Vatican News portal reports on a telephone conversation between the antipope Leo XIV and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, focusing on the usurper’s encyclical *Magnifica humanitas*, artificial intelligence, and peace efforts in the Middle East and Ukraine. The article notes Carney’s self-identification as a “practising Catholic” and his presence at Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass. This exchange is not merely diplomatic; it is a sacramental parody—a ritual handshake between the secular world and its appointed spiritual director, revealing the complete inversion of the Church’s mission from saving souls to managing global crises.
The Encyclical as a Manifesto of Anthropocentric Humanism
The very title, Magnifica humanitas, is a blasphemous echo of the Magnificat, where Mary proclaims the greatness of the Lord. Here, the greatness is transferred to humanity itself—a direct profession of the modernist “cult of man” condemned by St. Pius X. The encyclical’s purported focus on artificial intelligence “from an ethical perspective and with a human-centred approach” reveals its foundational heresy: the exclusion of God as the source of all law and morality. This is the antithesis of the social reign of Christ the King, who declared, “Without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). True ethics flow from divine revelation and the natural law authored by God, not from a “human-centred” consensus crafted by technocrats and heretics.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” which removes Jesus Christ and His law from public life. Leo XIV’s encyclical is the consummation of this laicism, dressing it in the garments of Catholic social teaching while gutting it of all supernatural content. The “ethics” discussed are those of a world that has formally apostatized, seeking to build a global order on the sand of human reason alone—a tower of Babel for the digital age.
“Peace” Without the Prince of Peace
The article highlights discussions on “efforts in promoting peace, especially in the Middle East and in Ukraine.” This is the false peace of the world, which Our Lord warned He came not to bring (Matthew 10:34). The true peace of Christ is a consequence of justice and the submission of nations to His divine law. The post-conciliar sect has consistently pursued a policy of dialogue and compromise with error, a “peace” that is merely the absence of conflict, purchased at the price of truth.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the modernist proposition that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Proposition 64). This is precisely the project of Leo XIV: a “reform” of doctrine to align with the world’s agenda, including its geopolitical conflicts. The Church’s role is to preach the Gospel and convert nations, not to serve as a mediator for secular powers in their temporal disputes. This activity is a betrayal of the Church’s spiritual mission and a reduction of the papacy to that of a secretary-general for a failing United Nations.
The “Practising Catholic” in Service of the World
The description of Mark Carney as a “practising Catholic” is a scandal and a lie by omission. A Catholic who actively collaborates with and lends credibility to a manifest heretic and usurper of the Chair of Peter is, in the objective order, guilty of schism and apostasy. His presence at the antipope’s “inaugural Mass” is a public act of adherence to the conciliar abomination. The article’s tone presents this as a normal, even praiseworthy, interaction.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law states that an ecclesiastical office is vacated by “publicly defect[ing] from the Catholic faith.” By recognizing Leo XIV as pope, Carney publicly defects from the Catholic faith, which holds that a manifest heretic cannot be Pope. St. Robert Bellarmine taught that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Therefore, Carney’s Catholicism is a civic label, not a theological reality. He is a servant of the world system, and his dialogue with the antipope is a meeting of minds within the same apostate framework.
The Omission of the Supernatural: The Hallmark of Apostasy
The gravest indictment of this entire exchange is what is absent. There is no mention of the conversion of souls, the salvation of the lost, the necessity of the sacraments, or the reality of sin and judgment. The “topics of common interest” are entirely temporal and political. This silence is deafening and definitive. It proves that the entity occupying the Vatican is not the Church of Christ, which was founded to “teach all nations… to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).
The Council of Vatican I defined that the Church possesses “full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church throughout the entire world.” This power is exercised for the supernatural end of eternal salvation. Leo XIV’s conversation with Carney is an exercise of power for purely naturalistic ends—ethics of AI, geopolitical peace. It is the abdication of the papal office, proving its occupant is not the Vicar of Christ but the chief officer of a humanist NGO.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This phone call is a microcosm of the post-conciliar catastrophe. It features a layman who professes Catholicism yet serves the world, and an antipope who has abandoned the supernatural mission of the Church to become a global ethicist and peacebroker. The article from Vatican News presents this as routine papal activity, normalizing the abnormal.
The faithful must recognize this for what it is: the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). The true Church, the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15), endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the modernist usurpers, and who await the restoration of all things in Christ the true King. The dialogue between Leo XIV and Carney is not a news item to be consumed; it is a sign of the times to be understood and rejected.
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Pope Leo and Canadian Prime Minister talk by phone (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.05.2026