The Vatican News portal—the official propaganda organ of the structures occupying the Vatican—reports that the “Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia,” Aldo Berardi, was received in audience by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The meeting of the “Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions” focused on the escalating military conflict between the United States and Iran, with Berardi emphasizing the “suffering,” “worries,” and “questions” of the Catholic communities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The antipope allegedly offered encouragement and an open line of communication. Berardi summarized the “message” as one of “peace,” built through “prayer,” “dialogue,” and “maintaining contact with the different factions,” boasting that the “unity of the Catholic Church” in the Gulf—comprising various rites and languages—serves as an “example for the region.” This encounter is not a pastoral act; it is a public manifestation of the apostasy of the conciliar sect, wherein a pseudo-bishop petitions a manifest heretic for a secularized, naturalistic “peace” that explicitly denies the Social Kingship of Christ the King and the absolute necessity of the conversion of Islam for true peace.
The Illegitimacy of the Interlocutors: An Antipope and a Pseudo-Bishop
The entire theatrical production rests upon a fundamental ontological fraud. The man in white receiving the delegation is not the Vicar of Christ. Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors—religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass—has ipso facto severed himself from the Body of the Church and lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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, lib. 2, cap. 30). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms this with canonical precision: “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically… by notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church” (Wernz & Vidal, Ius Canonicum).
Furthermore, the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV—incorporated into the 1917 Code—declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal assent. Since the line of usurpers began with John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), every subsequent claimant, including Prevost, occupies the See of Peter sine titulo. Consequently, the “Apostolic Vicar” Berardi derives his “mandate” from a null authority. Ordained and consecrated within the new sacramental rites (post-1968), which are doubtful at best and invalid at worst due to defect of form and intention, he possesses no valid jurisdiction, no true episcopal character, and no mission from Christ. He is a functionary of the paramasonic structure masquerading as a bishop. Their “audience” is a meeting of two private individuals usurping ecclesiastical office, devoid of any supernatural efficacy.
The Naturalistic Reduction of “Peace”: Betrayal of Quas Primas
The central theme of the encounter—”peace”—is stripped of its supernatural essence and reduced to a purely temporal, political cessation of hostilities. This is a direct rebellion against the teaching of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925). Pius XI thundered: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior”. He declared that “the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” is the only remedy for the “plague of secularism, so-called laicism.”
Berardi’s “peace” is the peace of the world, pax mundana, which Christ explicitly distinguished from His own: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). The “bishop” speaks of building peace by “dialogue, by maintaining contact with the different factions.” This is the language of the United Nations, of Freemasonry, of the Civitas Dei inverted into the civitas diaboli. It ignores the threefold authority of Christ the King—legislative, judicial, executive—outlined in Quas Primas: “Christ Jesus is given to men as Redeemer… but at the same time He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience… Concerning the judicial authority… He Himself says… the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son… Furthermore, Christ possesses the so-called executive power, for all must obey His commands”.
True peace is the tranquillitas ordinis (St. Augustine), the order established by the recognition of Christ’s rights over nations. By petitioning the antipope for a “peace” negotiated with “factions” (Iran, US, militias) rather than demanding the public submission of the Gulf states to the Kingship of Christ, Berardi acts as an agent of the revolution, not the Church. He validates the Syllabus error condemned by Pius IX: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs… In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Errors 41, 42). The “peace” of the conciliar sect is the peace of the Masonic Republic, where God is dethroned and man is enthroned.
False Ecumenism and Indifferentism: “Dialogue” as Capitulation to Islam
The most damning aspect of Berardi’s discourse is the total silence on the conversion of the Muslim world. He speaks of Christians living “alongside Muslim communities” and “different interpretations of Islam,” presenting the Church’s presence as a “silent but effective testimony” of “unity.” This is the heresy of religious indifferentism, solemnly condemned in the Syllabus (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”) and by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928).
The “witness” Berardi proposes is a witness without the Cross, without the explicit proclamation of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. He mentions “witnesses of Christ, the risen Lord,” but in the context of “dialogue with factions,” this “Christ” is stripped of His divine authority to judge the living and the dead and His command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt 28:19). The Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.) are territories where the public exercise of the Catholic faith is suppressed or severely restricted, where apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, and where the Church—the true Church—has the divine right to demand religious liberty for the truth, not “freedom of worship” for error.
The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). Berardi’s “unity of the Catholic Church” as an “example for the region” is a counter-witness: it shows a Church that has abandoned its mission to conquer souls for Christ, content to be a tolerated minority, a “dialogue partner” for the enemies of the Cross. This is the “ecumenism project” denounced in the “False Fatima” file: “The imprecise formulation… opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy”—and, we add, with the crescent of Islam. The “False Fatima” analysis correctly identifies that such messages “focus on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church”. Here, the external threat (US-Iran war) is used to obscure the internal apostasy: the refusal to preach the Gospel to Muslims.
The Silence on the Supernatural: No Salvation Outside the Church
The article reveals a complete absence of the supernatural order. There is no mention of:
- The state of grace as the prerequisite for true peace.
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary) as the sole source of supernatural grace for a war-torn region.
- The Social Kingship of Christ over Muslim nations.
- The necessity of Baptism for salvation (“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved”, Mark 16:16).
- The Final Judgment where Christ will judge the “factions” Berardi dialogues with.
This silence is the gravest accusation. It confirms the diagnosis of Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), where St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). For Berardi and the neo-church, “faith” is reduced to “witness,” “dialogue,” and “unity”—horizontal, sociological categories. The Lamentabili decree condemns the idea that “The Church listening cooperates… with the Church teaching… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). The “listening” to the “suffering” and “worries” of the expatriates has replaced the Magisterium teaching the hard truths of the Gospel.
The “False Fatima” file notes the “efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts”. Here, the Mass is entirely absent; the “spectacular act” is the audience with the antipope, the photo-op of “unity in diversity.” This is idolatry of the human, the cult of man condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas as the fruit of “secularism… its errors and wicked endeavors” which began with “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations”.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This event is not an anomaly; it is the systematic fruit of the Second Vatican Council. The “Church” Berardi represents is the “Church of the New Advent,” the “neo-church” which Paul VI inaugurated and which the “False Fatima” file describes as a potential “Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church”. The “Defense of Sedevacantism” establishes that the loss of the papacy is a dogmatic reality, not a mere opinion: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Bellarmine).
The “bishops” of the Arab regions, meeting in Rome, are the colonial administrators of the antichurch in Islamic lands. Their “concern” for “expatriate Christians” (mostly migrant workers) is a humanitarian NGO management strategy, not a pastoral solicitude for souls. They offer the “consolation” of the antipope—“We can contact him at any moment, in any difficulty”—instead of the consolation of the Sacraments administered by valid priests, the certainty of doctrine, and the hope of the Kingdom of Christ.
The unity they boast of—”different rites, different traditions, different languages, but we are all one Catholic Church”—is a unity of error, a Babel of the neo-church where the Novus Ordo (the “table of assembly”) coexists with Eastern rites that have accepted the hermeneutic of rupture. It is the “ecumenism of return” inverted: not the return of schismatics to the true Church, but the dissolution of the true Church into a federation of “traditions” united only by communion with the usurper in the Vatican.
Pius XI warned 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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation”. The Gulf war, the US-Iran conflict, the instability of the region—these are the direct consequences of the dethronement of Christ the King, a dethronement ratified and celebrated by the conciliar sect in its Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate. Berardi’s mission to the antipope is a pilgrimage to the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The only true “witness” in the Gulf today is the hidden, persecuted remnant of the faithful who keep the Tradition without the Mass, without valid priests, clinging to the immutable Faith of the Fathers, praying for the Social Reign of Christ the King and the conversion of the Muslims, not for a Masonic “dialogue.” The structures occupying the Vatican, their “bishops,” their “popes,” and their “Vatican News” are the greatest obstacle to that peace, for they preach a false christ, a false peace, and a false church. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12)—not the name of “dialogue,” not the name of “Leo XIV,” not the name of “human fraternity.”
Source:
Bishop Berardi: Gulf Christians called to be witnesses of peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.09.2026