VaticanNews portal reports on Cardinal Mykola Bychok, a Ukrainian-born “bishop” in Australia, presenting a flag and cross from a Ukrainian soldier to the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV and discussing peace at an “Extraordinary Consistory.” This spectacle is a textbook example of how the post-conciliar, paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican exploits human suffering to manufacture consensus for its apostate agenda, while completely ignoring the supernatural mission of the true Church and the absolute necessity of Christ the King’s social reign. The entire event is a politicized, naturalistic performance devoid of Catholic doctrine.
The Suffering of Ukraine Instrumentalized for Antichurch Propaganda
The article presents Cardinal Bychok, a figure ordained and operating entirely within the structures of the post-conciliar revolution, as a representative of the “Ukrainian Church.” He brings a flag and cross from a soldier on the front lines to “Pope” Leo XIV, framing this as a “sign of hope” that “we are not alone, we are with God and as well the whole Catholic Church, and the leader of the Church, Pope Leo XIV, is with us as well.” This is a blasphemous instrumentalization of human suffering. The true Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, is not represented by this conciliar sect, which has systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine, liturgy, and moral teaching since 1958.
The suffering of the Ukrainian people, while real and tragic, is here co-opted to lend credibility to a false church. The cross and flag, symbols of a soldier’s sacrifice in defense of his homeland, are handed over to an antipope whose very existence is a negation of the Catholic faith. This act implicitly asks a man who has not received the Faith to intercede for a nation, while ignoring the only true source of peace: the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ. The soldier’s sacrifice is reduced to a prop for the Antichurch’s media campaign, a psychological operation designed to create an image of unity and pastoral concern where only apostasy exists. The soldier’s “hopes” are channeled not towards the true God through the true Church, but towards the “Catholic Church” which is, in its current manifestation, the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place.
The “Consistory”: A Collegial Apostasy
The “Extraordinary Consistory” is described as a gathering to discuss “war and peace,” with the “main theme” being Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas.” This is not a council of the Church Militant to define doctrine or condemn heresy, but a meeting of cardinals who are, almost without exception, active participants in the demolition of the Faith. They are the very men who have imposed the “reform” that has gutted the sanctuaries, introduced the idolatrous “table of assembly” in place of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, and promoted the “theology of dialogue” that Pius XI condemned in *Quas Primas*: “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.”
The expectation that this body can produce anything resembling Catholic peace is a delusion. True peace, as Pius XI taught, is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ, a kingdom these men have explicitly rejected in favor of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the “cult of man.” Their discussions on “peacebuilding” are purely naturalistic, focusing on humanitarian aid and psychological trauma, while remaining dogmatically silent on the state of grace, the necessity of sacraments validly administered by true priests, and the final judgment. The “contribution” of the Ukrainian “Church” is to share “examples” of how to “live in the time of the war” and “overcome the trauma,” a purely horizontal, therapeutic approach that ignores the supernatural destiny of man and the reality of sin as the ultimate cause of war.
The “Catholic Church” as a Humanitarian NGO
Cardinal Bychok’s description of the Church’s work reveals the complete naturalization of its mission. He speaks of “resources to help our people, to bring to them simple things such as water, bread, or other things which are very necessary daily” and “specialists from other countries who passed through war.” This is the language of a secular aid organization, not the Church of Christ, which was founded “for the sake of souls and of eternal salvation” (Pius XI, *Quas Primas*). The Church’s primary work is the administration of the sacraments, the preaching of the integral Faith, and the offering of the Most Holy Sacrifice for the remission of sins. The post-conciliar sect has replaced this with a horizontal, temporalist “service” that is indistinguishable from the work of any humanitarian NGO.
The claim that “no one stayed in tents” and that this is a “really good example” of what the Church can do is a scandalous boast. The Church has always cared for the bodies, but only as a means to saving souls. The current “Catholic Church” cares for the body and ignores the soul, a direct violation of the divine order. The “fresh wounds” that will open after the war are not merely psychological; they are the spiritual wounds of souls who have been denied the true sacraments, the true Mass, and the true teaching on the Social Kingship of Christ, and thus are unprepared to meet their Judge.
The “Pope” and the “Church” as Idols of the Antichrist
The entire article is structured around the personality of “Pope” Leo XIV and the “Catholic Church” as a global humanitarian and peacebuilding entity. The soldier’s request to “continue to proclaim the truth about the war in Ukraine” is directed not to the true Church, but to the “leader of the Church, Pope Leo XIV.” This is the idolatry of the Antichrist, where the natural virtue of patriotism and the legitimate defense of one’s nation are channeled into a false ecclesial structure that has explicitly rejected the Social Kingship of Christ. The “truth” that this “pope” can proclaim is not the truth of the Gospel, but the naturalistic, modernist “truth” of human dignity divorced from the Redeemer.
The “Catholic Church” presented in this article is not the Church founded by Christ, but the “synagogue of Satan” described by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Proposition 80), which “can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” It is the Church that has “wandered outside the limits of [its] powers” and “usurped the rights of princes” (Syllabus, Proposition 23) by surrendering its divine mandate to the secular order of “peacebuilding” and “humanitarian aid.” The soldier’s cross, a symbol of Christ’s victory over death, is handed over to the very men who have, by their apostasy, handed the Church over to the world.
The Ukrainian Tragedy and the True Peace of Christ the King
The Ukrainian people are undoubtedly suffering, and their struggle for national existence is a just one in the natural order. However, the true peace they seek will never come from the “Catholic Church” of Leo XIV and his consistory. True peace is the “peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, *Quas Primas*). It requires the recognition of Christ the King over all nations, including Ukraine and Russia. It requires the preaching of the integral Catholic Faith, without the modernist corruptions that have rendered the post-conciliar “sacraments” invalid and its “teaching” heretical. It requires the offering of the true Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, for the souls of the fallen and for the conversion of the living.
The “Catholic Church” of the consistory offers only the false peace of naturalism, a peace built on “dialogue” and “humanitarian aid” that ignores the reality of sin and the necessity of supernatural grace. It is the peace of the “Church” that has “reconciled himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, Proposition 80), a peace that is a prelude to the final apostasy. The Ukrainian soldier’s cross, given to an antipope, is a symbol of a faith that has been betrayed, a faith that can only be restored by a complete rejection of the conciliar revolution and a return to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Faith, centered on the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ and the true Church that endures outside the structures of the Antichurch.
Source:
Cardinal Bychok: Ukraine is not alone, Church and Pope are with us (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.06.2026