EWTN News portal reports on an Easter interview with Father Giulio Albanese, MCCJ, a Comboni missionary priest, who urges Christians to be “messengers of peace” amid global conflicts. The article highlights his personal experience of kidnapping in Uganda and witnessing wartime atrocities, framing the Christian response as one of prayer, conversion, and commitment to peace. It also references Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday and Easter messages, where he described Jesus as the “King of Peace” and called for an end to violence, culminating in an announced prayer vigil for peace on April 11. The article presents these appeals as the essence of the Easter message and the Church’s role in the world.
The Reduction of Christ’s Kingship to Sentimental Pacifism
The article’s central theme—peace as the primary Easter message—immediately reveals a profound theological impoverishment characteristic of the post-conciliar era. While peace is indeed a fruit of Christ’s redemption, the conciliar sect systematically reduces the mystery of Easter to a vague humanitarian aspiration, stripped of its supernatural and doctrinal depth. Father Albanese declares: “Peace, from a Christian perspective, is not simply a wish, it’s a gift, and we must be aware that this is our vocation, to bring peace to the world.” This statement, while superficially pious, omits the essential Catholic teaching that true peace is only possible through the recognition of Christ’s social kingship and the submission of individuals and nations to His divine law.
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), unequivocally established that peace is a consequence of Christ’s reign, not a standalone humanitarian project. He wrote: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The conciliar sect’s obsession with “peace” divorced from the acknowledgment of Christ’s royal authority is a direct repudiation of this teaching. It substitutes the supernatural order with naturalistic humanism, reducing the Church’s mission to that of a global NGO advocating for ceasefires and dialogue.
The Omission of the True Source of Peace: The Social Reign of Christ
The article’s silence on the social reign of Christ is deafening. Pius XI taught: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, 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 conciliar sect’s peace rhetoric ignores this fundamental truth, instead promoting a vision of peace based on human effort, international cooperation, and emotional appeals—precisely the errors condemned by Pius XI as secularism and laicism.
Father Albanese’s call for “conversion” is similarly hollow. He states: “During Easter day and even in the following days we have to pray for peace because if there is a lack of peace in the world it’s because our Christianity has become meaningless.” Yet he fails to specify what this conversion entails. True conversion requires the rejection of sin, the embrace of the Catholic faith, and the submission to Christ’s authority in all spheres of life—including the political and social order. The conciliar sect’s “conversion” is merely a call for better feelings and intentions, not a return to the unchanging truths of the Gospel.
The False Notion of Peace in the Conciliar Sect
Pope Leo XIV’s description of Jesus as the “King of Peace” during Palm Sunday Mass is a classic example of the conciliar sect’s rhetorical sleight of hand. By emphasizing Christ’s peace without His justice, His truth, or His judgment, the usurper reduces the divine King to a benign figurehead. The article quotes him: “The peace that Jesus gives us is not merely the silence of weapons but the peace that touches and transforms the heart of each one of us!” This is a half-truth. While Christ’s peace does transform hearts, it also demands the submission of nations to His law and the punishment of those who defy it. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ—as we lamented—were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The conciliar sect’s peace is the peace of the world, not the peace of Christ. It is a peace that tolerates error, ignores justice, and refuses to condemn sin. This is the peace of the abomination of desolation, where the true doctrine of Christ’s social kingship is replaced by a saccharine universalism that offends neither the world nor the devil.
The Symptomatic Silence on the Causes of War
The article laments the suffering caused by war but never identifies its root causes. Father Albanese mentions conflicts in Iran, the Middle East, and Africa, yet he omits the role of ideologies condemned by the Church—communism, liberalism, masonry, and modernism—in fomenting these wars. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) by Pope Pius IX explicitly condemned the errors of liberalism and religious indifferentism that underpin modern secular states. The conciliar sect, by refusing to name these enemies, becomes complicit in their projects.
Moreover, the article ignores the internal apostasy within the Church itself as a primary cause of global disorder. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist errors that have since infected the conciliar sect. The erosion of doctrine, the corruption of the liturgy, and the promotion of false ecumenism have weakened the Church’s ability to be a true messenger of peace. Instead, the conciliar sect collaborates with the very forces that perpetuate war and suffering.
The Illusory “Prayer Vigil for Peace”
The announcement of a prayer vigil for peace in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 11 is a perfunctory gesture that substitutes action for contemplation. True prayer for peace must be accompanied by the preaching of Christ’s kingship, the condemnation of error, and the call for nations to submit to His law. The conciliar sect’s vigils are mere performances, designed to project an image of concern without challenging the structures of sin.
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that the conciliar sect now embraces. He wrote: “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 conciliar sect’s peace initiatives, devoid of this recognition, are futile and deceptive.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of Conciliar Peace
The article’s portrayal of Easter as a call to “peace” without justice, truth, or Christ’s social kingship is a symptom of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. It reduces the supernatural mystery of the Resurrection to a naturalistic program for world harmony, ignoring the Church’s true mission: to lead souls to salvation and nations to submission under Christ the King. Until the conciliar sect repudiates its modernist errors and returns to the unchanging doctrine of the Church, its peace rhetoric will remain a hollow echo in a world hurtling toward destruction. Non est pax impiis—”There is no peace for the wicked” (Isaiah 48:22).
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Christians must be messengers of peace this Easter, Comboni missionary says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.04.2026