The Vatican News portal (September 30, 2026) reports on a three-day “Religions and Diplomacy” conference at Palazzo San Calisto, organized by the Masonic front Carità Politica to mark its thirtieth anniversary. The conciliar sect’s Secretary for Relations with States, “Archbishop” Paul Richard Gallagher, and the Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, “Cardinal” Baldo Reina, headlined the event alongside ambassadors from the United States, Angola, and Türkiye. The gathering advanced the neo-church’s relentless campaign for religious liberty — condemned by Pius IX as a “pest” (Syllabus of Errors, n. 15) — and false ecumenism, presenting religious indifferentism as a diplomatic tool for “peace” while explicitly rejecting the Social Kingship of Christ the King. This spectacle is not diplomacy but the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) enthroned in the place of the Holy See, constructing a Masonic counter-church where all religions are equal and the true God is dethroned.
The Heresy of Religious Liberty as “Keystone” of Human Rights
The report quotes “Archbishop” Gallagher declaring:
“Freedom of religion or belief is the litmus test of respect for all other human rights, because it is both their synthesis and their keystone.”
This proposition is formally heretical and directly condemned by the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (n. 15, condemned). Pope Pius IX further anathematized the claim that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (n. 16). Gallagher’s elevation of religious liberty to the “keystone” of human rights inverts the divine order: Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12 — There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved). By making the free exercise of false religions a sine qua non of a free society, the conciliar sect enshrines indifferentism as the supreme civic virtue, a doctrine St. Pius X identified as the “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis).
Indifferentism Elevated to Diplomatic Strategy
The conference’s final appeal commits participants to “cultural exchanges and joint action to revive dialogue and bring peoples closer together” and to convene religious leaders to implement these commitments. This is the ecumenism of return inverted: not the conversion of non-Catholics to the one true Church, but the convergence of all faiths into a syncretic “spirituality of encounter.” Gallagher insists religious affiliation “must not be reduced to a banner that distinguishes us from them” and that “there can never be an absolute identification between ethnicity or a people, on the one hand, and religious affiliation, on the other.” This denies the very nature of the Catholic Church as the only Ark of Salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” — not to a vague “religious sense” shared by Muslims, Protestants, and pagans. The conciliar sect’s “dialogue” is the Masonic project of a universal religion foretold by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus: the destruction of the Catholic Church by absorbing it into a generic theism.
The Antichrist’s “Disarming Language”: Stripping God from Public Order
“Cardinal” Reina’s address on “disarming language” reveals the satanic core of the conciliar agenda:
“It means removing the name of God from the logic of war and to reject every attempt to confer religious legitimacy on hatred.”
This is practical atheism masquerading as piety. Quas Primas declares: “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.” To “remove the name of God from the logic of war” is to remove God from the logic of justice, for justum bellum theory is rooted in divine law. The conciliar sect replaces Christus Rex with the idol of “human dignity” — a Masonic abstraction severed from its Creator. Reina’s call to “distinguishing mediation from moral equidistance” is a smokescreen; the conciliar sect is moral equidistance, treating the Church of Christ and the synagogue of Satan as equal “religious communities” bearing “moral forces.”
Rome as “Laboratory of Coexistence”: The Masonic Counter-Church
Reina’s peroration that “Rome itself must continue to learn: from the world, from sister Churches, from other religious traditions, from peoples, migrants, the poor” and become “a productive laboratory and a lively workshop where people can learn the art of peaceful coexistence” is the manifesto of the Church of the New Advent. This is not the Rome of Peter and Paul, the See of Peter which “has never erred and never can err” (Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus), but the Rome of the Antichrist (2 Thess. 2:4), where the abomination of desolation sits in the temple of God. The presence of the US Ambassador Brian Francis Burch praising “democracy which, nourished by the values of faith, provides the ground on which good relations between States can be built” confirms the Americanist-Modernist synthesis condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae. The conciliar sect’s “diplomacy” is the political arm of Freemasonry, implementing the Alta Vendita plan to “popularize the Pope” until he becomes the “chief of the ecumenical movement.”
The Vacant See and the Automatic Loss of Office
Every speaker at this conference — from the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) down to his “Secretary for Relations with States” — operates under the canonical impossibility of holding office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, 2:30), “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.” The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal assent. The conciliar sect’s “bishops” and “cardinals,” having embraced the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass), have ipso facto vacated their offices (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). Their “diplomatic activity” is the theatrical posturing of laymen usurping ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The faithful are bound by divine law to reject their authority: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, 2:30).
Conclusion: The Only True Diplomacy is the Proclamation of Christ the King
The “Religions and Diplomacy” conference is a satanic parody of the Church’s mission. True Catholic diplomacy, as defined by Quas Primas, consists in “calling for the seeking of the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” and demanding that “rulers of states… not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The conciliar sect offers the world a peace without Christ — which is the peace of the Antichrist. The only solution to the “severe test to world order” is the restoration of the Catholic Church’s visible hierarchy under a true Pope, the consecration of all nations to the Sacred Heart (as commanded by Leo XIII and Pius XI), and the public confession that Jesus Christ is King of all nations. Regnum Christi non est ex hoc mundo (John 18:36), but it rules this world by right of creation and redemption. The conciliar sect’s “laboratory of coexistence” is the workshop of the devil; the true Church remains in catacumbis, preserving the depositum fidei until the Parousia. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Gallagher: Amid severe test to world order, religions can contribute to peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.09.2026