Vatican’s Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerades as Peace Mission
Vatican News portal (December 7, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s visit to Türkiye and Lebanon, framing it as a peace-building effort through ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. The article highlights his prayer with Patriarch Bartholomew at Nicaea, the 60th anniversary of the Paul VI-Athenagoras declaration, and Lebanon’s “mosaic of coexistence.” It concludes with the claim that “peace is possible” through interfaith collaboration.
False Ecumenism: Betrayal of Nicaea’s Legacy
The article celebrates antipope Leo XIV’s prayer at Nicaea with the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch as a step toward “full visible unity of all Christians.” This is a direct assault on the Council of Nicaea’s homoousios (consubstantiality) decree, which anathematized all who deny Christ’s divinity. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) condemned such gatherings:
“The unity of Christians cannot be otherwise fostered than by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
By treating schismatics as equals, the antipope mocks St. Robert Bellarmine’s teaching that “outside the Church, there is no salvation” (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).
Interreligious Syncretism: Denial of Christ’s Kingship
The claim that “Christians, in dialogue with men and women of other faiths… can help build peace” contradicts Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925):
“When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.”
The antipope’s silence on the necessity of converting non-Catholics violates the Council of Florence’s decree (1442):
“[The Church] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church… cannot become participants in eternal life.”
This “dialogue” is apostasy, reducing the Church to a NGO.
Lebanon’s “Mosaic”: Cover for Religious Indifferentism
Praising Lebanon as a model of coexistence ignores Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors (1864):
– Error 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.”
– Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.”
The article’s focus on social works (“welcoming the displaced, visiting prisoners”) while omitting the salvation of souls reflects the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“For modernists, the religious sense is enclosed within the confines of consciousness… Hence it becomes necessary to say that faith and science are entirely independent of each other.”
Silence on Supernatural Realities: The Ultimate Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention:
– The Mass as the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary
– The Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell)
– The Social Reign of Christ the King
This omission confirms the conciliar sect’s naturalism, reducing Christianity to ethics. Pius IX’s Syllabus Error 58 condemns this:
“Moral laws do not need divine sanction, and human laws need not conform to divine law.”
Conclusion: A Revolution Against Catholic Tradition
Antipope Leo XIV’s journey epitomizes the conciliar sect’s rupture with Catholic Tradition. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, modernists “put pantheism in the place of God,” transforming the Church into a humanitarian agency. True Catholics must reject this apostasy and cling to the depositum fidei (deposit of faith) guarded by pre-1958 magisterium.
Source:
Pope: Visit to Türkiye and Lebanon teaches that peace is possible (vaticannews.va)
Date: 07.12.2025