Conciliar Hierarchy Reduces Holy Land to Tourist Route for 2030 Jubilee
The EWTN News portal reports that the “Latin patriarchal vicar for Jordan,” Iyad Twal, is promoting a unified pilgrimage route across the Holy Land culminating in 2030, the bimillennial anniversary of Christ’s Baptism. The initiative, backed by the Hashemite monarchy, frames the sacred sites as a “geography of salvation” to be packaged for religious tourism, economic development, and interfaith “shared experience,” deliberately silencing the Social Kingship of Christ and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Redemption to Religious Tourism
The cited article reveals the thoroughly naturalistic mentality governing the conciliar sect’s approach to the Holy Places. Twal speaks of “tourism preparations, investments, and infrastructure development,” of advancing the “hospitality, services, and religious tourism sectors,” and of generating “employment and support local communities.” The Missio Dei — the divine mandate to teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Mt 28:19) — is replaced by a socio-economic development plan. The “spiritual dimension” is paid lip service only to be immediately subordinated to the exigencies of the “partnership” between the “state, the Church, the private sector, and relevant institutions.”
This is the precise embodiment of the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). Here, the “Church” petitions the Muslim civil power (the Hashemite Kingdom) for permission and cooperation to exercise its spiritual mission, effectively acknowledging the plenitudo potestatis of the secular order over the sacred. Twal praises the “high-level national committee chaired by the prime minister” as a model of cooperation. Quis ut Deus? Who is like unto God? The conciliar hierarchy acts as a department of the state’s tourism ministry.
The “Geography of Salvation” vs. The Kingdom of Christ
Twal describes the Holy Land as the “geography of salvation” and its sites as “spaces where the faithful can live out a spiritual experience.” This phenomenological language — “experience,” “encounter,” “journey” — is the hallmark of Modernist immanence, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 22: “The revelation which is the object of Catholic faith did not cease with the Apostles”; Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement”). The objective reality of the Redemption — the Sacrificium Calvariae continued in the Unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar — is dissolved into a subjective “spiritual experience” available to all “pilgrims” regardless of creed.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches the exact opposite: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The King of Kings does not share His sovereignty with the Hashemite monarchy. The Holy Land is not a “geography” to be managed by a “Baptism Site Commission” in partnership with a Muslim state; it is territory belonging jure divino to Christ the King, currently occupied by infidels and betrayed by the conciliar hierarchy. The article’s silence on the Social Kingship of Christ — the very feast Pius XI instituted to combat the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism” — is the gravest accusation. It proves the conciliar sect has capitulated entirely to the Civitas Terrena.
False Ecumenism and the “Shared Experience” of Indifferentism
Twal explicitly states the goal is “not competition among countries to attract pilgrims but rather a shared experience of faith in the Holy Land.” He envisions a route connecting “Egypt, Jordan, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Nazareth” for a “full journey.” This is the ecumenism of the return inverted: not the conversion of the separated to the One True Fold, but a pan-religious pilgrimage where Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Muslim “pilgrims” share a vague “faith experience.” The Syllabus condemns this root and branch: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16); “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18).
The “local Church” is redefined as “living stones” — a Protestantized, horizontalist ecclesiology that empties the hierarchical, juridical, and sacramental Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium style, though the article avoids even that document’s terminology). Twal wants pilgrims to encounter “Arab Christians… through their families, young people, schools, and social and ecclesial institutions.” The Una, Sancta, Catholica, et Apostolica Ecclesia is reduced to an NGO providing cultural immersion. There is zero mention of the Sacrosanctum Sacrificium, the Sacramentum Poenitentiae, the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, or the duty to convert the Mohammedans and Jews occupying the Holy Places. The “renewal of baptismal promises” becomes a vague spiritual exercise, detached from the profession of the integral Catholic Faith, the rejection of Satan and all his works (including the Masonic lodges infiltrating the Holy Land), and submission to the Roman Pontiff — the true one, not the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost).
The Invalid Hierarchy and the Masonic Blueprint
Iyad Twal received his “episcopal consecration” in 2025 at the “Church of the Baptism of Jesus Christ.” According to the theological principles articulated in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, the “bishops” of the conciliar sect, ordained in the Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968) — a rite stripped of the essential form and intention for the sacerdotium and episcopatus — possess no jurisdiction, no orders, no mission. They are laymen in vestments, functionaries of the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican. Twal’s “consecration” by the “Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem” (Pierbattista Pizzaballa, a “cardinal” of the antipope Francis/Bergoglio and now Leo XIV) transmits nothing but a simulacrum.
The file on False Fatima Apparitions details the “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” with its “ritualistic 200-year cycles” (1717, 1917, 2017). The 2030 Jubilee project bears the same Masonic signature: a centennial countdown (2033 for the Resurrection) designed to mobilize global attention, capital, and “interfaith dialogue” under the aegis of the “Church of the New Advent.” The “high-level national committee chaired by the prime minister” is the exsequatur of the Masonic state controlling the “Church.” The “Baptism Site Commission” is a secular body managing a religious site — the very Erastianism condemned by the Syllabus (Errors 19, 20, 24, 27, 45).
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Church as Travel Agency
This article is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the post-1958 neo-church. Having abandoned the Regnum Christi (Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”), the conciliar hierarchy has nothing left to offer but religious tourism. It cannot preach the Gospel to the Mohammedans (that would be “proselytism,” the “solemn nonsense” of Bergoglio), it cannot condemn the errors of Islam or Judaism (that would violate “Nostra Aetate” and “Fratelli Tutti”), it cannot uphold the Kingship of Christ over the State (that would violate “Dignitatis Humanae”). So it becomes a travel agency, negotiating with Muslim prime ministers for “infrastructure” and “hospitality sectors.”
The “success of 2030” measured by “what remains afterward in the life of the Church, pilgrimage, and the local community” is a purely pragmatic, Modernist metric. Pragmatismo is the criterion of truth for the Modernist (Lamentabili, Prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function… rather than as principles of belief”). The “Church” becomes a provider of “experiences” for “pilgrims” who are never called to convert, confess, assist at the True Mass, or submit to the Sweet Yoke of Christ the King.
Conclusio: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Places
The unified pilgrimage route is a Masonic project to normalize the presence of the conciliar sect — the abominatio desolationis (Mt 24:15) — in the very sites of the Redemption, under the protection of the enemies of Christ. It is a locus classicus of the heresis gravissima of religious liberty and false ecumenism. True Catholics, adhering to the Sedes Vacans reality since 1958, must reject this entire spectacle. They must pray for the Conversio Judaeorum et Gentium, the restoration of the Regnum Christi over the Holy Land, and the day when the True Mass will again be offered on the altars of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Jordan, by valid priests subject to a true Roman Pontiff, for the gloriam Dei and the salutem animarum — not for the “hospitality sector” of the Hashemite Kingdom.
Non est in alia ulla salus; nec enim aliud nomen sub caelo datum est hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari. (Acts 4:12) — There is no salvation in any other [name], neither is there any other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. The “shared experience” of the conciliar sect is the broad road to perdition.
Source:
Jordan’s Latin patriarchal vicar calls for unified pilgrimage route across the Holy Land (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.10.2026