Pizzaballa’s False Peace Gospel: Apostasy in Gethsemane
Vatican News (March 29, 2026) reports that “Cardinal” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the “Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem”, presided over Palm Sunday celebrations at the Basilica of All Nations in Gethsemane after Israeli police prevented him from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In his meditation, Pizzaballa evoked Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, lamenting the ongoing war in the Holy Land and calling for a peace defined as “a peace that comes from a God who gives himself completely and has no need of force or weapons.” He emphasized that faith persists even amid silence and hardship, urging the faithful to be “witnesses to a love that never gives up.” The homily, however, systematically omitted the Catholic doctrine that peace is impossible without the public and social reign of Christ the King, reducing the Gospel to a naturalistic appeal for humanitarian sentiment while ignoring the supernatural foundations of order, the necessity of conversion, and the duty of states to recognize Christ’s sovereignty. This represents the quintessential apostasy of the post-conciliar sect: a church that weeps over suffering but denies the remedy prescribed by God—the Kingship of Christ.



