VaticanNews portal reports (May 11, 2026) that the antipope Leo XIV met with members of Jordan’s Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and the Holy See’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, calling upon Christians and Muslims to “revive humanity where it has grown cold” and “transform indifference into solidarity.” The meeting took place during a colloquium on “Human Compassion and Empathy in Modern Times,” founded under the patronage of Jordan’s Prince Hasan bin Talal. The antipope suggested that compassion and empathy are “essential attitudes” of both Christianity and Islam, noting that in the Muslim tradition compassion (ra’fa) is a divine gift, while in Christianity divine compassion “becomes visible and tangible” in Jesus. He praised Jordan’s “generous efforts” to welcome refugees, and warned that technology’s “constant flow of images and videos of the hardships of others” can “dull our hearts rather than stir them,” citing an early homily of the antipope Francis. The meeting represents yet another step in the systematic demolition of Catholic doctrine on the exclusive salvific mission of the Church and the unique mediatorship of Christ.
The Dogmatic Foundation: Outside the Church There Is No Salvation
The entire premise of this interreligious gathering rests upon a direct contradiction of the most solemn and repeatedly defined dogmas of the Catholic faith. The Church has taught, with the full weight of her infallible magisterium, that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation. This is not a disciplinary opinion subject to revision; it is a dogma of faith defined by the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the Council of Florence (1442), and reaffirmed by numerous pontiffs.
Pope Eugene IV, in the Council of Florence’s Cantate Domino (1441), proclaimed with binding authority: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life everlasting; but that they will go into the ‘everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Mt. 25:41), unless before the end of life they are joined with Her.”
Pope Pius IX, in his Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17), and further condemned the notion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18). If this is true of Protestantism — which at least retains some vestiges of Christian baptism — how much more does it apply to Islam, which explicitly denies the Divinity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, the Redemption through the Cross, and the Real Presence in the Eucharist?
The antipope Leo XIV’s assertion that Christians and Muslims share “essential attitudes” of compassion and are called to a “common mission” to “revive humanity” is not merely imprudent; it is a direct repudiation of the Church’s solemn teaching that she alone is the ark of salvation, and that those who die outside her communion — including Muslims who explicitly reject the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ — are in a state of eternal peril unless they convert to the Catholic faith before death.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Common Values” with Islam
The antipope’s speech constructs a framework of moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam that is theologically monstrous. He states that in the Muslim tradition, compassion (ra’fa) is “a gift bestowed by God in the hearts of believers,” and that the inclusion of al-Ra’uf (“The ever-compassionate”) among the ninety-nine divine names reminds us that “compassion always has its origin in God himself.” He then parallels this with the Christian tradition, where divine compassion “becomes visible and tangible” in the person of Jesus.
This parallel is not merely false; it is blasphemous. The God of Christianity is the Blessed Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost — three Persons in one Divine Nature. The “god” of Islam (Allah) explicitly rejects the Trinity as shirk (polytheism), the unforgivable sin. The Quran states: “They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! God is the third of three; when there is no God save the one God” (Surah 5:73). Islam denies that God is Father, denies that Jesus is the Eternal Son of God, denies the Crucifixion (“they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them” — Surah 4:157), and denies the Resurrection.
To suggest that the compassion of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — the God Who became Incarnate, suffered, died, and rose again for our salvation — is comparable to the compassion of a deity who denies all of these mysteries is to empty Christianity of its supernatural content and reduce it to a naturalistic humanitarianism indistinguishable from any other religion. This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: the idea that all religions are equally valid paths to God.
Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei (1885), taught: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, and each fixed within limits which are defined by its own nature and special object.” The Church has no “common mission” with false religions; her mission is to convert all nations to the Catholic faith, as Our Lord Himself commanded: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mt. 28:19).
The Omission That Condemns: No Mention of Conversion, No Mention of Christ the King
The most damning aspect of this address is not what it says, but what it systematically omits. There is not a single mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith. There is not a single mention of the unique mediatorship of Jesus Christ. There is not a single mention of the sacraments as necessary means of grace. There is not a single mention of the obligation of nations to publicly recognize the reign of Christ the King.
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that would remove Christ from public life. He 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 antipope Leo XIV’s address does the exact opposite of what Pius XI commanded. Instead of proclaiming the universal kingship of Christ over all nations and all religions, he places Christianity and Islam on the same plane, as two parallel traditions with “essential attitudes” of compassion. This is not Catholicism; it is the subsistit in heresy of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate taken to its logical and catastrophic conclusion.
The Praise of Jordan: Legitimizing a Regime That Persecutes Christians
The antipope expressed his appreciation for the Kingdom of Jordan’s “generous efforts” to welcome refugees. While charity toward those in need is a natural virtue, the context of this praise is deeply problematic. Jordan is an Islamic kingdom where apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, where the public practice of Christianity is severely restricted, and where the conversion of Muslims to Christianity is effectively criminalized. By praising Jordan’s “generosity” without a single word about the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world, the antipope legitimizes a regime that systematically violates the natural law and the rights of the true Church.
This is consistent with the conciliar sect’s systematic refusal to name the persecution of Christians by Islam. While the antipopes weep over climate change and economic inequality, they remain silent — or worse, express “appreciation” — when Islamic regimes behead Christians, bomb churches, and enslave Christian women and children. The blood of the martyrs cries out from the ground, and the conciar sect responds with interreligious dialogue.
Technology and Indulgence: The Distraction from Supernatural Realities
The antipope’s reflection on technology’s impact on compassion — warning that the “constant flow of images and videos of the hardships of others” can “dull our hearts rather than stir them” — is a masterful example of misdirection. While the observation about desensitization may contain a grain of natural truth, its deployment in this context serves to distract from the far more serious spiritual desensitization caused by the conciliar revolution itself.
The faithful who attend the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, who receive the true Body and Blood of Our Lord in a state of grace, who pray the Rosary and meditate on the mysteries of the faith — these souls are not “dulled” by technology; they are nourished by supernatural grace. The antipope’s concern about technology-induced indifference is a naturalistic distraction from the far greater evil: the systematic destruction of the liturgy, the sacraments, and the faith itself by the conciliar sect.
Moreover, the antipope’s citation of an early homily of the antipope Francis — who famously declared that atheists can go to heaven and that proselytism is “solemn nonsense” — reveals the continuity of the modernist project across multiple pontificates. The conciliar sect speaks with one voice, because it serves one master: not Christ the King, but the spirit of the world.
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue: An Instrument of Apostasy
The very existence of the “Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue” is an institutionalized repudiation of Catholic doctrine. The Church has always taught that dialogue with false religions is permissible only for the purpose of converting them to the truth — not for the purpose of discovering “common values” or engaging in “common missions.” The Dicastery, as an organ of the conciliar sect, exists precisely to promote the heresy that all religions are equally valid paths to God, and that the Church must “dialogue” with them as equals rather than proclaim to them the necessity of conversion.
Pope Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), condemned the very idea of interreligious dialogue as practiced by the conciliar sect: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.” He further warned: “The Apostolic See can by no means take part in these assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support: for they will be no less than a participation in a worship that is contrary to the truth of the faith.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The meeting between the antipope Leo XIV and the Jordanian Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies is not an isolated incident; it is a manifestation of the systemic apostasy that has consumed the structures occupying the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII. The conciliar sect has abandoned the mission entrusted to her by Our Lord Jesus Christ — to teach all nations, to baptize all peoples, to proclaim the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church — and has replaced it with a naturalistic humanitarianism that places Christianity and Islam on the same plane.
The faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith must reject this abomination utterly. There is no “common mission” with Islam. There is no “reviving humanity” without the grace of the true sacraments, without the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, without the public recognition of the reign of Christ the King over all nations and all peoples. The only path to the salvation of souls — including Muslim souls — is through conversion to the one true Church of Christ, outside of which there is no salvation.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Let this be our answer to the interreligious delusions of the conciliar sect.
Source:
Pope: Christians and Muslims must work together to ‘revive humanity' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.05.2026