Vatican News portal reports on an event in Abu Dhabi marking the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, organized by the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, the Italian Embassy, and the Italian Cultural Institute. The “Apostolic Vicar” Paolo Martinelli, Fr. Stefano Luca, and various dignitaries including the Italian Ambassador Lorenzo Fanara and Emirati artist Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Mualla presented St. Francis as a prophet of “fraternity,” “dialogue,” “peace,” and “sustainability,” explicitly linking his legacy to the agenda of the antipope Francis. This spectacle is not a commemoration of a Catholic saint but a ritual of the conciliar sect’s Masonic religion of man, exploiting the Seraphic Father to legitimize religious indifferentism and the abolition of the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Language of the Synagogue of Satan: “Fraternity” Without Faith
The cited article relates that Bishop Martinelli opened with the Franciscan greeting “May the Lord give you peace,” yet the entire event was structured upon a pax humana utterly divorced from Pax Christi in regno Christi. The vocabulary deployed — “fraternity,” “dialogue,” “mutual understanding,” “sustainability,” “interreligious dialogue” — is the precise lexicon of the Masonic lodges and the United Nations, not the language of the Gospel. St. Francis did not embrace the leper to foster “social inclusion” but to conquer his own revulsion for the love of Christ Crucified, seeing in the leper the very Person of the Suffering Savior. The reduction of this supernatural charity to a horizontal “fraternity” is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by St. Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910): “They dream of a world where all men, united by a common love, would form one great family… but this is a chimera.”
The article states that Fr. Luca emphasized St. Francis was “above all, a man in love with God,” yet immediately subordinates this to his “social significance” flowing into “interfaith and ecumenical dialogue.” This is the classic Modernist tactic condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” The “love of God” is evacuated of its doctrinal content — the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus) — to become a vague religious sentiment compatible with Islam.
The Abu Dhabi Spectacle: Indifferentism Enacted on the Arabian Peninsula
The event took place in the United Arab Emirates, a Muslim nation where the public profession of the Catholic faith is restricted, and the conversion of Muslims is effectively prohibited by civil law. To celebrate “dialogue” and “fraternity” in this context, without a single mention of the duty to proclaim Christ the King to all nations (Matt. 28:19-20), without referencing the martyrdom of the Franciscan protomartyrs in Morocco (1220) who died pro fide preaching to Muslims, is not “encounter” — it is apostasy.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) teaches: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Prop. 77). The Abu Dhabi event, hosted by the Italian Ambassador and the Emirati establishment, is the theatrical enactment of these condemned errors. It signals the conciliar sect’s full acceptance of the secularist principle that the State is the source of rights (Syllabus, Prop. 39) and that religious truth is a matter of private conscience or cultural dialogue.
St. Francis and the Sultan: The Distortion of a Missionary Encounter
The article recalls St. Francis’ encounter with Sultan Malik Al Kamil, citing his guidance to friars “to avoid quarrels and disputes and approach others with humility.” This is a malicious truncation of the historical reality. St. Francis went to the Sultan not to “dialogue” but to convert him or die a martyr. The Legenda Maior of St. Bonaventure recounts that Francis proposed a trial by fire to prove the truth of the Catholic faith. He preached the Trinity and the Incarnation. The Sultan, moved but unconverted, offered gifts which Francis refused. The Rule of 1221 (Chapter 16) instructs friars going among Saracens “not to engage in arguments or disputes, but to be subject to every human creature for God’s sake” — propter Deum — and to announce the Word of God when they see it pleases the Lord, ut credant in Deum omnipotentem, Patrem, et Filium, et Spiritum Sanctum. The conciliar sect strips this of its missionary teleology, leaving only the “humility” and “non-quarrelling” as ends in themselves. This is the hermeneutic of rupture applied to the Seraphic Order.
The “Pope Francis” Connection: The Antipope’s Signature
Professor Roberto Catalano explicitly explored “the connection between St. Francis and Pope Francis, particularly through fraternity and the desire to build positive relations with the Muslim world.” This admission reveals the true telos of the event: the canonization of the Bergoglian revolution. The antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) chose his name to signal a program: the replacement of the Catholic mission ad gentes with a Masonic “fraternity” project. The 2019 Abu Dhabi “Document on Human Fraternity,” signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, declared that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions… are willed by God in His wisdom.” This proposition is formally heretical, contradicting the dogma of the unity of the Church and the necessity of explicit faith in Christ. The current event is a liturgical celebration of that heresy.
Sustainability and the Canticle: The Idolatry of Creation
The Emirati artist Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Mualla addressed “sustainability and the Franciscan love of creation, drawing on his work transforming discarded materials into functional art.” The Canticle of the Sun is transmuted into a manifesto for the Green Agenda. St. Francis praised God per creation (Laudato si’, mi’ Signore, per frate Sole), recognizing creatures as vestiges of the Creator ordered to His glory. The conciliar sect inverts this: creation becomes the ultimate referent, “sustainability” the supreme virtue, and the Creator is displaced by the “common home.” This is the naturalism condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Prop. 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil”) and by Pius X in Pascendi: the Modernist “divinizes” the world to deify man.
Ambassador Fanara highlighted “environmental sustainability as values that continue to inspire Italian foreign policy.” The Catholic Faith is reduced to a cultural asset of Italian soft power, a tool for diplomatic “dialogue.” Quas Primas warned: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Italian State, apostate since the Lateran Concordat’s revision and the 1948 Constitution, uses the “poet” Francis to legitimize its secularist foreign policy.
The Theological Bankruptcy of the “Apostolic Vicariate”
The “Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia” is a structure of the conciliar sect, headed by a “bishop” (Martinelli) consecrated in the invalid Novus Ordo rite (1968), deriving his “mission” from the usurpers in the Vatican (John XXIII onwards). It possesses no jurisdiction, no authority to teach, no power to sanctify. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “Vicar” participates in an event that publicly defects from the faith by promoting religious indifferentism. He is ipso facto deprived of office. The faithful in the Peninsula are left as sheep without a shepherd, fed on the “dialogue” that St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi).
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The event in Abu Dhabi is a perfect microcosm of the ecclesia maligna erected in the place of the Church. It takes the greatest saint of poverty, chastity, and obedience — the Alter Christus who bore the Stigmata — and refashions him as the patron of the Masonic trilogy: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. It silences the Regnum Christi, the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the Kingship of Christ over Muslim lands, the necessity of baptism, the reality of Hell, and the Final Judgment. It offers the world a St. Francis without the Cross, without the Church, without Christ the King — in short, an idol. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement.” This is the “Franciscan movement” of the conciliar sect. True Catholics, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the vacant See of Peter, reject this abomination and cry out with the Prophet: “They have set up kings, but not by Me; they have made princes, and I knew it not” (Osee 8:4). The only “fraternity” that saves is the communion of saints in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Source:
Abu Dhabi celebrates St. Francis’ legacy of fraternity and dialogue (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.10.2026