EWTN News portal reports that on June 18, 2026, the usurper occupying the Vatican, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), received the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace. The conciliar antipope urged universities to become “privileged places for dialogue” and “beacons of hope and unity in a world that is increasingly divided,” encouraging the formation of “artisans of peace” in a time “often characterized by violence and pointed rhetoric.” He cited his own message for the 59th World Day of Peace, insisting that peace must be promoted “even if peace seemed impossible.” This address, delivered to the governing body of a Jewish university — an institution of a religion that explicitly rejects Jesus Christ as God and Messiah — is a textbook manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy: a naturalistic, horizontal “peace” stripped of all supernatural content, offered in the language of Masonic universalism, and utterly devoid of the only foundation upon which true peace can rest: the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The “Peace” of the World Versus the Peace of Christ the King
The address of Leo XIV to the Hebrew University governors is saturated with the language of the conciliar revolution — “dialogue,” “encounter,” “hope,” “unity” — terms that, in the mouth of the post-conciliar usurpers, have been systematically emptied of Catholic meaning and refilled with the content of religious indifferentism and naturalistic humanism. When Leo XIV speaks of peace, he speaks of it as a purely horizontal, political, and sociological phenomenon: something to be “promoted in our communities” through “meaningful encounters” and “learning from the points of view and living testimonies of others, even those with whom they might disagree.”
This is not the peace of Christ. Our Lord Himself declared: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34). And again: “My peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). The peace of Christ is supernatural, rooted in truth, in the submission of the intellect and will to God’s revelation, and in the unity of the one true Church. It is not manufactured through academic dialogue between believers and unbelievers, between the faithful and those who reject the divinity of Christ.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and false peace of the modern world. He wrote: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The peace that Leo XIV promotes is the peace of the world that has expelled Christ from its institutions — the very peace that Pius XI identified as the fruit of apostasy. “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,” Pius XI declared in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio. The “peace” of Leo XIV is built on precisely this foundation: a world without Christ, without His Church’s authority, without the recognition of His royal dignity over all nations and all spheres of human life.
Dialogue With Unbelievers as “Privileged” Vocation: The Heresy of the Conciliar Sect
Leo XIV described universities as “privileged places for dialogue” and insisted that “opportunities for meaningful encounters remain available” even in a polarized world. This language is not accidental. It is the direct inheritance of the conciliar document Nostra Aetate and the entire post-conciliar program of dialogue with non-Catholic religions — a program that has as its logical endpoint the denial of the Church’s exclusive claim to be the one true religion founded by God Himself.
The Catholic Church has always taught, with the full weight of her infallible Magisterium, that she alone possesses the fullness of revealed truth and that all who die outside her visible communion cannot attain eternal salvation. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) dogmatically defined: “There is indeed one universal Church of the outside which there is absolutely no salvation.” Pope Eugene IV, in the Council of Florence (1442), declared in Cantate Domino: “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.” This is not a matter of opinion or pastoral strategy — it is a dogma of faith, extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation).
Yet Leo XIV, addressing the governors of a Jewish university — men whose religious tradition is founded on the explicit rejection of Jesus Christ as the Son of God — speaks of “learning from the points of view and living testimonies of others” as though the testimony of those who deny the Incarnation were a legitimate source of spiritual growth for Catholics. This is not dialogue; it is apostasy. It is the practical implementation of the conciliar teaching that other religions are “rays of that Truth which enlightens all men” (Nostra Aetate, 2) — a proposition that directly contradicts the unchanging teaching of the Church.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Proposition 16) and that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18). If this is true of Protestantism — which at least professes Christ — how much more is it true of Judaism, which explicitly rejects Him? The address of Leo XIV to the Hebrew University is not merely imprudent; it is a public act of indifferentism, the practical denial of the Church’s exclusive salvific mission.
The Omission of Christ: The Defining Feature of Conciliar “Peace”
The most damning feature of Leo XIV’s address is not what it says, but what it omits. In an address entirely devoted to “peace,” delivered to the representatives of a non-Catholic religion, there is not a single mention of Jesus Christ as the sole Mediator between God and man. There is no mention of the Church as the ark of salvation. There is no mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith. There is no mention of sin, of grace, of the sacraments, of the final judgment, of heaven or hell. The entire address operates on a purely naturalistic plane — the plane of secular humanism, of Masonic universalism, of the “brotherhood of man” without the Fatherhood of God.
This silence is not an oversight. It is the raison d’être of the conciliar revolution. The post-conciliar sect was constructed precisely to replace the supernatural mission of the Church — the salvation of souls through preaching, baptism, and the sacraments — with a naturalistic program of “human development,” “dialogue,” and “peace.” The “peace” of Leo XIV is the peace of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a counterfeit peace that leaves souls in the state of mortal sin, that offers “encounter” instead of conversion, and that substitutes the horizontal fraternity of natural religion for the supernatural charity of the Mystical Body of Christ.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), 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). The address of Leo XIV is the living fruit of this condemned proposition: a “Christianity” so thoroughly reformed that it can be presented to Jewish university governors without any reference to the Incarnate Word, to Redemption, or to the supernatural order at all.
The Hebrew University and the Theology of Jewish-Catholic “Partnership”
The choice of interlocutors is itself revealing. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is not merely a secular institution; it is a Jewish university, founded in the heart of the Holy Land, in a state that occupies the places where Christ lived, suffered, died, and rose again. To address its governors as partners in the promotion of “peace” and “dialogue” — without any mention of the crucifixion of Christ by the ancestors of those who now govern that land, without any call to conversion, without any acknowledgment that the Old Covenant has been fulfilled and superseded by the New — is to participate in the theological fraud that has characterized post-conciliar Jewish-Catholic relations since Nostra Aetate.
The Catholic Church has always taught that the Jewish religion, insofar as it rejects Christ, is a dead religion — a religion that clings to the letter of the Old Testament while rejecting its fulfillment. St. Paul writes: “Their minds were blinded. For until this day, the same veil remaineth in the reading of the old testament, not being revealed, because it is taken away in Christ” (2 Cor. 3:14). The post-conciliar sect, by contrast, has elevated the Jewish religion to the status of a “sister faith,” speaking of “the patrimony common to Christians and Jews” (Nostra Aetate, 4) as though the denial of Christ were a matter of legitimate theological disagreement rather than the gravest of all sins against faith.
Leo XIV’s address to the Hebrew University is a continuation and deepening of this apostasy. By presenting the university as a “beacon of hope and unity” and by encouraging “learning from the living testimonies” of its community, he implicitly endorses the legitimacy of the Jewish religion as a path to God — a proposition that the Church has always condemned as heretical.
The “Artisans of Peace” and the Masonic Universalism of the Conciliar Sect
Leo XIV’s call for the formation of “artisans of peace” echoes the language of the United Nations, of Masonic lodges, and of every naturalistic movement that seeks to build a “better world” without reference to God. The phrase itself is borrowed from the secular peace movement and has no foundation in Catholic theology. The Church does not form “artisans of peace”; she forms saints — men and women who, through the grace of the sacraments, the practice of virtue, and the acceptance of the cross, are conformed to Christ and become instruments of His supernatural peace.
The “peace” of the conciliar sect is the peace of the synagogue of Satan — the peace that Pius IX described in the Syllabus of Errors as the fruit of the separation of Church and State, of religious liberty, and of the subordination of divine law to human law. It is the peace of the world that crucified Christ and that continues to crucify Him in His Mystical Body by denying His royal authority over all nations, all institutions, and all spheres of human life.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught: “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 “peace” of Leo XIV is the peace of rulers and institutions that have explicitly rejected the authority of the Divine King — and it is therefore not peace at all, but the absence of justice, which is the definition of the state of sin.
Conclusion: The Counterfeit Peace of the Abomination of Desolation
The address of Leo XIV to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a perfect specimen of the post-conciliar apostasy: naturalistic in content, indifferentist in theology, and Masonic in spirit. It offers a “peace” that is not the peace of Christ but the peace of the world — a peace that requires no conversion, no repentance, no submission to the authority of the one true Church, and no recognition of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The true peace of Christ is available only in and through His Church — the Catholic Church, which alone possesses the sacraments, the Magisterium, and the authority to teach, govern, and sanctify. Any “peace” that is offered outside this framework — whether by the conciliar sect, by the United Nations, by Masonic lodges, or by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — is a counterfeit, a snare of the enemy, and an obstacle to the salvation of souls.
The faithful must reject this false peace and cling to the unchanging teaching of the Church: that there is no peace without justice, no justice without truth, and no truth outside the Catholic faith. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, quoted by Pius XI in Quas Primas). And there is no harmony, no peace, and no happiness for individuals, families, or states that refuse to recognize the reign of Christ the King.
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Pope Leo XIV urges universities to promote peace in a divided world (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.06.2026