VaticanNews portal reports that during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday, June 11, 2026, the usurper on Peter’s throne, Leo XIV, welcomed the forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and appealed for an end to the war in Ukraine. This appeal, couched in the language of naturalistic humanitarianism and stripped of every supernatural reference, reveals the complete capitulation of the conciliar structure to the world spirit of 1917 and the total abandonment of the Church’s divine mission to preach the Social Reign of Christ the King.
The Reduction of the Papacy to a Secular Mediator
The statement attributed to Leo XIV reads: “I welcome with satisfaction the reaching of an agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, which will be signed on Friday, as an encouraging result of patient work of dialogue and negotiation.”
Let us examine the theological and doctrinal void contained in these words. The so-called “pope” addresses a conflict between two sovereign nations — one explicitly Islamic and the other a secular republic founded on Enlightenment principles hostile to the Catholic faith — and offers nothing but a naturalistic endorsement of “dialogue and negotiation.” There is no mention of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations, no call to conversion, no reference to the necessity of the true faith for authentic peace, and no acknowledgment that “there is no peace for the wicked” (Isaiah 57:21). The entire statement could have been issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations or by any secular head of state. It is a perfect specimen of the modernist reduction of the papal office to that of a humanitarian mediator — a role explicitly condemned by the perennial Magisterium.
Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes Christ from the governance of nations. He declared: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Leo XIV’s appeal does not merely fail to restore the reign of Christ; it actively reinforces the laicism condemned by Pius XI by treating peace as a purely diplomatic and political matter, entirely divorced from the supernatural order.
The Omission of the Supernatural: A Doctrinal Crime
The conciliar sect has systematically replaced the Church’s supernatural mission with naturalistic humanitarianism. Leo XIV’s appeal for the Middle East contains not a single reference to the Most Holy Sacraments, to the necessity of baptism, to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or to the reality of sin as the ultimate cause of war. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that peace is a fruit of charity, and charity is impossible without sanctifying grace. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei (1885), taught that “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, things.” By reducing the papal appeal to mere diplomatic encouragement, Leo XIV effectively denies the existence of the spiritual power and its primacy over the temporal.
The appeal for Ukraine is equally barren. Leo XIV states: “There are many innocent victims, rescuers killed, churches, and places of cultural heritage devastated by flames.” He expresses proximity to mourners and invites prayer. But what kind of prayer? He does not specify. There is no call to repentance, no exhortation to invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Peace, no reminder that “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God” (2 Corinthians 10:4). The invitation to prayer is a vague, sentimental gesture — the kind of religious-sounding language that the modernists use to simulate piety while emptying it of all dogmatic content.
The Heresy of Indifferentism in Practice
By welcoming an agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran without any distinction regarding the truth of the Catholic faith versus the errors of Islam, Leo XIV effectively professes the heresy of indifferentism — condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in his encyclical Mirari Vos (1832) and by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864). Proposition 16 of the Syllabus condemns the error that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” Proposition 18 condemns the claim that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” By treating the Islamic Republic of Iran as a legitimate dialogue partner on equal footing, without any mention of the obligation of all nations to embrace the Catholic faith as the sole ark of salvation, Leo XIV implicitly endorses the religious relativism that the perennial Magisterium has consistently anathematized.
Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florence (1442), defined: “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.” Leo XIV’s appeal makes no such profession. It treats the Islamic Republic of Iran not as a nation in need of conversion, but as a legitimate political entity with which “mutual trust” and “cooperation” are to be fostered. This is not the language of the Catholic Church; it is the language of the World Council of Churches and the United Nations.
The Conciliar Sect and the Spirit of 1917
The conciliar revolution, inaugurated by John XXIII and consolidated through Vatican II, has systematically dismantled the Church’s public role as the arbiter of nations. The documents of Vatican II — particularly Dignitatis Humanae (on religious liberty) and Gaudium et Spes (on the Church in the modern world) — represent a formal repudiation of the perennial teaching that the Catholic state has the duty to restrict the public exercise of false religions and that the Church has authority over the temporal order. Leo XIV’s appeal is the logical fruit of these modernist principles.
Pope Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “If the Kingdom of Christ truly encompassed all, as it rightfully does, should we doubt the peace which the King of Peace brought to earth?” The answer provided by the conciliar sect is that they have replaced the Kingdom of Christ with the kingdom of man — a kingdom of dialogue, negotiation, and mutual trust among nations, without reference to the divine law or the necessity of submission to the true Church.
The Silence on the Social Reign of Christ the King
Perhaps the most damning aspect of Leo XIV’s appeal is what it omits. There is no mention whatsoever of the Social Reign of Christ the King — the doctrine that Christ, as God and Man, has authority over all nations and that rulers are bound to obey His law in the governance of their states. This doctrine, solemnly defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas, is the antidote to the secularism that has produced the wars and conflicts of the modern era. By omitting any reference to this doctrine, Leo XIV reveals that the conciliar sect has effectively abandoned the Church’s mission to order society according to the law of God.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, 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, things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each.” Leo XIV’s appeal recognizes no such distinction. It treats the temporal order as entirely autonomous, subject only to diplomatic negotiation and mutual trust — a direct contradiction of the perennial teaching that the temporal order is subordinate to the spiritual.
The False Peace of the Modernists
The appeal for peace in Ukraine concludes with the words: “Let us ask the Lord to open paths of dialogue, to extinguish hatred, and to make a just and lasting peace possible.” This is the language of naturalistic pacifism, not of Catholic theology. The Catholic Church teaches that peace is a fruit of justice, and justice requires submission to the divine law. Pope Pius XII, in his Christmas Message of 1944, defined peace as “the tranquility of order” — an order that presupposes the recognition of God’s sovereignty over nations. Without this recognition, there can be no true peace, only temporary truces between powers that remain fundamentally hostile to the divine order.
The modernist conception of peace — as a purely political arrangement achieved through dialogue and negotiation — is a caricature of the Catholic understanding. It is the peace of the world, which Christ Himself warned would be false and deceptive: “Think not that I am come to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34). This does not mean that the Church rejects peace; it means that true peace is impossible without the recognition of truth, and truth requires the submission of all nations to Christ the King.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
Leo XIV’s appeal for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine is a textbook example of the modernist reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanitarianism. It contains no reference to the supernatural order, no call to conversion, no mention of the Social Reign of Christ the King, and no acknowledgment of the Church’s divine authority over nations. It treats the Islamic Republic of Iran as a legitimate dialogue partner without any distinction regarding the truth of the Catholic faith. It reduces prayer to a vague, sentimental gesture emptied of dogmatic content. And it reveals, with painful clarity, that the conciliar sect has abandoned the Church’s mission to preach the Gospel to all nations and to order society according to the law of God.
The true peace that the world needs — the peace that only the Catholic Church can provide — is the peace of Christ the King, which requires the submission of all nations to His divine law. Until the conciliar sect repudiates its modernist errors and returns to the perennial teaching of the Magisterium, its appeals for peace will remain nothing but empty words — the sound of brass and the tinkling of cymbals, devoid of charity and truth.
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Pope welcomes US-Iran agreement, calls for mutual trust in Middle East (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.06.2026