Istanbul Summit: Apostasy Masquerading as Ecumenism
The VaticanNews portal (November 29, 2025) reports on a meeting between “Pope” Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George in Istanbul. The event included a joint prayer service, commemorations of the First Council of Nicaea’s 1,700th anniversary, and a signed Joint Declaration reaffirming “shared commitment to Christian unity.” The “pope” praised his predecessors’ ecumenical engagements with Orthodoxy, calling Nicaea a foundation for “restor[ing] full communion among all Christians.”
Betrayal of Nicene Unity: From Dogmatic Clarity to Syncretistic Theater
The article’s reference to Nicaea as a model for ecumenism constitutes historical revisionism. The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) condemned heresy (Arianism) and affirmed Christ’s divinity through the homoousion (consubstantiality) formula—an anathema to modern ecumenism’s relativism. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) reminds us that true Christian unity exists only under Christ the King’s visible reign through Peter’s successors, not interfaith pageantry: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer embraces all men… [yet] His reign is shown by the natural law itself and by the command of the Gospel” (§18).
By contrast, Leo XIV’s actions embody the condemned error: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, §80). His prayer service with a schismatic hierarch violates Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code: Catholics are forbidden to engage in worship with non-Catholics.
Ecumenism: The Masonic Synthesis of All Heresies
The Joint Declaration’s nebulous “shared commitment” language masks theological surrender. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the Modernist lie that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (§60). The “pope’s” praise for “fraternal friendship” with Bartholomew I—whose communion denies papal primacy, the Filioque, and Marian dogmas—validates the very indifferentism Pius XI called “a most grave error… by which all religions are held to be more or less good” (Mortalium Animos, 1928).
The Silent Apostasy: Omissions That Condemn
The article’s omissions scream louder than its text:
– No mention of the Virgin Mary, through whom all unity flows (Leo XIII, Adiutricem Populi).
– No call for Orthodox to return to Rome, only vague “restor[ation] of full communion”—implying parity between truth and schism.
– No reference to the Social Reign of Christ the King, replaced by humanitarian platitudes.
Line of Usurpers: Continuity in Apostasy
Leo XIV’s invocation of “Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis” confirms the conciliar sect’s apostate lineage. Paul VI’s 1965 meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras—where mutual excommunications were “erased”—was termed by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre “a denial of the past… a betrayal”. John Paul II’s 2001 Athens declaration with Bartholomew I called Muslim jihadists and Orthodox schismatics “witnesses to the transcendent”—a blasphemy echoing the condemned proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Pius IX, Syllabus, §18).
Conclusion: A Joint Declaration Against Unity
This summit exemplifies the “abomination of desolation” (Dan 9:27) foretold by Our Lady of La Salette: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.” True Catholics heed Pius XII’s warning: “The day the Church abandons her perennial vigor… she will fall into darkness” (Humani Generis, 1950). Let the faithful reject this sacrilege and cling to the Una Voce of Tradition—where Peter still speaks through Quas Primas, not Istanbul joint statements.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV meets and prays with Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.11.2025