CNA portal reports (November 21, 2025) on preparations for antipope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon, framing it as a “sign of peace” amid Israeli-Hezbollah conflicts. The article quotes “Fr.” Tony Elias from Rmeich village claiming “we managed to protect our village” through non-evacuation, while “Fr.” Raffaele Zgheib describes Lebanon as “a wounded country” suffering economic collapse and war. Both clergymen express hope that the antipope’s visit will bring “lasting and just peace in the Middle East,” ignoring the supernatural mission of the Church. This modernist narrative reduces the Church’s role to geopolitical mediation, exemplifying the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (Pius XI) which declared: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they accept the reign of Christ the King.”
War Narrative as Cover for Apostolic Vacuum
The portal’s emphasis on “continuous attacks for almost two and a half years” serves to naturalize the absence of supernatural solutions. When “Fr.” Elias boasts that “we have never left our village,” he echoes the conciliar sect’s territorial attachment to physical structures while abandoning extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). The 2006 war reference functions as emotional manipulation, obscuring Lebanon’s tragic transformation from a nation once 60% Catholic to today’s Islamic-dominated landscape where Christians comprise barely 33% – a direct fruit of Vatican II’s ecumenism condemned by Mortalium Animos (Pius XI): “The unity of Christians cannot be otherwise fostered than by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.”
“The pope is traveling to a wounded country… The last six years have been terrible. We lost all our savings in the banks, then came the pandemic, then the Beirut port explosion, and now there is also the war in southern Lebanon.”
This economic reductionism exposes the conciliar sect’s Marxist tendencies, directly contradicting Pius XI’s condemnation in Divini Redemptoris: “Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever.” The silence about Hezbollah’s terrorist designation (US State Department, 1997) reveals moral bankruptcy, as true shepherds would condemn collaboration with organizations opposing Christ the King.
Ecumenical Betrayal Disguised as Pastoral Care
Zgheib’s description of Lebanon as “a place of religious coexistence” constitutes heresy against the First Commandment. The article’s focus on “all components of the local Lebanese Church, along with all the Eastern Churches” masks the conciliar sect’s syncretism, violating Canon 1325 (1917 Code): “Catholics shall not assist at or participate in any way in non-Catholic religious functions.” The planned Mass at Beirut Waterfront follows the Protestantized Novus Ordo rite, condemned by Cardinal Ottaviani’s 1969 study as “stripping away the propitiatory and sacrificial nature of the Mass.”
The article’s claim that “every parish has organized buses to attend the Mass” demonstrates the conciliar sect’s mechanization of faith, reducing sacramental participation to logistics management. True Catholic teaching demands the Mass be offered in persona Christi, not as a carnival attraction. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) rebukes such spectacle: “The Church is essentially an unequal society… comprising two categories of persons: the pastors and the flock.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
Nowhere does the article mention Lebanon’s need for conversion – the very purpose of apostolic visits according to Matthew 28:19 (“Go and make disciples of all nations“). Instead, it promotes the antipope as geopolitical mediator, directly opposing Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) which condemned the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error #80). The “sign of peace” rhetoric constitutes blasphemy when divorced from the Pax Christi that comes exclusively through submission to His Social Kingship.
The portal’s description of “young people greeting the pope” continues the cult of personality endemic to the conciliar sect. Contrast this with St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist sustains and propagates the error that faith is a religious sentiment born of need of the divine.” True shepherds would be organizing Eucharistic processions to implore God’s mercy, not bus caravans to see a usurper.
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s silence on these critical issues proves its apostate nature:
- No mention of Lebanon’s mandatory Islamic family law for all citizens – violating Immortale Dei (Leo XIII): “States must profess the one true religion“
- No call for Lebanon’s consecration to Christ the King – only empty “dialogue instead of escalation“
- No distinction between Israeli aggression and Hezbollah terrorism – both fruits of rejecting Christ’s reign
- No reference to Eucharistic adoration or rosary rallies as true peace initiatives
As Hebrew Catholics in 1947 warned Pius XII: “Without public recognition of Christ’s Kingship, Israel remains a dagger pointed at the Church’s heart.” This visit continues the conciliar sect’s suicide protocol (Msgr. Lefebvre) by pretending geopolitical solutions exist without doctrinal clarity. Let true Catholics heed Pius XI’s solution: “When men recognize both in private and public life that Christ is King, society will receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Source:
‘The pope is traveling to a wounded country,’ Lebanese priest says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025