The Vatican News portal reports on the pastoral theater of the conciliar sect’s “Apostolic Vicars” Berardi and Martinelli across the Arabian Peninsula, showcasing simulated confirmations, a Masonic-inspired “Jubilee” for St. Francis, courting of oil magnates, and a relentless litany of “peace,” “hope,” and “dialogue” utterly devoid of the supernatural — the telltale signature of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican since 1958.
The Theatrics of Invalid “Sacraments” and Usurped Jurisdiction
The article boasts that “Bishop Berardi celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation for 155 candidates” in Bahrain. This is a sacrilegious simulation. The “bishop” Berardi, consecrated in the invalid Paul VI rite of 1968, lacks the character episcopalis and the potestas ordinis to confer the sacramentum confirmationis. As Pius XII taught in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the matter and form of episcopal consecration must univocally signify the potestas ordinis et iurisdictionis; the Montini rite, stripping the essential form “Receive the Holy Ghost” and substituting a vague “episcopal spirit,” renders the consecration nulla et irrita. Consequently, the “Confirmation” administered is not a sacrament but a blasphemous pantomime, leaving 155 souls unsealed by the Holy Ghost, deprived of the character indelebilis of soldiers of Christ, and scandalized by the pretense of grace where only emptiness reigns.
The article speaks of “Bishop Berardi” and “Bishop Martinelli” as “Apostolic Vicars.” In the eyes of the lex divina and the ius canonicum (1917 Code), these men are laymen usurping ecclesiastical office. They derive their “mission” not from Christ through the true Roman Pontiff, but from the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares: “Omne officium vacat ipso facto et sine ulla declaratione… si clericus… publice a fide catholica defecerit” (Every office becomes vacant ipso facto and without any declaration… if a cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith). The conciliar “bishops,” by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate), have ipso facto vacated any office they might have held. They are intrusi, wolves in shepherds’ clothing.
The “Jubilee” of the Masonic Ecumenism: 800 Years of St. Francis Distorted
The report highlights the “opening of a special Jubilee Year commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi.” This is liturgical Modernism par excellence. True Jubilees are convoked by the true Roman Pontiff for the remissio peccatorum and the sanctificatio fidelium, rooted in the potestas clavium (Mt 16:19). The conciliar sect’s “Jubilees” — 1975, 1983, 2000, 2015, 2025, and now this ad hoc 2026 invention — are fabrications of the paramasonic structure to legitimize its false authority and promote the heresy of religious indifferentism. St. Francis, the alter Christus who received the Stigmata, who kissed the leper, who preached to the Sultan pro conversione (not for “dialogue”), is here pressed into service as the patron of ecumenical syncretism. The documentary “Our Lady of Arabia – A Legacy of Faith” — note the title: not “Our Lady of the Rosary,” not “Help of Christians,” but a geographically tailored “Our Lady of Arabia” — reeks of the adaptation of the Virgin to Islam, a subtle realization of the Fatima Masonic operation’s final stage: Christian-Islamic syncretism (see False Fatima Apparitions file: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism”).
Courting the World: The Kuwait Oil Company and the Civitas Terrena
The article casually notes: “Bishop Berardi and members of the Vicariate delegation also paid a courtesy visit to the leadership of the Kuwait Oil Company, highlighting the longstanding relationship between the Church and the company.” Here is the conciliar church laid bare: a chaplaincy for capital. “Nolite diligere mundum, neque ea quae in mundo sunt” (1 Jn 2:15). The true Church, as Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas, demands that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows.” Instead, the conciliar “Vicar” courts the mammona iniquitatis, the very oil wealth that fuels the geopolitical machinations of the synagoga Satanae. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions… subordinated to secular power.”
The Gospel of “Peace,” “Hope,” and “Dialogue”: Naturalism Masquerading as Theology
The article is a litany of naturalistic buzzwords: “message of hope, faith and unity,” “strengthening communion,” “encouraging unity, hope and prayer for peace,” “missionary discipleship,” “spirit of service,” “educating for peace,” “tangible sign of a new beginning and of hope.” Nowhere — nullibi — is there mention of:
- The Social Reign of Christ the King (Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”).
- The necessity of baptismus flaminis or sanguinis for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).
- The four last things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell.
- The propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass (the “Eucharist” mentioned is the Novus Ordo table-fellowship, invalid in form and intention).
- The conversion of Muslims to the one true Faith.
- The rights of God over the rights of man.
This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by St. Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910): “They want to set up a ‘city’… where ‘peace’ and ‘love’ reign… but without God, without Jesus Christ, without the Church.” Bishop Martinelli’s citation of “Pope Leo XIV that ‘true peace begins in a heart that loves'” is Pelagian sentimentalism. True peace is tranquillitas ordinis (St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei XIX.13) — the order established by Christ the King, not a psychological state manufactured by summer camps and “fellowship.”
The Structural Apostasy: Southern Arabia’s “Summer Camps” as Indoctrination Centers
The “summer camps” in the “Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia” (Oman, UAE, Yemen) involve “thousands of children and young people in prayer groups, catechesis, games, educational workshops and moments of fellowship” centered on “faith, family, peace, care for creation and following Christ.” This is the Jugendstil of the antichurch: formation without dogma, morality without grace, “care for creation” (Laudato Si’ pantheism) replacing the cura animarum. The “volunteers” are the laity usurping the munus docendi of the priesthood, the democratization of the Church condemned by Pius X in Pascendi (Prop. 6: “The Church listening cooperates… the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening”). These camps produce not soldiers of Christ but citizens of the Masonic “universal brotherhood” — the very goal of the sects denounced by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 77-80) and by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus.
The Theological Verdict: Abominatio Desolationis in the Desert
The article from Vatican News — the organum officiale of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican — presents a Potemkin village of “pastoral care” in the Gulf. It is a diabolical masterpiece of deception: invalid sacraments administered by invalid bishops under an antipope, a fabricated Jubilee honoring a saint distorted for ecumenism, courting of oil plutocrats, and a relentless propaganda of naturalistic “peace” and “hope” that substitutes the Civitas Dei with the Civitas Hominis.
As Pius XI declared 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 conciliar sect’s Arabian operation is precisely this: a godless humanitarian NGO wearing the skin of the Church, preparing the way for the Antichristus by acclimating the faithful to a “Church” without the Cross, without the Kingship of Christ, without the Supernatural.
“Ecce in pace mea amaritudo mea amarissima” (Is 38:17). The “peace” of the conciliar sect is the bitterest poison. The true faithful in Arabia — if any remain — must flee these structures as they would flee a plague, seek out the valid Mass and Sacraments of true bishops and priests (however hidden), and pray for the Social Reign of Christ the King to shatter this abominatio desolationis. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Northern Arabia: Bishop Berardi visits Christian communities (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.07.2026