The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed the so-called “Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions” (CELRA) on September 3, 2026, exhorting them not to fear their “smallness” and to prioritize “dialogue” with Muslims over the conquest of souls for the One True Church. This address constitutes a manifest repudiation of the Social Kingship of Christ and the missionary mandate, replacing the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis with a sterile humanitarian functionalism.
The Usurpation of Authority: No Mission Without Jurisdiction
The very premise of the encounter is a theological fiction. The individual addressing these prelates, Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar apostasy (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), has severed himself from the Body of the Church and consequently lost all jurisdiction ipso facto. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “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.” Wernz and Vidal confirm in Ius Canonicum that such a one is deprived of jurisdiction ipso facto “even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.”
The “bishops” of CELRA, ordained and consecrated in the novel rites of Paul VI (Montini) — rites which are doubtful in form and intention, and administered by men who themselves defected from the faith — possess no certain sacramental character, and even if they did, they exercise no canonical mission. They are functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, not successors of the Apostles. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ex ipsa facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The entire conciliar hierarchy has defected by embracing the heresies condemned in the Syllabus of Errors and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. Therefore, their “mission” in the Arab world is a juridical nullity, a theatrical performance devoid of divine mandate.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The antipope’s central dictum — “The fruitfulness of the Church is not measured in numbers, structures or resources, but in fidelity to the Gospel” — is a masterpiece of Modernist equivocation. It erects a false dichotomy between visible growth (the sign of the Church’s vitality and the fulfillment of the Great Commission) and an invisible, subjective “fidelity” which requires no conversion of nations, no Catholic States, no Christus Rex over temporal society.
This is a direct contradiction of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), which the provided text explicitly affirms: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Pius XI teaches that the laicism (secularism) of the modern world is the “plague” poisoning society because “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” The remedy is the public recognition of Christ’s Kingship by states and laws, not the quietist acceptance of “smallness” in a Muslim-majority context.
The antipope’s language — “serve,” “bear witness,” “counter force with charity,” “homes where nobody feels like a stranger” — is the vocabulary of the Civitas Dei reduced to an NGO. It strips the Church of her potestas coactiva (coercive power) over the baptized and her potestas indirecta in temporal matters for the sake of the spiritual. It ignores the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), which condemns the proposition: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19), and: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By accepting “smallness” and political irrelevance in the Arab world, the antipope ratifies the separation of Church and State and the subjection of the Church to Islamic civil power.
Ecumenism and Indifferentism: “Dialogue” as Treason
The exhortation to “continued dialogue with Muslims and other religious communities” under the guise that “Dialogue does not mean renouncing one’s own identity, but living it out without fear of encounter” is the heresy of Indifferentism condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Errors 15-18) and St. Pius X (Lamentabili, Prop. 58-65).
Error 16 of the Syllabus condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” Error 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.” The antipope’s “dialogue” presupposes the legitimacy of the Muslim religion as a path to God, or at least a valid partner in a shared “human fraternity,” thereby denying the absolute necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), defined by the Fourth Lateran Council and Pope Boniface VIII (Unam Sanctam).
The “Conference of Latin Bishops in the Arab Regions” itself is a fruit of the false ecumenism of Unitatis Redintegratio and Nostra Aetate — documents of the Robber Council Vatican II which the true Church rejects. It institutionalizes the status quo of dhimmitude, transforming the Church from the Ecclesia Militans demanding the conversion of the Crescent to the Cross, into a tolerated minority begging for “rights” and “dignity” from the enemies of Christ.
The Silence on the Social Kingship: The Gravest Omission
The most damning aspect of the address is its total silence on the Social Kingship of Christ the King. Not a word on the duty of Muslim states to recognize the Catholic Church as the one true religion. Not a word on the obligation of Catholic rulers (where they exist) to profess the faith publicly. Not a word on the Corpus Christi procession, the public act of adoration that Pius XI instituted precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.”
Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The antipope tells the bishops of the Arab world the exact opposite: be small, be quiet, serve, dialogue. This is not the voice of the Vicar of Christ; it is the voice of the Antichrist’s precursor, preparing the world for the reign of the Man of Sin by dismantling the Civitas Catholica.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This address is not an anomaly; it is the logical, necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution.
- False Ecumenism: The “dialogue” mandate flows from Nostra Aetate (Vatican II), which speaks of “esteem” for Muslims who “adore the one God.” This is theological suicide. The God of Islam is not the Most Holy Trinity; qui non confitetur Filium, nec Patrem habet (1 John 2:23).
- Religious Liberty: The acceptance of “smallness” and minority status as a normative, even virtuous, condition flows from Dignitatis Humanae, which declares a “right” to religious freedom based on human dignity rather than the Truth. This heresy was condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos), Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus), Leo XIII (Immortale Dei), and St. Pius X.
- Collegiality/Synodality: The very existence of a “Conference of Bishops” acting as a policy-making body for a region supersedes the divine constitution of the Church (Episcopus in sua ecclesia) and replaces the Roman Primacy with a democratic parliament of hirelings.
- Humanitarianism: The focus on “migrants,” “families,” “youth,” “dignity,” “charity” — to the exclusion of conversio, baptismus, confessio, Eucharistia as the source of social order — reduces the Supernatural Society to a secular relief agency. This is the “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
The “Sowing” Metaphor: A Mockery of the Harvest
The concluding platitude — “Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing is yours; the growth is God’s” — is a perversion of St. Paul (1 Cor 3:6-7). In the mouth of a true Pope, it encourages perseverance in the face of persecution for the Faith. In the mouth of the antipope, it sanctifies sterility. It tells the bishops: Do not expect conversions. Do not expect Catholic States. Do not expect the triumph of the Immaculate Heart (which the false Fatima apparatus promises only to subvert). Just manage the decline.
This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The true Church, the Ecclesia Catholica, persists not in these glittering Vatican audiences, but in the catacombs where valid bishops and priests — holding fast to the Traditio of 1958, the Mass of Trent, the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Pascendi, and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio — offer the Unbloody Sacrifice for the conversion of the Muslims and the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo).
Non praevalebunt. The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church of Christ, but they have manifestly prevailed against the counterfeit church of Leo XIV and his “bishops” in the Arab regions. Their “smallness” is not a virtue; it is the mark of their apostasy. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Matt 12:30).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to Arab-region churches: ‘Do not be afraid of your smallness’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.09.2026