The Vatican News portal, official organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, publishes an interview conducted by Andrea Tornielli with the “Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia,” “Bishop” Paolo Martinelli OFM Cap. The piece reports on the reaction of the conciliar hierarchy in the Arabian Peninsula to the recent addresses of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) at the Rimini Meeting. Martinelli praises the “disarmed and disarming peace” advocated by the usurper, asserts that “weapons will certainly never lead to solutions,” and presents the life of the Christian communities in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen as a model of “dialogue” and “witness” devoid of explicit proclamation of the Gospel. The article functions as a manifesto of the neo-church’s capitulation to naturalistic pacifism and religious indifferentism. This interview exposes the complete substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church—regnum Christi and the salvation of souls—for a Masonic humanitarianism that denies the Social Kingship of Christ and the very necessity of the Catholic Faith for eternal life.
The Usurpation of Authority: Legitimizing the Antipope Leo XIV
The entire narrative presupposes the legitimacy of Robert Prevost as “Pope Leo XIV.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this is the primary heresy underlying the article. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and ceases to be a member of the Church, tanquam excommunicatus et anathematizatus (as one excommunicated and anathematized). The line of claimants to the Holy See since John XXIII has publicly professed the errors of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu—errors which the provided document lists explicitly, such as the evolution of dogma (Prop. 58: Truth changes with man), the denial of the Church’s divine constitution (Prop. 52), and the reduction of revelation to religious experience (Prop. 20).
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian.” By treating Prevost as the Vicar of Christ, Martinelli and Tornielli participate in the great delusion (operatio erroris) foretold in 2 Thess 2:10-11. The “Rimini Meeting” itself—a venue historically dominated by the Communion and Liberation movement, a hotbed of the “hermeneutic of continuity” deceit—serves as a stage for this anti-papal theater.
Reduction of the Episcopal Office to Naturalistic Diplomacy
Martinelli describes his role not as a successor of the Apostles commissioned to docere, sanctificare, regere (to teach, sanctify, govern) for the salvation of souls, but as a manager of “initiatives” and a coordinator of “prayer and mutual support.” He states: “From the very first day of the attacks, I wrote a letter to our faithful inviting them to pray together, to help those in difficulty – those who had lost their jobs – and, above all, to follow the guidance issued by the local authorities.”
Above all, to follow the guidance issued by the local authorities.
This phrase is the signum contradictionis of the conciliar “bishop.” The primary duty of a Pastor is to guide the faithful to heaven, not to ensure compliance with the civil authorities of Muslim states which prohibit the public proclamation of the Gospel. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20) and “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). Martinelli’s obedience to “local authorities” in a context where the Faith is suppressed manifests the error of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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 Heresy of Absolute Pacifism: Denial of Just War and Christ’s Temporal Kingship
The central theological error of the interview is the assertion: “Weapons will certainly never lead to solutions… weapons will never lead to solutions; therefore, we must have the patience for dialogue.” This is not Catholic teaching; it is Masonic pacifism. The Church has always taught the legitimacy of just war (bellum justum) as a tragic necessity to defend the innocent and restore justice. St. Augustine defines peace as tranquillitas ordinis (the tranquility of order), not the mere absence of conflict.
Pius XI in Quas Primas establishes the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations and all temporal affairs: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The encyclical explicitly links the rejection of this Kingship to the chaos of the world: “seeds of discord sown everywhere, flames of envy and hostility have engulfed nations… unbridled desires… division among citizens and blind and immeasurable egoism.”
Martinelli’s “disarmed peace” is the peace of the world (pax mundi), which Christ explicitly distinguished from His peace (Non sicut mundus dat, ego do vobis – Jn 14:27). It is the peace of the Synagogue of Satan described in the Syllabus allocution cited in the file: “the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ… to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.” By denying the legitimacy of force in defense of the Faith and the Church, Martinelli aligns with the “paramasonic structure” described in the “False Fatima” document, which seeks to disarm the Church Militant.
False Irenicism and the Betrayal of the Great Commission in Arabia
Martinelli claims: “no one can prevent us from living out our faith—and therefore, from bearing witness to the joy of the Gospel in our daily lives, through our ability to form authentic relationships, including through dialogue and witness.” This is the heresy of “witness without words,” a staple of post-conciliar missiology (e.g., Evangelii Nuntiandi, Redemptoris Missio) which contradicts the divine mandate: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Mt 28:19-20).
The Syllabus condemns: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). By accepting laws “prohibiting any public proclamation of the Gospel” and redefining mission as “forming authentic relationships,” Martinelli implicitly accepts Error 16. He treats the Muslim majority not as souls to be converted from the bondage of Islam (which denies the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Crucifixion) but as partners in a naturalistic “coexistence.”
The “False Fatima” document correctly identifies this dynamic: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” Here, the “conversion” of the Arabian Peninsula is not even mentioned; only “dialogue” and “shared promotion of peace.” This is the ecumenism of the return inverted: the Church returns to the world.
The Rimini Meeting: A Masonic Laboratory for the “Church of the New Advent”
The setting—the Rimini Meeting—is crucial. It is the annual showcase of the Communion and Liberation movement, founded by Fr. Luigi Giussani, a key architect of the “hermeneutic of continuity” which attempts to baptize Modernism. The “False Fatima” document outlines the Masonic strategy: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The Rimini Meeting is a primary vehicle for this “ecumenical reinterpretation,” presenting a Christianity stripped of the Cross, the Kingship, and the necessity of the visible Church.
Leo XIV’s call to “disarm words, minds, and nations” is the language of the United Nations and Freemasonry, not the Vicar of Christ. Pius XI warned: “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, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows.” The “disarmed peace” is the peace of the Civitas Terrena organized against the Civitas Dei. It is the pax satanae.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect as Instrument of World Government
The article is a perfect symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. The “Vicar Apostolic” functions as a chaplain to a globalist order, ensuring the Catholic “expatriate” population remains docile, law-abiding, and religiously indifferent. The “million Christians” are reduced to a demographic statistic, their supernatural destiny ignored.
The silence on the Most Holy Sacrifice (the Mass is mentioned only as a logistical accommodation: “We increased the number of Masses so that as many people as possible could attend whilst minimising gatherings”), on the state of grace, on the Four Last Things, on the conversion of Muslims, and on the condemnation of the US-Iran war as a geopolitical struggle devoid of moral theology—this silence is the loudest condemnation.
As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” The conciliar sect, through its agents like Martinelli and Tornielli, and its false head Leo XIV, has abandoned that Name for the sake of a “shared and fruitful coexistence” in the kingdom of the Antichrist. Non est tibi cum his, Domine, sed cum solis qui crediderunt. (Thou hast not to do with these, O Lord, but only with those who have believed).
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Bishop Martinelli: War will never bring solutions (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.08.2026