Ecumenical Apostasy in Nicaea: Antipope’s Betrayal of Catholic Truth
The Vatican News portal (November 28, 2025) reports on an ecumenical prayer service in Iznik, Turkey, where antipope Leo XIV joined 27 leaders of schismatic and heretical communities to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. The event, organized by Bartholomew I—the excommunicated patriarch of Constantinople—featured calls for “fraternal encounter” and “dialogue” between Christian groups. Leo XIV asserted that the Nicene Creed provides a “profound bond” uniting all Christians, urging cooperation to address global violence while denouncing religiously-motivated wars. This spectacle of apostasy reduces Christ’s Church to a humanitarian NGO, burying the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) dogma beneath pagan pluralism.
Subversion of Nicaea’s Christological Legacy
The article describes Leo XIV invoking Nicaea’s condemnation of Arianism while committing the same heresy through omission. “What was at stake at Nicaea… is our faith in the God who, in Jesus Christ, became like us” ignores the Council’s actual purpose: defining the consubstantiality of Christ as a non-negotiable dogma binding all believers under Roman obedience. Pope St. Leo the Great’s Tome to Flavian (449 AD) clarifies that those rejecting the homoousios doctrine “have no part in God’s mysteries.” By treating the Creed as a mere “bond” between equal communities, the antipope implicitly denies the Catholic Church’s unique guardianship of revealed truth.
Pius XI’s encyclical Mortalium Animos (1928) condemns this syncretism: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” The Vatican News narrative suppresses this missionary mandate, reducing Christianity to ethical platitudes about “human dignity” and “rights”—terms lifted from Masonic declarations rather than Thomistic theology.
Ecumenism as Revolutionary Sabotage
Leo XIV’s call for “paths of fraternal encounter, dialogue and cooperation” constitutes blasphemous disobedience to Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the notion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18). The antipope’s participation in joint prayer with heretics violates Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code, forbidding communicatio in sacris with non-Catholics. When Pius XI warned against the “pan-Christian” movement in Mortalium Animos, he identified such gatherings as “fostering a false Christianity quite alien to the one Church of Christ.”
Bartholomew I’s role as organizer proves the event’s diabolical inversion: a schismatic excommunicated since 1054 hosts an antipope to “commemorate” a Council that anathematized his ecclesial ancestors. This sacrilege mirrors the Freemasonic strategy exposed in Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884): replacing dogmatic religion with universal brotherhood detached from supernatural faith.
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Order
Nowhere does the article mention grace, conversion, or the Four Last Things. Instead, it promotes a horizontalist religion where “the rights and dignity of all people” supersede the regnum Christi (kingship of Christ) demanded by Quas Primas (1925). The antipope’s focus on “violence, conflict, and fundamentalism” reflects the United Nations’ secular agenda, not the Church’s divine mission to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemns this reduction of Christianity to social ethics (Proposition 63): “It is false that the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics.” By omitting the necessity of submission to Roman authority for salvation, the antipope’s address embodies Modernism’s “evolution of dogma” heresy—a betrayal St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all errors.”
Conclusion: Apostasy Institutionalized
This ecumenical charade confirms the conciliar sect’s complete rupture from Catholic Tradition. As the false “pope” embraces heretics in the shadow of Nicaea’s ruins, true Catholics recall St. Athanasius’ stand against the world: “Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.” (Letter to Serapion). The abomination of desolation now sits in the Vatican, but Christ’s promise remains: “The gates of hell shall not prevail.” (Matthew 16:18).
Source:
Pope: Nicaea invites Christians to unity in face of violence, conflict (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.11.2025