The EWTN News portal (via its Arabic service ACI MENA) reports on statements by Mar Awa III, catholicos-patriarch of the schismatic Assyrian Church of the East, following the installation of the new Chaldean patriarch Mar Paul III Nona in Baghdad. The article presents a narrative of “sister churches” sharing “history, traditions, liturgy, and spiritual heritage,” calling for strengthened cooperation amid Middle Eastern crises. It frames unity as a “gift of the Holy Spirit” achievable through “prayer, deep reflection, and sincere fraternal cooperation,” while advocating for “responsible media,” “freedom of expression” bound by “ethical and human values,” and international support to stem Christian migration. This ecumenical spectacle, draped in pious language, constitutes a diabolical counterfeit of Catholic unity that obscures the absolute necessity of submission to the Roman Pontiff and the true faith for salvation.
The Heresy of “Sister Churches” and the Denial of the One Church of Christ
The article’s foundational lie is the designation of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Church as “sister churches” possessing a shared “spiritual heritage.” The Assyrian Church of the East remains formally schismatic and tainted by the Nestorian heresy — denying the hypostatic union and the divine maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Chaldean Church, while historically in communion with Rome, operates today within the conciliar sect that has usurped the Vatican since 1958. To speak of “unity” between a schismatic body and a compromised Eastern Catholic structure is not the work of the Holy Spirit but the synthesis of all heresies condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”) and by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Proposition 54: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change…”).
Mar Awa III’s declaration that “The unity of the sister churches is first and foremost a gift of the Holy Spirit” inverts the divine order. True unity is una fides, unum baptisma (one faith, one baptism) under the Supremus Pontifex — not a negotiated settlement between equals. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom” — a kingdom that admits no rivals, no “sister churches,” no ecumenical bargaining. The article’s silence on the necessitas medii (necessity of the means) — the Catholic Church as the sole ark of salvation — is the gravest accusation against its authors and subjects.
Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Pastoral Concern
The patriarch’s appeal to “freedom of expression” bounded only by “ethical and human values” — whether “in religious or secular media” — reveals a thoroughly naturalistic anthropology. This is the language of the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), the poisoned fruit of Vatican II, not the language of Quas Primas which declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. The article’s call for media to avoid “stirring up pointless disputes or harmful criticism” and its complaint about “social media campaigns that target church leaders… with insults” betrays a clericalist defensiveness more concerned with institutional reputation than the salus animarum.
Where is the call for the Social Kingship of Christ over the media? Where is the condemnation of blasphemy, heresy, and moral corruption as crimes against the Divine Majesty? The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). Yet this article operates entirely within the secular framework of “human rights,” “international community,” and “dignified life in a safe homeland” — a purely horizontal, this-worldly horizon that excludes the Cross, the Final Judgment, and the Kingship of Christ.
The “Return to Roots” as Theatrical Legitimization of Schism
Mar Awa III’s celebration of the Assyrian patriarchal see’s return to Erbil in 2015 — “brought our Church closer to its deep Eastern roots in Mesopotamia, as one of the oldest apostolic churches in the world” — is a masterpiece of historical revisionism. Antiquity does not legitimize schism; it aggravates the guilt of separation. The Assyrian Church’s “roots” are in the Nestorian rejection of the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Council of Chalcedon (451). Its “return” to Iraq is a geopolitical maneuver, not a supernatural event. The article notes this return “created difficulties in managing communities abroad — where most of the church’s faithful now live” — an admission that the patriarchate follows the demographic collapse caused by the very wars and persecution the article laments, yet proposes no supernatural remedy (conversion, penance, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass) only “cooperation,” “coordination,” and “practical initiatives.”
Migration, War, and the Silence of the Supernatural
The article’s treatment of the Iran war, economic hardship, and Christian migration is purely humanitarian. “Our prayers continue without ceasing that the war end as soon as possible and that dialogue and understanding may silence the sound of weapons” — this is the prayer of the Red Cross, not the Church Militant. Where is the recognition that “the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness” (Quas Primas) is the true enemy? Where is the call for the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart (Annum Sacrum, Leo XIII) as the sole remedy for societal collapse? The patriarch’s hope that “Christians around the world would recognize the suffering of their brothers and sisters in the East and understand the size of the challenges they face” reduces the communion of saints to a global solidarity network.
The appeal to the “international community to play its part in addressing the economic and security causes of migration” is a capitulation to the Masonic world order — the very “synagogue of Satan” denounced by Pius IX in the Syllabus allocution quoted in the document: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength… they boldly turn the help of powers and authorities which they have secured to trying to submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude”. The article’s silence on the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio reality — that the current claimants to the patriarchates operate within a structure that has defected from the Faith — renders its “cooperation” not merely useless but complicit in the great apostasy.
The Ecumenical Roadmap as a Masonic Blueprint
The proposed meeting of the “three patriarchs” (Assyrian, Chaldean, and presumably the Ancient Church of the East) to “develop a roadmap for closer collaboration” mirrors the Masonic strategy of “unity” through dilution of dogma documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation”. The imprecise formulation “unity of the Church of the East” — without specifying conversion to the Catholic Faith — “opens the way to religious relativism” and “can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The article’s insistence on “shared history, traditions, liturgy” while ignoring the divisio fidei (division of faith) is the hermeneutic of continuity applied to schism — a theological impossibility.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Conciliar Sect
The source itself — EWTN News, “translated and adapted by EWTN News English” — is a primary instrument of the neo-church’s disinformation. Founded by the post-conciliar “Mother Angelica,” EWTN has consistently promoted the false apparitions of Fatima, the “canonizations” of John Paul II and other modernists, the Novus Ordo Missae, and the false ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928). Its Arabic service ACI MENA functions to pacify Middle Eastern Christians with a false hope of “unity” that requires no conversion, no submission to the true Vicar of Christ, no rejection of the conciliar revolution. The article’s closing subscription prompt (“I agree to receive communications from EWTN”) reveals its commercial-proselytizing nature: harvesting souls for the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Conclusion: No Salvation Outside the True Church
This article is a theological nullity wrapped in pious sentiment. It offers Middle Eastern Christians a placebo of “cooperation” while the verum remedium — the integral Catholic Faith, the Traditional Latin Mass, the true papacy, the Social Kingship of Christ — is systematically suppressed by the very structures (EWTN, the Chaldean patriarchate, the Assyrian hierarchy) that the article celebrates. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member”. The same principle applies to patriarchs who preside over schismatic or modernist bodies. The “unity” they seek is the unity of the Synagogue of Satan — a unity of rebellion against Christ the King. The only true cooperation is cooperatio ad veritatem: the conversion of schismatics and the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo), beginning with the recognition that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958 and that the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church.
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Assyrian patriarch calls for stronger cooperation among Eastern Churches (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.07.2026