EWTN News portal reports that on June 15, 2026, the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed representatives of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. He affirmed “the shared heritage of Jews and Catholics,” praised Jewish philanthropy, and declared that both communities “must be united against antisemitism and in serving those in need.” He cited the conciliar document *Nostra Aetate* (1965) as the foundation of this collaboration, stating it “affirmed, among other things, the truth that we belong to one human family” and that it “took a firm stand against antisemitism and declared that the Church rejects all forms of discrimination or harassment because of race, color, condition of life, or religion.” He concluded by calling for moving “beyond past misunderstandings toward collaboration for the common good.” This address is a textbook specimen of the conciliar revolution’s systematic dismantling of Catholic doctrine, replacing the supernatural mission of the Church with naturalistic humanitarianism and fraternal collaboration with those who reject Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Conciliar Foundation: Nostra Aetate as the Charter of Apostasy
The entire address rests upon the document Nostra Aetate, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council — that very council which marked the beginning of the systematic destruction of the Catholic Church from within. This document, condemned by every faithful Catholic who clings to Tradition, represents one of the most devastating ruptures with the perennial Magisterium. The antipope cites it as though it were a legitimate expression of Catholic teaching, when in reality it constitutes a formal repudiation of the Church’s own doctrine regarding the unique and exclusive salvific mission of Jesus Christ and His Church.
The perennial teaching of the Church, defined de fide by the Council of Florence (1442) in the decree Cantate Domino, states with absolute clarity: “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 eternal; but that they will go to the ‘eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Matt. 25:41), unless before the end of their lives they are joined with Her.” This is not a matter of tone or pastoral sensitivity — it is a dogmatic definition, an article of faith. Nostra Aetate, by speaking of Jews with fraternal language and omitting the necessity of their conversion to the Catholic Faith as the sole means of salvation, directly contradicts this defined dogma. The antipope’s appeal to it is an appeal to heresy.
Pope Eugene IV further declared that those who persist in obstinate manifest heresy are assumed to have separated themselves from the Church. The post-conciliar authorities have not merely tolerated heresy — they have enshrined it as official policy. When Leo XIV invokes Nostra Aetate, he invokes a document that the true Church would reject as heretical, and his use of it demonstrates that he operates entirely outside the deposit of faith.
“One Human Family”: The Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The antipope’s statement that Nostra Aetate “affirmed, among other things, the truth that we belong to one human family” deserves the most rigorous scrutiny. Nowhere in this statement is there any mention of Original Sin, the necessity of Baptism, the distinction between the supernatural order and the natural order, or the absolute necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation. The phrase “one human family” is a purely naturalistic concept — it reduces all of humanity to a horizontal, material fraternity, erasing the vertical dimension of man’s relationship with God through grace.
This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Immortale Dei (1885), where he distinguished sharply between the natural and supernatural orders. The Church has never denied that all men share a common natural origin, but she has always insisted that this natural unity is radically insufficient for salvation. What unites men supernaturally is the Catholic Faith, the sacraments, and membership in the true Body of Christ. To speak of “one human family” without reference to these supernatural realities is to preach a naturalistic humanism indistinguishable from that of the Freemasons and secularists whom the Church has always condemned.
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), explicitly stated: “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 vague “human family” — it is a royal, juridical, supernatural authority to which every soul is subject and to which every soul must submit through the Catholic Faith. The antipope’s language strips Christ of His kingship and replaces it with a sentimental humanitarianism.
The Omission of the Church’s Mission: Conversion Erased
Perhaps the most damning feature of this address is what it entirely omits. Not once does the antipope mention the conversion of the Jews to the Catholic Faith. Not once does he speak of the necessity of Baptism. Not once does he reference the Church’s solemn duty to labor for the salvation of all souls, including Jewish souls. The entire address is constructed on the premise that Catholics and Jews are already brothers in a common humanitarian enterprise, with no need for the supernatural transformation that only the Catholic Church can provide.
This silence is not accidental — it is the very essence of the conciliar revolution. Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), identified the Modernist error of reducing religion to a feeling or sentiment, stripping it of its dogmatic content and supernatural mission. The antipope’s address is a perfect instantiation of this error: religion is reduced to “serving those in need,” “collaboration for the common good,” and “human dignity” — all naturalistic categories that require no faith, no sacraments, no supernatural grace.
The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). This address is precisely such a reconciliation — the conciliar sect coming to terms with religious indifferentism, the very error condemned by Pius IX in Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” By treating Judaism as a valid and parallel path of service to God, the antipope implicitly endorses this condemned proposition.
Collaboration with Those Who Reject Christ: A Violation of the First Commandment
The antipope speaks of “collaboration for the common good” between Catholics and Jews as though this were an unqualified good. But the Church has always taught that there can be no true common good apart from Jesus Christ and His Church. Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And he insisted that rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him. How then can the Church collaborate with those who explicitly reject the Divinity of Christ, the Trinity, and the entire supernatural economy of salvation?
The First Commandment — “I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have strange gods before me” — and the Church’s constant teaching against communicatio in sacris (participation in non-Catholic worship or religious collaboration) are entirely absent from this address. The menorah presented to the antipope, which he accepted, is a symbol of a religion that rejects the Messiah. The acceptance of such a symbol in the Apostolic Palace is not a gesture of goodwill — it is an act of religious indifferentism that would have been unthinkable for any true pope.
Pope Gregory XVI, in his encyclical Mirari Vos (1832), condemned the “absurd and erroneous proposition” that “liberty of conscience is the right of every man,” and warned that such liberty leads to “the destruction of the purest truth and of sanctity.” The entire framework of Catholic-Jewish “dialogue” as practiced by the conciliar sect is built upon this condemned foundation of religious liberty, which was definitively rejected by the Church’s perennial Magisterium.
The Antisemitism Pretext: Weaponizing Charity to Silence Doctrine
The antipope’s call to “fight antisemitism” serves as a rhetorical shield against any doctrinal challenge. Who, after all, would oppose fighting hatred? But this framing is deliberately constructed to make the Church’s supernatural mission seem like “hatred” and to silence any Catholic who insists on the necessity of converting the Jews. It is a textbook example of the conciliar technique of using naturalistic moral language to suppress supernatural truth.
The Church has always distinguished between just and unjust treatment of individuals and the theological necessity of proclaiming the fullness of truth. To treat individuals with basic human decency is a natural virtue; to proclaim that Jesus Christ is the sole Savior and that all must enter His Church to be saved is a supernatural duty. The conflation of these two things — the deliberate confusion of natural charity with theological indifferentism — is the hallmark of Modernism, which St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies.”
The antipope’s language — “shared heritage,” “common good,” “collaboration” — is the language of the United Nations, of Freemasonry, of the secular humanist project. It is not the language of the Catholic Church, which speaks of the Mystical Body of Christ, of the necessity of the Faith, of the Four Last Things, and of the absolute sovereignty of Our Lord Jesus Christ over every soul and every nation.
The Apostolic Palace: Seat of the Abomination of Desolation
The setting of this address — the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican — adds a dimension of sacrilege to the proceedings. These halls, once occupied by the Vicars of Christ who defended the faith against every enemy, now host an antipope who receives the symbols of a religion that denies the Incarnation and proclaims fraternal collaboration with those outside the Ark of Salvation. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). The conciliar sect has gone further than mere separation — it has effectively subordinated the Church to the principles of secular liberalism and religious indifferentism, using the very apparatus of the papacy to do so.
The faithful Catholic must recognize that the structures occupying the Vatican are no longer the Catholic Church in any meaningful theological sense. They are the abomination of desolation spoken of by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15) — a counterfeit church that retains the external forms of Catholicism while hollowing out its supernatural content and replacing it with the spirit of the world. Leo XIV’s address to Jewish representatives is not an anomaly — it is the logical, inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution that began with John XXIII and has now reached its full, rotten maturity.
Conclusion: The Duty of the Faithful
The faithful Catholic must reject this address in its entirety. Not because we fail to treat individuals with natural justice and charity — which we are always bound to do — but because the conciliar sect’s framework of “dialogue” and “collaboration” is built upon the destruction of the Church’s supernatural mission. The true Church has always prayed for the conversion of the Jews, as the Good Friday liturgy’s Oratio pro Iudaeis (before its suppression by the conciliar authorities) clearly expressed. She has never proclaimed a “shared heritage” that bypasses the necessity of the Catholic Faith.
Every Catholic who loves the truth must recognize in this address the spirit of Antichrist — not in the crude sense of overt blasphemy, but in the far more dangerous sense of a counterfeit charity that empties the Gospel of its supernatural content, reduces the Church to a humanitarian NGO, and collaborates with those who reject the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The remedy is not dialogue with the conciliar sect but the uncompromising profession of the integral Catholic faith: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation. This is not antisemitism. This is the truth spoken by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6).
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Pope Leo XIV: Catholics and Jews must work together to fight antisemtism (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.06.2026