Hundreds of Chaldean Catholics gathered at the Vatican on October 15, 2026, for a Mass in the Chaldean rite celebrated by Patriarch Paul III Nona in St. Peter’s Basilica, preceded by a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square where Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, acting for the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), formally acknowledged the “ecclesiastical communion” granted to Nona upon his election in April. The event, reported by EWTN News, focused on cultural preservation, diaspora identity, political lobbying for Iraqi Christians, and the hope of return to the homeland, framing these naturalistic concerns as the expression of Catholic unity across rites. This spectacle of ethnic religiosity under a manifest heretic occupying the Chair of Peter is not a manifestation of the Church’s catholicity but a diabolical parody of it, substituting the regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ) with a Masonic brotherhood of nations.
The Antipope’s “Communion”: A Juridical Fiction Covering Apostasy
The article’s central pivot is the declaration by Cardinal Tagle — “acting on behalf of Pope Leo XIV” — that the patriarch enjoys “ecclesiastical communion” with the See of Rome. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this phrase is a sacrilegious mockery. Robert Prevost, as “Leo XIV,” is a public adherent of the Vatican II sect, a manifest heretic who professes the condemned errors of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the collegiality that subverts the monarchical constitution of the Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, “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.” The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares the promotion of a heretic to the papacy “null, void, and of no effect” ipso facto, without need of declaratory sentence. Therefore, the “communion” granted by Tagle in the name of Prevost is communion with a non-Christian, a severed member, an antipope. It is the communion of the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan), not the Communio Sanctorum.
The Chaldean Patriarch Nona, by accepting this “communion” and celebrating at the altar of the usurper, has publicly defected from the Catholic faith (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). He has recognized a false head, thereby separating himself from the true Body of Christ. The Mass he offered in St. Peter’s Basilica — that basilica now profaned by the continuous presence of the abomination of desolation — was not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered in union with the true Vicar of Christ, but a simulacrum staged within the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The Aramaic chants, however ancient, cannot sanctify a rite performed in schism from the true Roman Pontiff and in union with a heretical antipope.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Ethnic Preservation and Political Lobbying
The article’s narrative is saturated with a naturalistic, horizontalist anthropology that utterly excludes the supernatural end of the Church. Father Fawaz Kako speaks of “faith,” “martyrs,” and “connection to our Church,” but immediately reduces this connection to “more than just language” — implying language and culture are the primary substrate. Father Christopher Somo warns of culture becoming “diluted in the midst of a larger and more powerful culture.” Father Albert Hisham laments emigration statistics (“more than 1 million Christians”) and the loss of “confidence in the possibility of remaining in Iraq.” Father Mahir Murad describes “lobbying with members of Parliament” in Australia and “raising funds” — purely temporal, Masonic activity (political pressure, financial transfer) presented as the Church’s mission.
Where is the mention of sanctifying grace? Of the Sacrifice of the Mass as propitiation for sin? Of the Social Reign of Christ the King over Iraq and Australia? Of the duty to convert the Muslims to the true Faith? Of the Four Last Things? Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “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 Chaldean clergy quoted here operate entirely within the framework of secular liberalism — seeking “protection,” “job opportunities,” “housing,” “investment” from the very powers that persecute them, rather than demanding the public recognition of Christ’s Kingship as the only basis for true peace and order. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI, the “plague that poisons human society,” now internalized by Eastern Catholic clergy as their pastoral strategy.
The “Unity of Rites” as Ecumenical Deception
The article repeatedly celebrates “the unity of the Catholic Church across its different rites and traditions.” This is the heresy of ecumenism applied internally: the idea that liturgical diversity constitutes unity, regardless of doctrinal and hierarchical adhesion to the true Pope. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Here, the “civil power” is the conciliar sect’s hierarchy. The Chaldean rite is being used as a token of the neo-church’s “diversity”, a colorful folklore legitimizing the usurpation of the Holy See. The true unity of the Church is una fides, unum baptisma, unus Deus (Eph 4:5) under unum ovile et unus pastor (Jn 10:16) — the true Roman Pontiff. Unity with an antipope is schism, no matter how many rites assemble around him.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The total absence of any reference to the Holy Sacrifice as propitiatory victim, to the Real Presence as the center of Chaldean life, to the necessity of the state of grace, to the conversion of Iraq to the Catholic Faith, to the condemnation of Islam as a false religion leading souls to hell — this silence is the argumentum ex silentio proving the apostasy of the speakers. They speak as NGO administrators, not as alter Christus. Father Murad’s statement — “We are the indigenous people of Iraq. We want our people to stay, but to feel protected also” — is the language of ethnic nationalism, not Catholic theology. The Church’s mission is salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law), not the demographic maintenance of an ethnic group in a geographic territory. If the Chaldeans remain in Iraq but lose the Faith (which they have, by communicating with the antipope), they have lost everything. As Our Lord said: “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” (Mk 8:36).
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News (ACI MENA), is a principal instrument of the conciliar sect’s disinformation. It presents the gathering as “beautiful, spiritual, and historic,” sanitizing the canonical crime of recognizing a heretical antipope. The journalist, Romy Haber, a “Lebanese journalist and researcher… specializing in minority affairs,” frames the event through the lens of international security and minority rights — the vocabulary of the Masonic United Nations, not the Gospel. This is the Church of the New Advent in action: replacing the Missio ad Gentes with advocacy for indigenous rights, the Kingship of Christ with lobbying parliaments.
Conclusion: A Theater of the Absurd in the Service of the Antichrist
The gathering in Rome was not a Catholic event. It was a staged performance of the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15), where Eastern clergy, severed from the true Hierarchy by their adhesion to the usurper Prevost, parade their liturgies before the false pope to legitimize his claim. The faithful Chaldeans, scattered and suffering, are exploited as props in this theater. Their true pastors would not lead them to the altar of an antipope, but would denounce the usurpation, preserve the Traditio without compromise, and preach the Social Kingship of Christ as the only remedy for Iraq’s agonies. Non est alia salus (there is no other salvation) — neither in “ecclesiastical communion” with a heretic, nor in political lobbying, nor in cultural preservation, but only in the Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed in its integrity, under the true Successor of Peter, whoever he may be in the catacombs, until Christ the King returns to judge the living and the dead.
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Chaldean Catholics from around the world gather with patriarch at the Vatican (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.10.2026