardi’s prayer is a prayer for a naturalistic truce, not for the establishment of the City of God on earth. It is the prayer of a man who has internalized the Modernist principle that the Church’s mission is merely to foster human brotherhood, not to convert the world to Christ.

Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: The “Spiral” of Modernist Thought

The very language Berardi uses—”spiral,” “logic of ‘you strike me, I strike you'”—reveals the dialectical, Hegelian mindset that infiltrated the Church after Vatican II. He sees a cycle of violence without a transcendent reference point for breaking it. This is the worldview of Modernism, which rejects absolute truth and sees history as a process of conflicting forces. The Catholic answer, from the Syllabus to Quas Primas, is absolute and static: there is one truth, one law, one King. Peace is found only in submission to that absolute. The “spiral” can only be broken by an external, authoritative intervention: the public acknowledgment of Christ’s kingship by rulers and the reordering of society according to His law. Berardi’s passive hope that we “are not swept up” is a surrender to the modernist myth of progress and the inevitability of conflict, a denial of the Church’s power to bind and loose, to teach and govern nations.

Conclusion: A Voice of the Abomination of Desolation

The interview with Mr. Berardi is not a Catholic response to war; it is a symptom of the catastrophic apostasy of the post-conciliar hierarchy. It demonstrates that the conciliar sect has fully embraced the naturalism condemned by Pius IX and Pius X. Its clergy think in secular categories, pray for naturalistic outcomes, and recognize the authority of antipopes who promote the errors of Modernism. They have exchanged the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the Social Kingship of Christ for a vague, interreligious “peace” that has no supernatural foundation. The true Catholic, in this time of trial, must reject such voices, cling to the immutable doctrine of the pre-1958 Church, and work for the restoration of all things in Christ the King—a restoration that can never come through the conciliar sect or its usurping “papacy.”

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Source:
Bishop Berardi: ‘We must pray not to be swept up in this spiral’   (vaticannews.va)
Date: 01.03.2026