Summary: The Vatican News article from March 7, 2026, reports statements by Chaldean “Cardinal” Louis Raphaël Sako concerning the Iran-Iraq conflict. Sako expresses deep concern over regional escalation, warns of the danger to Iraq’s Christian communities, calls for prayer, and urges Muslim leaders to join in calls for peace, specifically referencing the 2021 meeting between “Pope” Francis and Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani. The article presents Sako’s diplomatic, interreligious approach as the sole viable path, framing war as the ultimate evil and peace as a naturalistic goal achievable through dialogue among all religions. This perspective, emanating from a leading figure of the post-conciliar “Church,” constitutes a radical repudiation of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and a promotion of the indifferentism condemned by the Syllabus of Errors.
The thesis is clear: Sako’s entire framework is built upon the naturalistic, humanistic principles of Modernism, which reduces the Church’s mission to worldly peacemaking through religious syncretism, while utterly omitting the supernatural necessity of the public reign of Christ the King over all nations and the conversion of all peoples to the Catholic Faith as the only foundation for true order and peace.