The Vatican News portal reports on the fortieth anniversary of the 1986 Assisi interreligious meeting convened by the antipope John Paul II, featuring an interview with Rabbi David Rosen, former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and adviser to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. The article celebrates the “Spirit of Assisi” as a legacy of peace, dialogue, and prayer, citing Nostra Aetate as formal affirmation that “God, that the divine, that religion, that truth [can] be found outside the confines of the Catholic Church.” Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad and the Imam of the Grand Mosque of Jakarta are noted as participants. Rabbi Rosen invokes the Lutheran Bishop Krister Stendhal’s concept of “holy envy” to praise religious diversity as “the glory of God’s creation.” This report constitutes a brazen proclamation of religious indifferentism, elevating naturalistic dialogue above the supernatural Kingship of Christ and the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation.
The “Spirit of Assisi” as Institutionalized Violation of the First Commandment
The cited article from the conciliar sect’s official propaganda organ reveals the theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar enterprise with crystalline clarity. The 1986 Assisi meeting—where the antipope John Paul II invited pagans, heretics, schismatics, and infidels to pray each to his own god in the city of the Seraphic Father—was not a “historic meeting for peace” but a public act of apostasy and idolatry that cried to heaven for vengeance. The current report, dated 27 October 2026, confirms that this abomination has become the paradigm of the neo-church’s false religion.
Rabbi Rosen’s assertion that Nostra Aetate “affirmed for the first time, for the Catholic Church formally, that God, that the divine, that religion, that truth [can] be found outside the confines of the Catholic Church” is a precise summation of the heresy of religious indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864). Proposition 16 of that Syllabus condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” Proposition 17 condemns: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.” Proposition 18 condemns: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.”
The “Spirit of Assisi” is the incarnation of these condemned errors. It teaches that the Catholic Church is merely one path among many to the transcendent, directly contradicting the dogmatic definition of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215): “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved” (extra quam nullus omnino salvatur). Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The Assisi enterprise denies this universal Kingship by placing Christ on a level with false gods.
Nostra Aetate: The Magna Carta of Modernist Apostasy
The article’s reliance on Nostra Aetate (Vatican II’s Declaration on Non-Christian Religions) exposes the conciliar revolution’s rupture with Tradition. This document, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1965, teaches that “the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions” and that Muslims “adore the one God” (Deum unum adorant). This is theological falsehood. The God of Islam is not the Most Holy Trinity; Muslims explicitly deny the Divinity of Christ and the Trinity. To say they “adore the one God” in the same sense as Catholics is to commit idolatry by confusion.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Prop. 22). Nostra Aetate operationalizes this Modernism by treating religious differences as mere “interpretations” of a common religious experience, reducing revealed truth to human religious sentiment. Rabbi Rosen’s phrase—”nobody can have a monopoly on truth or access to God”—is the exact negation of Christ’s words: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The article’s entire vocabulary—”peace,” “dialogue,” “curiosity,” “diversity,” “building bridges,” “holy envy,” “collaboration,” “cooperation”—is purely naturalistic. There is no mention of:
– The conversion of infidels to the one true Faith
– The necessity of Baptism for salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
– The Social Kingship of Christ over nations and laws
– The reality of hell and the danger of damnation for those dying outside the Church
– The propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass as the source of all grace
– The Immaculate Heart of Mary as the refuge of sinners (the true Fatima message, not the Masonic counterfeit)
This silence is the gravest accusation. As Pius XI teaches 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 “peace” of Assisi is the peace of the world (John 14:27), not the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ. It is the pax Masonica—a counterfeit unity built on the denial of Christ’s rights.
The “Holy Envy” Heresy: Protestant Subjectivism as Catholic Virtue
Rabbi Rosen’s citation of the Lutheran Bishop Krister Stendhal’s “holy envy”—celebrating “something in another tradition that’s wonderful and something you can celebrate that’s not part of your own particular tradition”—is Protestant subjectivism masquerading as Catholic theology. It reduces divine revelation to a smorgasbord of spiritual experiences where each religion contributes a “flower” to the “field” of God’s creation. This is the evolution of dogma condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and Lamentabili (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”; Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”).
The metaphor of the “field of flowers” denies the unicity and exclusivity of the Catholic Church as the only Ark of Salvation. St. Cyprian teaches: “He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his Mother” (De Unitate Ecclesiae, 6). There is no “holy envy” for false worship; there is only zeal for God’s glory and charity for souls that demands their conversion.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Cardinals” and “Imams”: A Theater of Syncretism
The participation of “Cardinal” George Jacob Koovakad—a prelate of the neo-church created by the antipope Francis—and the Imam of the Grand Mosque of Jakarta demonstrates the institutionalized syncretism of the Vatican II sect. These men do not represent the Catholic Church; they represent the counter-church foretold by St. Paul: “For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables” (2 Tim 4:3-4).
The “Abrahamic Family House” in Abu Dhabi—where Rabbi Rosen serves as adviser—is the physical monument to the Document on Human Fraternity signed by the antipope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in 2019, which declares that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions… are willed by God in His wisdom”. This is formal heresy. God wills one religion: the Catholic religion. Pluralism of religions is a consequence of sin, not a positive divine will.
Sedevacantism: The Only Coherent Response to the Assisi Apostasy
The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates that a manifest heretic ipso facto loses the papacy. 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 antipope John Paul II, by convening Assisi 1986, committed a public, manifest act of heresy and idolatry. The line of usurpers—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost)—has no canonical mission. They occupy the Vatican de facto but not de jure.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The Assisi meetings are public defection. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares that any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect”—even if uncontested and by unanimous assent of Cardinals.
The true Church endures in the remnant who keep the integral Faith of the Fathers, adhere to the Traditional Latin Mass, and reject the conciliar revolution in toto. As the Syllabus condemns (Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”—the Assisi enterprise achieves the separation of the Church from Christ, making her a mere NGO for “interreligious dialogue.”
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The Vatican News article is not a report on “peace”; it is a bulletin of the Antichurch celebrating its forty-year war against the First Commandment. The “Spirit of Assisi” is the spirit of Antichrist (1 John 4:3), denying the Incarnation by placing the Word Incarnate on par with the prophets of false religions. No Catholic may participate in, endorse, or speak well of this abomination. The duty of the hour is non possumus: we cannot, we must not, we will not dialogue with error. We proclaim Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat—and outside His Kingship, there is no peace, only the pax diaboli.
Source:
Assisi’s lasting legacy: Peace, prayer, dialogue (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.10.2026