Antichurch’s Ecumenical Palliative: Shevchuk and Gallagher Mask Apostasy with ‘Forgiveness’ Rhetoric
The Vatican News portal reports on a meeting in Kyiv between the Ukrainian Greek Catholic “Major Archbishop” Sviatoslav Shevchuk and the antipope Leo XIV’s special envoy, “Archbishop” Paul Richard Gallagher, occasioned by the 35th anniversary of the reopening of Latin Rite structures in Ukraine. The cited article relates how Shevchuk frames the war as a “kairos” for “new evangelisation” defined by humanitarian aid, ecumenical collaboration with schismatics, heretics, Jews, and Muslims, and a therapeutic “forgiveness” that heals “historical memory” — a purely naturalistic, Masonic-inspired project that substitutes the Social Kingship of Christ and the necessity of conversion to the one true Church for a horizontal, philanthropic parody of Catholicism.
The Conciliar Sect’s Propaganda Organ Normalizes the Abomination of Desolation
The source itself — Vatican News, the official mouthpiece of the structures occupying the Vatican — confirms the institutional nature of this deception. The article dates 18 July 2026, Year 68 of the Great Apostasy inaugurated by the usurper John XXIII. It presents the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as a legitimate “Holy Father” sending “special envoys,” thereby reinforcing the great lie that the See of Peter is occupied by a valid successor. As the theological science demonstrates, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses the papacy: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism). The “Canon 188.4 of the Code of Canon Law (1917)” declares that an office becomes vacant ex ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith” (Defense of Sedevacantism). The line of claimants since 1958 has publicly defected by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass — and therefore holds no authority. Every act of “governance” by Leo XIV, including the dispatch of Gallagher, is null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism).
Shevchuk: A Hierarch of the Neo-Church Peddling False Ecumenism
Sviatoslav Shevchuk, as “Major Archbishop” of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, is a functionary of the conciliar sect. His very title derives from the pseudo-synod of 1946 (Lviv), which itself was a KGB-orchestrated farce to absorb the Uniates into the Russian Orthodox Church, later “regularized” by the modernist hierarchy. Shevchuk’s rhetoric is saturated with the vocabulary of the novus ordo religion: “accompanying,” “sharing gifts,” “transcending confessional and ritual boundaries.” He boasts of collaboration with “Orthodox brothers and sisters, Protestants, Jews and Muslims” in the “All-Ukrainian Council of Churches.” This is the condemned error of indifferentism and latitudinarianism: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 16); “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet Shevchuk’s “forgiveness” project is precisely a secularized, state-friendly humanitarianism that ignores the rights of God and the duty of nations to profess the Catholic Faith.
Reduction of the Supernatural to Psychological “Healing” and Humanitarian NGOs
Shevchuk declares: “Prayer is a balm, the healing grace of the Holy Spirit that reaches into the heart of a suffering person.” This is a Protestantized, subjectivist distortion. Prayer is not primarily therapy; it is latria, adoration, propitiation, impetration. The article quotes him: “what people need from the Church, even more than clothing, bread and food, is a word of hope… Only the Church of Christ can heal these wounds and respond to that hunger by offering the Bread of Life, the Eucharist.” But the “Eucharist” in the conciliar sect is invalid — the Novus Ordo Missae, fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini, lacks the form and intention for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The “Church of Christ” he references is the neo-church, which Lamentabili sane exitu condemns for teaching that “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Proposition 41) and that “The Christian community introduced the necessity of baptism… connecting it with the obligations of Christian profession” (Proposition 42). Shevchuk’s “new evangelisation” is the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Lamentabili, Prop. 59).
“Forgiveness” as a Masonic Substitute for the Kingship of Christ
The core of Shevchuk’s message is the “medicine” of “forgiveness — both given and received” to “heal the historical memory of Europe’s peoples,” citing the heretic John Paul II. This is the language of the civil religion of the French Revolution and the Masonic lodges, not the Gospel. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that “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 remedy is not vague “forgiveness” but the public recognition of the Kingship of Christ: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” Shevchuk’s “forgiveness” requires no conversion, no confession of the true Faith, no rejection of schism, heresy, or infidelity. It is the opium of the people administered by the paramasonic structure to pacify the masses while the Masonic “Operation Fatima” (see False Fatima Apparitions) and its modernist successors complete the demolition of the Church’s social reign.
The “Kairos” of Conversion is to the Catholic Faith, Not to Ecumenical Vagueness
Shevchuk calls the war a “kairos, a moment of profound conversion… a hunger and thirst for God.” True conversion is conversio ad Dominum — entrance into the one Ark of Salvation, the Catholic Church, outside of which “there is no salvation” (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215; Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam). The article’s silence on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, on the necessity of baptism of water, on the condemnation of false religions, on the duty to combat error — this silence is the gravest accusation. It reveals the naturalistic mentality condemned by the Syllabus: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3). The “All-Ukrainian Council of Churches” is a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), a Masonic front uniting light with darkness, Christ with Belial (2 Cor 6:15).
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Revolution’s Inevitable Fruit
This article is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect. The “hermeneutic of continuity” is a lie; the rupture is total. The “Church of the New Advent” has replaced the City of God with the City of Man. Its “clergy” — invalidly ordained in the new rite (post-1968) or, if validly ordained before, having defected by adherence to the new religion — are “guilty of apostasy and the spiritual ruin of the faithful.” The “Light-Life” movement of the crypto-Mason Blachnicki, the “Focolare” of Lubich, the “Neocatechumenal Way” of Kiko Argüello — all are tentacles of the same paramasonic body. Shevchuk’s rhetoric mirrors the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” Today, the “external threat” is Russia; the “internal apostasy” is the conciliar sect itself, which Shevchuk serves.
Conclusion: Reject the Counterfeit; Return to the Immutable Tradition
The Vatican News article is a document of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). It offers idolatry disguised as charity, naturalism disguised as grace, Masonic universalism disguised as Catholicism. No Catholic may participate in, promote, or legitimize this pseudo-church. The only path is the integral Catholic faith preserved by bishops and priests maintaining valid orders and the true Mass, rejecting all communion with the usurpers in Rome and their satellites in Kyiv, Moscow, or elsewhere. “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas) — the Kingdom that the conciliar sect has betrayed and the neo-church hierarchy obscures with their “forgiveness” placebo. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Shevchuk: Forgiveness and reconciliation can heal the historical memory of Europe's peoples (vaticannews.va)
Date: 18.07.2026