EWTN News portal reports that U.S. President Donald Trump, in a May 30 Truth Social post, warned against a nuclear-armed Iran and criticized his meeting with the Chicago-born usurper, Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV), claiming without evidence that Leo supports Iranian nuclear armaments. The article notes that the conciliar figurehead has “rejected those allegations,” citing his May 5 statement that the Church “has spoken for years against all nuclear weapons,” and Cardinal Parolin’s affirmation that the Holy See “has always worked… on nuclear disarmament.” Trump’s broader criticism of Leo as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” is also highlighted, alongside Leo’s defiant claim that he is “not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.” This spectacle of a secular leader publicly rebuking the occupant of the Vatican — and the latter’s impotent, bureaucratic “rebuttal” through press statements — is a textbook illustration of how the post-conciliar abomination of desolation has reduced the Chair of Peter to a toothless NGO, incapable of exercising any supernatural authority over the nations.
The “Pope” as Moral Equivalist: Leo XIV’s Nuclear Confusion
The article presents the conciliar usurper’s position on nuclear weapons through the sterile, managerial language characteristic of the post-conciliar sect: the Church “has spoken for years against all nuclear weapons,” and the Holy See “has always worked, and will continue to work, on nuclear disarmament.” This is not the language of the Catholic Church. This is the language of the United Nations, of secular disarmament lobbies, of the very naturalistic humanism that Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici gregis were promulgated to annihilate. St. Pius X, in condemning 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, Lamentabili), identified precisely this subordination of divine truth to the prevailing opinions of the age.
Where is the supernatural framework? Where is the acknowledgment that the reign of Christ the King extends over all nations, and that the peace of souls and states is found solely in obedience to His laws? Pius XI, in Quas primas (1925), declared with apostolic authority: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… 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 “papacy” has abandoned this kingship in favor of a vague, humanitarian “disarmament” agenda indistinguishable from the platforms of secular pacifist organizations. Leo XIV speaks of “the message of the Gospel” while operating entirely within the categories of naturalistic diplomacy — a Gospel stripped of its supernatural content, reduced to sentimental appeals for “peace” divorced from justice, repentance, and the Social Kingship of Christ.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, established that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The systematic replacement of Catholic doctrine with secular humanitarianism constitutes precisely such a defection. St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice II:30, taught: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”
Trump’s Rebuke: A Secular Mirror of the Conciliar Debacle
President Trump’s characterization of Leo XIV as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” — while coming from a secular perspective with its own moral deficiencies — inadvertently exposes a profound truth: the conciliar structures occupying the Vatican exercise no genuine spiritual authority whatsoever. When a Protestant or secular world leader can dismiss the “pope” as “useless” on matters of governance, and the latter can only respond with meek bureaucratic clarifications issued through a secretary of state, the world sees what Catholics faithful to Tradition have long known: the abomination of desolation sits in the temple of God (2 Thess. 2:4), and the true authority of the Apostolic See has been usurped by men who speak the language of the world, not of Christ.
Trump’s specific accusation — that Leo wants Iran to develop nuclear armaments — is presented in the article as baseless, but the deeper issue is revealing. The conciliar “pontiff” has made “public statements denouncing the U.S.-led war on Iran,” positioning himself as a critic of American foreign policy from a standpoint of secular pacifism rather than Catholic just-war doctrine. This is not the Church of Bellarmine, of Celestine I deposing Nestorius ipso facto for manifest heresy, of Pius IX condemning the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80, Syllabus of Errors). This is a “Church” that has reconciled itself entirely to the spirit of the age, and the spirit of the age — in the person of Donald Trump — has noticed and holds it in contempt.
The article notes that Leo “is not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.” This is a remarkable statement in its emptiness. What Gospel? The Gospel of the Social Kingship of Christ, which demands that states publicly recognize His authority? The Gospel that pronounces anathema on those who defect from the faith? Or the conciliar “Gospel” of dialogue, disarmament, and diplomatic niceties — the very “Gospel” that the Syllabus of Errors condemned as the error of Modernism, “the synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi)?
The EWTN Apparatus: Normalizing the Abomination
The article’s provenance — EWTN News, a platform that, despite occasional gestures toward pre-conciliar piety, fundamentally legitimizes the conciliar sect by treating its “popes,” “cardinals,” and “bishops” as authoritative — is itself symptomatic. The article refers to “Pope” Leo XIV, “Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin,” and “the Holy Father” without the quotation marks that honest theological analysis demands. This is not mere stylistic convention; it is complicity in the systematic deception of the faithful. By normalizing the titles and authority of men who occupy the structures of the neo-church of the Antichrist, EWTN perpetuates the very confusion that leads souls to perdition.
The article’s framing is equally revealing. It presents the dispute as a political tiff between an American president and a “pope” — a clash of personalities, not of principles. The supernatural order is entirely absent. There is no mention that the Catholic Church, before the conciliar revolution, taught that the Roman Pontiff possesses authority over all Christendom, and that kings and princes are “not only… exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction — this proposition being condemned as error (Proposition 54, Syllabus). There is no recognition that the true Church cannot be “criticized” by secular powers because she is not of this world, and that the current occupant of the Vatican is not her legitimate head but a usurper.
Pius IX, in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, established that any promotion to the cardinalate or papacy of one who has defected from the Catholic faith is “null, void, and of of no effect.” The conciliar “popes” from John XXIII onward have, through their manifest heresies — religious liberty, ecumenism, the democratization of the Church — publicly defected from the faith. Their “elections” are null. Their “teaching” is void. Their “authority” is no authority at all. And when a secular president treats the occupant of the Vatican as a minor diplomatic nuisance rather than a spiritual father of Christendom, the world unwittingly confirms what sedevacantist theology has always maintained: the See is vacant, and the structures occupying it are a paramasonic operation against the Church.
The Silence That Condemns: What the Article Omits
The most damning aspect of this article is not what it says, but what it omits. There is no mention of the true Catholic doctrine on the relationship between Church and state. There is no reference to the Social Kingship of Christ. There is no acknowledgment that the conciliar “Church” has systematically dismantled the Church’s teaching authority, replacing the immutable deposit of faith with a “living magisterium” that evolves with the times — precisely the error condemned in Lamentabili, Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.”
There is no recognition that the “disarmament” agenda pursued by the conciliar structures is not a Catholic teaching but a secular humanitarian program adopted by men who have abandoned the supernatural mission of the Church. The true Church has always taught that peace is the “tranquility of order” (St. Augustine), and that order requires the submission of all things to Christ the King. The conciliar “Church” has replaced this supernatural order with a naturalistic one, and the result is exactly what we see: a “pope” who is ignored by presidents, dismissed by mayors, and reduced to issuing press statements that no one — not even the article’s own author — takes seriously as exercises of genuine apostolic authority.
The article’s closing note — that Leo “was formally invited to visit his native city next year” — is a fitting coda to this spectacle of degradation. The “pope” of the conciliar sect is not the Vicar of Christ, the Supreme Pastor of souls, the guardian of the deposit of faith. He is a Chicago native, a hometown boy, a figure of local pride and diplomatic courtesy. This is what the conciliar revolution has produced: not a pope, but a personality; not a shepherd, but a spokesman; not the Rock upon which the Church is built, but a weathervane blown about by every wind of doctrine (Eph. 4:14).
The faithful who cling to the integral Catholic faith — the faith of the Fathers, of the Councils, of the pre-conciliar Magisterium — recognize this spectacle for what it is: not a crisis of leadership, but the logical terminus of Modernism. The structures occupying the Vatican are not the Church. They are the abomination of desolation. And until the true Church is restored under a legitimate successor of Peter who will restore all things in Christ (Acts 3:21), the world will continue to see “popes” who are “useless” — because they possess no authority that the world need respect, and no faith that the world need fear.
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Trump suggests pope unaware of Iran nuclear stance despite Leo's repeated calls for disarmament (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.05.2026