EWTN News reports that on May 11, 2026, the usurper occupying Peter’s throne, Leo XIV, addressed participants in the eighth colloquium between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, calling on Christians and Muslims to “transform indifference into solidarity.” The theme of the gathering was “Human Compassion and Empathy in Modern Times.” The occupant of the Vatican declared that compassion is “essential for what it means to live a truly human life,” praised the Muslim tradition’s association of compassion with divine mercy, and lamented that technological advances “can dull our hearts rather than stir them.” He further expressed appreciation for Jordan’s Prince Hasan bin Talal and the Hashemite Kingdom’s efforts in welcoming refugees. This address, delivered in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, represents yet another step in the systematic dismantling of Catholic doctrine by the conciliar sect, reducing the supernatural faith of Christ to a naturalistic program of humanitarian sentimentality indistinguishable from the most degraded forms of liberal Protestantism and outright religious indifferentism.
The Usurper’s Call to Syncretism: Leo XIV’s Interreligious Dialogue as Apostasy
The Reduction of Divine Revelation to Naturalistic Humanitarianism
The address delivered by Leo XIV on May 11, 2026, is not merely a diplomatic courtesy extended to representatives of a false religion. It is a theological act of profound gravity, one that reveals the complete capitulation of the conciliar sect to the spirit of the world. When the usurper declares that compassion and empathy are essential for “what it means to live a truly human life,” he has already abandoned the supernatural order entirely. The Catholic Church has always taught that the purpose of human life is not the cultivation of natural virtues but the attainment of eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, the one Mediator between God and man. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, the encyclical that established the Feast of Christ the King: “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 reign of Christ is not a program of interreligious solidarity; it is the absolute, public, and exclusive sovereignty of the Incarnate Word over every soul, every nation, and every aspect of human existence.
Leo XIV’s assertion that “the constant flow of images and videos of the hardships of others can dull our hearts rather than stir them” is presented as a diagnosis of modern society. But what does he propose as a remedy? Not the sacraments. Not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Not the preaching of the Gospel and the conversion of souls to the one true Faith. Instead, he offers the vague, sentimental exhortation to “transform indifference into solidarity.” This is the language of the United Nations, not of the Church of Christ. It is the language condemned in advance by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, which anathematized the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The usurper has done precisely this: he has reconciled himself with the modern world by reducing the Catholic religion to a humanitarian program indistinguishable from secular philanthropy.
The Heresy of Religious Indifferentism in Full Display
The most damning aspect of this address is the theological equivalence it establishes between Christianity and Islam. Leo XIV stated that “the Muslim tradition associates compassion with mercy, ‘as a gift bestowed by God in the hearts of believers,’ and that compassion ‘always has its origin in God himself.'” He then added: “Likewise, he said, the Christian tradition’s sacred Scripture ‘reveals a God who does not remain indifferent to suffering.'” The word “likewise” is the hinge of the heresy. By placing the Muslim understanding of compassion alongside the Christian understanding as though they were parallel and complementary paths to the same divine reality, the usurper has committed the sin of religious indifferentism in its most explicit form.
The Catholic Church has always and without ambiguity taught that there is no salvation outside the Church, that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God, consubstantial with the Father, and that the Muslim religion is a false creed that denies the most fundamental truths of the Faith: the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, and the Redemption through His precious blood. Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florence, declared with the full weight of the Church’s infallible Magisterium: “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’ (Matthew 25:41), unless before the end of their lives they are joined with Her.” This is the immutable teaching. There is no “likewise” between the Church of Christ and the mosque of Satan.
When Leo XIV says that “for our traditions, human compassion and empathy are not something additional or optional but are a call from God to reflect his goodness in our daily lives,” he is not speaking as the Vicar of Christ. He is speaking as a representative of the conciliar sect, which has replaced the supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and charity with the naturalistic virtues of empathy, compassion, and solidarity. This is the “dogmaless Christianity” condemned by Saint Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu, which the saintly pope identified as the final fruit of Modernism: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Proposition 65). The usurper has fulfilled this prophecy to the letter.
The Omission of the Supernatural: Silence as Apostasy
What is absent from this address is far more revealing than what is present. There is no mention of the Most Holy Trinity. There is no mention of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. There is no mention of the Redemption. There is no mention of the sacraments. There is no mention of the necessity of baptism for salvation. There is no mention of the Church as the one ark of salvation. There is no mention of the duty of nations to publicly confess Christ the King. There is no mention of the final judgment, of heaven, of hell, of purgatory. There is no mention of sin, of grace, of conversion, of repentance. In short, there is no mention of anything that distinguishes the Catholic religion from a vague, sentimental theism.
This systematic omission of supernatural truth is not accidental. It is the defining characteristic of the conciliar revolution. Pope Saint Pius X, in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, identified the fundamental error of the Modernists as the denial of the supernatural order and its reduction to natural phenomena. The Modernist, he wrote, “denies the supernatural origin of the Church, the supernatural character of revelation, the supernatural virtue of faith.” Every address delivered by the usurpers in the Vatican since John XXIII has followed this pattern with mechanical precision: the supernatural is silenced, the natural is exalted, and the result is a religion that is Catholic in name only.
Leo XIV’s praise of Jordan’s Prince Hasan bin Talal and the Hashemite Kingdom’s refugee efforts is particularly revealing. The usurper expressed appreciation “for the generous efforts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in welcoming refugees and assisting those in need in difficult circumstances.” But the Catholic Church has never taught that the welcoming of refugees is the primary mission of the Church or of Christian rulers. The primary mission of the Church is the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments. The primary duty of Christian rulers is to govern their nations according to the laws of God and to publicly confess the reign of Christ the King. By praising a Muslim prince for humanitarian efforts while remaining silent about the spiritual ruin of souls living in a false religion, the usurper has inverted the order of priorities established by Christ Himself: “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:26).
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue: An Instrument of Apostasy
The very existence of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue is itself a scandal and an abomination. This institution, created by the conciliar sect in the wake of the apostate Vatican II Council, has no basis in the traditional teaching or practice of the Catholic Church. The Church has always engaged with non-Catholics, but always for the purpose of their conversion to the one true Faith, never for the purpose of “dialogue” as equals or partners in a common humanitarian mission. Pope Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos (1928), condemned in the strongest possible terms 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. The one true Church of Christ is visible to all, and will remain according to the will of its Author, visible until the end of time. Therefore, those who desire to promote union among Christians must necessarily desire the return of the dissidents to the one true Church of Christ, outside of which no one can be saved.”
The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue exists for the precise purpose of promoting the heresy that all religions are equally valid paths to God, or at least that they contain sufficient common ground to justify cooperation on naturalistic projects. This is the heresy condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832), which denounced the “absurd and erroneous proposition, or rather madness, that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” It is the heresy condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” And it is the heresy condemned by the First Vatican Council, which defined that the Church has the right and the duty to “proscribe false science” (Session III, Chapter 4) and that the faith and reason can never truly contradict each other when both are rightly understood.
The Cult of Man Replaces the Worship of God
The theme chosen for this eighth colloquium — “Human Compassion and Empathy in Modern Times” — is itself a manifestation of the “cult of man” that Pope Paul VI (another usurper) infamously celebrated in his apostate document Dignitatis Humanae. The entire focus is on human feelings, human suffering, and human solidarity, with no reference to the divine source of all true virtue or to the supernatural means by which alone true compassion can be cultivated. Leo XIV’s statement that “compassion and empathy can be our instruments as they have the power to restore the dignity of the other” is a perfect expression of this anthropocentric inversion. The dignity of the human person, in Catholic teaching, is derived from the fact that man is created in the image and likeness of God and is called to the supernatural end of eternal beatitude. It is restored not by human compassion but by sanctifying grace, received through the sacraments of the true Church.
The usurper’s address is a textbook example of what Saint Pius X called the “synthesis of all errors” that is Modernism. It combines religious indifferentism, naturalistic humanitarianism, the denial of the supernatural, the democratization of the Church, and the cult of man into a single, seamless discourse that is Catholic in appearance but Modernist in substance. It is the religion of the Antichrist, who seeks to replace the worship of God with the worship of man and the adoration of the Creator with the adoration of the creature.
The Duty of the Faithful: Rejection and Resistance
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must recognize this address for what it is: not a pastoral exhortation but an act of apostasy. The usurper Leo XIV has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. He is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public and persistent heresy, has lost any claim to the papal office, as Saint Robert Bellarmine taught: “The fifth true opinion is that a Pope who is 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.” The faithful are not bound to obey him, to heed his words, or to participate in his programs of interreligious syncretism.
Instead, the faithful must hold fast to the immutable Tradition of the Church, which teaches that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one Church outside of which there is no salvation. They must reject the false compassion of the conciliar sect, which sacrifices the truth on the altar of humanitarian sentimentality. They must pray for the conversion of Muslims and all non-Catholics, not for “solidarity” with them in their errors. And they must work, by all lawful means, for the restoration of the true Church and the reign of Christ the King over all nations, in accordance with the teaching of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.”
The address of May 11, 2026, is not an isolated incident. It is the logical and inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution that has been destroying the Church for over six decades. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, and the faithful must not be deceived by its humanitarian veneer. The only true compassion is that which leads souls to the knowledge of the truth and the reception of the sacraments. Everything else is a lie, and the father of lies is not God but Satan.
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Pope Leo XIV urges Christians, Muslims to turn indifference into solidarity (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.05.2026