The VaticanNews portal reports on an event held on November 29, 2025, where antipope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at Istanbul’s Volkswagen Arena during Advent. The article describes this liturgical event as promoting “unity” through three bridges: intra-Catholic, ecumenical, and interreligious. The celebration featured multilingual readings representing Turkey’s four Catholic rites, with the antipope quoting Isaiah’s peace prophecy and saints like John Chrysostom while using the Bosporus Bridge as a symbol of unity. The report concludes by noting upcoming ecumenical meetings and the antipope’s mosque visit before his departure to Lebanon.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Mass to Political Theater
The choice of a commercial sports arena named after a German automaker for liturgical ceremonies constitutes sacrilege, violating the Church’s immutable rubrics requiring consecrated spaces for divine worship. The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici canon 1164 mandates church consecration or blessing for licit Mass celebration – a requirement ignored in this profane setting. This sacrilegious act continues Paul VI’s 1965 Yankee Stadium abomination, reducing the Sacrosanctum Missae Sacrificium to spectacle.
The article’s glowing description of “four Catholic traditions” (Latin, Armenian, Chaldean, Syriac) participating equally constitutes liturgical relativism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “The Church of God… the one dispenser of salvation.” True Eastern Catholics maintain union with Rome under the Latin Rite’s primacy (Council of Florence, Laetentur Caeli, 1439), not as autonomous entities. The antipope’s embrace of this false parity advances Eastern Orthodox schismatics’ “branch theory” heresy.
Ecumenical Apostasy Disguised as Advent Preparation
Leo XIV’s homiletic distortion of Advent’s purpose – allegedly preparing to “experience anew… Jesus” while promoting interfaith unity – constitutes blasphemous syncretism. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) defines Advent as “a period of devotion and fervent prayer… to celebrate worthily the anniversary of the Lord’s coming.” Nowhere does Catholic tradition suggest preparing for Christ’s birth by building bridges with heretics or infidels.
The antipope’s citation of St. John Chrysostom constitutes diabolical inversion, as the Doctor of the Eucharist explicitly condemned religious indifferentism: “I hate the Jews for they hate the Logos” (Homily VI on Isaiah 6). By selectively quoting Chrysostom’s “miracle happens and passes” statement while ignoring his militant anti-heresy writings, the conciliar sect demonstrates its hallmark fraus diaboli (devil’s deceit).
Masonic Symbolism Replaces Catholic Eschatology
The Bosporus Bridge logo central to this apostate “mission” directly channels Masonic “bridge builder” symbolism. Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma (1871) celebrates bridges as symbols of “union between initiates,” while Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) identifies bridge imagery with Luciferian unification rituals. This aligns with file evidence exposing Fatima as “a potential Masonic psychological operation” through date numerology and syncretic symbolism.
The article’s emphasis on “three essential bridges of unity” (Catholic, ecumenical, interreligious) implements the Baha’i-Masonic plan for world religion synthesis condemned by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884): “The partisans of evil… we see… working to bring about a one-world religion.” By replacing Advent’s Parousia expectation with horizontal “peacemaking,” the conciliar sect fulfills the Modernist agenda described in St. Pius X’s Pascendi: “The religious sense… entirely absorbed by the sense of the need of union with collective humanity.”
Omission of Supernatural Realities Reveals Apostate Core
Nowhere does the article mention:
The necessity of conversion to Catholicism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
The propitiatory nature of the Mass as Christ’s Sacrifice
Mary’s Immaculate Conception or her role in redemption
The Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell)
This systematic silence proves the event’s essentially naturalistic character. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly warns against such omissions: “When men recognize… Christ’s royal dignity… then at last will lasting peace… be restored.” By contrast, the conciliar sect promotes a false peace grounded in humanistic dialogue – the very “enemies within” denounced by St. Pius X that “contradict Catholic ecclesiology.”
The multilingual spectacle – readings in Turkish, Aramaic, Syriac, English, Armenian, Arabic – constitutes deliberate confusion mocking Pentecost. Whereas the Holy Ghost gave apostles supernatural linguistic gifts to proclaim Catholic truth (Acts 2:11), this Babel-esque display facilitates doctrinal ambiguity. As the 1917 CIC canon 1399 forbade vernacular liturgy to preserve unity, this polyglot farce embodies the conciliar revolution’s destructive spirit.
Conclusion: From Advent Expectation to Antichrist Preparation
This Istanbul event consummates the conciliar sect’s apostasy through:
1. Desacralization of liturgical space and norms
2. Equivalence between Catholic rites and schismatic communities
3. Substitution of missionary zeal with syncretic dialogue
4. Masonic symbolism replacing Christian eschatology
5. Systematic omission of supernatural truths
As St. Pius X prophesied in Pascendi, Modernists reduce religion to “a justification of faith” based on human experience rather than divine revelation. By transforming Advent – a season of penitential preparation for Christ’s Second Coming – into a platform for ecumenical bridge-building, the conciliar sect accelerates its role as “dispositio adventu Antichristi” (preparation for Antichrist’s coming). True Catholics must recognize these abominations and “return to immutable Tradition” as the only path to restoration.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV, at Mass in Turkey, calls for Catholic, ecumenical and interreligious unity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 29.11.2025