The EWTN News portal reports that the Secretariat of State of the conciliar sect has dispatched its “secretary for relations with states,” Archbishop Paul Gallagher, to Moscow for a series of meetings with high-ranking Russian government officials—including Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov—as well as with Metropolitan Anthony of the schismatic Moscow Patriarchate. This venture is explicitly labeled a “mission of dialogue and peace” regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The itinerary includes a simulated “Mass” at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. This diplomatic offensive exposes the complete substitution of the Church’s divine mandate for the temporal kingship of Christ with a naturalistic, Masonic-inspired geopolitical agenda.
The Usurpation of Diplomatic Prerogatives by a Vacant See
The very premise of this “mission” rests upon a juridical and theological fiction: that the post-conciliar structure occupying the Vatican possesses the authority to conduct international diplomacy in the name of the Catholic Church. Since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been canonically vacant, the papal office usurped by a line of manifest heretics beginning with John XXIII. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “Secretariat of State” sending Gallagher is not the organ of the Roman Pontiff but the foreign ministry of a paramasonic structure that has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction by virtue of its adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II—religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, binding until a true Pope legislates otherwise, declares that an office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. The entire conciliar hierarchy, by promulgating and enforcing the documents of the Second Vatican Council, has publicly defected. Therefore, Gallagher acts as a private individual, a layman in canonical effect, clothed in the stolen purple of a non-existent cardinalate. His “credentials” are worthless; his “mission” is a geopolitical charade.
Quas Primas Violated: The Denial of Christ’s Social Kingship
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations”. The encyclical teaches that “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him”. It warns that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”.
Gallagher’s mission to Moscow is the antithesis of this doctrine. He approaches the Russian state not as the ambassador of Christ the King demanding public recognition of His rights, but as a functionary of a secularized NGO seeking a modus vivendi between warring nations. There is no demand that Putin or Lavrov “publicly honor Christ and obey Him”; no proclamation that “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him” (Matt. 28:18); no warning that “Christ, whom not only was cast out of the state, but was also forgotten and ignored through contempt, will very severely avenge these insults” at the Final Judgment. The “dialogue” is conducted on purely naturalistic grounds—geopolitics, humanitarian corridors, ceasefire mechanics. The supernatural order is entirely absent. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI, now practiced by the very structure claiming to be the Holy See.
Ecumenical Betrayal: Legitimizing the Schism of Photius
The schedule includes a meeting with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is not a meeting to demand the return of schismatics to the one true Fold; it is a “dialogue” between two false religions. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18) and that “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37). The Moscow Patriarchate is a schismatic body, severed from the Center of Unity since 1054, further corrupted by Soviet-era collaboration (Sergianism) and modern ecumenical compromise.
By treating Metropolitan Anthony as a legitimate interlocutor for “peace,” Gallagher implicitly recognizes the schismatic hierarchy as a valid “Church” with which one negotiates. This is the “ecumenism project” denounced in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The conciliar sect’s “ecumenism” is the pan-heresy condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): the idea that unity can be achieved by a federation of conflicting creeds rather than by the return of dissidents to the one Ark of Salvation.
The Simulated Sacrifice: Idolatry in the Moscow Cathedral
The article notes Gallagher will “celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary in Moscow.” In the conciliar sect, this means the Novus Ordo Missae—a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini, stripped of the propitiatory character of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence obscured by a communal meal theology, the priest turned into a “presider” facing the people. To “celebrate” this rite in a cathedral building—itself likely seized or built under Soviet/conciliar compromise—is not the offering of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a liturgical simulation that constitutes, in the words of the False Fatima Apparitions analysis, “idolatry” when performed by those outside the Church.
Furthermore, the 1917 Code (Canon 802) and immemorial discipline forbid communicatio in sacris with schismatics and heretics. By “celebrating” in a structure that serves the conciliar sect’s “diocese” in Russia—a jurisdiction erected by the usurpers in communion with schismatics—Gallagher participates in the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel and Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). The faithful remnant in Russia, deprived of true priests and the True Mass, are scandalized by this pseudo-liturgical theater which confirms them in the illusion that the conciliar sect is the Church.
Naturalistic Peace vs. The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ
The article’s language—“mission of dialogue and peace,” “path of dialogue,” “peaceful resolution”—is the vocabulary of the United Nations, not the Catholic Church. Pius XI declared: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Gallagher’s diplomacy accepts the secularist framework: states are the primary actors; religion is a private or at best a “civil society” factor; peace is the absence of armed conflict, not “the tranquility of order” (St. Augustine, City of God XIX.13) founded on justice, which is the giving to God what is God’s. By negotiating with Putin’s adviser Ushakov and Lavrov—representatives of a state that promotes abortion, euthanasia, LGBT ideology (under recent laws), and the schismatic “Russian World” heresy—Gallagher legitimizes a godless power. He seeks a pax sovietica or pax americana, not the Pax Christi.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Revolution’s Logical Terminus
This Moscow mission is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. Gaudium et Spes (1965) turned the Church into a “partner in dialogue” with the world. Dignitatis Humanae surrendered the Church’s right to the public profession of the true Faith by the State. Nostra Aetate and Unitatis Redintegratio mandated “dialogue” with false religions as a permanent posture. The “Secretariat for Non-Christians” (now “Interreligious Dialogue”) and the “Secretariat for Non-Believers” were the institutional engines of this apostasy.
Gallagher is a product of this system: a career diplomat of the “Holy See” who has spent decades negotiating concordats with secular states, managing the “Ostpolitik” of Paul VI (which sold out the Church in Czechoslovakia and Hungary to Communism), and now executing the “diplomacy of Francis” (Bergoglio) and his successor Prevost (“Leo XIV”). The file Defense of Sedevacantism proves that “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” because “he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Bellarmine). The entire diplomatic corps of the Vatican is thus an anti-Church apparatus, staffed by men who have lost the Faith and the mission.
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57) and that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples” (Error 59). The conciliar sect lives these condemned errors: it adapts its “message” to the “signs of the times” (geopolitics), reduces doctrine to “pastoral accompaniment,” and replaces the regnum Christi with a humanitarian NGO.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article—nor in any statement from the conciliar “Vatican” on this war—is there mention of: the necessity of the state of grace for eternal salvation; the Social Kingship of Christ as the only foundation of just law; the conversion of Russia to the Catholic Faith (not to “Orthodoxy” or “peace”); the fatima message (even in its corrupted form) which demanded the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart by the Pope and bishops in union with him—a consecration never validly performed by the usurpers; the Final Judgment where Putin, Lavrov, Ushakov, and Gallagher himself will answer for their souls.
This silence is the theological signature of the Antichrist: a religious structure that speaks only of temporal welfare, never of eternal destiny. As Pius XI wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Quas Primas, quoting Ubi Arcano). The conciliar sect, by removing Christ from its diplomacy, guarantees the continuation of the shaking.
Conclusion: No Peace Without the King
The Moscow mission of Gallagher is a theological nullity and a spiritual crime. It is the activity of a vacant See usurped by heretics, conducting naturalistic diplomacy in the name of a false church, legitimizing a schismatic hierarchy and a godless state, while simulating the Holy Sacrifice in a rite that denies its essence. True peace will come only when Russia—and Ukraine, and the West—publicly recognize the Kingship of Christ, submit to His Vicar (when a true Pope is elected), and order their laws according to the Decalogue and the Evangelium. Until then, every “dialogue” is a betrayal, every “mission” a mockery, and every “Mass” a sacrilege. “Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis” (Isa. 48:22). There is no peace, saith the Lord, for the wicked.
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High-ranking Vatican official to meet with Putin’s adviser in Russia (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.08.2026