The Vatican News portal, propaganda organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports on the opening of the 47th Rimini Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples. The event, organized by the Communion and Liberation movement—a quintessential fruit of the post-conciliar revolution—featured a testimony by Roseline Hamel, sister of the Novus Ordo presbyter Jacques Hamel murdered in 2016, and Nassera Kermiche, mother of his Muslim killer Adel Kermiche. Billed as “sisters in sorrow,” their encounter epitomizes the neo-church’s reduction of the Gospel to a horizontal therapy of shared trauma. The piece culminates in the announcement of the impending visit of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who will bless this theater of naturalism with his presence. This spectacle manifests the total apostasy of the conciliar hierarchy: the substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ for a vague “love that moves the sun,” the replacement of the necessity of salvation through the Catholic Church with indifferentist “friendship,” and the legitimization of the Novus Ordo service as the true Sacrifice.
The Fact of the Matter: A Theater of Naturalism Staged Over the Ruins of the Faith
The cited article relates that the Rimini Meeting opened with a dialogue between two women united by the 2016 slaying of Fr. Jacques Hamel in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. Roseline Hamel recounts the final domestic moments with her brother; Nassera Kermiche describes the morning her son departed to kill. They have since authored a book, Sisters in Sorrow, and present themselves as icons of reconciliation. The Vatican News report frames this as a “powerful testimony of friendship and hope” fitting the theme drawn from Dante: “The love which moves the sun and the other stars.”
Several facts are either distorted or suppressed. First, the “Mass” Fr. Hamel was celebrating was the Novus Ordo Missae, the fabricated rite of Paul VI which, by its very nature as a Protestantized memorial meal, lacks the propitiatory character of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. To call it “Mass” without qualification is to participate in the great deception of the conciliar sect. Second, the killer, Adel Kermiche, was an ISIS operative acting explicitly in hatred of the Christian faith. The article sanitizes this religious motive, submerging it in a generic “extreme violence human beings can inflict.” Third, the Rimini Meeting is not a Catholic gathering but a marketplace of the Church of the New Advent, where “dialogue” and “encounter” have supplanted the missio ad gentes and the condemnation of error. Fourth, the anticipated visit of the usurper Leo XIV—an invalidly elected manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors, ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code)—confers upon this event the false aura of papal legitimacy.
The Linguistic Mask: Therapeutic Vocabulary as a Symptom of Theological Death
The rhetoric of the report is revealing. Words dominate: “friendship,” “hope,” “sorrow,” “meeting,” “encounter,” “witness,” “peace,” “sharing,” “journey,” “tragedy,” “love.” These are the lexicon of modernist immanentism, stripped of the supernatural order. Absent entirely are the terms that constitute the Catholic forma mentis: sin, grace, Cross, Redemption, Blood, Soul, Hell, Judgment, Purgatory, Heaven, Baptism, Conversion, Faith, Charity (as theological virtue), Kingship, Rights of Christ, Social Reign, Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
The theme itself—Dante’s poetic verse detached from its theological ground in the Paradiso—serves as a gnostic slogan. “The love which moves the sun and the other stars” becomes a vague cosmic force, not the Caritas infused by the Holy Ghost which orders all things to God. The women are “sisters in sorrow,” a purely horizontal bond of shared suffering. Fr. Hamel’s reported last words—”I am so happy to be here with you”—are elevated as a spiritual testament, replacing the priest’s true vocation: “This is My Body… This is the Chalice of My Blood.” The journalist Samuel Lieven mediates their story, transforming martyrdom (if it were true martyrdom in the true rite) into a human-interest narrative. This is the language of the “Church of the New Advent”: bureaucratic, therapeutic, evacuated of the mysterium tremendum.
The Theological Abyss: Indifferentism, False Ecumenism, and the Denial of Christ the King
Here the confrontation with immutable doctrine is fatal to the conciliar narrative.
1. The Denial of the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas). Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches with absolute clarity: “If men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society… The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The Rimini Meeting is the antithesis of this. It is a “civil society” event par excellence, operating under the aegis of the Italian secular state, promoting a “friendship among peoples” that explicitly prescinds from the public confession of Christ’s Kingship. The antipope Leo XIV visits not to demand the State’s submission to Christ, but to bless a “Children’s Village” and view exhibitions on St. Augustine and the social reformer Léon Harmel. This is the laicism Pius XI condemned: “the secularism of our times… its errors and wicked endeavors… the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The Meeting is a civitas terrena built on the refusal of the Civitas Dei.
2. Indifferentism and the “Salvation” of the Unbaptized (Syllabus, Lamentabili). The central tableau—the mother of the Muslim killer embracing the sister of the victim—is the icon of Error 16 and 17 of the Syllabus: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation… 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.” Nassera Kermiche, a Muslim, and Roseline Hamel, a conciliar “Catholic,” unite in “sorrow” without the slightest reference to the necessity of Baptism (John 3:5), the unicity of the Church (Pius XII, Mystici Corporis), or the damnation of those dying in original sin or mortal sin (Council of Florence, Denz. 714). The killer died in the act of murder, a mortal sin, outside the Church. His mother’s “hope” for him, celebrated by the neo-church, is a diabolical deception denying the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. The article’s silence on the eternal destiny of the killer is not an omission; it is a positive profession of universalism.
3. The Modernist Conception of Revelation and Faith (Lamentabili Sane Exitu). The entire event operates on the condemned Modernist propositions: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Prop. 20); “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Prop. 22); “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Prop. 58); “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples” (Prop. 59). The “testimony” replaces Credo. The “friendship” replaces Caritas. The “hope” replaces the Spes anchored in the Resurrection. The Rimini Meeting is a living enactment of Modernism: religion as shared human experience, evolving, immanent, therapeutic.
4. The Invalidity of the “Priesthood” and the “Sacrifice.” Fr. Hamel was ordained in the post-conciliar rite (post-1968), the validity of which is gravely doubtful due to the defect of form and intention introduced by Paul VI’s Pontificale Romanum (1968), which suppressed the essential words “for the remission of sins” and the explicit intention to offer the Sacrifice. Even if validly ordained in extremis by the old rite, he functioned publicly in the Novus Ordo, a rite intrinsically oriented to a Protestant theology of the Lord’s Supper (Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, Short Critical Study, 1969). To present his death *at the altar* of this false rite as a “witness of faith” is to canonize the liturgical revolution. The true Martyr dies for the Tridentine Mass, the Sacrifice of the Cross, not for a “table of assembly.”
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s “Civilization of Love” is the Kingdom of Antichrist
This event is not an anomaly; it is the systematic fruit of the Second Vatican Council.
The “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples” is the brainchild of Don Luigi Giussani (Communion and Liberation), a movement that epitomizes the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as continuity. It gathers thousands for “exhibitions, debates, performances”—a Catholicized World’s Fair. It embodies the Error 80 of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The antipope Leo XIV (Prevost), an Augustinian formed in the conciliar mold, travels to San Marino (a secular republic) and then to Rimini (a secular fairground) to “venerate relics” and “greet children.” This is the itinerarium of a lay NGO director, not the Vicar of Christ.
The choice of Léon Harmel for an exhibition is telling. Harmel was a 19th-century Catholic industrialist. The neo-church strips him of his integralism—his fight for the Kingship of Christ in society—and presents him as a precursor of “human dignity at the centre of economic life,” i.e., the Christian Democracy / Social Doctrine of the Church severed from the Crown Rights of Christ the King. This is the Sillon error condemned by St. Pius X (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910): a “city” built without God, under the guise of charity.
The “sisters in sorrow” narrative is the culmination of Nostra Aetate and the Assisi meetings. It teaches the faithful that the divide between Islam and Catholicism is bridgeable by human grief. It implies the Muslim martyr (in his own false lights) and the Catholic priest (in the false rite) meet in a common humanity. This is the “Masonic operation” identified in the analysis of False Fatima: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism… It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” Here, it legitimizes dialogue with Islam, the greatest enemy of the Incarnation.
The silence on the Third Secret of Fatima (suppressed by the conciliar popes) is echoed in the silence on the Chastisement. The Rimini Meeting offers “hope” without the Fear of the Lord. It offers “peace” without the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ (Pius XI). It offers “friendship” without the Friendship of the Cross.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The Vatican News article is a dispatch from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It documents the conciliar sect’s successful replacement of the Church Militant—which combats error, converts nations, offers the True Sacrifice, and reigns with Christ the King—with a humanitarian NGO managing emotions and staging “encounters.”
The antipope Leo XIV’s visit seals this apostasy with the false authority of Peter. The faithful who remain in the true Church—those adhering to the integral Faith, the Tridentine Mass, the valid Sacraments, and the Social Kingship of Christ—must recognize this spectacle for what it is: a Satanic parody of the Communion of Saints. There is no “friendship” that saves outside the Body of Christ. There is no “hope” that endures without the Cross. There is no “peace” without the King.
“Non praevalebunt” (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, which today endures in the catacombs of Tradition, anathematizing this Rimini circus and its antipope patron.
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'Sisters in sorrow’ offer a testimony of friendship and hope at Rimini Meeting (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.08.2026