“Pope” Leo XIV’s Nicaea Commemoration: Sacrilegious Pantomime of Catholic Betrayal
The VaticanNews portal (November 30, 2025) reports that the antipope Leo XIV has concluded his visit to Turkey, where he participated in an ecumenical gathering with Orthodox patriarch Bartholomew I and other non-Catholic leaders to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. The article emphasizes his call to “overcome the scandal of divisions” and foster “unity,” framing this interfaith spectacle as a positive development. This theatrical display constitutes nothing less than a public renunciation of Catholic exclusivity mandated by divine law.
Desecration of Nicaea’s Dogmatic Legacy
The First Council of Nicaea (325 AD) defined the consubstantiality of Christ with the Father – homoousion – crushing the Arian heresy through uncompromising doctrinal clarity. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly connected this council to Christ’s eternal kingship, noting that its Creed “confirmed the royal dignity of Christ the Lord” by declaring “whose kingdom shall have no end.” Yet the VaticanNews report reduces this dogmatic milestone to a sentimental interfaith photo opportunity, stating:
“Pope Leo called for overcoming ‘the scandal of divisions’ and asked everyone to foster ‘unity.'”
This deliberate silence about the anathema sit pronounced against heretics at Nicaea exposes the conciliar sect’s doctrinal bankruptcy. The true Church knows unity is achieved only through submission to revealed truth, not through diplomatic gatherings that equate heresy with orthodoxy. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18).
Ecumenism as Apostasy Formalized
The article’s reference to “Christian Churches around the world” participating in this sacrilege constitutes linguistic fraud. The Orthodox reject papal supremacy and Catholic dogmas, while Protestant sects deny transubstantiation, sacraments, and Marian doctrines. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) forbade Catholic participation in pan-Christian assemblies precisely because they imply all denominations possess “some portion of truth.” The antipope’s actions embody the condemned proposition that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Lamentabili, Error 63).
Far from honoring Nicaea, this spectacle mocks its legacy by:
- Equating heretical communities with the One True Church founded by Christ
- Omitting any call for non-Catholics to abandon errors and submit to Rome
- Replacing doctrinal precision with emotional appeals to “overcome divisions”
Theological Vacuum at the Heart of Conciliar Theater
Nowhere does the article mention the Council of Nicaea’s actual dogmatic content regarding Christ’s divinity or the Church’s missionary mandate. This silence mirrors the modernist reduction of religion to human experience decried in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili:
“Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Error 20).
The commemoration’s focus on bureaucratic “unity” while ignoring extra Ecclesiam nulla salus confirms the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Catholic soteriology. As the Syllabus declares: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17) is anathema.
Ceremonial Betrayal of Christ the King
The timing of this blasphemous gathering during the Feast of Christ the King (traditionally celebrated in October per Quas Primas) adds insult to divine majesty. Pius XI instituted the feast precisely to combat secularism and affirm that “the Church is a perfect society, entirely free… endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder.” By groveling before schismatics and heretics, the antipope denies Christ’s royal mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Every word of this report drips with the poison condemned in the Oath Against Modernism:
- Religious indifferentism (“unity” without conversion)
- Evolution of dogma (Nicaea as historical curiosity rather than eternal truth)
- Naturalization of grace (reducing supernatural faith to intergroup diplomacy)
Conclusion: Apostolic Journey or Via Dolorosa of Apostasy?
This sacrilegious commemoration demonstrates conclusively that the conciliar sect has severed all ties with Catholic Tradition. When antipopes commemorate councils while subverting their dogmas, and VaticanNews praises this betrayal as progress, we witness the “abomination of desolation” foretold in Daniel 9:27. True Catholics recognize only one response to such spectacles: Non possumus! As Christ warned: “He that is not with me is against me” (Matthew 12:30) – there exists no neutral ground between Catholic truth and conciliar apostasy.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV on his way to Lebanon (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025